The 10 Best (But Most Underrated) Metal Guitar Riffs
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Which classic or modern metal guitar riffs do you think are the most underrated in Metal music? Are you a modern 8 string or classic thrash kind of riffer?
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0:57 - Riff 2
1:43 - Riff 3
2:10 - Riff 4
3:12 - Riff 5
5:14 - Riff 6
6:00 - Riff 7
6:33 - Riff 8
7:11 - Riff 9
7:54 - Riff 10
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You should check disarmonia mundi Riffs!! The album "Isolation game" has the best riffs I've ever heard! For example:
"Stepchild of laceration" or "losing ground" 😃🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
The opening riff for Where Dragons Dwell by Gojira is so unappreciated. It’s so pretty and fits on the album very well. Love that song
Still discovering Gojira properly myself. They have loads of cool riffs haha :)
@@peteplaysmusic please do a video on them! They are a fking riff machine!
Gotta suggest Born in Winter too. It´s a criminally underrated song and pretty much sums up what Gojira is as a band
haha but their entire discography is just so intensely awesome !! but you're right :)
@@peteplaysmusicas a French person i am proud of the recognition they are getting.
For me, a LOT of Testament's riffs go unnoticed. For example, the opening riff in Native Blood off the Dark Roots of Earth record. Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick are just a match made in heaven when it comes to thrash metal
That’s a great choice! Testament have some great riffs :)
Native Blood is one of my favourites too! So epic and powerful.
Nickleback has some seriously underrated guitar riffs. Ive always loved the main riff from Flat on The Floor.
Yeah me too! That's an awesome riff that literally no one talks about haha :)
Thanks for including Trashed, Lost, and Strungout. How that song gets overlooked is beyond me because it's just such a good example of everything that makes COB so great.
It’s so good! It was one of the first Bodom songs I ever heard and it’s still one of my favourites :)
Still can’t wrap my head around Alexi being dead. Every time someone brings up COB, I’m reminded of it, and it makes me sad, despite never having been a huge fan of COB.
I love that you included Wes Borland and Nickelback Pete! Great job!
Gotta represent my Nu Metal and Hard Rock bois haha! I love Wes and his riffs, and that Nickelback riff is just really heavy :)
Don't know about anyone else but, the Trivium riff reminds me somewhat of the main riff from Through The Never by Metallica... which is another under-rated riff :)
It is similar, both great riffs though :)
The Crusade is absolutely PACKED with excellent riffs. People gave it crap for not being Ascendancy 2, but it kicks ass.
Cheers Pete, your videos are always such fun to view. Gonna be adding a lot of these to my playlists!
The opening/main riff to "The Last Fight" by Bullet For My Valentine ia very underrated in my opinion.
Yes
I feel like Pantera's "You've Got To Belong To It" whammy riff is a good one I don't hear many people talk about.
To me "Stormshield" by Nasum has one of the most great riffs ever. That part at 01:04 in that song together with the blastbeats is just wild. Not an objective opinion of course 😁
Oh man, I forgot about Nasum! Not hugely into Grind stuff but I like a lot of what I’ve heard from them :)
FINALLY someone showing that riff in the struggle within some love and leader of the rats! This is why Pete is my favourite..well that and being a riff god
Haha, thanks! Those are just 2 riffs I’ve always thought were really cool :)
@@peteplaysmusic what about the riff after the solo in master of puppets? Another Metallica under appreciated golden riff
“Eulogy for an Angel” by From Autumn to Ashes is the song that got me into metal. The opening riff is simple but killer.
"Side of a Bullet" also has a solo from the late great Dimebag.
And it’s an awesome solo too! :)
Love the frequent posts dude! Keep it up!
Thanks! That's the plan! :)
I've been watching since I saw you on Rob Scallon's channel with the Djenty metal town video in 2014, it's awesome getting a reply from you!
Always Love watching your right hand technique, really motivating👍
Thanks! :)
Nice list of underrated riffs. A few bands I don’t typically listen to, but I can appreciate their riffs, their great
Phenomenal choices! I've been listening and enjoying the chorus to Car Bomb's Scattered Sprites. It has a sexy minor 9th in it and just brings a heavy Deftones feel to it
Great job man!! 👏
Thanks for introducing me to Sikth
SikTh are a truly amazing band, you’ll love them! I recommend their their Death of a Dead Day album :)
Payback is so brutal (even on ukulele!)
Especially with Sarah on vocals too haha! :)
Great work Pete! I feel like many people are still just now discovering Jinjer; some songs are very chuggy, but many (I Speak Astronomy, Mediator, etc) are groovy riff-bombs.
