The 20 Most Criminally UNDERRATED Riffs In METAL

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  • @BradleyHallGuitar
    @BradleyHallGuitar  Год назад +63

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    • @ОлегЛесков-у8о
      @ОлегЛесков-у8о Год назад +1

      "Hurt and Virtue" riff. Greetings from Russia

    • @eugenemonfourny6119
      @eugenemonfourny6119 Год назад +1

      Favorite underrated riffs : Mr Speed by KISS, My Goo Reputation by Hardcore Superstar, Evisceration Plague by Cannibal Corpse and Buick Makane by T.Rex

    • @littlefever
      @littlefever Год назад +1

      Count discount! A pretzel for you troubles 🥨 thanks!

    • @YoyoRene
      @YoyoRene Год назад

      thx for my favourite riff there is
      Sabaton's Rorkes drift much love from austria

    • @peehandshihtzu
      @peehandshihtzu Год назад

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  • @davutb7293
    @davutb7293 Год назад +331

    1:19 Haken/Ectobius Rex
    1:33 Megadeth/Poison Was The Cure
    1:45 Cradle of Filth/Better To Reign In Hell
    1:56 Summoning/Flight Of The Nazgul
    2:08 Burzum/EA,Lord Of The Depths
    2:21 Symphony Of X/Iconoclast
    2:38 Sabaton/Roke’s Drift
    2:53 Periperhy/Blood Eagle
    3:08 Trivium/Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
    3:24 Avenged Sevenfold/Eternal Rest
    3:40 Porcipine Tree/Anesthetize
    3:58 Dream Theater/The Dark Eternal Night
    4:16 Sylosis/Teras
    4:35 Children Of Bodom/Red Lights In My Eyes,part 1
    4:44 CKY/96 Quite Bitter Beings
    4:54 Mastodon/Seabeast
    5:17 Emperor/Curse You All Men!
    5:32 Opeth/Serenity Painted Death
    5:47 Necrophagist/Fermented Offal Discharge

    • @subzero352
      @subzero352 Год назад +6

      Two of this list is against Ukraine - Burzum and Sabaton

    • @GGGriggs
      @GGGriggs Год назад +1

      ​@@subzero352I don't know about Varg, but Sabaton???

    • @RadicalRocker
      @RadicalRocker Год назад +6

      Not all heroes where capes

    • @germantorre1422
      @germantorre1422 Год назад +11

      ​@@subzero352And? Turn off the tv.

    • @B-Bigbawz
      @B-Bigbawz Год назад +11

      ​@@subzero352don't care

  • @StonedJesus
    @StonedJesus Год назад +5

    My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun
    Witch - Seer
    Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
    Alice In Chains - Phantom Limb and A Looking In View
    Audioslave - Moth

  • @danpop2405
    @danpop2405 Год назад +384

    The Porcupine Tree and Haken riffs are just perfect

    • @BradleyHallGuitar
      @BradleyHallGuitar  Год назад +32

      AYEEEE

    • @45scienceproject
      @45scienceproject Год назад +31

      Fuck yes on the proggy shit. Especially Porcupine Tree.

    • @bonki3549
      @bonki3549 Год назад +3

      @@45scienceprojectlove them to bits

    • @FACEL1FT
      @FACEL1FT Год назад +12

      @@45scienceprojectFinally PT is getting their well deserved respect

    • @alexg4751
      @alexg4751 Год назад +12

      Fuck I'm glad Bradley started off with that Haken riff. That riff was so beautiful, it just dragged me into actively listening to the rest of the video 😅

  • @Germs19
    @Germs19 Год назад +62

    Massive respect for playing Summoning and Porcupine Tree.

  • @meepacheep7186
    @meepacheep7186 Год назад +194

    that opening to dark eternal night is one of my favourite riffs ever, its constantly stuck in my head, same with red light in my eyes part 1 that whole first COB album is underrated as hell

    • @glenmore1122
      @glenmore1122 Год назад +1

      I agree!!

    • @Khron0s
      @Khron0s Год назад +5

      The dark eternal night's riff is just too groovy

    • @realtoken
      @realtoken Год назад

      Agree bro

    • @TheRedQueeenn
      @TheRedQueeenn Год назад

      Deadnight Warrior was the first Bodom song i ever heard, I was about 15 and been a fan since, they helped get me into metal along with Pantera but I think I listened to Bodom first. Rest in peace Alexi

  • @derekgerber-margie7128
    @derekgerber-margie7128 Год назад +76

    Can't tell you how happy I am that you included Dark Eternal Night. I feel like that song gets overlooked by a lot of folks.

