Your Favorite Riffs

[Mythos Inibri]

'Rebellion in Dreamland' by Gamma Ray. And the entire self-titled album of Grave Digger is loaded with memorable riffs.

GraveDigger's cool I love their "Heavy Metal Breakdown" killer Doom parts on there

 

[Zephyrus]

Borknagar - Ruins of the Future

Fuck. Yeah.



Here's a list of some of my favorite riffs:

Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Behemoth - Conquer All
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Borknagar - Ruins of the Future
Burzum - Jesus' Tod
Cryptopsy - Phobophile
Emperor - I Am the Black Wizards
Hypocrisy - Roswell 47
Hypocrisy - Warpath
Limbonic Art - Suicide Commando
Melechesh - Gyroscope
Nachtmystium - Chosen By No One
Naglfar - The Brimstone Gate
Pentagram - Broken Vows
Satyricon - Mother North
Summoning - Where Hope and Daylight Die
Vader - The Sea Came in At Last

 

[Narg n Lamb]

Nope.

They write musical masterpieces.

Their 'riffs' are so fucking awesome and technical theyre just as hard as guitar solo's in other metal bands!!


I think, at the moment, there are millions i could list, but i'll just put a few, some of the coolest riffs can be found in:

Wintersun - Battle Against Time (The intro riff, so simple, but so awesome)

Imperanon - Corroded (The intro riff again, with all the rest of the instruments playing along.. sounds great)

Necrophagist - Only Ash Remains (throughout the song, but the final riff, from 'Romeo and Juliet' is SO great.)




..there are millions more, but just those for now.

The first time I heard Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and the end of Only Ash Remain, I was like hahaha wtf? I did not expect that, and then afterwards it just stuck onto the song so well.

 

[Narg n Lamb]

Satyricon - Mother North

What a beautiful song... one of my Satyricon favorites.

 

[Xorv]

beginning riff to metallica "master of puppets" best thrash intro riff (possibly) ever

such a classic riff, induces some torrid headbanging + air guitaring.

pffff the iron man is gonna smelt yur ass

 

[Satanstoenail]

beginning riff to metallica "master of puppets" best thrash intro riff (possibly) ever

such a classic riff, induces some torrid headbanging + air guitaring.

Yes.

 

[Xorv]

Disillusion - Back to times of splendor

 

[Zephyrus]

What a beautiful song... one of my Satyricon favorites.

Lots of people think it's over-rated, but you got to give credit to that riff. So fucking infectious.

 

[Mythos Inibri]

Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe

Many people believe that is the greatest riff in existence.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Many people believe that is the greatest riff in existence.

It's definitely up there.

 

[Captain]

Trouble - Bastards Will Pay
Down - Pillars of Etrenity
Testament - The New Order(Pretty much the entire album)
Mastodon - Aqua Dementia
Lair of the Minotaur - Lord of Butchery
I - Warriors
Tankard - Forsaken World

A few of my recent favorites.

 

[Life Sucks]

Primordial - The Coffin Ships - main riff
Arghoslent - Flogging the Cargo - intro riff
Mourning Beloveth - Narcissistic Funeral - the riff right before the cleans
Dissection - Night's Blood - the riff that begins acoustic
Deathspell Omega - Sola Fide II - the really "evil sounding" riff after the first verse
Sacramentum - Fog's Kiss - the Dissection-ish riff towards the end

 

[Skepticism]

Amorphis, Anyhting off of first 2 albums
Enslaved, too many good riffs to name
and many many more..

 

[AchrisK]

Metallica - Trapped Under Ice

 

[BlackMetalTyrant]

Carcass, all of their riffs are amazing. Megadeth-Holy Wars,
Celtic Frost-Necromantical Screams, Deicide-Homage for Satan fucking owns

 

[Zephyrus]

Samael - "Ceremony of Opposites" 1:30 - 2:10.

Best riff Samael's ever written.

 

[Alter]

The riff at 3:15 in death rides a horse by russian circles...listen to it!

 

[Rumpole]

The opening riff of For Those Who Died by Sabbat.

 

[probertvscoxe]

electric funeral - black sabbath
hallowed be thy name - iron maiden
cemetary gates - pantera
im broken - pantera
fade to black - metallica
soup is good food - dead kennedys
thrashers - death angel
most songs on 'pink' - boris
negative creep - nirvana
aint talkin bout love - van halen
21st century schizoid man - king crimson
starless - king crimson

i could go on

 

[Sabin Frost]

Metallica - One