All within my hands and the outro for unamed feeling are awesome
Underrated riffs... Lots of Crowbar riffs for sure! Particularly the main riff from To Build a Mountain! That one kicks ass!!
Another awesome vid Pete 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼
Thanks! :)
Excellent COB choice 🔥🔥
My face lit up when you picked "Leader of the Rats". I freaking love that song! My God, is that album 20 years old?!? Arch Enemy has been so awesome for so long.
so glad you included Trivium, an underrated band if there ever was one, really talented musicians!
Trivium have some awesome riffs! :)
Nice to see Sikth on here, I saw them in a tiny little pub in Portsmouth back in 2000/2001. Great band! My underappreciated riff would be Pinball Map by In Flames.
Troops of doom- Sepultura
The killchain- Bolt Thrower
Brain dead- Exodus
oh yeah heartwork !! I love this album, just exquisite ! :p by the way, you play the riffs better than the original, for example on slayer :p also, nice fender guitar, what are your pickups and what are your amp and effects ? sounds really cool, warm, grainy yet super heavy, i love it !
Love that you started out with my favorite Slayer song. A few others to consider would be "Still I Rise" from Shadows Fall, "Native Blood" from Testament, and pretty much anything from the first few Fates Warning albums, my favorite being "Kyrie Eleison" which was on the River's Edge soundtrack.
Dude!!! You mad my freakin day throwing Sikth in there. That’s one of my favorite all time riffs. It’s still metal, but the arrangement of that part is so beautiful and emotional without defined lyrics. A testament of what you can do with a guitar.
I’d also throw the end riff of Under a Weeping Moon into that category of under appreciated along with beginning of Bland Street Bloom.
SikTh are an amazing band! :)
I had my Limp Bizkit phase before I started playing guitar. Now in hindsight some of the stuff really surprises me. Like how cool is that My Generation riff?! 😄
Wes Borland has some awesome riffs! :)
I actually had to go back and watch that again because it was so simple but bleepin' catchy. I did not expect that whammy-whack to give that harmonic so much eerie character. I remember enjoying Static-X "I'm the One" (way back before I picked up any guitar) and wondering how they got that uncanny harmonic sound in the riff. My Generation took that idea and whacked it up a notch.
Dark Fortress - Osiris
Sylosis - Teras
Melechesh - Multiple Truths (main and ending riffs)
Deserted Fear - All Will Fall
Gojira - Backbone
Once Human - Deadlock
Eternal Storm - Eternity Forgotten (Follow the Cycle)
The Raven Age - Angel in Disgrace
Dyscarnate - All the Devils are Here
Fólkvangr - My Sword for the Gods
Fólkvangr - The Longobard
Atlas - Susi
I can add riffs whole day :D
I'm sure I could pull together a list if I took the time, but the one that always pops up in my mind as an underrated riff is the opening one for "Under the Oak" by Candlemass. So meaty and epic!
Another good one is the thrashy riff after the chorus of "The Chains of Power" by Kataklysm. "Reset" by Metal Church is probably another one that gets overlooked.
"Metallica - Shortest straw" is in my opinion a really underrated riff (the one with the bendy tritone)
My favorite of these is probably the Limp Bizkit one, I'm a sucker for this harmonic-like sound
And an honorable mention to Nickelback, who could know they had it in them!
Nickelback can be pretty heavy when they want to be haha :)
Payback has crazy fast lyrics as well. Love Slayer
Brutal lyrics too!
@@peteplaysmusic will admit, when I heard it on the album, I instantly got the lyrics and spent the next hour or two memorizing them. God Hates Us All is such an important album for Slayer, it was almost a reaffirmation of Slayer in a new century, and really a great transition from the 90s.
Awesome picks. Sikth especially is an underrated band in general but they have some awesome stuff
Sikth are amazing! :)
Feels like Danish thrashers Hatesphere are always missing from these lists. Their album Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes remains one of my alll time favorite riff feasts 🔥
I've remembered 3 that came to my mind first at this moment
1) Revocation - Chaos of Forms (that little catchy heavy riff around 53th second wich appears only once in the song, I rewinded it couple of times to relisten. Looks simple but colol and heavy as f..k)
2) Submersed - To Peace (there's 2 variation of riff at 1-10 and 3-22 of that song, cool melodic groove riff)
3) Insane little progressive riff of 7-10 seconds long with heaviest sound I can only dream to achieve. Mudvayne -" I Can't Wait" 9th second and 2-12 of the song. Remember this album was one of my favorite (and still is) - very heavy quality sound with amazing progressive groovy riffs here and there ( like the Beyond The Pale riff in second half of the song on that selftitled album, The Hate In Me ob previous The New Game album). But actually there is dozen of insanely underrated stuff in all of their albums.
