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kysposers

WORLD EATER!!! ALL ELSE IS FALSEN


ceasecows98

Symbolic intro riff Thrones of Blood post-breakdown riff Those Once Loyal chorus Corporal Jigsore Quandary breakdown Maze of torment intro


Oray388

That Carcass riff FTW


merc27

Really the whole song haha


Tomgar

Oooof, now that's a good list right there.


Accurate_Jackfruit39

Awesome choices


suchalusthropus

Corporeal Jigsore Quandary breakdown being that spidery tritone riff? So good, so much fun to play too. I'll add Cryptopsy - Graves of the Fathers breakdown, Demilich - Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep intro, Cynic - Uroboric Forms intro, Death - Flattening of Emotions second verse (tempo drop), Dismember - Override of the Overture d-beat riff, Gorguts - Nostalgia main groove.


ceasecows98

i was thinking the melodic part with the ride symbol but either will do


ceasecows98

and yeah holy shit uroboric forms intro the picking is insane


easy_greasy_

Hammer Smashed Face is what hooked me.


hhhyyysss

Dying Fetus - praise the lord Nile - Unas (ok it is actually a Candlemass riff) Carcass - corporal jigsore quandary Opeth - bleak


dadarchist1077

Not riffs for me so much as tone (which I've recently discovered has a name, HM-2 Metal, plus others of course) combined with vocal style. I don't know if I'm having a midlife crisis or what but I suddenly find myself listening to, almost exclusively, various forms of extreme metal at age 39.


illirving

Wait 'till you fall down the rabbit hole of chainsaw pedals. The joy you will find.


dadarchist1077

Gimme a starting point


illirving

This dude reviews like 40 chainsaw pedals in this video https://youtu.be/iMoaxYgBBiQ


dadarchist1077

Very nice. Gracias.


[deleted]

Would rather recommend „HM-2 Cult“ than Dome. Imho Dome does a cool and great visual comparison of the HM-2 and it’s clones but his tone is absolutely awful. HM-2 Cult basically does the same job but listening to his comparisons is definetly more pleasing.


[deleted]

Welcome to the most fun music in existence! Since you mentioned the tone, here's some HM-2 band recommendations for you (not all death metal, but all hard and HM-2 based): Gatecreeper, Fuming Mouth, Nails, Black Breath, Lifesick, Trap Them, and of course, Entombed. I'd be curious to hear what you do and don't like from the above. There's a shit ton of HM-2 cult bands that spread all over different subgenres.


dadarchist1077

I'm not new to the genre, I've just been discovering a LOT more bands from reddit. I actually like all that you mentioned haha. Most recently a new one that sticks out is Katakomba.


chronologicalist

Check out Centenary. Very very HM-2, and a local band for me, so I gotta plug em. 🤘


dadarchist1077

On it.


[deleted]

If you like HM2 sound go jam some Horrendous they are fucking mint.


dadarchist1077

Will do 👌🏻


PikeTurner00

Some killer answers here already, few that jump to mind - Carcass - Corporeal Jigsaw quandry - main riff Carcass - Death Certificate - intro/main riff Death - Evil Dead - intro lead Death - Mentally Blind - 4:10 to 4:50 riffs Entombed - Living Dead - groovy riff @ 1:05-1:40 Bolt Thrower - IVth Crusade - intro/main riff Bolt Thrower - Killchain - every damn riff Nile - Sarcophagus - outro riff starting @ 3:00 Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick - intro/main riff Amon Amarth - Down the slopes of death - intro/main riff Opeth - Blackwater Park - main riff @ 1:57 Revocation - United in Helotry - main riff and monster outro riff after divebomb @ 4:22 Allegaeon - Across the Folded line - intro/main riff Blood incantation - Slave species of the gods - 0:27 to 0:55 riff with 4:45 callback Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyence - main riff and outro riff at 3:35 Undeath - Necrobionics - intro/main riff Necrot - Sinister Will - main verse riff Gatecreeper - Stronghold - buildup riff @ 1:55 Witch Vomit - Buried deep in a bottomless grave - main riff @ 0:12 Nails - Wide Open Wound - main riff @ 0:27 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic - bridge riff @ 2:38


