Hey all,

I'm having such a hard time finding new music that speaks to me, I figured I'd call on likeminded people to help me (and possibly others) out.

I've exhausted most resources like All Music Guide, Wikipedia, Amazon and Guitar oriented sites.

I'm looking for melodic instrumental guitar music like:
- Satriani
- Vai
- Andy Timmons
- Blues Saraceno
- DC Slater
- Matt Cafissi
- Forrest Kyle
- Chris Francis
- Randy McStine
- Erik Mongrain
- Buckethead (Electric Tears, Colma)

Most of what I see on forums and Guitar9 are mostly shred/prog/neo-classical that do nothing for me (though I appreciate the technique and effort put into it)

Also, if you have any good sleaze rock suggestions like:
- Guns N' Roses
- Buckcherry
- Extreme (not really sleaze rock though)

Or metal like:
- Pantera
- Down (NOLA)
- Megadeth
- Brand New Sin
- Killswitch Engage
- Machine Head
- Seemless

Anything with groove and a feel, I'm at a such a loss for new stuff right now.

Bear in mind that I browse this forum and am up to date on the latest artists/releases. ^_^

I know it's pretty broad but any help would be appreciated.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

The only artists that I found recently that are interesting are:

Marco Sfogli
http://www.marcosfogli.com/

Scott Kroeker
http://www.scottkroeker.com/disco.html

Damn beat me to it with Scott Kroeker.
You can listen to his whole album here. I love it personally.
Another awesome player is Andy McKee http://www.myspace.com/andymckee2 fantastic creativity and soul to his playing.
Johnny A. Toured with Satch in the UK last year as support, terrific blues instrumentalist http://www.myspace.com/johnnyaguitarmusic .
And finally, a good old fashioned balls to the walls rock n roll band....Airbourne http://www.myspace.com/airbourne these guys (incase you can't tell by their music) are basically the new AC/DC awesome stuff!!!

Gary Hoey's "Animal Instinct" album is good for instrumental guitar. Dave Martone's "Zone" is also a good one.

You might also like John Petrucci's "Suspended Animation" even though it's slightly prog-ish. Satriani said once that he basically has given up on making the perfect instrumental rock album b/c Petrucci has already done it... I actually wouldn't go that far, but it is an awesome album.

You may also have some luck browsing unreleased artists on sites like http://www.jamendo.com/ and http://www.ilike.com/

Jamendo is all free stuff - I've gotten some fantastic electro music there, though I haven't really looked at the instrumental guitar stuff.

Although not quite in the areas you've specified I whole-heartedly recommend the Scottish band Biffy Clyro. They're really hard to categorise other than saying they are a melodic, alternative rock band - all with good technical ability, great singing - and a liking for complex song structures and time signatures.

If however you're looking for cool solos in every song, they ain't your band - they do write incredibly emotionally powerful music though!

goncalo periera
neil za za
andy mckee for acoustic
john petruccis solo album
steve vai


for metal:
throwdown
unearth
children of bodom
edit: opeth, what was i thinking not saying them...

Clutch!!

Opeth, Between The Buried And Me, Pain Of Salvation...

I've enjoyed it. It's nice to hear John outside of DT.

Reminiscent of the old emotional DT (Kevin Moore, Derek Sherinian).

Prestige

Goncalo Periera is quite interesting. Melodic and has his own voice.

guitarist234
I'll check them out. Emotional and powerful is exactly what I mean't.

Thanks to all for your suggestions so far. Will have a lot of clips to check out.

I can suggest Running Wild, if you like melodic metal you should check them out

Nice.

From their myspace:

Couldn't have said it better.

Think I stumbled on the video of Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast while zapping the other day.

If you like them you should check out:

Beautiful Creatures
Rhino Bucket
New American Shame

i love goncalo!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bVI-kCMaCHk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F8JyLl0XTVQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hEdPXCjdmGA
^learn that and i will kiss your bottom :$. i just cant work it out. im thinking tuning is different :S

edit: LOVE this song, and a high quality vid of it :D;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=StCa_H91I1I&feature=related
^watch :]