Top 5 HEAVIEST Guitar Riffs
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Think about this for a minute....what makes music HEAVY? Tone quality, dissonance, attitude, lyrics....Britany Spears? But seriously, I’m fascinated by what we mean when we say something’s “heavy.” Let me know what you think makes something "heavy" below. Now get ready, because I'm about to countdown the top 5 HEAVIEST guitar riffs of all time!
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Dude honestly. The trooper is great but heavy it is not. Holy wars isn't really that heavy either. Heavy stuff are some of black sabbath's vol 4 riffs, chug fests like walk from pantera, the thing that should not be etc. What the fuck are you doing putting galloping riffs down as heavy? Orion is great, I love it but compare it to sad but true. The one makes you grind your teeth heavy and makes you want to kick something the other (orion) pretty much makes you wander how did they think of it, it is cool, articulate, even beautiful. But super heavy it is not.
Let's go way back in the day. Check out Witch Hunt by Piledriver. One of my all time faves from the early 80s
The breakdown riff to the conjuring from megadeth is one the heaviest for sure! 🤘💀🤘
Yes indeed
I feel like people always gloss over last rites when discussing megadeths best riffs, maybe it's just an unpopular opinion but both the main riff and breakdown for last rites are some of the best in all of megadeths discography.
I agreee@@mustinmaersx1199
I don't think it's particularly heavy riff wise (compared to other 80's thrash) but it's awesome for damn sure. I love the Peace Sells album, and the first album doesn't get enough recognition.
@@mustinmaersx1199 that's actually my favorite megadeth song. Killing is my business might be my favorite album too.
Walk by Pantera. Cool thanks for sharing.
Are you talking to me?
It’s heavily inspired by Metallica’s don’t tread on me.
Leper Messiah has to be up there
5. Sad but true
4. Quinntessence
3. Where the slime live
2. Hammer smashed breakdown
1. Scourge of iron verse
Quintessence is the song that got me hooked Darkthrone. Its now going to be stuck in my head.
Solitude from Candlemass has the haviest riff for me
agree
Well of souls🤘
Damn right
I feel like slower riffs with a chunkier, meatier guitar tone are the heaviest. For example I *personally* wouldn't consider Holy Wars to be that heavy. More aggressive than heavy. On the flip side I would consider something like A New Level by Pantera to be SUPER heavy as it's a slower riff with a much more meaty tone
I agree. I'd put the opening riff for Metallica's "No Remorse" on there, too.
I disagree, I rarely feel like slow and low feels heavy. But there's so many types of metal there's stuff for everyone
Good Mourning/Black Friday (second half) Megadeth
Mastodon's Hearts Alive outro from Leviathan album is crushingly heavy. It's everything - the energy, rhythm and melody all coming together to melt your face.
Love the choices and breakdowns. People confuse heavy with hard, there is a difference. I mean Slayer Angel of Death or Reigning Blood.
Grave - Extremely Rotten Flesh
Entombed - Bitter Loss and Chaos Breed
Dismember - Override the Overture
Hypocrisy -Apocalypse
Gorguts -the entire Considered Dead album
i dont know any of these but just reading the names i totally agree
Obituary - My Will To Live; caution, may crush your will to live with heaviness
The Cause of Death album is my fave from them
I find the most interesting part to all of this to be how one gauges what is "heavy". While I like all the songs on this list, i dont consider any of them to be anywhere close to the heaviest metal riff. When I think of heaviest metal riff my brain goes to stuff like metallicas "the thing that should not be" or "sad but true" or "now we die" by machinehead or "domination" by pantera, or maybe "feed the gods" by white zombie...I could go on and on. Point being its very interesting because there is no one solid definition for "heavy" in the metal music context
Best part about your list is that they're all also just in E standard
Excellent choices!
Rain In Blood - Slayer, the "Hall of the Mountain King" type riff, intro and breakdown
I can't believe I haven't seen someone mention this one yet
Fight Fire with Fire
Slayer - angel of death
The first part of a song where I realized what "heavy" is was the first breakdown of Lorna Shores Welcome Back O sleeping dreamer. It felt like an anvil fell down on me and crushes me into the earth. In my opinion it is the production/tone that makes something heavy.
1:30 😂 Dave impression was hilarious
Another one from Master of puppets... disposable heroes 🤘🤘🤘
Shred where have you been my man?! Glad to see you in my feed again. #5 is Holy Wars?? - Wholly 💩, can’t wait for the rest.
Slayer - Angel Of Death everything about that song is heaviest ever..
Anthrax's Caught In A Mosh riffs during the verse and pre-chorus are fucking HEAVY! Anthrax doesn't get enough love in the metal scene, despite being one of the "Big Four" of thrash.
Probably because they peaked with their first album. Spreading the disease and among the living is good too, but fell off after.
@@Lordoftheswollen I agree that they didn't have the staying power of the other big thrash bands.
I think that's heavily due to lineup changes in the band over the years. Sure 'Deth has been through a bunch, but Dave Mustaine was always the driving force of that band. Anthrax has their own Wikipedia page for "list of members of the band," so you know they've been through a lot!
