OK, my top five craziest riffs would have to be
(In no order)
1.Slayer's "War Ensemble" Riff before the solo
2.At The Gate's "Unto Others" (theres a bunch throughout the song, but I like the one right before the solo
3.Dillinger Escape Plan's "Sugar Coated Sour", the runs are unbelieveable
4.Nile's "Chapter For Turning Into A Snake" (all riffs)
5.Nothingface's "Same Solution" chorus riff


I could probably think of better, but I just really wanted to know if anyone agreed with the "Unto Others" one...its the coolest.

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i dunno.........

the keyboard interlude riff on "Sea of Lies" by Symphony X is pretty "crazy"

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Fantomas - The Godfather ... when the guitar strikes that first chord and then just goes off!!!!! its just fucking fast and hard and makes you want to break things a lot

I am going to get every song in this thread. Make them good, you bastards.

One By One - Immortal - about 1 min in.
Sonata Arctica - 8th Commandment - first riff
Desturction - Bullets from Hell - first 30 seconds are fucking sweet

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1. Main (Chorus) Riff of Dawn of the Angry by Morbid Angel - Doesn't get much better than that.
2. Last riff played on Scattered Pieces Lay by Crowbar - Purely Orgasmic
3. Verse Riff of Bury Me in Smoke - Down
4. Last riff of Indoctrination - Dimmu Borgir
5. It's damn near all one riff, but Perfection or Vanity - Dimmu, is also fucking awesome...

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Cryptopsy - Cold Hate, Warm Blood = the main riff, but pretty much the whole song
Nile - Serpant Headed Mask = first riff
Dream Theater - the glass prison = shred riff at 2:22

Forever by Sins of Thy Beloved has some crazy violin riffs mixed with high piano notes that give it a very "un-goth" sound. truly amazing.....

Know Why the Nightingale Sings by Nightwish has some amazing guitar and piano solos....

Pilgrim by Arch Enemy has some great riffs............

The Chainheart Machine by Soilwork is chock full of crazy riffs, especially the chorus....

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Testimony by Vader
Sothis by Vader
Inquisition by Morbid Angel
The Angels Venom by Monstrosity
The Final Massacre by Vader (The breakdown is sick)

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Speed Of Light by Stratovarius has a pretty cool yet simple solo riff after the main solo...it kinda sends goosebumps down your spine when the drum starts breaking into it..its a real short and fast riff but its fun

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"Postmortem" by Slayer!!!!
"Raining Blood" by Slayer
"Aces High" by Iron Maiden
"Master Of Puppets" by Metallica
"Duke Nukem Theme" by Megadeth
and there are alot more but I have to go to church!
LOL!!!!

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purina hall of fame by propagandhi .. throughout the song, great riffs
satanist by the crown starting at 1:30
death is the hunter by the crown.. thoughout the song, good one at 3:06

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the intro to the trooper
that fast lick in speed of light by stratovarious
the main theme( i think) for malmsteens black star
the CFH riff
and black sabbath's NIB!

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These are not in order but they are:

1. chorus riff on master of puppets (metallica)
2. intro riff onHell awaits PURE METAL (slayer)
3. verse riff on battery (metallica)
4. intro riff on holy wars (megadeth)
5. chorus riff on I'm the law (anthrax) I guess its two riffs but i like em both the same


Honorable mention:

1.March of the S.O.D. You might remember it as the intro theme to headbangers ball The heaviest thing I ever heard back in 87 (S.O.D.)
2. intro riff to war ensemble (slayer)
3. riff on one right before the solo, arguably the illest metal solo ever (metallica)

verse riff on "fight fire with fire" by metallica

Oh hell yea forgot about that one traped under ice two

but then again just about all metallica riffs get honorable mention

Haha, most of these people were barely 2 years old when that was on.

I was 3...

I think I remember seeing headbangers ball a couple times, but i didn't know who SOD was then...but that is a pretty cool song.

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No, bob. That song is so metal it'll rock your nutsack off.

I dont' remember liking it quite that much...

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Craziest riffs I've Heard
Dying Fetus:Praise The Lord (the part that has tapping,of course
all their songs have crazy riffs)
Cannibal Corpse:The Bleeding main riff
Morbid Angel :Sworn To The Black(tapping)

That's all I can remember now

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Opening riff in Legacy of Kings by Hammerfall.

