greatest riffs ever?

thorns - aerie descent

if youve heard the song then you know what riffs i mean

and

emperor - with strength i burn

the morbidly chaotic (pretentious or what?) ones after ihsahn speaks

YOURS?

Chimaira - Let Go (Chimaira has loads of good riffs)
(void)
Hypocrisy - Scrutinized
Slayer - Payback
Megadeth - Kick The Chair

I'll probably come up with more lateron.

This is a near impossible task, every time I try and do this I end up listing countless riffs, so I'm going to cop out and say everything that Dimebag ever did. Everytime I listen to pantera, I am shocked once again at how just about every riff is an absolute classic!! Of course, there are individual riffs that I love more, but there will never be anyone better IMO!

Gotta agree there, Dimebags over all style was one of a kind...

Best riff, eeeeh hard one...Opening riff of Undead with The Haunted is a classic...

There's too many to list, but one that comes to mind is the opening riff of Suicide by Devin.

Devin Townsend-Deadhead

Van Halen-Unchained

Pantera-Walk

Megadeth-Kick The Chair

Metallica-The Thing That Should Not Be

Black Label Society-Counterfiet God

Fear Factory-Archetype

The open riff of In Flames - Cloud connected is very kewl, IMO.

i dunno...

Prong - Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck?

Mastodon - Seabeast (the riff right at the end of the song)

[Blazingmonga]

Off the top of my head:

Backbone - Gojira

(maybe not classic yet, but it blows me away every time I hear the main section of that song...)

There's too many to list, but one that comes to mind is the opening riff of Suicide by Devin.

At 1.16 when it comes with a little echo? Perfection.
My two other favourite Devin riffs are the opening riff in Earth day and Deadhead.

To Monga.
Isn't it pretty frustrating when a good riff needs only three different notes (very close to each other btw) and a simple rhytm and yet, most of musicians won't come up with one?

[JuZ]

Off the top of my head:

Backbone - Gojira

(maybe not classic yet, but it blows me away every time I hear the main section of that song...)

It will be, my friend, it will be!

I'm loving From Mars To Sirius right now. What a great album. You're one lucky fella to be seeing them live.

[JuZ]

Ok,

Opeth - Deliverance (closing riff)
AC/DC - Back In Black
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (No der!)
Coheed & Cambria - Welcome Home
Strapping Young Lad - Detox

(also off the top off my baldy head)

[Blazingmonga]

Off the top of my head:

Backbone - Gojira

(maybe not classic yet, but it blows me away every time I hear the main section of that song...)

It will be, my friend, it will be!

I'm loving From Mars To Sirius right now. What a great album. You're one lucky fella to be seeing them live.

They played Backbone tonight....my neck hurts!!! Awesome and incredible and intense and French and wonderful and awesome. A very, very good show.

Some more great riffs:

Apocalyptica - Quutamo
Down - Bury Me In Smoke
Dredg - Bug Eyes
Rammstein - Sonne
VAST - Here

Yep.

[djskrimp]

May I go old school on y'all?

Metallica: Master of Puppets
Nevermore: Just about every damn song
Tool: 46 and 2
Faith No More: Surprise! Your Dead
Every single thing Dimebag Darrell ever wrote, including the stuff he did with Anthrax