Thrash Musicians Play Their Favorite Riffs

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We've featured guitarists from legendary thrash bands like Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax on Gear Factor, and we've asked all of them what riffs they never get tired of playing. Watch Scott Ian, Gary Holt, David Ellefson and more show us their answers.
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@effess8698 Месяц назад

2:34 The Angel of Death riff will never get old. Future archaeologists will rediscover it and regard it as a great artistic achievement. The Mona Lisa of thrash metal riffs.

@XanderTrouten Месяц назад

And raining blood, that riff slays

@Idontknowmeself Месяц назад

One of my favorite riffs ever, it just hits different

@sadsadasdsadasdsadas Месяц назад

Find Jesus in your life while you still can.

@Nightopian1982 Месяц назад

@@sadsadasdsadasdsadasget a life, pal.

@sadsadasdsadasdsadas Месяц назад

@@Nightopian1982 I have eternal life in heaven. Please, do not take this as a joke, believe in Jesus and not in the Satanists. Christ can save you as well friend.

@ChaseJohnston19 Месяц назад

Gary holt and Exodus dont get near enough love

@andmetalforall2763 Месяц назад

Rob was the better vocalist.

@bayareathrasher666 Месяц назад

Here in the Bay Area they do!

@gaborhorvath4302 Месяц назад

Agreed,👌🫡🤘

@TheMissingLink33 Месяц назад

Great band but their best record was their first. Most bands improve and grow from the first record. Pleasures of the Flesh was really good too.

@danielcalvert2700 Месяц назад

imo their should be a Big Five, and Exodus should be number five

@ceobe7458 Месяц назад

idk what gary is looking at when he plays toxic waltz but he is locked in

@oneskinnyhonky Месяц назад

Holt has a way of tapping into wherever it is that riffs come from.

@FremontMetalHead Месяц назад

he ain’t staring at anything. when youre in the zone u pick a spot and stare off into the universe as if it’s being created right in front of u lol

@biorythmicshifter Месяц назад

He is staring into your soul…

@juliantorres8818 Месяц назад

The Power of the riff compels me. I just love riffs 🎸

@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews 10 дней назад

God Of Thunder is an evil sounding one.

@spineappletea Месяц назад

I like how Scott fiddles the guitar while the interviewer is asking the question. Edit: before I get more replies yes I know this is a common thing to do. I play bass and fiddle around idly as well. I'm noting that I like the way Scott specifically fiddles, not just the fact that he does.

@danevertt3210 Месяц назад

The guy who use to play a 5 string guitar because he was strictly a rhythm guitarist, he says

@skepticalbystander Месяц назад

It's near impossible for a guitarist holding a guitar to not play anything the more seconds creep by, it's like an itch. My girl always has to tell me to stop and listen when she's trying to talk to me if I have my guitar, which is only fair, cuz historically speaking, I've had to ask her to repeat what she said so often in times like those over the years, that at some point she needed to put her foot down :P and she's the best girl I could ever ask for, so in my case, it's not nagging at all, she lets me play a LOT without any attitude (luckily I'm a half decent player and a pretty dang good riff writer if i do say so myself).

@marc3d Месяц назад

playing while talking still makes me sick, in both directions ;)

@Peopleequilshit1997 Месяц назад

Same with Gary Holt right after haha

@csnide6702 Месяц назад

we all noodle like that when it starts flowing.

@ZeroBudgetProductions Месяц назад

Love that Toxic Waltz is mentioned!

@csnide6702 Месяц назад

Everybody's doing the Toxic Waltz !

@darrendavies3502 Месяц назад

Gary Holt is a killer guitarist, the guy is so humble and funny.

@yukuzoona6604 Месяц назад

i liked that gwar guy riffs 🤩

@jeffqualizza7612 Месяц назад

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED DAVE ELLEFSON’S FOGHAT SHIRT 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@Dannyb201 Месяц назад

So glad to see Municipal Waste guitarist there... also playing one of my favorite of their rifts. This album gots some of the best headthrashing rifts ever

@brianbishop4753 Месяц назад

Never heard of them until this. That riff was awesome.

@mrc2662 Месяц назад

@@brianbishop4753agree. Does sound like loads of other stuff but impossible not to really, and not taking anything away from the fella, it’s a great riff.

