They're both nothing but shredheads with no musicality. Malmsteen's "Rising Force" sounded fairly promising, but he ended up going nowhere fast. Now all he does is recycle his a-harmonic minor superspeedy licks over and over. Completely uninteresting. And Michael Angelo? Hardly any better.

They're all technique, which is fine enough in itself, but in terms of music, it counts for virtually nothing. A guitarist who could outplay both of them any day of the week and simultaneously produce incredible music is Allan Holdsworth.