The MEANEST Guitar Riffs EVER #4

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In this video, we once again discuss some of the meanest guitar riffs from bands like Black Tongue, Boundaries, Knocked Loose, Malevolence, Meshuggah, Spite, Humanity's Last Breath, Korn, and Immolation.
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Gear Used:
- Ibanez RG7421 7-string guitar
- Fender Player II Stratocaster HSS guitar
- Squier Classic Vibe Custom Telecaster Baritone guitar
- LTD M-10 guitar (w/ Fishman Fluence Modern pickups)
- Nocturbal Bass by Submission Audio
- Djinn Bass 2 by Submission Audio
- Otto Audio II II II II
- Toontrack EZDrummer 2 (Progressive EZX)
- Drumforge Kickforge
- The String Source Strings
- Dunlop Jazz III XL Tortex (0.88 mm) (1.0 mm) picks
- Happy Company Cables
- Lewitt RAY microphone
- Lewitt Connect 6 interface
- Ableton Live 11
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[@jojoplaysmusic]

What other MEAN and NASTY riffs could've made it to the list? Try to mention bands from different styles.

[@sip__]

Conquer all by behemoth

[@chrysgalarza190]

Sunami-GateCrasher (specifically the beatdown riff at the end)

[@PhilSwift267]

CMND/CTRL Deftones

[@TFFAN16]

Intoxicated by Obituary Unpardonable Sin by Immolation Chapel of Ghouls by Morbid Angel So You Die by Bloodbath Painkiller by Judas Priest ;)

[@mench_sein]

check out russian underground band called Tsukihi. Especially song "Net pokoya" and "Plet'". They play sludgecore/screamo. Love their riffs

[@MostMetalRowan]

I'm still losing my mind over the fact that Boundaries was mentioned haha. "Death is Little More" is my AOTY hands DOWN

[@jojoplaysmusic]

🤝🤝

[@chiefluke210]

That album is so angry and emotional lol. I feel like they just wrote everything they feel and it came out great. The drummers clean vocals is sick too.

[@MostMetalRowan]

​@@chiefluke210 Ikr?? I'm literally writing my college admissions essay about it haha

[@Guitarcovers4u569]

Slam go chug chug bree

[@jojoplaysmusic]

the way of life

[@SuviruGunasekara]

@@jojoplaysmusic Do you ever listen to metal band called clawfinger.

[@avrgmtlhd]

The verse for Widowmaker by TBDM would go HARD

[@j666parker87]

You consistently pick better riffs than every other KZbinr for your lists. Even if they aren’t my picks they fit the criteria perfectly every time.

[@eddybrooks9130]

I saw 2 Knocked Loose album covers in the thumbnail. I immediately clicked.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

It will all be revealed soon

[@_keigen_]

bonus points for boundaries and korn

[@Xenomorphic911]

Thats because you have bad taste lmao

[@_keigen_]

@@Xenomorphic911 ok xenomorphic911

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Do to popular demand, here's the songs' time stamps: 0:20 Black Tongue - Second Death 0:59 Immolation - What They Bring 2:04 Boundaries - Scars on a Soul 2:42 Knocked Loose - Moss Covers All 5:26 Korn - Clown 6:18 Malevolence - Malicious Intent 7:04 Meshuggah - I Am Colossus 7:56 Knocked Loose - Belleville 8:51 Humanity's Last Breath - Make Me Blind 9:31 Spite - Caved In

[@testifytesteraj4749]

Always hilarious to play the heaviest stuff on a baritone tele , for some reason i keep imagining you going a step further and playing it on a ES-335 😂

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Been there, done that.

[@testifytesteraj4749]

@@jojoplaysmusic Haha Banjo next.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@testifytesteraj4749 bet

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

Here are some riffs, I try to include one per genre: Groove Metal: Overkill - Horrorscope Thrash Metal: Kreator - People Of The Lie Nu Metal (I guess?): Slayer - Seven faces (very underrated riff) Death Metal: Bolt Thrower - World Eater Heavy Metal: Metallica: Wherever I May Roam / Sad But True (godly chugs) Djent: Periphery - Wildfire Progressive/Technical Death Metal: Gorguts - Colored Sands (at around 3:25) Black Metal: Bathory - Call From The Grave

[@ilovefuzzycats]

Seeing slayer as nu metal hurts

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

@@ilovefuzzycats they made 2 nu metal albums

[@hamnuts7239]

Great call on Overkill and Kreator

[@NateSmith87]

Coming out swinging with BLACK TONGUE

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Had to put a ripper at the beginning

[@NateSmith87]

@@jojoplaysmusic goddamn right

[@aLsordon]

Ps bodysnatcher, ya q andamos acá

[@WhatEverINameMyBand]

Seeing the HLB and KL on the thumbnail immediately got my attention.