And ofcourse a lot of riffs of "Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia" , underrated stuff that blown my mind, none of any other progressive stuff don't come close to Ron Jarzombek's "music for aliens" and have wondered me more, he has reconstructed my brain once and forever. Insanely heavy and progressive stuff that everyone should to listen in their life.
yes! Sikth!! Sick ending to Skies for sure!
Sikth are amazing! :)
The intro riff to Alien Shiver by Vola, the whole band is underappreciated but damn theyre amazing
I love these compilations. Mine additions would be:
96 Quite Bitter Beings by CKY (generally underrated band imo)
Sworn by Emperor
Vredesbyrd by Dimmu Borgir
Wisdom Comes by Gojira
Morgenstern by Rammstein
Wherein Lies Continue by Slipknot (generally later Slipknot has a fuckton of underrated riffs)
H. by Tool
March of the fire ants by Mastodon
Ben Sahar by Behemoth
Bleak by Opeth
Bitter Peace by Slayer
Mother Russia by Iron Maiden
Yesterday Don’t Mean Shit by Pantera
Man I love these songs, might put on a playlist for them😀
One cool rift is the main rift from Hail The Apocalypse from Avatar. Heavy and played almost entirely with the whammy bar
Great vid! My neck needs a rest.
Haha! :)
The riff of Under The Scarlet Sky from Undead Corporation's Hacking to Pieces album is also very underated
So.. is no one going to speak on that PRS?! HOLY SHIT IS IT BEAUTIFUL
Ahh really like this topic, could easily get a part 2.
I’m thinking The Killing Road from Megadeth, such a sweet riff
Also from Trivium, I really, really liked the riff from The Heart from your Hate, not sure if it would count as underrated but just took the idea out haha
I might make a part 2! :)
Amon Amarth - Guardians Of Asgaard has a very heavy riff anyone can like :)
Månegarm - Adils Fall has a good headbanging riff! :)
Amon Amarth probably have loads of cool riffs, I need to check them properly! :)
Skies of Millennium Night is one of the most underrated riffs of all time. SikTh are a hugely under appreciated band. Great showcase for a hugely underrated song and riff!
Yep, 100% agree. SikTh are so good! :)
Embodiment is one of my favorite riffs ever
Hey I just got a Meteora and I'm loving the feel of it. But the pickups seem to be really microphonic and I'm having issues getting tons of noise/feedback. Any suggestions? (I'm using a Katana Artist Mk2)
The Struggle Within riff was my very first thought after seeing the video title!
I've always loved the riff after the solo haha :)
Underrated Metal riff for me would be Trivium "Inception of the End". It's an awesome harmonic minor riff!
Trivium have a bunch of underrated riffs :)
Celebrity Touch by Riverside is an amazing riff
I never understood how "Trashed, lost & strungout" and "We're not gonna fall" weren't more popular amongst bodom fans.
Anything from Voivod's 90's albums : Nothingface, Outer Limits, Angel Rat
Piggy just went the distance in putting 2 or even 3 variations of 1 riff into one song
For example "We are not alone".
5:28 Delicious Carcass influences en Arch Enemy riff...
The song Fear from the album The Devil You Know by the band Heaven & Hell (which was basically Dio era Black Sabbath) is chock-full incredible goodness, and it was done by the riff lord Tony Iommi himself.
Can't go wrong with Iommi riffs! :)
Very nice, especially Nickelback and Wes Borland 🤘I have another one for you: Filter 'Spent' from their first long player 'Short Bus', the riff from part 3:10 😎
I'll check it out! :)
@@peteplaysmusicBy the way, you remembered me to listen to Carcass again. Really an awesome band. 🙏🤟
Pantera-yesterday dont mean shit
Sylosis-out from below
Amon amarth-blood eagle,asator
Testament-eyes of wrath
Nevermore-inside four walls
Rammstein-mein land
Sabaton-white death
Slipknot-aov
Exodus-shroud of urine
Lamb of god-straight for the sun
for part 2
Love that Sikth tapping riff, a lot, what else sounds like that?
I would've suggested Reek of Putrefaction! Every riff in that song is easily the most terrifying riffs conceived by man!! Carcass are legends!!
Napalm Death-Taste the Poison
Exodus-Persona non Grata
riffs are very underrated.
The beginning part of Payback sounds just like another riff that is super underrated: Annotations of an Autopsy, Cryogenica.
Edit: Pete, I'd love it if you did a whole paythrough of that riff from Annotations of an Autopsy or incorporate it into one of your videos somehow.
