Title is straightforward. Inspired by a thought I had in another thread.
What are some of your favorite guitar solos on songs released after 2000.
Steven Wilson - Drive Home
Wintersun - Winter Madness
Dinosaur Jr. - I Don’t Wanna Go There
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Overseas
Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don’t Stay
Literally anything Jeff Loomis played in Nevermore, particularly on Enemies of Reality and This Godless Endeavor.
Yeah, Loomis was my idol for a looooong time. Those two albums are full of really tasteful playing.
Was gonna say that but you beat me to it 
Scott Henderson’s album Well To The Bone (2002). Here’s the title track.
Brett Garsed’s album Big Sky (also from 2002, I also loved Dark Matter from 2011). This is one of my favourites.
Also, an obvious choice, but Guthrie Govan’s Erotic Cakes album (2006) was great. Also, Eric Johnson’s Bloom (2005) and Up Close (2010) are both great albums.
I could be stuck listing choices all day, but I’ll just post this and be done… for the moment, at least. Soraya, by AAL when it was just Tosin and Misha. Everything is just incredibly gorgeous and puts me in a pensive mood.
That Garsed album is gorgeous stuff, I’m a fan too.
On my end, this just BARELY makes it in, as this album came out March 14th, 2000… But one of my favorite guitar solos ever is Satriani’s lead break on “Until We Say Goodbye.”
Solo starts at 1:39. The song itself is… good, not one of his greatest, but has some pretty cool flourishes here and there (the resolution to major in a couple points is awesome), but this solo section, for me, has everything - killer not-super-driven Strat tone, a great build from a fairly modest (for satch) opening to some blistering runs by the end and some great use of bluesy held notes for tension. The modulaiton from Am to a Dm solo section is subtle but cool too, and come to think of it one I ripped off directly in one of my own songs I’m just wrapping up now, same keys too. 
But, this is one of my favorite ever solos of his, or of anyone.
It really is an outstanding album.
Unfortunately, it’s not on Spotify anymore, so I doubt it’s getting many new listeners.
EDIT: Engines of Creation was great!
Mike Amott always delivers
Warp Zone | Martyr March 11 2000.
Solo on the first track is at about 2:30. Dan Mongrain is a fukken legend who has a LOT of cool ideas.
No shit, it is off Spotify, isn’t it? I still have it as mp3 somewhere, looks like I bought it on iTunes so its one of a smallish number of albums that’s actually downloaded onto my phone… Pity, theres some really beautiful music on that one.
And yeah, it was a fun album, and has some really high highlights. That solo is a personal favorite, but there’s some more great stuff there too.
Wow… the 1980’s were a magical time, I suppose, with the best solos. It seems like nothing has come close since then?! 
OK, I can only suggest
Sigh, you’re gonna make me actually post a more thorough reply here.
Because, there’s been a LOT of killer guitar sinve the 80s - I’m not even sure the 80s were a high water mark for guitar soloing, beyond simle pervasiveness.
Angel Vivaldi is IMO one of the best of the current generation. This one hit a sweet spot between feel and technique for me:
Give it a few, this is VERY understated,but it’s a beautiful composition and suxch a great example of how you can allow technique to serve a song, and not vice versa. And, when he DOES want to rip, he’s among the very best.
Nick Johnston is terrific, too:
“Remarkably Human” was a real kick in the pants for my own writing - sometimes you need to see someone ELSE doing sparser, bluesier instrumental shred before you realize you, too, don’t have to write a whole bunch of metal songs, I guess. In any event, this is an awesome guitar album.
Also, not really on the same level as the repvious two, and I haven’t liked their more recent stuff as much (another victim of the Loudness Wars, for one, their third album was almost too painful to listen to), and it’s so easy to shit on Creed… but Alter Bridge actually had some pertty decent lead playing, particularly the second album (first, Tremonti had too much to prove, and it suffered for it).
Also, Cracking the Code first came to my attention when I heard Troy was going to do some slo mo closeup footage of Rusty Cooley’s picking hand, and - especially if 80s neoclassical is kind of your thing anyway - this is about as over the top as you can ask for:
I THINK this was early 2000s - I was in college when this came out, at any rate. Heck, the low seven string counterpoint line coming up into the 2 minute mark when it goes to doubletime alone is worth a listen for both composition and cool ways to use a seven string reasons.
2003, it was just about the tike I was getting into the whole “shred” thing.
Yeah it’s totally bonkers.
I’m not really a neoclassical or metal guy, but I liked this one a lot when I was a teenager:
I really admire Rusty’s ethos. For maximum effect, you need maximum efficiency and maximum effort. Despite having such incredible efficiency, Rusty is always willing to put in the effort where it’s necessary.
I was OBSESSED with Rusty’s playing as a teenager. Never got anywhere because people kept saying to start slow, but he’s got a very particular twisted sense of melody (turn of phrase stolen from Lori Linstruth) I really enjoy.
The Outworld album was really good too.
I was “fast” by most standards when I was a teenager (Paul Gilbert/Racer X tunes cleanly and at tempo), but I always felt that Rusty was a different level of fast. The mechanics I had back then just aren’t capable of the stuff that Rusty does.
Even now that I can do all sorts of woopledy-bloop nonsense, Rusty is one of the few players that still “sounds fast” to me.
You make a lot of great points. But the thing is that none of what we’re talking about since 2000 is anything like this iconic solo from 1975. Somebody like Rusty could play this better, or faster, or whatever he wanted to do, but the original is so epic that it has stood the test of time (fifty years so far). None of what were talking about in this thread since 2000 will likely be “important” (in the pop culture sense) even a decade from now, not to mention five… but, there are a lot of great songs in the 1980’s and 1990’s with solos that I think will have staying power. This might have something to do with guitar-oriented music not being mainstream and aimed at the pop market. For example, EVH’s solo in MJ’s Beat It was pretty awesome, but it had huge constraints on it, and EVH managed to thread that needle.
We were asked for our favourite solos since 2000, not what we think is iconic or culturally important.
If you asked me for my favourite guitar solos from the '70s or '80s, I’d still be listing songs that aren’t iconic or culturally important.