The MEANEST Guitar Riffs EVER #2

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In this video, we once again discuss some of the meanest guitar riffs from bands like Slipknot, Gojira, Pantera, Knocked Loose, Soundgarden, and many more.
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[@jojoplaysmusic]

What other guitar riffs make you immediately get that stank face?

[@broncoxy]

havent watched the vid yet but the entirety of Sodom's Agent Orange

[@sip__]

Whore to a chainsaws breakdown and the intro to the somatic defilement

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@sip__ The whole first Whitechapel album is banger after banger

[@sip__]

@@jojoplaysmusic honestly. Not one bad track, they’re all unique

[@slayde7740]

the riff starting at the 1:50 mark of Contention's song Ousted From Eden. Absolutely mental riff

[@broncoxy]

riffs so mean a stop bullying campaign was started

[@jojoplaysmusic]

FACTS

[@hugosex]

Haha nice dude

[@captainflappyarms8277]

​@@hugosexthe nqme

[@katotstiutor]

Dying Fetus - In The Trenches 1:01 Gojira - In the wilderness 1:59 Crowbar - Counting Daze 3:02 Kublai Khan Tx - Antpile 4:05 Fucking Pantera - Throws of rejection 6:23 Soundgarden - 4th of july 7:14 Converge - The saddest day 8:24 S.O.D - March of the S.O.D 9:19 Slapknutz - Disasterpiece 10:03 Gods Of Metal - God Knows 11:12

[@ennio1ls]

Thanks 👌

[@hGames-yu4nh]

"Gods Of Metal" for a band that isn't even a metal band 🤡

[@katotstiutor]

@@hGames-yu4nhno, its jazz for sure

[@hGames-yu4nh]

@@katotstiutor Hardcore matey

[@katotstiutor]

@@hGames-yu4nh hardcore helped create the thrash metal and more so hardcore is related to metal and is way cooler to say gods of metal than gods of hardcore.

[@luisgustavo2242]

man when I saw Gojira on the thumbnail i immediately thought "man I would defiantly choose In the Wilderness but nobody knows this song from Gojira". Apreciate that you chose this song bro

[@orangejews150]

In the wilderness is an iconic song by gojira? What do you mean nobody knows it

[@moralfo0109]

One of their best imo, I love it! That outro is epic on it's own, but the whole song is a masterpiece

[@FinThrasher87]

Cannibal Corpse’s Shredded Humans was so heavy, i went to a roadtrip and what the song talks about almost happened to me

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

[@LordValdomerol]

Scourge of Iron tho

[@rxadk1l987]

Slipknot-me inside Pantera-this love D.R.I-beneath the wheel Nailbomb-world of shit Death-low life Celtic Frost-procreation of the wicked Sepultura-dead embryonic cells

[@mechamaniac2688]

Someone FINALLY mentioned the Throes Of Rejection outro riff. What a heavy ass song in general, underrated too.

[@prismix0870]

The other 4 strings: Am I a joke to you?

[@Mavvyd96]

Yes

[@rennent3967]

I'm so happy that you had soundgarden : 4th of july in your meanest riff, its one of my favorite band, for the singer and the diversity of the songs through the albums !

[@imperialkale]

nice man. 4th of july was one of my favorite songs and was super surprised to see it on this list.

[@VoxParanoia]

Yo. The outro breakdown on 'Deep in the Willow' is the dopest breakdown I've ever heard.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

This is only facts

[@SamBrockmann]

These riffs are so mean that the mean girls characters started taking notes!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I love that movie. Lindsay Lohan metal collab when?

[@SamBrockmann]

@@jojoplaysmusic , make it happen, bro!

