Top 10 'Spooky' Riffs

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Top 10 'Spooky' Riffs

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'Creepy', 'atmospheric' and 'dark' are other words you could use to describe these riffs. The kind that send a shiver down your spine. Some of these may be a bit obvious, some maybe you weren't expecting. Whether it's 'hard rock', 'metal', 'post-punk' or 'grunge' it's that kind of playing that seems to have it's roots in the darker side of 60s psychedelic rock.
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TRACKS
0:01 Bauhaus - Dark Entries
0:25 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
0:57 Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
1:20 AC/DC - Hell's Bells
1:59 Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
2:24 Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused
3:01 Slayer - South Of Heaven
3:36 Alice In Chains - Frogs
4:00 Pink Floyd - The Narrow Way (pt. 2)
4:38 The Beatles - I Want You
TUNINGS
All standard tuning except 'South of Heaven' and 'Frogs' (Eb) and 'I Want You' (Drop D)

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@markbarrett4440 10 ай бұрын

I Want You is so heavy that all other riffs gravitate towards it's superdense singularity and impact on it's opaque surfaces

@EvanEdwards 9 ай бұрын

I love how it never resolves on the album, and it's a great mirror on that idea here. After CDs and digital merged album sides together, the cut from what had been the end of side one to instantly jump to Here Comes the Sun is good as well, but that needle hitting the end groove with such abruptness was fantastic. My dad had all the mono and stereo versions of The Beatles albums and he shared his love of them with us as we grew up.

@linuslandin5781 10 ай бұрын

I think that 4th of July by Soundgarden would've been a good one. Very underrated song imo.

@NEMESISISDEAD 10 ай бұрын

Applebite was creepy

@alicemilton8756 10 ай бұрын

These were all cool, but you know it’s not Halloween until you’ve heard Monster Mash 👻

@bloxsy_ 10 ай бұрын

True!

@seatspud 9 ай бұрын

That's more of a Valentine's Day song, in Springfield anyway. ;)

@devinthierault 8 ай бұрын

Wasn't their a beach boys cover where Mike Love was dancing? Yeah that's terror.

@deantodd8103 8 ай бұрын

@@devinthierault Now I have to go do a KZfaq search for the Beach Boys doing Monster Mash. 😂

@deantodd8103 8 ай бұрын

@@devinthierault I'm back. And you were right. It was terrifying. Though probably not for the reasons they intended. 😂

@owensw0228 10 ай бұрын

Aero zeppelin by nirvana was a riff that definitely gave me chills the first time I heard it

@kylephelan6989 9 ай бұрын

I came to the comments to mention paper cuts

@guy8029 10 ай бұрын

Another great band for spooky riffs is Type O Negative - hugely inspired by Black Sabbath and The Beatles. Always enjoy your videos, great tones as usual!

@FedeG13 10 ай бұрын

The first minute keyboard riff in Black Nº1 is absolutely terrifying

@guy8029 10 ай бұрын

@@FedeG13 Proper Halloween feel

@FortyWink 10 ай бұрын

Great band, frontman was a bit of a tool though.

@joaquinlezcano2372 10 ай бұрын

@@FortyWinksorry, I'm not English speaker, what does that mean

@raefinoh1172 9 ай бұрын

@@joaquinlezcano2372 an idiot basically

@avi_69 10 ай бұрын

Nirvana - Big Long Now. Gives me shivers everytime

@moodieboymusic4376 9 ай бұрын

Holy fuck, how have I never heard of this song before???

@Greeze 10 ай бұрын

Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees is a classic Halloween riff imo, great list though

@Heisenbinks 10 ай бұрын

Alice in chains frogs is such and underrated song, might be their darkest and very best one, glad to see you give it some love here!

@GregDixson 10 ай бұрын

Props for including Floyd's the Narrow Way ..that track crept me out when I first heard it

@edyb2097 10 ай бұрын

"21st century schizoid man" by King Crimson

@leechild4655 10 ай бұрын

that one came to mind. also jimmy on the bow playing dazed and confused live. it always sounds like he is summoning the demons from hell with that scratchy bow with echo and feedback. crazy!

