E Standard Heaviest Guitar Riffs

[@BaenaCarcosa]

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[@HelixNebuIa]

Sylosis is so underrated, riffs for fucking days. Such a sick band.

[@benstanfill363]

A sign of things to come is one of my favorite albums of all time.

[@Eckathor]

Their older stuff is neat, newer stuff is generic and sounds like just about any other metal band

[@alejandrorohen]

Sylosis is hands down the lord of standard E Riffs

[@IJH-Music]

The Helix Nebula, STILL the HEAVIEST in normal 6 string Drop D! FK double Drop D!

[@elnombre91]

I haven't watched the video yet but I was gonna say, Sylosis or we riot.

[@aaronsisco2177]

Putting the fall of Troy and Dillinger escape plan right next to each other was diabolical lmao

[@devinguy]

Putting Sylosis on this list was mandatory. Respect.

[@dathioz]

he could have filled the whole list with Sylosis and it would still be valid

[@FailureToBe]

Dude I know you likely won’t see this, but you’re part of the entire reason I started playing and why I bought my 7 string, so thank you so much Andrew baena I’ve been watching since 2019

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Thanks so much for saying that!

[@maciekt3499]

Same here but i started playing 8 and 9 string because of Andrew

[@THEDJAG-gt1tz]

@@maciekt3499 Same here! Without you i would not have own my fist 8 string guitar yet. Thanks so much to Andrew Baena and those other djenty boys out there letting us know about that awesome instrument😁

[@alejandroaaa]

1:28 Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls 1:48 Sylosis - Empyreal 2:16 The Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt 2:38 The Fall of Troy - ECPREMIX 3:02 Trivium - Ignition 3:20 Opeth - The Master's Apprentice 3:42 Deftones - Engine No.9 4:08 Dream Theater - Pull Me Under 4:26 Winds of Plague - Decimate the Weak 4:44 Pantera - Domination (Breakdown part)

[@dimejoe2621]

Hero without the cape🫡

[@madball80]

🤡👌🏻​@@dimejoe2621

[@elnombre91]

A very based selection

[@astonrichardson5288]

Empyreal is fucking great!

[@Thrillhouse84]

Opeth is of course mandatory for this list although Heir Apparent might be heavier

[@mikeberardi2]

Love Sylosis and Opeth. Master’s apprentices is one of my favorite e standard riffs. Never gets old

[@OTTOAUDIO]

Always a pleasure to do a HEAVIEST R II II II II F S with Ab... in E std? Yes in E std. 😎👍 any tuning, any time, any place, let's go! Great sounding drums RS!

[@BaenaCarcosa]

👏👏👏

[@the_Kiwi666]

That Opeth riff hits different

[@leviathan3630]

Better be Master's Apprentices

[@leviathan3630]

HELL YEAAAHHH

[@SamBrockmann]

The Fall of Troy was a solid pick. Well done!

[@giacomogalli2448]

The secret is that standard tuning already has a power chord on the bottom two strings and it sounds as heavy as a seven string

[@alfredopadronnanez3804]

Inverted power chords are amazing. Well aplied sounds so massive.

[@na7h4n34]

You can make 6 string guitar sound even more massive when you put a five string bass on the root notes in the lower octave. I know Periphery does that on their drop C songs occasionally, and I’m not as familiar with Sylosis but I think they do as well

[@infinidominion]

In Standard, the diad of lowest two strings is an inverted power chord

[@IJH-Music]

@@na7h4n34 It's now industry standard to add sub frequencies to everything they fucking shouldn't lol Won't be long til you hear cymbals sound like earthquakes.

[@NafiurRahmanYT]

SYLOSIS MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣 The heaviest riff in E Standard is probably Servitute by Sylosis

[@shimo.661]

So fucking real

[@broganward4210]

I remember at their comeback show they played Servitude in D standard, sounded so good!!

[@AdamReincarnate]

I got so excited as soon as I saw Master's Apprentices, I was hoping so much that it would be on here, being probably my fav E standard song

[@Jingra2000]

I'm so happy to see Empyreal in there man, such a heavy song for E standard.

[@fredquevillon3727]

I immediately thought of Master’s Apprentices so many great riffs. I really like the part at 2:24 in the song.

[@lerb3001]

I love that first riff in 43% burnt so much, it just hits so hard and doesn't overstay its welcome.

[@adamg.manning6088]

Yep, but by the time it comes back at the end, it seems like a relief because the rest of the song is so crazy.

[@tmrogers87]

DEP being in E standard always blows my mind

[@billyturk8117]

I pretty much started in drop c learning SOAD riffs, too 😂 never kept a guitar in e standard, ever.

