My 20 favourite black metal riffs

[giorgitch]

Lucifugum's cover is probably wrong. You have cover from portuguese lucifugum, but the song is of ukrainian one.

[AustrianMetalhead]

Deathspell Omega pretty much rapes everything... just listen to the riffs in Sola Fide I+II, Abscission, A Chore for the Lost, Carnal Malefactor...

... I could go on for hours...

[Rikbel666]

Good choises.... but my favourite riff is Burzum - Jesu Død

[vipersb1]

Crebain!! Fuck yes!! But I personally think their best riff is in 'Cries Of My Motherland' Fukin epic black metal anthem!

[BlackMetalerWolf]

Nice \m/ I personally also like that one riff in Burzum - Black Spell Of Destruction, I think most people know which one I'm taking about

[manosrock123]

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[AuEllai]

How I can find the image of Deathspell Omega?

[DesEisensBlut]

Wow nice Riffs ...

[c0mpiled]

the riff from behexen's 'mouth of leviathan' should be here.

[DictiusTeNecare666]

the ulver riff is fucking great at the beginning !! Der Rest auch !! greez

[oldbobscoo]

No Emperor? Dark Funeral? Dark Fortress? Dissection? Wyrd? Abigail Williams? They are the kings of black metal. 

[BlackMetalerWolf]

@oldbobscoo Abigail Williams?? They are not black metal, they are "blackcore" lol

[nachtkrieg]

Thank you...666

[DarthKrattus]

Where is "Enter the Eternal Fire" by Bathory?

[supershiva11]

i ilke weiners

[NightOfTha44]

I'd have to say my favorite black metal riffs are the main riff of "In The Shadow of The Horns" by Darkthrone and the fast riff after the breakdown in "Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels" by Silencer.

[TheElmo00]

most of them are mp3 why???

[VargTheWisdom]

The Life Neglected part is awesome. One of their best songs I've heard yet.

[ChurchInAshes]

Fantastic video, infact the first "Top#" video I've added to my faves, good also to see you've included some DBM.

[biiLL4bonG]

sucks

[hobodoctor]

I'm not gonna be another one of the assholes saying what bands you should and shouldn't like. Just wondering if you've listened to Drudkh. I'd think their first album at least would be up your alley, though their second is my favorite.

[Praseodym666]

@hobodoctor Thank you my friend !

Of course i know Drudkh

But I'm a huge fan of "Songs of Grief and Solitude" album (acoustic folk album).

[hobodoctor]

@Praseodym666 I love that album, though Autumn Aurora has to be my favorite. Wind of the Night Forest and Glare of Autumn are simply amazing. If I had to pick a single Drudkh riff that I like the most, and they have so many amazing ones, I'd have to pick the opening riff from False Dawn off the Forgotten Legends CD. It was the first Drudkh song I heard and that riff blew me away.

[NightOfTha44]

@hobodoctor ... did your old username used to be homelesshobo? I remember someone had great taste in black metal under that username... just wondering.

[hobodoctor]

@NightOfTha44 No, I've been Hobodoctor for about 7 years or so now. But I appreciate the compliment man.

[vipersb1]

@hobodoctor Drudkh is amazing!! I think Blood In Our Wells is the best atmospheric black metal album ever!

[loool070]

horna have some great riffs



[skog666]

graveland is fucking nsbm ;]

[BF1]

Strange no Dark Funeral???? Gotta have that somewhere in the list.

[albertocardona3585]

what the fuck is up with these bootleg fucking band picture things hahaha

[deathblackthrashing]

Black metal has to be the most creative and inspiring music ever made.

[balckfrost]

badass top!

I like that \m/

[forestopastalpesto]

that was a great listen, congratulations (draugar, deathspell, kaltetod, graveland... great!!); if you have time to check out my uploads to support underground names, go ahead!

[Vomitedd86]

Love the album cover at 2:13

[GYXkid]

..whatever it is, i like it a lot x)

[GYXkid]

there's a certain scale and type of riff that some black metal seems to like to use,

examples:

-in the bridge of 'where dead angels lie' by dissection, after the quiet part and girl scream

-about 1/3 of the way through 'ion storm' by dodheimsgard

-possibly the beginning of 'i am god' by abigail williams

[adnihilis]

Not a bad list. It's good to see a sizable American representation, at least. As good as the Scandinavian and French scenes are, there are some notable bands here, as well.

[fightingnate]

burzum, immortal, velvet cacoon, leviathan -yes

the rest are rather mediocre imo

[JustTheThruth]

my favourite black metal riffs are in gorgoroth's Under the Sign of Hell. Main riff in "Vid I" by taake is a great riff too.

[immortalmayhem425]

that ulver song is awesome

[UnyieldingDefiance]

I just realised how Varg blatantly ripped off bathory's necromansy song with war.

[ZanyAnton]

I think he saw it as a tribute to Bathory though.

[UnyieldingDefiance]

Oh right, fair enough then.

[ichhaltebenmann]

oh sry i meant dimension of the blackest dark...

[ichhaltebenmann]

xasthur - blackest dimension of dark

best riff ever...

though its a cover =P

[vf8v]

where's Dark Funeral?

Great list

[slayer179]

my favorite bathory song!