@WhenHariMetKari 10 ай бұрын

Not to Touch the Earth. That’s a good one.

@MalMotorDedo 10 ай бұрын

Should've played Halloween by the Misfits at the end just for the laughs 😂

@iain9889 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving some ideas for new riffs to learn! Another Alice in Chains riff I love that sounds really dark is from "What the Hell have I?"

@bloxsy_ 10 ай бұрын

Ah yes I always forget that one!

@Astrokillernaut 10 ай бұрын

I love how you ended I Want You just like they did on the album! haha

@raphaelfp 10 ай бұрын

Black Sabbath's riff sounds scary even when you listen to it in a low volume. Great selection, Frogs and I Want You were great picks. I've always thought Cross the Breeze by Sonic Youth sound like pure despair until Kim starts singing. It could have made the list. Or anything from Spiderland by Slint. Every song on that album could have been the soundtrack for a horror movie

@ryanabbott208 9 ай бұрын

Love that you included Bauhaus!

@XenophobicAlien 9 ай бұрын

“The Doors - People Are Strange” is a spooky riff 😨

@briankelly5182 10 ай бұрын

For anyone wanting some tips to get this sound: 1. They're all minor key 2. Frequent use of either the tritone (eg Eb in the key of A minor) or the b6 (F in the key of A minor). Noodling around the fifth (E in the key of A minor) with those notes = SPOOPY I'd also recommend use of the major 7th note, making the V chord major (e.g. using E major in the key of A minor- while E minor is the technical chord of the natural key). Run your fingers over these notes: E F G# A E (higher octave) Eb

@markkrousos5011 9 ай бұрын

God, I have to learn music theory...

@briankelly5182 9 ай бұрын

@@markkrousos5011 Learn the patterns of major/minor keys, how chords are built based on that, and common chord progressions. That's all you need for most songwriting stuff

@adamschmalz1179 10 ай бұрын

Glad to see Dark Entries and Frogs on here.

@mysteriousoul 9 ай бұрын

Metallica’s The Call of Ktulu would have slotted in here nicely - BTW: Great guitar tone!

@aziziabdrahman7756 10 ай бұрын

Perfect birthday present for me. Thanks for this. I also think another spooky riff is Don't Fear the Reaper

@bloxsy_ 10 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday!

@aziziabdrahman7756 10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@dimitrisilva6452 9 ай бұрын

Floyd's "The Narrow Way" was a pleasant surprise in this video 👍

@JesusH.Tap-Dancingchrist7328 10 ай бұрын

Your vibrato is lovely stuff

@bloxsy_ 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@moodieboymusic4376 9 ай бұрын

4th of July - Soundgarden Good Morning, Captain - Slint Silver Lights - Coconuts New Dawn Fades - Joy Division Micro Cuts - Muse The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died - Queens of the Stone Age

@LaDaveNCLa 10 ай бұрын

This is so bad ass! I needed to see this

@amdacool1 9 ай бұрын

Good Morning, Captain by Slint is a spooky favorite for me.

@moodieboymusic4376 9 ай бұрын

i miss you

@willbyler6271 10 ай бұрын

i think that black sabbath riff might be the greatest of all time? great vid!!

@jumpboy29 10 ай бұрын

Don't Fear the Reaper creeps me more than any of this

@BG-bq1qp 9 ай бұрын

amazing guitar tone, i love it!

@Sr19769p 10 ай бұрын

Nice. Killing Joke had some good ones mid-period and The Birthday Party. 'Garden' by The Fall is chilling. 👍

@marioalexanderski9598 10 ай бұрын

Welcome Home Sanitarium is another spooky riff

@guitaristslair 10 ай бұрын

"Nooooo!! You cant recognise song by just one power chord!!" Power chord: 0:26

@NotAlfmann1 9 ай бұрын

Any thing off bad moon rising by sonic youth is pretty spooky

@deantodd8103 8 ай бұрын

In addition to the obvious choices - "Black Sabbath," "South of Heaven," "Hell's Bells" - I was stoked to see the Beatles' "She's So Heavy." I remember the first time I heard that song on the radio at an old factory job where I once worked, I thought at first it was an obscure Black Sabbath song that I had somehow missed - despite owning every album they had made with Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio.

