Megadeth albums

 

And Marty Friedman is about 1/3 the guitarist Chris Poland is.

 

But actually the best solos for Megadeth are often Dave's anyway. Great straight metal soloist.

Marty's claim to fame is the use of exotic scales. Chris uses microtonal techniques that aren't even part of 12 tone music. In addition, several of Marty's solos on Rust in Peace, I believe, are approximations of what Poland had already put down.

 

And Gar was the best drummer for Megadeth in my ears too. Probably more important for why those albums are so good than Poland.

 

Have you listened to Poland's work outside of Megadeth?

 

Poland's work on the Megadeth albums is just the tip of his work. His instrumental album "Return to Metalopolis" is excellent and he's now in a jazz trio called Ohm: with the bass player from the band he was in with Gar before they joined Megadeth. The first Ohm: album is phenomenal. I actually only really got into him in the last couple years, but he's great.

 

I had at least one Cacophony album, and the Jason Becker solo album before he got sick. He was a freak. I was very excited when Marty joined Megadeth but he really never had solos that impressed me...other than the solo break in Holy Wars which was totally his own.

 

Definitely check out Return to Metalopolis. It's one of the most musical instrumental metal albums that is still metal out there.