@caperbye474 21 день назад

Well go listen to Saxon's Princess Of The Night. Than get back to me

@tenplex Месяц назад

Ol from Evile is so underrated as a riff monster. Can’t believe they’re not a bigger thrash band. I blame it on them basically disappearing for almost a decade and trying to get back into a much different looking thrash scene. And how has none of the much bigger thrash bands booked them in an opening slot on tours? Megadeth? Exodus? Metallica now tours with other headliners opening because they’re just too big, but that would be a dream for them too. Guys, get on it.

@dresdensinn6669 Месяц назад

Fun Fact: That clip is 3yrs old

@jacobgarcia2660 Месяц назад

His right hand is crazy tight, reminds me of a young hetfield

@trillrifaxegrindor4411 Месяц назад

those riffs ripped.....badass,tight,fast,headbanging

@Nightopian1982 Месяц назад

@@jacobgarcia2660that control is just sublime. Glorious riffage that has a slight DM edge. Massively underrated band as well.

@ThatMeansHesMad Месяц назад

The dudes from Evile have some of the best picking hand precision I've ever seen. Soo fast and Soo clean. They're up there with the best of em.

@skatertrev7 Месяц назад

I'm not really into this kind of metal, but damn... that precision is absurd!! 😮 10:18

@robertwalker3357 Месяц назад

Kreator

@richardmarano8399 Месяц назад

You guys remember when Loudwire was a group of music journalists? Because now they just edit together compilations of their previous videos to churn out content. Sad really.

@NotoriousNIG Месяц назад

Loudwire has always been the buzzfeed of metal, Metal Injection is where you get the actual news

@8bitplague Месяц назад

It's funny because I tried to write for them many times as an ex journalist from many mags and other big sites but never got a response. Oh well, I'm not sure they ever wanted "actual" writers

@SadisticSadistOfficial Месяц назад

….who are you and how has your channel done..?

@snufftherooster93 Месяц назад

@@SadisticSadistOfficial - ....? How does not having a channel negate the fact what he said is true?......?...............

@SadisticSadistOfficial Месяц назад

@@snufftherooster93 he’s another troll and hater. These guys are in the big leagues and this guy is just another know it all troll that’s projecting his jealousy and insecurities 😂 Instead of trying to be the difference he wants to see, he just wants to tear others down because it just seems easier for him.

@DennisTrovato Месяц назад

Thrash's got the funnest riffs.

@Swodie_Jeetin Месяц назад

Never heard municipal waste before but that melodic riff is transcendent

@MrEllico Месяц назад

waste rules man

@monkeyballs512 Месяц назад

They’re a very fun modern thrash band.

@CaptainMerican Месяц назад

March Of SOD is THE heaviest riff of all time!

@dabanjo Месяц назад

No contest. When that riff comes together there's nothing heavier

@Theloserguy_312 Месяц назад

Idk. Its heavy as fuck but i think riffs get heavier with the heaviness itself and then the melody

@Ja-mbi Месяц назад

I can't agree with you I don't think it's really even the heaviest thing Scott Ian has played

@grindcardoso1 Месяц назад

Yeah maybe after Into the Void from Black Sabbath.

@keri11369 Месяц назад

Lmao i do love it

@ColvinAvianBreadline Месяц назад

I love cheese.

@xhannesx8881 Месяц назад

We know

@Mahina-Kekoa Месяц назад

Me too

@bedarosman1108 Месяц назад

Who doesn’t?

@willy_b_coyote Месяц назад

“Cheese.” -James May

@justbob242 Месяц назад

Me too, buddy, me too.

@Domzdream Месяц назад

That guy on the left at (7:45) has a pretty damn good ear for picking up harmonics. Nice.

@gab.lab.martins Месяц назад

“That guy on the left” is Alex fucking Skolnick, first Testament guitarist, and jazz player.

@deathlike_silence.0267 Месяц назад

That guy is Alex Skolnick. Absolute mad man on guitar (theory)

@guitarplayer1495 Месяц назад

dude. holy SHI!T they remind me of slayer. when two guitars play the same riff in different parts of the fretboard it sounds so BADASS!!!!