[@maxutaibi5986]

Fear Factory - Shock or Demanufacture Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants Deftones - Diamond Eyes Chimaira - Resurrection Architects - Broken Cross Eighteen Visions - Tower of Snakes breakdown Sepultura - Propaganda Machine Head - Davidian

[@1brytol]

Disasterpiece is a masterpiece. Definitely in my top 2 metal songs of all time, maybe even top 1.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Also a perfect song to be introduced to blast beats

[@Caderfixloxa]

That riff after the solo in Dead Embryonic Cells by Sepultura is pure filth

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

Also propaganda is great

[@Caderfixloxa]

@@BruhMomentPatrick Opening to Slave New World sounds huge as well. Sepultura has quite a few bangers

[@rickdeckard2240]

The riff is mean, but the drums are EVIL

[@TheBeach14]

Just some of them that I"ve been into lately The Haunted - 99 Prong - Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck Xile - World Demise Trepalium - Sick Boogie Murder Misery Index - New Salem Scissorfight- Caveman Television At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Interesting picks

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

Misery Index 🙏

[@meatpop8573]

99 is a fucking ripper, love that song

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

The dissonance in the intro of snap your fingers snap your neck gets me every time, such a great riff

[@TheBeach14]

@@BruhMomentPatrick Prong is such an underrated band. They beat Pantera to the punch by releasing the first Groove metal album by several months earlier than theirs.

[@twglife]

1. I adore your channel and this series in particular. 2. The breakdown in The Storm by Of Mice and Men precisely 1:39 in to 2:03 Your face will get stuck that way and the cold chills will never fade. The chunks and Austin Carlisles vocals are second to none.

[@aramorozco4693]

Meshuggah in Obzen at the bridge is one of the most badass riffs

[@Martini97]

Another band to consider for these videos would be Dystopia. Almost anything by Dystopia is very mean sounding but to name a few songs: Sanctity, Ruptured Silence, Hands that Mold, Slaved Chains

[@polish2945]

Caught the premiere. Great riff selection and massive tones. Meanest riff I've ever heard is the breakdown from Heart and Crossbones by Pig Destroyer

[@jojoplaysmusic]

veeeeery valid

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

Here are some mean and disgusting riffs I love: Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells (the breakdown) Voivod - X-ray Mirror (intro) Voivod - Pre-ignotion Led Zeppelin - Kashmir Coroner - Divine Step (first and 2nd riffs) Death - Altering The Future (the 6/4 main riff) Demilich - When The Sun Drank The Weight Of Water Metallica - The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (4:00) Judas Priest - Electirc Eye Jinjer - Teacher, Teacher! Overkill - Nothing To Die For, Evil Never Dies, Horrorscope

[@T-lycan]

5 Minutes Alone while maybe not the heaviest puts me in that badass fighting mood

[@jordanjoestar8839]

I believe it may have been me that suggested "In the Wilderness" and damn even I forgot how hard that goes, especially when the intro switches into the full brutality of 2:25 the riff.

[@landmine55]

That switch to the thrash riff is just *chef kiss*

[@lord_foob]

We Hate You - Electric Wizard has got some seriously gnarly riffs! I think the intro to The Face Of Oblivion - High On Fire is maybe the nastiest riff ever concocted though.

[@th3yluvikez950]

seriously

[@MRShaggster]

Electric wizard and high on fire are fucking great Sleep and bongzilla too!

[@thesultanofswing8706]

Old people who say metal melts your brain are just talking about Electric Wizard. They may be onto something.

[@MCtoastertrudell]

The intro to diabolical majesty by revocation is violent. You shred dude!

[@adolfolopez7880]

despised icon - furtive monologue, that one remained in my head for many weeks

[@ALLTH3YW4NT3D]

I think two riffs that sound meaner than hell would probably be the main/chorus riff of Prison Song by System Of A Down, and the first 3 verse riffs of Flattening Of Emotions by Death personally, would love to see it.

[@j.m.1928]

Every single goddamn riff on Pantera's Reinventing Steel album is just godlike🔥🔥🔥

[@chesterstone5739]

4th of July good good song suprised to see it in the list

[@ianw.9185]

Hard to nail down the meanest Gojira riff. Main Silvera riff, intro/chorus riff to Explosia, that slow, ending riff on Flying Whales - the list goes on.