[@BaenaCarcosa]

a man of culture

[@lunchcas]

I did the same thing, I learned over half of them before moving on

[@MTKTube]

LOVE seeing The Dillinger Escape Plan get some love!

[@thebrokenpuppet2714]

Cool list! Here’s some of my favorite heavy E standard riffs- Slayer- Black Magic Mayhem- Buried by Time and Dust Celtic Frost- The Usurper Sepultura- Dead Embryonic Stem Cells I’ll also mention some E standard riffs from bands that don’t cleanly fall under the “metal” label but are still very heavy nonetheless Black Flag- Nothing Inside Nirvana- scoff Discharge- meanwhile ( honestly you could make a good argument that this one falls under the metal category)

[@havenless3551]

I would assume that anything by Slayer and Sepultura are almost definitely in Eb standard, not E standard. Not much of a difference but still

[@thebrokenpuppet2714]

Black magic was off of the album show no mercy, which was in e standard

[@Cam-uv5sc]

@@havenless3551Sepultura was E standard all the way up through Arise and Slayer was in E standard but only on the first album.

[@bthompson1229]

Serenity painted death - opeth (main riff at 1:25) Also, love that fall of troy made it in there!

[@fysy9989]

Andy Gillion wrote some great E standard songs in Mors Principium Est and on his most recent solo album

[@joshuavereschagin]

Everything he touches IMO, is great.

[@SpeedbeetleV2]

E standard is making a comeback and I am here for it

[@E-MusicProductions]

That guitar sounds amazing! great job!

[@JimsMusicDungeon]

You put the "Bae" in Baena 💛Fantastic video as usual :)

[@ednaldojunior262]

Opeth is crazy! I couldn't believe it when I found out that Heir Apparent was in E Standard. Absolutely amazing

[@JimDewdGuitars]

The intro to glassgow kiss will always be my favorite E Standard riff and my go to warm up lick.

[@ughitstom]

Broken One - Trivium, one of my favourite E standard songs of all time

[@thepresidentslab]

Fancy seeing you here

[@ughitstom]

@@thepresidentslabnow wait a minute 😉

[@mikerodz204]

Hold on a second, now... Don't I know you two from somewhere?

[@thepresidentslab]

@@mikerodz204insert pictures of spiderman pointing at spiderman here

[@mikerodz204]

@@thepresidentslab 😂

[@pedrovianna2917]

Holy haha! Wasent expecting that Fall of Troy riff at all! One the most underrated bands of all time! And the breakdown on that song…Uff. Talk about heavy but groovy.

[@elgreatbambino]

Didn't know Baena owned a tuner that could reach E Standard, or a 6 string hahahahaha Dimmu Borgir has a decent amount of badass riffs in E!

[@keeprocking3620]

Sylosis has entered the chat

[@NickyTavic]

Soul Sacrifice by Power Trip is sorely missed 😪

[@penttikoivuniemi2146]

Opeth's Heir Apparent is probably the heaviest E standard I've ever heard.

[@martyjohnstone8226]

Said it once I'll say it again, heavy is a style of playing rather than a tuning

[@dethmetl]

Subscribed immediately. Then rang that bell. Love this E Standard homage! I mainly play E Standard.

[@REDLINEROADS]

Sylosis - Servitude

[@HogGaming9000]

im ngl one of my favorite e standard riffs is the riff that comes in after the harmonized intro in dont tread on me. that triplet feel goes nuts

[@mrandmrsbearau]

Just goes to show that the only thing that matters is tone. Incredible.

[@michaelchristy506]

The madlad finally did it He has a “normal” guitar now

[@thepresidentslab]

5:19 the Eric cameo let’s go!

[@MentaLevitation]

Love to see the colabs with @EricMorettin! Certified shredder, keep the content coming boys.

[@SoulFuneralz]

that's what learning drop c tuning leads to, picking up a guitar in e standard, it turned out that the live notes came out of the chat

[@Fabbezlg]

I LOVE E standard!!! some of my favourites include: Accept (Ok I'll try to narrow it down): Bucket Full Of Hate Breaker Sucks To Be You This One's For You Flash To Bang Time Final Journey Too Mean To Die Wrong Is Right Balls To The Wall Fast As A Shark Bloodbath Mastermind I Don't Wanna Be Like You Stampede Southside Of Hell Some not Accept: Artillery - Beneath The Clay (R.I.P) Artillery - Life In Bondage Pestilence - Chemotherapy Megadeth - Take No Prisoners Megadeth - This Day We Fight! Judas Priest - Painkiller Judas Priest - Night Crawler Scanner - Conception Of A Cure Scanner - 20th Century Crusade Scanner - F.T.B. Primal Fear - Chainbreaker Tantara - Human Mutation King Diamond - From The Other Side Pretty Maids - Back To Back Pretty Maids - Future World

[@boogieman93]

Great video Nik- I mean Andrew!!! 🖤🖤🖤

[@wobbolt2729]

That guitar is sick! I have the headless one. Love it

[@arenobrak]

Opeth rules! Btw, I think maybe an early Sepultura song could have featured as well.

