Over a year's worth of heavy riffs all in one big video, hope you all find some awesome new bands to jam! Also, when ever you see "alternative drop ____" it just means that the song isn't standard tuning, or FULLY drop, but based on a drop tuning but has a string or two that is changed for that specific guitarist's preference. Only 4 riffs I believe were included that had that exception.
OH also just a thought but I think a video on the most used alternate things in metal? Like how periphery uses open c add9 for scarlet and whatnot. Keep up the amazing work you're doing here🤙
I don't know if anyone needs this but there ya go THE TIME STAMPS AND RIFFS Well done fella love ya And now please, don't tell me there is a way to do that automatically Can I get a hug pls 1. 0:23 PSYCROPTIC - Carriers of the Plague 2. 0:35 LAMB OF GOD - Laid to Rest 3. 0:49 THE AGONIST - Lonely Solipsist 4. 1:00 EVERY TIME I DIE - Host Disorder 5. 1:11 RAMMSTEIN - Sonne 6. 1:24 AVENGED SEVENFOLD - God Hates Us 7. 1:37 TOOL - Forty Six & 2 8. 1:50 TRIVIUM - Shattering The Skies Above 9. 2:09 ASKING ALEXANDRIA - The Final Episode 10. 2:23 AS I LAY DYING - Parallels 11. 2:42 BLESSTHEFALL - To Hell and Back 12. 2:59 WINDS OF PLAGUE - The Impaler 13. 3:12 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Danger: Wildman 14. 3:25 UNDEROATH - Returning Empty Handed 15. 3:39 MARILYN MANSON - mOBSCENE 16. 3:54 THREE DAYS GRACE - Pain 17. 4:06 HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD - California Dreaming 18. 4:16 MARK MORTON - Cross Off 19. 4:30 WE CAME AS ROMANS - To Plant A Seed 20. 4:44 MUSE - Stockholm Syndrome 21. 4:58 AVENGED SEVENFOLD - Unholy Confessions 22. 5:13 ICE NINE KILLS - Me, Myself & Hyde 23. 5:24 MEMPHIS MAY FIRE - The Sinner 24. 5:41 LAMB OF GOD - Ghost Walking 25. 5:56 LINKIN PARK - One Step Closer 26. 6:06 NORMA JEAN - A Grand Scene For A Color Film 27. 6:20 DISTURBED - Down With The Sickness 28. 6:30 SIKTH - Way Beyond The Fond Old River 29. 6:39 ENTER SHIKARI - The Feast 30. 6:49 SILVERSTEIN - Sacrifice 31. 7:04 TRIVIUM - In Waves 32. 7:17 STONE SOUR - A Rumor Of Skin 33. 7:32 ATTILA - Payback 34. 7:45 AVENGED SEVENFOLD - Almost Easy 35. 7:56 SYSTEM OF A DOWN - BYOB 36. 8:05 DEFTONES - My Own Summer 37. 8:19 ALTER BRIDGE - Addicted to Pain 38. 8:34 PROTEST THE HERO - A Plateful Of Our Dead 39. 8:51 PIERCE THE VEIL - Hell Above 40. 9:05 FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - Front Row 41. 9:16 OF MICE & MEN - Those In Glass Houses 42. 9:31 FORTHANGEL - Silver Bullets 43. 9:42 AS I LAY DYING - Through Struggle 44. 9:54 AUGUST BURNS RED - Meddler 45. 10:07 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - In Due Time 46. 10:18 CHILDREN OF BODOM - In Your Face 47. 10:34 PERIPHERY - Buttersnips 48. 10:48 BORN OF OSIRIS - Bow Down (
I love Drop C#, it's so versatile. It's heavy enough that it's got some real balls behind it, but not so low that you really have to buy super-thick strings and tweak your set-up extensively to get it to sound good. It's crunchy but still bright and snappy. Super low tunings are awesome too, but I always find myself coming back to C#.
@@slovak4life1991 It isn't live, it's in front of a camera. You have infinite tries. Plus it was a compilation, so even within the scope of an episode with only 10 riffs, the attention to detail wasn't put in.
