Who would win in a riffing competition?

[cobhc]

Man, how a thread can spiral into OT land so quickly! Lol!

 

[Metaltastic]

Of course if it's memorable riffs Schaeffer is definitely not the best haha.

But his speed and stamina is unrivaled.

Big +1 to both!

 

[Metaltastic]

Damnit! I should have called it "Which Thrash Guitarist would win in a riffing competition?".

Pretty key word there buddeh!

 

[Skinny Viking]

I'm more talking as far as being tight as a motherfucker..........and not just in the studio, I'm talking live as well.

Ok then I would still say Hetfield over Holt. I've seen both numerous times, I have to go with Het

Scott Ian is amazingly perfect live with his riffing, or at least used to be. Of course people like Loomis and Schaffer and a dozen others could be thrown into that mix too which kinda defeats the purpose of only having 2 to choose from

 

[Force666]

I'm looking at it more from a....

I'm pretty sure Gary could play every one of Hetfield's riffs. As i'm pretty sure Hetfield couldn't play all of Gary's riffs.

As far as memorable....Hetfield
As far as technical.....Holt


If you consider "The Crown" as a Thrash band....then I vote Marcus Sunesson all the way.

 

[Skinny Viking]

Is it memorable, or just insane endurance????

well, that was the question I had. Talking about riffing but that could mean so many different things. Are we talking fast and precise, we talking "those" riffs that are gonna be around in some form for the next 50 years? Thats what I was getting

I own every IE cd. I love them, been a fan of Schaffer's since Stormrider and he was a BIG influence on my playing. But to stack his riffs up against someone like Hetfield's or Ian's or even Holt's ...

I can hum every riff from "master of Puppets" ... I can hum the riffs on "Fabolous Disaster"

I can't hum all the riffs on "Stormrider" ... just a lot of parts. Know what I mean?

 

[Chryst Krispies]

No, I agree with you in the longevity of the riffs of Holt/Het vs Jon.

I thought we were talkin straight stamina and speed and the physical skill.

 

[Rockchops]

Tony Iommi

 

[Felix Neumann]

Where the hell is Mustaine? I choosed Hetfield, because he´s the second best rythm guitarist after Mustaine in our beloved genre IMO. There are so much great players..Chuck and Dime also was so phantastic. My Necrophagist countrymen are ASS players, too..it´s difficult to deceide.

 

[AdamWathan]

And Jesper/Bjorn

Maybe like 10-15 years ago I could remotely consider including them (even then it's a stretch) but nowadays it's just strum some big power chords and noodle some melodies... That's like including the dudes from Maiden in a riffing poll... I dunno, to me there's more to a "riff" then chugging a chord progression.

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, I meant from the Jester Race-Clayman era (I don't consider them to be the same band or same guitarists after that)

 

[jacare]

Dave Mustaine... uops...

 

[jacare]

Tony Iommi

He deserves respect !!!!! I do have a lot of influence from him... and Mustaine !

 

[Skinny Viking]

Man ... this 2 choice poll fell right to shit

 

[slashvanyoung]

Jeff Hanneman... oops... SCNR

 

[fade_2_black]

The thing about Dave that impresses me is that he can sing anything over any guitar riff, that takes some fucking talent!

BRO, I just saw Muhammed from Necrophagist last week, that guy's co-ordination is INSANE. He can literally do vocals over ANY riff. Crazy sweeps and all. Fucking amazing!

 

[J the TyranT]

I would say today JON from Iced, has the fastest riff hand in the land. That's not my opinion either. That's a fucking FACT. I dare anyone to find a better triplet assassin.

But from these to jadrools I vote Het.

Klas Ideberg from Darkane. Malmstrom gets all the love for his leads, but its a known fact Klas has "the CLAW" as its deemed.

 

[slashvanyoung]

BRO, I just saw Muhammed from Necrophagist last week, that guy's co-ordination is INSANE. He can literally do vocals over ANY riff. Crazy sweeps and all. Fucking amazing!

Yeah, what Muhammed does is just unreal.

Mustaine often does this "blues thing", especially back in the day.

You know: "sing" "sing", riff riff, "sing" sing", riff riff etc.

Not to take anything away from him, though. His rhythms are mind-bogglingly tight considering he's "singing" at the same time.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Muhammed is killer, but he has FAR from the deadliest right hand.

 

[Teddyboy]

James Hetfield rules man!!!!! All palm mutes are downpicked and tons of legendary riffs and songs!!! Dyers Eve for the win!!!!