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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: WildRanger on February 22, 2019, 02:03:43 PM
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Name some metal riffs which move you most?
My examples:
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Black Sabbath - Into the Void
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Kyuss - Green Machine
Electric Wizard - Return Trip
Sepultura - Arise
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You know, this band is super far down on my list of 'favorite bands' - in fact I don't even think they'd be among my favorites at all - but every time I think of this question, in the end my favorite pick always goes to the main riff in Symphony X's Iconoclast. Seriously. There are a ton of awesome riffs out there that I love, especially among my favorite bands, but that one is the king of kings.
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Meshuggah - Bleed
the ending of Graves by Caligula’s Horse
the ending of Deliverance by Opeth
and more I guess
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one direction - what makes you beautiful :metal :metal :metal
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Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne (at around the 4:10 mark, after the mellow section).
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Metallica.
Pick a song, it's all good.
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Metallica.
Pick a song, it's all good.
Fran tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
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Metallica.
Pick a song, it's all good.
Fran tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
Bad song, cool riff.
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I started compiling a list and it was taking way too long, so I'll just pick one:
Fates Warning - APSOG XI - the part that's in 4/4, 4/4, 5/8 (which is also the basis for the acoustic guitar and keyboard part in APSOG VIII)
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Breaking the Law and Iron Man should have already been mentioned :hat
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If we're going down the British Steel route then The Rage gets my vote for best riff on the album.
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Grim Reaper - All Hell Let Loose
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Gojira - L'enfant sauvage
Gojira - Silvera
Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island
Gojira - Flying Whales
Gojira - Backbone
Gojira - Heaviest Matter in the Universe
Meshuggah - Demiurge
Meshuggah - Combustion
Meshuggah - The Demon's Name is Surveillance
Dream Theater - Illumination Theory (band re-entrance)
Dream Theater - S2N (outro)
Epica - The Essence of Silence (bridge riff)
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Lucy Fears the Morning Star (tango outro riff)
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Stratosphere Serenade (main cello riff)
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Voodoo Mon Amour (breakdown riff)
Pocupine Tree - Anesthetize (blast beat breakdown riff)
Tesseract - Deception (bridge riff)
Creed - Bullets
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Nightwish - Song of Myself (A-section choir outro riff)
Mastodon - The Last Baron (middle section harmonics riff)
Haken - The Endless Knot (metalstep part)
Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
Blind Guardian - Wheel of Time (the one about 3:20 in)
I could probably keep going forever.
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Book of Thel
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Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
Woman From Tokyo (Purple)
Burn (Purple)
Makin' Love (Kiss)
Crazy Train (Ozzy)
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The main and verse riffs for DT's Home. So simple yet so bad ass
PT FOABP intro riff
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality main riff
Lots of Metallica riffs
Megadeth - Angry Again main riff
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Breaking the Law and Iron Man should have already been mentioned :hat
Breaking the Law is a stupidly simple and boring song and the main riff is nothing special.
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Metallica Blackened main riff.
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Breaking the Law and Iron Man should have already been mentioned :hat
Breaking the Law is a stupidly simple and boring song and the main riff is nothing special.
Correct. There are a million other Priest riffs I would list above that one. The breakdown riff in Nightcrawler for example :metal
As far as this topic goes, way too many to list.
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Black Sabbath - Into the Void
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality main riff
Makin' Love (Kiss)
The Living Colour and KISS ones are good calls.
Into The Void is a monster.
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Hmmm.. most Voivod songs. The second part of Le Pont Noir
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Since we all probably agree on at least 1000 obvious ones, I'm going for one hiding in plain sight, DT's Strange Deja-Vu, and one buried by the sands of time, Deep Purple's Sail Away.
And yeah, Cult of Personality and Into the Void are brilliant calls.
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I Am A Viking - YJM
On the Run Again - YJM
Viking Kong - Paul Gilbert
Kick It All Over - Greg Howe
Screeming BluesOMania - Paul Gilbert
Technical Difficulties - Paul Gilbert
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Endless Sacrifice!!! Pretty much all of them
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Rock Candy by Montrose
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UFO-Rock Bottom
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Tool - Lateralus
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Tool - Lateralus
OH YEAH!!!
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Accept - Fast as a Shark
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Accept - Fast as a Shark
Accept has a million!
Love Child
Losers And Winners
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Princess Of The Dawn , Midnight Mover ...almost any Accept tune actually you are right.
Rush - Anthem
Megadeth - Angry Again
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Metallica.
Pick a song, it's all good.
Fran tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
Bad song, cool riff.
