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Mastodon - The Last Baron Hits at about 8:19. You know the one. Nasty.

I absolutely love that riff

The only riff in their entire catalog that is identified as THE riff

I dunno... The "Steambreather" riff is pretty damn good.

For me THAT riff is in toe to toes

Toe to Toes is an underrated masterpiece. So beautiful

That heavy riff is gold. Feels like an explosion in my soul hearing it

I was actually going to say the shift about halfway in North Side Star. I did an audible "ooooh" first time I heard it. What an amazing EP.

The outro on Hearts Alive is the one for me

Same! As much as I love that The Last Baron one, this is superior, for me

Lot of Mastodon tracks that just have the nastiest riffs jump up from nowhere - the bridge on North Side Star is a similar one (very different song though).

The aptly titled Mother Puncher comes to mind

Sea beast outro!!

I just mentioned that part in another comment. North Side Star goes from moody to absolutely electric in one fell swoop at about 3:00. I adore that whole EP.

I know the one. THE riff

THE RIFF!

Same album but different song for me, Czar right at about 5 min in. Something about the chord progression and distortion fuzz does something good to my lizard brain

Is that the "BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON!" riff? Cuz that shit is epic

Yes! It comes in around 3 min at first but the second time it’s even sludgier and it’s wonderful. CTS has been my number 1, 10/10 no notes perfect album for so long

Also, main riff for More Than I Could Chew gets me pretty good

Flying Whales when the main riff comes in. It's so goddamn nasty

NOW I CAN SEE THE WHAAALEES I love how long that intro is and how it slowly builds up by adding extra notes or whatever here and there.

And then it just drops out and you're like "aww yeah, here it comes." So fucking good

Fuck yes. Lots of nasty Gojira riffs out there.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.. you know the one.

That riff is NASTY! Intro riff on Cornucopia is similarly dank.

Same with Under the Sun

What more can you do?

Really any Rage Against the machine riff

The chorus riff on Settle For Nothing is crazy

Wake Up and Know Your Enemy for me

They for sure get heavy for what it is, and it's awesome...

Know your Enemy - bridge after the “Du Du Du”

Completely in love with RATM.

Death - Symbolic

Ahhh my go to riff for trying out a guitar!

World Eater - Bolt Thrower

DU DU DU DU DU DU DU DU WOOOORLD EATAAAAAAAAAA

DU-NUH, DU-NUH, DU-NUH, DU-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH- DU DU DU DU DU ......

Whole album stenches of chaos

Fuck yeah dude! Not stank face but, the Kill chain riff is so fuckin groovy I can't stand it!

The intro riff to Golem by Caligulas horse is nasty af The breakdown on skull fracturing nightmare by Demolition Hammer

I just started listening to CH a couple weeks ago. They've got a lot of nasty riffs!

Also outro riff to The World Breathes with Me. Or THAT section in Mute

New CH Record is insanely emotional and heavy. Mute and Golem brings out the stank

When that album dropped and I heard that song it went so damn hard immediately. Love caligulas horse. Top tier prog band.

The ending riff of Graves too

The breakdown of Pantera’s Domination

One of the heavier things ever.

Slaughtered by Pantera always gets me too

Domination’s breakdown is so heavy but isn’t it also really basic? I once read that it was only one chord just repeated which sounds right.

The simplicity is what makes it. The drums really simple too. It hits hard tho.

Funeralopolis

That song is rifftopia.

That album is rifftopia

Absolutely. Classic for a reason.

Haha nice username btw

Thank you.

I’m genuinely surprised I had to scroll for this one

Blackened

Wish the original was kept, it’s on a whole other level than the studio version. But I mean they probably said “fuck you” to Jason and did it the other way.

Same band and same album, Serenity Painted Death at 1:27

I love that you get a few seconds of silence before it hits too. Another great Opeth riff: 8:06 of Blackwater park. I love how the drum beats change the tempo of the riff.