[@thepotatotaxi2430]

Everything is Fine! by periphery. the ending breakdown is holy moly

[@belleybutton4335]

A couple mean riffs ive got for you are Violent Desire - Dealer; The section from 0:22-0:48 Nights by Thrown; the end section is very mean sounding Ratking by HEAVENSGATE; the intro is another mean sounding section And finally Yenta -TEN56; The ending breakdown is just mmh so damn good

[@CFChristian]

Excited to see some Admiral Angry on one of these lists.

[@xxSPiKeZxx326]

Dudes finna make his own converted bass//to 7 string guitar for those! All the way down in double drop A#!

[@kris_kwas]

Duuuude Ive been listening to Bellville so much lately its just so heavy and then the breakdown/riff in the middle of the song is even heavier.

[@SamBrockmann]

I was very pleased to see Boundaries included. Dude, you should include some Car Bomb next time. They're a heavy af metalcore band.

[@punkstudios9955]

Admiral Angry-the illusion of strength (the last breakdown) Black Sheep Wall- Ten fucking billion ( riff at 2:08) Abigor- The Fire Syndrom (riff at 3:25) Glassjaw - Siberian Kiss and mu Empire (intro riff) Primitive Man - My Will Ingested - Skinned and Fucked (intro riff) and intercranial semen injection (riff at 2:39) Devourment- Autoerotic asphyxiation (riff at 1:36)

[@ForLorNVuLgaR]

Fuck yeah clown is one of my favs and you nailed it. I remember many years ago figuring out their self titled by ear. I still play them weekly.

[@andrewhenry1419]

Those Knocked Loose picks are excellent. But the breakdown riff of "Permanent" needs a pressure wash it's so filthy.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I love that whole EP

[@flatpepsi]

​​@@jojoplaysmusic I love everything KL has done but Tear in the Fabric of Life will always be my favorite. And on that EP has gotta be their most underrated track, Contorted in the Faille. That whole track sounds like a really dark , sinister, and uncompromising force is methodically breaking you down and that last part everything just explodes and crumbles from that drop. The end just leaves you feeling catatonic.

[@TheScottishBigBear]

Idk if you have done the next video yet, but definitely check out a band called Embrace The End. The song “Cop In A Cage” has a disgusting pinch harmonic riff section near the end of the song.

[@direwolfgaming4905]

Surprised nobody has said Carbomb or Ramirez by The Acacia Strain

[@lacalacadevic2887]

We need, more, thrash, metal, nasty riffs Because thrash has inside one of the meanest riffs ever done, and might as well add some Death because, y'know, we love Death Metal Morbid Angel - Fall From Grace, you know what riff i'm talking about, the blasts beats just makes everything better in that moment, in a riff that makes you feel you were just casted out of Heaven Deicide - Homage For Satan, that intro riff must be one of the most evil riffs ever done, it makes your face go nuts Dark Angel - No One Answers main riff, yeah, that sickened riff, combined with the vocals and the lyrics, is extremely mean and dark. Demolition Hammer - Pyroclastic Annihilation, of course we're talking about the riff that goes 258 BPM, that riff it's like a Volcano Eruption, destructive, hot and toxic for your brain of the headbang

[@hms2407]

Man I love your channel and your picks. Honestly favourite guitar channel of the year, keep rocking 🤘

[@blackimperialblood]

the first riff from Profanation by Incantation is so nasty

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

Yesss 🔥🔥🔥

[@egornothing1313]

END - Abscence (1:53 riff) Hold your face tight though it will fall in any way

[@ezzreacts9791]

Abominable putridity , any song from the album The Anomalies of Artificial Origin Pleaseee

[@williepete6150]

Most violent, gut cleaving, soul darkening riffs I've heard for a long time came from a band called Replicant. I urge everyone, for scientific purposes, to have a look at their new release.

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

Their new album rips, 100% agreed

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

Clone - Gojira. The really heavy part at the end that they progressively go slower on.

[@BustaRooms]

Malfeasance by catsclaw, more people need to know how good that song and their first EP is

[@JulietteRingsrud]

You should check out Eighteen Visions - anything from their debut Yesterday is Time Killed or Motionless and White. They are true metalcore OGs and their early material has some of the meanest riffs in metalcore!!