    • @DOSStorm
      @DOSStorm Год назад +7

      I feel like many of the good DT albums get panned by many of their fans. Systematic Chaos, Train of Thought and Dark Clouds and Silver Linings are fantastic

    • @iau
      @iau Год назад +6

      DT's only sin was being _too good_ in the 90s. If any other band had written their later music they would be consider godlike.

    • @potatotaxi
      @potatotaxi Год назад

      ​@@DOSStorm train of thought is a top 3 dt album idk what you mean

  • @donaldschell3777
    @donaldschell3777 Год назад +76

    Appreciate the Megadeth shoutout! Another one of theirs that I think is horrifically underrated you've also played recently. The outro section of Rust In Peace...Polaris is absolutely killer. Props on that whole album btw, you shredded that

    • @sheriffdemoscu
      @sheriffdemoscu Год назад +1

      All the riffs from the Youthanasia are CRIMINALLY underrated

    • @Xei_Men
      @Xei_Men Год назад +1

      ​@@sheriffdemoscuподдерживаю. Youthanasia один из недооцененных альбомов в принципе

    • @kevgmei
      @kevgmei Год назад

      I always get excited when that riff comes!

  • @tonykuriger573
    @tonykuriger573 Год назад +79

    Not only is the Haken riff criminally underrated, Haken is surely the most criminally underrated band in progressive metal. Every album is a masterpiece.

    • @partthethird
      @partthethird Год назад +7

      and Virus links all their previous albums together in so many subtle ways. Just awesome

    • @IljaLammeretz
      @IljaLammeretz Год назад +9

      Sure Haken is underrated, but I do not think the most underrated in the progressive metal scene. They are one of the most popular bands in the scene.

    • @igornaimoli7321
      @igornaimoli7321 Год назад +2

      Nah, the most underrated band in prog metal is Wilderun by far

  • @BradleyHallGuitar
    @BradleyHallGuitar  Год назад +138

    What do you guys think of my picks? What would YOU have included??

    • @SlipknotFan_515
      @SlipknotFan_515 Год назад +11

      Tornado Of Souls, Megadeth

    • @MHoM.
      @MHoM. Год назад +22

      0-3-5

    • @danpop2405
      @danpop2405 Год назад +6

      The main riff from Haken - Messiah Complex V: Ecotbius Rex
      Edit: wrote this before the video started, Holy shit Im so happy to see Haken on this channel

    • @arleyburke
      @arleyburke Год назад +7

      I'd add beast and the harlot by a7x no-one really talks about it

    • @eddiethehead4791
      @eddiethehead4791 Год назад +6

      Iron Maiden- Powerslave...

  • @dragonicblaziken7
    @dragonicblaziken7 Год назад +68

    Alexi wrote so many amazing riffs throughout the Bodom discography, and Red Light Is definitely a great pick. If I'm thinking great deep cut riffs for them, even though the first 3 albums are usually my go-tos, one of the first that comes to mind is Hold Your Tongue from I Worship Chaos.

    • @45scienceproject
      @45scienceproject Год назад +4

      Stellar track! The title track was also amazing (from I Worship Chaos I mean).
      RIP Alexi. Glad I got to meet you and see you perform a few times before you left us buddy.

    • @veiddimaddur8354
      @veiddimaddur8354 Год назад +6

      Lake bodom is another great pick from something wild

    • @dragonicblaziken7
      @dragonicblaziken7 Год назад +1

      Indeed, it is

    • @micheldebois
      @micheldebois Год назад +3

      I love COB but this is Bach Invention 13 in A minor BWV784. RIP Alexi you had the best musical influences.

    • @cdfox85
      @cdfox85 Год назад +1

      ​@@micheldeboisAlexi seamlessly incorporated a lot of Bach and Mozart and other classic stuff into his own riffs. He was a brilliant composer in his own right.

  • @carrasco921
    @carrasco921 Год назад +6

    Frayed ends of sanity riff before solo in Metallica
    That’s riff rips through my ears and is an eargasm

  • @Jaymzzz1349
    @Jaymzzz1349 Год назад +2

    Waking The Fallen has some incredible riffs. the entire album is a chefs kiss

  • @OTTOAUDIO
    @OTTOAUDIO Год назад +43

    Thanks Bradley for using my heavy fella, the II II II II on this list & for partnering up 🔥🔥🔥 To those watching, I say one thing: demo it in your room free 14 days. It will hit you like nothing else 😎

  • @BeemanFunnyman
    @BeemanFunnyman Год назад +3

    The main riff in sabaton's "Ett slag färgat rött" or in english "killing ground"
    it's both very powermetal-y and ironmaiden nwobhm style gallop thing
    either way, great (concept) album about swedish kings

  • @Iser1999
    @Iser1999 Год назад +36

    tbh opeth in general are outstanding at making riffs. I was also fascinated at how they use all sorts of weird chords instead of powerchords. and they also have an interesting way of making leads and harmonies. really good stuff. for bodom I love all their catalogue despite the fact that some people say the last ones were kinda eh. I love Alexi's riffage and soloing. RIP Legend.

