Nik Nocturnal Plays His Favorite Guitar Riffs

KZbinr and Termina musician #NikNocturnal joins #Loudwire's #GearFactor to play his favorite #guitar #riffs.
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[@NikNocturnal]

Thanks for having me! Excited for the hate comments

[@djaybmk]

I hate you, Nik.

[@Jazebell_DZ]

Niki AND the 000100101010101011001010110 where Is It 😔😔

[@nubsmcthiccc]

Do the hate comments also have to be in binary? Like ur music of course I'm jk I love ur stuff dude keep going I live for CHUGS

[@gabrielim8731]

I hate you (Jk)

[@jax1670]

Hey Nik. 00100100100000010010011100010010001000111000100111000

[@RudyAyoub]

an absolute bro

[@SpijkerKoffie]

Rudy, do u wanna be my bro?

[@joetyler5816]

@@SpijkerKoffie bro.

[@interesting_tuna]

What’s up bro

[@mybandpigvomithas3sales200]

bro this comment changed my life, I've never been in a better state in my life. Unsubscribed, disliked, downvoted and reported

[@g.o.a.t5975]

We know you are here for 0-3-5 , Ruby Adobe.

[@jBloodless]

Seeing Nik not on his channel: *_confused screaming_*

[@geekymetalhead5112]

Same bro

[@CookDeadCows221]

Agreed

[@drdoom8793]

Also seeing Nik on his own channel: _confused screaming_

[@worshipguitardictionary7677]

*VISIBLE CONFUSION*

[@bigwilly1850]

I like the trend this is setting. You've gotta get Kmac in there.

[@BoomChockolaca]

vote for Kmac!

[@paulr.1961]

"Hi guys this is Kmac, and yer wetching Loudwere"

[@pedropessoa2246]

YES PLEEEEASEE!!!

[@MrSir-kt3wh]

Yes

[@birtum]

This KMacEvelli and yer watching Loudwire ya cuts hahahahaha

[@nekosombrero]

I love the fact that he introduces himself as part of Termina, despite being much larger than the band as an individual

[@nightwingx0126]

Termina has been so good, I’d love to see the two of them keep pushing it

[@VelinSevven]

Loudwire is a band channel so it makes sense.

[@justintammelin1807]

It's good marketing to further grow his bands following

[@1akeG0d]

He's just humble

[@BaenaCarcosa]

My BOI

[@brgrungegazer7134]

🤘😮🤘

[@BobRocksGuitar]

ALL DAYY! \m/

[@jasonlovesmusicreacting882]

They need you on next!

[@brgrungegazer7134]

@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 up

[@jasonlovesmusicreacting882]

@@brgrungegazer7134 what

[@applepeel1662]

My man's dark circles stayed w him even after his emo phase

[@amygroff17]

Me too lol I have fair skin so its almost transparent in a way

[@DavidNwokoye]

1:04 Well done Nik. You've just demonetized the whole video 😂😂😂

[@Alan-zm5hw]

Which demon do you summon HOW THE HELL ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

[@Sir-Thrash]

Where's rudy when you need him?

[@Alan-zm5hw]

@@Sir-Thrash call 0-3-5 for emergency

[@bloodycaramelcream]

@@Alan-zm5hw He's the guitar version of Ray Mak...

[@Alan-zm5hw]

@@bloodycaramelcream lol yeah

[@antoinedeseille8913]

"I pretty much grew up in drop C" Wow. That hits so hard.

[@spudmagnum7394]

It was so weird not hearing a Termina song for the intro after hearing Nick talk ahahahaha

[@mfadel1012]

And his meme opening lol

[@TheNerdyGinger]

Glad to see more KZbinrs on here! Hopefully we can get some more from this awesome community 🤘

[@blackt2626]

Dude I know you from those trampoline wwe moves fucking years ago hahaha. Got my bro and me into imitating wrestling moves ourselves

[@cliffm2k3]

@@blackt2626 Same here, Ive been WATCHING his TRAMPOLINE vids since 2013!👍😃🤘

[@blackt2626]

@@cliffm2k3 WHY are JUST some of your WORDS in CAPS?

