What Is the Heaviest Riff of All Time? | Rockers React
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- What's the heaviest riff of all time? Is it from a death metal song or a thrash ripper? A djent banger or a doom-metal lurcher? If anyone would know the answer, it'd be metal musicians themselves, so we asked members of Spiritbox, GWAR, Baroness, In Flames and more to weigh in with their picks for the weightiest guitar part in heavy-music history. See their picks above and let us know yours in the comments below!
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Gojira has a face melter in nearly every song so ill just nominate their entire discography.
Even the intro alone for the beginning of "Heaviest Matter of the Universe" is more intense than some songs absolute climaxes.
Absolutely, they make Drop D sound like Drop G
The Flying Whales second breakdown is as heavy as a black hole
@@Worran D standard, they make heavy (pun intended) use of 4th chords to make things sound lower than they actually are. big part of the heaviest matter intro
Ikr ! The main riff is also like crazily heavy
The Gift of Guilt is their heaviest song in my opinion, from 2:25 to the end it's just the most well crafted rollercoaster a soul could ever travel. That outro is pure bliss
In terms of just dark heavy chunkiness, Soundgarden's "4th of July" riff is pretty damn heavy. It's like D tuned dropped a nut it's so heavy😂
Glad I’m not the only one who thought Soundgarden! Mailman always hits super hard for me as well.
Hell yeah. And I believe it's actually tuned to C standard!
That song is absolutely stunning and gritty and dirty and beautiful
Yes, Soundgarden has some good stuff and that's a great example!!
Literally like 80% of metal bands play a full step down bud
"Suicide Note, Pt. 2" by Pantera. The breakdown towards the end of the song just catches you off guard. Dimebags tone is unmatched.
Really solid pick.
Can't argue with that
The breakdown from Domination by Pantera ended the Cold War, meaning that it has the most gravity, so it's literally the heaviest riff of all time.
Domination was the first one that came to mind
@@crownstupid me too
100% 🖤
Yes. It’s the definition of heavy. I’ve listened to metal and rock for over 30 years, and that riff takes the cake for me
My ringtone. I have to listen to it several times a day.
The Art of Dying by Gojira is a heavy ass riff.
th-cam.com/video/BRuloS3LIew/w-d-xo.html :)
especially The Flesh Alive version. jaw drops every time.
Maybe not the heaviest riff of all time, but a slow, aggressive riff I love is on Metallica's "The Thing That Should Not Be." Another one I dig is Testament's "Low."
Had never listened to that Testament song before. At certain points, it sounds like a predecessor to some of Rob Zombie's Dragula era stuff, and there's just a hint of Godsmack. I liked the little hi-low effect that they did with the guitars too. Not the heaviest, but interesting none the less. My pick is Bathory's A Fine Day to Die...
Shades of War.
The breakdown in Strength Beyond Strength is an absolute beast of a riff
YES that track gets me amped every time
Great track, but I think I would pick either Slaughtered or Suicide Note pt.2
@@LPPL123 suicide note pt 2
@@LPPL123 slaughtered
Many a concussion spawn from this monstrosity. whole album is just nasty as hell
The end of 25 years is so heavy
Black Sabbath's main riff for "Into the Void" when the drums and bass kick in with the guitar. That riff grows hair, balls and teeth on a young man. Also consider that that was recorded and released in 1971, when the likes of Hetfield, Abbott and Schuldiner still were young kids and in Schuldiner's case still a toddler.
Into the void. I always thought that it wasn't as recognized as a young buck,you know when you discover a new band,and not everyone else is into it. But, everyone else is into it,you just don't know. Love that album, purple and black 🖤
This is mine as well
1000%! To me that's the OG heaviest riff and still untouchable IMO...
When you're right, you're right, brother.
It's definitely the heaviest riff and it's from the godfathers of metal.
Case closed.
I only learnt about that from one of Rick Beato's videos (I am too young to have grown up listening to Sabbath, but they definitely have some awesome songs)... But there's a lot of other songs from various bands that are springing to mind.