    • @IllustriousCrocoduck
      @IllustriousCrocoduck Год назад +2

      Opeth may not be my absolute favorite band, but if I could only listen to one band for the rest of my life, it would be them. They don't get old.
      Ironically, I like the middle-later albums more than the early ones.

    • @ihsan_lol
      @ihsan_lol Год назад

      @@IllustriousCrocoduckdo you have any recommendations of their later stuff, stuff after Ghost Reveries?

    • @IllustriousCrocoduck
      @IllustriousCrocoduck Год назад

      @@ihsan_lol I don't dislike any if them but Pale Communion and Sorceress for sure. "Cusp of Eternity" on the former is the song that made me love them.

    • @jglobal9075
      @jglobal9075 Год назад

      I love all of Opeth's discography but I think Still Life - Ghost Reveries was definitely their peak, especially creatively. That being said, Watershed, Pale Communion, In Cauda Venenum are my favorite later Opeth albums (in that order). @@ihsan_lol

  • @onetakehoovie5955
    @onetakehoovie5955 Год назад +43

    Teras by Sylosis has been my main warm riff for about 10 years now. Great to hear it is still well respected

    • @SwainerDrummer
      @SwainerDrummer Год назад

      Hell yes! I was glad to see the mention of both Sylosis and Symphony X

    • @RollerSpendingGaming
      @RollerSpendingGaming Год назад

      This riff is the my main motivation for the headbanging. Absouletly banger!

  • @Xyz_669
    @Xyz_669 Год назад +100

    You know the day will be better when Bladley uploads a new video.

    • @BradleyHallGuitar
      @BradleyHallGuitar  Год назад +23

      God BLESS you guv'na

    • @Xyz_669
      @Xyz_669 Год назад +4

      ​@@BradleyHallGuitarTlanks 🗿🍷

    • @derekbridgerii2102
      @derekbridgerii2102 Год назад +5

      ​@@BradleyHallGuitarHenceforth, you shall be known as Bladley Blall the Blest!

  • @danielehartmann2787
    @danielehartmann2787 Год назад +8

    The first ascending and then decending Main-Verse-Riff of Nevermore's "Born" is another criminally underrated MASTERPIECE.

  • @clockworker
    @clockworker Год назад +41

    Soilwork - Structure Divine
    Dark Tranquillity - Rundown
    Mors Principium Est - Reclaim the Sun / Altered State of Consciousness
    Darkane - Layers of Lies
    Morbid Angel - Dawn of Angry
    Opeth - Bleak
    Mors Principium Est is generally underrated, so many great riffs, Soilwork's first three albums are rife with greatness in that regard as well.

    • @clockworker
      @clockworker Год назад +1

      Forgot to mention Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

  • @iamchizzle
    @iamchizzle Год назад +15

    That’s so sick you included CKY! I’ve always loved the riffs in: Nuclear Assault - Critical Mass
    Coma - Overkill

    • @Goldarlives
      @Goldarlives Год назад +1

      If you like CKY, you should check out Foreign Objects, the singer’s original band. The song Test It Out has one of my favorite riffs of all time

  • @mattiatosi8350
    @mattiatosi8350 Год назад +7

    Thanks for including Haken, one of my favourite bands ever that DEFINITELY need more recognition

  • @HansaGBB
    @HansaGBB Год назад +2

    1:58 Thank you so much for introducing me to the Summoning. I fell in love with a completely new genre 🤘🏻

  • @salitz91
    @salitz91 Год назад +16

    Paint the Sky with Blood, by Bodom after Midnight, the main groove riff. It's just so simple, brutal and driving. It is one of the great gifts Alexi gave us before he left.
    Edit: Super glad to see Dark Eternal Night, Sylosis and especially Sabaton on here!

  • @RavenDreadful
    @RavenDreadful Год назад +1

    That last riff in Face of Melinda after the acoustic

  • @doktormoney
    @doktormoney Год назад +1

    Dude, seabeast, and most of the rest of Leviathan have some of my all-time favorite riffs.

