Pick 5 of your all-time favorite riffs and post em here.

5. Arch Enemy - Enemy Within (0:58)
4. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (1:45-2:00)
3. In Flames - Reroute To Remain (0:09)
2. Iced Earth - The Coming Curse (1:28)
1. Children of Bodom - Bed of Razors (2:20)

There's a lot of threads like this but meh.

Devourment - Autoerotic Ashphyxiation - 0:42
Gored - Chaotic Reign Of Impalement - 2:20
Martyr - Prototype - 1:47
Insidious Decrepancy - Maniacal Contempt Spawned From Agonizing Depravity (God DAMN) - 0:35
Decapitated - Spheres Of Madness - 2:05

1. Cephalic Carnage - "Anthro Emesis" (1:16-1:42)
2. TheBLED - "Nothing we say leaves this room" (1:25-most of the rest of the song, not that any of you know this one)
3. The Black Dahlia Murder - "Miasma" (1:42-1:55)
4. NILE - "Unas Slayer of the Gods" The main chorus riff. you know the one.
5. Quo Vadis - "On the Shores of Ithaka" (0:33-main riff in song) That is the riff that made me the death metal freak I became shortly after hearing them in 03.

By no means are they the best, but hey, most of these are my favorites of all time.

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Not in any particular order (I probably forgot some but these are the ones that come to mind right now..)

- Hunter/Killer Verses (Quo Vadis)
- God of Impiety (Old Man's Child)
- Lack of Comprehension (Death)
- Spirit Crusher (Death)
- Death in Fire (Amon Amarth)

There are so many but here goes....

Fear Factory - Martyr
Cannibal Corpse - Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead
Cannibal Corpse - Perverse Suffering
Slayer - Raining Blood
Napalm Death - Twist The Knife (Slowly)

-Dying fetus - Killing on adrenaline, the sweeping bit at 0:52, and the chorus at 1:02

-Dying fetus - your blood is my wine, at 3:13 - 3:17 ( it's repeated several times )

-Nile - Sacrifice unto sebek, Solo thing at 1:32

-Dying fetus - Grotesque Impalement, at 0:23 - 0:28 ( It's repeated several times )

-Suffocation - Thrones of blood, at 4:29

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iron maiden - 2 minutes to midnight
john petrucci - glasgow kiss
slayer - angel of death
iron maiden - phantom of the opera
megadeth - holy wars(punishment due)

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How can anyone do this!!! 5 favourite riffs ever???

Um...

well off the top of my head here are some. Probably missing out on some stupidly obvious ones.

Grave - 'Rise' : 2:24 (the breakdown...)
Monstrosity - 'An Angels Venom' : the whole song... but particularly the half time part of the main riff/theme
Nile - 'Ruins' : most of the whole thing
Bolt Thrower - 'World Eater' : 0:16
Cryptopsy - 'Phobophile' : the first riff (after the piano/feedback intro)


crap, I forgot Suffocation - Peirced from Within, the stupidly slow heavy riff. You know it. Ok so thats 6. Tough.

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Not in any particular order:

Nile-Sacrifice Unto Sebek
Cannibal Corpse-Shredded Humans
Cephalic Carnage-Black Metal Sabbath
Skinless-From Sacrifice To Survival
Dying Fetus-Praise The Lord(Opium Of The Masses)

That's a cool one. The slow riff at 1:19 is great too.

Agreed

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Anything from Beneath the Massacre but-"Regurgitated Lullaby For The Born Dead" the sweeping riff.
Ion dissonance that-"101101110110001" about 0:50 into the song
Necrophagist-"Ignominious and Pale" the break right after the solo
Nile-Kheftiu-"Asar Butchiu" once again after the solo
Necrophagist agian-"Mutilate the Stillborn" 0:43

Im limiting myself to like, one per band else Gorguts would take em all B)

Gorguts - Inverted (first riff... damn.)
Necrophagist - Culinary Hyperversity - 2:23, mainly for that fucked up delay part that comes in on the end.... weird. But the main sweep riff in this is ace too.
CC - The Spinesplitter (the tapping part, not overly hard or anything but builds a nice atmosphere...)
Nile - Outro lead to Sarcophagus
Dying Fetus - Killing On Adrenaline sweeps. Totally unexpected B)

So some of these are borderline sections, but yeah...

