Nik Nocturnal Plays His Favorite Guitar Riffs 

an absolute bro

Seeing Nik not on his channel: *_confused screaming_*

Thanks for having me! Excited for the hate comments

My BOI

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

The riffs... they will be heavy

Straight to the point as always.

Damn, we better be getting Rudy Ayoub next

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

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.

I didn’t know John Mayer was a metalhead!

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

Where’s the water bottle

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

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

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

4:03 it’s the intro song!!!

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

Avenged really brought my guitar playing to new level

4:03 HE DID THE THING!

When will we see Stevie t’s favorite riffs

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

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

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

Nik is a legend

I thought this was a shitpost video Nik made for his own channel (a la Kmac), but turns out it's legit. I'm so happy.

Yes, my boi has done it

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

its good to see nik at loudwire

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

cant wait for stevie t

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.

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

Yes.

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

We fuckin made it bois

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

My boy made it here I'm so happy

0:27 Nik is actually inspired by Slash or something? nice but keep it up!

Wow. Nik should really make a channel. He's looks so confident on camera. It's not like this joke has been done a thousand times.

Lucid intro riff is sick!

I thought this was a Nic video and he was doing a loud wire joke at the beginning

Unholy confessions was my first too

He is really a cool player

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

Oh hell yeah!! Good seeing some killer RU-vid axemen getting some love 🤘#waitingfortheslavichardbass

If I made a video like this it would be almost the exact same backstory and stuff, crazy

TheDooo is another RU-vidr that would be really cool to see

I think it went like... does it perfectly

honestly you just made unholy confessions sound corect out the 3 times ive seen them live something always sounded different.

Nice! Now I want to see Agufish on here :D

I knew it. When are they gonna interview Stevie T, Rob Scallon, 66Samus, and Kmac2021?

metal musician reacts to metal musician

Never expected nik to be on here

Same

Omfg playing WOW and listening to metal... Sounds like the last 10 years of my life...

It's about time

I grew up in drop D

Hell yeah Nik!!!!

he flexes us his music mans. Unfair

i would love to have that lucid axe fx preset

Hell yeah

Nik on loudwire? Gotdamn.

🤩🤩🤩🤩🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Unholy confessions was my first song too !!!

please man, Stevie T next man

finally i can learn Lucid, yes

Unholy confessions was the first full song I learnt too :D

Nik should have his own signature EBMM guitar

WE WANT KMAC AFTER THIS!!!

Great 👍👌🏼👍 keep it up 🤟🏻🤟🏻

Great you use John Petrucci´s Music man signature axe!

NIK! YES

Nik's da maaaaaaan!

Let's go my g

I thought this is Nik's channel.. 😅😅

Shred mode activated

Get steve t next please !!

Yoooo it’s nik

my mans nik

I was the exact same with Unholy Confessions

The heck is a breackdown

Team metalcore

Loudwire cant i play favourite riff your channel

He looks familiar

whats the intro song called?

LETS GOOOOOOO

YASSSSSSS

Do Kmac and Rudu Ayoub

Check out my new drum cover!!🤪

He really 035’d...

Daddy Nik has made it

No water bottle???

WE GOT JARED AND NIK PLEASE GIVE US STEVIE T TOO

GG fam

This dewd shreds the shit out of the guitar when he wants to.

But where is the accent

It is so odd that all these "youtube shredders," that can play all these crazy sweeps, come on this series, and the guitar world series, and fumble through riffs and have string noise and the wrong notes ring out and they can't even play sweet child of mine cleanly yet their shred videos are flawless, must be something in the way they record themselves. lol. Guitar Sync Heroes!

GET FUCKING KMAC IN HERE

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