The riffs in Blackwater Park are goose bump inducing. Insanely heavy
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My man.
Masters Apprentices riff is nasty as well. Then again, does any band have more nasty riffs per song than Opeth?
A man of culture I see.
This fool just said Opeth 😂😂😂
I am amazed how many people go for Sad But True... But Harvester of Sorrow is like the heavier version of Sad But True..
Exactly! They b said Sad but True and in my head I head Harvester.
The heaviest riff isn't a Metallica riff that's for sure
@@isopropyltoxicity might not be in your opinion but in other peoples mind
Through the never is some death metal shit
@@isopropyltoxicity 100%, there's just no way in hell
The bridge section to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". Heaviest riff to this day of all time
the correct answer!
Correctomundo!
Good call!
Absolutely the correct answer
THE breakdown!
How on earth has nobody mentioned Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard? That riff is evil. Listening to that on speakers is just the best, it suffocates you
Thank you
But sadly predictable from a video where you here Sad But True mentioned in this argument
Return Trip, Supercoven, Burnout, Funeralopolis. So many Electric Wizard riffs just piss all over anything on this list.
Definately agree. or like Psychedelic Wasteland by Acid Mammoth.
I was shopping for a stereo many years ago and my go to test songs are: “The Precious Jewel” by George Jones and “Funeralopolis” by Electric Wizard. Dude played George, then played EW, and blew two speakers on one of the cabinets.
Black Sabbath and Tony Iommi riff All the Black Sabbath first 6 albums. Absolutely..
Yes. The first answer that just said Sabbath is the best.
Riff master...
The breakdown riff in "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". That single riff inspired so many bands.
Couple people mentioned Flying Whales but talked about the wrong riff. The breakdown riff at the end of the song literally sounds like it bounced off the core of the planet it’s so heavy.
As far as non-breakdown riff, Omerta by Lamb of God is really hard to beat
I cant believe that nobody mentioned the main riff of SLAUTHERED from Pantera, is the most insane and heavy riff ever made, and of course the breakdown of domination
Fuck yeah
Good call man, mouth for war is pretty encapsulating too, while we're on pantera. But the one that I think should have had mention was Territory by Sepultura. That one has been front and center in my riffs to play every time I pick up a guitar.
bro was literally thinking the same thing as i watched this.....lol it doesnt get heavier and domination too pantera is goat
There's nobody heavier than than hand of doom himself Tony Iommi.
You could play me any modern metal band playing as fast and as many double kicks as you want. But when you here the beginning to Cornucopia, Under the Sun or Into the void or the breakdown of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, theres nothing that screams out evil and darkness as much as they do.
Then add in the fact that these riffs are from just a couple years after the moon landings, CRAZY
Agreed. The begging riffs of Under the sun, Cornucopia, Into the Void and Symptoms of the universe. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, that middle riff. They weren't necessarily loud or bombastic, but super deep heavy sound.
If we're going by what is best we should consider reach of influence as well, so I gotta agree, there's a lot of good riffs to choose from but most of them are from personal attachment. Sabbath did something that many simply copied, they were among the first to really go into a new place sonically and open the door downwards!!
Just saw a fakebook post about the same thing and I was coming here to mention Under The Sun because I rarely see it. Without Tony you wouldn't have any of the others mentioned.
Symptom of the Universe
The Grand Conjuration by Opeth has just the most evil sounding riff I've ever heard
Definitely I would say Masters Apprentices would be another good heavy opeth riff
Heir Apparent. There is no riff more evil than that. Grand Conjuration is a musical epic, but Heir Apparent opens with the most evil riff
@@shuturdirtymouth absolutely
@@shuturdirtymouth Heir apparent has some of the heaviest shits and then at the end of the song one of the most beautiful outros of all time
@@shuturdirtymouth outro to A Fair Judgement is more evil IMO, sounds like a descent into hell. but heir apparent is great too.
