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Frank Bello
American bassist
1
Gus G
Greek guitarist
2
Jeff Loomis
American musician
3
Scott Ian
American musician
4
Adrian Smith
British rock musician; heavy metal guitarist, songwriter
5
Björn Gelotte
Swedish guitarist
6
Jason Becker
American guitarist and composer
7
Marco Sfogli
Italian musician
8
Loudness
Japanese heavy metal band
9
Kenny Hickey
American musician
10
Glenn Tipton
British musician
11
Dave Murray
English heavy metal guitarist and songwriter
12
Minoru Niihara
original and current lead singer of the Japanese heavy metal band, Loudness
13
George Lynch
American musician
14
Fredrik Åkesson
Swedish guitarist
15
Gary Holt
American guitarist
16
Kirk Hammett
American guitarist
17
Jerry Donahue
American musician
18
Alex Skolnick
American musician
19
Leslie West
American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
20
Michael Amott
Swedish guitarist/songwriter
21
James Hetfield
American guitarist and singer
22
Dan Donegan
American musician
23
Marcus Siepen
German musician
24
Roope Latvala
Finnish musician
25
Dino Cazares
Mexican-American guitarist
26
André Olbrich
German musician
27
Richie Kotzen
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
28
Munetaka Higuchi
Japanese musician
29
Andreas Kisser
Brazilian musician
30
Galder
Norwegian musician
31
Jeff Hanneman
American guitarist
32
Yngwie Malmsteen
Swedish rock musician
33
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Swedish musician
34
John Myung
American bassist
35
Joe Satriani
American musician
36
Jake E. Lee
American musician
37
Dave Mustaine
American musician and songwriter
38
Vernon Reid
American guitarist and songwriter
39
Robb Flynn
American musician
40
Silenoz
Norwegian musician
41
Slash
British-American musician
42
Michael Poulsen
Danish singer and guitarist
43
Tony Iommi
British guitarist and composer
44
Phil Campbell
British musician
45
John Petrucci
American guitarist
46
Jesper Strömblad
Swedish musician
47
Doug Aldrich
American musician
48
Randy Rhoads
American guitarist
49
Bill Steer
British guitarist
50
Tom Araya
American singer and bassist