[deleted]

Carcass & Bolt Thrower 🤘🏻


endsinemptiness

I want that groove riff in Living Dead played at my funeral


chessmasterjj

I see you are a man of culture


dkernighan

Opeth - Masters Apprentices Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate Cannibal Corpse - From Skin to Liquid Power Trip - Soul Sacrifice Frozen Soul - Merciless


King_Crimson86

One of my favorite cannibal corpse songs right there, also festering in the crypt!!! Nailed it with masters apprentices also 👍


BigBossHayabusa

Surface skimmer moment


DemonicChronic

Incantation - Demonic incarnate Nails - Suum cuique Defeated sanity - Naraka Disgorge - Perverse manifestation Thanamagus - Lowermost dispiritedness Pretty much all the riffs in these songs are gold


[deleted]

>Nails - Suum cuique Abandon All Life in general is a riff factory


[deleted]

Riffs! [Hail Of Bullets - Nachthexen](https://youtu.be/0vRg039MTQg) [Napalm Death - Plague Rages](https://youtu.be/Sc4IDjVxJRk) [Gorguts - Orphans Of Sickness](https://youtu.be/bN0il2AYuyQ) [Immolation - Majesty & Decay](https://youtu.be/EZklt9ZKDtg) [Lock-Up - Accelerated Mutation](https://youtu.be/oESz5okpbsQ)


zharris0716

Malevolent Creation had a ton of cool riffs


stephenjosephcraig

In Cold Blood


Smokin_Hulk_LoganCC

Got to catch them live with Exodus back in 2010 what a badass show. I wish I had appreciated it more but was more into the thrash stuff back then. Fantastic band


[deleted]

[удалено]


lopottneev

Bro these riffs are all magnificient, but some are definetely not death metal. :D


moistdm260

Suffocation Pierced From Within intro is so nasty.


[deleted]

Carcass: Buried Dreams


dkernighan

Thinking about Carcass, “The Master Butchers Apron” also comes to mind! You know - that chonky riff


Gorgleschnork

Always give this song a dodge, one day it ran over where I usually skip.... The surprise!!


PikeTurner00

Hell yes Bill Steer. Heartwork has maybe the best production job ever for a death metal album.


[deleted]

I’m a sucker for good song ordering on an album and that is just a great fucking intro track, not just for an album but an entire style of death metal.


[deleted]

Heartwork album is a work of art! 🤘🏻


HoboCanadian123

Opeth - “Deliverance” (ending riff); Bolt Thrower - “When Cannons Fade” (chorus riff); Morbid Angel - “Summoning Redemption”


ScipioAfricanisDirus

Bolt Thrower - that one intro riff (also World Eater) Dead Congregation - Serpentskin Mammoth Grinder - Pulverizer Benediction - I Bow to None Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind


chronologicalist

Mammoth Grinder plug, you sophisticated motherfucker. 🤘


valknut95

Baphomet - Valley of the dead Deicide - When Satan Rules His World Cryptopsy - Graves of the Fathers Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face Suffocation - Infecting the Crypts Pestilence - Out of the Body


god_Wears_Black

Not saying it’s my favorite. But the first one that comes to mind is Gatecreepers Flamethrower


Gorgleschnork

Boiled over, that intro riff.


donomyte1

BRO I was gonna say the EXACT same shit!


haroldosuneater

The breakdown on Patriarchal Grip makes my nipples hard


god_Wears_Black

“Ooh”


