DarkSideOfLucca: Heaviest riff of all time?

DarkSideOfLucca 04.20.23	I don't know Probably every Pantera riff from Vulgar - Great Southern Trendkill wins This is like the hardest question ever
pizzamachine 04.20.23	Michael Jackson - Thriller
DarkSideOfLucca 04.20.23	Thriller makes me want to crush skulls, agreed
YoYoMancuso 04.20.23	michael jackson - thriller [2]
MillionDead 04.20.23	List is missing Castagation and Betrayal by Anaal Nathrakh
AsleepInTheBack 04.20.23	what yo yo said dammit i literally came in here to make that joke and he already done did it [3]
Tundra 04.20.23	Infant Annihilator, Rendered Helpless
Hyperion1001 04.20.23	it’s kind of objectively the outro riff in suspended in tribulation.
AsleepInTheBack 04.20.23	actually: Admiral Angry
mkmusic1995 04.20.23	The end riff on Forced to Stay by Knocked Loose might be the most angry riff I've ever heard
AlexKzillion 04.20.23	black sabbath by black sabbath from black sabbath
SomeCallMeTim 04.20.23	none so vile like an ever flowing stream both full albums
TheSonomaDude 04.20.23	1 is wrong. 6 should have 1's description https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JvHLTIUdfA&ab_channel=Crowbar-Topic
anode 04.20.23	Nails - unsilent death
AlexKzillion 04.20.23	i always thought the riff at the end of tdep's "room full of eyes" was bone crushingly heavy
BitterJalapenoJr 04.20.23	Conjurer riffs are oppressively heavy - list would not be complete without those guys. "Behold the Swine" is a great one from their first EP.
DType 04.20.23	I was digging this until i saw the first spot
SIMBOLIC 04.20.23	The riff at like 1:30 from a virulent strain of retaliation has some newtons on it!
Emim 04.20.23	It's a bit of a meme now, but the riff in The Only Thing They Fear is You by Mick Gordan goes so hard
CygnusX1 04.20.23	Car bomb or frontierer sound like I'm inside of a perpetual car crash, is that heavy? Been needing more of that angry heavy lately yeah
cylinder 04.20.23	Every Ulcerate riff
Epilogue 04.20.23	the riff at 8:15 in Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog, of course
Pon 04.20.23	https://youtu.be/BJhF0L7pfo8
Ebola 04.20.23	The Dillinger Escape Plan - Prancer
BMDrummer 04.20.23	towering flesh
JohnnyoftheWell 04.20.23	towering flesh will do it
0GuyMan0 04.20.23	I always felt like the chug riff of For Whom the Bell Tolls is just fucking monstrous, and nigh-unmatched. What 'heavy' even is, though, is very much subjective.
ffs 04.20.23	blind willie johnson - the soul of a man
zakalwe 04.20.23	Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Trundle 04.20.23	Phobophile is fucking evil man. m/
FrozenFirebug 04.20.23	if heavy means downtuned: some shit by black sheep wall or admiral angry if heavy means fuckin sick: limp bizkit - autotunage
wojodta 04.20.23	Demon of the Fall
Cimnele 04.20.23	magma "de futura" sorry for progposting but it's truee
Coast 04.20.23	Nice picks. Dragged into Sunlight - Volcanic Birth
Apathya 04.20.23	Immolation - father.
EyesWideShut 04.20.23	Besides Thriller I would probably go with Angel of Death.. Left Hand Path and The Doorway got some sexy riffs too
InfernalDeity 04.21.23	Conan - Hawk as weapon
JohnnyoftheWell 04.21.23	Dopethrone is probably the correct answer tbh
ffs 04.21.23	dopethrone isnt even the heaviest electric wiz smh
evilford 04.21.23	"That part in Lethargica" yea
Muzz79 04.21.23	Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be Pantera - A New Level Idolatrous - The Harrowing Reprisal Omnium Gatherum - Nightwalkers Black Sabbath - Iron Man
DType 04.21.23	That part on Dehumanization
Jasdevi087 04.21.23	Absolutego
Storm In A Teacup 04.21.23	It is kind of curious how bands dont seem to be able to riff as heavy as Dimebag.