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Are you guys talking about riff 5 in this tab of Killing on Adrenaline?..
Anyway for riffs I like....
http://metaltabs.com/tab/4136/

Anything Pantera (CFH and on)
Slayer - Angel of Death (you know wich one)
Sepulture - Arise (the whole damn album)
Fear Factory - Hunter Killer
Cannibal Corpse - Gutted (the third riff in the song)
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline (the very first riff)
Death - Lack of Comprehension, and that's more than five but whatever...

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i don't really have favorite riffs

How could I forget

cryptopsy - graves of the fathers ( 2:35)

0_0

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I'm not even gonna try making a list...

1) nocturnus - neolithic (2:10-2:48)
2) cryptopsy - soar and envision soar vision (0:06-0:22)
3) sotajumala - pommitus (2:47-3:10)
4) hate eternal - powers that be (2:08-2:35)
5) dimmu borgir - behind the curtains of night phantasmagoria (0:05-0:14)

best i can think of at the moment, in colness order

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Hmm tough one...here's my list in no particular order:

Megadeth - Rust in peace(all of them)
Iron Maiden - Purgatory(The verse riff)
Children of bodom - Lake bodom(riff right after he stops playing that melody in the beginning)
Velvet revolver - Slither (the main riff)
Metallica - Harvester of sorrow(about all of 'em)

I love that fucking riff.

In no order:

Anaal Nathrakh - Submission Is For The Weak (Opening riff)
Decapitated - Blessed (Opening riff)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Novelty Cross (Outro riff)
Morbid Angel - Nothing But Fear (2:10)
Cannibal Corpse - From Skin to Liquid (0:26)

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Right on! Culinary is one of my faves to. Also...

Psycroptic - The Colour of Sleep - especially the riffs from 3:02 - 4:29

Damaged - Nails

Morbid Angel - Dawn of the Angry - that riff at 1:15(still haven't seen a tab for that riff anywhere)

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

I can't say these are my fave riffs of all time(that's just too hard to pick), but these are definetly some of my personal faves.

1-4 most Iron Maiden tunes.
5 - Temple Of Syrinx - Rush

All you nu-metalheads should give that last one a listen....you'd be very surprised.

IMO

Judas Priest- Exciter
Iron Maiden- Transylvania
Megadeth- Holy Wars
Black Sabbath- Symptom of the Universe
Carcass- Incarnate Solvent Abuse

Shit 5 ain't enough!!!!!

Slayer- Haunting the Chapel
Pantera- Cemetary Gates
Morbid Angel- Fall from Grace
Death- Infernal Death
Thin Lizzy- Black Rose
Death Angel- Mistress of Pain
Kyuss- Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop

You get the picture

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Aside from Thin Lizzy you have some good songs there...

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Ok.. I didn't chose for technicality, but for how awesome they were and how well they stood out


The real heavy ones-

1. Nile- Sacrifice Unto Sebek (1:30)
2. Cryptopsy- Benedictine Convulsions (Most of the song)
3. Martyr- Retry? Abort? Ignore? (0:30..well the main riff.)
4. Dying Fetus- Praise the Lord (3:12)
5. Pantera- The Great Southern Trendkill (1:54)

Light non-metal Ones-

1. Steve Vai- The Audience is Listening (the clean jazz-ish riff.. hell and the rest of the song)
2. Joe Satriani- Cool #9 (The first/main riff)
3.Led Zeppelin- Black Dog
4. The Beatles- Helter Skelter (Chorus riff.)
5.Steve Morse- Tumeni Notes (first riff)

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SMOKE ON THE MOTHERFUCKING WATER.

Incredibly sick riff.

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Man this one is hard.

In no order

1.) Celtic Frost-Procreation Of The Wicked (Main Riff)
2.) Impetigo-I Work For The Streetcleaner (Opening Riff)
3.) Lord Gore-Morgue Whore (starts at 1:58 the "You Become My Fucktoy..." part)
4.) Autopsy-Ridden With Disease (Opening Riff)
5.) A triple tie between
Ghoul-Maniaxe (Verse part starting at 0:10) and
Carcass-Corporal Jigsore Quandary (Opening Riff) and
Mortician-Zombie Apocolypse (We all know the riff I am talking about)

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Death - In Human Form (Intro)

Sepultura - Slaves of Pain (basically the whole song)

Old Mans Child - God of Impeity

Necrophagist - Ignominous and Pale (Riff before solo)

Immolation - No Jesus,No Beast (riff somewhere near the middle,I dunno what time)

Cryptopsy - Phobophile: Intro riff
The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares(the haunt of): Intro riff
CKY - Inhuman Creation Station: Main riff
Quo Vadis - Absolution
Pink Floyd - Speak to me/Breathe: The intro riff after the warm up bit kinda thing.