  • @zauselbart
    @zauselbart Год назад +5

    Judas Priest - Demonizer
    Iced Earth - Democide
    Ill Niño - This is War
    Sabaton - White Death
    In Flames - Gyroscope
    Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time
    Kreator - Enemy of God
    Some of my absolute favorite Riffs in these songs. Especially the whole Angel of Retribution Album by Priest has some awesome rythm guitars.

  • @tourdeforce17
    @tourdeforce17 Год назад +5

    Seeing Porcupine Tree in a metal video is always surreal, but man that Anesthitize riff has been one of my favourites since I first heard it. One of the most melodic and beautiful drop C riffs I've ever heard, so simple when you break it down but so powerful

  • @maf579
    @maf579 Год назад +19

    The Gods Must Be Crazy, by Periphery. They have so many great songs that it gets a bit overlooked, but that main verse riff is so melodic and rhythmically interesting as well 🤘

  • @crestwhitestrips4083
    @crestwhitestrips4083 Год назад +1

    The intro riff and post verse riff of Megadeth’s “New World Order (Demo)” off of the youthanasia album. If that song was properly and fully mixed right I think it would’ve been one of their best songs from the 90’s

  • @MorbidGuardian
    @MorbidGuardian Год назад +28

    Dark Eternal Night was the song that really made me fall in love with Dream Theater. Glad to see it being given some love. Lots of seriously nostalgic riffs on here between DT, Bodom, Necrophagist, Megadeth, Trivium, etc.

  • @the_way_the_truth_the_life
    @the_way_the_truth_the_life Год назад +1

    Great list man! I love these types of videos because it gets all of my metal bros out there sharing their favorite obscure bands and songs and you always end up with great recommendations of shit you never heard before!
    Here is my criminally underrated riff from a band that a lot of metalheads probably never heard
    the band is Cadaveryne, the album is Fathering the Apocalypse and the name of the song is Seven, once you hear the main riff you'll never forget it for the rest of yout metalhead life, it's just so uniquely wicked!

  • @Chris-Ian
    @Chris-Ian Год назад +7

    Necrophagist have many underrated great riffs - the delayed riff before (and after) the solo of Culinary Hyperversity, the riff after the solo of Ignominious and Pale (underneath the harmonies), the end riff of Diminished to B (easiest Necro riff, still cool), Epitaph's riff before the solo (so sluggish) to name a few.

    • @amphibeingmcshpongletron5026
      @amphibeingmcshpongletron5026 Год назад +3

      YES! Those and FOD are probably my favorites, but, in my opinion they don't have "bad" riffs/solos. Had the pleasure of seeing them live twice...it was almost hard to mosh at times because everyone was so busy ogling the musicianship in amazement! During the solos, it was like a group of well behaved music connoisseurs watching legitimate musical virtuosity...then right back into the circle pit lol.

    • @Chris-Ian
      @Chris-Ian Год назад +1

      @@amphibeingmcshpongletron5026 Of course they don't have bad riffs. Some of the solos are not as good and memorable as others, but its forgiveable, considering Epitaph is as close to perfection as an album can get.

  • @sbrensbeve3265
    @sbrensbeve3265 Год назад +1

    Bruh the fact that you put the summoning and burzums riffs back to back and it just sounded like the same riff to me 💀

  • @Doc92IDH
    @Doc92IDH Год назад +3

    Seeing Porcupine Tree on here makes me so happy. Anesthetise is one of my favourite songs, and that moment in the song is a big part of it. Also the best song I've ever seen live.

  • @sole__doubt
    @sole__doubt 11 месяцев назад +1

    Flight of the Nazgul into Ea Lord of the Depths is really nice together.

  • @noahenglish6654
    @noahenglish6654 Год назад +7

    The CKY appearance wasn’t expected deron miller is such an underrated guitarist

    • @amphibeingmcshpongletron5026
      @amphibeingmcshpongletron5026 Год назад +1

      Iconic riff without a doubt. Honestly, it's the only riff/song by them I can remember off the top of my head.

    • @noahenglish6654
      @noahenglish6654 Год назад

      @@amphibeingmcshpongletron5026 give an answer can be found a listen by them..the whole album has some fantastic riffs, deron miller’s death metal band world under blood is amazing as well.

  • @MaloA2
    @MaloA2 Год назад

    "Carnival is Forever" by Decapitated is one of the sickest ricks I know!

  • @darthmetalus7469
    @darthmetalus7469 Год назад +22

    Great picks. Those riffs in anesthetize, serenity painted death and seabeast are fantastic. There is also one other amazing riff in anesthetize, I think it's in the next section after the one you played, one of my all time favs.

