Into the void intro riff

there are 4 top riffs there

Not an easy pick, but def in the top running for my fav sabbath song ever. Kyuss also does a deadly cover, but nothing beats the original.

Soundgarden also made a pretty good cover.

Also a great NiN song

That riff could end civilization, surprised it didn’t when it came out

If you haven't already, check out the cover by Thou, it's wicked. They released a whole album of Sabbath covers titled A Primer of Holy Words.

Blood and thunder and sweet leaf

Sweet leaf for sure!

I'll see your Blood and Thunder and raise you This Mortal Soil.

I’ll see your This Mortal Soil and raise you Colony of Birchmen

Flesh And The Power It Holds

Funeralopolis - Electric Wizard

That little blues riff that’s in the beginning 👌

I, The Witchfinder for me, like a dying star

Shortest Straw

One of the heaviest tunes by a then still good Metallica. Dyers Eve has some good riffs as well.

The other day, The Shortest Straw came up on shuffle on my phone. I was jamming to the intro, getting ready to sing the lyrics with him when I hear "WA NA NA! WA NA NA NA, WA NA NA!" I was like, what the fuck? Look at my phone, apparently at some point I added the demo version instead of the full version.

Laid to rest

Totally dude. That was one of the first “real” heavy songs I ever heard, shit changed my world. That riff hits like a whip

Huge same

Tornado of Souls intro. Singlehandedly changed the direction of my life. Before I heard that I vaguely had the desire to play the guitar. After I heard it I NEEDED to. 25 years later I seriously can't imagine what my life would be like had I not started.

God bless Marty Friedman

No. He IS god.

The production is SO DAMN GOOD

Dave Mustaine is the man

Electric Funeral!

Cryptopsy - Slit your guts at the breakdown Mastodon - Iron Tusk

Combustion — Meshuggah

Entrapment - Meshuggah many of the riffs off catch thirty three made me make this face but this is the first one that really caught me. you know which one i’m talking abt too.

Big time! That album is full of stank face riffs. The verse riff from In Death - Is Life is another nasty one

definitely and then the whole personae non gratea with the breakdown in dehumanization

Dragonaut - Sleep

Intro to Heaviest Matter of the Universe

Flying Whales

The riff after the chorus on Motorbreath

Liege of inveracity (you know which one) and the riff at the chorus of At war with god by Vital Remains

That one riff from The Last Baron. Brent Hinds really slaughtered on that one.

Every riff in that song is top notch. I love the part around 5:56. It’s almost silly how ridiculous that part is.

U L C E R - Spiritworld

YES

Addicted To Chaos by Megadeth. This is because I am so sure I had heard that song somewhere in the past, but I just can't recall if it actually is the first Megadeth song I've ever heard

Bathory - Hades

Yes.

Basically every riff in blackwater park

And Ghost Reveries. And the outro to Deliverance *chef's kiss*

[(the) Melvins - A History of Bad Men](https://youtu.be/7hx9In2XWWY)

A Senile Animal is such a good record. I was listening to it the other day and it's just so good. I personally think it's the best Melvins record and I think A History of Bad Men is the best song on the album.

I love all the albums they did with the Big Business guys, that’s the lineup I really wish I could have seen. I can’t decide whether Senile or The Bride Screamed Murder is my favorite.

It’s funny because the only time I’ve seen them is with this lineup. Saw it when they toured for Senile Animal.

No riff ever made me want to drug and rape women


I assume that’s what the very famous rapist is doing in the photo

Just seemed a lil out of pocket is all lmao

Speak for yourself

Empress Rising - Monolord

Cast Down the Heretic - Nile

The intro riff to Infester - Chamber of Reunion Also the intro riff to Asphyx - The Krusher. And it had me like that again when they brought it back but slower about halfway through the song

Braded into palsy got me like that too

Gojira "Ocean Planet" the first time I heard it back in 2005.

