Your Top 5 Favorite Riffs Of All Time

[Omarfan]

Also, I can't believe nobody else has mentioned the greatest riff ever.

 

[QueeZeR]

Damn, 5 is a difficult number. There quite some riffs to choose among for the fift and last one, which one will have the honor...?

 

[Konfyouzd]

I also really like the chorus riff in Shame In You by AIC

 

[Slayer89]

 

[Djent]

The Elephant Riders is a goldmine of awesome riffs.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Top five today really needs to be top 500... too many to list but in no special order and trying to add ones I love that ain't been listed already

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Pick a Page Riff really they are all epic!)

Hendrix - Voodoo Child (slight return)

Pantera - Mouth for War (Again one of too many to list from Dime)

White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65 (Could be any riff from J tho imo)

Korn - Here to Stay

 

[The McThief]

every riff in this song, especially the intro :O amazing



this whole song too



I love the choruses, but my favorite part is the lead and that groove at 1:07 or so



Whole song is amazing, but my favorite section starts at about 1:48 or so

 

[Jinogalpa]

no ministry i'm disappointed

Ministry - just one fix
Ministry - n.w.o
VoiVod - the x-stream
VoiVod - les cigares volantes
Clawfinger - the truth

 

[Captain Shoggoth]

I made a list but it had like 20 songs and I wasn't eliminating any so screw you guys here's just number 1

(go to 2:27)


on the other had this did make me fall back in love with my music collection though

 

[CrushingAnvil]

1. Deicide - 'Carnage In The Temple of The Damned'

2. Deicide - 'Sacrificial Suicide'

3. Deicide - 'Deicide'

4. Cryptopsy - 'Crown of Horns'

5. Cryptopsy - 'Benedictine Convulsions' "Benedictine Friars convulse!!!!"

 

[Zer01]

Metallica - Blackened. That is all. I can narrow it down to one. 23 years later the speed and accuracy still blow my mind. And DAT TONE

 

[Alimination]

Oh,this is hard. I'm probably not gona be satisfied with my answers but here it goes anyways..

1. Rush- 2112 II. Temples of Syrinx
2. Dream Theater- A fortune in lies
3. Porcupine tree- Fear of a blank planet
4. OSI- The new math (what he said)
5. Judas Priest-Rapid Fire

 

[Grimbold]

1. Black Dog
2. Cowboys From Hell
3. Angels of Death
4. Raining Blood
5. Crazy Train

 

[MistaMarko]

1. Enter Sandman

2. The Unforgiven III verse riff (seriously)

3. Black Dog

4. Caught in a Web

5. Holy Wars

 

[The Munk]

Some of my fave's......

Bangles: Hazy Shade Of Winter
(Awesome take on Simon & Garfunkel!)


Ten Years After: I'd Love To Change The World


Kansas: Dust In The Wind


Megadeth: Chosen Ones


Cacophony: Speed Metal Symphony

 

[Randy]

1.)The Safety Fire - Huge Hammers

2.)Ratt - Lay It Down

3.)David Lee Roth - Shyboy

4.)Decapitated - Spheres of Madness

5.)Cynic - Evolutionary Sleeper

Yes, my list is all over the place.

 

[Acatalepsy]

first riff of each

 

[Sepultorture]

Black Sabbath - Iron Man (got me into metal, rock, anything guitar)


Slayer - Raining Blood


Cannibal Corpse - Stripped, Raped and Strangled


Carcass - Corporeal Jigsore Quandary


Meshuggah - Combustion

 

[TOM4S]

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Korn - Blind
Mastodon - Divinations (00:35)
Mastodon - Mother Puncher
Deftones - Bored
And many more... (Led Zepellin, Slayer, Megadeth, Fear Factory, Slipknot, Black Sabbath...)