The MEANEST Guitar Riffs Ever Written #3

[@jojoplaysmusic]

What other NASTY riffs could've made it to the list? Put some variety on it.

[@OBSOLETE_BEING]

Brutal Truth - Denial Of Existence at 2:47

[@sip__]

Infant annihilator, blasphemian or unholy grave birth or any breakdown from their third album

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@sip__ Haven't listened to them in a whiiile

[@goobner420]

The breakdown on Given Up by Linkin Park

[@DystopianDr3am]

Suicide note PT 2 breakdown or the underground in america riff

[@picklecore3383]

Coming for the music ❌ coming for the face expressions ✅

[@paskudne]

i saw your pfp and i have only one question: do you celebrating return of growls to Opeth?

[@picklecore3383]

@@paskudne Very much so!

[@broncoxy]

wise man once said _'when you make a face like you just backed into smth with your car, you know the riff is good'_

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Facts

[@onetakehoovie5955]

WE GETTING 7 STRINGS NOW?!?!?

[@jojoplaysmusic]

WE GETTING 7 STRINGS NOW 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@peggykamke9047]

Frfr

[@ivante.]

i own the same guitar, actually

[@benjaminlemoine11]

​@@jojoplaysmusicwhen 8

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@benjaminlemoine11 depends on how soon they send me one

[@henrywalton5967]

I'm so happy to see Fear Factory here, you could pick like 90% of their riffs for this video series haha

[@jpthedrummer4258]

Facts

[@jagerkantor]

If you do another one of these eps than here's a few recommendations. 1. nile. user maat re 2. bloodbath. eaten 3. paleface. curse us 4. ingested. invidious 5. whitechapel. black bear 6. chelsea grin. recreant 7. sanguisugabogg. dead as shit 8. malevolence. malicious intent 9. acid bath. the blue 10. iron monkey. crown of electrodes 11. infant annihilator. childchewer if you dont use these i dont mind. these bands and songs are just cruel so i hope you enjoy these.

[@FurorAeternumXBL]

Dead As Shit is a definite

[@F1reFoxdotGov]

Fuck yeah, Acid Bath. I said Dr Suess Is Dead or God Machine, but The Blue is up there too

[@dexterhynes9417]

Recreant was in the 2nd meanest riffs video, and I’m sorry but those suggestions are not good

[@ryanhoover8130]

Can't agree more with Eaten by Bloodbath. Fuck I love that song

[@Lv.gtr.exe99]

0:06 Dave Mustaine in solo time (Singing as well)

[@benjaminlemoine11]

Idk how I came across this but this is yes

[@NateSmith87]

DARKO uses suspension bridge cables for guitar strings.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

probably

[@captainiamtherum7659]

Anything by Bleed From Within and Orbit Culture. Both bands are absolute MASTERS of the NASTY riff. They have a lot of the nastiest riffs I've ever heard.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Bleed From Within is underrated af (as freak)

[@captainiamtherum7659]

true

[@VOXGhost]

And SYLOSIS too, once in your ear - never get out from your head)

[@ChainsawSlammer1.3.8]

A little from me: For whom the bell tolls - 0:56; Mortician - Witches Coven - 1:41; Morbid Angel - He who sleeps - 2:45; Obituary - slowly we rot - 2:32; Bulldoze - Nothing but a beatdown - 2:12; Carcass - Death certificate - 2:44.

[@thesultanofswing8706]

Recently got into Obituary, and holy shit are they sick.

[@RowanTheMetalBraixen]

Love the new 7 string!!! That thing looks so awesome! And great picks as per usual!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I can’t put it down

[@RowanTheMetalBraixen]

​@@jojoplaysmusic I wouldn't be able to either, believe me 😅

[@dartalheim]

Good job! The first slam riff is very cool!!!