Botch - Transitions from Persona to Object
Converge - You Fail Me
Mastodon - Blood & Thunder
Pantera - A New Level
The Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt
Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ
Deftones - My Own Summer
Tool - Jambi
Impossible to choose. There are so many iconic riffs in heavy music now
Set it off- Madball
Eyeless - Slipknot (wait and bleed as well)
Daddy's Money - Whores
Honey Bucket - Melvins
Those are some pretty sick references there, bruh.
Jambis a great shout
you know what you’re talking about
It's hard to pick one, but my brain goes to "Primal Concrete Sledge" by Pantera. Vinnie's driving drums with Dime's chunky guitars....gets me every time.
absolutely
fucking hostile or slaughtered were so fucking heavy
Good choice
Absolutely!
That was my alarm clock for years😂😂
Beyond The Wheel by Soundgarden in concert was the heaviest thing I have ever experienced.
Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard
Yesss to both of these. I'm kinda sad that only one person mentioned a sludge band here.
4th of July by Soundgarden or Dopethrone by Electric Wizard.
Brooo exactly what i was thinking
Beyond the Wheel is so underrated.
@@HenritheHorse or holy water! Anything off of bad motor finger
Shout out to the girl who said Where Dragons Dwell. It was my choice too and never thought someone else would have said it. That into riff is so heavy, enchanting, and just simply different. 2013 live hellfest version even better.
Seriously, it puts you in a trance
INTO THE VOID
Electric funeral
Into the void was the first one that came to my mind too
Agreed
Top answer straight away 👌
We can't leave out the riff lord Max Cavalera, anything off of Roots, Straighthate comes to mind,or Soulfly Frontlines
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath bridge section. There should be a whole documentary based on that one fucking riff. Seriously.
Honorable mention: Jerry was a race car driver, When it breaks!
Anything Gojira obviously.
Also the riff around the 2:30 mark in Contractor by Lamb Of God. A deep cut but that riff is ferocious. And the way Randy screams "they all dieeeee!!!" Is just absolute fucking savagery.
1. Into the Void by Sabbath
2. World Eater by Bolt Thrower
3. Painkiller by Judas Priest
4. Everything Dies by Type O
5. Cometh down Hessian by High on Fire
Honourable mentions to Override of the Overture (Dismember) I the Witch Finder (Electric Wizard), Embodiment (Carcass) and Dyers Eve (Metallica).
The break down part in "sabbath bloody sabbath" is dirty as f. Can't hear it without putting the metal stink face on.
One I love is Junkhead by Alice In Chains
Woooooooooorld eaterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
BOLT THROWER!!! Man, that was the first time I heard anything tuned down that low. Excellent shout!
@@MrSatanismybitch. Totally agree!
Pantera's Becoming! That one kicked me so hard the first time I've heard it and still does 🔥🤘🏻🔥
It's just so dang heavy!
It's one of the baddest Pantera songs but it's not heavy. March of the SOD is heavy.
Suicide note part 2 is a thousand times heavier
And Slaughtered!
Slaughtered tho
The breakdown of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is heavy as hell, Helmet also has some very heavy riffs like In the Meantime
Yup. Unsung was sweet...
Helmet - hell yes!
The breakdown in Gojira's Flying Whales
soundgarden - 4th of july
Heavy friends - Boris
Dopesmoker - sleep
Died - Alice in chains
Cornucopia - Black sabbath
Under the Sun - Black sabbath
Return trip - electric wizard
Empress rising - monolord
high on fire - 10000 years
melvins - roman bird dog
melvins - Boris
Tad - Grease box
Eyehategod - blank
Pentagram - Death row
Pentagram - All your sins
The list never ends...
4th of July is sooooo heavy! Good call.
Died is super underrated.
Given that doom is the OG subgenre of metal it is hella overlooked
Eyehategod is so slept on.
Dopesmoker a great shout. I'd throw in Walk by Pantera to your list.
