American Big 4 VS Swedish Big 4 (Death Metal Guitar Riffs Battle) 

Songs in order: 0:04 Death - Zombie ritual 0:26 Entombed - Living dead 0:51 Morbid Angel - Fall from grace 1:11 Unleashed - Dead forever 1:31 Cannibal Corpse - Scourge of iron 1:57 Grave - Deformed 2:22 Deicide - Lunatic of God’s creation 2:46 Dismember - Under a blood red sky 3:12 Morbid Angel - Suffocation 3:33 Grave - Morbid ascent 3:54 Cannibal Corpse - Priests of sodom 4:21 Unleashed - Blood of lies 4:42 Deicide - When Satan rules his world 5:05 Dismember - Fleshless 5:31 Death - Flattening of emotions 5:59 Entombed - Carnal leftovers I’m actually cool with the idea with a death metal big 4, especially seeing how there’s so many different scenes and styles across the world, but I’d personally change it from being like the grunge or thrash big 4’s where it’s a concrete list of the same 4 bands to being more subjective, like “Yeah, that’s MY big 4”, and then we’d get all of these interesting results from different people, and we’d also get a lot more of “Where’s MY favorite band?”, so it just gets chaotic My American big 4 would be Death-Obituary-Suffocation-Morbid Angel, and my Swedish big 4 would be Entombed-Grave-At the Gates-Unleashed

These twins should start a band.

This isn't about winning our loosing. It's about showing that metal fucking rules no matter where you're from.

I'm from the United States but damn you got to love that swedish buzzsaw tone. Nothing beats it

Scourge of Iron doesn’t get enough love. That track is a banger.

What I learned from this video: I need to purchase some Grave and some Unleashed albums.

now the "underdogs", netherlands vs england, lots of great material there: sinister, asphyx, pestilence, thanatos, gorefest vs napalm death, carcass, cancer, benediction, bolt thrower.

I'm from Tampa FL. I got to see all those Florida death metal bands on more then one occasion. Late 80's early 90's. Probably seen Obituary the most. Obituary still does one off shows every so often. Since they live in the area. Of course, nothing lately.

Love them all !!!

Death takes the cake. Chucks riffs are legendary.

This might be my favorite battle. I'm so glad I got to live my teen years during this era... I remember going to a concert almost every weekend to see these bands, and it was great that most of the time they would end up on Saturdays! those in San Diego will surely remember the shows at SOMA. Great memories... BTW my favorite death metal album is HUMAN from Death, I remember my jaw dropping the first time I listened to it and how I went through several tape copies of it because I would wear them out from playing them so much. RIP Chuck and Sean.

God growing up in Tampa and in the scene it’s so funny to see how big they are outside of here. Shit I went to school with Glen Bentons son and he attended my buddies birthday party lmao.

Anyone else remember going to Brass Tap in Tampa and literally Deicide, Morbid Angle, Death , and Cannibal Corpse was all on the same bill? God those 80-90s records recorded at morsesound were Iconic.

Never really got into UNLEASHED. I guess i'll be getting into Unleashed ASAP.

Might just be a weird thing to notice but the way you make the version of you that isn’t playing headbang and sometimes play along seems to stand out because no matter what we’re all bonded by metal in the end and metalheads support each other. Another sweet video dude!

Swedish bands got that thiCC tone and groove

As an old-style death metal head, I really missed Edge of Sanity. Swano is equal to Chuck when it comes to genius. For old school death metal riffs, go for Benediction and Obituary :)

Good to see Scourge Of Iron on this list, easily the best song cannibal corpse has made in the past 10-15 years imo

There's something about the groove in Entombed that just elevates them for me. Nicke Andersson is a fucking genius. But great vid, I grew up in Stockholm during these years with Entombed (Nihilist), Dismember, Tiamat (Treblinka) and so on, marvelous times.

Great video!!

*insert meme of cat in suit reading the newpaper* I should listen to Grave. Anyways, I always find it kinda cool that my country (Sweden) is such a huge musical power house. We have just recently gotten to 10 million in population,and... I havent seen any recent number, but we used to be The worlds 3rd largest exporter of music. I mean sure, absolutley dwarfed by the US and The UK. But still! Pretty cool. And ofc just not metal, but many other genres as well.

As a swede it hurts to say that riff wise America wins. Sweden has Entombed though, you can't beat that 😁. Nice guitar work!

This is sick bro awesome job 🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥🔥

I like how both plays both parts and has both characters root each other on or enjoy the music of the other person. Showing metals wholesomeness

Man, you have so many awesome guitars!

Morbid angel got me into Death metal still my favorite to this day

Killer riffs, great bands, and awesome execution. Keep up the good job !

How many Death metal riffs want in this video ? TheSuffocater: Yes

Death's sound really stands out amongst other dm bands. Much more emphasis on melody. That's why they were the best.

Killer job! I love playing "Guess the Song" with these.

Lunatic of God's Creation intro riff is one of the best riffs out there.

All the band I grew up with! Thanks for the great video!

Thank you for featuring Unleashed. .Such an underated band!

Sehr gut! 🤘🏼 Pls more "UNLEASHED", they've got many tasty riffs!🤘🏼

This was fun as hell! Great job rippin those riffs too.