[@Kamil_Srnka]

I think u should put more sludge. Also Suffocation and Cattle Decap, how is that missing

[@sangramos]

My dying fetus pick is panic amongst the herd. And for gojira it would be heaviest matter of the universe. You can’t go wrong with any Kublai Khan but same with Knocked Loose, Xibalba, and No Zodiac! I love the riffs off of All Hope is Gone but you can’t go wrong with anything off of Iowa. Awesome video! You need the hoody/ wind breaker to go with the hardcore cap haha

[@benrostel116]

We need more of this please!!🔥

[@cyc_music1]

Great list bro! My stank face was instantly activated throughout most of these riffs. Also really surprised to see Soundgarden on the list! There's a reason why that song is one of my favorites from the Superunknown album... now I know why haha. For me: - *Converge - Under Duress* (the intro / main riff) - hits even harder with the bass intro before the riff! - *Gojira - Blow Me Away You(Niverse)* (the breakdown riff in the middle) - the sliding octave chords with the inverted power chords, with each repeat of the riff slightly different than the previous repeat timing wise - simple but mean. - *Revocation - That Which Consumes All Things* (the outro riff) - Just when you think it's over, it pummels you once again with this mean and sludgy riff.

[@qwerty.4450]

So true about the gojira song, idk a single riff on Terra incognita that doesn’t deserve to be on this list😂

[@andresgimenez1247]

43% burnt / panasonic youth - dillinger scape plan recreant - chelsea grin straight for the sun - lamb of god bludgeoned to death - suicide silence the first riff glacial plasma - frotierer any part of the song beast - the acacia strain on the verge - thrown the riff before the first chorus pale tonge - darko us forever - code orange headup - deftones draggin nazarene - psycho-frame hermano me encantan estos videos que son un poco mas largos y con un poco de explicacion

[@J-T99]

You gotta have a strapping young lad song in the next one

[@cestusfr]

Your energy is infectious! Keep it up and have a great weekend.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thanks! You too!

[@RockandMetal-u9x]

Respect for mentioning Kublai Kahn 💪😎🤛👊✊💥

[@shaunshuping5406]

Absolutely love your work brother!! The tones that you work up for riff demos are IMMACULATE!🤘🤘. In my Top favorites of music channels on YT. Stay you METAL BRO

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thank you so much! I’ve been reaaaally happy with the tones I’ve been cooking up lately.

[@shaunshuping5406]

No doubt bro! I'd have to share those tones with others too, too good to keep it to yourself!, lol. Cya around bro, resuming my Bathory binge I got started!🤘

[@billy_little]

Every Time I Die- Hit Of The Search Party- 1:18 and on Champing At The Bit- the whole damn thing Guitarred And Feathered- 2:10 Pigs Is Pigs- The main riff A Gentleman’s Sport- The chorus and outro riffs Cities And Years- the verses riff The Marvelous Slut- “If death’s coming, it best come quick” riff White Smoke- “Help me let go, Hell is holding on” riff Host Disorder- “Open your heart, to the snake oil peddler” riff Underwater Bimbos- Outro Riff Typical Miracle- “There was whiskey in the devil’s blood” riff The Low Road Has No Exits- “I am dead” riff Drag King- “I have declared a war” riff Grudge Music- “I’ve wandered into your graces…” riff Business Casualty- “In a committee pigs” riff Pelican Of The Desert- “I tripped up at the breakthrough” riff If There Is Room To Move, Things Move- “Love it as it is” riff Exometrium- “I could not identify the body” riff Idiot- Outro Riff Glitches- “Mindful but gutless” riff I Didn’t Want To Join…- “Break me in half” riff The Coin Has A Say- verses riff Just As Real- we all know the one Dark Distance- “Spare only the ones I love” riff Sly- “Read me my last rights” riff Post Boredom- Bridge/Outro riff A Colossal Wreck- “I should’ve been baptized” riff All This And War- “and then we war” riff AWOL- “doubt it, right?” riff Distress Rehearsal- Outro riff

[@jeepdude_2502]

The riff 50 second into cheap vodka by acid bath never fails to make my face scrunch

[@Tragic_TV]

These videos are the best. Also the breakdown for my world by code orange is god teir

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Metal guys are sleeping hard on Code Orange

[@Slime5.3]

Definitely need to check these out if you decide to make another list. I Am-Texas Death So This is Suffering-Convalescent Kublai Khan-8 Years Twist of Cain-Intro/Face Value PISS ANT-260 Style The Acacia Strain-FLOURISHING

[@MostMetalRowan]

