The MEANEST Guitar Riffs of All Time
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@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
What other guitar riffs make you immediately get that stank face?
@sireffortlessgarbage7922 7 күн бұрын
The riff at 4:18 on 12 by Katatonia is one of the edgiest riffs I’ve ever heard, it has so much angst and it’s beautiful
@james-alexiscote8366 7 күн бұрын
The intro riff from Suffocate by Knocked loose!
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
@@james-alexiscote8366 YES
@sip__ 7 күн бұрын
3:54 of empusa queen of the damned is a lil stanky
@Guts100Slain 7 күн бұрын
Combat by Heaven Shall Burn, Schematics by Dying Fetus, My Prodigal Son by Cryptopsy, Love & Meth by Korn, Day After Day by Haji’s Kitchen, Eye Of The Cyclops by Guttural Slug, Ligature Marks by Meshuggah, You Can’t Save Me, So Stop Fucking Trying by Anaal Nathrakh, Diluted by Slipknot, The Day After Trinity by Panzerfaust, Unpardonable Sin by Immolation, Killing On Adrenaline by Dying Fetus, Fade Into Obscurity by Dehumanized
@katotstiutor 3 күн бұрын
Opeth - Blackwater Park 0:40 Nile - Kafir 1:25 Power Trip - Soul Sacrifice 1:56 Neurosis - The Doorway 2:26 Alice In Chains - Them Bones 3:13 Decapitated - APAAOPM 5:28 Meshuggah - The faultless 6:08 Hatebreed - Doomsayer 6:50 Cryptosy - Lichmistress 7:37 Mastodon - Andromeda 8:22
@phi816 Күн бұрын
thank you deeply!
@shannonjones3714 18 сағат бұрын
That’s a hell of a list! I’d say it’s pretty well rounded! Excellent job!!!
@user-kd8sf4pr1l 7 күн бұрын
My face during the hole video was like an old paper in a trashcan
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Good >:)
@darksecret965 6 күн бұрын
Oh shit I've found my next catch phrase
@jovan9989 7 күн бұрын
The Doorway has the the most evil breakdown in metal. Killer list.
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
For. Real.
@SIRebrum 2 күн бұрын
*In the Absence Ov Light* by *Behemoth* is up there.
@evanfont913 5 күн бұрын
Love seeing Neurosis and Cryptopsy on the same video. That opening riff to The Doorway hits so goddamn hard.
@obahrey5197 6 күн бұрын
Bill Kelliher really cooked with the main riff on Andromeda.
@mazzaaa3920 6 күн бұрын
Just "a few" personal favorites: - Bioactive - Sybreed - As I Am Exploding - Trivium - The Flame - Chimaira - Self Righteous Indignation - Prong - Love? - Strapping Young Lad - Get Up And Boogie - Static-X - Silvera - Gojira - Holding my Breath - Alien Weaponry - Servitude - Sylosis - Trail of the Perished - Anger Machine - Fail Like a Champ - Full Blown Chaos - Speechless - Irritation - In The Meantime - Helmet - D-Evolution - Conflict - Sound of the Bell - Orbit Culture - Body Hammer - Fear Factory - Hostage To Heaven - Grip Inc. - Fast Forward - THROWN - Themata - Karnivool - Here to Stay - Korn - Harlequin Forest - Opeth - Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree - Pray for Plagues - BMTH - ending riff on Beware by Deftones - Laid to Rest - Lamb of God - Poisonous Shadows - Megadeth - Through Struggle - As I Lay Dying - 5 Minutes Alone - Pantera - 46 & 2 - TOOL
@fipillo4658 6 күн бұрын
Nice picks
@wakeboardingandfishing1813 5 күн бұрын
As I am exploding is so underrated. Man that song hits hard IMMEDIATELY
@johngrimm3837 4 күн бұрын
IN THE MEANTIME 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@mazzaaa3920 4 күн бұрын
@@fipillo4658 thanks man, now that I'm seeing your profile pic I realize I could totally add Hooker With A Penis' drop to the list 😁
@mazzaaa3920 4 күн бұрын
@@wakeboardingandfishing1813 definitely, Vengeance Falls in general is seriously underrated, hell, Trivium as a band is criminally underrated tbh
@tomhuitema2068 4 күн бұрын
The Killchain by Bolt Thrower is the definitive headbanger riff.