syco722 04.21.23	Gotta go with that riff in Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion by Meshuggah right at the 2:20 mark. Absolutely fuckin slaps
syco722 04.21.23	Ah shit, Dehumanization might be a contender too actually, good point
RogueNine 04.21.23	Heaviest moment yeah but it might not be the heaviest riff.
tectactoe 04.21.23	Something by either Hell or Electric Wizard
chemicalmarriage 04.21.23	Official live 101 proof is heaviest pantera imo, Dime taking souls on that one. Phil sounds surprisingly awesome too
syco722 04.21.23	Is Funeralopolis not universally considered the heaviest Electric Wizard riff?
rockarollacola 04.21.23	Night Stalker - Anthem
evilford 04.21.23	High On Fire - 10,000 Years is a good 1
Storm In A Teacup 04.21.23	I see some real narrow ears in this thread. Senses Fail has heavier songs than some mentioned here.
Flashmobba 04.21.23	damn no Isis? never been able to accurately describe the quintessential definition of heavy, but the last minute of In Fiction comes really close
el_newg 04.21.23	no idea how you were even able to post this list without mentioning Iommi
neekafat 04.21.23	black sabbath
Sharenge 04.21.23	Avalanche Master Song
kkarron 04.21.23	No Helmet? :(
Madbutcher3 04.21.23	gorguts - das martyrium des (1:28) bloodbath - beyond cremation (also 1:28...) leeway - unexpected (would you believe it... 1:28)
twlight 04.21.23	Demiurge from Meshuggah for me
Middle18 04.21.23	Korn-somebody someone Black Sabbath-black Sabbath Strapping young lad-Love? Carcass-coporal jigsore quandary Pantera- 5 minutes alone
Demon of the Fall 04.21.23	probably something by AC/DC
BenThatsMyJamin 04.21.23	Objectively the correct answer is The Lasting Dose by Crowbar
Demon of the Fall 04.21.23	^ that would be my actual answer, but idk there's probably an objective way of measuring this
BenThatsMyJamin 04.21.23	Nice one demon The Demiurge breakdown would be my other pick but Lasting Dose wins it for being emotionally crushing as well as sonically crushing
Egarran 04.21.23	Was just listening to Solitude Aeturnus - Pain. Probably their best riff.
botb 04.21.23	Lmao @ Amon amarth on a heaviest song ever list
robertsona 04.21.23	Eyehategod - Dixie whiskey First song on 2013 gorguts album Idk
botb 04.21.23	Neurosis - the doorway KEN mode - never was Gaza - gristle All in the running for me
DType 04.21.23	Carcass' Forensic Clinicism/The Sanguine Article at 4:48
AlexKzillion 04.21.23	the riff at the end of down's "bury me in smoke"
Egarran 04.21.23	^Yeah I considered that. Seen a few live shows on youtube and when that outro starts, OH MY FUCK it's good.
insomniac15 04.21.23	Always felt doom/sludge stuff was heavier than the most extreme black/death/hardcore type of riffs. For me low end is heavier, but yes, it's subjective.
MillionDead 04.21.23	Primitive Man - Rags Full of Hell - Thrum in the Deep Gorguts - Clouded Cursed - Friends in the Music Business Gaza - Calf
IsisScript80 04.21.23	Yeah, Gaza are responsible for some really heavy shit. Hmm... Black Sabbath are mentioned a couple of times here; specifically I'd say 'N.I.B.' would get my vote. Kurt Ballou has done some wonderfully nasty stuff for Converge... 'Plagues' and the title track of 'You Fail Me' qualify for me.
SomeCallMeTim 04.21.23	Sad to see no Godflesh mentions, intro to Meltdown is one of the heaviest guitar sounds known to man Also Weakflesh around the 2:25 mark when drum beat switches up might be the heaviest moment in music
Sharenge 04.21.23	/bonk
SomeCallMeTim 04.21.23	rip lol I see it now
Chippe 04.21.23	Accept-Balls to the wall, no contest
Egarran 04.21.23	By an earlier vote it was decided that the best Black Sabbath riff appears in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
DarkSideOfLucca 04.21.23	All this hate for 1 when it's clearly in the exact correct spot is making me a sad Lucca
NastyCrab 04.21.23	A Life Once Lost was going to release this before they pivoted on their last album. Absolutely rips. https://youtu.be/n13OzllzyfE
Egarran 04.21.23	Surely Far Beyond Driven has better riffs.