This took me back to the days of being 14 and just loving the shit out of anything drop D. I mean back when we were that young we thought that was the height of music prowess, drop D was life. May have grown out of that to bigger and better things but still love the nostalgia of all of it. Great video!
How do you feel about bonus riffs in future videos like these being viewer submissions? A great way to get more varied and obscure riffs in, and allowing lesser known talent a platform, it is as they say a win/win situation.
You, my dear friend, are INSPIRING. I am sitting here at 1 am and need to get up at 6 to do some school work i need to have ready for school at 8(not online, actually in person), but am sitting here watching your videos, which inspire me like no one ever has before. I might just get more active on my guitar again, thank you for that.
Hey Nik, awesome video as always! Only bands I'm missing are Within Destruction on drop F# and Humanity's last breath on Drop E lol. Other than that really good :)
I know this is an old video, im rewatinching some of your stuff and I noticed we hold the pick the same way. Nice to see someone else who doesnt jold it "normally" as they say
Thanks for this, Nik! I made a whole bunch of Spotify playlists for each individual drop tuning, alongside an entire 11-12hr long playlist of all of those playlist mashed together in the exact same format - glad we both got genius ideologies at work, lol now I can easily check it over & revise it as is needed (Disclaimer: Some songs aren’t available on Spotify b/c either A) the band doesn’t seem to “exist”, or B) they do and yet the featured song doesn’t appear. I did my best to find similar songs by similar bands or by the same band that go just as equally hard, but it gets tough especially when certain songs repeat [*looks intensely at Slipknot in heretic*]. Just figured I’d mention that at the end of this in case ppl find it & wanna tell me it’s wrong/in the wrong order, I will be revising them all now with this compilation, which again I gotta thank Nik for doing.) Can’t wait to see what’ll be net in store for the rest of 2019! :D
That was sick ! I love the sneak of Andrew’s band in there Galactic Pegasus. Also love the the low pinch harmonic in See you soon from Chelsea Grin. Now sure why just a particular sound I guess haha.
I need to thank nik for getting me into psycroptic, they're one of the first bands in awhile I've actually been able to discover and get into (I'm kinda stuck in a rut of not really liking new music that much). Super glad he did another video with a psycroptic riff \m/
I feel like TesseracT doesn't get any attention on this channel.. they have some amazing heavy riffs. The break-down in Smile (drop G# DADGAD-like tuning) is unbelievable. Good video though man, hope to see some TesseracT in your videos soon! 😉
Depends on pickup and tone and most importantly how well it is played. So they are definitely the best all rounders but you can make anything work if you work out it's quirks
Friggin beast!!! It's oddly satisfying that you're playing all of these dope riffs on your 'cheap' Schecter instead of your Music Man. On the same token, it makes me feel unqualified to play my own 'cheap' Schecter. lol
Heavy lack of Monuments in this otherwise complete list: I, the Creator middle section/breakdown + Leviathan ending breakdown for Alternative Drop A# Saga City ending breakdown for Alternative Drop G# Jinn change to double time for Alternative Drop G# Jukai main riff/chorus for Alternative Drop F#
God damn half n hour of riffs from our God. What a blessing you cast down opon us. We shall shower in your grace and spread the holy message of SATANNNNNN
Two things. 1. No "Them Bones" in the drop C# section. 2. You were obligated to replace the snare in "Frantic" with a sample of a trash can lid. Otherwise really likes this. I don't know how the hell you memorized all those riffs. It's almost like a 36 minute long song the way you tied it all together. Great work!
![Summer Walker - Heart Of A Woman [Official Lyric Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SFddctbZzw8/mqdefault.jpg)
Over a year's worth of heavy riffs all in one big video, hope you all find some awesome new bands to jam!
Also, when ever you see "alternative drop ____" it just means that the song isn't standard tuning, or FULLY drop, but based on a drop tuning but has a string or two that is changed for that specific guitarist's preference. Only 4 riffs I believe were included that had that exception.
Truly a god amongst men
OH also just a thought but I think a video on the most used alternate things in metal? Like how periphery uses open c add9 for scarlet and whatnot. Keep up the amazing work you're doing here🤙
Great job Nik
Love it!
