My guitar partner ❤

as a guy who is approaching 40, i love that i found nik coz i'm getting introduced to all the new sickest bands out there that i would never have found on my own. rock on brother

0:28 Dying Wish - Prey for Me 0:39 Avenged Sevenfold - We Love You 0:48 Metallica - 72 Seconds 0:59 Vildhjarta - + den spanska känslan + 1:15 Spiritbox - Jaded 1:27 Entheos - The Sinking Sun 1:42 Cattle Decapitation - Scourge of the Offspring 1:56 Better Lovers - 30 Under 13 2:11 Monuments - Nefarious 2:28 Invent Animate - Immolation of Night 2:45 Silent Planet - Dreamwalker 2:56 Sylosis - Pariahs 3:09 The Zenith Passage - Lexicontagion 3:21 Architects - Seeing Red 3:33 Nothing, Nowhere - Psycho_Psychiatry 3:43 Bleed from Within - The Will to Resist 3:56 Periphery - Zagreus 4:10 In Flames - Meet Your Maker 4:20 Currents - Unfamiliar 4:29 Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous 4:41 TesseracT - The Grey 4:55 Polaris - Nightmare 5:05 Slaughter to Prevail - Viking 5:15 Texas in July - False Divinity 5:27 August Burns Red - Backfire 5:41 Cannibal Corpse - Blood Blind 5:49 Alpha Wolf - Bring Back the Noise 5:59 Make Them Suffer - Ghost of Me 6:13 Alluvial - Fogbelt 6:32 Sleep Token - The Summoning 6:44 Smash Into Pieces - Flow 7:01 Chelsea Grin - Sing to the Grave You hit all my faves, so thanks for the year of metal music Nik, and here's to years more :)

Dang, those riffs are pretty riffy, I like the way the riffage is riffing

I’m not sure if nik realizes how many people he enlightens to new bands and reignites their love for metal. Happy New Year my friend!

Unfamiliar-currents had to be one of the most unique and distinguishable riffs from this year and it still remains catchy I love it , what a great year for metal though 🖤

That whole Spiritbox EP has been in my head since it released. Thanks for the introduction to Monuments, Invent Animate, and Silent Planet!

No joke, you are the reason I got interested in Spiritbox. And then went to see them live in September. They are KILLER live.

Jaded is just such an iconic riff already imo. Mike makes some fuckin banging riffs

Awesome video! The album cover for the Sylosis riff Pariah at 2:55 is from their 2020 album Cycle of Suffering! Pariah is from the album a Sign of Things to Come!

every riff on Den Spanska Kanslan is absolutely insane. who knew something so chaotic could be so catchy.

🤘That Alpha Wolf riff is SO CATCHY and Alluvial is one of my favs of the year. Thanks for the hard work, Nik!!

Yes! I was hoping you'd do another riff compilation this year! Those are the best videos on the channel Nik! I go back and watch them all the time. Once again great job my dude! 👌🏻

Thanks Nik. Love seeing you play. I love when bands put in guitar solos and breakdowns together in a tune. Been listening to All shall perish again alot. Thank you for introducing me to new groups.

Awesome video as always Nik, so glad to see some Bleed From Within, very underrated band with a lot of tasty riffs

Awesome stuff bro! Absolutely sick riffs!🔥 because of you dude, I’ve been introduced to so many new bands and have been keeping up with the metal scene. I appreciate what you do!! Corekid for life!!🔥😎🤘

Love the mix of genres, from super heavy to definitely more accessible. In Flames & Unearth put out some of their best work this year with their respective albums, thanks for highlighting them 🤘

Happy holidays Nik! Much love from Montréal. Thanks for this dope playthrough!!

First year in forever that I'm up to date with the music I like listening thanks to Nik. Keep at it brother.

Great list Nik! Knew some, heard some for the first time and added to my listening itinerary lol, have a good new year man!