Heaviest riff of all time is the end section of "She's so heavy" by The Beatles. Such a top notch doom metal riff :)
Check my Brain is such an underrated song. I totally agree with Lzzy, it feels like the song is moving your brain. One of the best stoner/grunge rock riffs ever
That is the exact kind of answer I was hoping for when seeing the title of the video. I was like I hope it's not all the obvious ones.
It sounds like it’s “underwater” or waving, absolutely fire
Jerry Cantrell writes some heavy ass riffs and he deserves way more credit than he gets in the metal world.
Jerry Cantrell has produced some amazing riffs.
We Die Young is my pick for heaviest AiC riff
Revolution is my Name - Pantera
How this riff got lost to time is beyond me.
The whole song is just riff after riff of power groove perfection! The drums, vocals, guitar, bass...every element is perfect! Perhaps the most complete Pantera song??
Yes!
Production
Undoubtedly my favourite pantera song , it has everything.
Dimebag outdid himself on Reinventing The Steel
the grooviest and most fun Pantera record
The end riff to Domination - Pantera is without a doubt one of the heaviest things ever from earth. I’d also like to mention Sepultura, inner self, Troops of Doom, roots.
Unholy by Kiss is quite heavy.
But my personal favorite heavy riffs are Blew by Nirvana, and Milk it - Also Nirvana
Hell yes. Sepultura's Chaos A.D. blew me away back in the day.
@@kingbee1971 th-cam.com/video/i7GB-38T_Wc/w-d-xo.html - CRUSHING -
Cheers from Brazil , hell yeahh
Just a few of my personal favs:
Symptom of the Universe - Sabbath
Concatenation - Meshuggah
War Ensemble (verse riff) - Slayer
New Level - Pantera
Scourge of Iron - Cannibal Corpse
Aerials (outro riff) - SOAD
Sic (outro riff) - Slipknot
Propaganda (outro riff) - Sepultura
Orion - Metallica
11th Hour (bridge riff) - Lamb of God
….I can go all day…
Great list!
Yes.! .. whole time I was watching this I was thinking symptom of the universe.
Oh. And SOD... BEHEMOTH... AND Ministry and Carcass and ....
To be honest you could probably name 40 songs from Meshuggahs discography and they'd all qualify.
@@Sasquatch33 I agree 100%
Jeff's Riff is cool, but Kerry's is heavier so it drowns it out...
The heaviest riffs ever written can be found in every single Bolt Thrower song.
True, i have no doubt about it... 😊👌
Yep. I agree. Bolt Thrower is about as heavy as it gets
The heavy part in Mr. Bungle’s “Goodbye Sober Day”. With that chanting? Come on! Heaviest thing in the world.
It hurts my heart to think that "A New Level" isn't widely recognized as the heaviest riff of all time. I'm not saying it's the best song, or even the best Pantera track, but here we are nearly 30 years later and that riff straight bangs.
A New Level is one of the best songs.
My pick too
Mouth for War was pretty heavy. Sepulturas Roots had a lot of heavy Riffs too.
A New Level is basically St. Anger but slower
Most of panteras discography could be thrown in this list, This Love is my personal favourite
For me my brain goes to Junkhead by Alice In Chains, either that or NIB by Sabbath, I love both of those songs so much it’s hard for me to choose
Dude seriously, Alice is fucking heavy..
There‘s so many. I‘d go with Gojira‘s „Backbone“, „L‘enfant sauvage“, or the ending riffs of „Explosia“ or „Adoration for none“. Also Rivers of Nihil‘s „Perpetual growth machine“ inherits a really brutal riff.
You have to include Gojira's Clone.
My Last Creation is criminally underrated and the ending is MASSIVE
The breakdown for Suffocation's "Liege of Inveracity" is the most brutal riff ever made,nuff said.Listen to it and weep.
Yessssss. Definitely my pick as well. So brutal
Liege or Return to Flesh by Cannibal. Return is very gdatk and heavy.