[@metalmike6668]

8:08 “where they started to TUNE UP to A standard” 😂😂

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Yep, they used to be in drop G lol

[@metalmike6668]

@@jojoplaysmusic that’s so badass

[@metalmike6668]

@@jojoplaysmusic dead by dawn by decide and the main riff in Stevie by (hed) p.e. Are heavy

[@colecarstarphen8743]

Mean ass dsbm riffs: Psyconought 4- suicide is legal (breakdown) Forgotten tomb- adrift Forgotten tomb- solitude ways (breakdown) Forgotten tomb- reject existence Lifelover- destination: ingenstans (breakdown) Lifelover- ms salmonella (pre breakdown and the breakdown) Lifelover- androider (main verse riff) Lifelover- myspys (breakdown) Shining- lat oss ta allt fran varandra Shining- besvikkens dystra monotoni

[@HolyRetribution]

Fuck yeah dsbm

[@jackielanterns]

That malevolence riff reminded me a lot of too far gone by cane hill, which I'm not complaining about i love both very much

[@patrickv.9833]

HLB released a remixed/remastered version of the album, definitely checked it out if you haven’t, sounds so much better

[@AfterburnerDM]

Outro for "Locust Star" by Neurosis - daaaamn, hits me everytime. Anyway, thanks for these riffs - found some nasty songs and new bands. Cheers!

[@Jorge_Scum]

Honestly one I just gotta suggest is The Seed by Down, that intro is just incredible

[@PedroOliveira-zd4bm]

Master's Apprendices by Opeh... I dont need to explain the reasons why. Btw, ive watching ur channel from Brazil. Me and my monkeys love ur videos.

[@funnyperson4027]

CAVED IN IS PEAK but I really like the faster version of the ending riff you played that shows up earlier in the song

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I just like this part better cause it feels like a proper end

[@GABi-gj8fz]

Weak die first by sunami has really juicy riffs

[@ParkerMassing]

you should do the after solo riff in blood eagle by periphery

[@BObbert179]

10/10 shuggah pick, what a NASTY riff

[@luarswrath5282]

KoRn has some of the underrated riffs of all time.

[@The_KlaVra]

I thought the riff by Black Tongue was single notes, no constant picking. At least in the intro. Might be wrong but I dont think so.

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

It starts as single notes, but when the riff comes back with Alex saying, "your pathetic shells will crack, under the weight of agony," it switches to trem picking. Goated riff, regardless

[@larsa8825]

I love this video series

[@sahinlandman4667]

Clicked for Infant Annihilator - Unholy Gravebirth

[@luarswrath5282]

Just include the whole discography of The Dillinger Escape Plan

[@OnyHairu]

​​Vildhjarta Penny Royal Poison Breakdown Please

[@jojoplaysmusic]

love me some Vildhjarta

[@augustindrummer2919]

Thall

[@viggomoore8548]

The intro and verses to Ivy and Wine by GlassCloud and Les Temps Changent by Despised Icon go hard af and are different genres 🪐

[@doctorfletch2646]

3:20 BARREN MOOR

[@GABi-gj8fz]

The guitar in Dwel by Thrown is juicy ah all the time

[@visionsofbeyond9095]

I'm going to suggest a song that is probably mostly unknown, but something I've loved for a long time now. The song "Queen Kingdom" by Disfiguring The Goddess. Any riff in the song would be appropriate for one of these videos, but the first few riffs of the song are especially mean and brutal.

[@buzzthethermos]

Don't Look Away by The Plot In You has to be mentionned, shit is heavy af

[@ChronicSwErVe]

how did you get the first riff to sound so good and not like mush my 9 string doesn't even sound that clean lol

[@jojoplaysmusic]

EQ-ing the DI before it hits the amp

[@MGBlast666]

Youre awesome bro keep it up! 🤘🏻

[@clothrs135]

With This Creature I Return by Tribal Gaze has a great intro

[@dante7935]

Knocked Loose and Imolatiok insane

[@jojoplaysmusic]

The crossover of the century

[@IchWillQuerdenkerKlatschen]

Maybe its just the vocals but I think Black Bear by Whitechapel goes incredibly hard!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Definitely hard

[@_s.4785]

My recommendation is the blistering intro to Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery by Skeletonwitch

[@jojoplaysmusic]

hmmm

[@_s.4785]

Another riff option as opposed to an intro is Spheres of Madness by Decapitated

[@youokboi8556]

You should do one of these but it's just Vein.FMs entire discography

[@davidtodici4226]

include something by gamma sector. Really cool and heavy band

[@jakobreyes205]

BOUNDARIES MENTIONED RAHHHHHH🔥🔥🔥🗣️‼️‼️

[@cole2075]

If you want to hear a mean deathcore riff, listen to the opening riff for Unanswered by Suicide Silence. 💪🔥

[@TheSenateOfficial]

Also the breakdown from Talking Heads by Northlane

[@derpy_banana695]

My recommendation would be Caved In by Spite. The riffs in that song are nasty!

