What's your favourite riff of all time? (self.metal)

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As for me, it's probably Katakysm's The Black Sheep

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[-] foggy 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Gonna have to go by genre

runner up: 🤔

I could probably come up with a top 5-10 for each genre. I could probably dig for 5 more genres. This is already a sick playlist.

Honorable mentions to Rage Against The Machine and Soilwork. Some absolute riff kings. Those two bands honestly trump the whole list/thread/whatever.

[-] serpineslair 2 points 5 months ago

What about thrash metal?

[-] foggy 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not a fan of most OG thrash bands, personally, so my top picks would be bands influenced by those bands.

I'd say top thrash riff pick would probably be

Children of Bodom - Lake Bodom

I'd have to revisit Kiuas's first 3 albums to pick out the thrash bangers. They're mostly power metal with some thrash, black, and melodeath.

If well allow Kiuas - Heart Of The Serpent as thrash, then yeah. But idk kinda more black/power metal than thrash.

I guess of OG thrash I do love sepultura... And Kiko Laurieo in general. Does Angra count by association? Or are they way too power? 😔

[-] chemical_cutthroat 7 points 5 months ago

She's So Heavy - The Beatles. I know it's not "metal", but it's metal as fuck.

[-] Cyclist 1 points 5 months ago

It's almost stoner or doom.

[-] ShunkW 4 points 5 months ago

Follow the smoke to the riff filled lands

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Proceeds the Weedian!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I love that song that goes ba duh duh dunna dun dun banananana duh duh buh buh

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I don't know about all time, but...

Visigoth - Revenant King - the intro and all the variations on it throughout the song
Eternal Champion - A Face in the Glare
Unleashed - Midvinterblot - I know it's super basic but it gets me amped up regardless
Opeth - Serenity Painted Death - Already mentioned but damn

Oddly most of my favorite stuff - like prog metal - I tend to not like a particular riff from.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Something about Rammstein's Keine Lust always sends a ton of blood to my peen.

[-] Ryan213 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bleak by Opeth. Heartwork by Carcass Sinister Mephisto by Arch Enemy

[-] foggy 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bleak rules (fuggin Steven Wilson backup vox) but if I'm going Opeth on riffage, it's serenity painted death for me

Opeth - Serenity Painted Death

Like 2 straight minutes of neck breaker after neck breaker.

[-] Ryan213 1 points 5 months ago

Man, I miss old Opeth.

[-] hactar42 3 points 5 months ago

Trivium - Entrance Of The Conflagration

[-] ace_garp 3 points 5 months ago

Intro to Mandatory Suicide

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

From Slayer, I'm partial to Raining Blood, but they have so many legendary riffs that you couldn't go wrong picking at random 😂

[-] DredUnicorn 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Götterdämmerung by Zeal and Ardor, goes hard always gets me excited.

[-] rockSlayer 2 points 5 months ago

easy choice for me, O Father O Satan O Son by Behemoth

[-] CM400 3 points 5 months ago

That’s a great one. Mine would have to be either Satan is Real by Kreator (main riff), or I’m Broken by Pantera (also main riff).

[-] jeffw 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe an unpopular choice, but Sabbath’s Into the Void

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm having a hard time finding a better one. This might be tops. Tried a bunch of old riff kings like Cactus, Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore, Buffalo, but I don't think they can beat Sabbath. Never in My Life by Mountain comes close for me though.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Serpents of the Light by Deicide gets me as amped up now as it did 25+ years ago 🤘

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart 1 points 5 months ago

Photograph by Nickelback.

They are ahead of their time and won’t be understood for a couple more years.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This is an impossible question, how dare you. But I'm not gonna let you guys get away with not mentioning the Riff Beast himself, Kirk Windstein.

Crowbar - It Pours From Me usually comes to mind first.

Also, KoRn - Clown to this day has one of the most disgusting guitar tones I've ever heard.

[-] Deftdrummer 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Inflames - colony hits so hard!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm partial to doom riffs so I gotta give love to Electric Funeral as the granddaddy. It's simple but so good.

The Cromlech Gate by Enslaved is super heavy and maybe my actual favorite, followed by too many by Candlemass tracks to mention. Ocean Demon by Runemagick is a series of great riffs.

But Tony is god so I can't neglect Patterns by Iommi and Follow the Tears by Heaven & Hell which are good 'n' heavy too.