I love how as time goes on the guitars get more rustic. Pretty soon you’re gonna see a band using straight tree slabs with strings on it and you’ll know it’s gonna be the heaviest shit ever
Holy fuck that's a brilliant fucking idea. Have to go for some heavy wood too. Big old slab of some ironwood, 8 or 9 strings (12 to 92 or something right?), and some bare machine screws bolted into the slab for tuners. Magnets nailed to the body with wires directly soldered to them. No fancy shmancy 'pickups' and shit. We're going for RAW and HEAVY. Vildhjarta, Humanity's Last Breath, and Black Tongue shall weep. I want to make this.
the truth is that instead of Cuntcrusher I would have played Crucifilth or The Battle of Yaldaboath (the two first minutes of this one are part of the densest and heaviest things I've ever heard)
I just had to put a dislike, because half of core included has nothing to do with Metal, though I agree that it is a progression towards "extreme". Still I love the way he plays, especially the backing track is better than that of many famous guitar covering YouTubbers. Kudos for nailing it "it is impossible to linearize metal"! Rock on
@@charizardmaster13 Simplicity is key, yes it is very basic but you have to consider how heavy it sounded in 1970 lol. If you want something heavier and faster from Sabbath I recommend Symptom Of The Universe (1975). Still heavy as fuck even by todays standards, I consider it the first metal song to have elements of what would become thrash
@@youreatoilet its not about simplicity. Its about it sounding amateur and badly written but some people arent ready to have thaf conversation because they suck off any old music just because it came out first
And ofcourse, the Heaviest song Holy diver in the end. Only one song is below and more heavy. The definition of a Black hole in the metal universe.. *S M O K E O N T H E W A T E R*
@@Murf_Workshop It is told that the tuning on SOTW is so low you can't hear the fundamental notes of the guitar. What you actually hear in the track are just the upper harmonics.
Thank you for reminding me that Wait and Bleed was '99. I was fine knowing that I was listening to Slayer, Metallica, etc. as a kid. Or even my dad's Black Sabbath records when I was still single digits, but remembering that Slipknot (which still feels fairly recent) was actually 23 years ago, just makes me feel old. lol. Hard to believe that album came out a year after I became a dad.
I love that you named that section “your friends won’t listen to this” because I actually turned one of my friends from being a Greenday fan boy to a deathcore snob lmao.
Including Archspire and putting Vildhjarta on the very end is actually genuis. But I missed the moment (right before THALL) when you turn your guitar to a left-hand guitar and attempt a HUMANITY'S LAST BREATH song :D ' great video! subbed!!!
I mentally asked "What about Meshuggah?" when I got to the ' very Swedish' and shortly after said "oh I see why." Such a great video; I can tell you have a lot of passion for metal! Great addition at the end, I laughed and headbanged lmao
I love how when we hit None More Heavy you can see he finally breaks a sweat because the songs are genuinely difficult for even a highly skilled guitarist to play.
I genuinely laughed out loud that "Very Swedish" was the upper limit for what your closest friends would allow you to play in the car. It's so true, unless you sneak in some djent with a nice groove.
@@ThomasHogue I see your brutal job and you are in the same Stiles like Dean and Tobi they are a perfect duo Jared Oli and Spencer in the kitchen make the nuclear blasts.
i’ve got nothing against any of these bands or modern metal as a whole, but a model t being pushed by a gnarly fuzz is more heavy than most of these combined
You want heavy + melody? Check out melodic death metal or metal core. I've been listening to a lot of bleed from within lately. I like everything in their uprising album and earlier because of how groovy it was
Crazy, I remember listening to all these songs back in the day. But also listened to a lot of Meshuggah. Then Djent started to creep in the scene around 2010-2015 with bands like periphery for example that feed off the old Meshuggah style. It sounds like today rock/ metal is becoming more and more influenced by that rhythmically complex and deep heavy rythm. Makes for awesome sounds.
Wow, awesome skills man! The drum tracks in the 'None More Heavy' category gave me flashbacks from around 2010 when the Guitar Pro 4 crashed and everything went nuts at once :))
Never played an instrument Listen to 6 hours of metal minimum ( I’m your age) And I’m still finding bands to look into Metal is the only genre that hasn’t peeked🙏🏻🤌🏻🤘🏻
I love the choice of the songs, I definitely prefer the heavier side of metal, so the last 4 I was progressively going like "mmm, yeah this is my stuff". I love this video, it also shows my gradual apreciation of the heaviness in metal.
