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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #35 on: February 24, 2019, 07:51:15 AM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #36 on: February 24, 2019, 02:34:04 PM »
Another one that came to my mind: Candlemass - At the Gallows End

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Very recommended song to metalheads here.

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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #37 on: February 25, 2019, 11:30:42 AM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #38 on: February 25, 2019, 01:22:54 PM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #39 on: February 26, 2019, 09:14:30 AM »
My immediate answer to this question has always been This Love by Pantera.

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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #40 on: February 26, 2019, 10:15:23 AM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #41 on: February 26, 2019, 12:14:49 PM »
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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« Reply #42 on: February 26, 2019, 01:31:50 PM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #43 on: February 27, 2019, 11:55:56 AM »
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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« Reply #44 on: February 28, 2019, 07:52:23 PM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #45 on: March 01, 2019, 01:11:27 AM »
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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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #46 on: March 01, 2019, 07:31:49 AM »
Pantera - revolution is my name. The main riff is killer
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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #47 on: March 01, 2019, 08:57:19 AM »
Darrell wrote so many good and great riffs. Heavy, groovy, catchy. He is missed.

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Re: Best metal riffs?
« Reply #48 on: March 01, 2019, 10:54:02 AM »
My favourite Dream Theater riff is probably the main riff in The Root of All Evil.
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