Post Reply - Top 5: Guitarists

This is quite tough for me; I usually tend to single out favourite vocalists but treat the rest of a group as a whole and especially have trouble picking favourite guitarists when a group has more than one, as I can never tell who plays what. One name always stands out for me though:

I've got to think harder about anyone else. In fact this next name I'm going to mention I actually had to look up to include, but his playing is some of the first I thought of when I saw this topic so...

Vince Benaim

Vince Benaim is the guitarist of the prog metal band Spheric Universe Experience. He's the sole guitarist of the group and his playing on their Anima album is insane. I'd go as far to say some of if not the best riffs in prog metal on that album. 

I guess John Petrucci is an obvious pick, but I hardly listen to Dream Theater these days so I feel less and less inclined to include him in a personal top five. He's brilliant though, no doubt.

I'll think about this some more and maybe post again later.