Djent should honestly be a bigger category. The influence it had on the heavier and more progressive bands of the 2010s and even now into the 2020s is huge. Great vid!
Thanks! Yeah until I made this I never thought about how quickly the extreme metal genres emerged in the 90s. Hammer Smashed Face only 2 years after Judas Priest's Painkiller
Man, the absolute effort and talent in this video is insane. Great editing and quality as well. Thanks for the wild journey of all these iconic tracks!
It's amazing, really. I spend a good portion of my time listening to as much new music as I can get my hands on (and I play clone hero a lot, with all the random stuff you get in there), and yet I've never heard of Vildhjarta. I looked it up immediately and am glad, this is good stuff.
Great video man... Another genre could have been technical death metal from 90's and 2000, like Necrophagist, Obscura, and also progressive metal like Dream theater and progressive death metal like The faceless, Born of Osiris...
Excellent technique. Tone, not so much. Worked great for clarity on the downtuned era of stuff but was painful to hear on things closer to standard tuning.
Amazing stuff mate, always blown away by your videos and some absolute bangers throughout. I wonder if you're in any kind of gnarly pain after playing some of these riffs but you look pretty relaxed! Maybe a few moments here and there being the exception. How long does it take for you to recover if you were to play some of the latter songs like Archspire for a few hours? Again, brilliant video I loved it 🤘
Thanks man, glad you are enjoying! Archspire, Cuntcrusher, and Demolisher were all pretty challenging ha. I notice a cumulative effect - after a few days in a row, it's definitely time to take some time off
man im sad Opeth/bloodbath weren't in the Swedish part Mikael is incredible :( and Vildhjarta or HLB for Djent, Buster is revolutionary for djent sick list though, a few i hadn't heard of from the 90s that sound amazing! WAIT THE THALL SECTION THOUGH!!
YES. I can't believe the heaviest riff at the end was from the band I wanted it to be from (no spoilers)! I was like "I guarantee he doesn't pick that band because these kinds of RUclipsrs never do" and you DID!!
with as many metal channels as i follow idk how it took so long for yours to pop up on my feed, but im glad i clicked on it. love your videos man, keep up the good work!
Wow dude AWESOME !! I'm so impressed by how many riffs you can play (and some are really difficult) ! Love how you achieved to transition between one riff to an other ! Great work thank you !!!
Hearing you plays these songs has changed my view on em so much tbh. Idk if its like the octave or what (instrumentally challenged here) can only scream. But these songs hit soo much harder by u man, rock on
yo trough that video i opened to myself a new archspire never listened to them cause of huge hype around that last release, but damn.. those riffs are really good as hell
To me, after 8:11, I wouldn't listen to it. I enjoy the ones before because they are still melodic, after 10:47 it's even worse honestly, you can barely hear anything, it's mostly just noise and that's it. Despite not enjoying that, I can still pretty much enjoy Mick Gordon's soundtrack because as I said previously, the melody is strong in those.
Because they went more extreme to appeal to a niche crowd that constantly wants faster, more brutal and more extreme. Metal has lost its mainstream appeal because of that. It's the heavy jazz nerds genre now.
I love new metal like Archspire, Veil of Maya, Lorna Shore, a lot of it hits really hard and the riffs are awesome and intense but they are too polished and overproduced, sterile, and repetitive these days. They lost a lot of the rich tones, expressiveness, roughness and basic musicality that makes old school metal still KING 🤘🏼
It's hard for me as a drummer to hear the drum machine/drummer you have playing for you. Every song sounds similar because nothing changes on the drums. I love your videos man! But that snare and bass needs to change for every song. No two drummers have drums that sound alike.
Modern metal bands don't care about drums. They just quantise everything and think that that's heavy. Fck that I don't give a shit if a drummer is slightly sloppy, if anything that makes it heavier. Like flo mounier's signature flo blasts on blasphemy made flesh and none so vile.
To be honest the 60s had some really good riffs. Examples can be: • Led Zeppelin ~ Communication Breakdown • Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Manic Depression • The Kinks ~ All Day And All Of The Night • Blue Cheer ~ Babylon • Iron Butterfly ~ Unconscious Power And the list goes on and on. And although the songs are not necessarily metal, they still are great riffs.
