The creepiest metal riffs

[ihatedeathcore]

What are in your opinion the most creepy/ominous/"haunting" riffs? I just thought of this as some variation to the purely heavy and headbangable stuff. By "creepy" I don't necessarily mean that you literally shit your pants every time you hear them.

I would draw the line between creepy and not creepy something like this:

Creepy:
South of Heaven-Slayer
The Call of Ktulu-Metallica
After all (the dead)-Black Sabbath
Angry Chair-Alice in Chains
213-Slayer
Oops!... I Did It Again-Britney Spears (jk)

Not:
Electric funeral-Black Sabbath
Dead Skin Mask-Slayer
Seasons In The Abyss-Slayer
All Nightmare Long-Metallica

And any post mentioning Cradle of Filth or Led Zeppelin will be considered a joke.

 

[Krow]

Molested - Blod-Draum has tons of really weird riffs... that you might call creepy.

 

[Eligos]

/thread

 

[unknown]

Dark Tribe - The Seed

 

[challenge_everything]

Sarcofago - Nightmare

 

[challenge_everything]

Dark Tribe - The Seed

Good call. Although it's the vocals as much as anything that makes Dark Tribe creepy.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Arch Enemy - Skeleton Dance

 

[Xorv]

what eligos posted

and ummm.....Wormed? ehhh

axis of perdition, maybe

 

[Eligos]

Axis of Perdition definitely.



One of those shitty new US bands, too. Teratism has a great, creepy sound.

 

[ihatedeathcore]

Wow that's a lot of black metal. Anyway, thanks for the replies so far.

 

[Eligos]

Actually, another black metal band worth noting is Abruptum, particularly their first demo. Regardless of whether the rumors surrounding it are true or not, it was unparalleled in creepiness for about a decade.

 

[ASD]

Sounds like an evil assembly line...

 

[arg]

judging by his post i dont think the OP is at the "shit your pants BM creepiness" level yet, so here are some non-BM, fairly creepy, but definitely badass examples.

 

[TheInsane]

And any post mentioning Cradle of Filth or Led Zeppelin will be considered a joke.

Actually, I remember a pretty creepy instrumental tune from "Dusk and her embrace" that was pretty great



Allthough my official nominée would be Black Sabbaths self titled title track of their first album. Very, very, very good and has creepy feeling to it. The riff that follows may also be one of the best riffs I have ever heard period!

 

[Eligos]

judging by his post i dont think the OP is at the "shit your pants BM creepiness" level yet

Oh I definitely gathered that, but since when have GMD threads been about the OP? This is about the songs that are creepy to US, if he wants recommendations he should've put it in the rec thread.

Just sayin'

 

[arg]

those Blut Aus Nord songs are hella creepy though, i like em

 

[waif]

Behemoth - Inner Sanctum for sure

 

[Eligos]

Just listened to my favorite death metal album of 2009 and Ulcerate's song "Tyranny", particularly the opening riff, belongs here as well.

They don't have it on Youtube, though. If I recall correctly, it's on their Myspace.

 

[Lateralus14]

Basically any of the less intense, more atmospheric riffs off of TWWTG and to a lesser extent, Fas.

 

[Eligos]

Particularly in the quieter parts of Fas, I'd agree.