[@MetalKid69]

Eaten by Bloodbath

[@Pietreszcz]

Yeeeesssss

[@metalmike6668]

Ohhhh yeah

[@BObbert179]

Everyone talks about meshuggah’s later stuff but Humilative from their None EP is a heavy stank-face song.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

They have a career full of stank

[@TheRodx69]

a quick suggestion for the next video of the series and others like it: maybe put the tracklist in the description or pinned comment? makes it a bit easier for us to search while you play ;) BTW that 7 string is nastyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy great job

[@jpthedrummer4258]

THIS NEEDS TO BE A CONTINUING SERIES!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

It kinda is now

[@jpthedrummer4258]

@@jojoplaysmusic based. I love these vids man!

[@isaacm9034]

My meanest riffs list: Grind - Alice in chains Knee deep - job for a cowboy Receipt - black Dahlia murder Errorzone - vein Seven - necrophagist Scorpions & drought - deathspell Omega White hot - loathe Lotion - deftones Yokusou ni dreambox - dir en grey

[@qwerty.4450]

AIC and Necrophagist in the same list is crazy but valid too

[@NateSmith87]

Every guitar channel should have material like this.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thank you :)

[@CalebMetlock]

I first heard Abominable Putridity in high school and immediately fell in love. Bought a hoodie and a t-shirt. I honestly didn’t know other had heard of them. Definitely one of my favorites.

[@francodelpriore7131]

Any riff from From Mars To Sirius could be on this list, or Gojira in general, heavy af

[@dreno-]

I love slammy riffs 😊🔨 Anyways, if u make another one of these, Babykiller by devourment Blood splattered satisfaction by waking the cadaver Annointed in servitude (opening riff) by internal bleeding Furtive monologue by despised icon 😩😩😩 filthy

[@sinakhaleghi9994]

My Meds Aren't Working - Dystopia Starting Distorted Riff at 1:25 It Was Just An Accident - Soilent Green Sludgey Bluesy Heavy Ass Breakdown right at 3:11 Awakening - Extreme Noise Terror

[@joeyuzwa891]

Soilent Green is so filthy

[@Mastoblood]

My god all of these are fooking mean. Hope to see more of these videos keep the series alive 🙏

[@jojoplaysmusic]

the crowd keeps clapping so I keep making them

[@jxorz6013]

Great list! Love half the bands on here. Best riff from END is in Chewing Glass, tho, hands down. Here's some underappreciated carnage for you: Converge - Locust Reign Teeth - Hate Me Krosis - To Persist or Adhere Earth Eater - Banished Ion Dissonance - O.A.S.D Despised Icon - MVP Meshuggah - War The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza - Trail of Tears

[@sartajhanspal5604]

You had me at the very first mention of "slam". Subbed immediately. edit : also, just now realized i've already been following your instagram for a few months, didn't know you did full length videos on yt too lmao lesgooooo you will definitely see me on your future videos

[@jojoplaysmusic]

LETS GOOOO

[@paskudne]

Stank overwhelm

[@pehhah5660]

Very cool that you picked "Shock"!

[@rmp5s]

7:29 - END...oh my God, man...THAT'S what you're saying!? Took me forever to find this!! Thought you were saying "nth" or something. Jeez. Thank God for Google Lens...

[@jojoplaysmusic]

LOL yes, awesome band!

[@Akard517hell]

I just binged watch this serie it just scratch the type of music i wanna to listen to! Keep em going man! I got a few suggestion i hope they help you: Brutal slam hardcore: Snuffed on sight - smoke (around 1:25) Thrash: PowerTrip -Hammer of Doubt (2010) (around 3:30) Grindcore: NAILS - Savage intolerance (1:00) Brutal Slam death: Peeling flesh - Matar a Palos (1:30)

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Peeling Flesh has been mentioned a lot lately

[@Akard517hell]

I forgot to add some nasty dumb death metal: Sanguisugabogg - Necrosexual Deviant (1:42) Frozen Soul - Arsenal of War

[@Akard517hell]

​@@jojoplaysmusic great! That means you'll have a lot less Time dedicaded to learn riff and more free Time haha!