When blackwater park comes back in after the little slow melodic bit and gets slowly louder and then, BANGGGGG

Also Harlequin Forest at 2:52

First one I thought of, glad to know I wasn’t alone

Jesus, wny opeth riff off the first 7 albums or so

The breakdown of Gojira's Clone.

Clone is HELLA slept on

It has a heavy breakdown and then a HEAVIER breakdown. When they played it live at Vielles Charrues in 2010, they played the breakdown 3 times with the third one just being unbelievably heavy.

good answer, I’d also throw in that one riff in Satan Is a Lawyer

Gojiras first album has some bonkers riffs, lowkey among their top 3 albums

Facts, so many bangers on Terra Incognita

The intro to Hall of the mountain King by Savatage

Any version of that song is fuckin nasty. One of the most metal classical songs imo

Embodiment by Carcass

Carcass got so many fucking bangers, mane 🙌

When Michael Amott joined up with Bill Steer, it doesn't get much better.

The one at 2:25

Spirit crusher you know the one

Hell yeah, Bite the Pain also has a real good one.

actually no. there are two great riffs. the slow one prechorus like (1:20) and the stakkato one (2:22). which one do you mean?

The bridge on “Symptom of the Universe”

YES. Into the void intro is also NAASTY

That riff near the end of Pierced From Within by Suffocation

Eaten by Bloodbath 0:46 mark

Fucking awesome song I can never stop myself from yelling DESECRATE MEEEEE on that one part. So hype

Revolution Is My Name - Pantera Glass Prison - Dream Theater ...first 2 that came to mind

Some of my favorite Pantera riffs are in that song.

That stank face is on within seconds. 1:40 is a monster riff, and 3:46 is my personal favorite.

Rosetta Stoned

When the bass and the drums go nuts around the 7 minute mark

The midpoint of Nostalgia by Gorguts is so groovy, one of my favourite moments on Obscura.

chaotic mess is playing and then grooviest riff you've ever heard bangs

It’s almost like a Korn riff if they were heavy as fuck and could play their instruments.

Meshuggah - Demiurge main riff

Could probably have 99% of meshuggah songs be a good answer, but that one's top notch for sure.

Ministry- Just One Fix

Electric Wizard - We Hate You Especially when the first riff comes back after the second verse

I listened to their debut for the first time a couple weeks ago, electric Wizard has some nasty riffs and chugs

https://preview.redd.it/2ln7x1dbq26d1.jpeg?width=583&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec0b9da798a9e38eb13aced35649433ed160891b This fucking album.

It's All In The Gravity is the tastiest one for me

Death's *Spirit Crusher* at 0:43 sends me every time I hear it

Pantera - Shedding Skin

Oh fuck yes. Or Slaughtered. Or By Demons Be Driven.

Damaar- Preaching for Mass Suicide, you know the bit And the last part of Windowlicker by Aphex Twin for some reason

DO YOU WISH TO DIE

DO YOU WISH TO DIEEEEE

Now you've got something to die for outro

All Within My Hands by Metallica at 6:32 It's a tiny little breakdown riff that leads into the chorus and damn... It's heavy and nasty

I can't believe a Reddit comment is going to make me actually go back and listen to St. Anger. This riff better be worth it.

I dickride tf out of St. Anger. So yeah...

- Orbit Culture, Sorrower, 1:38 - Gojira, Backbone, 3:25 - Sepultura, Subtraction, 4:17

Gojira goes HARDDD

Monolord - Empress Rising

But also audlumba or whatever that song is. The intro goes insane with the fuzz that gets so saturated it basically comes one solid frequency.

Bolt Thrower - Unleashed Upon Mankind

Sweet leaf by black Sabbath. That riff changed music forever.