Then again Suffo and Cannibal works
One of my favorite Suffo tunes of all time!
Yesss, 1000% i'm agree. Suffo fans from Indonesia here
Shiiiit. That or Thrones of Blood.
"Blind" is definitely underrated. It's probably in the top ten metal songs ever.
But the start of the slow part of "Strength Beyond Strength"...man, almost 30 years later, I still haven't heard anything else like that.
I would have to agree with Courtney on "Bleed." Yet Black Sabbath's intro to "Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath would be a competitor in terms of tones of literal heaviness and dread.
Sabbath’s self-titled song. That song is still, to this day, heavy as fuck
Neurosis - The Doorway, I guess you'd call it the breakdown? Comes out of nowhere at 3:18 and lays waste with a cleansing fire.
Yob - The Screen, particularly the closing of the song. It's kind of like Gojira's Heaviest Matter in the Universe that was mentioned in the video a few times but I think the addition of the tight gallop and the gritted teeth palm muting make this scarier. Similarly, the close of Yob's Mental Tyrant.
Sumac - Riff in the Task starting at 7:45
Yautja - Spectacle, breakdown from Wired Depths, or Before the Foal. These riffs are all heavy for the same reason. Baptists does this sort of thing well often too.
Melvins - Manky and See How Pretty, See How Smart for a textbook lesson on how to use a broken palm-muted rhythm to drop bombs.
Melvins - Hag Me closing riff - the way Dale's high hat alternately does and doesn't coincide with the shots of the riff is a characteristically Melvins-y brilliance.
Shallow North Dakota - Cuz
Black Sabbath - Totally agree with Into the Void intro but would add Under the Sun Outro. The ritard...oh, man...
You are a person after my own heart. The closest anyone got here was the Meshuggah and Crowbar.
Dead Embryonic Cells - Sepultura. That breakdown riff towards to the end holy shit that is HEAVY! Wooo!
YES! That entire album is a bad-ass riff. Masterpiece! The last minute of Subtraction reminds me I’m alive.
Good Pick!
Was scrolling through the comments to find this. I’d pick Dead Embryonic Cells too.
Where Dragons Dwell - Heaviest Matter of the Universe - Flying Wales
Incredibly, these 3 Gojira tracks are SEQUENTIAL on the From Mars To Sirius album! The best 3-track run on any album, hands down. Such a great band & such a great album (yet, the heaviest track on that album is Backbone - but I'll take HMotU as the winner). 🤘
Definitely…+ Ocean Planet intro, Wolf Down the Earth, The Art of Dying outro….Gojira is a riff machine🤘
the live version of where dragons dwell hellfest 2013 is a golden moment of metal
Backbone is very very awesome !
The heaviness of backbone is amazing
@@__zzz___ yes agreed, one of the greatest live performances ever. A recommended watch for anyone reading this comment!
MESHUGGAH - Pravus at 3min 30sec : Vitiate, dispirit, debase, violaaaaaaaaaate!
SO FUCKING HEAVY♥
Every single riff by a little band called Bolt Thrower. Right now I would go with the opening riff to "Ritual."
Bolt Thrower, awesome
yes
Into The Void for sure
End piece of Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath.
Not even a question
The original metal breakdown. The one in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath after the guitar solo. Unbelievable (for that time).
To me, not the "heaviest" itself but did establish what it means to be "heavy". In some ways, that is where it really all began...especially with he contrast of Ozzy's high pitched singing during that breakdown.
How many screens did I have to scroll through to see the OBVIOUS ANSWER?!
Probably not the one of all time, but the main riff of The Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica is easily the heaviest thrash guitar tune ever done.
Best Metallica song. Heaviest Metallica song. So good.
Deep cut
Ain’t that heavy. During that era they definitely had heavier riffs
@@Username-ng8jy heavy? Or fast? Because it's the heaviest song of the four albums.
Great call 🤙
I always enjoy this question since everyone quantifies what "heavy" means differently.
