He's definitely one of the greatest riff-masters of all time...
But just to see what you think you should go on YouTube and check out say a 1989 to 1991 era live version of a song like shortest straw or harvester of sorrow and one of how it sounds nowadays when they play it live. Use to be...
Misha Mansoor of Periphery has a fairly recent post of an amazing track on his soundcloud page (iambulb) of him crunchin' and punchin' away with a Carvin 6 string (tuned drop C) that you gotta check out just to hear what a 6 string can still do in the hands of a true djentleman! Ha!
With that...