[@ronanjenkins2323]

Calculating infinity is so rad!

[@k9online]

It always surprises most my metal friends when I tell them my favorite standard tuning riff of all time. KMFDM's "Light" - That riff still makes me kick my own ass every time. The whole track, not just the main riff.

[@jsviktor5]

any list with has my approval

[@EricMorettin]

We played on THE heaviest riff BROTHER. NO CONTEST

[@pseud0basslance]

Domination was my suggestion before the video! Such a good song!

[@FuzzImp]

Based ❤ homies moment

[@Gonboo]

I read that in Hulk Hogan’s voice.

[@ughitstom]

oh shit you actually included a trivium riff in this video, my bad LETS GOOO

[@rudstar64]

The to live is to die riff is pretty heavy sounding

[@rsdrumsofficial]

This rules! Thanks so much Andrew! \m/

[@BaenaCarcosa]

💚💚💚

[@alexodonnal3352]

I was going to say, sylosis had to be there, glad to see it 2nd 🤘

[@karterestill]

I'm surprised you didn't do the verse riff from " Like Callisto to a star in heaven" by Trivium but ignition is good too!😊

[@jaysongrace6399]

This video blew my mind - I had not idea DEP, FoT, and WoP used E Standard

[@pseud0basslance]

Domination!!! I was going to say you should have borrowed one of Eric's Dimebag guitars and then he showed up lol

[@trilogyeet5112]

Pull Me Under could have been on there 3 separate times, definitely deserved to be here. Also, it seems you learned from the Drop D video to keep a single guitar around E Standard.

[@markusbaust8132]

Pull me under is perfect for this list, but it hits way harder if you down pick it instead of alternate picking

[@Carl_With_A_K]

Huge inspiration to all guitar players out there big dawg! Bought an 8 just to learn Carcosa💪

[@evangibeau4489]

So glad to have seen Opeth and Deftones on here. I was astonished that Adrenaline was recorded in E standard when I first learned how to play Engine No. 9. Great playing as always 🤘🔥

[@altrogeruvah]

Some of these go really hard even for today's standards and this goes to show that it's always the riff itself that makes it sound heavy, not the low tuning per se

[@Talkboxeffectistrash]

Time to do “10 more heaviest riffs” in every tuning, all over again??? Because that would be fuckin sick, no joke. These vids are entertaining asf

[@french1991toast]

Making domination the final riff was smart. Love this list. Crazy how heavy you can make E standard sound 🤘🤘

[@cameroncorrosive925]

I love the Psycho Frame Gundam shirt man lol, honestly that band needs way more attention than they are getting.

[@DerSilvano]

Oh, even has a hint of the Line6 Spider II Insane Mode tone in it

[@bulletsheppard9977]

Opening with For Whom The Bell Tolls already makes this a winner. Having Empyreal and Domination seals the deal.

[@devinwatts3932]

DUDE FINISH THE DOMINATION ENDING!!😤

[@wrongperfection]

Lacks some good ol' Dimmu Borgir. Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny would fit perfectly. Also funny how you and @jojoplaysmusic both released "heaviest E standard riffs" essentially at the same time

[@BaenaCarcosa]

We've been talking to each other about it for weeks lol we were racing to see who would finish first

[@kalebevans7275]

That winds of plague came outa knowhere lol good picks though! 🤘😎

[@basirroslan9727]

Always know Sylosis will be on the list for sure!

[@JosueFCarrera]

Not sure if it counts as heavy but the intro of "Thank you for the Venom" of MCR is really good

[@discride18]

Cool riffs! Sylosis must have to this list. I love so much tracks Sylosis - Teras, and Sylosis - After Lifeless Years. If u would make video E Standard Heaviest Guitar Riffs part 2, add these tracks plz.

[@myselph1761]

Something I've always found pretty neat about the higher tunings is how with the right dissonance, E-standard can sound like drop A. I think the best example is the breakdown in Flying whales, being D standard but for the longest time I thought that part was played with 7 strings.