@fernandoy.narciso 10 ай бұрын

A Cool idea: play the soundtrack from Wolverine for Sega Genesis, it's essentially 16-bit Black Sabbath

@Chamomileable 9 ай бұрын

idk what it is, but "Nosferatu" by Blue Oyster Cult never gets enough love. Super cool spooky song with some great studio effects layered to really sell the effect.

@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын

I’ll check that one out. Thanks!

@raywt3237 10 ай бұрын

I am suitably spooked, good job

@allantucker4972 10 ай бұрын

Maybe Halloween by samhain or some John Christ riffs

@lach3763 10 ай бұрын

The intro riff to Bull in the Heather always creeps me tf out

@LautaHern 10 ай бұрын

Amon Düül II - Between the Eyes Echo & the Bunnymen - No Dark Things The Cure - The Top Neu - Negativland Siouxie and The Banshees - Voodoo Dolly

@nick3718 7 ай бұрын

you alway have the sickest tones dude

@bloxsy_ 7 ай бұрын

Thanks dude

@mikhamaxi904 10 ай бұрын

SY "Protect me you", most of early Nirvana like "Big long now" or (suddenly!) "Clean up before she comes", Tricky "Overcome", Aphex Twin "Curtains", Wojciech Kilar "Vampire hunters" (by the way, many of thriller and horror movies have awesome sinister melodies in their OST, like main theme of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" or "Cape fear"), noise intro in album version "Svoboda" by Grazhdanskay Oborona (first time i listened it in earphones in evening twilights i almost shit my pants i swear))), ending in Pixies's "I bleed", maybe MBV "Lose my breathe" and The Doors "Not to touch the earth" a little, Fuck Buttons "Ribs out", PJ Harvey "The Wind", Carter Burwell "Thugs Passing in the Night", Bobby Krlic "Gassed", Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", Zvuki Mu "Gadopyatikna", any dark jazz album and many of my own songs)))

@jorgenitales5882 10 ай бұрын

My timbers have been positively shivered

@metalheadeli 8 ай бұрын

THE ENDING WOO

@n2ogames2022 8 ай бұрын

4:40 this Beatles song makes me think that they invented doom metal

@sherri573 10 ай бұрын

Paper cuts by Nirvana should be in this video Like, these riffs got that spoooooooky vibe but Paper cuts turns on my fight or flight mechanism

@harrisongdavis 8 ай бұрын

"Love Hate Love" is also a moody one by Alice in Chains

@corporalclegg914 10 ай бұрын

01:21 did anyone else hear the Bells (in your head) that aren’t there?!..or did I just confirm me insanity?!?!

@alekblaser 4 ай бұрын

Big Long Now - Nirvana spooky as hell dawwg

@wavving3alupa 10 ай бұрын

for me godspeed you! black emperor have spooky and wild song under name Mladic

@germangonzalocastroPhantomLord 9 ай бұрын

Great list, i would put Silverchair untitled (the breakdown riff exactly) and Mailman by soundgarden XD

@roachrip 8 ай бұрын

Frogs .. sick spooky tripy

@tommasopellegrini9888 10 ай бұрын

Love You To of The Beatles is also very spooky

@leechild4655 10 ай бұрын

had a friend tell me the song Elenore Rigby sounded spooky and it does have a spooky feel to it now that i hear it that way.

@sumspring4112 10 ай бұрын

One riff on the punkier side that I consider spooky is Totalimmortal. Could just be because it was record for a Halloween ep, but still.

@aithe1314 10 ай бұрын

these were so spooky!1!!

@postpunk6947 10 ай бұрын

Well, well.

@AdolfStalin 10 ай бұрын

You should do top ten Paul Chain riffs. He improvises a lot but I think he’d be down your alley as well as mine

@progun4653 10 ай бұрын

Haunting week awaits🎃

@dreamofyouandi 8 ай бұрын

videos that make you realize how incomplete the black sabbath opening is without bass

@YaBoyBLove 9 ай бұрын

Frogs is the darkest sounding song…. Cantrell was a master at making a guitar weep.