[@Magmabbx]

@@blackt2626 i WAS thinking the SAME thing

[@themetalist1893]

Nik... my boy... it’s time to be shown on this channel

[@showskiguitar3066]

The riffs... they will be heavy

[@lukemadden4434]

"You want some riffs hmmmm?" *eyebrow waggle*

[@geekymetalhead5112]

*Slav voice* HEAVY!!!!!

[@dziedzicprusky3141]

He said "You're watching Loudwire" like he wanted to say that for years

[@bearded_riffs]

Haha yes it seems like

[@zerodoismetal]

been following Nik for 3 or 4 years, he is the reference for metal guitarrists on youtube

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@hushmusic2107]

Straight to the point as always.

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@justindacosta3d]

Rudy gonna copyright strike this for 0 - 3 - 5

[@ArpeggioPegasusMusic]

New song : *exists* Nik Nocturnal : "Ah shit, here we go again."

[@danielchampion2982]

I'm just glad he didn't play half of like 3 songs like Jared Dines did lol

[@kyledadams]

Jared Dines is trash IMO. He’s honestly not overly talented on guitar and just bashes and makes fun of other people. Can’t stand him.

[@davie405]

@@kyledadams whattt,???

[@kyledadams]

@@davie405 he’s a tool

[@davie405]

@@kyledadams how

[@kyledadams]

@@davie405 I literally said already lol

[@d3dshotcalamity226]

First Jared Dines, now Nik Nocturnal? Please do TheDooo next!!

[@abelkorpas6853]

PLEASE DOOO THE DOOO NEXT LMAO

[@rms6051]

Damn, we better be getting Rudy Ayoub next

[@WyldestZakk1980]

Why?

[@mutatednut]

@@WyldestZakk1980 cus Rudy is awesome

[@patchbro]

And then a garbage fires favorite 0 3 5

[@leedanielisla2440]

and Kmac then he gon trolling loudwire

[@THEshaggyrogers]

YESSSSSS THE SLAVIC KING IS HEREEEEEEEEE YEAHHHHHHH

[@zaynebonshire3900]

THE SLAVIC GUITAR KING BOI!

[@AJCaimi]

Guitar Hero deserves more credit for introducing so many kids to so much awesome music!

[@Loboartattoo]

No one: A band releases a song... ...2 seconds later: Nik Nocturnal cover***

[@Dimitris_A.]

Actually it is: Nik Nocturnal Cover Band releases song.

[@burnedknight6547]

"you can blame my love for modern heavy music on this one song [unholy confessions]" me too!

[@thiendipham828]

He's almost same as me. He played Unholy Confession by A7X when he start to play the guitar. While me is Shepherd of Fire 😄

[@axl2596]

origins lol

[@thiendipham828]

@@axl2596 Haha yeah \m/

[@Blandwhistle8]

Ayee for me it was nightmare and afterlife

[@OllieParkerMusic]

I'm the same as him, I learned Unholy Confessions last year when I started actively trying to improve on guitar

[@OllieParkerMusic]

@@Blandwhistle8 that's bs. There's no way a beginner learns this shit

[@Pink_Maggit]

First song I ever learned was My Own Summer (Shove It) lol. It's super easy and it slaps.

[@dekwib1633]

1:05 "Did you come up with that cord, bro? Play something else, bro."

[@Icedsymphony7]

This guy has covered nearly all the newly released metal a song comes he covers

[@SafelandingRecords]

"Nik Nocturnal talks about everything we have all gone through as guitarists"

[@UhOh_ItzJDX]

part of that Lucid riff reminds me of the solo breakdown in God Damn by A7X

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

So hyped to see the man here, Nik has been killing it on KZbin and Termina is a sick project. Good call on getting him Loudwire! I think a lot of us can relate to his choices here too hahah 🤘

[@sergiomiguelreis9188]

Honestly want more of this, we need more guitar YTers doing these types of videos, they're a major part of the guitar community right now so it makes no sense to not have them as a part of your guests. Great video! :)

[@gpb365]

I didn’t know John Mayer was a metalhead!

[@imraanakollo-arenz1449]

Wait, where's the memey opening and the dududududududh dududududududh dududududududh rerenerenerenerner? But this is pretty cool to see where one of my favorite guitarists started.

