Your Favorite Riffs

[cookiecutter]

With metal being so riff driven, I'm sure you've all developed some favorites. What they?

Mine are:
The intro riff in Raining Blood - Slayer
The main riff in The Sea Came in at Last - Vader
The intro riff in Sacrifice Unto Sebek - Nile
The intro riff in Roswell 47 - Hypocrisy

 

[Paul Burns]

The intro riff for 'Downfall'- Children of Bodom
The intro riff for 'Blood Brothers'- Iron Maiden
The intro riff for 'Dance of Death'- Iron Maiden

 

[Teh Grimace]

the first riffs of borknagar "gods of my world" and immortal "solarfall", off the top of my head.

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mastodon "trampled under hoof"
forsaken "cold flesh colony"
emperor "depraved"

and pretty much every riff on transilvanian hunger

thats all i can think of atm

double edit: satyricon "dawn of a new age"

 

[Thoth-Amon]

the first riffs of borknagar "gods of my world" and immortal "solarfall", off the top of my head.

edit:

more-

mastodon "trampled under hoof"
forsaken "cold flesh colony"
emperor "depraved"

and pretty much every riff on transilvanian hunger

thats all i can think of atm

You know I'm getting more and more impressed with your taste. We aren't that different afterall.

 

[Nico]

double edit: satyricon "dawn of a new age"

Oh fuck yeah.

 

[Skepticism]

Godflesh-Anthem
Destroyer 666-Lone Wolf Winter Lead Guitar at 0:11 seconds
Melvins-Lexicon Devil
Meshuggah-I at 8:44
and many, many others....

 

[Necro Joe]

Lone Wolf Winter

 

[Wires & Waves]

rilo kiley - spectacular views

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Godflesh-Anthem
Destroyer 666-Lone Wolf Winter Lead Guitar at 0:11 seconds
Melvins-Lexicon Devil

Amazing choices.

 

[Consuming Impulse]

Slayer-Raining Blood
Sepultura-Dead Embroynic Cells
Pantera-I'm Broken
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Mayhem-Deathcrush
Burzum-War
Sodom-Witching Metal
Kreator-Terrible Cetantity
Machine Head-Daviadian
Metallica-Seek and Destory
Death-Zombie Ritual
Darkthrone-In The Shadow of the Horns

 

[Zephyrus]

the first riffs of borknagar "gods of my world" and immortal "solarfall", off the top of my head.

that's a good riff. my favorite Borknagar riffs will probably be from "Ruins of the Future" and most of the Quintessence album has killer riffage.

 

[Ender Rises]

Many Metallica, Pantera, and a vast host of others have very good riffs. To pick favorites*...
The bass riff for 45 and 2 by Tool
Man in the Box and Them Bones -- Alice in Chains
Suicide Messiah and Stillborn -- BLS
Iron Man and Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
In Your Face and Sixpounder -- Children of Bodom
Fuck You and Breathing New Life -- Damageplan
Hourglass and Now You've Got Something to Die For -- Lamb of God
Trust and Symphony of Destruction -- Megadeth
Crazy Train, No More Tears, and Perry Mason -- Ozzy Osbourne
Cowboys From Hell and Five Minutes Alone -- Pantera
Destroyer of Senses and The First Noble Truth -- Shadows Fall
Raining Blood -- Slayer
Maniac Dance -- Stratovarius

*Please remember, I am an uneducated dumbass, and these are my personal favorites among what little I know.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

The closing riff on "New Kingdom" by Borknagar.
"The Trooper" by Iron FUCKING Maiden
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" by Black FUCKING-A-BUBBLES Sabbath (All the riffs in that song, btw)
"Hanger 18" by Megadeth
"Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times" by Emperor
That's just a select few. If I were to choose all my favorites, this post would get ridiculous.

 

[audiophileguy]

dark angel-Ancient Inherited Shame-opening riff and middle break
kreator-material world paranoia-last riff
priest-painkiller
ensiferum-s/t-entire album
BG-majesty

 

[Dän]

metallica - harvester of sorrow
slayer - dead skin mask
opeth - nectar, The night...
MF - evil, coven, sabbath
KD - the family ghoast, abigail
and about 1000 others that i cant be fucked writing

 

[Teh Grimace]

"Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times" by Emperor

i can't believe i said fucking depraved instead of cosmic keys. i was like "what emperor riffs do i really like" and that was the first i could come up with.

:dies:

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

i:dies:

Hey, since you're dead and all, can I have your 5-string?

 

[Teh Grimace]

d00d it's a 6-string

5 strings are for underachievers.

and it's left handed so you prolly cant play it.

...

and no.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Meanie...

 

[MasterOLightning]

Drudkh - False Dawn (1:07 + 3:11) <-this is the winner