# The Best Nita Strauss Guitar Solos > The 15 best Nita Strauss guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Mariana Trench (2018), then Our Most Desperate Hour and Dead Inside. Every video starts at the solo. Canonical URL: Nita Strauss rose to fame as Alice Cooper's lead guitarist and became Ibanez's first female signature artist. Her instrumental debut, Controlled Chaos, and her follow-up, The Call of the Void, pair shred technique and tapping with big, melodic hooks. Informed by: [Guitar World - Nita Strauss on Winner Takes All](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/nita-strauss-alice-cooper-winner-takes-all), [Premier Guitar - Nita Strauss Conquers the World](https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/nita-strauss), [Wikipedia - Controlled Chaos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Chaos), [Wikipedia - The Call of the Void](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Void_(album)) 1. [Mariana Trench](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-mariana-trench/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 2. [Our Most Desperate Hour](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-our-most-desperate-hour/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 3. [Dead Inside](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-dead-inside/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2021 4. [Alegria](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-alegria/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 5. [Surfacing](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-surfacing/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 6. [Summer Storm](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-summer-storm/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 7. [Pandemonium 2.0](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-pandemonium-2-0/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 8. [Victorious](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-victorious/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 9. [The Show Must Go On](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-the-show-must-go-on/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 10. [The Wolf You Feed](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-the-wolf-you-feed/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 11. [Winner Takes All](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-winner-takes-all/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 12. [Lion Among Wolves](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-lion-among-wolves/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 13. [Hope Grows](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-hope-grows/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2018 14. [Kintsugi](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-kintsugi/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 15. [The Golden Trail](https://greatestsolos.com/song/nita-strauss-the-golden-trail/) — Nita Strauss · solo by Nita Strauss · 2023 --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)