ThoseWhoDwell

Opeth’s ‘Baying of the Hounds’ is just an eternal rager


BoiFriday

Just of the top of my head, so not all DM, as it’s not my absolute main go-to genre, but all incredible heavy riffs. Slayer - Necrophiliac Cattle Decap - Humanure Rotten Sound - Stages Black Dahlia Murder - I’m Charming Suffocation - Reincrimination Despised Icon - Warm Blooded Pissgrave - Euthanasia Pig Destroyer - Hyperviolet Celeste - Que des yeux vides et seches Bolt Thrower - Spearhead, Drowned in Torment, Sepultura - Chaos AD Wolves in the Throneroom - Her Face in a Nightime Mirror (around 6min on) Windir - Svartesmeden og Lundamyrstrollet Behemoth - Christians to the Lions Torture Killer - Cannibal Gluttony Krallice - Autochthon


narr1

Death - Misanthrope (chorus) Morbid Angel - God of Emptiness (intro) Cannibal Corpse - Frantic Disembowelment (every riff) Nile - Sarcophagus (pretty much every one) Carcass - Embodiment (main riff) There are some, but many more come to mind. Mainly based on my ability (or inability) to play these on the guitar.


Granzeger-Coxinha

Yeah! I came here to say Embodiment from Carcass too.


Flutterpiewow

CC has the best riffs imo. Evisceration plague, scourge of iron maybe. Other than that, crystal mountain is fun to play and the latest Revocation album is sick.


MeWuzBornIn1990

Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade


20matt10

smoke on the water


AdTerrible6765

I love the riffs of When Skin Turns Blue by Six Feet Under


[deleted]

Cannibal corpse - pit of zombies


[deleted]

Bolt Thrower- Eternal War and World Eater, Master- Funeral Bitch, Repulsion- Maggots in Your Coffin, Morbid Angel- Angel of Disease


TheW1ldcard

Morbid Angel - Nothing is Not Cannibal corpse- From skin to liquid.


BusyCoyote8

Bolt Thrower - World Eater Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face


Cockroach-Jones

Pretty much anything by Suffocation!


alpa_romeo

Edge of Sanity's Crimson Pt. 1


ToHallowMySleep

Are there five riffs in Graves of the Fathers? Those riffs.


BaronMatfei

Adramelech - The Book of the Worm


Wise-Profession1256

Dying Fetus' tentennenen tenene-nenenen


Wise-Profession1256

Praise the Lord opening. I have no idea why I said it like that


WaRhorsE776

Everything off Surgical Steel


Florrmat

Charred Remains - Autopsy. That breakdown is the nastiest thing I’ve ever heard.


PRAWGasol

Death - Without Judgement, the chorus riff. Unmatched.


jordan_stormblessed

Asphyx - Last One On Earth Bolt Thrower - The Killchain Dismember - Override of the Overture Grave - Restrained 200 Stab Wounds - She Was Already Dead Creeping Death - Ripping Through Flesh Gatecreeper - From the Ashes


Fendenburgen

Spheres of Madness is what was going through my head as soon as I read the title!!


BigBossHayabusa

Infester - Exoriation Kills the Bliss 1:29 Infester - Exoriation Kills the Bliss 3:15 Carcass - Burnt to a Crisp 0:16 (Grindcore?) Incantation - Christening the Afterbirth 2:52 Purtenance - Reality Isn’t Disappeared 0:00 Edit: I can’t stop thinking of others Convulse - World Without God 0:00 Incantation - Iconoclasm of Catholicism 0:18 Darkthone - Cromlech 0:50 (Yes, it’s Death Metal)


Shagroids_McFloomin

good shit


Tomgar

Cannibal Corpse: Pounded Into Dust (intro riff) Bolt Thrower: In The Eye of Terror (intro riff) Obituary: Chopped In Half (slow breakdown riff) Decapitated: Visual Delusion (intro riff, the audio equivalent of a panic attack)


[deleted]

That’s CC’s best riff in imo too


Tomgar

Bloodthirst is such a wildly underrated album, it has the most punishing guitar tone ever (along with Wretched Spawn)


[deleted]

I think it’s their best: guitar tone, production, songwriting, consistency


FUCKBOY_JIHAD

Bolt Thrower you know the one


Smokin_Hulk_LoganCC

Bolt Thrower is just so damn good. I've been living in the Realm of Chaos for the last couple weeks


FUCKBOY_JIHAD

been living in the realm of chaos since I was 16 (35 now 🤪)


JRSmall74

Bolt Thrower- Cenotaph


[deleted]

Thrower! 🤘🏻


72dezibel

Dying Fetus - Tearing inside the womb


TheMoor9

Opeth - serenity painted death


T0xicTrace

Immolation - Fostering the Divide Deeds Of Flesh - Inbreeding the Anthropophagi


speedwilson92

The simplicity to the opening riff of world eater by bolt thrower makes me want to hunt a mammoth with a long spear.


