Who would win in a riffing competition?

Who would win in a riffing competition?


  • Total voters
    62
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
 
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. :Saint:
 
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?
 
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.
 
Yeah, I meant from the Jester Race-Clayman era ;) (I don't consider them to be the same band or same guitarists after that)
 
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.
 
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.