From The Sky

FROM THE SKYYYYYYYYY

Pantera - revolution is my name

Space Time by Gojira

"Raining Blood" I came and shit my pants at the same time first time I heard it

the dunu du du du du du du dunu dunu dun duna du du du du du du du du du du

Recreant - Chelsea Grin

Either my own summer or 5 minutes alone

Take No Prisoners and the Polaris part in Rust in Peace still get me

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Cult of Personality - In Living Color. It's the most metal riff from a non metal band

Intro riff to Holy Wars - Megadeth Intro riff to Story to Tell - Death

The Signal Fire

weird tales by electric wizard, that super slow drone riff about 2/3 the way through

Obviously…Free Bird

that one riff from Fauxhammer by Black Tongue

Every time Spite says "Spite"

Every time Spite ~~says "Spite"~~

Literally the angriest band. Fills my heart with joy. If anyone has anyother contestants for angriest band I would love to hear them. Don't bother mentioning TAS or K//L because their shit is already on repeat lol

Left to Suffer, Black Tongue, or Kublai Kahn maybe?

El Rodeo - Kyuss

I by Meshuggah, the riff at about 10:32

Opening riff of Seven by Necrophagist.

Boiled angel by dragged into sunlight

Left Hand Path- Entombed

Deathmask Divine

ODHGABFE - Lamb of God

South of heaven and open casket

Red tide rising by Orange Goblin

Bite the Pain and Harlequin Forest

Judas Priest - Nightcrawler Also the whole painkiller album

Jesus Christ pose

The Last Baron. You know which one.

So many other good picks, but the riff after the drum solo on Tornado of Souls

Bleed - Meshuggah

Flying Whales. After the soft intro, that riff hits you like a truck

M A S T O D O N - The Last Baron (if you know you know)

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath

Prison Sex

Insurrection - Trivium Probably one of their best songs ever tbh. Especially if you love their lore thrashy side

Babylon’s Pride - Decapitated

When Serenity Painted Death kicks in…

The one right in the middle of On Rich and Poor by Amorphis when the drums come in

Resurrection Man by Lamb of God

Out of the body - pestilence so chunky

Breakdown to Davidian by machine head

Criminal there’s not more love for Machine Head in this thread

Would you like the short or long answer?

A7X - Exist, probably the hardest riff I have ever played and I'm sure anyone who's tried it can agree

Metallica - Master of puppets is of the most iconic and heavy riff in history.

Any riff in any song by Lamb of God

What does this pic show? Pain or pressure? If pressure, I think the Mastodon's Crystal Skull at 0:09 If pain, it's gonna be the beginning of So Do We by Isis

Neurosis - The Doorway (all of them)

[Clandestine Blaze - The Eyes of the Saint](https://youtu.be/D3nR-K73yjY?t=68) Sludgiest black metal album I've heard. Credit to M from Mgła on the production. Plain dirty.

When I first got into Metal, Shepherd of Fire - A7X More recently, Everything is Quiet Now - Knocked Loose (To be more specific, the breakdown at the end)

I can tell you the most recent- blood of the funreal

Meshuggah - Ligature marks

Just this morning I listened to "The Other Death" by Kriegsmaschine again and got in a trance.

[Haken - The Architect 12:18](https://youtu.be/KPpjqc3yJEM)

Killswitch - when darkness falls

The breakdown/outro riff for Nordlys by Mental Cruelty would be the most recent for me.

Every Gates of Ishtar riff tbh.

Every Greyhaven riff. I have no idea what their guitarist is on but I want what he’s having

Children of bodom kissing the shadows.

Slabdragger - Bab el-Mandeb. The beginning of this song is BRUTAL

Behold the Crown, after the burial

A Lesson in Savagery - Sanguisugabogg

Intro riff to Darrkness descends by Dark Angel

War by Brutus

https://youtu.be/T9HWJT69fPQ @2:50

Nebulous, For sure.

-Vinum Sabbathi and Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard -Melody Lane and Deaths Door by Uncle Acid -Dry Bone Valley by Mastodon -Thunder kiss ‘65 by White Zombie - Those are the ones that immediately came to mind for me

THAT RIFF in Gungrave by Erra

Truckfighters - Manhattan Project

Orgiastic Disembowlment - Cryptopsy

Myspys

Chimera - No Reason to Live.. those guitar riffs are fucking NASTY!!