[@jojoplaysmusic]

👀

[@MostMetalRowan]

Your wish came true! 😂

[@derpy_banana695]

YESSS 😂

[@broncoxy]

riffs so mean they gave me childhood trauma

[@lilox4152]

I always thought that the clown intro riff so fucking heavy and underrated af

[@tomhuitema2068]

Nightbringer by TBDM

[@thatonemusicnb]

I have that same 7 string and no matter what I do I cannot get it to hold intonation below B Standard

[@Mara-ovo]

Some suggestions if you make another vid Skynet by The Acacia Strain Odium by Aversions Crown Labyrinthian by Humanities Last Breathe Hesitation wounds by End

[@nothuman1683]

If hackers got my social security number, welcome to the suck. You're not getting shit but a hard time and denied. Lol Enjoy

[@jojoplaysmusic]

The profile pic just makes this even funnier

[@nothuman1683]

@@jojoplaysmusic I wasn't expecting my wife to sneak up in me and get my bad side in that photo

[@xxSPiKeZxx326]

That Spite riff kicked my fucking ass dude, holy shit 😂

[@danieldoncel7308]

Yep, that was damn heavyy

[@alexodonnal3352]

Malevolence mentioned 🤘

[@bigyessuccess4525]

My body is a cage by boundaries is my favorite you should listen to

[@metalsage5135]

Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears. You can't deny it's a MEAN riff and you could make it sound even meaner. Plus it'll be a super cool surprise.

[@thatsit7933]

Lamb of God - Broken Hands (the main riff is groovy and heavy as fu*k!) Also any riff with Soreption 🤘

[@RyanFrias-q5q]

I’d love to see some early ISIS in here, maybe Swarm Reigns Down, Collapse and Crush, or Poison Eggs. Super heavy sludgy riffs.

[@iTKi.]

do you have your own preset on otto audio, cuz the tone is crazy?

[@avrgmtlhd]

Also Chamaleon Corridor by Meshuggah

[@No-tz1tx]

Waiting for bratva-STP

[@TheSenateOfficial]

Might be a weird pick, but the chorus of Benzin by Rammstein is unexpectedly heavy, especially coming from a softer verse.

[@chrisstrohman4131]

Boundaries mentioned, I am happy. Best band of all time

[@gameboy4406]

Time stamps for these videos would be amazing!!!

[@xerxes2568]

Black tongue let’s go!!!!

[@FisherBaker]

Hyperviolet Pig Destroyer

[@yngwiemalmsteen6790]

Hey man, a suggestion for the next video, the riff "heir aparrent" by opeth, the central riff

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Maybe

[@yngwiemalmsteen6790]

@@jojoplaysmusic other riff of a very unknown Band is"template of nothingness" by oria, its like a mix of gojira and Meshuggah, is good Band but Very unknown

[@revelation8199]

The ending riff to backbone by gojira

[@FrancescoGiacomini1658]

Scourge of Iron by cannibal corpse should be on this list and also dedication to flesh by spite and the river dragon has come by Nevermore and suffocate and counting worms and blinding Faith by knocked loose and liete of inveracity and infecting the crypts by suffocation

[@joshwelker423]

Soindgarden 4th of july

[@diabeticmonkey]

I don’t see any Crowbar, and now I’m disappointed.

[@captainiamtherum7659]

No Bleed From Within still? Honestly kinda surprised, would love to hear Levitate. Serious suggestion would be Orbit Culture's Saw. That riff is 50000 tons of steel.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Gotta put some BFW next

[@ubermenschbrent]

Check out Xibalba or Tzompantli

[@J-T99]

No one wins by the berzerker

[@Yanzar98]

It's strange that they haven't mentioned such a group as "Orthodox" yet They have very meaty and nasty riffs.

[@SiltsuT]

servitude - sylosis

[@Dotthedese]

Suicide note pt.2 needs to be here

[@lucas13789]

Spite are so sick, the riffs alone don’t do them justice.

[@theonyxofficial]

Pleaseeee do nothing left by obscure sphinx

[@martingarricks6209]

as soon as I saw korn, I knew it was clown

[@nao5246]

HEAR ME OUT Utsu-p - Sky burial have such mean riff 🦐