    • @wafflemanofficial3130
      @wafflemanofficial3130 Год назад

      Also the riff which is literally one open C string panned from left to right

  • @HarunaNoJikan
    @HarunaNoJikan Год назад +2

    Rorke’s Drift riff always gets the blood flowing

  • @dl_supertroll
    @dl_supertroll Год назад +8

    It's always good to see Sabaton getting some attention and not being hated for once

    • @treestar22
      @treestar22 Год назад

      Sabaton gets hate?

    • @dl_supertroll
      @dl_supertroll Год назад

      @@treestar22 ya think

    • @treestar22
      @treestar22 Год назад

      @@dl_supertroll I rarely ever see sabaton hate. What is it about?

    • @dl_supertroll
      @dl_supertroll Год назад

      @@treestar22 they think we're Nazis. Also general shit about being posers and not metal enough.

    • @VincePaierr
      @VincePaierr 6 месяцев назад

      ​​@treestar22 They got too popular, and too many normies like them I guess. I've seen them get a lot of hate in the comments here

  • @markbalazscseke470
    @markbalazscseke470 Год назад +2

    Real nice of you to mention Teras of Sylosis, surprisingly few people know about them. I'd have definitely included mainly any riff from Opeth - Karma
    or the opening riff of VÉHÉMENCE - L'étrange clairière pt 2. Nice video, as ever

  • @lewisdavidson1324
    @lewisdavidson1324 Год назад +4

    I love ur videos Bradley they have inspired me to pick the guitar back up after my surgery. I couldnt have done it with out you.

  • @jao_o_emo
    @jao_o_emo Год назад +1

    screeches from the silence have one of the best riffs i’ve ever heard

  • @baschdiro8565
    @baschdiro8565 Год назад +8

    I'm happy to see some Sabaton here.
    Among my favourite riffs are Balls to the Walls by Accept and Heaven is Falling by Jaded Heart.

  • @josephsomers9880
    @josephsomers9880 Год назад +1

    Yeah, Mastodon used to write some killer riffs. The riff that starts around four minutes into Siberian Divide off of Blood Mountain...crushes.

  • @SamDestroyer29
    @SamDestroyer29 Год назад +21

    Great list to (re)discover great metal albums, glad to see some Sylosis and Periphery here (even though I would've gone for the opening riff in Reptile), but also you made me want to check out that band 'Abba' on your shirt, they look like a sick black metal act.

    • @potatotaxi
      @potatotaxi Год назад

      dude the instrumental part in reptile is where it goes from periphery to perriffery

  • @samuelobertscheider6331
    @samuelobertscheider6331 Год назад +1

    Serenity painted deaths pinch harmonic riff is the best riff ever.
    EDIT: didn't even know it was in here at first, Brad chose the wrong one tho eventhough that one is hella sick too

  • @descendinguniverse
    @descendinguniverse Год назад +4

    Grave Digger - almost all 90s riffs
    also Threshold, Vanden Plas, Symphony X, Ayreon/Star One are full of sick prog metal riffs
    at least Symphony X made it to this list, awesome

  • @vexor7
    @vexor7 Год назад

    Awesome video and riffs man, glad to see some of the ones from the recent poll show up. Keep up the great work!

  • @tatianaa6833
    @tatianaa6833 Год назад +5

    Paradise lost are extremely underrated and no one never mentions them. It's hard to choose a single riff, there are so many of them, but i'll pick I Remain and In Truth from the album Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us. That album is a masterpiece

  • @lordpennyson4782
    @lordpennyson4782 Год назад +2

    I love videos like this. It all flows together like one long song made of the greatest hits, absolutely glorious.

  • @klinkklankradio
    @klinkklankradio Год назад +3

    I appreciate that you included one of the coolest Porcupine Tree riffs from Anesthetize! Fairly easy to play yet sounds kinda tricky.

  • @micahmagnet
    @micahmagnet Год назад

    The riff in St. Anger is actually really good and heavy, it's just overshadowed by the BONG BONG of the snare

  • @ArranPark
    @ArranPark Год назад +16

    The conjuring by megadeth has easily their most underrated riffs

    • @lukaswisner5134
      @lukaswisner5134 Год назад +2

      i fucking love the breakdown from the conjuring

    • @acog_quarks8753
      @acog_quarks8753 Год назад +1

      Yup, I remember hearing my brother play it a couple times but I completely forgot about it until I heard the album and it just unlocked a core memory lmao

  • @drokus
    @drokus Год назад

    My favorite riff is from Demise of the Clone by Suffocation about halfway through the song. Love that riff so much

  • @MusicOfDreamweaver
    @MusicOfDreamweaver Год назад +11

    I find "Sea of Madness" by Iron Maiden underrated. Few, if any, mention this track when talking about Iron Maiden and it is an amazing riff!