TORMENTOR-SLAYER (NOT REALLY CRAZY, BUT GOOD)2ND RIFF
SERENITY IN MURDER-SLAYER-INTRO
BLITZKRIEG-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN(IF YOU CONSIDER IT A RIFF)-INTRO
DAWN OF THE ANGRY-MORBID ANGEL-INTRO
JUDAS PRIEST-METAL MELTDOWN-2ND PART

the intro to The Way Of The Warrior is also very good by GlammerFall.....damn, i wish they wernt so cheesy in person....i still like their music though, a little

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I wouldn't say Erotomania's that crazy (and not really Glass Prison for that matter), nor Master of Puppets (FFWF, and Trapped, yes). Personally:

-Speed Metal Symphony (Cacophony)
-The descending lick after "...the original good times girl" in Yankee Rose (DLR)
-Shyboy (DLR)
-Flight of the Bumblebee
-Paradigm Shift (Liquid Tension Experiment)
-Mr. Scary (Dokken)

most underrated I would say is the Scorpions "Sails of Charon" (later covered by YJM and Testament)- the intro solo.

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Arch Enemy - Seed of Hate
Arch Enemy - Enemy Within

Very good riffs.

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Some are not "riffs" but they are nice though......../

the filght of the bumblebee
the flight of the wounded bumblebee (extreme)
he man woman hater solo (extreme too)
im a viking (Yng)
heresy (pantera)
fuckin hostile (pantera)
technical difficulties (racer x)
dragon mistress (marty friedman)
savage (cacophony)
the glass prision (dream theater)
mirror (dream theater)

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Does anyone else see the similarities in the opening riff of "Seed of Hate" and the chorus riff in Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark At The Moon"?

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no, they look nothing alike

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Candiru - Stained - the solo-alike riff
Agathocles - i don't remember the song, but I think it was off the M.O.M. split
Napalm Death - something from Harmony Corruption... couldn't really chose

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Pantera - Regular People (Conceit) chorus riff
Slayer - Raining Blood
Metallica - Dyers Eve
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Opeth - Bleak

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Pantera - Regular People (Conceit) chorus riff
Slayer - Raining Blood
Metallica - Dyers Eve
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Opeth - Bleak

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The opening riff to Bongzilla - Greenthumb
The opening riff to Venom - Live Like an Angel
The two beginning riffs in Arch Enemy - Ravenous
The first electric guitar riff in Dream Theater - Home
The entire Pantera - Psycho Holiday

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here are a few awesome riffs not the craziest or the best but tjey sound fucking awesome.

1. Cryptic wintermoon - Black moon (chorus riff) fucking awesome it makes me cry!!!!

2. Cryptic Wintermoon - when daylight dies (the riff near the end of the song when it satrts going heavy and fast)

3. Slayer - Captor of Sin (opening riff) and at the gates version is better

4. Cradle of Filth - hollowed be thy name (main riff) way better then iron maiden's original

Any 5 riffs off of Pierced from Within by Suffocation.

cryptopsy - phobophile (the main riff)
death - spirit crusher, chorus I think
CHildren of bodom- almost all their riffs but if i choose one i'd be the main riff of downfall
dark tranquility - punish my heaven (but almost all riffs in this song are great)
quo vadis - mute requiem (intro)
opeth - demon of the fall (one of the last part is soooo great)
moonlyght - the sceptic traveller (main riff)

I smell like death(son of a bastard)
------carnal forge
Bodom after midnight
------children of bodom
evil in you, hades, dance of the water, heritance of berija
------kalmah
return of the night's creature, what malice embrace, god of impiety, soul possessed
------old man's child

that's all for now.

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Some aren't exactly riffs, but just great sounding guitar parts

Possesion by Today Is The Day (the harmonic flurry over the blasts)
Sugar Coated Sour - the Dillenger Escape Plan (anything off "Calculating Infinity" has fucking incredible rhythmic patterns)
Pig Destroyer - Forgotten Child
Daughters - A Room Full Of Hardons and No Where To Sit Down (maybe not the craziest, but very extreme)
Crusher Destroyer by Mastadon, good ass opening riif

Cheers,
xx

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PANTERA-DOMINATION (SOLO)

DYING FETUS-PISSING IN THE MAINSTREAM

SINISTER-ART OF THE DAMNED

VAN HALEN-ANY SONG

SERBERUS-OUR DYING GRACE



HAIL

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Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Children of Bodom - Children of Bodom (intro)
Tristania - The Shining Path (verse with growly vox)
Finntroll - VargTimmen
Kalmah - Evil in You

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children of bodom - downfall...main riff
slayer - ghosts of war...all the riffs in the song esp the one before "i deal in pain"
acrid semblance - quest for spirituality...intro riff
judas priest - painkiller...main riff...simple but insane

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forgot to add soilwork - chainheart machine main riff...and the chorus part of it......bloody awesome !!!!!