[@guidscunha]

YES! Awesome to see Nik around here. Congrats Nik!

[@tristan702]

Holy shit Nik Nocturnal?! I’m really glad you guys are having you tubers do this now

[@Willis05687]

So fuckin' rad to have Nik on! He's a dope ass youtuber/streamer.

[@MsMaplestoryXD]

My lifestyle and music background growing up is exactly the same, Sweet Child O Mine really got my into guitar, discovered heavy metal through friends at school, played WoW when i wasnt on guitar, played and still do to this day AILD riffs and My Curse, only difference is iv been playing for 13 years now and still cant do pinch harmonics for shit. Hats of to you good sir

[@joelmacy9558]

Loving seeing my favourite metal youtubers starting to be on here ❤️🤘

[@jps_musics]

This was awesome, I love Nik. Such a funny dude

[@wofmanpt18]

Going to school, playing WoW, listening to metal and wanting to play guitar. I knew there was a reason for subscribing to your channel.

[@BiggestKornFan1993]

Love this dude!!!!

[@brianstanton2931]

Unholy Confessions was the first song I learned on guitar as well and I was hooked

[@animieslamisbest4929]

Yoooooooo I was not expecting this but it's great

[@gibbysmoviecorner8286]

Nik play Slav riff very hevvy

[@brendantrower3197]

Dude I relate to this so hard. Most of my love of music stemmed from guitar hero and need for speed, and unholy confessions is to this day one of favs, sadly I only started playing a year or 2 ago but your a massive inspiration dude love your work

[@Micfrenchfry]

Where’s the water bottle

[@jason25vorhees33]

Loud wire fr being pretty nice for including youtubers in their Interviews

[@TheNiteWolve]

Awesome job loudwire. More youtubers and more younger musicians

[@tonymoncivaiz7330]

Dude this was awesome!!!!!

[@douglasquaid6556]

4:03 it’s the intro song!!!

[@felipe8511]

through struggle and my curse were both my introduction to metalcore when i was a kid the first time i picked i guitar, i skept everything and went straight to learning them

[@deadxbyxdawn306]

First song I ever learned was Under A Godless Sky by Rose Funeral. Then I jumped into In Dying Days by As Blood Runs Black

[@timothyallison6775]

Avenged really brought my guitar playing to new level

[@ahuman9113]

YES NIK, MY MAN

[@DanielVerberne]

Very cool video, interesting to learn of other guitarists early inspirations and musical ideas that caught their attention. I started playing exclusively on an acoustic and focused a fair bit on the kind of 'Mel Bay' book approach and learning a bit of basic fingerstyle playing. However, one day a family friend put me onto Joe Satriani via the 'Dreaming #11' EP and the 'Time Machine' album. Suddenly I heard Satriani's 'Hordes of Locusts' and almost every moment of track was amazing to me. It was heavy (by my standard at the time!), it was full of energy and technique that I was completely unfamiliar with. Joe was getting tones and sounds out of his electric that was so unfamiliar to me at the time.... his control over artificial and pinched harmonics and his squeals and dives, his whammy bar work, the middle-eastern tonality of the piece, the legato lines that covered so much fretboard territory so quickly .... it was a moment for me. Not long after 'Hordes of Locusts', I got Satriani's 'The Extremist' album and then the track 'War' came on... I don't know if it's the middle-eastern tonalities, but whatever it was, War was just so awesome to me. I didn't realise until much later (on getting the tab book) that War was recorded with the instruments tuned half a step down. It's a relatively simple tuning adjustment but it makes a heck of a difference to the 'attitude' of 'War'. I remember being so excited by Satriani's solo in 'War', he starts off with a pentatonic, bluesy run and then exploits the massive drive and pulse of the music as he builds intensity and does a whammy bar slamming trick that reminded me so much of some sort of 'Ghostbusters' theme song! 'War' was a HUGE influence on my playing, no question.

[@jedijudoka]

One of my favorite guitar youtubers 🤘

[@thephatwhiteduke]

Ahh he matched his eyeshadow with T-shirt. Bless.