I love how as time goes on the guitars get more rustic. Pretty soon you’re gonna see a band using straight tree slabs with strings on it and you’ll know it’s gonna be the heaviest shit ever
Holy fuck that's a brilliant fucking idea. Have to go for some heavy wood too. Big old slab of some ironwood, 8 or 9 strings (12 to 92 or something right?), and some bare machine screws bolted into the slab for tuners. Magnets nailed to the body with wires directly soldered to them. No fancy shmancy 'pickups' and shit. We're going for RAW and HEAVY. Vildhjarta, Humanity's Last Breath, and Black Tongue shall weep.
I want to make this.
Igorrr has a guitar like that
As I lovingly glance at my ltd b206sm. Thing is furniture.
Or just a piece of railroad track, Les Paul style.
The forearm veins are a true representation of how metal a song is, great work!
Pretty much what i thought, thanks xD
Feel the burn🤣😅😆😛
@M83 Collective Knuckle Strummer
True true
You can really hear the influence that Black Sabbath left on Infant Annihilator
Could've swore I heard the smallest hint of Nickelback in there as well.
I swore there was a pubic hair of ColdPlay sprinkled in there too
the truth is that instead of Cuntcrusher I would have played Crucifilth or The Battle of Yaldaboath (the two first minutes of this one are part of the densest and heaviest things I've ever heard)
@@ethancheyne2286 dare I say there's a smidgens of a young Justin Bieber in there as well 🤔
@@thats_not_glue perhaps a splash of Taylor swift as well?🤔
I think early metal had melody in them. As metal became progressed, it became more percussive and rythmic
Transition from The Trooper to Master of Puppets was somehow super obvious and super unexpected at the same time. Nicely done.
That transition was perfect
i think most of my music falls into " your friends wont listen to this" and ive never heard a better explanation for it in my life
Holy shit, what a killer video. This must have taken so long. 💕
Waaay too long 🤣
Putting in that work. Well done 🤘
As someone who's mildly obssessed about the new Vildhjarta album, that last category made me smile.
That last and Metal to Core are the badasses heavy shit bro
mah dude
T H A L L
It's true that they needed their own tier. Vildhjarta is next-level
Ikr djent bit passed and i was like "where's Vild/HLB?!". big smile at the end there
It's difficult to linearize metal, because it evolves in multiple branches simultaneously. But you did great.
Yeah no other genre has so many" sub genres " !
Agreed. Also important to note that metal can play anything. But not anything can play metal.
Just like Science
@@jesuscondom15 exactly
I just had to put a dislike, because half of core included has nothing to do with Metal, though I agree that it is a progression towards "extreme". Still I love the way he plays, especially the backing track is better than that of many famous guitar covering YouTubbers. Kudos for nailing it "it is impossible to linearize metal"! Rock on
Dude this was sick. Those Vildhjarta riffs are so nasty
NOOOUSTY
When I introduce my friends to Vildhjarta they mostly say it sounds like ultrasound to them :D
@@AtomWeed They're wrong ultrasound is above 20k and infrasound is the low one
Crazy how that first Black Sabbath riff holds up better then some of the later ones. Timeless.
Because they still had a song. Not just a wall of sound and endless sweeps
i do think because there were not a lot of metal bands out there making a metal song these days is a lot harder to get recognition
Lol no honestly that riff sounds like something a local band would play these days
@@charizardmaster13 Simplicity is key, yes it is very basic but you have to consider how heavy it sounded in 1970 lol. If you want something heavier and faster from Sabbath I recommend Symptom Of The Universe (1975). Still heavy as fuck even by todays standards, I consider it the first metal song to have elements of what would become thrash
@@youreatoilet its not about simplicity. Its about it sounding amateur and badly written but some people arent ready to have thaf conversation because they suck off any old music just because it came out first
And ofcourse, the Heaviest song Holy diver in the end. Only one song is below and more heavy. The definition of a Black hole in the metal universe..
*S M O K E O N T H E W A T E R*
Legends speak of this bell bottom djent, but never did I imagine the myths were so true!!!
@@Murf_Workshop It is told that the tuning on SOTW is so low you can't hear the fundamental notes of the guitar. What you actually hear in the track are just the upper harmonics.