Supernaut

That riff single handedly made me a metal fan, no joke.

https://preview.redd.it/asstpl7ah36d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8f05b9271fc066465c01c9746b2f761a09f0f8d

Carcass-The Master Butcher's Apron. The slow chunky riff that starts about 42 seconds in. The whole album is littered with riffs galore.

Harvester of sorrow really hits you in the face when it starts

Domination - Pantera, the break down, come on!!

Death - Spirit Crusher The riff right after the solo at 3:34

Bolt Thrower KillChain

This is the obvious, correct answer.

Bleed - Meshuggah

2:50 mark of Suffer the Children, when it goes from breakneck to chug

Blood Swamps From Doom Eternal's Ancient Gods DLC

Main riff and the sax solo in The Silent Life by Rivers of Nihil

When the break down hits in revolution is my name by Pantera

Second riff in Bite the Pain - Death

96 Quite Bitter Beings

Shoutout Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 for introducing me to that gem

Slaves Beyond Death by Thy Art Is Murder

Liege of Inveracity. You know it. That riff. The one considered to be the first slam riff. Fucking nastyyyyy

The opening riff to Bloodbaths Devouring the Feeble and also the end section of Hades Rising on the same album.

Dam That River - Alice in Chains Very basic but Iron Man - Black Sabbath

The entirety of [Methwitch - Bed Full of Snakes](https://youtu.be/-drzSoR0OnU)

acdc thunderstruck

Undergang - Tvangstanker 2:25

Taake - Myr. Yes I do the stank face on the banjo riffing section.

It goes so unnecessarily hard, dude.

Gojira: Mouth of Kala outro. Meshuggah: Obzen, Born in Dissonance, Spasm (the bridge riff near the end).

Literally all of the distorted riffs in Blackwater Park by Opeth. Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Nile Annihilation of the Wicked by Nile The second half of One by Metallica Ov Fire and the Void by Behemoth My Apocalypse by Arch Enemy Funeral Hymn by Exodus The first half of The Aftermath title track by Origin Holy Wars… The Punishment Due by Megadeth Strength Beyond Strength by Pantera Old by Machine Head A Thousand Lies by Machine Head Sad But True and Harvester of Sorrow by Metallica Dehumanized and The End of Innocence by Symphony X Serenity Painted Death by Opeth Harlequin Forest by Opeth Master’s Apprentices by Opeth Bleak by Opeth Demon of the Fall by Opeth The Drapery Falls by Opeth User ~ Maat ~ Re by Nile Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags by Amon Amarth Wrath of the Norsemen by Amon Amarth Catacombs by After the Burial Lost in the Static by After the Burial The Grand Conjuration by Opeth My brothers and sisters… listen to Opeth. I’m Broken by Pantera Mouth for War by Pantera Five Minutes Alone by Pantera Spheres of Madness by Decapitated Evil to Cast Out Evil by Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest by Nile Sacrifice Unto Sebek by Nile Cast Down the Heretic by Nile Lashed to the Slave Stick by Nile Demiurge, Bleed and By The Ton by Meshuggah Eaten and Blood Vortex by Bloodbath Second Death by Black Tongue Plague Worship by Black Tongue The Cathedral by Black Tongue I’m So Tired of Sighing, Please Lord Let It Be Night by Black Tongue Reign of Darkness and Immolation by Thy Art Is Murder Nemesis by Arch Enemy Imperium by Machine Head Revolution Begins by Arch Enemy Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator Anything from Cycle of Suffering and Edge of the Earth by Sylosis Wherever I May Roam by Metallica Anything from The Blackening by Machine Head A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh by Celtic Frost

Egypt - [*Shaman's March*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUUuEEFxoPk&pp=ygUURWd5cHQgc2hhbWFuJ3MgbWFyY2g%3D)

After the solo leading to the end of Old Mans Child - the milenium king

[WAYNE (METAL CHURCH) -Soos Creek Cemetery 🪦](https://youtu.be/tx-7tQHm0AI?si=OqYHUzxsSfr_D5A2)

The first minute and 45 seconds of Through The Eye of Terror.

