*Bad year, fire riffs*

IT's OL SAINT NICK

Spiritbox - Holy Roller 0:10 Invent, Animate - Monarch 0:22 Bury Tomorrow - Choke 0:36 Trivium - The Defiant 0:52 (Space so read more doesn't go over a timestamp on mobile) Architects - Animals 1:10 Polaris - Hypermania 1:30 Sylosis - Worship Decay 1:49 Monuments - Animus 2:09 Lamb of God- Resurrection Man 2:27 Like Moths to Flames - Habitual Decline 2:43 August Burns Red - Paramount 2:59 Currents - Better Days 3:10 Rogue - Archetype 3:23 Loathe - Gored 3:37 ERRA - Snowblood 3:49 Veil of Maya - Outsider 4:05 Cane Hill - Power of the High 4:18 Fit For a King - God of Fire 4:32 Chris Turner - 40 Roll 4:47 Purge - Influenza 5:00 Chelsea Grin - Bleeding Sun 5:14 Silent Planet - Trilogy 5:29 Alpha Wolf - Akudama 5:44 Carcosa - Absent: Post 5:56 Traditions - The Culture 6:11 Make Them Suffer - Bones 6:27 Bring Me The Horizon - Obey 6:39 Reflections - Seven Stages 6:53 Mick Gordon - The Only Thing They Fear Is You 7:06 Diamond Construct - Generic 7:25

Overall the year was pretty crap but at least there was some good new music.

BRUUUUH HE PUT BURY TOMORROW WHAT A LEGEND

Can we all agree that Choke by Bury tomorrow is a total fckn banger ?

So happy Doom music made it onto this list

2020 was all about breakdowns. Both mental and metal.

I'm so happy to see underrated cuts like Monarch, The Defiant, and Better Days in here alongside SOTY bangers like Holy Roller, Snowblood, and Trilogy. :D

I feel like this number should be bumped up to 100. There HAS to be more good riffs like these out there somewhere

Good to see some Diamond Construct love here. They're filling a Dealer shaped hole

2020 may have sucked but the riffs didn't 🤘

Sylosis, they got in right before the gates closed.

If you don't put Lorna shore and signs of the swarm to best breakdown compilation I will find you and put cottage cheese in to one pair of your socks.

I didn’t think you’d go for the fast bit of 40 roll!!! Good work :)

So happy you put Bury Tomorrow in this they really deserve more recognition

No Ariana Grande?

My favorite type of Christmas music.

Awesome channel man.

So sick 🤘 These riffs made my day

I was expecting “memento mori” but glad LoG made it, their album was really dope and enjoyable 🤘🏻

Nik, you killed it as always and the fact you put Erra's new song up here made it even better. I know that was fun to learn. 😂

That was a killer vidya dude. Added some of these to my playlist!

Very good list mang

SOOO glad you put 40 roll on this. Chris is an absolute beast. My favorite song at the moment

2020 sucked but thank you for all the content you’ve put out this year Nic your guitar covers, song reactions and your own material has really helped me and I’m sure in making this year slightly more tolerable! Thanks man! 💜

that was actually pretty good Nik. Thanks!

You just introduced me to so much badass stuff.

God I can’t get over how good that guitar tone is

Dude Currents needs more love, they constantly put out some serious bangers.

Yes!!! I remember commenting Currents - Better Days on nik’s Facebook post as I didn’t see anyone else mention it. Glad to see it’s up there

Those were some absolute bangers! Thanks for shedding light!

I love the inclusion of a song from the Doom Eternal OST!! So many good riffs from that score 🤘

any riff from cycle of suffering... fight me

I know how much effort you must have put into this, and these videos in general. I'm trying my hand at content myself (different niche but I do play guitar and love metal) and man is it hard to not get in front of the camera and not look like a shmuck. Good on you for plowing ahead and learning all of these songs and playing them so well.

super hype you featured Bones by Make Them Suffer, easily my favorite riffs this year

Hell yeah, loving lmtf on the list as always.

Hell Yea I’m friends with the guitar player in Rogue, Jeffery is an awesome dude and player!!

This is how I started watching you last year. I watched the top riffs of the year. It’s crazy how it’s been a whole year since I’ve started watching this channel!!

Great work. Also, I just saw the "Up next" is a video called "500 Heaviest Riffs" from four months ago. I completely missed that epic collection of riffs and I'll listen to all of it soon.

So glad you put rogue in here... That band is way underappreciated

Missing Bleed from Within here. So many bangers on their new album...

