Also -
Tool - "Bottom"
It’s taking all the restraint I have to not fill this thread with Billy Corgan riffs, but here’s a lesser known one back from the 80s:
get you a friend who loves you as much as @TAFH33 loves the smashing pumpkins
Not enough Stone Gossard in this thread
an old classic…Down, Lifer:
always enjoyed the riff in this by Coalesce:
as heavy as sabbath wished they were (as someone once said to me but i’m not sure i agree…still, great cover/riff):
I always forget how amazing Jerry Cantrell is. Dam that River is such a riff.
While it’s my least favorite QOTSA album (still very good though), the chorus riff in “The Evil Has Landed” makes the song a Homme classic:
And since Wretch never gets mentioned, I have to post “HWY 74” with all of its riff stacking:
The riff that starts near the end of this (10 mins or so) is scientifically proven to be the heaviest riff of all time.
Pink’s riff is a pure shot of energy, it never fails.
* sometimes fails
Reckon this might be my very favourite Iommi riff, here covered by Al Jourgensen and other ne’er do wells
I appreciate that the rest of their output is somewhat cack, but this is a bloody good riff:
Diving back in because sometimes the simplest is the best.