'm bored as hell so i'll make a little list

Metallica - To Live is to die, the riff starting at 4:30 mins into the song, harmonizing at its best. the acoustic riffs are also great

Opeth - Blackwater park, clean riff (2:45 into the song) i can listen to that riff for hours without getting bored :P

Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy confessions, intro riff, i know the band isn't exactly metal but that riff is awesome\m/

Children of bodom - shitload of awesome riffs, lake bodom, towards dead end, bodom after midnight etc.....

In Flames - Moonshield, intro

King diamond - the family ghost - the whole song's loaded with ass kicking riffs, my favorites being the intro and the one starting at about 2:54 into the song

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megadeth- symphony of destruction/ or holy wars
testament- the legacy/ or return to serenity
steve vai- whispering a prayer/ fuck urself(funny as hell)
joe satriani- mind storm(probably joes sickest riffs ive heard)/or rubina(beats always with me)/or clouds race across the sky/or not of this earth(shows skills)
jason becker- altitudes/ or end of the beginning

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the harpsicord/guitar sweep part-bed of razors-COB

first 30 seconds-extreme unction-necrophagist

the main riff-Masters apprentices-Opeth

The solo-My spirit will go on-dragon force

The cool bass line-the philosipher-death

5) BLS- Battering Ram
4) Metallica- Master of Puppets (im sure you know the riff im talking about)
3) Opeth- Deliverance- almost breakdown riff at the end
2) Necrophagist- Seven
1) COB- Children of Decadence- (Beginning riff)

Favorite solo:
Necrophagist- Seven

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Survivor - Eye of the tiger.

Now THAT'S metal..... It's the EYE OF THE TIGER!!!!!

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1. Obscura - Gorguts (0:25)
2. Obscura - Gorguts (1:26)

My two favourite riffs possibly ever those two

3. Cryptopsy - Endless Cemetery from (1:40 and all the riffs up to 2:48, 2:18 particularly, flawless)

4. Augury - Beatus first main riff
5. Augury - Ever know peace again. The 7/8 riff at the end


There are so many though I love from those three bands alone

uhhh...

Alexi Laiho
Yngwie malmsteen
Dave Mustaine
Jeff hannahmen/Kerry king


I dont know...i like people with skill, attitude and that know what the fuck they are doing.

shit...i thought that said 5 favorite guitarists...not guiatr riffs..

Do you realize you (once again..) posted in an old thread for no reason??

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Monstrosity- The Angel's Venom
Morbid Angel- Ageless Still I Am
Necrophagist- Seven
The Haunted - Tresspass
Opeth- Demon of the Fall, the grand conjuration
Cryptopsy -Phobophile

so its more than 5. Oh well, never could do maths anyway.

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Nile - The Burning Pits of Duat (the riff when the singing begins)
Decapitated - almost any fuckin riff on Nihility and Winds of Creation, some on The Negation.
Hate Eternal - Servants to the Gods(most of the song)
Morbid Angel - Almost any fuckin riff!
Behemoth - Anything.

Too damned hard to answer.

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Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor, the first main riff, fucking sick ass riff
Nevermore - Born, the main riff is just legendary
Kalmah - Time Takes Us All, you know which riff i'm talking about, gets me headbaning everytime I hear it.
Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come, those pinches are wicked.
Kalmah - Mindrust main riff, sick guitar/keyboard harmony.

Those are my favorite riffs right now.

1 - Fucked if I can say
2 - Necrophagist - Culinary Hyperversity (in the kinda break in the song)
3 - Opeth - The Moor (opening electric riff)
4 - Pantera - Cemetary Gates
5 - Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

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Immolation - the breakdown in 'Sinful Nature'.

Finntroll - the opening riff in 'Svartberg'

Augury - '.....Ever Know Peace Again'. 2:28-2:41= pure awesomeness

Immortal - 1:15-1:41 "In My Kingdom Cold"

Ensiferum - 'Sword Chant' acoustic intro



Of course,this will change soon.