Nicholas where is blood eagle
I don't know if anyone needs this but there ya go
THE TIME STAMPS AND RIFFS
Well done fella love ya
And now please, don't tell me there is a way to do that automatically
Can I get a hug pls
1. 0:23 PSYCROPTIC - Carriers of the Plague
2. 0:35 LAMB OF GOD - Laid to Rest
3. 0:49 THE AGONIST - Lonely Solipsist
4. 1:00 EVERY TIME I DIE - Host Disorder
5. 1:11 RAMMSTEIN - Sonne
6. 1:24 AVENGED SEVENFOLD - God Hates Us
7. 1:37 TOOL - Forty Six & 2
8. 1:50 TRIVIUM - Shattering The Skies Above
9. 2:09 ASKING ALEXANDRIA - The Final Episode
10. 2:23 AS I LAY DYING - Parallels
11. 2:42 BLESSTHEFALL - To Hell and Back
12. 2:59 WINDS OF PLAGUE - The Impaler
13. 3:12 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Danger: Wildman
14. 3:25 UNDEROATH - Returning Empty Handed
15. 3:39 MARILYN MANSON - mOBSCENE
16. 3:54 THREE DAYS GRACE - Pain
17. 4:06 HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD - California Dreaming
18. 4:16 MARK MORTON - Cross Off
19. 4:30 WE CAME AS ROMANS - To Plant A Seed
20. 4:44 MUSE - Stockholm Syndrome
21. 4:58 AVENGED SEVENFOLD - Unholy Confessions
22. 5:13 ICE NINE KILLS - Me, Myself & Hyde
23. 5:24 MEMPHIS MAY FIRE - The Sinner
24. 5:41 LAMB OF GOD - Ghost Walking
25. 5:56 LINKIN PARK - One Step Closer
26. 6:06 NORMA JEAN - A Grand Scene For A Color Film
27. 6:20 DISTURBED - Down With The Sickness
28. 6:30 SIKTH - Way Beyond The Fond Old River
29. 6:39 ENTER SHIKARI - The Feast
30. 6:49 SILVERSTEIN - Sacrifice
31. 7:04 TRIVIUM - In Waves
32. 7:17 STONE SOUR - A Rumor Of Skin
33. 7:32 ATTILA - Payback
34. 7:45 AVENGED SEVENFOLD - Almost Easy
35. 7:56 SYSTEM OF A DOWN - BYOB
36. 8:05 DEFTONES - My Own Summer
37. 8:19 ALTER BRIDGE - Addicted to Pain
38. 8:34 PROTEST THE HERO - A Plateful Of Our Dead
39. 8:51 PIERCE THE VEIL - Hell Above
40. 9:05 FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - Front Row
41. 9:16 OF MICE & MEN - Those In Glass Houses
42. 9:31 FORTHANGEL - Silver Bullets
43. 9:42 AS I LAY DYING - Through Struggle
44. 9:54 AUGUST BURNS RED - Meddler
45. 10:07 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - In Due Time
46. 10:18 CHILDREN OF BODOM - In Your Face
47. 10:34 PERIPHERY - Buttersnips
48. 10:48 BORN OF OSIRIS - Bow Down (
You're a straight up legend my friend
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌🤘🤘🤘🤘👍🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks mate!
@@The73rdSecret You're welcome my man
GardoTheFury Awesome stuff, thanks! This is going to make revising my playlists so much easier now.
36 minutes of riffs?
Sounds like one hell of a prog song
I think the whole of the Drop C set could fit together as one big prog song hahaha
Professor Djent
Track list:
1: Drop C
2: Everything else
@@hermesbandofficial8551 hahaha
Professor Djent the vid is still shorter than 2 of my songs lol
@@hermesbandofficial8551 my lord man hahaha
Drop D 0:24
Drop C# 5:14
Drop C 9:41
Drop B 14:17
Drop A# 18:24
Drop A 21:30
Drop G# 24:03
Drop G 26:05
Drop F# 28:49
Drop F 31:21
Drop E 33:25
Absolute legend right here
Every time Nik changes his Shirt throughout the edit. You're welcome.
05:13
09:41
14:16
18:24
20:36
21:29
24:03
26:05
28:49
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That one is a good example how talent and lots of hard work are melting together. Nik, you are a metal machine! 🤘🔥
UwU
ｕｗｕ
Nice videos JJ!
