What’s your favorite riffs of all time

japetus said:
A lot of dudes shit on it at the time, they said it was "too nu metal" but I just never saw it that way, it just sounded like a band that got good at production. It seems like FF gets hated on a lot these days, I don't know why.
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I love the album , all of it , one of my favorite tones too
 
One- Metallica
My Apocalypse- Metallica
Tornado of Souls- Megadeth
If Rain is What You Want- Slipknot
Pneuma- Tool

Just to name a few! 😎
 
pintspiller said:
First 5 off the top of my head!
Wickerman - Maiden
Montsegur - Maiden
Beast - Maiden
Big Bad World - Little Angels (just love that tapping intro!, and the fast bit at 00:44.....fuckin love it!)
Justice - 'tallica
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I would second Justice…I forgot about that one…I love the resolve in it!
 
Jimty said:
Hard to pick, but a few that jump to mind are:

Don’t Damn Me - Guns N Roses
Just Got Paid - ZZ Top
Tush - ZZ Top
War Pigs (various riffs) - Black Sabbath
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
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Them Bones! Damn…coming through here and seeing so many I missed! Good stuff
 
Battery!!
cobrahead1030 said:
A few of these were already listed, but worth another mention & a few may not qualify as "riffs"

Believer
Funk 49
Hot for Teacher
Just Got Paid
South of Heaven
I Know a Little
Riviera Paradise
Foxy Lady
Albatross (COC)
NIB
Battery
11th Hour
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One of my favorite intros! I like when this follows Ecstasy of Gold at the beginning of a concert!
 
thegame said:
Angel of Death middle breakdown
Blackened unaccompanied intro riff
Black Dog
Back in Black
Electric Eye
Master of Puppets chromatic riff and the ascending/descending riff after second guitar solo
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Blackened probably is one of the greatest intros of all time. There are very few that hit like that!
 
Jakem said:
Way too many to list but here are a few:
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave intro
Metallica - Seek and Destroy intro, Frayed Ends of Sanity riff before solo, Battery main riff, MoP main riff
Megadeth - Hangar 18 verse riff
Ozzy - Bark at the moon C part riff
Ozzy - Desire main riff
Whitesnake - Still of the Night main riff
Van Halen - 5150 intro
Guns n’ Roses - Estranged main lead, Nightrain intro
Pantera - Revolution is my name
In Flames - Jotun main lead, The Hive (before the solo and solo)
…and a million other riffs. :D
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Seek and Destroy has grown on me a lot…I’ve always loved it, but now that my kids play instruments and we play that song together, I have a whole different love for it now. 🤘🤘
 
70s - 80s
Whole Lotta Love - LZ
Strutter - KISS
Amsterdam - VH
Unchained - VH
Crazy Train - OZ
Keep Your Eye on the Money - Crue
She Goes Down - Crue
Lay It Down - Ratt
Shake Me - Cinderella
Double Talkin' Jive - GnR
Women - Def Leppard
It's Not Love - Dokken
Barracuda - Heart
Get It On - KingdomCome
Smooth Up In Ya' - Bullet Boys
Rock Candy - Montrose
Want Some, Need Some - Poison
Dani California - RHCP
Livin' on a Chain Gang - Skid Row
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Warrant
Time to Surrender - Winger
Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top

more modern era
Sanitarium - Metallica
Angry Again - Megadeth
Thunder Kiss '65 - Rob Zombie
Curl of the Burl - Mastodon
Spoonman - Soundgarden
1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
Beautiful Disaster - 311
Down with the Sickness - Disturbed
Devil Without A Cause - Kid Rock
I'll Cast A Shadow - Pantera
Nero Forte - Slipknot
Sulfer - Slipknot
Rollin - Limp Bizkit
Got the Life - Korn
Reject Yourself - Killswitch Engage
For You - Staind
Hell - Tree One Four


Fuck that was hard :LOL:
 
So many greats already mentioned.

my honorable mention goes to Vito. Definitely not my favorite song but the first minute and nine seconds is like running a tasteful marathon on the guitar. Riff after riff after riff:

 
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