CATTLE DECAPITATION - Testicular Manslaughter (the whole damn thing!! especially 1:05 - 1:43) Cattle Decapitation Rules and they have too many cool riffs for me to keep it to a select few.

Decrepit Birth - Concepting the Era (1:27 - 1:46)

Decrepit Birth - ...And Time Begins (1:01 - 1:33)

Unmerciful - Masochistic Rampage (1:01 - 1:24) For those of you who haven't heard these guys before and you like Origin, check em out!

Spawn of Possession - Hidden in the Flesh (2:19 - 2:36)

ORIGIN - Debased Humanity (1:52 - end of song)

ORIGIN - Reciprocal (1:35 - end of song) Pretty Much all of Origin as well.

Necrophagist - The Stillborn One (1:56 - 2:20) Most of Necrophagist stuff too.

DYING FETUS - Onslaught of Malice (4:06 - end of song) pretty much all songs by Dying Fetus, too many cool riffs to limit it.

Domination Through Impurity - Pinned to a Guardrail (0:35 - 2:16)

Domination Through Impurity - Wahnsinn (3:24 - 4:42) that includes the solo/rhythm part which is bad ass.

Lust of Decay - Festering Anal Vomit (0:58 - 1:28) That drum roll from 1:26 - 1:28 is awesome!!!!

Like some of you others have stated, there are too many awesome riffs to limit our favorites to just 5. These are some of my favorites.

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Uhhh

Beneath the Massacre - Nevermore (2.37 - 3.02)
Carphanaum - Ingrained (opening riffs)
Cynic - Sentiment (the reallllly dreamy parts )
Devourment - Choking on Bile (The fucking insane riff 2.42 - 2.53)
Infinitum - Pure Bred Insane (most of teh song, not that any of you have heard of infinitum, but they supported Disgorge here in Aus. Fucking \m/)

Not sure of five.

But one cool one is the opener to Childs play - Carcass

Slayer - Angel of Death - bridge riff (first two, before solo)
PanterA - Slaughtered - bridge riff
Nile - Burning in the Pits of the Duat - pre-chorus riff
Goatwhore - The Beauty in Suffering - second riff (at the break, when the drums drop out)
Scrotesque - Misongynist Pineapple Insertion - second-to-last riff (mucho pinky work)

I'm also really fond of a riff that I wrote a few days ago and still have to perfect, but I'm not sure if that counts.

not in any order

metallica - master of puppets - intro

avenged sevenfold - unholy confessions - intro

metallica - whereever i may roam - main riff, as well as the solo

metallica - hit the lights - any riff in that song is sweet

avenged sevenfold - sidewinder - about mid way through the song, its a harmonizing part, starts on the D.

Sepultura - The Abyss
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Pantera - Fucking Hostile
Slayer - Die By The Sword
Mercyful Fate - Melissa

1. Children Of Bodom-Trashed, Lost, and Strungout(The cool melodic type parts that change 3 times throughout the song. Very catchy).
2. Children Of Bodom- Children Of Decadence
3. Slayer- At Dawn They Sleep tied with Raining Blood part where the tempo doubles.
4. Pantera-(pretty much all there songs have great riffs)
5. Testament- Over The Wall tied with Metallica- (any old Metallica shit has good riffs)

and I can keep going on with the list.......

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Lamb Of God - "Hourglass" (2:10 and gets heavier with 2 guitars? at 2:21)
Pantera - Outro of "Floods"
Pantera - Main/Intro riff of "Death Trap"
Dream Theater - "A Change Of Seasons" (1:27, and all its variations)
Opeth - Intro riff to "Demon Of The Fall"

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(here's five random riffs from the top of my head that I seem to enjoy playing or hearing)

Mortician - Necrocannibal. Breakdown part. I think anyone who's heard this song knows the riff I'm thinking of. Out of all the riffs they've done, it's one of the few that actually stick out and, in a completely heavy way, sounds catchy.

Slayer - Bloodline. Chorus. Come on, who doesn't like this riff? It may be far from classic Slayer, but it's dark and sticks in your head.

Slayer - South Of Heaven. Intro. These guys are kings when it comes to sounding wicked, which is very apparent with this riff.

Metallica - Shortest Straw. Chorus. The AJFA album is terribly underrated. Here's a pretty heavy and memorable song from it.