Thanks JJ! Love the cover you've been putting out as well
U w U
The riffs were so heavy that it made the video permanently 360p
Reply this if you think im retarded
@@fishlemonade2114 what if I think I'm retarded?
@@iamweebtrash1306 thats fine boi
But im at 720p60
Perfect
I love Drop C#, it's so versatile. It's heavy enough that it's got some real balls behind it, but not so low that you really have to buy super-thick strings and tweak your set-up extensively to get it to sound good. It's crunchy but still bright and snappy.
Super low tunings are awesome too, but I always find myself coming back to C#.
Yup! Hail to the drop C# 🤘
For me, drop C is that sweet spot. But my favorite to play in is drop B. But it's definitely kind of a pain.
Dude, if it's good enough for Woe Of Tyrants, it's good enough for me!
My favorite spots are D Standard and B Standard. My 10-46 strings haven't failed me.
Drop D and D standard to me, are the perfect sound for aggressive riffs. The open D chugged is just so punchy
Next video idea
35 min video shouting all your patreons by memory lol
I would die
The lower you went down, the less and less I recognized the riffs. I gotta start getting into more of these 🤘
Nobody :
Slavic Nik : *learns 150 riffs and plays them spot on*
Spot on? Most of them, not all.
Ectoplasmic get over it. It’s 150 riffs. You go play them all perfectly.
@@slovak4life1991 It isn't live, it's in front of a camera. You have infinite tries. Plus it was a compilation, so even within the scope of an episode with only 10 riffs, the attention to detail wasn't put in.
Every time the “bonus riff” came up, I felt like I unlocked some exclusive content.
Perfect
@@NikNocturnal
marketing strategies : effective
Consumer: pleased
Bonus
Riffs: rocked my cock off
Also, think you spelled BRBRdeng wrong, it seems to be, 'Dig'
Watching the vid right now, waiting for Dig to appear on the glorious drop B.
unfunny
Ahh my bad
Josh whatever you say josh *wink face*
Lol
Finally answered my prayers with Shattering the Skies Above
>drop C#
>no stick stickly
inner crabcore fan is crying...
>drop B
>no smokahontas
;-;
The riffs... they will be *h e a v y*
^^^ very much
Nik Nocturnal buzz buzz
Nik, you’ve put me onto a LOT of music that I jam pretty regularly. Love the content man
Thank you!
No Meshuggah - Bleed?
*Cries in Swedish*
I think that's a standard tuning
@@NikNocturnal People understand "drop" as just lower tunings. You need some standard tuning riffs videos anyways.
Ingen Meshuggah!? Wää! *Gråtrunkar*
150?
Certainly I must be dreaming!
Same
@@NikNocturnal And a reply!?!? Yeah, this is a dream.
Hi Nik
Doctor:you only have 36 minutes and 10secs to live...
me:
Or if you only have 1 hour 12 minutes and 25 seconds to live you can watch it twice
^^^
Sees the title
Me: that's alot of riffs
Clicks vid
Nik: that's alot of riffs😂
This took me back to the days of being 14 and just loving the shit out of anything drop D. I mean back when we were that young we thought that was the height of music prowess, drop D was life. May have grown out of that to bigger and better things but still love the nostalgia of all of it. Great video!
crisp transitions between riffs
That moment yo girl outta town you got nothing to do.
Dropped harder than my parents dropped me when I was a baby
How do you feel about bonus riffs in future videos like these being viewer submissions? A great way to get more varied and obscure riffs in, and allowing lesser known talent a platform, it is as they say a win/win situation.
Now you need an 8 string to get tuning lower than drop e in future heaviest riffs videos.
^^ this
This comment aged well.
@@brushot indeed
Loved the riffs man and appreciate the time and effort that u put in
Thanks John!
I’d like to see someone go for the double Drop C# section of Northlane’s ‘Talking Heads’ without pitch-shifting 😌
It is so filthy
20:16 The tone in Torn in Two sounds very similar to the original. Good job Nik!
Thanks!
You, my dear friend, are INSPIRING. I am sitting here at 1 am and need to get up at 6 to do some school work i need to have ready for school at 8(not online, actually in person), but am sitting here watching your videos, which inspire me like no one ever has before. I might just get more active on my guitar again, thank you for that.
