Your top five favorite riffs of all time?

Please include links :)

Mine are as follows:

1.Winds Of Creation by Decapitated. I love all the riffs in this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL8WH-fd4SY

2.Phobophile by Cryptopsy. Its the riff that starts 48 seconds in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FivvPQIUY

3.Celestial Voyage by Cynic.Its the main riff.

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

4.Pull The Plug by Death. Its the main riff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9pNmBFZHw

5.Ocean Planet by Gojira.Its the main riff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko4dui0KYkA

I haven't seen you in ages.

I love in main riff in Iron Maiden-Killers.

I haven't seen you in ages.

I love in main riff in Iron Maiden-Killers.

ghoklebutter

Ain't listing five, don't have time.

But, Sleepy Silver Door by Dead Meadow is tops.

How To Handle A Rope - QotSA

3's & 7's - QotSA

Death Letter - Son House

Thumb - Kyuss

Ince Ince - Selda Bagcan

All gold to me. :)

Damn, just five? My "riffs" playlist on my iPod has 118 songs on it.

Oh well, I'll pick five of my favorites from that list, in no particular order.

Better By You Better Than Me by Judas Priest

Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band

How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin

Sabbra Cadabra by Black Sabbath

The Trooper by Iron Maiden

Well... :P

1: Whole lotta love- intro

2:ipak pozelim neko pismo-intro

3:whole lotta rosie- around 2:55

4: War pigs - around 2:18

5:for those about to rock - intro

Damn, just five? My "riffs" playlist on my iPod has 118 songs on it.

Oh well, I'll pick five of my favorites from that list, in no particular order.

Better By You Better Than Me by Judas Priest

Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band

How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin

Sabbra Cadabra by Black Sabbath

The Trooper by Iron Maiden

EolGul2

right now the start of the kinks you have really got me going

Great list. Mine are personally:

Demilich - The Echo (Replacement) = The riff that comes immediately after the intro riff.

Spawn of Possession - A Presence Inexplicable = The intro. Unfortunately very short, it's awesome.

Autopsy - In the Grip of Winter = First slow section.

Lord Gore - Last Supper (The Autophagous) = When vocals kick in.

Morbid Angel - Visions From the Dark Side = Verse riff.

Obituary - Infected = After intro riff, when solo starts

Pestilence - Chronic Infection = Verse riff.

Megadeth - Last Rites - Loved to Death = Verse riff.

Carcass - Incarnated Solvent Abuse = Chorus (?)

Aspid - It Came (Aspid) = Chorus riff.

Those are some that spring to mind. In no specific order though.

EDIT: I couldn't pick only five.

even flow

plug in baby

walk this way

killing in the name of

soul to squeeze

Choosing five of my favorites is nigh impossible, but I'll try to think of a few off the top of my head. BTW I learned Phobophile on bass a few days ago (still working on keeping it consistent). :D

I'm listening to Hour Of Penance's new album right now, so I'll go with the opening riff on Paradogma or the riff on the closing track Apotheosis.

Immolation's Father, You're Not A Father. That opening riff is colossal.

Belphegor's Blackest Ecstasy, Vomit Upon The Cross, etc. Plenty of great, sometimes simple riffing.

Gorguts' Inverted comes to mind first.

Anata's Sewerages Of The Mind.

Deathspell Omega's Jubilate Deo (O Be Joyful In The Lord). The choral riff. All the riffs on Carnal Malefactor, naturally. The Shrine Of Mad Laughter is godlike too.

Pretty much any Ulcerate riff off of Everything Is Fire, and the riff at the end of Martyr Of the Soil, Failure, and The Coming Of Genocide from their previous album.

Mitochondrion created what is in my opinion the greatest crescendo in all of extreme metal on Wraithlike...

I'm too lazy to find them so I'll just say:

• every riff in Crimson by Edge of Sanity
• every riff in the album Back to Times of Splendor by Disillusion
• the riffs on The Godless Endeavor and Dead Heart in a Dead World by Nevermore
• Backbone - Gojira
• a lot of Devin Townsend's stuff

That's all I remember right now.

ANYTHING by We Butter The Bread With Butter including Der Kuckuck und der Esel

Coffins For The Cursed

Still Fly

Hello Astronaut

Not in order

Twilight of the Thunder God

Only for the Weak

Falling to Pieces (at 0:29)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1:17)

The Winter Wake

If nobody comments on my choices I'ma be pissed >.>

Just-Radiohead

Formed from a competition to get the most chords into a song. Love it

Kool Thing-Sonic Youth

Once it gets stuck in your head, it stays there.

Half A Canyon-Pavement

Full of great riffs. (2:48 also gives me goosebumps)

No Age-Brain Burner

Makes me want to skank like a madman.

Rage Against the Machine- Testify

Tool- H

Porcupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun

The Bell Witch - Mercyful Fate

A Touch Of Evil - Judas Priest

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Seek And Destroy - Metallica

We Die Young - Alice In Chains. Too heavy for mortal ears.

Can't for all time, but here's the ones right now.