Well now I want to see a full cover of Struggle within, or like the best riffs from the Black Album.
Avatar has such a good riffs, for example main riff from Bloody angel, House of eternal hunt or Torn apart
That's my favorite carcass song !!! I think Careful what you wish for by Testament has a pretty underrated riff (1:58 if you wabt to hear it)
Late to the party here, but Sevendust - Deadset is an absolute banger.
Justin by Korn has a very simple yet groovy riff, a very underrated song by them overall :)
I've actually never heard of that song. Which album is it from?
@@peteplaysmusic Follow The Leader
Aliases - We Never Should Have Met (verse riff)
Spiritbox - Electric Cross (underrated song)
Underrated band Mortice, have a heavy as hell track called 'Purgatory' with a wonderful into riff
Those low-tuned tones sound awesome. What amps and cabs were used, if you don't mind sharing?
This was my Peavey 6505MH and Tube Screamer into my Torpedo Live. I kinda like the Tube Screamer more than the Precision Drive sometimes haha :)
The Precision Drive is great, but the Tube Screamer is indeed phat. Thanks for sharing!
Heartwork is a masterpiece from start to finish 🤘🏻
Yep, 100% agree :)
Opeth "Blackwater Park" riff that starts at 1:50 into the song. It absolutely slays.
Opeth have lots of underrated riffs too :)
That Bodom is the fkn BEST - didn’t think anyone else appreciated it I’ll be honest
One their best riffs and songs, I think :)
I have a suggestion for a video Pete. Why not do a video about some heavy riffs you like that sound like they could be metal but aren't actually from "metal" bands?
I think that would be pretty cool, bands don't have to be metal to get HEAVY! \m/
That might actually be pretty cool, maybe I'll work it into a video sometime. :)
@@peteplaysmusic Do Britney Spears - Toxic in style of 20 metal bands :) There's groovy riffs in arrangement. Or Criminal. That fluit stuck in my head for ages.
Love to see Trivium’s Unrepentant get some love! Extremely underrated
I always liked that riff. Kinda want Trivium to do another thrash album haha :)
My very first guitar was a gift from my father who was an amazing guitarist who actually played with a few famous bands. Anyways, my very first guitar was an American standard Stratocaster. Pearl white with tortoise shell pick guard... Im not a huge fender fan, but my favorite guitar right now in my collection is one of my cheaper ones. The Joe Duplantier signature Charvel!!!! That fender you're playing is SOOO F***ING SEXXXY!!!!!!
The Fender Meteora is a bit rough around the edges but with a bit of setup work I’m liking it more and more :)
Dread and the fugitive mind by megadeth doesn’t get talked about as much as it should
Damn, those are real cool, I haven't heard most of them before lmao
That was part of why I wanted to make a video like this. Kinda wanted to show some love to some less popular band with huge riffs :)
Awesome riffs Pete. Check out "Parkway Drive", most of their songs are super heavy and have awesome breakdowns. Check the following songs "Dead mans chest" and "Boneyards".
make a video of top 10 underrated bands in your opinion please
Good list. Mine is:
Any 10 Sylosis' riffs
100% agree! :)
My favorite riff that underated is Crystal lake - into the great beyond
This was already a great video when you opened with payback, the whole god hates us all record is my favorite work of theirs
Best Slayer album imo haha :)
The main riff from seemless by American head charge
99, The Fall and The Fallout by The Haunted? What do you think Pete?
wohhh that Fender Meteora
Nice! isn't Carcass just standard B?
A super underrated one for me is Fake Plastic Smile by Upon a Burning Body
Kreator - Awakening of the Gods. Riff after 2nd chorus
Sikth are the one band for me that will never get old. The last album was a bit of a miss, but the first two, and Opacities, are straight PERFECT.
The first 2 albums are amazing! Never really got into the latest one or Opacities though, maybe I should check them out again? :)
Heartwork……pure class of an album 🫶🏻
Basically perfection :)
Graveyard disciples from Black Label Society. To me that riff is the definition of simple yet badass
That whole album has a bunch of awesome riffs, Bleed For Me is my favourite :)
@@peteplaysmusic agreed 🤘🏻
Wherever i may roam have a very well main riff.
Lies by Evanescence has awesome guitar riffs throughout. The riffs aren't difficult, but they're awesome. I'm not a big Evanescence fan, but that song caught me off guard and I still listen to it.
Evanescence have some cool super simple riffs :)
Pete Cottrell: the best (but most underrated) metal guitar player
Haha thanks! :)
I broke out the Black Album on CD a few days ago, and thought the same thing!?? 1:58 that riff is so Far_King Punk-Metal!
Always loved the riff after the solo :)