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:
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:
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