That's the beauty of metal. When we are having these so called battles. It's all in good fun really. We're all one big family pretty much.

Sweet that Grave gets some attention, they often get overlooked nowadays. Then we have Merciless as well, the two first albums are really good.

Swedish bands have a greater feel of melody and narrative, makes their riffs more interesting imo. Like they can stand on their own without any other instruments.

Thanks for another great video!!

You are so talented! Hope to hear more from you.

It sounds like the drums were actually played by someone. I appreciate that.

Вылечила музыка похмелье! Волшебно!))кайф))

been silently watching all of your videos for a few years. Stellar guitar skills

Good stuff here! Nice work, Excellent covers, killer medley!

Goddamn those double kicks on that Deicide song are thicc as fuck, never really been big on Death Metal of any variation, but those 80’s & 90’s bands just had something about them.

As a proud red blooded american I have to say that Swedish death metal as a whole wins out for me. The scene has a special place in my heart, that said, Obituary, Death, Immolation, Morbid Angel and some others are always in my playlists.

By far my favourite video, amazing work!!!

Absolutely awesome!!!

finally a "vs" video where its the 2 sides not being cringe by fake cringing!!!!!

Damn, death riffs are too much for the others

I love your videos! Best there is! Keep rockin

These battles are what made this my favorite channel, The tone of TheSuffocater is brutal and the songs are spot on, it doesn't get better than this, This dude is a shredder! Damn nice work and thanks for putting this out here!

Boss HM2 ALL THE THINGS!!!!

Thanks for the reminder to go out and buy some Morbid Angel, finally.

Wow! Cool video!😃 Love it!

great job dude!

Man, your guitar collection is sweet! I had the chance to buy a Willie Adler camo esp but I went with a razor back instead. Then I sold it because I wasn't a fan of the floydrose. Anyway, there's definitely a stylistic difference between US and Sweden. Seems like the sweeds are more about the trem picking.

The American side sounds like they all derived from Slayer

Great bands ,great riffs,great video!I would love to see a the big 4 of U.K. in some of your next videos-Bolt Thrower, Carcass,Napalm Death,Benediction.Cheers from Bulgaria!

Into the grave still gives me chills... Good job man!!

Indecent And Obsene is the perfect death metal record

Death metal is just too damn good

Thanks for sharing! Amazing job.

Another great video \m/

Dutch vs Finnish death metal next?

Entombed, Dismember, Cannibal and Death are the best for me in this video, I prefer Morbid Angel over Death but the Death riffs you chose are great, especially Zombie Ritual.

Great sound quality. Nice guitar collection!

Great work

If Burton C Bell and James May have a baby together. Amazing riffage!

Great job as always., who ever is thumbing these videos down? Seriously get a life ya loser. Absolutely no reason to thumb these vids down. Very well done. An lot of time an effort gone into making them riffs spot on. 🔥🔥

Coming from Norway, I love these videos. I hadn't listened to Death or Entombed in 30-something years (idk, fuck my math) you're REALLY on point. Morbid Angel, holy shit. That's a while ago.

Thanks for all your time in every video, great job & awesome guitar player 🤘🇨🇱

Best of the best! To Asgard we fly -> The spirit will never die! Jai, danke Suffocater wir höchste Zeit für einen Stufenhaarschnitt - lol

As much as I love Death, ima have to go with the Swedish DM side. You just can’t beat Left Hand Path and Like An Everflowing Stream. Either way great video! I would like to make a suggestion to do German Tech Death bands vs American Tech Death Bands!

Definitely one of the top extreme metal guitar channels on YT. Excellent work!

Awesome battle as always! Thanks a lot!

The late Chuck Schuldiner made our DEATH METAL happen once again all of your performance on all accounts is brutal and true

When it comes to Death Metal, the U.S is king imo. All good bands tho.

Nice sounds !!! good job ! great play

Absolutely brilliant! Apart from Grave and Dismember - I can proudly say that I've seen all the other bands live. Great times 🤘🏽

Now do: Dokken, Mötley Crue, Skid Row and Guns N' Roses Vs: Europe, Hammerfall, Yngie Malmsteen and Candlemass 😁😁

Damn, had never heard of Entombed before. Every riff from them was bad ass, I gotta check them out!

I like these videos. Just shows that good music is good music everywhere. keep it up my man.

Really...one of the best YT channel I have subscribed,Carnal leftover at the end is huge!!!

GRAVE!!! \m/ Def my fav Swedish DM Band

Death metal forever!👍

Awesome fight! (as always)

Excellent riffs :D and great playing!

Death is a completely different league when it comes to composition, catchiness, melody and everything else.

Deicide is my absolute favourite. Lunatic of Gods creation is one of the most evil riffs ever

YES YES YES YES!!!! BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.... OFFICALLY RINGING THAT BELL ICON!

Love it!

Morbid Angel 🤘

Is it Pat O'brien's signature B.C Rich?

Amo tus videos, estas bandas y los riffs.

awesome vid. More death/thrash metal comparison plz

That Jackson Flying V is a thing of pure beauty

Swedish death metal and No Hypocrisy?😮😮😮

The real winners here are the fans

Thanks for all the music inspiration and nostalgia🌞 All those guys truly Legendary and Super Dope🙏