[@martinjakab]

Because you have bass underneath it I guess

[@fender7695]

I Hope bands start using half step down and E standard again. Some of the heaviest riffs aren’t lower than Drop D. I used to be obsessed with low tunings but now that everything sounds like low sludge I love listening to the great crunch of E srandard and half step down. Honestly anything lower than A standard or drop G is just ridiculous. Only for an effect but not for an actual riff. Ask any kid what song sounds heavier and they don’t know anything about tuning, they’d say Most death metal is heavier and crunchier because of that crunch of not tuning too low. 8 string and 9 string sound cool but don’t have that punch of something in Drop B or higher. And even Drop B loses a lot of the crunch unless you EQ the hell out of it. Having been in exclusively in Drop Ab and Drop B I can firmly say. Eb and E standard ftw.

[@djentydjames985]

Demon of the falllllll by Opeth bro goes so hard. All of it. And the Leper Affinity duuuude😭

[@jbales8990]

Empyreal is SUCH an underrated banger man

[@wanderergrim]

A heavy E standard riff that is not in a metal song but certainly is a metal riff is in the second half of the song "Right time of Night" by Urban Heat (post-punk/darkwave band)

[@NirvanaFan83]

Started learning Nirvana and progressively tuned lower and lower to Korn and Limp Bizkit, thanks for repping the E standard Baena!!

[@CamCo55]

Domination is heavy. I find "Slaughtered" by Pantera to be very heavy for Standard E as well.

[@Rob_Cary]

This was sick. I forgot all about the fall of troy. The only thing it was missing was the final part of down from 311.

[@spiralshadow]

Holy shit the mad lad actually did it

[@The_knife_master6661]

It might not be considered heavy but one of the most catchy riffs in E Standard I've ever heard is the main roff in Do You Call My Name by Ra it's such a ear worm

[@Cam-uv5sc]

Mostly old stuff here… Possessed: Riff in the middle of Burning in Hell at the 1:40 mark (1985) Dark Angel: Darkness Descends (1986) Obituary: Slowly We Rot (1989) Sepultura: Troops of Doom (1990 re-recorded version) Testament: Burnt Offerings (1987) Metallica: Lepper Messiah (1986) Pestilence: Subordinate to the Domination (1988) Atheist: On they Slay (1989) Celtic Frost: Procreation of the Wicked (1984) Slayer: the Antichrist (1983) Pantera: Domination break down at the 3:50 mark (1990) Exodus: Within the Walls of Chaos (1990) Megadeth: the Conjuring riff at the 2:55 mark (1986) Overkill: Powersurge riff at the 2:06 mark (1987) I’m not including Eb as E standard

[@solidsnakec20]

needs a part 2 asap

[@lxxwj]

+1 for putting the masters apprentice in there, deliverance is my favorite opeth album

[@Henripg559]

The intro of fugue by trivium has one of my favorites e standard riffs. It's not the heaviest, but the whole "thrash metal meets metalcore" thing is amazing

[@GFJDean35]

Pull me Under yes, but I would have used the variation with the heavy palm mutes before the keyboard comes in.

[@drink.juice.]

cut down all the trees and name the streets after them - the fall of troy

[@Wiggimus]

Maximum the Hormone has awesome riffs in E standard.

[@InfinityPotato97]

I knew when I saw The Dillinger Escape Plan, it will be 43% Burnt - since this is the first riff which always comes up in my mind when I see their name.

[@nefrace]

Tell me you have too many guitars without telling me that you have too many guitars Andrew: "I guess I have to find the guitar in E standard"

[@jessemcinturff1268]

Rushed in here to make sure Dillinger was represented and was made proud. Id personally argue the bridge riff from Phone Home is heavier than 43% burnt, but the important thing is DEP was mentioned.

[@A.Moortal]

What the guitar??

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Mooer GTRS

[@ForTiorIJohnny]

Trivium - Like Callisto To A Star In Heaven that one goes so hard. constant down picking at 226bpm. i can barely do it at 210 but it´s so much fun to play.

[@LowEnd-DropC]

Which amp do you like better, the Peavy Invective or the St. James BlackStar? Which one is better for using a 7 string low tuned guitar?

[@JoshuaMRichard]

FCPREMIX by Fall Of Troy riff is so dang good. I remember hearing it on Guitar Hero for the first time and was blown away lol

[@TPM4594]

Engine No. 9 is so fucking sick

[@djentleman_alt]

i haven't watched the whole video yet but i really hope strength beyond strength is there

[@omerenes31]

TDEP SLAPSS FUCKING HARD as like as always

[@mikerauter1859]

E standard can still sound killer!