Consistency to important in a band's lifetime success. Those who have done otherwise are far more the exception than the rule.
For me, Heavy comes to slow breakdowns that just make you do that stank face like the breakdown from Domination or the chuggs from To live is to die
LOVE your list and no arguments here...HOWEVER, would LOVE to hear your take on "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" by VH...not a metal band I know, BUT a very metal riff...it really jacks me up
found your short on this riff!!! NICE
March of the SOD !!
Lol excellent choices! I've always really liked Orion since I was a kid. 🤘
I play that riff every day!
Can you talk about theory of some Danzig songs on the channel sometime? I think his compositions from his first 3 albums are just killer that and from the album circle of snakes
The breakdown in Angel of Death by Slayer
Savatage Hall of the Mountain King is pretty heavy.
Zakk Wylde- No More Tears
Sad But True should definitely be up there
The intro of Transcendence by Sylosis is superb and heavy af
1. Pantera domınatıon
I just found out, it´s the great Barry Thomson´s work in Anti-Tank (Dead Armour).
Your right Shred
The relationship of intervals mixed with tempo and variations therof. That creates the mood of heaviness. To me, the lower tuning comes afterwards.
The opening riff to Solitude Aeturnus' Falling.
Such a tough list, what songs do you leave behind?
Not in any particular order.
Metallica - Leper Messiah
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Ozzy - Perry Mason
Pantera - A New Level
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Honorable mentions:
Dimmu Borgir - Spellbound
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Chromatic scale and Phrygian can make you feel like death itself
I see lists where fast riffs are considered heavy. To me heavy is slower and chuggier. Then you played Holy Wars and i was like, im a dummy.
For Whom the Bell Tolls has some Heavy guitars 🤘🤘🔔
Heaviest in the early 90s maybe. Still Badass!
The intro from Ride the lightning!
That Orion riff is always fun to play, especially with its seemingly off-timing.
I think “heavy” means a lot of different things for all of us, but I bet they’re all valid because it can be very objective. For example, Maiden. They’re my favorite band of all time. There’s plenty Maiden that is heavy, but if you put on any Unearth or As I Lay Dying album… THOSE are heavy. Why though? It’s because of the production and the emphasis on rhythm, grooves, ad just total maximum crunch. So in that sense, yes. From that standpoint, that shit is downright heavy. But then you there’s the argument of the riff… is the riff heavy? That’s where the line kinda blurs. Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura, Testament, Slayer, etc…. All of these guys bring it to the table with riffs that are just heavy. I don’t care how many times you’ve heard Enter Sandman. You can’t argue that riff isn’t heavy. I’m just rambling, but shit. This is a good topic of conversation. One that could go on forever and I love that.
I think timing is the most important aspect of heaviness. When the musicians play in unison and all synchronize into one powerful note a few times throughout a measure. That why songs like sad but true feel so heavy.
What makes it heavy?
Tritones
Tempo
Tone
Fitting attitude/phrasing is a must
Dimmu Borgir : opening riff to Architecture of a genocidal nature. What a insane heavy riff🤘🤘
Violent sleep of reason- meshuggah and Yamas messengers-gojira are some insanely heavy songs, but the starting riffs of both songs are super heavy
Please teach us the four types of cadence's. Thatd be something different then modes.
The Sword - Arrows in the Dark. Off the Warp Riders album.
I have listening "Holy Wars" many times in Uzbekistan.
Dude, no one can make a Peavy amp sound as good as Shredmaster Scott.
Territory by sepultura
Either the bridge in Children of the Grave or Under the Sun would be in my top spot
Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
I agree with those that think of heavy as thick, often sludgey and slow low end pounding:
Electric Wizard, Meshuggah, Sunn (although I don't consider them metal, it's definitely heavy), The Body, Thou, Knocked Loose, Bongripper, Acid King, Eagle Twin, etc. I could go on for some time listing bands/artists before I got to something like Megadeth or Judas Priest.*
*This is no way commentary on the quality of the above bands, merely how soul crushing and mercilessly brutal their riffage generally is when it is so graciously offered to our ears as well as The Dark Lord of Pandemonium's Headbanger Lounge and Washeteria
Dang! Didn’t see that #1 coming…
I'll just say the first time I heard Black Sabbaths "The Wizard" I knew that evil existed...lol. Sooo heavy.
High on Fire-Speedwolf
Floor-Ein
Pentagram-All Your Sins
Neurosis-Through Silver&Blood
Sleep-Dopesmoker (don't @me)
When I think of heavy, I primarily think of chunky distorted power chords. The Thing That Should Not Be is a great example, but there's countless examples of what I'm saying.
Oh and I forgot about double bass drums, when executed very well, and it's not "overdone".
The main riff in Holocaust by Savatage is a really heavy riff.
I find Spit Out The Bone by Metallica to be a super heavy one for sure! Jerry Was A Racecar Driver and Jambi are also extremely good examples with the fast distorted breakdowns.