This Is Sick Nocturnal ;)

Some of these made me realize that some of these band had new albums in 2020! Good looks nic

Fuck, I just wanna say I really appreciate how you put underrated bands like Rogue and Bury Tomorrow in rather than just mainstream Lamb of God or Architects.I also found out that I need to listen to Diamond Construct and Currents now so thank you, lmao.

Nice to see purge there, I don't know if you know them but a great band with some really heavy riffs should've been on here, you ever heard of termina?

Lol Holy Roller was the first song I thought of when I saw the title. Great vid, just wish you included the tunings for each ;)

Awesome video. Keep it up ✊🏻😎🤍

5:56 I Speak Astronomy-Jinj... Oh ups.. Sorry

1 second in, already love it

Sick riffs!

I would have loved to see something from The Black Dahlia Murder here but it’s all good man! Thanks for doing these kinds of videos. They give me tons of bands to check out that I otherwise may have missed! 🤘🏻

I know and work with the vocalist from ROGUE. It's pretty killer to see his music make the list

I want the full cover of Snowblood rn!

Love the video! I think my personal favorite riff this year was Born To Fail by Dance Gavin Dance.

Nik summarizing the whole 2020 bangers 🔥🔥🔥

He said the only thing that made any sense this year "2020 sucked"

Cane hill 🖤🖤

I know im probably late but thank you so much for putting holy roller first! spiritbox is one of my favorite bands! and then putting animals just made my day. thank you! \m/

I just wanted to say to you NIC NOCTURNAL...you have shown me such awe inspiring tips and riffs and a whole bunch of new bands for my Spotify playlist thank you so much...you make me want to get my electric guitar and amp out of pawn and play till my fingers fall off. You are a fucking beast thanks for everything.

6:00 Carcosa - Absent: Post totally remembers me of Jinjer - I Speak Astronomy on the first part of that riff.

Outsider by Veil Of Maya is just a banger bro

So good to see your old Schecter gettin some love :D

Im VERY late to the party but i just realized you put the original drum track from Chris into the video and that is really cool :D

I haven’t heard the whole song. But that Architects riff just makes me think of Rammstein.

Choke is such a sick riff

Darko riffs are lit af, was waiting for them here 😁

Nice video! I’m just disappointed I haven’t seen anything on verminous By BDM but still. Good job man

"Mom, can we have Doomsday - Architects?" "We have Doomsday - Architects at home" Doomsday - Architects at home: 0:23

Memento Mori by Lamb of God is definitely a top riff this year

These are great!! Ever thought about making your Axe-Fx patches and IRs available?

A lot of these songs I know through Nik's reactions and covers, not gonna lie, thanks Nik!

man, I love Architects, but Animals doesn't even have a single riff in it

4:20 - Song is named "Power of the High" i see i see

THANK YOU for including Generic by Diamond Construct. been preaching how hard that fucking riff goes ever since i heard it

Sylosis a new addition & such a sick riff! Wow Nick, great video. My favourite you didn't play is from Soilwork, 'the nothingness and the devil'

Have you checked out four year strong brain pain or silverstein’s newest album?

2020 is the year of the low F# also 2020 sucked so hard i forgot Invent Animate released the new album this year

So stoked you chucked Generic by DC in there, riff is huge

So many new bands to checkout! Hot damn, what a year for the almighty riff at least. Here's to 2021! Cheers \m/

What a surprise to see Holy Roller first

Never thought I'd see Chris Turner in a "best riffs" compilation lol. Not that I'm complaining

It’s really sweet to watch you play a riff I wrote 🙏🏻 thnx for slidin us in there bubs much love.

Nick could you do an in depth AxeFX/ guitar tone video or series of videos? You have some of the absolute best tones out there. You’re awesome.

some suggestions from outside the core genres: caligulas horse - valkyrie, mors principium est - rebirth, alustrium - dark waters, protest the hero - all hands, haken - messiah complex

Shout out to the homies in ROGUE! Banger of an EP

Thank you for showing me bands and I didn't know, Saint Nick.

you mixed all these riffs so well i was just jammin all the way thru

Currents-Better Days ❤

Not gonna lie, I would've put Protect the Land from System of a Down on here as well. The riff kicks ass and I'll honestly say that it's one of Daron Malakian's best

Architects looked at Pantera and said “Can I copy your homework” and Pantera said “Yeah just don’t make it too obvious”

SUPER SICK that you included @ReflectionsMN

Yoooo! Rogue, let's go!! Don't sleep on that album gang

“Tuning: A lot of metal stuff”

Much love for including Doom OST

Sick technique demonstration on the last one my dude

2020 sucked but the songs tho 100/10 this year

Rogue is the most underrated band right now

Some fire 🔥

Solid list