Awesome video Nik! As a guitarist and producer myself I really appreciate the time and effort it took to make this, so thanks! Only thing I would add to your list is basically every riff from “Hard Knock” by Tallah. I love Tallah and it’s thanks to you and your channel that I even know about them! Keep up the amazing content! 🤘

I admittedly don't know a majority of these songs but these riffs mean I will be checking out a bunch of them now. I'm curious about that 30 under 13 one!!! Cheers to an amazing 2023 where I was introduced to Spiritbox and Sleep Token thanks to you!!!

Cattle decap has one of my favorite riffs this year! There are SOOO riffs this year, it’s insane! Thanks for the upload!

So good. Thanks for putting in the work for us, Nik. Love you for it.

Great job!❤

Have a happy new year big dawg

Ok that Currents riff was definitely a good ass choice but my personal fave was probably "Algorithmic Salvation" from the Zenith Passage. That first riff on "basin of vows" by The Acacia Strain is absolutely crushing though.

I love that he included Nothing, Nowhere on the list, that metal album he made was amazing.

incredible video. knew that jaded, summoning, and some A7X would make it in, however loving the vast amount of riffs you’ve crammed into one vid. also made me do a deep dive on Silent Planet and they’re my new favourite band. i had heard of them before but somehow never heard a song. can’t go back now

Sick riffs and guitars man!

In Flames, Unearth, ABR, Cannibal Corpse all on this list is fucking wild. Like not only for the fact that they're all still making music, but the fact that they're making music good enough to included in a top 32 "best riffs" video

Very cool riffage nik! Love the way the riffs are riffing

Thank U Nick! This is awesome!

SMASH INTO PIECES MAKING THEIR WAY INTO METAL THIS YEAR ! anyway, such a great year in music and content creation and all. Thanks Nick for these mesmerizing chunky riffs!

Props for putting in the work for this 🤘

Thanks for keeping me up to date with the best!

Awesome! You allowed me to discover a tone of new music! Thank you

So much good shit this year it was crazy! I always look forward to this video every year 🖤

Awesome, thank you! I have some new bands to get into. You da man!!🤘🤘🤘

As always, I'm loving the energy that you put videos out with ❤

Great well rounded list of metal!

Awesome dude!

At 51 I’m still a metal head who falls head over heels for great riffs and that was the most epic introduction to so many great bands I missed this year. Cant wait to dive in to these songs and your Top Albums coming up later. Thank you!!

My face is melted! Thank you Nik happy new year man

Great video! Fit for an Autopsy’s “Hellions” was another good one from 2023.

Man.. good selection of riffs ⚡

Sick! Found a bunch of new songs to listen from this :)

thanks for including monuments, love them and what you do for the metal community!

I am absolutely blown away by this, i cant see how much work you put into this, it sounds really good.

You always discovery me new interesting bands. Thanks anda cheers from Spain🤘

your tone and playing is on point! great job

That whole Currents album is gold. So glad you featured them. Remember Me will make you cry as a metal fan!

Cattle Decapitation and Entheos absolutely killed it this year, very happy to see them included. Alluvial and The Zenith Passage were cool surprises, too

nik check the low end in the kick when the kick plays fast, with a c4 at 100hz you can compress it and solve it. Nice riffs bro!

Great video. These always slap. You used the wrong album cover for the Sylosis song tho lol

Bro awesome year of riffage! Love the content man keep it going! So looking forward to what 2024 brings 😈 🎸 you should of included some of you’re own riffs my boy goes crazy for Granny in Da club 😂

1:15 Nik, I'm glad you didn't forget the riff that earned Spiritbox a Grammy nomination, thank you 🎸

Missing Orbit Culture - While We Serve. I mean the whole song is just an onslaught of amazing riffs but specifically the riff from 5:08min to 5:35min is absolute god tier!

Another great vid like always 😏🔥

That's wild. Kick ass job dude

Wonderfull! 5 more bands to add to my listen-to list. BTW Nice Petrucci signature collection ;-)

A perfect *super-efficient* summation of the past year's highlights, squeezed into eight minutes. Now I hardly even need to listen to the specific songs or albums any more. Everything I need is right here in this video! You just saved me HOURS of listening to filler material. 🤣 (And I'm only _slightly_ kidding... It is really THAT GOOD.)