For me, you can basically put on damn near any Meshuggah song and your in the running for heaviest riff.
Electric Wizard -"Doomantia" (the chorus riff) is way up there too.
Ending of Machine Head's Davidian is always the first riff that comes to my mind.
A few that come to mind
Breakdown in “Lethergcia” - Meshuggah
Beginning riff of “Nebulous” - Meshuggah
Breakdown in “Domination” live - Pantera
Breakdown in “Lower The Blade” - Car Bomb
It’s so hard to choose
Haha that middle riff in Lethargica is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this. I remember my friends and I talking about it being the heaviest riff in the world when it came out. End riff of Domination came to mind too. The middle riff in Angel of Death as well!
the entirety of meshuggah's discography is my answer. Break those bones is at the top I think
Breakdown in Evile-Man against machine
Man picking a meshuggah riff is like picking a needle in a haystack. My pick would have to the outro of dancers to a discordant system. Ligature marks intro is good as well.
great picks, nebulous is a criminally underrated song.
A National Acrobat and Sweet Leaf, i couldn't believe noone mentioned those two songs
For folks starting down the path of melting your face off, here are some easy ones off the top of my head that I love...
(I should preface these aren't all metal and aren't necessarily 'crushing' in the conventional metal sense, still mega heavy, each and every one.)
"Battery" by Metallica (@ 1:05)
"The Thing that Should Not Be" by Metallica (riff during solo @ 3:40)
"Holy Wars" by Megadeth (classic riff B @ 1:06)
"Take No Prisoners" by Megadeth (opening but really @ 0:23)
"Five Magics" by Megadeth (opening riff AND riff going into solo @ 2:47 sec AND end riff @ 4:43)
"Devirgination Studies" by Whitechapel (the whole goddamn thing right from the jump)
"Critical Mass" by Nuclear Assault (main riff)
"Angel of Death" (obviously) (whole thing but especially @ 1:37)
"Owned" by Jerry Cantrell (main)
"Moan" by Nik Nocturnal (no i'm not joking, it's a joke song tho, but...) (@ 1:52)
"Shadow on the Sun" by Audioslave (ending riff @ 4:30 - the build up is worth it)
"Bring Em Back Alive" by Audioslave (main @ 0:40)
"Moby Dick" by Led Zeppelin (yes very rock - main)
"Kyle Petty Son of Richard" by Soundgarden (main)
"4th of July" by Soundgarden (main)
"My Own Summer" by Deftones (main)
"Coma" by Stone Temple Pilots (main)
"The Wretched Spawn" by Cannibal Corpse (took a bit of a turn there) (entire but especially opening)
"Scourge of Iron" by Cannibal Corpse (entire)
And here goes my AIC dump...
"Them Bones" by Alice in Chains (main riff)
"Grind" by AIC (main riff)
"Sludge Factory" by AIC (main riff)
"Died" by AIC (main riff, I've heard this one described as "just fucking caustic")
"Last of My Kind" by AIC (riff going into solo @ 3:24)
"A Looking in View" by AIC (front half of the song)
"Acid Bubble" by AIC (riff at the break @ 2:40)
"Hollow" by AIC (main)
"Stone" by AIC (main riff but EVEN MORE SO riff going into solo @ 2:00)
"Phantom Limb" by AIC (main)
"Red Giant" by AIC (main)
"So Far Under" by AIC (main)
The thing that should not be
Probably the heaviest old school metallica song, sounds so crushing!
Mastodon - Mother Puncher needs to be mentioned here.
That shit is the most bloodpumping stuff around.
never get tired of it.
Whole Remission album is exercise is pummeling and mouth bending riffage.
@@rbnh9827 Brent and Bill never wrote a bad riff in their life .
Need to write a follow up album now. There prog stuff has been boring me to sleep since crack the sky.
Mother Puncher is heavy af! You beat me to it
The end of 'Purify' by Neurosis, from 'Through Silver In Blood'. Which, factually, is the heaviest album of all time. Also the breakdown in 'To Carry The Load' by Crowbar.
