She's So Heavy - The Beatles. I know it's not "metal", but it's metal as fuck.
It's almost stoner or doom.
Follow the smoke to the riff filled lands
Proceeds the Weedian!
I don't know about all time, but...
- Visigoth - Revenant King - the intro and all the variations on it throughout the song
- Eternal Champion - A Face in the Glare
- Unleashed - Midvinterblot - I know it's super basic but it gets me amped up regardless
- Opeth - Serenity Painted Death - Already mentioned but damn
Oddly most of my favorite stuff - like prog metal - I tend to not like a particular riff from.
Something about Rammstein's Keine Lust always sends a ton of blood to my peen.
I love that song that goes ba duh duh dunna dun dun banananana duh duh buh buh
Götterdämmerung by Zeal and Ardor, goes hard always gets me excited.
Bleak by Opeth. Heartwork by Carcass Sinister Mephisto by Arch Enemy
Man, I miss old Opeth.
Photograph by Nickelback.
They are ahead of their time and won’t be understood for a couple more years.
Intro to Mandatory Suicide
From Slayer, I'm partial to Raining Blood, but they have so many legendary riffs that you couldn't go wrong picking at random 😂
Maybe an unpopular choice, but Sabbath’s Into the Void
I'm having a hard time finding a better one. This might be tops. Tried a bunch of old riff kings like Cactus, Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore, Buffalo, but I don't think they can beat Sabbath. Never in My Life by Mountain comes close for me though.
easy choice for me, O Father O Satan O Son by Behemoth
That’s a great one. Mine would have to be either Satan is Real by Kreator (main riff), or I’m Broken by Pantera (also main riff).
I'm partial to doom riffs so I gotta give love to Electric Funeral as the granddaddy. It's simple but so good.
The Cromlech Gate by Enslaved is super heavy and maybe my actual favorite, followed by too many by Candlemass tracks to mention. Ocean Demon by Runemagick is a series of great riffs.
But Tony is god so I can't neglect Patterns by Iommi and Follow the Tears by Heaven & Hell which are good 'n' heavy too.
My Own Grave - As I Lay Dying
This is an impossible question, how dare you. But I'm not gonna let you guys get away with not mentioning the Riff Beast himself, Kirk Windstein.
Crowbar - It Pours From Me usually comes to mind first.
Also, KoRn - Clown to this day has one of the most disgusting guitar tones I've ever heard.
The older I get the more I appreciate the simple brutality and precision of Metallica's "Battery" riff
Serpents of the Light by Deicide gets me as amped up now as it did 25+ years ago 🤘
