A few underrated guitarists that come to mind off of the top of my head are David Davidson from Revocation. Besides having phenomenal technical abilities I'm quite impressed with his extensive knowledge of jazz and his way of incorporating it into extremely technical death metal.
In a similar way the dynamic duo from Between the Buried and Me, Dustie Waring and Paul Waggoner. Great guitarists who I feel really have their own voice in their genre as well as doing an excellent job at mixing genres.
Mark Morton I wouldn't say is extremely underrated but I would say that he too frequently gets put under the one trick pony label due to his fame with Lamb of God. His solo stuff's been really good and pretty diverse and consistently good in my opinion. Ranging from a harder Southern Rock sound to his normal groovy metal stuff as well as an acoustic EP under his belt that had some awesome covers with some awesome people singing. He's one I'm surprised isn't talked about a bit more.
Finally I'm glad to see that Joe Duplantier is getting more recognition as an awesome guitarist/songwriter. He's one I'm thinking will be brought up a lot more and more with up and coming bands when they state their influences/who/how they got "their" sound from.
I certainly agree Nick Johnston is severely underrated as well. I've been listening to his material more and more lately and wow is their some great stuff in there.
In a similar way the dynamic duo from Between the Buried and Me, Dustie Waring and Paul Waggoner. Great guitarists who I feel really have their own voice in their genre as well as doing an excellent job at mixing genres.
Mark Morton I wouldn't say is extremely underrated but I would say that he too frequently gets put under the one trick pony label due to his fame with Lamb of God. His solo stuff's been really good and pretty diverse and consistently good in my opinion. Ranging from a harder Southern Rock sound to his normal groovy metal stuff as well as an acoustic EP under his belt that had some awesome covers with some awesome people singing. He's one I'm surprised isn't talked about a bit more.
Finally I'm glad to see that Joe Duplantier is getting more recognition as an awesome guitarist/songwriter. He's one I'm thinking will be brought up a lot more and more with up and coming bands when they state their influences/who/how they got "their" sound from.
I certainly agree Nick Johnston is severely underrated as well. I've been listening to his material more and more lately and wow is their some great stuff in there.