The Most Used Riff in Metal: From Death Metal to Metalcore
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
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This is the most used riff in Metal, and I bet I missed many, many more songs that used it.
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Track list:
0:00 Avenger - Revenge Attack
0:18 Ceremonial Oath - Dreamsong
0:36 Death - Spirit Crusher
0:46 The Black Dahlia Murder - Elder Misanthropy
1:07 Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions
1:37 As I Lay Dying - Through Struggle
1:47 Chiodos - There's No Penguins In Alaska
2:01 Parkway Drive - Frostbite
2:27 Suicide Silence - Destruction of a Statue
2:45 Attack Attack - What if I Can't Check My Myspace When We Get There?
2:55 Asking Alexandria - Not The American Average
3:16 Black Veil Brides - Knives and Pens
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So what other riffs sound exactly like these? I'm sure there's plenty.
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Atreyu - Dilated
"Two Weeks" by All That Remains, "In Dying Days" by As Blood Runs Black, "Rose Of Sharyn" by Killswitch Engage, "The Faded Line" by Lamb Of God, "The Poison" by Bullet For My Valentine, "Composure" by August Burns Red,
"Ghost In The Mirror" by Motionless In White, "A Shot In The Dark" by A Day To Remember
Judas Priest - Electric Eye(1982)
@@user-jo5vy8iw3lI think As Blood Runs Black played this riff much more interesting than s.s.
The inertia - aborted
This is the longest song ever. Started in 1985, ended in 2010. 🤯
thats wild
It started in 1981. Warlord is the true inventor of this riff on their song children of the damned ruclips.net/video/u-42OnkhbJA/видео.htmlfeature=shared
In fact, there is one that is longer 😂
IT NEVER ENDS!
IT NEVER ENDS!
@@MickAshMetalMansick bring me reference bro
Like Dimebag said “ We’re all just borrowing riffs”
Liike diimebag saiid "skull yea borther 💀"
That’s why Dimebag is the greatest ever. Dude was just real af
I have to disagree.You always have the choice to create something unique.
Dude as soon as I read the title I knew what the riff was, it’s like the lick but for metal
Lmao fr tho
LOL
metal-lick-a
Or like 7-5-8-7 on the A-string in thrash metal (Slayer “Black Magic”, Death Angel “Thrown To The Wolves”, Vio-Lence “Eternal Nightmare”, Testament “Burnt Offerings” etc.) :D
Yeah lol
Spirit crusher is a eternal banger, probably my favorite riff on this format
definetly the one who sounds more diferent than the rest
the riff that thats immediately after this one in the song is also a banger! so catchy
It is the best and the father of all.
That Death album is fucking amazing front to back
For sure, and he only played half of the riff, the second half being what really makes it so great.
The thing about Spirit Crusher, is that the song has like 10 other great riffs
Yeah, and it sounds quite a bit different than the others even if the structure is the same
Man discovers 5-7-8 riffs
It's basically 95% of Myspace era metalcore (and it was 50% of melodeath before it, listen to At the Gates)
It’s 5-7-8 in drop tunings, but if you noticed, the first three were all in e, e flat, and d standard so it’s a 7-9-10 riff with some perfect fourths thrown in
Numbers just mean the frets not the notes
really goes to show how lame and unoriginal metalcore is
@@progfox
Listen to some good metalcore then.
@@orionlax626fr like that logic should Apply for every genre cuz every genre has that one defining trait that can be repetitive not only metalcore 🤣
I can see why this is the most used riff... it's pretty excellent.
Ah yes the "I listened to Slaughter the Soul one time" riff. At the Gates released that monster of an album and promptly broke up leaving void for imitators.
It's just a very catchy riff structure
THANK YOU!!! OMG!!!
Back in 2003 when I started hearing these shitty metacore bands ripping off At The Gates, I was pissed because those same fans HATE real death metal. At the Gates got screwed….