DType 04.21.23	"Always felt doom/sludge stuff was heavier than the most extreme black/death/hardcore type of riffs. For me low end is heavier, but yes, it's subjective." I actually agree with this take, sludgy riffs feels heavier to me for some reason, specially with a nasty rumbling bass, they bring the stankiest faces
zakalwe 04.21.23	Night Child
Muzz79 04.21.23	“Surely Far Beyond Driven has better riffs”. I’m Broken is an exercise in heavy af riffs
Madbutcher3 04.22.23	to build a mountain by crowbar is probably up there
Egarran 04.22.23	My Dying Bride - The Raven And The Rose
evilford 04.22.23	Madbutcher knowz
IntoTheFire 04.22.23	ion dissonance - this is the last time I repeat myself
GhandhiLion 04.22.23	Avalanche Master Song [2]
Heppasodge 04.23.23	Commerce - Primitive Man Sleep - Dopesmoker is pretty fuckin punishing Under the Surface - Neurosis Sacred Predictions - Burning Witch Mind’s Mirrors - Meshuggah
Anthracks 04.23.23	the end of psalms of the moribund by defeated sanity cannibal corpse - scourge of iron
Dedes 04.23.23	David De La Hoz by The Chariot End riff is mothafuckin sludgy
outliers 04.23.23	any emmure riff
MoM 04.23.23	In-a-gadda-da-vida
Heppasodge 04.23.23	Also yeah doom/sludge is ballistically heavier than death metal and anything core. Open out tha fuckin BOTTOM END
DarkSideOfLucca 09.10.23	Bumping because I'm now making this list into a workout playlist on Spotify Goddamn, I'm such a fucking genius
botb 09.10.23	Slit ur guts
DType 09.10.23	The entirety of Heliogabalus by Rorcal Heaviest album known to man
jrlikestodance 09.10.23	Cold As Life - All Alone gotta be up there
Frost15 09.10.23	Heaviest as in Heavy Metal music: +1 Electric Wizard's Dopethrone mentions. Heaviest as in witnessing a gigantic huge object/thing falling/moving in slowmo: Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions Heaviest as in so dense you feel your brain struggling to process the notes: Devourment - Obscene Majesty (whole album). Heaviest as in ominous/hellish atmosphere: Immolation - Close to a World Below
evilford 09.10.23	Christ's Cage outro
Lichtbringer 09.10.23	hail of bullets - nachthexen (ending) nile - annihilation of the wicked (that one riff there) the red chord - dreaming in dog years (obv the ending) a bunch of good ones that immediately came to mind have already been mentioned ofc
Deez 09.10.23	Hell - Mourn about 8 mins in Thread/
DarkSideOfLucca 09.10.23	"The entirety of Heliogabalus by Rorcal" - Not gonna lie, I have absolutely no dea what that is "Cold As Life - All Alone gotta be up there" - I also have no idea what this is "hail of bullets - nachthexen" - Or this "Hell - Mourn" Annnndd I don't know this Guess I have some stuff to jam
SomeCallMeTim 09.11.23	ok i was WRONG the heaviest wRIFFS might be in Captain Caveman by Lightning Boltstarting at 1:53ish to the end of the song: https://youtu.be/ygBww2ozQIA?si=9BYKoSGuctMXT9qM&t=109
FREETHEGUYS 09.11.23	the test pain of truth
combustion07 09.11.23	The slow down crushing riff towards the end of Heresiarch- Carnivore deserves a mention imo. Can't honestly give any particular riff the crown though because I love too many heavy riffs. Take it back a decade or so ago I probably would have said Funeropolis tho
Minortimbo12 09.14.23	You have this list but where tf is crazy train
battleinthenorth 09.14.23	14 is trvth
Egarran 09.14.23	Eh Suffo is too fast to be heavy
battleinthenorth 09.14.23	Title track's outrageously heavy tho
ISuckedOffTomDeLonge 09.14.23	The sound of me molesting my dog is pretty heavy