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Re: Favorite metal riffs? where t begin...so many great riffs t choose from...guess I'll start with a couple of Black Sabbath riffs Children of the Grave Heaven and Hell Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath Computer God Symptom of the Universe Tony Iommi has crafted so many of metal's very best riffs

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Re: Favorite metal riffs? Oooohhh, interesting topic, tough one. Here are a few: Morbid Angel - Chapel of Ghouls Black Sabbath - Into the Void Dismember - Override of the Overture Dark Angel - Merciless Death Trouble - At the End of My Daze Cathedral - A Funeral Request Slayer - At Dawn They Sleep Helstar - Baptized in Blood Mercyful Fate - A Corpse Without Soul Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Master's Hammer - Jama Pekel Sepultura - Escape to the Void Morbid Saint - Lock Up Your Children Immolation - Christ's Cage Candlemass - Bewitched To name but a few...

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Black Sabbath - Into the Void
Crushing riffs in this one, it's my favorite Sabbath track!
Tony Iommi has crafted so many of metal's very best riffs
He is without question "The Godfather of metal", just so influential, I can't imagine what the scene would be like without him. Been listening to Slayer for a long time now and I absolutely love them, I know most prefer Reign in Blood, but I'll take Hell Awaits any day, especially Hardening of the Arteries, it just kicks ass in so many ways. BTW - Some great lists already...keep 'em coming.
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Re: Favorite metal riffs? Hell Awaits is just better, I'm one of the strange ones that likes both Hell Awaits AND South Of Heaven more then Reign In Blood a few more of my favourite riffs Judas Priest - Electric Eye Iron Maiden - Powerslave Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses Coroner - Masked Jackals Catacombs - Where No Light Hath Shown...(But For That Of The Moon) Anathema - Restless Oblivion Nevertanezra - In The Face Of Despair

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Re: Favorite metal riffs? Mayhem-Freezing Moon/Carnage Moonspell-Alma Mater Cannibal Corpse-The Cryptic Stench Suffocation-Mass Obliteration/Infecting the Crypts Deicide-Behead the Prophet Candlemass-A Sorceror's Pledge Kreator-Pleasure to Kill Virgin Steele-Wings of Vengeance Titan Force-Blaze of Glory Judas Priest-Exciter Pyrexia-Sermon of Mockery Incantation-Demonic Incarnate Darkthrone-In the Shadow of the horns/Transilvanian Hunger Behexen-Let the horror and chaos come Evoken-Descent into Chaotic dream/In Solitary Ruin Skepticism-Antimony/Sign of a storm Gorefest-The Glorious Dead Gorgoroth-Krig/Begravelsesnatt Ulver-Capitel I: I Troldskog Faren Vild Savatage-Hall of the mountain King/Handful of rain Devourment-Babykiller TOO MANY TO LIST. MIND OVERLOAD

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Re: Favorite metal riffs? Confessor - Blueprint Soul Overkill - Playing With Spiders/Skullcrusher Overkill - Elimination Exodus - The Toxic Waltz Harmony - Prevail Serenity - Beyond Desert Sands Evoken - Antithesis Of Ligh Annihilator - Wicked Mystic Bathory - Winds Of Destruction Death - Scavenger Of Human Sorrow Megadeth - Wake Up Dead Anthrax - Fight 'Em Til You Can't Angel Witch - Geburrah

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Candlemass-A Sorceror's Pledge
Excellent choice! The members on this forum have such diverse tastes in metal. That being said, I'm not so open-minded myself, besides doom I do enjoy a bit of thrash :!: Sarcofago - Piercings Bywar - The Twin of Icon Acid Speech - Corrosive Rot Bewitched - Bewitched by Evil Destruction - Eternal Ban Exodus - Strike of the Beast Perversor - Victory of the Legions of the Damned
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Re: Favorite metal riffs? Blut is bang on, I listen to most genres with a particular interest in Blac, Death, Doom and Thrash though I have a bit of prog, power and folk metal on te side, heavymetaldave listens predominantly to thrash with the traditional/nwobhm on the side (something else I forgt to include in my ow tastes) NTNR wh isin Nevertanezra with Blut lstens alost exclusively to o, ora let that's all h tas abu and so n