@@thisguy2973 Exactly my experience. A few of them might like later In Flames, but non of them would recognise that Slaughter of the Soul pretty much solely spawned the later 90's/early 2000s metalcore scene.
pre sots is superior (the whole riff of this video isnt even good)
@@trveheimer6360 Ok
For me, judas Priest "Electric eye" was the song that started everything
For me its avenger. You can hear it if you listen its hard for some people i know
@@mega_jonne1546but avenger comes in 87, electric eye comes in 83
And Painkiller (by Judas Priest as well) was the first 5-8-7 riff
@@josejesushernandezbustillo9139 In 1982
I was expectating Electric eye all the vídeo hahaha
Who knew that the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black could be so metal
Check out the black dahlia murder cover then ;)
@@GNARicalor Agony Scene
which is also borrowed from a turkish song "bir eylül akşamı" that melody is seemingly as old as time the deeper you look the more you find
What most of these riffs have in common is that they start in the first grade having a melody with the notes of the II, bIII and IV grade, and then they go down to the bVI.
Thanks for the music theory, interesting to know!
wow, can you read notes too? i bet tho you cant play wonderwall
So Basically a minor scale. What the hell is a grade?
@@maJastoL a grade is the position a note/chord is in the scale; for example, D is the 4th grade of the A minor scale because it's the 4rd note, the same logic with the others. I call them this way because the songs are in different tuning with different scales, so when I say "the 2nd" grade I'm referring to the second note of each scale.
@@mateofernandez486 I thought that was called a scale degree. Never heard it be called a grade before
This is THE riff
It’s the riff that got me into Metal
@@jojoplaysmusicME TOO
@@Gameboy-2007-yt me three
DUDE you freaking nail those tones for every single Band, that's damn impressive! Awesome vid!
Thank you! I got that ear for tone you know ;)
He really did 👌 almost identical to the studio versions of all these songs.
@@jojoplaysmusic any chance i can get those settings for tbdm? using stlhub as well
@@DankSandwich bro u listen to that a7x tone???
Really? Some of them are too much like "bees in a jar"..
Thank You For The Venom - My Chemical Romance
lol it’s funny to see the different generations in here cuz mine was unholy confessions, never heard of the older stuff hehe
I kept waiting for this!
Electric Eye by Judas Priest follows that line aswell
Iron Maiden 🙄
was wondering where I heard if lol
@@springbloom5940Judas Priest were around years before Iron Maiden started putting albums out
@@daniellongo7873
And of course that riff was on their first album.
I love melodeath with these kinds of riffs. I really dig the first four songs here
You should listen to Intestine Baalism, a melodeath band that still remembers the 'death metal' in 'melodic death metal'. Their debut album An Anatomy of the Beast is their best.
@@lashedandscornedTo tag onto this, Mors Principium Est is a super underrated Melodeath band.
The bit after the verse in Killswitch Engage’s “Rose of Sharyn” and the chorus riff In Flames’ “Take This Life” could probably qualify as well
They absolutely could. Every one does its own thing though. It's like the same ingredient but a different dish. That 0/5/7/8/10 thing on the lower 3 strings is public domain
Some As I Lay Dying as well.
And as most of the songs in the video those songs are bangers
it'll continue being used because that pedal pointing the low note while moving around the high notes sounds so damn good with distortion on electric guitar.....it's like the "boots and cats" drumbeat that so much electronic music uses, works for the genre
Can't forget about the "boots, titty, cats, titty, boots, titty, cats".
downpicking " Elder Misantropy"...NICE!
;)
I honestly don't understand how this happened. It's like the metal version of the Wilhelm scream, but without the irony.
cause its the best riff ever
At The Gates inspired metalcore musicians. Musicians grew up on metalcore and kept writing those riffs. Couldnt tell you before ATG though
@@TheOneWayDown All metalcore is just riffs from Slaughter of The Soul and Death's Symbolic and The Sound of Perseverance regurgitated endlessly.
