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Ride the Lightning is definitely up there, but I think my favorite is probably Blackened. Kirk's soloing can be kind of directionless and sloppy/wanky, but the structure of the rhythm section gives his solo more of an arc and the frenetic tempo makes the slop more stylistically appropriate. And the dumb 14 year old boy in me is never not gonna love the silly whammy bar abuse that ends the solo (I think it's a big reason I got the LTD version of his signature guitar with the locking nut as a teen). Also solo aside, godDAMN does the intro/verse riff go fucking hard. The blistering place and off-kilter rhythm never fail to get me headbanging.
Despite the signature guitar, I'm not a big Kirk fan. I feel like he's a nice guy and a serviceable guitarist who is lucky that Dave Mustaine is such a colossal prick (honestly not so different from Kirk as a soloist, but an undoubtedly gifted songwriter). Not exactly a hot take, but I'll always be partial to Marty Friedman; his Tornado of Souls solo is legendary, of course, but his Lucretia solo is sublime (if less flashy). Always find it funny how after Marty ties a neat bow on his solo Dave comes crashing in with like the dumbest conceivable opening to a solo.