# The Dance of Eternity guitar solo > John Petrucci's guitar solo on The Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater (1999). From the album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. Canonical URL: Dream Theater, 1999, from *Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory*. Solo by *John Petrucci*. A notoriously complex instrumental full of odd-meter unison lines and rapid-fire guitar and keyboard exchanges. The Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater is ranked #517 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by John Petrucci and the song was released in 1999. ## In our lists - [The Best Dream Theater Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/dream-theater-guitar-solos/) — #11 - [The Best John Petrucci Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/john-petrucci-guitar-solos/) — #10 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1999](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1999/) — #10 - [The 18 Best Progressive Metal Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/prog-metal-guitar-solos/) — #8 ## Sources - [Musician Tuts: The 51 Best Guitar Solos Of All Time](https://musiciantuts.com/best-guitar-solos/) ### Who played the guitar solo on The Dance of Eternity? John Petrucci played the solo on Dream Theater's The Dance of Eternity (1999). ### Where does The Dance of Eternity rank among the greatest guitar solos? #517 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- 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/)