Thank you for reminding me that Wait and Bleed was '99. I was fine knowing that I was listening to Slayer, Metallica, etc. as a kid. Or even my dad's Black Sabbath records when I was still single digits, but remembering that Slipknot (which still feels fairly recent) was actually 23 years ago, just makes me feel old. lol. Hard to believe that album came out a year after I became a dad.
I love that you named that section “your friends won’t listen to this” because I actually turned one of my friends from being a Greenday fan boy to a deathcore snob lmao.
The transition between The Trooper and Master of Puppets was smooth asf
It is very obvious that you put a lot of time into this! I specifically really enjoyed the audio mixing. Thank you for a great video
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
These new Lorna Shore songs are absolutely insane brother! Can’t wait for more. Also kinda sad there was no Signs of the Swarm. ☹️
Hell yeah! Haha, honestly the hardest part of this video was picking the songs, so many to choose from
Glad to see people loving Connors Influence
Including Archspire and putting Vildhjarta on the very end is actually genuis. But I missed the moment (right before THALL) when you turn your guitar to a left-hand guitar and attempt a HUMANITY'S LAST BREATH song :D
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great video! subbed!!!
I enjoyed the hell out of that, thanks. And I was 13 when Sabbath changed the world.
Your tone on Ace of Spades is just purr beauty. Actually on all songs, but that one stood out.
I mentally asked "What about Meshuggah?" when I got to the ' very Swedish' and shortly after said "oh I see why." Such a great video; I can tell you have a lot of passion for metal! Great addition at the end, I laughed and headbanged lmao
I love how when we hit None More Heavy you can see he finally breaks a sweat because the songs are genuinely difficult for even a highly skilled guitarist to play.
I genuinely laughed out loud that "Very Swedish" was the upper limit for what your closest friends would allow you to play in the car. It's so true, unless you sneak in some djent with a nice groove.
Holy hell Archspire top of the Everest, the canadian boys are so brutal, please do more covers from Archspire.
The first time I heard drone corpse aviator I knew death metal had evolved 🤯. I’ve got another archspire feature in my death metal then vs. now video
@@ThomasHogue I see your brutal job and you are in the same Stiles like Dean and Tobi they are a perfect duo Jared Oli and Spencer in the kitchen make the nuclear blasts.
My first thought when I saw this video, Archspire must be at the top 😀
Don't forget kids, stay tech.
At the beginning of the Slaughter to Prevail part I was like, "Is this Solefald with the random folk dancy tune?".
Awesome work, man!
Kind sir casually playing infant annihilator and archspire is illegal.
thank you for including behemoth. they have a wonderful evolution as a band on their own too
Agreed. My favourite record of theirs is Evangelion
I like how in the olde days one did not have to chose between heavy and melodic. Also: Is 800 notes per minute 'none more heavy' or is it Crowbar?
My pfp is a Shadow of Intent album. Check em out.
@@Tonjit41 good one too
i’ve got nothing against any of these bands or modern metal as a whole, but a model t being pushed by a gnarly fuzz is more heavy than most of these combined
@@Tonjit41 kick ass band, love me some metal and some halo 😂
You want heavy + melody? Check out melodic death metal or metal core. I've been listening to a lot of bleed from within lately. I like everything in their uprising album and earlier because of how groovy it was
ironically enough hammer smashed face is probably one of the few songs your friends WILL listen to...
Crazy, I remember listening to all these songs back in the day. But also listened to a lot of Meshuggah. Then Djent started to creep in the scene around 2010-2015 with bands like periphery for example that feed off the old Meshuggah style. It sounds like today rock/ metal is becoming more and more influenced by that rhythmically complex and deep heavy rythm. Makes for awesome sounds.
Oh dude the vildhjarta hit me right in the sweet spot. Thank you for that ❤
I am so listening to this on loop! I am between Gateway to Metal and Very Metal! :-D
That's what I like to hear 😁
The transition from Blackest ov the Black to Hammer Smashed Face omg brilliant
Wow, awesome skills man! The drum tracks in the 'None More Heavy' category gave me flashbacks from around 2010 when the Guitar Pro 4 crashed and everything went nuts at once :))
Never played an instrument
Listen to 6 hours of metal minimum
( I’m your age)
And I’m still finding bands to look into
Metal is the only genre that hasn’t peeked🙏🏻🤌🏻🤘🏻
What a well done piece. This would be great for someone wanting to learn more about metal guitar styles for sure!
