You might look at Spinditty website there are some interesting articles,some of them are about classifying the best guitars for each music style. According to voters (several thousands) on his website here are the percetage of people voting for each brand-model :
[br][u]BEST SHREDDING GUITARS[/u]
Ibanez 38% for RG and 12% for S
Jackson 14% for soloist + 8% for dinky
Fender 11%
Charvel (so cal style 1) 9%
Carvin 7%
Evh 1%
[br][u]BEST METAL GUITARS[/u]
esp ltd ec-1000 20%
schecter hellraiser c-1 19%
ibanez RG 15% and S 3%
Gibson LP 14%
jackson king V 14%
dean ML 6%
charvel pro mod so cal or san dimas 4%
B.C. Rickh Warlock 4%
[br][u]BEST COUNTRY GUITARS[/u]
fender tele 70%
gibson lp 13%
fender strat 10%
[br][u]BEST BLUES/ROCK GUITARS[/u]
fender strat 39%
gibson es-335 25%[br]gibson LP 22%
fender telecaster single coil 9%
fender telecaster hb 5%
[br][u]BEST HOLLOW-BODY JAZZ GUITARS[/u]
gretsch gs420t electromatic 26%
godin 5th avenuecw kingpin II 21%
epiphone broadway 19%
ibanez artcore af75 19%
washburn jazz series j600k 16%
[br][u]SUPER-STRAT GUITARS (no votes for this category)[/u][br]evh wolfgang
esp ltd ec-1000
kiesel carvin dc
schecter hellraiser
strat HSS
ibanez RG and S
jackson JS32 dinky or Adrian Smith SDX or Soloist models
charvel pro mod so cal 1 HH