Beyond the picks in the video (which were all great!), the video itself was very good! I even laughed at a few moments, be it the faces you made playing "Into the Wilderness" or putting on that cap and psuedo-moshing when you started talking about hardcore 😂 (also when I saw 4th of July I audibly gasped 😂 like "I SAID THAT ONE")

[@jojoplaysmusic]

You know I got you 🤝

[@MostMetalRowan]

@@jojoplaysmusic Hell yeah! ☺️

[@rippindrummer666]

Millionaire-queens of the Stone Age Puritania by Dimmu Borgir Dead set on suicide-Cattle decapitation Demiurge-Meshuggah World of Lies-At the Gates Hesitation wounds-END The Surge-Ion Dissonance

[@SIRebrum]

The Last Thumbnail was also Fire dude

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thanks! Trying to simplify them a bit more. Less work and much more appealing on the eye.

[@Rusli1659LPSoldier]

10:22 i was expecting you standing up, doing the crab pose then headbang this whole time before the breakdown outro while wearing something red. that nasty guitar tone btw. Have you record real amps yet?

[@justgivenofox9543]

You made my heart jump with the first one being Dying Fetus. I saw them live recently. So fucking epic

[@justgivenofox9543]

Also! I just picked up my own LTD! It’s an MH400 with a Floyd. Can’t wait to get it set up and start shredding

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Niiiice

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I think I’ve had just about every main character from Recess comment on my videos.

[@justgivenofox9543]

@@jojoplaysmusic it was an accurate insult at the time and it’s always stuck with me

[@PallahDaOracle]

The riff in the chorus is the heaviest part of In the Widerness!

[@xwarxpenguin]

Dude I thought everyone forgot about Chaotic. Huge nostalgia

[@LargeRata]

Main three grimace-inducing riffs are definitely "Perpetual Black Second" by Meshuggah, "Ow My Feelings" by Periphery, and "Battle Ready" by Otep (sounds similar to the sliding riff from Clown by Korn but sped up). Hatebreed riffs could also pass on the list

[@AkiraXIV]

Gematria should've been here

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Yes it should have. Straight up Morbid Angel- style song.

[@caseypeck1501]

Wow I haven’t thought about chaotic in forever

[@joshforeman1648]

If you do another one please do Malevolence - Keep your distance. It’s such a heavy stank face riff from a great band.

[@ClaudiaBrothers]

Fantástico!!! Me gustó el primero vídeo mucho. Soy nuevo aquí en tu canal y me trajo Instagram 🙏🙌🙌🙌

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Vengaaaa!! Es bueno ver que hay crossover entre mis plataformas :)

[@cyberman179]

The middle of Gravitational Constant by Type O Negative is HEAVY!

[@_VERESH]

suggestion: MALEVOLENCE - Keep Your Distance that main riff goes hard

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Malevolence are a bunch of riff machines

[@hugosex]

I really enjoy these videos Btw, exodus-funeral hymn 😉

[@ilovefuzzycats]

S.O.D hell yeah you have to include mortician if you do another one of these just straight caveman riffs I recommend necrocannibal or witches coven

[@Provalogna]

Since crowbars in here i figured id say another mean sammy duet riff, the 2 riffs from the 3rd and 4th verses in cassie eats cockroaches by acid bath, every time i here them i just want to jump around and mosh lol

[@eriklazar5623]

monolord - we will burn -> outro riff, tryin to sneak some doom in there

[@gloopmaster]

Great video man, i beg you to do anything from Dehumanized's album Prophecies Foretold or anything by Skinless

[@BeardedBetts]

Great set of songs. You should check out some of Inter Arma's stuff if you haven't. Citadel has some filthy riffs. Same with An Archer in the Emptiness. Full of some real knuckle-dragger bullshit. It's great.

[@g3ng4rb0i3]

That chaotic poster Hella mint

[@jojoplaysmusic]

And it’s signed too ;)

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Nice Gengar pfp btw

[@g3ng4rb0i3]

@jojoplaysmusic thanks man!

[@lMadNeSs]

LAZARUS A.D - REVOLUTION 💣💀 Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@DavidMadeira29]

It looks like the LTD Cavalera would be forever missing, those colorful pyramids, I guess. Namastè.