Nicely curated, you got me with the archspire and vildjharta, 2 of my literal favorites. I reckon tech death + thall is the future of metal
I love the choice of the songs, I definitely prefer the heavier side of metal, so the last 4 I was progressively going like "mmm, yeah this is my stuff".
I love this video, it also shows my gradual apreciation of the heaviness in metal.
That transition from the trooper to master of puppets was flawless 👍
I think I could make an argument that normal people would be more willing to listen to Cannibal Corpse, especially HSF, than old Behemoth.
Props for using one of Meshuggah's lesser known songs.
Magnificent. My favorite genre was your friends won't listen to this. Subbed.
Same dude.
You’re my guitar hero!
Edit: Thank you for Drone Corpse Aviator… I am an Archspire addict and desperately needed a fix
Djent should honestly be a bigger category. The influence it had on the heavier and more progressive bands of the 2010s and even now into the 2020s is huge. Great vid!
I have to say this video did make me spend a lot more time on EBay than usual
Amazing content man! Damn there was heavy stuff coming out in the nineties , great video
Thanks! Yeah until I made this I never thought about how quickly the extreme metal genres emerged in the 90s. Hammer Smashed Face only 2 years after Judas Priest's Painkiller
@@ThomasHogue Reign in Blood was only 3 years after Piece of Mind and Scream Bloody Gore was only 1 year after Reign in Blood, lol
In my opinion Death really set the bar and got tech death rolling.
@@ThomasHogue you should check out Atheists, Piece of Time. Crazy technical and in ‘89 no less.
This video definitely got my sub! Thanks for sharing this wonderful ride through evolution and history! Hella great playing too!! 😀
Thank you!
Nice! most of these kind of videos always show metal until the 2000's ending with Djent, that's ignoring the last 15-20 years of sound development.
I loved all these categories. My fav is your friends won't listen to this.
10:46 dis one is 🔥
Dude, the way you format your videos are insane. This is so good, "your friends won't listen to this"🤣 it's so true
Man, the absolute effort and talent in this video is insane. Great editing and quality as well. Thanks for the wild journey of all these iconic tracks!
Glad you liked it!
It's amazing, really. I spend a good portion of my time listening to as much new music as I can get my hands on (and I play clone hero a lot, with all the random stuff you get in there), and yet I've never heard of Vildhjarta. I looked it up immediately and am glad, this is good stuff.
Nice! They are one of the bands that when I first heard, I thought... wow, this is really something new and different.
@@ThomasHogue You should check out Obscura by Gorguts or Triptych by Dischordia. mindblowing
Great video man... Another genre could have been technical death metal from 90's and 2000, like Necrophagist, Obscura, and also progressive metal like Dream theater and progressive death metal like The faceless, Born of Osiris...
Meshuggah is so unique among all these bands, this is one of the reasons I love their songs…
"Your friends won't listen to this" has to be the most true statement I've ever read.
I hope Dean Lamb sees this
Props for including Angelclaw. That's my favorite Arch Enemy song and one of their like only 3 good albums. BB, Stigmata, and Wages of Sin.
I still don't understand why you have so few subscribers... The videos are just super!
I was so relaxed that I almost fell asleep but then the copyright went in... I've never been more confused
yeah from classic rock to absoloutly fucking nightmare music !
The transition from the trooper to master was 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
N.I.B rockea tan duro como cualquier riff moderno
Had a feeling feeling Vildhjarta would be last. That ending in toxin is the heaviest shit I’ve ever heard
*I love some Sabbath!!!!!! Right from the start, I was let hooked! 😈 Love the video and Infant Annhilator…. sick!*
The band that started it all!
Thanks man awesomeeeeeeee love ur channel
wait till metal heads find out about noisecore
something for everyone to like...thats metal :) Thanks for the great vid!
Excellent technique. Tone, not so much. Worked great for clarity on the downtuned era of stuff but was painful to hear on things closer to standard tuning.
Absolutely awesome video dude! 🥷
Amazing stuff mate, always blown away by your videos and some absolute bangers throughout.
I wonder if you're in any kind of gnarly pain after playing some of these riffs but you look pretty relaxed! Maybe a few moments here and there being the exception. How long does it take for you to recover if you were to play some of the latter songs like Archspire for a few hours? Again, brilliant video I loved it 🤘
Thanks man, glad you are enjoying! Archspire, Cuntcrusher, and Demolisher were all pretty challenging ha. I notice a cumulative effect - after a few days in a row, it's definitely time to take some time off
Esto es brutal bro💪 aguante el Metal🎸
Had to revisit this, to thank you for completely putting me onto monuments, and helping me vastly expand my music taste
Very awesome to hear, glad you enjoyed!
