What is the HEAVIEST riff in rock?

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  • Drop1The0Leash
    Drop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Domination by Pantera are up there for me.

    Fuck yea man. Pantera have the heaviest riffs. Gotta add Primal Concrete Sledge to that the list!
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  • Drop1The0Leash
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    Stonerlady wrote:
    TH268132 wrote:
    QOTSA - Quick and to the pointless
    http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=4CvO02FHEvY

    Have to agree with that - and add You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOIRnKrskQ

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  • youngster
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    Deftones Bored

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F-kMVqLdf8
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  • MK50139
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    intodeep wrote:
    MK50139 wrote:
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    Alice in Chains - It Ain't Like That
    Welcome to the board! Nice first post. I always loved that Aic riff. They played it when i saw them last week. I believe it started as sean and jerry playing around writing a joke song and they were like hey that riff is killer lets make something out of it :)

    Good story, never knew that. Seeing them next week . . . cannot wait!

    Thanks, been around for a while, never posted . . . too much drama :roll: . This seemd like a worthwhile thread though.
  • JimNastics
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    Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow was the song that came to my mind when I read the thread title. To me though, loads of the songs posted in this thread I don't think are "heavy"... scooping out mids, palm-muting and screaming beyond comprehension isn't my idea of "heavy". I see early Black Sabbath and early Led Zep as "heavy". Though I think Metallica pretty much hit the nail on the head round about 1991.
  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    Muse - Stockholm Syndrome or Supermassive Black Hole
    Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
  • EquallyWorthless
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    How has no one mentioned the opening riff in raining blood?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-DTrMG4vs
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    awesome thread!

    I would say something by Pantera. Drag the Waters and A New Level come to mind.
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  • MagnusonPark
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    Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
    Metallica - Sad But True
  • TheVan218
    TheVan218 Posts: 302
    Either "Sad But True" or "Bulls On Parade". I know there's much more intense Rage songs, but in the video for Bulls there's one scene where Tom is stomping his foot up and down with the crowd moving in unison. It's really intense.
  • JaneNY
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    at a little less than 4 minutes in, Eraser, NIN. One of the heaviest. Listen to that bone crunching.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9r0oiG9XAg
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  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    Horos wrote:
    'Whole Lotta Love' ?

    Yup gets my vote. That guitar tone is one of a kind and gets me every time. AIC's It Aint Like That also gets an honourable mention.
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  • dunkman
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1wphZf0E0

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  • Jennytree
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    Depends what you clasify has 'heavy'.

    A lot of you have suggested bass-fuelled riffs, but does that make them 'heavy'?
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    JaneNY wrote:
    at a little less than 4 minutes in, Eraser, NIN. One of the heaviest. Listen to that bone crunching.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9r0oiG9XAg

    Good call.
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  • JDB
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    The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica.
  • HeavyHands
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    In ways they all spring from the loins of Kashmir...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Someone mentioned AIC's "It Ain't Like That"...that riff is so awesome...I can't get enough of it.

    It probably isnt' the heaviest, but when I read the title I immediately thought of "Iron Man"...to this day, that shit is still amongst the heavier riffs.
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  • prytocorduroy
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    4th of july by the soundgarden
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    pinwheel wrote:
    4th of july by the soundgarden

    Nice choice.

    I thought of one last night -- "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Mansons. We can all admit that the chug of that riff is pretty damn heavy.
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