[@despa7726]

Check out Malevolence and their songs "Salvation" and "Karma"

[@JcMtrial]

Mastodon has hundreds, but you gotta do the main riff from Island

[@pyroboy417]

Bock22 riff right before the last breakdown is NASTY

[@dudeincredible5459]

Last riff on fault and fracture by converge nasty af

[@amountainlioncsgo]

awww, I wish you did the pinch harmonics in ant pile!

[@CursedT04st]

Gojira's riffs are absolutely monstrous

[@INTERNETplease]

They’re not from bands, but rather some of the works of Mick Gordon and Andrew Hulshut are really really heavy. My favorites currently are BFG 10K and Beneath the Altair. Basically most of the stuff from DOOM 2016 or Eternal would fit pretty good in a heavy list.

[@robertdecareau4643]

Bleed by Meshuggah and The Screen by YOB are both disgustingly heavy. Makes you forget that both songs are over 7 minutes long

[@pinkdragon4830]

Bratva - Slaughter to prevail

[@DimaNSK-vy4br]

9:59 THIS IS I

[@RetroRadical]

Oh boy I hope one of my recommendations made it into part two!

[@RetroRadical]

Oh hell yeah, it did!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Which one was it?

[@RetroRadical]

@@jojoplaysmusic Antpile

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@RetroRadical sick one

[@VoxParanoia]

I think the main riff in the intro to 'Themata' by Karnivool is pretty damn mean, although it's not quite as heavy as most of these.

[@lacalacadevic2887]

Want some MEAN riffs? here it goes a Thrashy picks Morbid Saint - Destruction System, Damien would be another great pick, but Destruction System simply is evilier Talking about evil... Dark Angel - Act Of Contrition. THAT ending riff can break a whole house by itself, Death Of Innocence would be a faster pick if you may need it Sodom - One Step Over The Line, germans making mean dark riffs, the usual among them

[@Sadion666]

Invocator-through the flesh to the soul

[@kellenivanuck1447]

I’m not saying you need to add it to your list. But check out Give Me the Painkiller by Nails, that main riff is sick.

[@jakubbenda8684]

Trapped in the grasp of a memory - knocked loose

[@epicnan1855]

Candlemass - A Tale of Creation deserves a spot

[@TroyGeeslin]

Belleville by knocked loose is also very heavy too. Very mean imo

[@pehhah5660]

"Edgecrusher" by Fear Factory

[@jamess4117]

Intro riff to slaughtered by Pantera, another one from far beyond driven

[@deathnecrobutcher3215]

Fostering the divide - Immolation good combination of evil and groove

[@painterofthehappiness4578]

spark by elwood stray. if played with right groove, it can cause some stank faces in the area) also they have a mean blues-deathcore(?) breakdown in the song uncertain me

[@vicarious_cringe]

Antpile is the reason I got into hardcore and imo is still one of the heaviest I know

[@AMPHIBIANWORSHIPPER]

Check out "Taste the Cawaki" from the album "Fijian Nightmare" by Phyllomedusa. Filled with chugging monstrosity!

[@Mavvyd96]

Knocked Loose’s EP is THE greatest EP I’ve ever heard. God Knows is one of the heaviest songs I’ve ever heard. I think I’ve listened to that EP in full around 175 times. Not joking.

[@ThePsychedelicCinema]

Backbone by Gojira. The main riff is one of the absolute nastiest, most sinister riffs I’ve ever heard. But then at 3:23, the Earth is fucking rattled by that shit. God level heaviness right there 🤮

[@sixty1slipperykeys]

All the riffs from Dying Fetus's Homicidal Retribution song

[@gingerjesus232]

so ghlad to finaly see some crowbar!

[@kapohimura8721]

Part 3!!!

[@zrkszrk8768]

Hopefully you check out death for part 3, some of the best riffs in all of metal

[@notsoneon]

Ive never heard the Disasterpiece riff without the vocals and its fuckin nasty

[@collinqs2541]

More converge next video they have some really mean ass riffs. Pig Destroyer also has a plethora of mean riffs

[@naturalsins6163]

I feel like you could fit most Pantera riffs in here

[@matheusmojon]

I think Where The Slime Live - Morbid Angel intro riff is one of the nasties guitar parts ever made. Hehe

[@damiendelvallee7256]

This riff in God Knows is their most Gojira-esque.