People should be more specific about the riffs they're referring to. There's more than one riff in Raining
Blood and Black Sabbath.
Just out of interest which riff in these songs are your favorite?
Here's how people should do it:
Opening riff to Mayhem's Freezing
Moon The riff at 5:20 in Electric Wizard's Funeralopolis
Riff at 1:21 and 1:43 of Carcass' Swarming Vulgar
Mass of
Infected Virulency
First bass riff in Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Acoustic riff in Satyricon's Takkeslottet
Riff at 4:58 in Burzum's Inn I Slottet Fra Drømmen
Riff at :38 in Arch Enemy's Dark of the Sun
Opening riff of Nonexist's Ebony Towers
Riff at 1:30 in Om's On the Mountain at
Dawn A certain riff in A Mind Confused's
Obliteration (I forget which one, and this band is very obscure)
Any riff in the first 10 or so minutes of Wyrd's
Heathen Riff at 2:31 in Windir's Arntor, Ein
Windir (although that riff is apparently taken from a 500-year old Norske hymn or something)
These aren't my all-time faves (at least probably--it'd be too hard to really dudge--these are just some really good ones).
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