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dying fetus - pissing in the mainstream
cephalic carnage - lucid interval
cannibal corpse - blowtorch slaughter

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Shadows Fall - Thoughts Without Words (first riff)
Six Feet Under - War is Coming (first riff)
Soilent Green - Slapfuck (first riff)
Slayer - New Faith (first riff)
Dismember - Let The Napalm Rain (first riff)
Children of Bodom - Silent Night.... (riff 2:00 in)
Black Label Society - Graveyard Disciples (first riff)
Amon Amarth - Death in Fire (first riff)

Just a few that sound badass to me

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hell yeah!

the first heavy riff in The Funeral Portrait by Opeth (not too crazy, but one of my favorites)...

House on the Hill by Mercyful Fate...

intro to Flesh and the Power it Holds by Death...

bridge/interlude/whatever it is, to Ghost of the Navigator by Iron Maiden...

Episode 666 by In Flames has some cool riffs too

Cannibal Corpse - Grotesque
Stratovarius - Stratosphere

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The post intro part in Raining Blood
The beginning of Enemy Within by Arch Enemy
The pleasure to kill verse riff
Voivod-Korgull the Exterminator
Megadeth-The intro to Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

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Decapitated - "Blessed" - Intro Riff
The Crown - "Death is the Hunter" - All, but the chorus one in particular
Lamb of God - "Virgil" - Ending Riffs, (after the 2min mark)
The Haunted - "Chasm" - Its all good
Bloodbath - "So You Die" - Best sounding death metal guitars there are

Notables:

Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
Slayer - "Hell Awaits"
Carnal Forge - "Into Oblivion"

If you don't know those bands check them out.

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Cephalic Carnage - Pseudo
Spawn of Possession - Hidden in Flesh
Cannibal Corpse - Dead Human Collection
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Martyr - The Fortune Teller
Monstrosity - The Angels Venom
Origin - Portal
Psycroptic - Cruelty Incarnate

Bleh, there is my input.

Let's see..

Pantera - Mouth for war (2.. riff)
Pantera - Cowboys from hell (1. riff)
Metallica - Master of puppets (pre-chorus)

Cannibal Corpse

-The bleeding when guitars start harmonizing each others.

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I like
Killing Is My Bussiness... - Megadeth
Jump In The Fire - Metallica (also written buy dave)
Iron Maiden - Killers
Sweet Savage - Killing Time (played by Metallica on B-side of Garage Inc.)
And
Gwars - Jagermonster

Others have greats such as Slayer and COB and Testament

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for crazy in the literal sense of the word i would go
devin townsend - terria (the whole cd is weird)

but crazy as in good i would go for
Dismember - Let The Napalm Rain
Grave - Rise
and the "drinking blood" bit in A Masters Apprentice

Anything by Spiral Architect is pretty crazy

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i already posted some of my favorates on here but now i could narrow it down to one..

the riff in anthro emesis by cephalic carnage about 5:20 into the song

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The chorus of Dissection's nightsblood is awesome....

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For fuckin' rights it is!

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Well fuck, I never noticed that before. That riff rocks.

Carcass - Embodiment
Thrice - Dead Bolt (intro riff)
Cannibal Corpse - From Skin to Liquid (main riff), Gallery of Suicide (middle), Disposal of the body (verse riff and chorus riff), I will Kill You (verse and chorus), Stripped Raped and Strangled, they have a crapload of crazy riffs.
Death - Flesh and the Power it Holds (starts at 2:20)
Dream Theater - Learning to Live (second verse), A change of seasons (3:52, i have this riff as my cellphone ring tone)
Metallica - One (the one with the bass drums)
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine (also the one with the bass drum madness)

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my choices would be:

Nile- Unas Slayer Of The Gods
Metallica- Battery
In Flames- Everlost (part II), only the ending...
Slayer- Angel Of Death (obviously)
Origin- Portal

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That is one of the only Origin songs with "crazy" riffage. Most of it is just insane drumming.

The solo from Where The Slime Live by Morbid Angel kicks ass.
The beginning riffs from Human's Dust by Decapitated.
The first solo from Torch Of War from Vader is really cool.
All the appegiated parts and technical riffs from Necrophagist kick ass.
The intro from Enemy Within by Arch Enemy during the times of 0:00 - 0:41.
All the riffs from Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide by Carcass are cool also.

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Also I forgot to add, Choirs Of Devastation by Meshuggah...
The songs is really cool when the distorted guitars begin.

