5 iconic old school death metal riffs, played on my acoustic guitar for you to guess. Actually, I decided to just put the list of all songs the riffs are from here to make it easier for you:
Riff 0: Death - Symbolic
Riff 1: Napalm Death - If the Truth Be Known
Riff 2: Tiamat - Ancient Entity
Riff 3: Cannibal Corpse - Covered With Sores
Riff 4: Sepultura - Necromancer
Riff 5: Obituary - Body Bag
I guess the first riff is too famous to include it into a guessing game, so I decided to give it number 0.
This riff by Napalm Death is my most favorite riff of all riffs Napalm Death have ever written. I also have another video - with grindcore riffs, but I decided to include this one into the death metal video, as the song, and the whole album “Harmony Corruption” are almost pure death metal, and not really grindcore, despite the general image of the band.
The Tiamat’s riff is the opening riff from the song Ancient Entity from their second LP “The Astral Sleep, 1991”, and I highly recommend it to any death metal fan. It’s a very original work in everything - from the tunes to the production sound. I love the way Johan Edlund (the singer) screams like insane in the end of the second guitar phrase of the riff, and then the rest of the instruments kick in. And then, further in the song, the bluesy solo played over the heavy death metal rhythm guitars. And then… everything else in the album. Just try it if you haven’t yet.
Cannibal Corpse - Covered With Sores is from the heaviest album of the band - Butchered at Birth, 1991. A bulky, fat, killer opening riff. I love the guitar tone on this album. One of the heaviest albums I’ve ever heard.
Sepultura - Necromancer is from their EP “Bestial Devastation”, from 1985. It’s insane how heavy and ahead of their time they were. And the tuning on it is C - two steps down from the standard! This is pure death metal, two years earlier before Death’s “Scream Bloody Gore” that many mistakenly believe to be the first death metal album in the history. I’m not saying Chuck Schuldiner wasn’t the first person to play death metal (and I’m not saying he was either, as it’s difficult to tell), as before “Scream Bloody Gore” there were demo tapes, and who knows who heard who first. But speaking about label-released albums, it’s one of the two earliest death metal releases I know about, and it’s heavier than the other one, which is “Seven Churches, 1985” by Possessed.
The riff from Obituary’s Body Bag is just one of the most memorable riffs in death metal, which is a trademark of one of my most favorite death metal bands.
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