@@penttikoivuniemi2146
Okay boomer
@@gingeranagram2467 Nice try, but not even my parents are boomers.
Also, aren't you a bit late with that meme?
Great job!
The last 25 seconds of "the poison" by bullet for my valentine is another example!
I knew they used this riff as well 😂
Lol as soon as I saw the death album I knew exactly what riff it was
Hehehe
Also:
Carnifex - Hope Dies With the Decadent
The Black Dahlia Murder - Closed Casket Requiem
Obtenebris - Opulance of Hate
Obtenebris - Skyfall
man, that creamy white jackson is one of the most beautiful pieces i've ever seen. great content too!
It was Snow White when I bought it. So it has aged beautifully.
Because it's the most melodic guitar riff and always sounds so good, and also, dude, you are an awesome player!
Thank you so much! :)
In Flames- Colony,Food for the Gods and Dead God In Me also good example of that riff template
Crawling through knives too!
Eh colony definitely varies but then again their early albums only had about 15 guitar tracks layered so I'm sure it's in there somewhere😂
Take This Life as well
This riff style informed my entire early identity as a guitarist lmfao
Best versions of it imo are in suffocating under words of sorrow, des Moines, and porcelain wings
All those songs are bangers!
Porcelain wings is so good
This probably my favorite riff of all time. I will forever call it the Avenger riff
For AILD I was hoping you'd use 94 Hours, but Through Struggle is a good choice as well
These tones are really close to the studio albums, so goodjob
Nice that you found so many ! Damn, I should have noticed that long time ago !!
Thanks for the great vids.. You should have a million followers. Keep the great job.
Banquet in the Darkness by Intestine Baalism is very similar to these riffs too
Love that band, i don´t even know how i discovered them.
Maestro, excelente toque como siempre, saludos desde Colombia.
A la orden
Awesome video, I think you can even argue some priest songs can go before revenge. The opening riff of electric eye comes to mind. Saludos de EEUU!
I knew I've heard that riff in more than one band... Just didn't know it could be in so many! DAMN
'Hope dies with the decadent' by Carnifex also has a pretty similar riff around the 50 seconds mark
Cheers for introducing me to Avenger and Ceremonial Oath
Got the same monitors, love them! Actually have the 5" mackies for my turntable and the 4" for my desktop setup... And it's a good riff... Death!
you’re a master of tone bro
Amazing job dude! One I thought of was “Rain” by Trivium
Imperium by Machine Head has it too, and it's very similar to the Death's one.
Great video!
Also used in Summer's End - Haunting Hallowed Graves
As the video went on I started to realize this riff is done By a lot of People I named a couple before they showed in the video funny lol good stuff man
Thanks! And yes, A LOT.
Dude we need your tones tutorial, every time just perfect
Noted
@@jojoplaysmusicyo dude this guy above me keeps commenting on your videos impersonating you you may wanna block him
@@connorross4336 I've reported it several times already
Dismember- Dreaming in red and Collection by blood also use this style of riff, and ofc slaughter of the soul and blinded by fear by ATG. Judas priest was probably the first to use it in electric eye. I think the rolling stones were the true inventors of the metalcore riff in paint it black
He is Legend - Scram Toots
Cracked a rib at As I Lay dying to Through Struggle
See also, darkest hour, all that remains, trivium, killswitch engage, bullet for my valentine, etc lol
Holy hell so many people use this riff lol
Also another one to add to the list, the band Last Ones Left song "Unveiled" also uses the same riffage
Nice profile pic
This riff is in Lamb Of God's song 11th Hour during 2:14 - 2:32.
This video earned a sub
Happy to have you
And I can listen to it over and over again 😎
Dismember (Burning In Red) and of course At the Gates - Blunded by Fear sound close. And Electric Eye from Priest.
