The Greatest Underground Metal Riff of All Time

[Hatebreeder]

I'm sure there have been plenty of threads talking about metal's greatest riffs having been created by the genre's seminal greats, but what about underground bands? In some ways, the most fulfilling riffs cannot be found in the classics but in the underground scene where success is not measured by records sold but by musical influence and artistic integrity. What do you think?

As for me, I like the riffs off Darkthrone's "A Blaze In the Northern Sky" quite a bit, and Burzum's early material (a la "Burzum/Aske") is quite nice. Just a couple to get the thread started.

 

[cookiecutter]

Malevolent Creation - Eve of the Apocalypse
Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity

 

[ohiogrinder]

the opening riff to Morbid Angel's Maze Of Torment
Bathory's The Reaper
Napalm Death's entire riffs in the song "Scum"
the opening riff of Venom's Welcome To Hell (the song, not the album)

 

[skeptik]

shit thread

 

[Hatebreeder]

Napalm Death's entire riffs in the song "Scum"

Hell yes. Reminds me of early Celtic Frost for some reason.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

wtf.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

The Intro to Dillinger Escape Plan's - 43% Burnt

Not the greatest of all time but one of my fav's of all time.

 

[Life Sucks]

Mourning Beloveth - Narcissistic Funeral (best song ever) - the riff before the clean vocal part. as well as the riff after the first "verse"

Arghoslent - Flogging the Cargo, intro riff
Primordial - The Coffin Ships, main riff
Sacramentum - Fog's Kiss, one of the bridge riffs
Forgotten Tomb - Disenheartenment, main riff
The Chasm - A Portal to Nowhere, riff after the first riff (or the riff between the vocals. anyone who knows the song knows the riff I'm talking about)
Dissection - Night's Blood (the slower paced riff that is first played on the acoustic guitar, then electric)

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7 !!!!

 

[CF87]

Dissection - Night's Blood (the slower paced riff that is first played on the acoustic guitar, then electric)

One of my favorite parts also.

let me add.

Dissection-Thorns Of Crimson Death

3:02 to 3:27

 

[metal_wrath]

ZYKLON - SPECIMEN ERUPTION - intro riff

Decapitated - Revelation of Existence Trip - intro riff

Emperor - Tongue of Fire - that riff after the singing part, after the interlude...

Opeth - The Moor - entire fucking song, period, end of discussion......also the riff in 'When' before and during the first solo, TNATSW (whole song)....ummmm...the acoustic riff on "Black Rose Immortal", the ending riffs on The Baying of The Hounds

Edge of Sanity - Crimson II - entire fucking album!!!

 

[Zephyrus]

ZYKLON - SPECIMEN ERUPTION - intro riff

Compare that riff to Mayhem's "Pagan Fears". Sounds very similar, particularly with the drumming in mind.

Emperor - Tongue of Fire - that riff after the singing part, after the interlude...

Opeth - The Moor - entire fucking song, period, end of discussion......also the riff in 'When' before and during the first solo, TNATSW (whole song)....ummmm...the acoustic riff on "Black Rose Immortal", the ending riffs on The Baying of The Hounds

Opeth riffs are brilliant indeed.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7 !!!!

uke:

 

[skeptik]

Somebody sucks at detected sarcasm.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Somebody sucks at detected sarcasm.

sorry, my browser isn't equipped with a sarcasm detector like yours....I'll be sure to get on that, though...thanks for telling me.

 

[skeptik]

If you need a machine to tell you that was sarcasm, then you're retarded.

 

[Hammer of Might]

Somebody sucks at detected sarcasm.

He just sucks at life tbh.

 

[Blue_Jay]

Destroyer 666 - I Am The Wargod

 

[Hatebreeder]

Add Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie to my list. Fuckin' wonderful song.

 

[Scarifier]

Right now
Varathron - Son of the Moon (act II)
and Coroner - Masked Jacal
are burning my brain.