For me a tie between A New Level-Pantera and Metallica-the end chunky part of Battery
"The Finger of God"
Best description of that riff ever.
The breakdown riff in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, when I first heard that at the age of 12 I was legitimately frightened
I have loved that song for many years. I wish a modern band with the right vocalist would do a cover for it.
@@coryb2173 can’t be beaten and no one could wail like Ozzy back in the day
Here's Some:
Pantera - Primal Concrate Sledge Live at Ozzyfest breakdown part
Pantera - Domination Live at Russia breakdown part
Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island Live at Hellfest 2016
Gojira - Backbone Intro & Breakdown Riffs
Gojira - Gift of Guilt (riff that kicks in after vocals first start)
Gojira - Sphinx Intro Riff
Opeth - Blackwater Park (the riff that kicks in at the start - after acoustic part)
Dream Theater - As I am - first one and half minutes.
I'm glad she mentioned Meshuggah Bleed, worth a look
Don’t EVER forget the breakdown from Hollow by Pantera!! That’s the one for me.
I've gotta say Terra Incognita and The Link albums by Gojira are some of the heaviest riffs I've heard. Great breakdowns too.
Remembrance and Embrace the World super underrated
The second riff in inward movement, wisdom comes, death of me breakdown etc.
Heaviest riff of all time is in the breakdown in the song Damage Inc. by Metallica. The first time I listened to it, I looped that part of the song for hours and hours and just couldn’t get enough of it. I truly believe it’s the most hardcore riff of all time.
I thought I was the only one, Damage Inc is amazing, probably one of my favorites solos as well!
Kirk wrote some killer breakdowns.
You try not to pick too many from one single band, and you try not to pick Metallica because they're "mainstream." But, you know... Sad But True, Harvester of Sorrow... Damage Incorporated... They've got some strong candidates.
gojira remembrance build up to the breakdown
Fuck YESSSS
There's so many! But black Sabbaths first riff from their first album black sabbath has to be one of the heaviest!
I'd say Davidian by Machine Head. But their album Burn My Eyes has so many powerful heavy riffs that it's hard to choose.
Classic : Sabbath - Into the Void
Modern: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Not nearly as well known as most songs and bands mentioned here but Avatar's Hail the Apocalypse just oozes heavy chugging that sounds so good.
oh yes!! great song!
Sepultura- Amen. Heavy fucking song and just gives that feeling. You know the feeling…
For me, it’s the breakdown in Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
The break down in “This Love” by Pantera is up there for me
For me, it's the opening--and most of the rest--of "When The Levee Breaks." It just is.
Pantera has buckets full of heavy as hell riffs, but first that comes to mind is War nerve ending riff.
Puritania by Dimmu Borgir comes to mind instantly
For me it's probably Bongripper - Into Ruin. Specifically the riff that kicks in at 6:17 of that song. I could just listen to that on repeat forever. The main chorus in Byzanthian Neckbeard - Extinction is similar and also awesome.
Bro ❤ agreed 100%. I feel like Bongripper gets overlooked by so many people because of their name, but they are so good. I listened because of the name 😂 not what I was expecting but was captivated. Best doom band of all time.
Celtic Frost -- Procreation of the Wicked ... seen it live, nastiest, heaviest riff I have ever experienced.
4:15 - Raining Blood is a good one. Or Angel of Death. Honestly, can we just nominate the entire album as the best metal riff? It's only like half an hour long!
Domination - Pantera
Of course this song why shouldn’t it be mentioned?! Feels like I’m trying to walk with cinder blocks as shoes
Autodidact - Between the Buried and Me (Outro)
When Tommy screams “piss it all away,” and that riff punches you in the gut, you instantly get that stank face. No matter how many times I hear it I instantly start head banging.
The end of Domination is the 2nd heaviest riff ever to Match of the SOD.
I can name 2 off the top of my head. Black Sabbath, Zero the Hero and the breakdown in 5 Minutes Alone by Pantera always kicks my ass.