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Yeah, since I first posted my opinions have changed alot......(not that you really care)

But yeah, so heres some I'm digging now

Converge's main riff in "Fault and Fracture" (verse riff)
Between the Buried and Me's "Mordecai", the song is full of crazy shit....well, the first half...
Mastodon's songs are full of them...good shit.
Strapping Young Lad's "Oh My Fucking God" is a great one.
The Forsaken's "Incinerate" has alot of really cool ones also.

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The whole intro to Greed from Meshuggah
The first heavy riff in Network from God Forbid
The whole beginning to Funeral Portrait from Opeth
The pre-chorus riff in In the Name of God from Slayer
The whole beginning of Ebony Tower from Nonexist

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Categories of awesome riffs are...

Fucking spectacular music:
- 5 mins into Opeth's 'Blackwater Park', just after the interlude. Now THAT is serious fucking rock & roll - if they don't play shit like that in Valhalla/heaven/whatever, I'll catapult my entire family into the sun right now.
- The main riff from 'Mountain of Doom' by Tiamat. Not fast at all, but somehow packed to the scrotum with full-on energy.

Ultra-mega-uuber fast:
- The riff just before verse one from Slayer's 'Raining Blood'.
- The first riff from Megadeth's 'Holy Wars'
- Everything fast ever made by Death, Chuck fucking rules...or at least he did...

Ape-like, head-mashing, solid, etc., etc.:
- The riff (y'know, THE riff, man) from 'The Bleeding' by Canibal Corpse. The greatest headbanging track of all time.
- The chorus from 'Rotten Body Fluids' by Embalmer - this makes you literally want to jump around like an out of control gorilla. (btw, this one sucks musically, I just think it's a really great tune to mash your head to.)

Power intro:
- 'Desperate Cry', Sepultura.
- The start of Ozzy's 'Randy Rhodes Tribute' album (is that the right spelling?). They go strait from 'O Fortuna' into 'Crazy Train'....makes me wish I wasn't quite so removed in space & time from things like awesome Ozzy concerts....

Token weird shit to make me look all eclectic:
- The entirety of 'Carry Stress in the Jaw' from Mr Bungle's 'Disco Volante' album. It's a random mixture of awesome, awesome 'riffs'. If you don't like this, you obviously haven't listened to it fourty seven thousand times. Do so.

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Yeah, that Mr. Bungle song has crazy fucking thrash riffage.

Carcass - "Carneous Cacoffiny" The riff at 2:37 is one of the greatest riffs ever.

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oops, oh well

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Quo Vadis - Zero Hour : About 15 seconds in, the second riff
Blood Duster - Is Killing Clones Illegal
Dissection - Black Horizon : First Riff
Slayer - Blood Red : Second Riff
Sodom - Agent Orange : The whole fucking song owns

Blood Duster with crazy riffs. Man, what the fuck.

It's a fucking awesome riff

True that. Pornstorestiffi has the greatest.

ok this is an old topic but it's cool and im stoned and wanted to put in my two cents...

1. Gorguts - "Obscura" intro or the breakdown of Nostalgia (the one in 15/8).

2. I second "Carry Stress in the Jaw."

3. pretty much all the riffs from "Sugar Coated Sour"

4. Messugah Catch 33 intro.

5. Dying Fetus - Praise the Lord...some really high end riff.

and, not really 'crazy' but:

dissection...somberlain

end of inhale.exhale. by Nasum.

all those fucking pure metallic sounding riffs that Dimebag pulls off.
sorry, im not good with song titles.

fantomas shit from the first cd...

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Nile - Fiery Pits of bla bla bla

Necrophagist - Advanced Corpse Tumour

Anata - Entropy Within

Decapitated - Lying and Weak

Odius Mortem - Lots of songs

Carcass - Inpropagation.

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what about, Frantic Disembowelment!

Any Anata riff!

especially Entropy Within (Infinity )

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Cheers man

If we're talking about crazy riffs, I could list every Cult of Luna song here. Man, that shit is awesome.
And to mention one individual, the intro riff in Blackstone Wielder by Candlemass.

BTW, ain't there like hundred of these threads already?

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all i can think of right now

harmonized riff from hate eternal - powers that be (halfway the song sumwhere)
main riff from dimmu borgir - behind the curtains of night phantasmagoria
fast soloish lick thingy from necrophagist - mutilate the stillborn
1st riff from hate eternal - servants of the gods (both guitars )
and ofcuz first half included the solos cryptopsy - soar envision soar vision (or sumtin like that)

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Moonsorrow - Kylän Päässä (5:01)
Wintersun - Every song
Ensiferum - Into Battle (1:13 and 4:44)
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid (1:04)

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..Anything in Necrophagist....


