Most creative riffs ever in metal.

[arf]

Anyone recommend me the most creative riff you know, and/or riffs that you are proud of I'm looking for a good banging-of-the-head syndrome that lasts for at least a month.

 

[Eligos]

 

[Lateralus14]

Probably Slayer

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm going to assume by creative you mean for distinctive/unique riffage...

Holocaust - Hypnosis of Birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJULfqra8k

Ripping Corpse - Seduction of the Innocent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GKu5rulpOE

Voivod - Macrosolutions for Megaproblems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uV_ZuPOcw

 

[arf]

Yes. Something innovative, not ripped off or watered down.
Thanks for the bands, post more please

 

[Baroque]

Honestly a lot of Dream Theater's riffs on Images and Words were very innovative at the time. I'll go with them for now.

 

[Sakshin Mohan]

Opeth - Blackwater park. Addicted to it right now

 

[EternalMetal]

@ HamburgerBoy - nice choice from Voivod. Their unique tuning makes a lot of their riffs quite different from the norm though.

Im sure stuff like this will work:

Asphyx - The Krusher


Entombed - Sinners Bleed


Gorod - Thirst For Power


Gorguts - Nostalgia


Judas Priest - Electric Eye


Manilla Road - Hammer of the Witches


Immolation - Sinful Nature

 

[RedinTheSky]

Not sure what your genre preference / pre knowledge of bands are so im just gonna post some..















That should do for now, hopefully youve not heard of some of them

 

[isberg]

Creative and creative....i dont know if it can be mentioned as the most creative riff. But i feel this song and main riff has the core essence of metal. Its a song i just gotta hear from time to time and cant get tired of hearing it. Might not be what you asked for but to hell with it. Listen to it anyway.

 

[arf]

oh these work all right. some creative fapping i must say.
genre preference? umm, some death that's not too death-y, it's hard to put in words.
something like this


and


yeah, something in between or along those lines.
thanks for the bands/songs btw, i apologize for the late reply

 

[RedinTheSky]

 

[UltimateApathy]

Unlike anything you've listened to before:

 

[IronMagnon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U16hXRMqJw

Great album. Forest always blows me away with his bass performances. If only one of his bands toured the US! Riff-wise I was just starting to get back into this album. The riffs are definitely different than what you might be used to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSmAacEpt-Y

 

[RedinTheSky]

This is the Cynic I like

 

[arf]

holy fuck i gotta say.
i will post too just to be fair to those who made the effort of reccing me these bands/songs, hehe.




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*bow*

 

[WNxScythe]

Gorguts easily fits into this category. See Obscura and From Wisdom to Hate. I haven't listened to their latest yet so I can't comment on it (I think it's not officially out actually)

 

[RepulsedRadiant]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

As already mentioned, the last two Gorguts albums are a must ... and so is their new one.

 

[Baroque]

Really depends on how you look at it. Black Sabbath had the most creative riffs in metal at one point.

Black Sabbath
War Pigs
Paranoid

simple riffs, but nothing like them had been heard before.

Also, Randy Rhoads.