Favorite Metal Riffs

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- April 12, 2008 at 4:35 am
OutLaw2112
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Whats some of your favorite metal riffs? I was thinking that if everyone shows some tabs of their favorite metal riffs we could learn from each other..
Ill start it with one of my favorite metal bands… mercyful fate’s into the coven
If you listen to alot of mercyful fate youll see where metallica got some of their sound… lars is a big fate fan

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- April 12, 2008 at 5:41 am
OutLaw2112
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heres the song to listen to… it wouldnt let me edit the post after 10 minutes
- May 15, 2008 at 11:17 am
MarkaN
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The first song, and the song I am still trying to play as best as it goes is: Enter Sandman from Metallica.

Definitely one of my favorites 🙂
- May 15, 2008 at 7:37 pm
InFlames
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i raelly love the scropion by megadeth. when the first solo happens and the rhythm guitar is playing such a cool riff in the backround. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkK5ItNYhUo
- May 16, 2008 at 2:39 am
OutLaw2112
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This metallica song beginning sounds alot like mercyful fates song into the coven… Into the coven was recorded a year before this metallica song came out…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlgUx7_aN0

fates song
- May 16, 2008 at 4:04 pm
GlxyDs
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Out of Nothing by Dark Tranquillity, love the guitar!
- May 19, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Mike Edwin
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I always love the riffs Mikaek Akerfeldt(Opeth) comes up with. Anything from the red album(Still Life), as he calls it, would fall into my favourites though.
- May 20, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Trev
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Train of Thought by DT – awesome riff!
- May 21, 2008 at 12:06 am
Caelumamittendum
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I’m a huge sucker for the early Dream Theater, and such riffs as the one from A Fortune in Lies in the intro, I really like. All songs of that album has a lot of great riffs. Images and Words has a lot of nice riffs too.

Sure Dream Theater is not your typical metal riff band, and if you’re looking for more metal based songs, I’ll have to return to this thread once I get home to my CD collection.
- May 27, 2008 at 12:47 pm
MSzymanek
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I love the atmosphere and riffs in “Scullkrusher” by Overkill.
Also most riffs from Rust In Piece by Megadeth are cheesey. For example I love the 5/8 riff/solo in Five Magics. Simple, yet addictive.
- May 28, 2008 at 2:42 am
shredmandan
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One of my favorite metal riff’s is pretty simple if your good with your right hand.Metallica’s ‘One’ right when it changes to the vicious double bass thrash then the solo comes in over it.Very nice and ofcourse there are many other’s but thats one for now.
- May 29, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Epilogue
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Strapping Young Lad’s – Love?
Andromeda – Blink of an Eye (in the beginning)
Dream Theater – The Glass Prison (the riff in 5:53)
Spiral Architect – Insect (the end of it)
Opeth – Master’s Apprentices
Tool – Forty Six & 2 (especially the outro)
Bulb – Zyglrox (the riff from 0:17)
Meshuggah – Bleed (the riff is cool but it just repeats and repeats throughout the song..)
Psychotic Waltz – …And the Devil Cried

there must be many more I don’t remember now
- June 4, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Aewrik
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Andromeda – Morphing into Nothing (the entire song is just so… energizing!)
ARK – Missing You (the riff around 5:50)
Dream Theater – Strange Dèja Vu (2:38 – the first time I started to realize what a monster Petrucci is)
In Flames – Trigger (the starting riff)
Richard Lundmark – Fret Dance (one of my all-time favourite metal instrumentals)
Extreme – He-Man Woman Hater (the starting riff after “Flight of the wounded bumble-bee”)

And plenty of others.

Oh, and I’m a fan of the riffs in the Meshuggah obZen album.
- October 25, 2008 at 3:51 am
i-voyager
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Mine change every week! but at the moment:

Psycroptic- Alpha Breed
Cryptopsy- Back to the worms (that slow one about 30 secs in)
Cynic- How could I… (chorus riff)
Electric Wizard- Funeralopolis
Blotted Science- Synaptic Plasticity
Suffocation- Pierced from within (the first bit with the mental rhythms!)
Kailash- The sleepers
Decapitated- Revelation of existence (the first riff)

i could go on…
- October 25, 2008 at 10:08 am
Max.
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At the moment:

Ozzy Osbourne – Miracle Man