Actually, Frantic is a Good Song. :P
People are right to just basically toss out Metallica without specifying a specific song, because of how many good ones they have. But just to give it a shot at only naming a few (limiting to 10), I would say:
Seek and Destroy
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Call of Ktulu (particularly the one starting at around 2:00)
Master of Puppets (the one at the start and in several other places)
To Live Is to Die (4:30)
Enter Sandman
Wherever I May Roam
The Outlaw Torn
The Memory Remains
Fixxxer
Metallica aside, a few that come immediately to mind:
Coheed and Cambria - Sentry the Defiant
Dream Theater - Home
Haken - Drowning in the Flood
Iron Maiden - Revelations (intro)
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Nightwish - Ghost River
Opeth - Blackwater Park
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Princess Of The Dawn , Midnight Mover ...almost any Accept tune actually you are right.
Rush - Anthem
Megadeth - Angry Again
While I was waiting for Saxon to take the stage the other night they played Princess of the Dawn and the crowd went wild for it. Apparently there are a whole lot of Accept fans in San Antonio because it wasn't 3 chords deep before they all lit up. Not a great riff, IMO, but definitely a fun song.
One of Metallica's best riffs is actually buried in Confusion from HWtSD. First riff after the intro about a minute in. Classic Hetfield.
As kickass as Into the Void is, for Iommi I'd probably go with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
In an example of it not being the riff but what you do with it, John Curulewski's return after the Moog solo in Suite Madame Blue. Blows my mind every time I hear it. One of rock's great moments.
And since nobody's gotten it right yet, Unchained for the win.
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The opening riff of Working Man always makes me smile.
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The opening riff of Working Man always makes me smile.
I also love the riff in "Circumstances" leading into the chorus. :hefdaddy
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Were on a Dream Theater forum an nobody mentions The Dark Eternal Night? :|
Also The Beast & The Harlot by A7X :metal
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Another one that came to my mind: Candlemass - At the Gallows End
:metal :metal
Very recommended song to metalheads here.
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Don't think any of these have been mentioned yet:
DT - "Beyond This Life" has a bunch. The main 5/4 riff is good, but the one I absolutely love is the 9/8 Myung riff in the instrumental section that starts around 8:16.
DT - "About to Crash Reprise" - both the intro riff and the guitar/bass unison part after the keyboard solo at 2:42.
Judas Priest - "Tyrant" (main riff)
Iron Maiden - "To Tame a Land" (the 3/4 riff that starts at 4:08)
Fates Warning - "Traveler in Time" (intro riff)
Fates Warning - "Monument" (bass intro riff)
Horizons End - "Starfade" (main bass riff)
Helloween - "Halloween" (main riff starting at 0:54)
Scorpions - "Dynamite" (main riff)
Triumph - "Allied Forces" and "Fight the Good Fight" (main riffs); "Blinding Light Show" (main riff and the riff right after the acoustic section)
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All the great metal riffs have their origins in Black Sabbath's music. Tony Iommi was/is a riff machine.
Then you had Priest & Maiden.
Then you had Metallica & Megadeth.
Then you had Pantera (I love Pantera's opening/chorus riff in A New Level).
The progression goes on until today.
I heard it asked if all the riffs have been used and now it's just recycled and/or adapted riffs from other songs. I don't know. I'm sure mathematically there may be an end to the creation of riffs at some point simply because of the number of notes in music and the number of combinations there can be with notes, scales, harmonies, etc.
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My immediate answer to this question has always been This Love by Pantera.
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My immediate answer to this question has always been This Love by Pantera.
Which one? There’s multiple riffs in that song, but none of them I can recall right now.
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My 3 favorites from Metallica are 5:49 - 6:42 (especially 6:16 - 6:42) from Seek & Destroy, 0:32 - 1:14 from Disposable Heroes, and the sextuplets section in One leading up to the ending guitar solo.
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I’ll try to limit my nominations to one per band (otherwise this would end up being all Metallica, Megadeth, and Pantera).
Metallica-Sad But True
Megadeth-Poison Was the Cure
Pantera-Domination
Gojira-Flying Whales
Avenged Sevenfold-Almost Easy
Led Zeppelin-Black Dog
Dream Theater-As I Am
Meshuggah-Bleed
Black Sabbath-Sweet Leaf
Slayer-Angel of Death (middle section)
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My immediate answer to this question has always been This Love by Pantera.
Which one? There’s multiple riffs in that song, but none of them I can recall right now.
I mean the whole thing is perfect but specifically the riff at 2:46
I'll also throw Machine Head - Davidian into the ring.
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DT - Honor Thy Father intro
TDEN definitely
Not really "metal" but...
PT - Blackest Eyes - main riff and transition to the break
PT - Futile - almost all of them
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For me there's Meshuggah riffs that's above everything else and then below comes metal riffs.
Just because we talked about it in another thread Symphony X - Run with the Devil. Romeo has some killer riffs under his belt.
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Pantera - revolution is my name. The main riff is killer
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Darrell wrote so many good and great riffs. Heavy, groovy, catchy. He is missed.
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My favourite Dream Theater riff is probably the main riff in The Root of All Evil.