To Hell And Back brought back memories of me learning how to tap, hahaha. Awesome video as always
Thank you!
Now that you're into compilations, we're waiting for this INTRO MEME COMPILATION!
One day
@@NikNocturnal '450 intro memes compilation' haha
Honestly the exact Children of Bodom song I was waiting for. Then right after my favourite Periphery song :) this is a cool channel.
I fucking screamed "OH, MY,GOOODDD" when you played the final episode ngl
Aboutta watch. Hoping for some old-school death metal on this one. Those bands had BRUTAL, yet cleverly written riffs.
Nobody :
Really Nobody :
Nik : LEARN 150 RIFFS AND PLAY THEM ON ONLY ONE VIDEO
Drop A goes hard, but you went even harder going all the way to Drop E. Much respect. :)
Thanks for including Invent, Animate and Silent Planet on this list!
Now this is the content I subscribed for
Bro, I thought this was gonna be a joke. holy shit, you worked hard on this. I'm literally blown away
Thanks!
Nik that's just Drop E... Double Drop E is a LOT lower than that.
Bring on that Black Tongue, and Anzu.
OOo shit you're right, I was thinking double drop D. Thank you for the correction!
Also known as *SPILL E*
dope way to help people discover new bands
Hey Nik, awesome video as always! Only bands I'm missing are Within Destruction on drop F# and Humanity's last breath on Drop E lol. Other than that really good :)
You’re a God for showing the tunings
Should do heaviest riffs from bands that aren't heavy
Edward Granger yes. Soundgarden’s 4th of July.
Intro to Steven Wilson - Home Invasion/Regret #9
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
I know this is an old video, im rewatinching some of your stuff and I noticed we hold the pick the same way. Nice to see someone else who doesnt jold it "normally" as they say
Nice work, Nik. Would you do heaviest standard tuning songs next, please?
I'm impressed with the Tendinitis. Not a lot of people can pull off what Jason can.
such precision leaves me speechless, nik's not human. I'm relieved he has to use a 7 string on drop A, thou :D
10:16 - When you want to play your favorite guitar riffs, but your Windows 10 doesn't like them. x(
Lmao yup
Daaaaaannngg dude. Big impressed. So many riffs, so much work and talent. Excellent job bro, you should be proud!
My dude Nik hasn't enough subscribtions at all! Someone that talented deserves more views, also because 150 riffs are hell of a work...
Im crazy happy you had muse on this!
Thanks for this, Nik! I made a whole bunch of Spotify playlists for each individual drop tuning, alongside an entire 11-12hr long playlist of all of those playlist mashed together in the exact same format - glad we both got genius ideologies at work, lol now I can easily check it over & revise it as is needed (Disclaimer: Some songs aren’t available on Spotify b/c either A) the band doesn’t seem to “exist”, or B) they do and yet the featured song doesn’t appear. I did my best to find similar songs by similar bands or by the same band that go just as equally hard, but it gets tough especially when certain songs repeat [*looks intensely at Slipknot in heretic*]. Just figured I’d mention that at the end of this in case ppl find it & wanna tell me it’s wrong/in the wrong order, I will be revising them all now with this compilation, which again I gotta thank Nik for doing.) Can’t wait to see what’ll be net in store for the rest of 2019! :D
the next level of Nik Nocturnal
IA drop a song AND a near 40 minute video of more pure metal from Nik? Damn...
That is a lot of riffs! Love you Nik
**in Phil swift voice**
Now THATS a lot of *R I F F S*
^^^
That was sick ! I love the sneak of Andrew’s band in there Galactic Pegasus. Also love the the low pinch harmonic in See you soon from Chelsea Grin. Now sure why just a particular sound I guess haha.
I'm so proud to see some Protest The Hero in there
This is so awesome, not only because of the riffs but because there's SO many songs in here that I now want to learn! \m/
Aha thank you!
so many badass riffs ...had this playing while doing some work and had me nodding the whole time ..great stuff
Wtf im early and Nik uploaded a riff vid longer than 5 min
:O
the impaler then dangerwildman back to back. had me so hype lmao
Awesome man. I can only imagine how much effort this took. I’d love to hear some unearth covers from you.