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Blut is bang on' date=' I listen to most genres with a particular interest in Blac, Death, Doom and Thrash though I have a bit of prog, power and folk metal on te side, heavymetaldave listens predominantly to thrash with the traditional/nwobhm on the side (something else I forgt to include in my ow tastes) NTNR wh isin Nevertanezra with Blut lstens alost exclusively to o, ora let that's all h tas abu and so n[/quote'] I miss my old forum, we had a few different beer drinking smilies that would have been perfect here.
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Re: Favorite metal riffs? Well, of the material I currently own, here's a preliminary list. 'Painside' by Brainstorm 'Southern Cross' by Chthonic 'Evermore' by Circle II Circle 'White Noise/Black Silence' by Dark Tranquillity 'Independent Harmony' by Division By Zero 'Watching The Skies' by Evergrey 'Share the Blame' by Futures End 'Programmers of Decline' and 'Hidden Genocide' by Gorod 'Hearts On Fire' and 'A Legend Reborn' by HammerFall 'Prevail' by Harmony 'Warrior', 'Battering Ram', 'Coming Home', 'Protector', 'The Battle', 'Hall Of The Heroes' by Iron Savior 'King of the Absurd' by Manticora 'ObZen', 'Swarm', and 'Demiurge' by Meshuggah 'Thrones' and 'Noctivigant' by Miseration 'Ironic Destiny' 'Beyond The Stars', 'Madness', 'Empty Word', 'Tempests Of Sorrows', and 'Merciless Times' by Myrath 'The Dying Things We're Living For' by My Silent Wake ...pretty much everything I've got by Nevermore... 'Collapse of the Fallen Throe' by Novembers Doom 'King Of Babylon' by Pantokrator 'Sign Of Fear' by Primal Fear ...also almost everything I've got by Quo Vadis 'Leviathan Rising', 'Fistful Of Sand', 'Noonday Devil', 'No Tickets To The Funeral', 'Peel' and 'Walls' by Redemption 'Garden Of Chaos', 'Satan's Playground', 'I'm A Warrior' by Rob Rock. 'Lakeside Park' by Spheric Universe Experience Essentially everything from the Iconoclast album by Symphony X 'This Is Your Life', 'Phenomenon', 'Light And Space', 'Mission Profile' and my favorite song, 'Long Way Home', all by Threshold. 'Maiden Of Steel' and 'The Chosen Ones' by Thy Majestie 'Lost Innocence' by Unsun 'Fire Of The Times' by Voyager

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Yeah' date=' most of us do listen to a bit of everything, but have different focuses/main interests.[/quote'] Well, variety is the spice of life...or so they say. @ Iceni, thanks for posting your list, there are quite a few bands on it that I have not yet heard. I'll definitely be checking them out over the weekend!
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South of Heaven - Slayer
Classic. So's Dead Skin Mask. Not a big Pantera fan, but Walk is a really cool riff. But not as cool as: Sabs-Neon Night AC/DC-Highway to Hell Blue Oyster Cult-Hot Rails To Hell UFO-Only You Can Rock Me Twisted Sister-Destroyer Thin Lizzy-Soldier Of Fortune Iron Maiden-Phantom Of The Opera Deep Purple-Smoke On The Water Motorhead-Bomber
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classic. So's dead skin mask. Not a big pantera fan, but walk is a really cool riff. But not as cool as: Sabs-neon night ac/dc-highway to hell blue oyster cult-hot rails to hell ufo-only you can rock me twisted sister-destroyer thin lizzy-soldier of fortune iron maiden-phantom of the opera deep purple-smoke on the water motorhead-bomber
all of my fav bands are on that list!!!
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