@GreyManFaustus 7 күн бұрын
Throwing Down by Exodus is THE stank face riff
@Trend_Kill 6 күн бұрын
YES
@phoenix2903 7 күн бұрын
Another Alice in Chains song that has a nasty riff is Dam That River.
@nacho9006 6 күн бұрын
Immediately after them bones on the album too just makes u hype asf when listening
@NavarroSkyrim 6 күн бұрын
Hey man, really love that your lists usually have creative and varied riffs, not just the conventional songs that you find in most riff videos. Awesome content
@Corvus_Victoria 7 күн бұрын
Converge - The Saddest Day (0:53) Morbid Angel - Opening Of The Gates (opening riff)
@TheCallingInSilence 7 күн бұрын
STANDING IN THE DOORWAYYYYYYYYY
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN
@erkkapehto9125 6 күн бұрын
Holy shit that whole album is so good
@jovan9989 6 күн бұрын
@@erkkapehto9125 especially when you listen to it with second disc.
@TheCallingInSilence 6 күн бұрын
@@jovan9989 I hadn't heard the times of grace/grace albums combined for the first few years I was into Neurosis, and I came across the upload where someone synced the two together and it was like listening to it for the first time all over again. Such a good ass band.
@stavrospavlides2093 3 күн бұрын
DUDE. Yes. Blackwater Park has 1000 riffs that make me scrunch up my face. Absolutely SINISTER when that riff kicks in
@SomebodyMeOnceTold 6 күн бұрын
For Opeth I would've picked the third riff in Serenity Painted Death! (about 1:25 in)
@Aenigmakil 5 күн бұрын
Literally came to comment this too! 😂🤘🏾
@Jablan11 3 күн бұрын
Its impossible to pick one Opeth riff though there are so many great ones
@mrotta6079 6 күн бұрын
please do a part 2! loved this video thank you
@jasonwhite6368 4 күн бұрын
Great variety!!! Killer riffs, killer playing!!
@ddduv 5 күн бұрын
NEUROSIS MENTIONED HUGE W Banger vid as usual man i could feel the chunk in my soul
@jojoplaysmusic 5 күн бұрын
Whole prime chunk ;)
@cainq6244 6 күн бұрын
No dying fetus? Cmon son
@jojoplaysmusic 6 күн бұрын
Damn I need to include some DF slams
@fredd3233 7 күн бұрын
Nice variety here ! Also, glad to see your finger seems healed. As a pretty fucking mean riff, I'd suggest 4th of July by Soundgarden. Heavy AF.
@diabeticmonkey 6 күн бұрын
Most Crowbar songs, and that riff at the end of Throes of Rejection by Pantera.
@qbus2488 5 күн бұрын
The frayed ends of sanity pre-solo riff is ridiculous
@trickshotsmoviesandcubing2317 6 күн бұрын
Christian metal gets overlooked, but the opening riff to Perfect Night for a Hanging by Tourniquet is one of the meanest riffs I've ever heard
@oroinvictus6135 2 күн бұрын
I still remember hearing that for the first time as a sheltered home schooled kid in a Lifeway store. It was the heaviest thing I'd ever heard and I've loved metal ever since. Consume Devour Repeat by The Famine is another overlooked crushing riff.
@trickshotsmoviesandcubing2317 2 күн бұрын
@@oroinvictus6135 I'll check it out, glad to see another Tourniquet fan!
@nao5246 6 күн бұрын
THAT riff from babykiller (devourment)...
@russellazure9316 6 күн бұрын
Great list!
@jakemaybrier9184 3 күн бұрын
The breakdown at the end of The Doorway is one of the heaviest riffs ever conceived.
@tntheaven4257 7 күн бұрын
For me the ones that make me do the stank face instinctively when i hear them are the opening riff to disengage by suicide silence and underground in america by Pantera
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
That SS riff is just straight up primal
@SIRebrum 2 күн бұрын
*Disengage* Hits Me in the nerves as well, that Clean Riff 💥💥
@theanimedad7318 2 күн бұрын
I've been on a 90's metalcore kick lately and the closing riff to Botch's "Our Friends in the Great White North" absolutely crushes.
@bodecareca 5 күн бұрын
THAT CHAOTIC POSTER OVER THERE DAMN BRO HAVEN'T SEEN ONE IN YEARS
@jojoplaysmusic 5 күн бұрын
And mine’s signed too ;)
@declanoconnor7991 4 күн бұрын
Awesome list.