[@johncuellar117]

Yet another crossover I didn't know I needed but exactly what I wanted

[@ThatBlindGuy247]

He finally did it

[@thebreaker3963]

its good to see nik at loudwire

[@AndyShredz]

Super cool congrats!!!

[@danielweathers2816]

Ayeee man like Nik. Loudwire is doing great with getting KZbinrs Onboard. Great decision

[@miniboomdood]

I like how you showed off at the end

[@kristoferroe1532]

i love that tone,

[@ivannamba1]

Awesome!

[@noobasaurusrex9608]

AYYYY YOU MADE IT ON LOUDWIRE!! MY MAN!!! ❤🔥🤘

[@dwightburns6699]

Switched to the seven string for the Shameless plug, I think I'll stick with my six hahaha.... glad to see being recognized :-)

[@thomatos2005]

Interesting that you grew up on some pretty light stuff, my dad supplied me with slayer and metallica, two TOOL albums and two SOAD albums by the time i was 8-9 years old maybe younger, then some other lighter bands that i still love to this day. SOAD is my fave band

[@brickbane5872]

Through Struggle intro was the first thing I learned on guitar, fuck yeah!

[@blakedout]

Damn Nik on Loudwire?! Dope

[@metalheaddd97]

Hell yeah my boy Nik!!

[@matthrsy]

This is so rad to see another awesome guitarist KZbin on here! For sure need Andrew Baena on here, he can play us some brutal tunes🤘🏻

[@KM-pj8xy]

Oh wow, never expected that the legend Nik himself would show up on Loudwire. This is great! By the way, am I wrong to laugh when Nik tries his hardest not to meme?

[@turbodizle]

Man unholy confessions was the song that got me into metalcore still remember watching it for the first time on head bangers ball

[@jalenali684]

Nik is a legend

[@tylerthomas4384]

Through struggle riff literally changed my life

[@dirtydan5326]

Yes, my boi has done it

[@RockinSG]

I'm a little less bad on guitar. Something we all aspire too! Great video!

[@jacobcoughlin24]

Great video!!

[@paulsam4159]

did the video get demonetized because of playing the sweet child o' mine intro? eat your cereal

[@pradiptogitokusumo616]

My boy made it here I'm so happy

[@TomerBanin]

4:03 HE DID THE THING!

[@KirillKabernik]

Oh hey! I had my guitar in D standard with 12-60 string set for almost 5 years...

[@Gvsta]

I say Hello from Bali 🙌🏽❤️

[@DJ_Vandal]

Dude! first song I learned was unholy confessions too. Crazy.

[@matteocoarezza3816]

I love this guy

[@CrusherHF]

Ayyy this is awesome

[@yeetfeet1878]

Can we get a drum one. I am a little biased because I am a drummer haha.

[@natewarner7576]

theres actually one with slayer's paul bostaph

[@yeetfeet1878]

@ Nate Warner Yep I saw that one 😊. I want them to do Lars ulrich or maybe Charlie Benante. Maybe even Mike Portnoy.

[@shaynasullivan5832]

We could get Krimh or 66Samus

[@SlumberCast666]

@@yeetfeet1878 have you seen the ones where porntoy jams with the hellokitty drum kit

[@lemonadesauce227]

LAST THING I WAS EXPECTING BUT LETS GO

[@timonuotio6395]

That ending was amazing!!!😂

[@MetalFreak18100]

Unholy Confessions was also one of my first 🤘🏼 Chapter Four was the first song I learnt how to palm mute on

[@gypsieprince717]

Yeah one of the very first licks I ever learned was sweet child o mine haha. My favorite lick/solo to play is hands down the solo in Diary of Jane by Brealing Benjamin. Just speaks to me haha

[@cameronfarrellguitar]

Nik is the best, well deserved feature here! Now we just need Kmac!

[@svngod]

Hell yeah! I still can't believe they replied on my comment on twitter!

[@jasonmorris1476]

"I think it went like this" proceeds to play it perfectly*

[@twinny_mi]

This just feels like another Nik Nocturnal video pretty much 😆

[@mangogoat4691]

Best metal KZbin hands down 🙌

[@xkulisx]

I freakin love your sound , how do you manage to get that