I would have loved if you put Crystal Lake-Apollo for drop F. Good list!
Wow a 30+ minute Nik Nocturnal video
*AM I DREAMING?*
I need to thank nik for getting me into psycroptic, they're one of the first bands in awhile I've actually been able to discover and get into (I'm kinda stuck in a rut of not really liking new music that much). Super glad he did another video with a psycroptic riff \m/
Dude I have been introduced to so many killer bands thanks to your videos like this. Gnarly bro
This is very trippy to watch after the first video I've seen of yours having the accent
This was fine.
But where was 035 Nik?
Seriously though, I don't even know this many Riffs. Good stuff.
It's within all of us
@@NikNocturnal Amen.
I feel like TesseracT doesn't get any attention on this channel.. they have some amazing heavy riffs. The break-down in Smile (drop G# DADGAD-like tuning) is unbelievable. Good video though man, hope to see some TesseracT in your videos soon! 😉
I'm so glad to see a Vildhjarta riff in one of your videos, these riffs damn.
Imo Drop B and Drop C# are the best C# is just low enough and B is insanely dark but not muddy..once you get to like A# there’s a little muddiness
Depends on pickup and tone and most importantly how well it is played. So they are definitely the best all rounders but you can make anything work if you work out it's quirks
Yeahh I hear 0 muddiness in Shadow of Intent and nearly all of their stuff is Drop A#
Hell yeah nik!!! Loved the video! Made me remember a lot of old metal songs I need to listen to!!!
That was sick and now I have some new songs to play! Your the man . Rock on bro
I know I’m pretty late, but Helmet should have been in the Drop D & C lists. THEY’RE THE KINGS OF DROP D/C
Friggin beast!!! It's oddly satisfying that you're playing all of these dope riffs on your 'cheap' Schecter instead of your Music Man. On the same token, it makes me feel unqualified to play my own 'cheap' Schecter. lol
Heavy lack of Monuments in this otherwise complete list:
I, the Creator middle section/breakdown +
Leviathan ending breakdown for Alternative Drop A#
Saga City ending breakdown for Alternative Drop G#
Jinn change to double time for Alternative Drop G#
Jukai main riff/chorus for Alternative Drop F#
God damn half n hour of riffs from our God. What a blessing you cast down opon us. We shall shower in your grace and spread the holy message of SATANNNNNN
Practically every band and genre you can think of all in one vid. Nick is truly a god!!!
Wasn’t expecting to see Hollywood Undead and Chelsea Grin in the same video but here we are
Your hard work is completely stunning for all of us. Keep it up and reach even bigger goals!
Incredibly clean playing. Great job
what an amazing cover of all these riffs. Love your work man :)
Thank you!
Man, I love how you include bands that people normally wouldnt think of including. Psycroptic rules!
Two things.
1. No "Them Bones" in the drop C# section.
2. You were obligated to replace the snare in "Frantic" with a sample of a trash can lid.
Otherwise really likes this. I don't know how the hell you memorized all those riffs. It's almost like a 36 minute long song the way you tied it all together. Great work!
I'am waiting for this 😎
Great job Nik! I was very pleased to hear Shades of Black! Man I hope he actually sticks with us on RUclips this time lol
Would love to do a vid with him!
drop d
lowest string is audible
nic: what is this child’s play
Yes
Man! This is because of hard work! Your are the best among the besties!!
I’m not even a fan of metal but I watched the whole thing because damn that was solid stuff.
Keep up the great work!
Aha thank you!
Fuking love that you had sime Keith Merrow in there. Soooo good 👍👍👍
WINDS OF PLAGUE!! awesome job again man! wow!
Alright let’s watch this video.
* 36 minutes later *.
Omg My headbanging improved. I mean I lost 420 brain cells but whatever :D
Eyyy!
this was great. alot of my favorite bands and songs in this one
My own summer is probably my favorite riff to play, it's so much fun
I was kinda expecting the thing not should be but nonetheless an amazing list. It must have taken so much work to put it together
HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT GUITAR 😂 also, when can we see a full album from Termina??
yes, I think so
It's in the works