Dreaming in red* by Dismember. Great song, great memories
You should make a modernized version of this vid where bands are stull using it to this day!
Nailed the tones. It might be overused but I love almost every one!
That one riff from Painkiller comes to mind as well
Death and Black Dahlia weren't exactly the same, only slightly similar in a few notes. After that there was a bunch of riffs that sounded almost identical 🥴
i love 578 so much, +rep for chiodos😖🤟🏻
I love the 5-7-8 riff. It just has a feel to it that can't be beat.
The riff's got legs, that's for sure because it's been around the block and then some.... I try to write riffs in different keys or positions other than the 5-7-8 with an open D (or whatever) as a pedal point. I most certainly use pedal points because it worked for Bach and it will work for me but I digress. I like to play metal drop D or C (or C# depending on what song I'm playing) and play on 3-5-6 on the A string with the open E (dropped to D, C or C#). I'll use 3-5-6 on the E and A strings, 4-5-7 on the D. I suppose that is similar to the structure of the riff in the video, just shifted down a position but the resulting sound is more like The Haunted, Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, etc.
This has been bugging me for years! Also was waiting for the MCR song but at least the BVB one was here👍
Can't get better than this honestly
Killer guitar playing
Gaaaahh this takes me back to the metalcore stage everyone was in during high school
loved that white Jackson man. gorgeous guitar
The absence of At the Gates on this video is so loud!!!
Trespass by the taunted is my favourite version of this riff
Avenger were ahead of their time with that riff
Birthplace and Burial Site by As Hope Dies is another good example
This is literally every single melodeath and mid 00's metalcore band ever, love it! ❤
There's been a new release with this very same riff and I remembered this video and.
This was fun. You could throw in Trespass by The Haunted.
2002 Atreyu - Dilated
Track #2 off the album Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses
29 seconds in
the 0-3-5-6 and all possible variations of this
How is it possible hahahhaah it must have taken you great effort to gather this up🤘🏼
Most of my songs use that kind of riff, I love it
In dying days by As blood runs black was also a good one
I've had 2 LTD guitars in my life and those were the best ones.
it never gets old tbh
Also, killer shedding bro
What a blast from the past.
Ngl
Given how different these are from eachother, it was definitely just thrm sitting down and messing around until they played something "that sounded good"
And this is what sounded good
There's also a riff in a Kreator song named "all of the same blood" at 3:58
Destruction of a statue by Suicide Silence was written and recorded in 2005 before that Parkway Drive song you’re comparing it to. Most likely destruction of a statue riff was influenced by aveneged sevenfold and unholy confessions. They sound similar, I’ve always thought ever since I heard Suicide Silence’s 2005 EP years when it came out
I see you with that Crimson Vow box in the background… 😎
Camon dude, blinded by fear is the first and only riff that can be played with these notes and speed. It was borrowed too in first new in flames song
The E on the 7th fret of the A string is the base for so many songs. It makes a nice open sounding powerful chord while having access to some juicy scales, or raise it a fret and the F against the low E has wicked dissonance.
Intestine Baalism - Banquet in the Darkness. Starts right off the bat.
That riff is also on the song Aesthetics of Hate by Machine Head
One of my own songs from around 2005 also has a similar riff.
As soon as I saw the artwork for the sound of perseverance, the cleansing, and waking the fallen in the thumbnail I knew what riff it was. Especially since it’s the only consonant riff in suicide silence’s discography
I was thinking the 2 Minutes to Midnight riff, that one gets used in a lot of things. You're right on the money with this though, my first thought hearing the riff was Electric Eye which didn't even show up in the video haha
One of the greatest riffs of all time
Ahh....the legendary 5-7-8 riffing.
Aiden-The Dawn Breaking Tide/Goodbye we're falling fast.
its a natural outcome of the physics of the instrument combined with distortion
I think I'm gonna use that riff for one of my songs. Hell, I'm gonna use it for all my songs
Blinded by fear has that riff too
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