@PelnPelucas 3 күн бұрын
i love the part where the bass kicks in on overkill's drunken wisdom
@thomassochacki128 7 күн бұрын
I've been posting as I watch, clearly, but Mastodon... heelll yeah!
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Yeaaah
@jacktaylor7264 2 күн бұрын
The whole song I Am Beyond by Black Breath
@akramrahim369 5 күн бұрын
Great list. I'd include Exodus' Funeral Hymn, Slugdge's War Squid, Wilderun's The Tyranny of Imagination, Morbid Angel's Where the Slime Lives, and Necrophagist Ignominious and Pale.
@Saucymanwastaken 6 күн бұрын
Some of my fav meanest riffs: Offering - Knoll Smoke of Their Torment - Leviathan (2:31-3:09) Savage Intolerance - Nails Throw Your Phone In The River - KEN Mode The Descent - Today Is The Day I Feel Nothing When You Cry - Thou Lessons in Ocult Theft - Revocation Kill Yourself - Admiral Angry Focus Group Extraction - Helpless Thaw - Converge Furies - Necropanther Revel In Flesh - Entombed
@jojoplaysmusic 6 күн бұрын
KNOLL MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🫂
@Saucymanwastaken 2 күн бұрын
@@jojoplaysmusicsomehow they made Full of Hell and Vermin Womb feel like child’s play, I genuinely had my eyes wide open from the multiple listens on the album because its that great and that terrifying just like the Thantifaxanth album, should also mentioned them and Imperial Triumphant as well just that there is so much to pick from them.
@Tysandifer 5 күн бұрын
Dude lovin the Chaotic display
@jojoplaysmusic 5 күн бұрын
And it’s signed too ;)
@picklecore3383 5 күн бұрын
Always happy to hear some nile riffage
@jonathantheslow 4 күн бұрын
A personal favorite is the riff during the “Rewrite every story” part in Hook in Mouth by Megadeth.
@janparadowski4894 Күн бұрын
Very good taste, very good playing
@gasolinekiss 3 күн бұрын
The middle riff in A Massacre in the North by Abominable Putridity is my fav riff of all time
@DimaNSK-vy4br 7 күн бұрын
There should be a riff from breakdown in this video Slipknot disasterpiece, Suffocation liege of Inveracity, devourment and cannibal corpse! Metallica sad but true, megadeth how the story ends!
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
ooph missed those. Might add them in a part 2 tho.
@DimaNSK-vy4br 7 күн бұрын
@@jojoplaysmusic Okay
@thomassochacki128 7 күн бұрын
Or... Inhumane Harvest - Cannibal Corpse. The breakdown?
@DimaNSK-vy4br 6 күн бұрын
@@thomassochacki128 WHAT ANOTHER BREAKDOWN Cannibal corpse? I only meant slipknot and suffocation To play their riffs from the breakdowns!
@funnyperson4027 6 күн бұрын
never thought I would hear neurosis again
@Stefan979- 7 күн бұрын
Soul Sacrifice! Killer tune,excellent job overall.
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@vickiepunkin03 3 күн бұрын
the riff from the 2nd half of Zodiac by Melvins is subjectively one of my very favorites
@Samurai-ss5qs 7 күн бұрын
Thanks for putting my request of Them Bones on the list. Keep on riffing! Btw, another mean riff is that chugging part from When Girls Telephone Boys from Deftones.
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Oh yeah, gotta put that one next
@Georgetto89 3 күн бұрын
NEUROSIS "the last you'll know" goes harder tho
@Rowanexen 6 күн бұрын
Oh hell yeah, that Nile riff is awesome! "Cast Down The Heretic" is another mean one. Another mean grunge riff is "4th of July" by Soundgarden, really makes great use of inverted power chords. Also, that's definitely Decaptated's meanest riff, but that main riff in "Last Supper" is also meaner than Nik Nocturnal's comment section 😂 (also I love this new style of video!)
@jojoplaysmusic 6 күн бұрын
Thanks! I’m trying to incorporate more of my personality into the videos, and I’m glad people are responding well :)
@Rowanexen 6 күн бұрын
@@jojoplaysmusic Of course they are. You're an awesome dude!
@mrotta6079 6 күн бұрын
isolation by alter bridge has a solid mean asf riff. also love the ending riff to medicine by expire definite stank face energy and the main riff to high road by mastodon!