    • @Goldarlives
      @Goldarlives Год назад +1

      I like the part where it goes clean right before the solo.

  • @saylorprice1717
    @saylorprice1717 Год назад

    Great vid! The riff leading into the solo in Trivium’s ‘Entrance of the Conflagration’ is a personal underrated favorite of mine

  • @RGudmetalhead
    @RGudmetalhead Год назад +5

    Some other underrated riffs from my favorites:
    Strapping Young Lad- Almost Again
    Vulture Industries- This Cursed Flesh
    Ihsahn - My Heart Is Of The North
    2 Times Terror - Ikävässä Paikassa
    Ministry - Khyber Pass (riff in the middle of the song before Al's vocals)
    Black Label Society - Set You Free
    Nile - Evil To Cast Out Evil
    Behemoth - The Satanist (chorus riff)
    Hypocrisy - Eraser
    Paradise Lost- Rise Of Denial
    Fear Factory - Body Hammer

    • @diabsoul
      @diabsoul Год назад

      Almost Again is a great one

  • @mikepollack8277
    @mikepollack8277 Год назад

    Love how they all flowed together! Awesome work as usual!

  • @eddiethehead4791
    @eddiethehead4791 Год назад +8

    My day has now been automatically made amazing...
    Iron Maiden's powerslave riff is underrated...

  • @JamesWilliams-rp4ll
    @JamesWilliams-rp4ll Год назад

    Couple of ones off the top of my head in no order:
    -Stone - Alice in Chains
    -Jerry Was A Race Car Driver - Primus
    -Breathing Lightning - Anthrax
    -Computer God - Black Sabbath
    -Atrocity Vendor - Slayer
    -The Ocean Galaktik - Brendon Small
    -Kammthar - Ultra Vomit (I know it's a Rammstein tribute song but it goes hard, OK?)
    -Lone Wolf - Judas Priest
    -Jaws Of Life - John Petrucci
    -Making A Fire - Foo Fighters
    -Faith - Ghost
    -Get On Top - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
    -It Has To Be This Way - Jimmy Gnecco
    -Devour - Shinedown
    -Red Harvest - Vexing Hex
    -Darkened Majesty - Todd La Torre

  • @turdbooger6051
    @turdbooger6051 Год назад +5

    I think a lot of Alex Lifesons riffs deserve more love, I mean the dude was filling the space between Peart and Geddy Lee!

    • @kongu12395
      @kongu12395 Год назад +3

      Analog Kid is probably my favorite Rush riff, Headlong Flight too.

  • @coolcoconuts4453
    @coolcoconuts4453 Год назад

    Big list incoming:
    . Victory Or Die - Motorhead
    . Final riff of Sic - Slipknot
    . Oxblood - Cane Hill
    . I Am The Vomit - Battlesnake
    . Renegrenades - Enabler
    . Jester - Uneven Structure
    . Bleed For The Crown (breakdown @1:58) - As Paradise Falls
    . Riot + Lethal Pressure - Lost Society
    . Basically every single riff in Just As Real But Not As Brightly Lit - Every Time I Die (in particular @0:24)
    . A quiet place to die - Alphawolf
    . Extinction - Harlott
    . Suden Tunti - Moonsorrow
    . Ghost In The Machine - Void Of Vision

  • @Gerd0
    @Gerd0 Год назад +4

    That Eternal Rest riff has such cheesy badass energy. I love it.
    Another off Still Life, the riff going on in the rhythm section during the lead is amazing. Almost would go as far as saying cooler than the lead playing over it.

  • @andrewpappas9311
    @andrewpappas9311 Год назад +2

    Definitely happy seeing Anesthetize on here, my friend is a huge Porcupine Tree fan and that one is one of his favourite songs from them and I love that riff as well. Additionally some other riffs I’d like to include are Kurenai and IV by X Japan, I’m not sure how popular they are outside of Japan but I love those guys and those riffs definitely go hard and it’s fucking awesome

  • @ZacharyBorrelli
    @ZacharyBorrelli Год назад +7

    Big yes to the Dream Theater inclusion, I think that album has some proper huge riffs throughout

  • @bengriffin1089
    @bengriffin1089 Год назад

    Suicidal Tendencies never get the respect they deserve for some huge riffs, especially “The feeling’s back” and the intro to “A little each day”: both great fun to play.