Humanitys last breath - the middle breakdown in "make me blind' change my mind
the slow breakdown from flying whales by gojira just an absolute lead brick
Technically it's probably an Electric Wizard riff, but Calm like a Bomb is just heavy. Heavy comes from dah bass.
I don't think it's had enough time to marinate but Faultless by Meshuggah is amazingly heavy and so catchy, it's just a damn earworm. Someday it will get the love it deserves.
I was thinking the same thing! Good stuff
Would say phantoms ending might be the heaviest thing Meshuggah has ever made.
Not even the heaviest song on that album
@@nolanbeasinger8555 wait dont even know how i could forget about God he sees in mirrors. My fav track of the album and by far the heaviest off it too.
ooh yeah
It took me an hour to get through this video because i broke off to listen to all the choices. Best hour spent in a while. 🤘
My heaviest riff of all time is the ending to “Humiliative” by Meshuggah. It’s simple and completely complex at the same time and it builds levels quickly in the short time it has.
That intro groove as well. It’s impossible not to move when the whole band comes in together on that first groove!
🤯 "Dancers To A Discordant System" 🤯.
Carcass "Embodiment"
Blew my mind when I first heard it, as did the whole "Heartwork" album. \m/
Rationally speaking, even though I‘d love to have other bands up there too, it comes down go Meshuggah.
Technically, the execution, the tone, the tuning… its basically every song released during and after „Nothing“ that pushes the envelope and make Metallica, Slayer, Lamb of God, Pantera, Slipknot, Korn, Gojira etc. sound mellow. (And don‘t get me wrong, love all of these bands to death).
But hands down, Meshuggah is simply the heaviest there is.
Scourge of Iron would be my choice
I remember being genuinely scared in a Slayer pit as they approached the final minute of “Postmortem”. You could literally feel the entire arena bracing itself as if to say “Uh oh, here comes trouble…” Good times😊
I used to get pumped up for basketball games listening to Skeletons of Society. Still one of my favorite riffs/ songs.
2 of the heaviest pits I’ve ever been in is Pantera or Slayer, then it was American Head Charge. Soooo brutal🤘Reign in Blood, Domination and Pushing the Envelope so great in the pit
@@snake2261 Acid Rain of Pain...
@@brasschuckles3138 People also went nuts during Korns early days... There is one in '95 where people throw shit in the air & all hell breaks loose...
#SpittingStraightFacts
Easiest question of all time...beginning of Obzen by Meshuggah. Literally using your skull as drums, with the drumsticks being sledgehammers.
Slayer- Postmortem
Pantera- Drag The Waters
Morbid Angel - God of Emptiness
Sabbath- Megalomania
Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion by Meshuggah, simple but sinister 2 notes intro builds to classic shuggah' polymetric riff, with that one extra note on the end of every second repetition, that displaces it in the gird just perfectly. All layerd on top of 4/4 drum beat. Brutal.
Holy shit yeah, that riff is so heavy it has gravitational pull
Redneck is incredible all around. The foot work by Chris kicks ass and so does all the riffs. And ofcourse Randy's awesome vocals. But every song mentioned here is amazing and unique in some way or another and its awesome.
Chris isnt a part of the riff.
Too upbeat. IMO. Love the song but to me heavy has a lower and slower tempo
@@tywins3669 truth
...and suffer as one - Crowbar.
The guy who said Crowbar knows what's up
Slugdge - War Squids (one of the heaviest actual riffs that's not just open chugging or in a marching cadence like Sad But True, Walk, etc.)
Black Breath - Feast of The Damned
Dragged Into Sunlight - Buried With Leaches (somewhere in that song lol)
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity (you know the one)
War squids is such a great riff.
@@mattmovesmountains1443 Definitely just realized I typed "War Pigs" lol
@@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce haha, yeah I knew what you meant, and I make exceptions for bolgnese because who doesn't like bolognese?