@stevenjahn5956 2 күн бұрын
Outnumbering the day from Bloodbath is so freakin‘ mean 😼
@sixstringmetal8559 5 күн бұрын
Great video as always, next list throw in some Crowbar bro. Crowbar has some of the meanest riffs in existence.
@leatherface4662 7 күн бұрын
The opening riff to Riot of Violence by Kreator is a stank face riff.
@nishanth6403 6 күн бұрын
The breakdown in Damage Inc needs to be in here
@andrewcoates4952 4 күн бұрын
That Power Trip riff gets me all the time
@GABi-gj8fz 2 күн бұрын
Blood throne by thy art is murder goes hard af
@wheelsofmercury 7 күн бұрын
This is a fairly underground pick, but the riff that starts Celestial Dictatorship by the British death metal band Abyssal is SO GOOD. Also, the opening riff on the title track to Leprous' Coal is crazy heavy.
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Dude, I love Abyssal so god damn much. Antikataestesis is one of my favorite Death Metal albums of all time.
@wheelsofmercury 7 күн бұрын
@@jojoplaysmusic I only like one album of theirs (Denouement), but they're a good band. That riff is just MEAN, though!
@terriblecertainity 7 күн бұрын
this could have just been riffs by Soreption and Decapitated
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Facts!
@Dead_ham 5 күн бұрын
Doomsayer is my favorite breakdown of all time. The fuckin 808s in it as well just make it so damn heavy
@jasonboulet6415 6 күн бұрын
The chorus of DEATH - ZERO TOLÉRANCE
@erkkapehto9125 5 күн бұрын
Swallow the Sun - 10 Silver Bullets The opening riff is kinda mean but the riff at 1:23 (in that song) is just monstrous Another super mean doom metal riff is from Esoteric's song "Quickening" from 7:28 onwards
@CharlieWielowski 5 күн бұрын
One of my favourite gurn-worthy riffs would be the intro (main) riff to Edgecrusher by Fear Factory Been a while since I watched one of your videos, and I thoroughly enjoyed this one! 🤘💯🎸
@drew25kra 6 күн бұрын
Procreation of the Wicked is on my list...I remember hearing sound samples of Sepultura's version online back in the late 90s and my jaw hitting the floor...like, what the heck is this riff?!? Like, damn.....many years went by before revisiting it and that got me way into Celtic Frost and Triptykon. Great list otherwise. Nice to see AiC included.
@jaredwillis2717 7 күн бұрын
The outro riff of Possession by Whitechapel and the main riff of Purest Strain of Hate by Thy Art is Murder 🙂↕️🙂↕️
@ForLorNVuLgaR 2 күн бұрын
dude our taste is so alike is crazy!
@ronanjenkins2323 6 күн бұрын
Anything off of Obscura by Gorguts 😡
@jojoplaysmusic 6 күн бұрын
Nasties avant- grade riffs ever
@sangramos 5 күн бұрын
Cannibal corpse I come blood is nasty Hatebreed destroy everything Cryptopsy the breakdown for slit your guts is just nutworthy. Congrats on the sponsorship!
@jojoplaysmusic 5 күн бұрын
Thanks man!
@metalftw9652 Күн бұрын
For Cannibal, that one is good. Mine tho is the super chuggy Scourge of Iron
@sangramos Күн бұрын
@@metalftw9652 ohhhh that’s another banger. I might even like that one more
@TheSuffocater 5 күн бұрын
This shit is on fire metal brother !!
@jojoplaysmusic 5 күн бұрын
Thank you so much man!!
@ShieldYoung 5 күн бұрын
Deadman Walking by Bloodsimple
@Ya-boi-Josh Күн бұрын
Gemetria by Slipknot Subjected to a Beating- DF Descent- Sylosis A New Level- Pantera Knee deep- JFAC
@aaronmcelrea8172 4 күн бұрын
I think I would have picked Blood and Thunder…. Great upload, I like this idea.
@skogeniswashed 6 күн бұрын
Loved the explanation of "mean"
@jojoplaysmusic 6 күн бұрын
I went “let me be clear”
@broncoxy 4 күн бұрын
saw Suffocation yesterday, that was a good hour of stank face lmao
@DeathToRealMetal Күн бұрын
Heres one most people haven't heard of. Cypecore- ill be back first riff of the song after the techno/electronic stuff
@raulvieira6899 7 сағат бұрын
I love your definition of mean riffs KKKKKKKKKKK
@somethingsomethinggr 3 күн бұрын
Mastodon - Mother Puncher Soundgarden - Slaves and Bulldozers Death - Pull the Plug Morbid Angel - Caesar's Palace
@xxn0thing 4 күн бұрын
The breakdown from Pantera's "Domination".