[Paks88]

crebain... sounds very nice :P didnt know them

[sargathan]

6:44 burzum rules!!!!!!!!!!

[EnemyOvGod]

Eminor rules!!

[z3dbr]

crap list

[sotarn2the2man]

The Somberlain with Dissection is pretty sweet.. ^^

[diegodurok666]

lol Kältetod!!!

[babytaleena]

lol im sorry but i am soo sick of people correcting each other about genres, i really dont care what kind of genre it is its just good music, i like all this stuff but people should lay off a lil bit about the right nd wrong genres, but other than that, i like this vid thanks!

[fabb91]

What i want to say is that this video is for favourite black metal riffs of with the guitar electric drum and singing with much distortion and pictures in the site youtube viewers or not ?

[locriumetal]

Awesome list dude!

Long live Black Metal!

[paparias123]

ok ...nice video..:O im sorry

[paparias123]

BATHORY??? lol its viking....this video is false...where are dark funeral rifs from diabolis interium which are top..where are mayhem rifs??dark throne ??(and

im telling you the famous bands)there are a lots of others

[Praseodym666]

You are an idiot ! This song is from first full bathory album that was a black metal not viking ! If you don't now anything stop f*cking say this bullshit ! and by the way this is MY top 20 riffs !!! So don't tell my what i should have on this list cause I now that mayhem,darkthrone etc. are good but I told once again this is my list !!!

[FeastedUpon]

The Return... Is pretty black metal.

[Krigarar]

WTF how can you not know that Bathory basically invented black metal!

[sotarn2the2man]

Then please answer this paparias, if Bathory just made viking metal how come like all black metal bands that are something have made Bathory covers-.- ?

[MiT03II]

@paparias123 Your stupidity amazed me.

[NuMetalBeDamned]

Would have liked to see some Darkthrone or Emperor in this list. They may be a bit of a mainstream selection but they have not yet forgotten their roots!

[agentkung]

god there just all shit

[Sortediabolli]

The riff of 1349 is just like Pagan fears which I prefer to "To Rottendom".

[turdreard]

nice vid, was kinda hoping for something from MGLA, but its stil a really good list

[Agentbromsnor]

Its a shame Ulver is now uninspired electro/pop-crap.

[vucjipastir]

which song of ulver is that

[GutYourMom]

hey dude..

where Mayhem's Deathcrush,

Deathcrush has a cool riff imo

[Desimodontidae]

I would put in Begravelsesnatt by Gorgoroth... the ending riff it's so driving and dark. Or the riff from Ea Lord of the Deep. Pretty commercial song, but great riffs still.

[budalo]

where the fucking burzum's jesus tod?

you fucking bastard!

[GizmoGuy77]

Awesome...

I love Ulver , man

That's probably one of my favorite riffs of all time.

[TacoBot5000]

wheres fall out boy guise?

[zugarpies]

WHERE is Kalmah????

About 26 seconds into their song, Heritance of Beija, I orgasm!

[BoredToDeath92]

kalmah is not black metal

[zugarpies]

haha right. just had a raging heritance moment. my bad.

[fireninjaxxx]

actually i think some of their reeallllyy old stuff might have been

[VVStranius]

Nope. Black metal is satanic and Kalmah has never been satanic.

[destroyreligion]

Black metal doesn't have to be Satanic; there are many black metal bands that have no satanic themes what so ever. Where did this "Black Metal HAS to be Satanic" logic come from!?!

[OdinsbaneOfficial]

@destroyreligion I KNOW! They called themself satanic just because they wanted to stand out and kinda freak out people. Something newer bands didn't understand

[NightOfTha44]

@destroyreligion ... some of the French bands and more open minded bands sing about a cosmic creator and the universe being intended.

[PsYcHiaTeRxX]

@destroyreligion i believe its from euronymous

[fireninjaxxx]

not all black metal is satanic, my band isnt, and actually theres an assload ov black metal bands that are christian but they call themselves 'White Metal" hahha (like horde, extol, etc.)

[BF1]

@zugarpies Kalmah is Melo-death

[Crustas111]

*went

[Crustas111]

the burzum riff is one of the best riffs ever ..that riff make me go crazy

[usrnamedenied]

yeah, they drive me insane too :P

[FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKK]

You really should list the track titles as well, sir.

[Praseodym666]

Well ok i will do this.

[FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKK]

I appreciate it.

[BlackFlesh666]

What's the title for the Graveland song?

[Praseodym666]

Thousand Swords

[idolgraven]

Must check out CREBAIN, thats my kind of riff! Cool Burzum choice.

[masterolightning]

It's off of Crebain/Leviathan. Very much worth checking out. It's one of the weaker Leviathan efforts, but the Crebain half kills.

[BoredToDeath92]

Nice list but you forgot riffs of many great black metal bands like dissection,burzum,mayhem,gorgo­roth etc.

Very good vid 5/5

[Praseodym666]

Burzum ? I have burzum riff ;]

[BoredToDeath92]

sorry didn't notice but still forgot many (i was just typing fast)

[DreamsideRealm]

Great riffs. Can someone tell me the name of the Deathspell Omega song?

[Praseodym666]

Deathspell Omega - The Suicide Curse

[ZajacMichal]

BLACK METAL IST KRIEG!!!!!!!!!!