Best Guitar Riff(s)???

[DayOfDarknessWithin]

What song from what band do you think has the best metal riff you've heard?

Right now I just can't get enough of the intro/main riff for,
"3 Days of Darkness" by Testament

 

[veil the sky]

well

we just decided to play Megadeth's Symphonies of Destruction as a cover song. That riff is pretty damn cool. Simplistic but very effective.

Embodiment - Carcass

For Victory - Bolt Thrower

Cowboys from Hell - Pantera

Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow

Where Dead Angels Lie - Dissection

The End Complete - Obituary

hmm, quite a mix in there!!

 

[Atticus]

My favourite riff ever is the playout riff on "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled" by Meshuggah
It's an intense piece of fast polyrhythmn - the guitars and the drummers feet are playing in 9/8, whilst the rest of the drums are in 4/4.
As Meshuggah are complete Gods it's a true polyrhythmn - at the end of a 64 quaver measure they have to slip in an extra beat (as 7*9 = 63) to make up the bar.
The resulting feel of the music slips in and out of sync in a way you feel you are following until the extra beat is slipped in, when it COMPLETELY DESTROYS YOUR MIND!!!!!!

Meshuggah ROCK!

 

[The Sole Survivor]

My favourite guitar riffs:
Shawn Lane - West Side Boogie (the one with the synth-brass)
Scott Mishoe - Domesticated Problems
Allan Holdsworth - Road Games

 

[tzartzam]

Some of the best are:

Biohazard — Business
Strife — what's it called... I can't remem.. ah, yes Will To Die
System of a Down — that guitar solo-y kinda bit at the end of Soil...

 

[Sargoth]

If you are searching for godlike riffs, listen to Mercyful Fate or King Diamond.

 

[Stormbringer]

priest - electric eye
maiden - afraid to shoot strangers
acdc - thunderstruck (intro)
and probably some more i cant think of atm

no THESE are proper riffs

 

[*M*]

all time favorite would have to be Into the Void by black sabbath.
A more current favorite is the main riff of D.N.R. by Testament... but there are so many.... damnit unfair question!

 

[artificialreasons]

well i have to go with the two intro riffs to master of puppets and the middle riff in trapped under ice

 

[rushzil2112]

There are so damn many awesome guitar riffs out there, but I am not going to mention specific songs, but bands that deliver killer riffs.

Iced Earth
Children of Bodom
Rhapsody
Symphony X
Primal Fear
Psychotic Waltz
Racer X (Paul Gilbert is the guitar god)
Vanden Plas
Silent Force
Gamma Ray

...the list goes on forever, but those mainstream riffs, or what I call mainstream riffs get old very fast. But, for mainstream metal riffs, I would say the best would have to be Megadeth, rust in peace, other than that, there is not really anything else mainstream that catches me. I am not a big Megadeth fan, just happen to like that one cd, but by far not nearly as much as the aforementioned bands in the above list.

 

[The Sole Survivor]

Yeah, Psychotic Waltz really had the greatest riffs! To bad they split

 

[~UlvedaL~]

Children Of Bodom
Dissection
Norther
Arch Enemy

-has some very cool riffs, and its them I check out for the moment!

 

[TheShattered]

No one mentioned the killer riffs on At The Gates' "Slaughter of the Soul" and "Terminal Spirit Disease". My all time ATG favorites would be the main Blinded by Fear riff and the chorus riff to Under a Serpent sun.

In Flames' Behind Space has a few badass ones. So does Jotun, Episode 666, Ordinary Story, and Upon an Oaken Throne.

People covered megadeth (rip) / metallica (rip as well) already.

Kreator can pull out some good stuff. Listen to their new cd "Violent Revolution" and you'll hear some good songs.

Callenish Circle's "Flesh Power Dominion" has good shit too. Track 4, called Take Me Along has a very badass 12/8 riff.

The list goes on...

 

[Dzhainoll]

Try In Flames-Gyroscope

 

[The Wanderer]

the main melody riff in i am the black wizards from emperor.
the haunted trespass
priest painkiller. all of em.
soilwork: the chainheart machine
i'll also go with priest electric eye.
there are more but its late. i'm tired.

 

[AjDeath]

Cynic -Eagle Nature

Death -Misanthrope(Every Death and Control Denied song has the best riff in it)

Anthrax -Inside Out

Monstrosity -Perpetual War

Iced Earth -Dantes Inferno

Cannible Corpse -Hammer Smashed Face & Stripped Raped and Strangled

Grip Inc. -Pathetic Liar

Ripfence -Set Me On Fire

Metallica -Blackened

Cryptopsy -Faceless Unknown

Meshugah -Ritual

Pantera -Where I Come From

Morbid Angel -Where the Slime Live & Eyes To See

Testament -The Preacher
That is it for now.

 

[Scorpions]

Children Of Bodom
Iron Maiden
Iced Earth
Blind Guardian

 

[Greenwater_Pond]

Best riffs in my opinion are:

1) death - Sound of Perseverance - "bite the pain" riff at 0:40
2) Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin - "ravenous" riff at 0:13
3) Entombed - Morning Star - "I for an eye" first minute or so is a great riff
4) Nevermore - Politics of Ecstacy - "The Seven tongues of god" riff at 0:12
5) Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black - "Poison God Machine" riff at 0:59
6) Kalmah - Swmaplord - "Hades" intro riff
7) Opeth - Still Life - "Serenity painted death" riff at 1:27
8) Carnal Forge - Please.....Die! - "Hand of doom" riff at 0:19
9) Nightwish - Oceanborn - "Devil and the deep dark ocean" intro riff
10) Bolt thrower - Mercenary - "No guts, No Glory" intro riff

those are probably my personal top 10, but there are many others, and it's all what sounds good to your ear.

 

[wolf]

Intro riff to "Nite of The Unborn"Mercyful Fate"whole intro for that one.Tons of stuff by Jake E Lee and George Lynch.Someone take over now.

 

[veil the sky]

7) Opeth - Still Life - "Serenity painted death" riff at 1:27

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!