Pig Destroyer - Mapplethorpe Grey. Breakdown. I forget when exactly the riff I'm thinking of comes into the song, but basically the whole thing is pretty impressive for PD. No blast beats, just some really cool riffs.

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5. with dead hands rising: early winter transmission. the whole fucing song.
4. ted nugent. stranglehold: opening riff.
3. metallica: trapped under ice: whole song
2. the black dahlia murder: funaral thirst: opening riffs
1. slipknot: (sic) track 2 on first album, breakdown/ending riff...pure fucking hate

Every lamb of god riff
Testament-Burnt Offerings ( that melodic scaly one)
Death/Priest- Painkiller
Slayer- altar of sacrifice
HALLOWED BE THY NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!! By maiden

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Not in order,

Nevermore - My Acid Words (0.18 - 0.35)
Dying Fetus - Vengeance Unleashed (2.58 - 3.15 - oh fucking yes)
Dying Fetus - Abandon All Hope (Main riff)
Death - Flesh and the power it holds (3.02)
Malevolent Creation - Manic Demise

And i'll add a sixth seeing as im a rebel.

CKY - 96 Bitter Beings (love this riff)

carcass - incarnate solvent abuse
the absence - necropolis
arch enemy - heart of darkness
necrophagist - stabwound
ignite - veteran

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you found about metal through cky didnt you! manic and 96 in the same post


youre just like me

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kill yourself now while theres time!

The Devil I Know - Immolation (Final riff/Lead)
Cleansing a Misguided Path - Psycroptic (2:45 OH FUCK YES)

Two new additions to my favourite riffs ever

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riffs all over the deadborn ep

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Nevermore - A Future Uncertain
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
Dimmu Borgir - Lepers Among Us
Deicide - Blame It On God
Cannibal Corpse - Stripped Rape and Strangled

Slayer - Raining Blood
Slayer - South of Heaven
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone
Black Label Society - Superterrorizer

1 - Iced Earth - Phantom of the Opera @ 6:03 - 6:23 (20 of the greatest seconds in recorded history, Schaffer is god)
2 - Disillusion - And the Mirror Cracked
3 - Kalmah - Swamphell
4 - Dark Tranquility - Lost to Apathy
5 - Kiuas - anything... Mikko Salovaara is an unsung guitar genius. If you like Jeff Loomis, you'll love this guy
6 - Dream Theater - Honor Thy Father (2:35)

my list, for now

Since the thread is already revived.


Devourment - Choking on bile (00:14 - 00:40)

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I don't have any guitar riffs!

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1) pantera this love 2:49+
2) " the ending of pre hibernation
3) testament careful what you wish for first riff
4) CoB Sixpounder
5) grimfist speration of my soul about 0:49 ... badass

not my favorites but the coolest ones that came instantly to my mind

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Kalmah - Evil in you
In Flames - Biosphere
Nightrage - De Fame
Amon Amarth - Cry of the black birds
Asmegin - Bloodhevn

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Slayer - Angel of Death (the riff in the middle of the song, great riff, you all know what i mean)
3. Pantera - Cemetery Gates (first heavy riff of the song)
4. Ozzy - Mr. Crowley
5. Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow

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I have recently found myself liking specific riffs, which I admit is unusual for me, but hey.



Had to slip in two Alarum bits.

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Crowbar - Slave No More - 0.00
Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge - 1.05

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Oh, and:

Akercocke - Eyes Of The Dawn (bit with "I exercise my right to be hateful!!!")
Gorguts - Obscura (2:31, few riffs I call 'sick', but that is one!)
Gorguts - The Carnal State (0:00, music for being surrounded by arcane babblers)

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really good topis, and its really tough to pick 5 favorite riffs, but heres my list:

In Flames - Episode 666 (the intro riff)
Testament - Over The Wall (Intro)
Slayer - Angel Of Death (same riff everyone seems to mention)
Testament - Disciples Of The Watch (intro)
In Flames - Jotun (main intro riff)

Pantera-Walk
Slayer-Angel Of Death (of course)
Slayer-Raining Blood (you know what one!)
Cannibal Corpse-Death Walking Terror
Cannibal Corpse-Hammer Smashed Face
Dark Tranquility-Punish My Heaven (opener)
Slipknot's Surfacing is pretty cool(Mick is THE shit, other band members ARE shit.)

and others