[@atroposV]

I just wrote one of these. It was a rare improv moment that clicked so hard I'm saving it for anytime i need a breakdown. I made a really simple chromatic thrashy riff, 20103020 4 times and then a measure of 4 chugs, and then hit a pinch harmonic, slowed it, meshuggah'd the rhythm, made it power chords, added some extra notes, and got the hardest breakdown ever written lmao. then i hit my drop pedal to go a tritone down and started playing stacked tritones instead of power chords. This is gonna end lives in the pit when I eventually get a band going

[@cyberman179]

The riff at the middle of Gravitational Constant by Type O Negative goes hard!

[@benrostel116]

Hell yeah more of that! Some Korn Riffs would be nice🔥

[@AlexTV_FPS]

Dude, your tone is NASTY. I love it.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

thank you :)

[@vasyapupkin5405]

What have you done??? Now I want to listen the whole Dead in My Arms again.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

A win is a win

[@peggykamke9047]

Is that a problem? It’s one of the greatest deathcore albums of all time

[@hackerslasher228]

I think Most of Cannibal Corpse Stuff Malignancy ,Decapitated , Some Gorguts riffs are actually evil sounding Man , you play sick That’s amazing Thumbs up 👍

[@MangoJerry93]

Awesome video as always! Amazing Guitar Tones! I had no idea Josh Miller briefly played with Glass Cloud as well!? 🤯

[@officialmasqq_594]

Endless Resistance by Nails never fails to make me screw up my face when the main riff comes in

[@badrater4236]

I listened to Untouchables by Korn last night and got reminded of just how F I L T H Y the intro riff to bottled up inside is

[@tshue691]

I can never get enough of the caveman slam riffs. What an absolute pleasure it was seeing Abominable Putridity right off the bat. That album with Matti Way on vocals is top-tier slam. Are you familiar with Organectomy? Absolutely filthy slam/death out of New Zealand. Check out their album 'Nail Below Nail', good stuff. Love your videos man!

[@inferno6793]

Yo, nice vid really enjoyed it Since you mentioned baby J, you should do some riff from Spite, maybe like the breakdown for Proper One, or the one in Made to Please 🤘

[@OlegStasiuk]

Absolutely love your channel you have great potential! ❤

[@sangramos]

Definitely some Hypocrisy or Cryptopsy. I also appreciate the Will Putney love. I also had no idea bout END that’s crazy I’ll have to check them out haha

[@F1reFoxdotGov]

either Dr Suess Is Dead or God Machine by Acid Bath both have hauntingly heavy intros

[@thesultanofswing8706]

God Machine is a special kind of heavy.

[@conarius13]

Okay, for the next one please listen to some songs of Blood Red Throne. I'm still mad that they're this underrated even by Death Metal standards. Especially that one riff from Homicidal Ecstasy at the bridge part. Otherwise thrown has some pretty nasty ones too. All - The Orphan Breed during the first breakdown was an instant stank face. Loathe - New Faces in the Dark (especially that pre chorus riff) Spit - Deliverance (very underrated but the riffs are so awesome) CABAL - Tongues Decapitated also has some good ones too

[@scottydo0081]

Speaking of OG deathcore bands, even before Suicide Silence: Despised Icon should be covered. Like bad lol

[@kernoleary1394]

abominable putridity! noone talks about them. Good ol catchy brutal slam

[@giorgiobertoldo]

Invent Animate - Immolation Of Night. Nuff said

[@lacalacadevic2887]

Nice choices! But i think thrash metal needs some appreciation about the mean riffs, because DAMN there's mean riffs in thrash Destruction System - Morbid Saint Kill As One - Death Angel The Death Of Innocence - Dark Angel Epidemic Of Violence - Demolition Hammer Lobotomy - Sepultura Subjugated Souls - EvilDead Bare Bones - Overkill Phobia - Kreator Phantom Force - Havok Kill On Command - Vio-Lence Bleeding Holocaust - Suicidal Angels Man Of Straw - Viking Magic Dragon - Sodom Just to mention some 😉

[@Chief_Ten_Bears]

This was amazing, subbed! Btw, chapters please 👽

[@SamBrockmann]

The new 7-string sounds great, man! Less noise, more definition on the notes. More brutality! You should check out Jinjer's "Disclosure". The opening riff is so obscene.

