Best Opeth riff!?

[Beyond Christ´s Embrace]

What is in your opinion the best ever riff by Opeth?
Mine would have to be, if only mentioned one, the outro on April Ethereal!!
It just kicks ass, and is such an incredible ending to an incredible song!
Oh,by the way, I´m new here, so hello everyone!(I´ve been an Opeth fan for about 6 months!Have all their albums except for Orchid (should get it any day now) and Damnation)!

 

[osse87]

I actually agree with you. I also like the riff on Nectar when he sings "Mine is yours" twice. About 6 minutes or so in the song.

 

[[0hr]Sunlapse]

theres tons. but for now, i will just say

Black Rose Immortal 13:38

 

[Lakestream]

I think this is my favourite.. :

Karma - 6:30 and forward

 

[Dev]

Serenity Painted Death ( 3.16 if I'm not mistaken ) ..
Not the best , but it sounds like it's deliverance

 

[Anti-Everything]

The last few minutes of Deliverance and "Karma - 6:30 and forward". Definitely.

 

[Ermz]

Serenity Painted Death. The riff with 'Saw her..... blank stare into me' etc. etc. Except WITH the lead. I think that makes one of the best rhythm/lead riff combos I have heard in my entire life. It's like both parts are playing their own seperate phrases yet it entwines so flawlessly.

 

[synergy]

Crazy riff in the background during the last line of Blackwater Park which goed straight into another awesome riff.

 

[Leper_/-\ffinity]

Wow, this would be impossible to narrow down for me, but If I had to choose, Still Life. That whole album is full of my favorite all time riffs, and that is about as narrow as I will get.

 

[LambOfGod]

I love the heavy Blackwater Park riff at 6:57. The Black Rose Immortal part that was already mentioned is my other favorite as well.

 

[SculptedCold]

I couldn't possibly answer that. At least half of all the Opeth songs I listen to have riffs that amaze me. Opeth are one of the greatest riff writers ever.

 

[VomitingTheFetalEmbryo]

I would have to say the Face of Melinda riff, right after the acoustic part of the song

 

[anonymousnick2001]

The distorted climax riff in To Bid You Farewell, the first few riffs in Nectar, the ending riff in The Night and the Silent Water, the Bleak riff, the Funeral Portrait riff, the catchy main riff in the first half of The Twilight Is My Robe, the intro to Forest Of October, the heavy riffs in Karma, the main riff in The Moor, the chorus riff/squeal in serenity Painted Death, and the intro to Moonlapse Vertigo.

 

[sands of the seas]

The last riff in Karma
Pretty much all of the riffs in Blackwater Park
Deliverance verse riff
Most of Advent, particularly 8:10 - 8:54, 9:19 onwards
Forest of October solo riff

 

[MasterOLightning]

Blackwater Park at about 8:00. End of The Night and The Silent Water. End of Deliverance. Demon of the Fall intro.

 

[suislidE]

Last april ethereal riff, ending section to karma, serenity painted death 2:17 and 2:12, the majority of the still life riffs actually, leper affinity at 1:53 and 2:53 ..actually all of that song, the evil 5/8 riff in the middle of drapery falls, all of the funeral portrait. none in deliverance... just too simple for me.

 

[suislidE]

I couldn't possibly answer that. At least half of all the Opeth songs I listen to have riffs that amaze me. Opeth are one of the greatest riff writers ever.

amen.

 

[Demilich]

Serenity Painted Death 1:27!! Makes me feel like headbanging more than anything except 12:11 on Edge of Sanity's "Crimson", the best piece of guitar ever, regardless of whether it's complex or technical or what not. It's amazing. Then the drums come in underneath it and it's just godly. Sorry if I come off as a Crimson-whore, but it's 100% true.

Of course, honorable mention to the end of The Night and the Silent Water and of course a lot of riffs on every Opeth album, all of which have some particularly stellar and outstanding moments of awe.

 

[Windom Pearl]

Moonlapse Vertigo, the one that's played behind the first long growl.

 

[Slynt]

The melodic riffs that open the first two minutes of "In Mist She was Standing", what a way to open a career of great albums ('Blackwater Park' excepted). Also, the melodies and riffs right after the bas "solo" in "The Twilight is My Robe" is beautiful. As for a full-on, straight heavy riff, I'd say perhaps the opening riff of "Wreath", it's damn cool, or perhaps the riff when Mikael growls The day wept on my shoulders!! FUCKING ACE HELL FUCK SHIT.