Heaviest riffs?

[Igor_Cavalera]

What riffs just blow your mind with their heaviness every time you hear them?

 

[HailIron]

Where the Slime Live-Morbid Angel
Only Death Decides- Exodus

 

[Hawk]

Almost everything by Nevermore. One of the reasons why they are my favorite band.

 

[Bryant]

What riffs just blow your mind with their heaviness every time you hear them?

"The Spell Can't Be Broken" by Metal Church.


Bryant

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Great song!

For me, every single riff in Black Sabbath's "Into The Void".

 

[Abryl]

I love the one on Saxon's Dogs Of War

 

[carnut]

Some I like a lot:
Loudness: Street Woman
Metal Church : Ton of Bricks
Dream Theater : Hold me under
Tad Morose : Mother Shipton's words
Warlord : Black Mass
Piledriver : Sex with Satan
Queensryche : Queen of the Reich
Savatage : Sirens & Hall ot Mountain King
Toxic : Social Overload

Well, I think I could go on and on and on...

 

[Troyanasy]

Almost everything by Nevermore. One of the reasons why they are my favorite band.

My Bro. calls riffs right. Nevermore are a band who strugled to get ......
Never-Fuckin-More
BUTT

Rock Bottom
Witchfinder General
Countess Bathory ?(sic)
Fire Down Under


I can't wait till I meet HAWK....I have a half crate of Canadian " Music"
for he. Hehe Anvil hehe.Hawk
Ridin' High !!

Cheers

Troy

 

[Troyanasy]

Some I like a lot:
Loudness: Street Woman
Metal Church : Ton of Bricks
Dream Theater : Hold me under
Tad Morose : Mother Shipton's words
Warlord : Black Mass
Piledriver : Sex with Satan
Queensryche : Queen of the Reich
Savatage : Sirens & Hall ot Mountain King
Toxic : Social Overload

Well, I think I could go on and on and on...

Sirens and Holocaust rule

Great List bro

Loudness -Enfer
U.F.O - On With The Action
Acid-
Killer-
Savage Steel -

 

[Igor_Cavalera]

For me, every single riff in Black Sabbath's "Into The Void".

Fuck yeah!
I definately agree on that one. Plus more Ozzy era Sabbath riffs

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Some I like a lot:
Loudness: Street Woman
Metal Church : Ton of Bricks
Dream Theater : Hold me under
Tad Morose : Mother Shipton's words
Warlord : Black Mass
Piledriver : Sex with Satan
Queensryche : Queen of the Reich
Savatage : Sirens & Hall ot Mountain King
Toxic : Social Overload

Well, I think I could go on and on and on...

Yeah, this thread topic is too broad for me. The best heaviest riffs? Shit, it's a hundred way tie right off the bat. Then I figure in hundreds more riffs that I haven't listened to in years and would have to add to the list.

I will say one thing though, carnut, you got good taste man! Riff mentions that really hit home with me: Metal Church, Warlord, Queensryche, Savatage.

Saw Loudness in concert in the early 80s on Thunder in the East tour. Takasaki made my ears bleed for nearly a week with his solos. It pissed me off too; it was TOO loud. I don't have the new Tad Morose yet, but Matters of the Dark has its fair share of heaviest riffs. And then there's Morgana Lefay, which no one has mentioned yet in this riff-heavy thread.

When I think of riff-masters, I go back to the pioneers: Ritchie Blackmore, Tony Iommi, Buck Dharma, Michael Schenker, Angus Young, Randy Rhoads, Criss Oliva, etc. etc.

 

[Hawk]

My Bro. calls riffs right. Newermore are a band who strugled to get ......
Never-Fuckin-More
BUTT

Rock Bottom
Witchfinder General
Countess Bathory ?(sic)
Fire Down Under


I can't wait till I meet HAWK....I have a half crate of Canadian " Music"
for he. Hehe Anvil hehe.Hawk
Ridin' High !!

Cheers

Troy

You are the MAN Troy!! Indeed I can't wait until I meet you as well man. I am Ridin' HIGH with Toronto Tonto!!!

 

[zeppelin]

Cant think...Last December - Iced Earth, Cowboys from Hell, Shake your Heads - Accept.... lotsnlots more hehehe.

 

[AntonCrowley_16]

There's got to be some Pantera songs in here somewhere also.

 

[zeppelin]

There's got to be some Pantera songs in here somewhere also.

So Cowboys from Hell does not count then? OK, how 'bout 5 Minutes Alone, Cemetary Gates, Drag the Waters and Walk then?

 

[Hawk]

Primal Concrete Sledge?

 

[ElectricWiz]

I agree with the above mentioned "Into The Void" and everything-by-Nevermore....and add the following:

The last riff in the song Blackwater Park (Opeth)
Gift (Old Man Gloom) This is a side project of ISIS' Aaron Turner
The Eagle Has Landed (Saxon)
Many ISIS songs..
Many Opeth songs...
Many Sabbath songs...
...and though they have a questionable past at this point....you gotta give nods to things like Sad But True and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica...

and tons more.....by tons more bands

 

[AngelWitch73]

Where the Slime Live-Morbid Angel

Total agreed with this one. OBITUARY also have some heavy riffs and also DESECRATION. SAINT VITUS can lay some thick ones on too.

 

[AntonCrowley_16]

So Cowboys from Hell does not count then? OK, how 'bout 5 Minutes Alone, Cemetary Gates, Drag the Waters and Walk then?

All of them work, pretty much everything has heavy riffs.

 

[Abryl]

...Last December - Iced Earth.

Good choice! I just remembered "Afterlife" by Nocturnal Rites, pretty damn heavy