@darthcalculusmusic 18 сағат бұрын
I love The Doorway! So glad to see it on this list
@moralfo0109 2 күн бұрын
Backbone - Gojira. First time I heard it I was blow away how evil it sounded
@nicholaschupka4150 4 күн бұрын
You started with Blackwater Park. One move chess win. Impressive.
@RWalters81 6 күн бұрын
Would have went with Motherpuncher instead from Mastodon. Good List.
@RetroRadical 7 күн бұрын
Show me some riffs from Kublai Khan TX and BIG ASS TRUCK!
@jojoplaysmusic 7 күн бұрын
Yeah we need some of that in the channel.
@diabeticmonkey 6 күн бұрын
Gotta love some BIG ASS TRUCK!
@TheBlackKnight1o1 Күн бұрын
I see Neurosis and I click, just knew it had to be The Doorway. I think the time signature and the drums really add to how nasty it is
@chawlz 6 күн бұрын
The last 2 minutes of Myth Cathexis, or Agonist, both by Latitudes.
@radikalneko1187 2 күн бұрын
bloodbath has some nasty riffs like in eat me, so does fear factory in their album "demanufacture"
@SatyamKumar-jq6iz 5 күн бұрын
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition at 06:25
@i_want_my_shuggah 6 күн бұрын
You HAVE to include that Kvadrat riff after the repetitive intro section ends up on the sixth track titled "Η φρικτή δυσαρμονία της λήθης". 1:32 timemark on the individual song. 27:39 timemark on the 'full album' promotion release. IT FUCKING SLAAPSSSSS
@mike_thesweet1 3 күн бұрын
Take Me to Your Leader by Incubus has a pretty simple aggressive riff in it that comes out of nowhere
@Aenigmakil 5 күн бұрын
Opeth's meanest DEFINITELY come from Serenity Painted Death and Masters Apprentice 🤘🏾
@eyeofAnu6 2 күн бұрын
MARCH OF THE FIRE ANTS
@LeafysHere 3 күн бұрын
3:12
@kacperekumpel 11 сағат бұрын
Slayer - Criminally Insane 1:41-2:00
@TranceSFX 3 күн бұрын
Right Now by Korn is pure filth. So heavy and groovy.
@l3p395 3 күн бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@FlabbyPigLegs 4 күн бұрын
Behemoth conquer all opening riff
@jordanjoestar8839 5 күн бұрын
Gojira- Wisdom Comes, Space Time, The Way of All Flesh, Toxic Garbage Island, All The Tears, In The Wilderness
@kadimusbaratheon7352 3 күн бұрын
It's really interesting that if you don't know the song, you're listening to the riff without the song. Therefore you're listening to the riff out of context. It makes it sound not that good. But um sure if I listen to the whole song, they'll be freaking bangers.
@BittersweetDuality 5 күн бұрын
Meshuggah’s Immutable is chock full of fucking dirty as fuck riffs. The Phantoms breakdown is one of the heaviest things I’ve ever heard. Main riff in Ligature Marks and breakdown in Armies of the Preposterous are way up there as well.
@cobejawnsonn301 5 күн бұрын
Intro of As Above, So Below by Behemoth. Groovy and....Morbid-ey... lol
@hisinfernalmajesty6663 6 күн бұрын
How did you get your tone for the Neurosis and Cryptopsy riffs?
@jojoplaysmusic 6 күн бұрын
It’s the same tone for every riff on the video. It’s the Otto Audio Eleven Eleven.
@Edward_Rogers Күн бұрын
I have a few riffs in mind from Alter Bridge/Creed/Tremonti. Bullets, What If and Bread of Shame by Creed. The Other Side, Coming Home and Still Remains by Alter Bridge. And finally A Dying Machine, So You're Afraid and Another Heart by Tremonti. Too many good riffs from Mark Tremonti to choose from 😂
@That0n3DumbGuy 6 күн бұрын
5 Minutes Alone - Pantera Sad But True - Metallica Eternal Rest - Avenged Sevenfold (Mainly the riff at 2:23, its fricking killer) The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica Those are just some of my favorites
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