Amazing list Nik. Also if anyone thinks Alluvial isn't heavy enough, check out Heriot- heard them first time this year and melted me. The riff in Demure is devastating af

Hell yeah shredding 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻Just discovered you last night rock on 🤘🏻 and Happy New Year God bless

I love seeing musos still putting in loads of work on their youtube videos. Such a mega effort learning and recording all these riffs. Good on ya

Great Video ❤❤❤

I was listening to older music all of 23..... But I think this year I'll jump into some newer stuff and you lad just introduced me to some of the new bangers!!

Excelente video, Nik. Várias pedrada esse ano. Gostaria também de destacar os riffs de Artificial Anatomy - Left to Suffer, que tbm foi foda. Satisfação total, aliado.

Ay Nik great selection of riffs and props to you for learning them all! But you did ya boi Chris Turner dirty by not including a riffs from "Nut" in there. That song is pure 100% stank face all the way through!

Good selection of riffs, very riffy video

Have a good new year ma man 🎉

waited all year for this!

As always, amazing stuff, Nik. I think the entire Godlike was filled with amazing riffs. So, Thy Art would've been a nice addition to this set.

Really nice performance... I was wandering if you ear the last album of Night verses - Every sound has a color in the valley of night! i am pretty sure you will like it! Great video and as alway's thanks for the entertainments.

You covered a lot of bands !! Great !!

Thank you so much for including Vildjharta! Goes so hard

So Cool! I've been waiting a year for this video! However the Sylosis album cover is from Cycle of Suffering, not A Sign of Things to Come.

I’ve looked up a few new bands because of this. Curious do you listen to the amity affliction or secrets? They have some catchy stuff.

Some of these I really liked but never heard so I'm glad you made this.

the transition from will to resist to zagreus hits way too hard (also thank you for including better lovers)

This was really fun to watch. I was kind of hoping that in the middle somewhere, you would switch to the funky section of The Summoning just for the silliness of that whole thing.

Such a good year for metal riffs! I’m still in the process of trying to learn all the riffs on Heavener 😂The second verse in Emberglow is gonna be the death of me 😂

Saw Alluvial live and they played Fogbelt. That's such a sick track and riff.

Hey Nik, have you ever heard of the band And Hell Followed With? They only have 40k listeners on Spotify, but they’re one of my favorite deathcore groups. Their first album, Domain, gives me early Whitechapel vibes

Freakin' Unearth!!! Fan for life! Zombie Autopilot is was hooked me in and Trevor's vocals have gotten beastly lately! Buz is one of my top favorite guitarists!

Some of these new bands are killer. Thanks Nik for the introductions 😊

so glad currents - unfamiliar was in here, probably the most underrated song this year. also void surfacing is a better invent animate pick imo, but immolation of night is definitely a slapper

Love that Alluvial is on here, they always got some sweet riffs

Was not expecting to hear Flow by Smash into Pieces, but definitely happy I did. Loved that song

Good to see Nick shredding again! I miss the guitar covers.

I',m just the occassional comment that wants to point out that the transitions nik put in are absolutely incredible. This whole video just flows. Good shit.

W vid idea! Excited to actually watch it

One of my favorite riffs was Doubt Me by Beartooth that one after the chorus always gets me banging my head way too aggressively 🤘🏻🔥

Another awesome metal riff is Masterpiece by The Anchor, had that song on repeat at the breakdown parts, definitely recommend it. Also awesome list!

Just hearing the riffs isolated helps me appreciate them a lot more most of the time. So many bangers this year!

Bro the effort you put into your content is phenomenal

Gotta love the riff for ”Flow” by Smash Into Pieces, by far their most ”heavy” song & one of my top songs this year🤘🤘

Great video as always bro although wrong Sylosis album cover 😂😂

Nik I absolutely love your content but I have to know, How much times did it take to record viking and how much did it hurt afterwards?

Wow so much work for this video, awesome! Great choices overall, but for me its the riff from Polaris - Inhumane