Sacrifice Unto Sebek - Nile (Start's at 1:30)

Brains - Atheist (entire song is riiifffftastic!)

Burial Ground - Immolation (Intro riff)

Hallowed be thy Name - Iron Maiden (Main riff)

Blashyrkh (Might Ravendark) - Immortal (from about 3:00 - 4:15) That is one epic one minute and fifteen seconds.

God, picking five is hard.

Not in order

Twilight of the Thunder God

Only for the Weak

Falling to Pieces (at 0:29)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1:17)

The Winter Wake

If nobody comments on my choices I'ma be pissed >.>

RobboElRobbo

Twilight of the Thunder God

If nobody comments on my choices I'ma be pissed >.>

RobboElRobbo

I love Amon Amarth. Greatest weight lifting music ever. Listening to Amon Amarth is like overdosing on steroids. Plus anything related to vikings is an automatic win.

Not in order

Twilight of the Thunder God

Only for the Weak

Falling to Pieces (at 0:29)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1:17)

The Winter Wake

If nobody comments on my choices I'ma be pissed >.>

RobboElRobbo

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Not in order

Twilight of the Thunder God

Only for the Weak

Falling to Pieces (at 0:29)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1:17)

The Winter Wake

If nobody comments on my choices I'ma be pissed >.>

Bluestorm-Kalas

I now feel content

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

Twilight of the Thunder God

If nobody comments on my choices I'ma be pissed >.>

EolGul2

I love Amon Amarth. Greatest weight lifting music ever. Listening to Amon Amarth is like overdosing on steroids. Plus anything related to vikings is an automatic win.

I guess it would be pretty good weightlifting music, however, I don't lift weights :P

Every single riff on the album Nespithe by Demilich is fantastic.wizzardjeff

Erase by All that remains definitely the most fun to play on my guitar

Six - All That Remains

Fade To Black - Metallica

Destruction Preventer - Sonata Arctica

Black Widow - Children of Bodom

The Sentinel - Judas Priest

[QUOTE="wizzardjeff"]Every single riff on the album Nespithe by Demilich is fantastic.Rikardur

Every single riff on the album Nespithe by Demilich is fantastic.wizzardjeff

No Agalloch riffs? :x

I'd have to think for a while to get five, but the main riff from Tragedies Blows at Horizon jumps to mind.

[QUOTE="Rikardur"][QUOTE="wizzardjeff"]Every single riff on the album Nespithe by Demilich is fantastic.Guppy507

Helmet - Ironhead

I'd like to change my vote to A National Acrobat by Black Sabbath. That's right, just one song. Five awesome riffs in one ****ing song. Iommi is that good.

Welcome to the Jungle Sweet Child o' Mine Paradise City By The Sword Watch This Last Child Walk This Wayauron_16

Pretty much this

Of course the most well-known riff of them all, Smoke on the Water.

But my favorites include Wherever I May Roam by Metallica and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.

I'd like to chance my vote to A National Acrobat by Black Sabbath. That's right. Five awesome riffs, one song. Iommi is that ****ing good.

EolGul2

[QUOTE="auron_16"]Welcome to the Jungle Sweet Child o' Mine Paradise City By The Sword Watch This Last Child Walk This Waybatman_is_aweso

Pretty much this

There's too many to name, but I love basic chunky riffs such as heard in the old Anti-religion classic Orgasmatron

Oh man. I'm too tired to post 5 right now. I'll go ahead and tell you my number one favorite, which is the solo in Stairway to Heaven.

LINK

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I'd like to chance my vote to A National Acrobat by Black Sabbath. That's right. Five awesome riffs, one song. Iommi is that ****ing good.

DEVILinIRON

Wicked World

Electric Funeral

Lord of this World

Killing Yourself to Live

Symptom of the Universe

Heaven and Hell (my favorite Sabbath song)

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I'd like to chance my vote to A National Acrobat by Black Sabbath. That's right. Five awesome riffs, one song. Iommi is that ****ing good.

EolGul2

Wicked World

Electric Funeral

Lord of this World

Killing Yourself to Live

Symptom of the Universe

Heaven and Hell (my favorite Sabbath song)

I have to list seven riffs:

Layla (Derek and the Dominos)

Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)

Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)

Back in Black (AC/DC)

Stranglehold (Ted Nugent)

Money for Nothing (Dire Straits)

Man on the Silver Mountain (Ritchie Blackmore)

Some of my all-time favorites.

Suffocation - Infecting the Crypts

Spawn of Possession - Uncle Damfee

Immolation - Those Left Behind

Origin - Antithesis

Decrepit Birth - Through Alchemy Bound Eternal

And another one that I've been listening a lot to recently.

Defeated Sanity - Stoned Then Defiled

Crimson Moonlight - Intimations of Everlasting Constancy

Mors Principium Est - Altered State of Consciousness

Sylosis - Reflections Through Fire

Noumena - Marionettes

Persefone - Fall to Rise

Throne of Chaos - From Clarity to Insanity

The riff in Knights Of Cydonia by Muse is probably my favorite. Can't list another four that really stand out though.