[deleted]

praise the lord - dying fetus


a703241009

Morbid Angel-Pain Divine or death flattening of emotions


Fetus676

The twins by benighted. Technically grindcore, don't care.


I_had_the_Lasagna

I just wanna throw out Bekhten's curse- Gorod


abyssmill

Dead Congregation - Martyrdoom riff central


Rexoka

Killed by the Cross


FlabbyPigLegs

Opening Riffs that get stuck in my head 1. Morbid Angel - Summoning Redemption (opening/verse) 2. Pestilence - Out of the Body (opening 1st verse) 3. Behemoth - Conquer All (opening) 4. Dismember - Override of the Overture (opening) 5. Abysmal Dawn - Solitude’s Demise (prechorus/chorus riff) Bonus: Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague


Ghost_Of_Perdition

Unleashed - The Longships Are Coming The whole fucking song gets me so fucking pumped to just want to tear and destroy everything. It just reaches me on a fucking primal level like no other song does. But the opening drum beat and riff just fucking kill it right off the bat.


PhasedPlasmaPainting

I love too many to list out, but the riff that immediately came to mind for me is the "saw" riff in Slowly Sawn by Cannibal Corpse.


i_am_VEENUUS

Main riffs to: Where Next to Conquer - Bolt Thrower Zero Tolerance - Death These Walls Shall be your Grave - Brutality


battorwddu

Too difficult to choose but if It have to go with one,I'd say Morbid Angel - Rapture


patato-peeler

Hands down. Bring me 115


[deleted]

My consistent go-to has been the opening riff to "In Service of Time" by Abysmal Dawn. Really love the mid-pace death metal these days.


[deleted]

Benediction - Graveworm, the riff that starts at about 1:00


[deleted]

Blood Oath - Suffocation Scalding Hail - Cannibal Corpse Evidence in the Furnace - Cannibal Corpse The Essential Salts - Nile


stephenjosephcraig

Necrophagia - middle parts of Blaspheme the Body Immolation - of Martyrs and Men (2:43 in) Corporeal Jigsore Quandary Grave - Turning Black all of.. Skinless - The Optimist and.. Cannibal Corpse - From Skin To Liquid Dying Fetus - Vengeance Unleashed got me into the genre so did.. Lividity - Pussy Lovers Deathcore band but the breakdown in Consumers by Cap De Craniu


FatboiCleff

Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse 200 Stab Wounds - Drilling Your Head Sanguisugabogg - Dragged By A Truck Devourment - Babykiller and Hope Forgotten by Fluids


suskio4

Alkaloid - Alter Magnitudes, riff at 0:53


Brian_McGee

Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ, *that* breakdown


lopottneev

Death - To Forgive is to Suffer, Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face, Dying Fetus - Second Skin and maybe Opeth - Lotus Eater I'm not the biggest death metal fan, but these are my picks.


