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Glenn Tipton
One half of Judas Priest's twin-guitar attack alongside K.K. Downing. Tipton's precise, classically-influenced lead playing and the band's dual-Marshall wall defined British heavy metal — and on 1990's Painkiller he and Downing pushed that sound to its fastest, most aggressive extreme. The Painkiller title-track solo is one of the most technical statements in metal.
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