  • @remimarine3544
    @remimarine3544 Год назад +3

    My favorite riffs :
    Kingdom of Heaven by Epica
    Dreams of Retribution by Arch Enemy (the one that come at 3:25)
    Absolutely great 👌

  • @elpeluca7780
    @elpeluca7780 Год назад +2

    Unto Infinite Twilight/Majesty of Infernal Damnation by Incantation, the riff that starts at 4:22

  • @sangramos
    @sangramos Год назад +5

    Loved the trivium and avenged riffs! I feel like anything off of Shogun is super underrated like The Calamity as well as some of the deep cuts off of Nightmare like God Hates Us

  • @alialiev6098
    @alialiev6098 Год назад +2

    Aaaah, that "Anesthetize" goodness is just like a balm for the soul! Thanks, Beanley😌

  • @lanzarlaluna
    @lanzarlaluna Год назад +5

    I love these videos because they are a great way for me to discover new music. 😊

  • @karottenbrot_8350
    @karottenbrot_8350 Год назад +1

    Hey Bradley, I really love your videos and wanted to ask, do you do commissions?

  • @marco_gorelli
    @marco_gorelli Год назад +3

    The children of bodom one is literally a bach piece (invention no. 13). But I agree, it's awesome!

  • @MaverikTheKaos
    @MaverikTheKaos Год назад +1

    some of my fav riffs:
    Slough Feg - Addendum Galactus
    Kalmah - Swamphell
    Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Legion of Beast
    Ravage - Grapes Of Wrath
    Pandemonium - Reflecting Mirrors

  • @AvelGonzalez-q4p
    @AvelGonzalez-q4p Год назад +8

    I definitely think that the infinitely awesome riff for Vanishing by Lamb Of God deserves more praise. Its's just so good!

  • @chrizon
    @chrizon Год назад +1

    There’s a section in Frayed Ends of Sanity that is clinic in thrash.

  • @shredpilled
    @shredpilled Год назад +8

    Hole in the Sky - Black Sabbath. Been blasting that one the last few days. Also not sure where it ranks among fans but Killing is My Business is a pretty sick Megadeth riff.

    • @danmccarthy2481
      @danmccarthy2481 Год назад +3

      And Into the Void as well!

    • @scifiordie
      @scifiordie Год назад +1

      @@danmccarthy2481the intro to into the void sounds so timeless, not just in metal but in music, only Iommi could come up with something like that!

  • @notoriodtc
    @notoriodtc Год назад

    one favorite off the last few albums i listened to: savatage - legions, diamond head - sucking my love, omen - eye of the storm, armored saint - false alarm, metal church - beyond the black, arsis - face of my innocence, candlemass - seven silver keys, praying mantis - thirty pieces of silver, atlantean kodex - lion of chaldea, worm - empire of the necromancers, edge of sanity - crimson (the whole damn album), rimfrost - at the blessing of the damned, sumerlands - the seventh seal ENJOY

  • @bjwaters
    @bjwaters Год назад +3

    The first riff I always think of when it comes to awesome metal riffs is "Under the Oak" by Candlemas. It's nothing fancy, but with that guitar tone, it comes across as massive and epic.

    • @VincePaierr
      @VincePaierr 6 месяцев назад

      From the same album, I would have to go with Blackstone Wielder.

  • @ethanmorrow5623
    @ethanmorrow5623 Год назад +1

    The intro of Flourish by the contortionist is underrated imo

  • @judaspriestly88
    @judaspriestly88 Год назад +7

    Something wild is still one of my favorite COB albums, and RLIME pt1 is one of my favorite songs on that album \m/>_

  • @bron-yr-aur7990
    @bron-yr-aur7990 Год назад +1

    Heavily appreciate the Mastodon recognition

  • @fabiosiqueiradub
    @fabiosiqueiradub Год назад +3

    That Eternal Rest riff is fire, specially the breakdown part. I would've included Tonight in Flames by Cradle of Filth

  • @Soletyr
    @Soletyr Год назад

    Daath - Ovum
    Anything by Emil & Eyal, really.
    BFMV - Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow, Hand of Blood
    FFDP - The Way of The Fist

  • @blumblum_is_unfunny44
    @blumblum_is_unfunny44 Год назад +5

    My favorite underrated guitar riff is Betrayer by Kreator!