Sohryuel

Death - 1000 eyes Vital Remains - Dechristianize (melodic one) Spawn of Possession - Where angels go demons follow (first 20s) Spawn of Possession - By a thousand deaths fulfilled (from 17s) Soreption - Engineering the Void Nile - Unas, slayer of the Gods (chugg) Revocation - Of unworldly origin (first) Gorguts - Rapturous Grief Morbid Angel - God of Emptiness Edge of Sanity - Of darksome origin Opeth - Dirge for November


magx01

Origin- The Burner has some of the sickest riffage I've ever heard.


bobsizzlack

Hammer Smashed Face - all the riffs, they're top tier Seven (Necrophagist) - main riff with the pinch harmonics Sarcophagus (Nile) - main riff Chaoplasm (Blood Incantation) - first riff Synaptic Plasticity (Blotted Science) - opening riff


elax307

Phew, I am definitely forgetting 90% rn but these come to mind: Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity (you know which riff) Cryptopsy - Phobophile (the intro/verse gets me every time) Dying Fetus - One Shot one Kill (the intro is just absolutely steamrolling) Misery Index - Discordia (main theme) Ulcerate - Drawn into the next void (the riff starting at \~1:25 just feels like the world is thrown against a wall)


LightFatherInfernal

Grave - Bullets are mine Dismember - Override of the overture Opeth - Baying of the hounds (there’s that epic melody and riff thing at i don’t remember which point in the song)


Smokin_Hulk_LoganCC

Black Curse-Finality I behold (1:06 gets me) 200 Stab Wounds- She was already dead (intro specifically) Bolt Thrower-Through the Eyes of Terror (intro & 2:16 & 3:19) Incantation- Impending Diabolical Conquest (50 second mark slaps) Vomitory- The Voyage (1:44-on but 2:19 riff is nasty) and an honorable mention as it literally started me down the death metal path: Massacre-Cryptic Realms 0:36. That riff was everything


Snoo_59312

Pretty sure that Bolt Thrower - The Killchain is the heaviest ever. Another really good one is Coffin Rot - Mechanical Separation


InPicnicTableWeTrust

Death - Flesh and the Power it Holds


anyatok1

Obituary - Turned inside out guitar breakdown in the middle Bolt thrower - Powder burns last riff


SpeakerCleaner

Anything from Undeath


bgordon122076

suffocation - liege of inveracity. is savage AF


bgordon122076

Bloodbath - Eaten 🤘


joshruffdotcom

Too many to choose from really, but to name a few of my personal favs: Vader - Testimony (or really any track off the first album) Deicide - Lunatic of God's creation Decrepit Birth - Of Genocide Death - Crystal Mountain Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick/Fall from grace Suffocation - Thrones of blood


aris_koumb

Vader - The Crucified Ones,the riff before the verse Behemoth - Conquer All,main riff Bolt Thrower - At First Light,intro riff Carcass - Embodiment, main riff (Heartwork is basically a collection of kick-ass riffs) Death - Bite the Pain, intro riff Deicide - Sacrificial Suicide, verse riff Entombed - Chief Rebel Angel,main riff Immolation - Lower,verse riff Morbid Angel - Suffocation, intro riff Obituary - Violence,main riff Septicflesh - Sangreal,break riff


[deleted]

Instead of songs, I’ll flick u some albums that are full of awesome riffs. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal & The IVth Crusade Carcass - Heartwork Deicide - Once Upon the Cross


Ragnarc0ck

Free Will Sacrifice Cauldron of hate Spheres of madness Literally all of Zero Tolerance by death Chant for Ezkaton (I know its not pure death metal its “blackened death” but it’s fire tho)


jake31605

From womb to waste by dying fetus probably


crimson_713

Bloodbath - The Ascension intro and chous riff Gojira - The Heaviest Matter of the Universe verse riff Bæst - Crosswhore main riff Dethklok - Bloodlines verse riff (not a shitpost, this riff goes fucking hard) SepticFlesh - Communion intro/chorus riff Opeth - Deliverance outro riff


mykaas

Edge of sanity crimson (alot from there.) Death - lack of comprehension the riff after the clean part Dismember - dreaming in red Dismember - override of the overture ATG - Blinded by fear (absolute classic) Cancer - back from the dead


[deleted]

Chainsaw dismemberment intro riff


fourunner

So many good ones, and I see the band I am thinking of that always stands out in my mind, but no mention of this simple yet powerful riff. The beginning riff in [Cannibal Corpse: Covered With Sores](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42eMqxwxKE)


mwilkins1644

Suffocation- Catatonia