..Yeah..

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The start to pretty much every Beneath The Massacre song

Word.

1.Gorguts - Obscura
Nothing has as many crazy ass riffs as that album.

2.Defeated Sanity
I would not even know who these guys are if it weren't for Cloaca.I believe the name of the song I'm talking about is'Hideously Disembodied'?

3.Nile - Burning Pits of the Duat
This song will never get old to me.

4.DEP - Sugar Coated Sour


5.Dragonlord - Wolfhunt I can't remember what time the riif is,but it is seriously fucked up.I can't even tell what hes doing and they have great production.

this is gona soudn weird, shock a lot of yall, but...


... i think most necro riffs are kinda boring, the solos are pure awesomeness, but i seriously dont like the music, xept for a few song that are ok, fould body, mutilat, and extreme unction, but thats where it ends. IMFO!!!!

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Maybe not the craziest riffs, but these are some of my favs:

Necrophagist - "Culinary Hyperversity" 2:23 into the song, God I love that riff.
Cryptopsy - "Phobophile" Main riff.
Lykathea Aflame - "Land Where Sympathy is Air" (Actually,better just make that their whole album hehe)
Sleep Terror - "Probing Tranquility" The whole song
Cephalic Carnage - "Black Metal Sabbath" (Not really hard to play, but I love the riffs in it)

owyeah, culinary hypervisity rules aswel, but thats it for necro IMO!!! whahaha

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1.Nile- Sacrifice Unto Sebek (start at 1:31)
2.Slayer- Postmortem (intro riff)
3.Cryptopsy- Abigor (intro riff)
4.Atheist- Mother Man (riff at the start, then the bass interlude with the birds in the background)
5.Iron Maiden- The Trooper (most of the riffs)

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Beneath the Massacre - Comforting Prejudice

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crazy train

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no particular order....

1. Testament - The New Order [intro riff]
2. Possessed - Burning in Hell [intro riff]
3. Cannibal Corpse - Meat Hook Sodomy [1:22 and 2:05; i fucking dig those riffs man]
4. Iced Earth - The Horror Show [all those riffs on the songs of the entire cd make me moan like a whore]
5. Sepultura - Arise

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Well you silly Death Metal fanatics will probably disagree , but I think Megaqueer's Holy Wars, and Wake up Dead, have really tricky rhythm parts.

track 3 from anatas under as tone with no inscription, christ thats a long riff

the pierced from within riffs

the inverted pick scrape

theory in practice colonizing the sun intro and outro'

limp bizkit break stuff

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I tabbed that riff! Yeah I am still proud of that :P

Nah...That one is to simple to manage.

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Something about the intro riff to Deliverance is just so bad ass too me

I'de also have to go with all the fucking riffs on "Tragedy blows on the Horizon" by Immortal

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Carcass - Corporal Jigsore Quandray after the drum intro that first riff.
the whole of Genital Grinder
and the main riff in Burnt to a crisp

the first riff in General Surgery - The Succulent Aftermath of a Subdural Haemmorhage

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And Then it Passes - Cryptopsy (0:37) and the solo going into the same riff, gives me goosbumps everytime

Orgiastic Disembowelment - Cryptopsy (0:18/0:30) those riffs just kick ass

Sacrifice Unto Sebek - Nile the harmony part witht he harmonic and the intro riff

Angelskingarden - Cryptopsy (0:36)the whole song is good but the first few riffs just stand out

Destiny of the Slug - Circle of dead Children all of them

Fucked with a Knife - Cannibal Corpse

Zombie Graveyard Rape Bonanza - Gorerotted the intro

Kieftu Asar Butchiu - Nile

Internal Cremation - Tention Point (local band)

bible basher - Deicide the chorus one

unquestionable pressence - Atheist

Retry? abort? ignore? - martyr the main one

mind Control - Slayer all of them

Dittohead - slayer until it goes slower, its wickedly intence

Praise of death - the main riff

i could go on, but i wont

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you fuckin' tard its top 5 riffs

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No particular order...

Metallica - Master of Puppets (the blazing fast main riff)
Pantera - Five Minutes Alone (main riff, super fuckin heavy and groovy - makes me tingle all over)
Slayer - Raining Blood (The breakdown)
Children of Bodom - Children of Bodom (the breakdown with the kickass keyboard solo)
Lamb of God - The Faded Line (1:48, they have crazier riffs than this by fuckin far, but I just love the feel of it)

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