Dosen´t of wolf and man start with a lot pull offs. I don´t do no bendings from the beggining when playn that song. First Kirk start messin with G-string 4p2p0 kind of licks and than he goes down cromaticly like 2p0-3p0-4p0...
Are you sure that it´s Of Wolf And Man solo you´re thinkin´ about.

I find The Unforgiven as a very good solo actally. Good melody and nice feelin´ all the way.

Master Of Puppets fast one is just fast. But I like that one too.

And at last I can´t belive that you find Creeping Death solo bad man. That one rocks and would be even cooler if he used alternate pickin´ at the end (the pull off part). He even sweeps here and there in that one. It´s a very simple sweep but cool ´cause Kirk ít´s not one of Kirks famous technique.

If I would decribe my opinion about solos on Met. albums,

Kill Em All (evry solo is a fast one but I don´t call it shred ´cause what he´s basiclly doin´ is playn´ penta scales up and down and using lot´s hammer on and pull offs combing with alternate pickin´. Some parts are shreddy and I find it as Kirk´s fastest work ever.

Ride The Lighting have lot cool solos. Shows nice alternate pickin´ here and there (Fight Fire With Fire solo intro). Midi file says that it´s 32-notes at 184 but nowone can really say what´s goin´ on there, Ride The Lighting is nice, Bells end is horibble though, Fade To Black very nice and you know my opinion about Creeping Death and Call Of Ktulu is amazing solo and pretty hard too. Those arps/sweeps are pretty cool.

Master Of Puppets, Battery solo is so so, however I like that short guitar fill after 1st chorus, very nice and melodic solos on Sanitarium, and than comes my fav. Kirk solo ever, Disposable Heroes, that one is GREAT especially when he goes down to half time feel, Orion, the first two are great too and the last one is so so and at last Damage Inc. is amazing solo.

Justice than. Cool alternate pickin´ lick on Blackned, cool end on ...And Justice For All solo, One solos are one of the famous solos ever, virtouso solos on Shortest Straw and Dyers eve.

And Black Album at last. Pretty slow solos actally, lots wah wah and lots solos have reached legendary status like Sandman, Sad But True, Unforgive, Roam and Nothing Else Matters (I know it´s actally James´ work). However Hoiler than thou is nice one as well as Don´t Tread On Me but my one of my fav. on this album would be Through The Never.

I´m happy too know lots Metallica solos ´cause they made my warm-up fun. I usualy play them along with some Maiden and Guns solos.