@meanmetalmike666 9 ай бұрын

10 Spooky Sabbath Riffs 😊

@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын

Or 10 heaviest Sabbath riffs? Any excuse to play some more Sabbath 😅

@FriendlyNeighborhoodBallsack 10 ай бұрын

Mayhem - Freezing Moon, easily.

@tiki_trash 10 ай бұрын

That ad was 15 seconds. thankyou for all that other shit.

@guop59 10 ай бұрын

sweet dreams, Marilyn Mason version for me it is the best

@solunnne 10 ай бұрын

I need to learn them all 🕸

@lynnpehrson8826 6 ай бұрын

Early bauhaus goes hard

@justmichael2508 10 ай бұрын

I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM

@ajanator5263 8 ай бұрын

would definitely include cirice by ghost

@Lleimzjames 10 ай бұрын

A forest by the cure

@andrewpappas9311 9 ай бұрын

Some other songs I’d have included here as well would’ve been Black No. 1 or Christian Woman by Type O Negative or Cirice or Ritual by Ghost (or just about anything from their entire discovery)

@andrewhardage6561 6 ай бұрын

That last was "Heavy".

@MrOoYT 9 ай бұрын

You could’ve played Satori Part 1 by Flower Travellin’ Band. I’ve heard people say slayer were inspired by it for south of heaven, and even though I don’t think it’s true they are still quite similar

@Owen_plays_music1049 10 ай бұрын

Cool list, i might have added Angry Chair instead of Frogs :D

@ConeFlower-gx2qk 9 ай бұрын

Yo Bauhaus dude I feel like you listen to everything I do

@FortyWink 10 ай бұрын

Do some Corrosion of Conformity riffs.

@adrianorozas6172 10 ай бұрын

don, aman - slint

@jsanch7 10 ай бұрын

You didn’t do Spooky by Classics IV 😔

@lol_cccc9195 9 ай бұрын

Hey man it sounds wierd but im looking for exact this fender cyclone every where and wanted to ask if you would sell it or know someone who sells it 🤘

@Faks.09 10 ай бұрын

Senser - Oyster The riff after the first verse ☠️

@DoNuT_1985 8 ай бұрын

Droning seems to be a thing with those ...

@Ixe2077 9 ай бұрын

If you make a part 2 add Rx Queen by Deftones

@_Corndawgg 10 ай бұрын

Never seen a mustang with a strat bridge, is that a cyclone?

@nintendobl00d 10 ай бұрын

wooooo

@commondog3956 9 ай бұрын

The Beatles wins the whole show. That is one of the darkest tunes I have ever heard in all my 37 years.

@tiki_trash 10 ай бұрын

You want to hear scary? She came in through the bathroom window.

@bloxsy_ 10 ай бұрын

Maxwells Silver Hamer

@markbarrett4440 10 ай бұрын

@@bloxsy_ 'The horror, the horror' 😱😱😱😱😱

@leechild4655 10 ай бұрын

helter skelter starts off like a death metal song and death metal wasnt even a thing at that time. unreal@@markbarrett4440

@csnide6702 10 ай бұрын

No "Hand of Doom."..?

@paressehylton 9 ай бұрын

Nice sound. What you using?

@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын

Thanks. I’m playing through a boss katana amp

@octavechords 10 ай бұрын

no birthday party?

@Sr19769p 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I thought that. Rowland.S.Howard. The riff on 'Garden' by The Fall snags me, really spine-tingling.

@jmr5707 7 ай бұрын

No Cramp's, huh?😩

@jmason61 10 ай бұрын

The Sabbath riff is based on an old classical music thing about tri- discord sounds....or something like that? Anyone knows? PS you have a version of Dead Souls that's killer

@louiseoc6844 10 ай бұрын

The sabbath riff was inspired by Holsts the Planets, Mars the bringer of war. The guitarist was trying to play it but didn't quite get it right. Mars is one of the all time great pieces of classical music

@IgNaceus 2 ай бұрын

@@louiseoc6844Plus the heavy blues sound of bands such as Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Ten Years After.