[@squatchonthewatch2418]

I love the ending riff of heaven in her arms by converge

[@kernoleary1394]

bro the most fun thing about playing in a metal band infront of a crowd is making the STANK FACE when the slam hits

[@temartin08]

Bruv, gotta check out these: BFMV - Chorus riff from Shatter Motionless in White - Timebomb Chimaira - Plastic Wonderland or Wrapped in Violence Pantera - Closing riff of This Love

[@thomassochacki128]

There are millions to choose from. At this moment: The "Goddamn you all!" Riff from Possession, Whitechapel. The "Aaaah Betrayed!" Riff from Overlooked, Chimaira. And perhaps Not the fallen, suffokate.

[@riptarozone]

Some riffs I find absolutely filthy: The intro of Resurrection by Chimaira but they are a nasty riff factory. 1:45 in to Threat Level No. 3 by The Black Dahlia Murder is one of the nastiest riffs ever in my opinion. Dying Wish has a ton of sick riffs, one of my favorites is a minute in to Now You'll Rot. I once described it to a friend as "making me want to punt a baby through the windshield". Wage Slaves by All Shall Perish, another band who needs no introduction. Old The Acacia Strain always gives me stank face, especially Angry Mob Justice and Skynet. The breakdown in Pillars of Serpents. It sounds fantastic in the original 03 Trivium version, their rerecording, and the Heaven Shall Burn cover. It's around 2 minutes in the original Martyrium by Hiroshima Will Burn has an absurdly disgusting breakdown 57 seconds in. I think it's the song that made me realize what a breakdown was The intro of Ten Ton Hammer by Machine Head Thin Ice by Guilt Trip 99 and D.O.A. by The Haunted Unplugged by Snot has this groovy as fuck riff it is scientifically proven to be unable to act up to. Knife in the Safe Room by Darkest Hour I could keep going honestly but not off the top of my head

[@apoplexiamusic]

As someone who prefers 7 strings and tuning starting at drop A and lower, i strongly approve of this video

[@doomcloudmusic369]

Devour the unborn's "Gorging on Abortions". They got the slam vibe with that Texas Groove

[@andywagoner4869]

Well done bro. I still love Obsolete!!! Also the Ibanez 7 string is badass, but that telecaster…….Bro

[@jojoplaysmusic]

It’s 27” baritone ;)

[@ribusanx725]

Jojo, in a 4th part can you include some Machine Head riff? I would love it

[@BactuallyInsane]

Very surprised to see Abonimable Putridity here! I remember that album. Very good!

[@ripit.3457]

yeah man, I picked up that same guitar at my local guitar center and didn't put it down for 4 hours lol

[@RVPMatt123]

Going for a modern Cannibal Corpse cut here: the breakdown riff of Slowly Sawn from Violence Unimagined. Slow, plodding and the definition of a stank-face riff

[@J-T99]

Love? From strapping young lad has a mean riff

[@Goose21]

Hevy devy

[@rylanscott410]

Love? - Strapping Young Lad

[@jnwoodard8764]

Suicide Silence: Destruction of a Statue or literally anything by Knocked Loose.

[@andrewhenry1419]

Meshuggah's Demiurge breakdown. Or the opening of Nebulous. Absolute FILTH.

[@BObbert179]

Lethargica 🤘

[@visualdistortion5267]

Obzen❤

[@Sion_Revan]

Black Tongues album Nadir, absolutely filthy and devastating riffs

[@Godyko]

Man... the intro of Atrocious By Nature - Dying Fetus, this face is the only one possible on this part

[@MrNiceGuy2323]

Very informative and awesome playing. Ive been searching for a channel that gave country music the repect it deserves...lol

[@orionbekesi]

My face did go 😩as you said. Here is my recommendation. "PANZERFAUST - The Faustian Pact" Which has 3 consecutive "😩riffs" one after another starting at the 2:40 minute mark. Also any riff from Ulcerate's latest album will make you go 😩

[@marcellszelenyi8280]

Man you gotta check out Divided By by Structures, absolute mindfuck riffs all over the place They also use a weird tuning that I just tried out, highly recommend!

