7. Mark Tremonti - Album II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rphvlI87K4w Maybe you've heard of one Mark Tremonti - Alter Bridge's frenetic fretboard slayer who's increasingly getting a dedicated solo following thanks to increasingly more complex riffs and tracks across his work with them That's not to mention a bone-shatteringly heavy solo album from 2012 that proved he could go it alone and unleash all manner of long-dormant heavy metal and thrash riffs all in one go. If you're a fan of huge choruses that'll burrow into your psyche and end up being your first thoughts the next day, alongside incredibly brutal riffs and solos that are total talent showcases every time, grab Tremonti's first self-titled solo effort and also check out the samples above for album two coming in just a few months. When you're a man raised on the likes of Celtic Frost and Slayer and you're putting together absolutely psychotically-heavy tracks with names like Cauterize, there's no way this is anything less than spectacular.