Keep up the good playing as well.
Great job Thomas! Generally, the progress bar shows gradual guitar displacement by drums as a main instrument.
That shit on demolisher killed me🤣
man im sad Opeth/bloodbath weren't in the Swedish part Mikael is incredible :(
and Vildhjarta or HLB for Djent, Buster is revolutionary for djent
sick list though, a few i hadn't heard of from the 90s that sound amazing!
WAIT THE THALL SECTION THOUGH!!
GHOOOST OOOF, PERDITIOOOONNN 🤙🤘
You forgot Nickelback!
Yes I'm just kidding
Daaaaammnnn you included fucking suffocation man, that albums is full of incredible riffs
i almost said wheres the vildhjarta and you hit me at the end niiiice
Cool video and great playing but, I think Dime plays CFH a little different than the way you played.
Perhaps, I did see a lot of tabs staying in the open position but I found that less natural :)
YES. I can't believe the heaviest riff at the end was from the band I wanted it to be from (no spoilers)! I was like "I guarantee he doesn't pick that band because these kinds of RUclipsrs never do" and you DID!!
hit me right in the feels with wait and bleed. 7th grade me approves. as does 34 year old me.
Really awesome!
with as many metal channels as i follow idk how it took so long for yours to pop up on my feed, but im glad i clicked on it. love your videos man, keep up the good work!
Great to hear, thank you!
Meshuggah : exists
The entire metal scene: dunnna Dunna Dunna Dunna Dunna, bleed.
Wow dude AWESOME !! I'm so impressed by how many riffs you can play (and some are really difficult) ! Love how you achieved to transition between one riff to an other ! Great work thank you !!!
Great metal music riffs history lesson! Thanks
Amazing, dude! You're very talented.
Hearing you plays these songs has changed my view on em so much tbh. Idk if its like the octave or what (instrumentally challenged here) can only scream. But these songs hit soo much harder by u man, rock on
Gotta love the fret wrap in standard tuning, Happy New Year. 🎉🎇😂🤘
Happy new year!!
yo trough that video i opened to myself a new archspire
never listened to them cause of huge hype around that last release, but damn.. those riffs are really good as hell
To me, after 8:11, I wouldn't listen to it. I enjoy the ones before because they are still melodic, after 10:47 it's even worse honestly, you can barely hear anything, it's mostly just noise and that's it.
Despite not enjoying that, I can still pretty much enjoy Mick Gordon's soundtrack because as I said previously, the melody is strong in those.
Because they went more extreme to appeal to a niche crowd that constantly wants faster, more brutal and more extreme. Metal has lost its mainstream appeal because of that. It's the heavy jazz nerds genre now.
Agree with every word you said
I love new metal like Archspire, Veil of Maya, Lorna Shore, a lot of it hits really hard and the riffs are awesome and intense but they are too polished and overproduced, sterile, and repetitive these days. They lost a lot of the rich tones, expressiveness, roughness and basic musicality that makes old school metal still KING 🤘🏼
Great riff evolution demonstration! Thanks!
It's hard for me as a drummer to hear the drum machine/drummer you have playing for you. Every song sounds similar because nothing changes on the drums. I love your videos man! But that snare and bass needs to change for every song. No two drummers have drums that sound alike.
Guitar video.
@@Tonjit41 fair point, can't argue with that.
Modern metal bands don't care about drums. They just quantise everything and think that that's heavy. Fck that I don't give a shit if a drummer is slightly sloppy, if anything that makes it heavier. Like flo mounier's signature flo blasts on blasphemy made flesh and none so vile.
Starting off with Archspire! YEEEEESSSSSSS
To be honest the 60s had some really good riffs. Examples can be:
• Led Zeppelin ~ Communication Breakdown
• Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Manic Depression
• The Kinks ~ All Day And All Of The Night
• Blue Cheer ~ Babylon
• Iron Butterfly ~ Unconscious Power
And the list goes on and on. And although the songs are not necessarily metal, they still are great riffs.
Pretty great list!
To many players mistake speed for heaviness,no hook no feel.