[@VoxParanoia]

Yeaboi Ive always said the top 3 deathcore bands of all time are Suicide Silence, Carnifex, and Whitechapel. Pleased to see them all here 🤙

[@jojoplaysmusic]

The kings of the south. Curiously since they're from California, Arizona, and Tennessee respectivelly.

[@elishaseeber5244]

Immolation of Night by Invent Animate gooooo brrrrrrrr

[@matejatomic3897]

Don't Tread On Me, riff after the solo

[@rubevanderwielen9323]

Without looking at the comments that are here already or the other video's, breathe life intro riff by Killswitch Engage is my go-to mean guitar riff (and also Black Lungs by Architects but that's just the riff...)

[@MrBlooddrunkcobhc]

Bro. Katalepsy-Amongst Phantom Worlds. That intro riff goes hard as fuck.

[@strsh.]

collapse by after the burial is a pretty mean one🤤

[@Littleman2k]

Darko US appreciation post :)

[@hatethreeoneofficial]

The breakdown from Now Youve Got Something To Die For by Lamb of God

[@HenkinChonk]

Harms way - breeding grounds has the sickest ending riff

[@Sickenchitters]

The intro riff to "High Rate Extinction" by Crowbar

[@mafecxe3736]

Nasty riff? Two words: Servitude, Sylosis

[@Ganonsmurf]

Between Blind Witness, Analepsy, Waking The Cadaver, and Whitechapel

[@PhreakOvicH]

UNGA BUNGA RIFFS GO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

RAAAAAAHHHH

[@GABi-gj8fz]

you should do dwell by thrown, goes crazy af

[@mafiakickproductions]

Always love your uploads 🤘🦇💎

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Glad you do :)

[@HenryProperCall911]

I'd say meanest in a sense of spectacle, Levitate or Overthrone by Bleed From Within.

[@kristofberenbrinker3264]

Dude.... NAILS!!!

[@angelcarvallo8546]

Hear me out. Señor peligro by Ministry and Paranormal Evisceration by Guttural slug. From fast, high adrenaline thrashing riffs to caveman slamming brutality.

[@TomieBoi69]

I hope you do a video for the nastiest breakdowns in metal. 🙏

[@lobes117]

Mean riffs gimme that “STANK FACE”

[@TStizzle19]

Bro the CHAOTIC poster?!!!!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Nebres to be specific

[@TStizzle19]

@@jojoplaysmusic a true man of culture

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@TStizzle19 it's also signed

[@BlackCircleSorcery]

Do a series with the “Darkest” riffs.

[@Aziju133]

Ill tell u one thats mean. Ingested- pre-released foetal mush. 2:20 into the song. Or really any riff from the surpassing album

[@moonwarmth124]

the main riff from Crawling Back to God from Full of Hell is really heavy and mean, the breakdown riff from The Gift of My Hate..it lingers.. by fromjoy is just a pure stank face. there is this tremolo riff from RATKING by HEAVENSGATE that sounds really low and nasty as fuck (it starts at around 01:56).

[@cubecube6227]

Bro please do the Bewitched intro riff from Candlemass. For the 80s it was such a hard riff

[@Magmoormaster]

Meanest riffs: Keith Merrow - Mojave Repressions Haunted Shores - literally anything

[@The64BitKid]

If were talking Nasty, how about thr Band Nasty? 😂 Would throw in the Songs Last Shirt, Chaos and At War with Love

[@FearNoGrave]

Lol I was going to bring them up. Nasty is nasty! I vote for their song ‘Justice’.

[@chrysgalarza190]

Prety much any beatdown riff off of satisfaction is the death of desire by hatebreed.

[@tomhuitema2068]

The Death Knell Reigns by Horrendous