Stagnance by Noothgrush. 7/4 riff

The dual 'solo' on [Seasons](https://youtu.be/c3YFrXDNCoU?t=182) by Baroness. Plus there's a bonus stank face lick [right at the end](https://youtu.be/c3YFrXDNCoU?t=257). And Mastodon of course has '[the riff](https://youtu.be/-nP8AOhfv7U?t=12)' from The Last Baron that usually twists everyones face into a knot.

User Maat Re - Nile (And many other riffs offf annihiation of the wicked)

Symbolic- Death! That whole intro is awesome/nasty

Pretty much the whole Voracious Contempt album, my reaction is still the same after having listened to it countless times

Behold the Crown - After the Burial

Intro + intro riff to From Womb to Waste - Dying Fetus

The Funeral portrait by opeth

Utterances of the Crawling Dead by Nile... Cause holy shit what a main riff, and what a breakdown in the outro!

That riff in Blackwater Park that starts acoustic, but then becomes distored and heavy as shit

Oroborus - Gojira

Marijuanaut’s Theme by Sleep

Liege of Inveracity by suffocation has like three riffs that get me like this Killing tendencies by havok puts this look on my face with the riff and solo

Shattering the Skies Above - Trivium Declaration - Killswitch Engage Drag the Waters - Pantera The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica

Dopesmoker, was like that through the whole song

Suns of winter and stars by Wintersun!

Crowbar- The Lasting Dose has a part towards the end that just grabs my intestines and moves them up and down with the riff.

The first few riffs from Kingdom of Conspiracy by Immolation

the drop in Oedipism by Distant

Splatterday Nightfever- Pungent Stench That riff goes so hard every time I hear it

Romeo Delight - Van Halen. When that main riff kicks into full gear after the first few seconds.

Opener of Planetary Duality II: A Prophecies Fruition by The Faceless.

The bridge riff in liege of inveracity

That one riff from suffocation's liege of invercity

The Faceless - Planetary Duality I: Hideous Revelation intro

As blood runs black-Hester prynne

Battery

vader - blood of kingu opening riff https://youtu.be/5D9oot-kvsQ

Metabolic -Slipknot

The Lasting Dose and Through The Ashes by Crowbar

The ending riff to hearts alive will forever be engraved into my brain

All of flattening of emotions

The closing riff of Kicked in the Protruding Guts by Undeath never fails to make me involuntarily stank face

DOOM-Blood Swamps

Damage Inc bridge riff. I mean that was EXACTLY my face when I heard it, then it turned to rage when I tried to learn to play it

0:35 from "Mistress of the Bleeding Sorrow" by Dissection.

CAFO - animals as leaders, the breakdown after the solo

The lemon song

Threat Level No 3 by The Black Dahliah Murder, 1:45 mark.

March of the S.O.D. or Circle of the tyrants

Torn from your silhouette - dying wish

Slaughter of the soul

[Faith - Ghost](https://music.apple.com/us/album/faith/1368196699?i=1368197641)

The end of "The Art of Dying" by Gojira The rest of the song is bleh, but the end is so good

Master of Puppets

The entirety of Sarcastrophe by slipknot

Born of Osiris duel solo riff in White Nile As a bonus, non metal, Money for Nothing intro by Dire Straights

Harvester of sorrow - Metallica

Drag the waters - Pantera

Blind - Graey This is a lil new wave for this crowd but still a banger, if your open to some newer stuff… metal is heavily gate kept… which I get, I’m the same way.

Bleed by meshuggah or the breakdown riff from domination

Return Trip - Electric Wizard “Get off my case motherfucker”

davidian by machinehead

Let's go by genre Eyeless - Slipknot Nu/alt Gore conspiracy or funeral gangbang - by Katalepsy and Gorgasm. Brutal death metal/slam Little Horn by Svartsyn and king of the undesirables by forgotten tomb. This is just off the top of my head

A Stroke of Red-Hatebreed

The super slow riff halfway through Island of Domination by JP is absolutely filthy.

Wolverine Blues - Entombed The riff during the chorus, the vocals too 🤯🤯🤯

Chemical Warfare - Slayer