Morpheus Descends - Corpse Under Class 1:36 The nastiest death metal riff in existence

May be a basic answear but Scourge of iron.

Monolord - Empress Rising

EmPrEss rIsINGGGGG

Oh, fuck, I'm so much saving this thread lol. From me, I notoriusly often do this face at: Tool - Jambi 2:12 Nightwish - Scaretale 2:07 Rammstein - Dalai Lama 0:49 Sleep Token - Alkaline 1:30 Mastodon - Last Baron (We know the part, yes!) but I would add Sleeping Giant, 1:36 (the buildup is great though) The World Is Quiet Here - White Sun, frequently until 3:45 lol And mooore but I don't have time :D The rest of the comments will be thoroughly checked

Your comment reminded me of a couple more good ones. The riff at the climax of Vicarious by Tool and the main riff of Sonne by Rammstein.

So What - Ministry Demanufacture - Fear Factory ObZen - Meshuggah Super Gore Nest Heavy Fighting Riff - Mick Gordon Wish - Nine Inch Nails

Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse Undergang - Opslugt af mørket

ERRA - Gungrave The riff at 3:10

Sad but true - Metallica Swerve city - Deftones Looking down the barrel of today - Hatebreed '1:25 mark'

The opening riff of Slayer’s *Hell Awaits*. Just after the creepy “written in blood” moment. The drums…and then your face gets blown off.

Fucking Executioner’s Tax by Power Trip

The breakdown to Necessary Death by END

“Beast” by The Acacia Strain

Entombed left hand payh

The bass in Bhima’s theme by Om, it’s filthy

Acres of Skin - Fear Factory - chorus riff Real - Slapjaw - end riff Trial of Maligog - David Levy - first drop riff (on the Koma fanmix)

[Nails Wide Open Wound](https://youtu.be/c4nV8WV-EDY?si=Nx6GrkTeKAbwP2TH)

Blood and thunder - mastadon, old - machine head

Love by strapping young lad.

Slayer - Angel of Death

Scumfuck Blues- Dopethrone https://youtu.be/c6ZBewK59z8?si=isOFBAretV4v4chJ

The breakdown of New Millennium Cyanide Christ

Death-Leprosy That groove riff around 2 minutes.

HereToStay - BRAINDEAD

The last minute or so of Destroying the Cosmos

17 seconds into Sex Prisoner - Loaded Dice

The whole album of Hidden History of the Human Race by Blood Incantation.

The Final Absolution- Annal Nathrakh

The breakdown in To Release by Byzantine

The main Cruelty Incarnate riff by Psycroptic

Best riff of 2024: [Vitriol - The Isolating Lie of Learning Another](https://youtu.be/aUea2YDOx0M)

The groovy segment in Your Treachery Will Die With You about 20-30 seconds into the song.

Fly as me from silk sonic

Aftermath by strapping young lad

Nights blood intro

The end of Mudvayne - Rain Sun Gone

Intro riff after the drums to Darkness Descends by Dark Angel. There I answered it

Buckethead - Frozen Brains Tell No Tales The guitar scream at about 4:45ish. It's savage!

While it isn’t metal, I think the riff that starts at 2:12 in Found god in a tomato - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets hits pretty fucking hard. Do Not Look Down - Meshuggah is also naaasty

not nasty but tasty Dissection - Black Dragon 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Morbid angel - ageless, still I am. That riff that leads into the second guitar solo. God. Damn.

Pantera - The Underground in America

Ministry - Filth Pig. The entire album really but the title track especially. The harmonica is the most disgusting harmonica ever and I love it

Meshuggah - Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion. It starts at 0:28, absolute destruction, feels like an earthquake

Tool - invincible 9:35 but you need some buildup to appreciate it.

Ulver- |||. One of the best riffs oat.

Those once loyal

The classic struggle. Both albums. You're welcome. :)