  • @DJTheMetalheadMercenary
    @DJTheMetalheadMercenary Год назад +1

    Nice riff choices!!! Some of my picks would be:
    - Conducting From the Grave- Marching Towards Extinction, and When Legends Become Dust
    - Belphegor- Hell's Ambassador
    - Severed Savior- Servile Insurrection
    - Gorgoroth- Sign of an Open Eye, and Teeth Grinding
    - Decapitated- Spheres of Madness, and Post Organic
    - Odious Mortem- Fragmented Oblivion, and Domain of the Eternal Paradox
    - Psycroptic- Initiate
    - Decrepit Birth- Solar Impulse
    - Aosoth- Appendix C
    - Nightbringer- I am the Gateway
    - Dumal- Lost Caverns
    - Watain- Sworn to the Dark
    - Dissection- Where Dead Angels Lie

  • @CompleteProducer84
    @CompleteProducer84 Год назад +3

    Maybe not underrated since the song is popular, but the pre-chorus riff in “My Last Serenade” by Killswitch has always been a personal fav

    • @RyanMaziarz
      @RyanMaziarz Год назад +1

      That whole song really - love those little fill riffs in the chorus between the phrases.

    • @CompleteProducer84
      @CompleteProducer84 Год назад

      @@RyanMaziarz Hell yeah, pretty much a perfect song

  • @Tonatiuth
    @Tonatiuth Год назад +1

    You can make a series of videos, there are many....
    Untethered Angel - Dream Theater
    When Seven Roads Come Together - Amorphis
    Deliverance - Opeth
    Strike of the Beast - Exodus
    Gargoyles Angels of Darkness - Rhapsody
    Cyanide Christ - Messuggah
    Etc etc ❤❤

  • @paradigm_sh1ft
    @paradigm_sh1ft Год назад +3

    Seabeast goes hard! Love that song, love that riff. Live it's amazing and definitely a headbanger.

  • @cakewalkbaby
    @cakewalkbaby Год назад

    Love the ascending/descending riffs of Curse You All Men!, you would never think they would work together, but they do.

  • @MisterMacky
    @MisterMacky Год назад +8

    Sabaton is a criminally underrated band. Even some of their simpler riffs just hit, Dreadnought is a banger

  • @icipher6730
    @icipher6730 Год назад

    I've already posted this under Bradley's comment, but here a duplicate, because I want to promote these bands, obviously, because they are fucking great lol.
    Some of my personal picks:
    Scar Symmetry - Neuromancers (the intro riff)
    Martyr - Nameless Faceless Neverborn (the entire song is a riff masterclass, I cannot pick just one, also watch the playthrough by Dan Mongrain...holy fucking shit)
    Alluvial - Thy Underling (the same applies to this one...watch the guitar playthrough by Wes Hauch...holy fucking shit.......)
    Dyscarnate - Iron Strengthens Iron
    Psycroptic - Setting the Skies Ablaze (ESPECIALLY the 'breakdown' section) or Echoes To Come
    Vektor - Charging the Void (riffs from the intro)
    Arsis - Overthrown or Beyond Forlorn
    Cattle Decap - Mammals in Babylon
    Conquering Dystopia - Autarch. Honestly, this LP is just one underappreciated colossal treasury of insane riffs and lead guitar playing that will make your eyes and blood vessels pop, courtesy of Jeff Loomis and Keith Merrow.

  • @sonnyford2407
    @sonnyford2407 Год назад +4

    My favourite underrated riffs would be Born of a Broken Man by RATM and Moth by Audioslave. Tom Morello has so many famously iconic riffs but these two never seem to get talked about

  • @Matthew_Klepadlo
    @Matthew_Klepadlo Год назад +1

    That thumbnail face is perfect material for a new emote! Like this one:

  • @jaema8281
    @jaema8281 Год назад +2

    Awesome stuff! You uploaded a video awhile ago playing modern metal and talked about how you mainly listen to more classic stuff (unless I'm completely misremembering)
    2:54 was so pleasant to see you blitz through, such an awesome riff. I'm glad that you included some modern prog metal for the representation, truly too fun to play. Cheers!

  • @hobolecho8507
    @hobolecho8507 Год назад +2

    Finaly a riff from Sabaton getting some recognition

  • @MegaMicah12
    @MegaMicah12 Год назад

    *Here's some I can think of right off the top of my head.*
    Gamma Ray - The Winged Horse
    Wuthering Heights - A Sinner's Confession
    Mercyful Fate - Last Rites
    Anthrax - Armed and Dangerous
    Pursuit - Scourge of Humanity
    Manticora - In the Abbys of Desperation
    Chaos in Question - Seven Steps
    Riot - Warrior
    Helloween - Secret Alibi

  • @Sputniq182
    @Sputniq182 Год назад +2

    country girl - Black Sabbath
    traveler in time - Uriah Heep
    the threat - Skid Row
    Those are some of my top picks i can think of rn.

    • @MrWill9894
      @MrWill9894 Год назад +1

      The Threat is an absolute BANGER