Listen to the pause part in Evil that’s Within(Sin demo) that is heavy with sexy groove of Nick Menza. That lacks a lot in modern metal
SHRED HYPE
You should add Here to stay by Korn. That riff is nasty
Check out Sylosis - Awakening and Shadow of Intent - Intensified Genocide
The trooper is dope
When in doubt Locrian it out. Heaviness is life. Muahaha \m/
Sepultura’s Dead Embryonic Cells.
monolords empress rising is fucking simple, such is your original funeral doom track, what makes it heavy is the phrasing, the tone, the tempo, the rhythm. almost anything can be heavy. I think the songs I referred to mainly consist just of minor triads in a I-vi-I-II pattern or something, idk completely, would have to look up the tabs again. my hearing sucks, I usually can not identify notes or chords by listening.
Holy Balls
Think you are reaching for the heavy riff breakdown. Black Sabbath (pioneers of down-tuning on the highly influential Master of Reality album), Bad Brains (hardcore breakdowns), Slayer (Raining Blood), Suicidal Tendencies (even wrote the song: Go'n Breakdown) and then '90s bands like Life of Agony (progenitors of modern heavy riffing breakdowns) are all key to going very, very 'eavy in rock guitar.
If there is no Acid Bath on the list then You need to
1) Go back and read the Webster entry for heavy
2) Read step one in the manual for how to pick heavy riffs out of a lineup. If step one ain’t right you’re F’d in the A, right off the bat.
3) Reevaluate some of your life choices cause you Definitely went astray at some point, so go ahead and reboot back to your earliest major fuck up…and go listen to When The Kite String Pops cause I agree with Orion and Black Sabbath as they are deserved of the Honor(every heavy
Riff list has to include B.S. by B.S.)
3 slots left to fill and there are more than double that number of songs on WTKSP that are heavier than all the remaining spots and songs you put on your list.
If it ain’t SLUDGE
it ain’t HEAVY
…Albert Einstein
German dude who figured out some cool shit you can do with heavy isotopes.
Just about anything from Josh Middleton in Sylosis! 🤘
I know people wont agree but I think the heaviest song I have ever heard is Demiurge, by Meshuggah.
TBDM - Verminous
Meshuggah - Bleed
Mick Gordon BFG Division
Haken - Prosthetic
Mustach - Double Nature
😂😂😂❤ so goods man🤘🏻🤘🏻
Into the Void by Black Sabbath. #1 for me, just ahead of Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin, Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix, Smoke on the Water by Ritchie Blackmore and Mississippi Queen by Leslie West for me, without them, there is no heavy metal.
Green Manalishi...Peter green
Am I Evil ... Diamond Head
Hammer smashed face by cannibal corpse
I like all your choices. I'd replace Orion with Dyers Eve.
creeping death main riff
My favorite heavy shred song is: Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani. #2: the mariner by Iron Maiden. #3 I ain’t superstitious by megadeth
High on fire is heavy as f ….. all of it .
You forgot Domination...That breakdown at the end is heavier then a black hole
game changer!
The Weak Willed. All That Remains. HEAVY!
People don’t know about Demolition hammer - Orgy of destruction, and it shows
Znowwhite. Something Wicked this way Comes. F..king HEAVY.
Historically and by recording date, Led Zeppelin is the first Heavy Metal band. Doing a style analysis, here's why:
There is nothing more Metal, original and revolutionary than the sounds of the underworld straight from hell produced with a cello bow over an electric guitar in How Many More Times and Dazed and Confused..... Communication Breakdown is also metal... It is known that LZ influenced Black Sabbath with the dark sounds atmosphere ( and Paranoid riff is a blatant copy of the riff ending on Dazed and Confused ) and not necessarily Metal means fast and not necessarily the lyrics must be about demons and those antics....
The riff of How Many More Times is very Metal, from the beginning of the guitar invites you to Headbanging, and it should also be on this list because of its historical importance ; Immigrant Song is also Heavy Metal. (And the vocals on this and earlier songs were the hallmark of all 80's metal bands including Judas Priest.)
Their song Aquilles Last Stand was the map and formula by which all Iron Maiden's style was written. It was the pattern where this style was used:
The galloping bass, epic theme, warlike drumming, military rumbles (as the one used in One of Metálica subsequently)
and a precursor of speed Metal.
Knocked loose everything
Hands down the heaviest riff of all time is March of the SOD by Scott Ian.
I totally agree with your list
But in my opinion the heaviest of all time is black Sabbath song
Heaven and hell
Heavy in its primarly meaning ? I'd say :
Sad But True
5 Minutes Alone
I'm Broken
Territory
War Pigs
Blow Me Away You(niverse)
Vacuity
all the Kolosss album probably
And Badluck13's Homicidal is a good one too
Spirit Crusher
The Heaviest song ever written wasn't written by a Metal Band.
It was written by an English Hardcore Band called Discharge. The track is called 'The Final Bloodbath'.
Its fucking ferocious.
Warrant, Cherry Pie