@alexsaucedo8032 Месяц назад

GUITAR GOD. ALEX SKOLNICK. one badass guitar player. TESTAMENT 4 LIFE. HORNS UP. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@alexsaucedo8032 Месяц назад

@@deathlike_silence.0267 Amen to that brother. I so agree with you. . Absolutely badass guitar player. Alex Skolnick. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

@Sorrowpsalm Месяц назад

Glad to see Ol Drake on here. Evile has tons of great riffs.

@C_mao Месяц назад

Those were killer riffs

@Nightopian1982 Месяц назад

Probably amongst my favourites to be honest. Evile are underrated but I kinda prefer that, given how Metallica have turned out since they got too big for their already oversized egos and lost the music itself. I still think it's extremely tough to beat Anthrax and Slayer for awesome, heavy riffs in thrash, but Ol has some of the best speed precision I've seen.

@SirTheoTheWhite Месяц назад

I remember seeing Evile & Lazarus AD years back. I remember asking their drummer Ben a couple questions. It was a great show.

@Sorrowpsalm Месяц назад

@@SirTheoTheWhite man, Lazarus AD has some killer riffs. Havok is another one with some tasty riffs.

@SirTheoTheWhite Месяц назад

@@Sorrowpsalm They certainly did. I would go see them play when I could. They were good dudes.

@XxCHRISchaosxX Месяц назад

Always did really love that riff on Bangover that ryan waste showcased

@riverpascual7592 Месяц назад

wasn't expecting to see ellefson here, but man, gotta say... i miss that guy!

@davidvincent9545 17 дней назад

Always wanted to pull Ian's beard of since I was a kid😅

@peakadventures_ Месяц назад

Music is basically a jigsaw it's all about putting the pieces together that fit

@erolbulut2584 Месяц назад

It's all about the final product. 'Piece by Piece'

@PlanetOuid Месяц назад

got to see gwar live for my first ever concert. it was wild simply putting it

@neilpatrickhairless Месяц назад

Oh.. wow. Hahahah yeah that's a hell of a cherry pop show for sure

@foxboy1985 Месяц назад

GWAR is my fav band.

@TexasSmoking Месяц назад

Garys demo sounds like guitar center on any given saturday

@mxstunkxwn7390 Месяц назад

Thrash til DEATH!!! 🤘🍻

@BGMA1976 Месяц назад

Alex Skolnick’s hair is so epic!

@jeffdavis3283 Месяц назад

Alex is an unhinged lefty.

@stigmurder99 Месяц назад

@@jeffdavis3283🤮🤮🤮🤮

@perfectworldmanifest Месяц назад

Nice shirt, man I love Doghat

@llongone2 Месяц назад

Helly yeah! Verbal Razors!

@PostTheRiffs Месяц назад

I feel like a song from Exodus people don't really talk about is "Throwing Down". That song is sick

@butchvito Месяц назад

I love that groove. Killer song.

@UncleManuel Месяц назад

It's one thing to hear riffs isolated - it's a whole other story when the band f*cking vibes together on stage and the crowd goes wild! 😁😎🤟

@accepthisname Месяц назад

I need to listen to more Evile. Those riffs are wicked.

@anderssundin354 25 дней назад

That Evile guy is a machine! Awesome

@joeblow-tp6gz Месяц назад

Great, I've got a chubby over the Gwar Marshall room and "Answer The Phone" stuck in my head.

@Pewtooyou 20 дней назад

That Municipal Waste riff in Bangover is the best riff on this video.

@smokingcrab2290 Месяц назад

10:11 this dudes riffs are sick

@yukuzoona6604 Месяц назад

sounds very cannibal corpse 😍

@Nightopian1982 Месяц назад

@@yukuzoona6604don't it just!

@yukuzoona6604 Месяц назад

@@Nightopian1982 👍👍

@josejones7025 2 дня назад

👎

@lasdicanacho Месяц назад

no me esperaba verlo a ol drake. Excelente guitarrista

@LordLares7 Месяц назад

Isn't this an old video?

@JasonVladimir 19 дней назад

Shout out to Loudwire for the killer segment!

@FortessofShred Месяц назад

WARDANCE!

@markflet26 12 дней назад

The main riff in Keep it in the family by Anthrax is my favourite riff of all time!

@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews 10 дней назад

did u like madhouse

@simpl5049 Месяц назад

I read it as "Trash" at first and wondered as to why you would insult them in the title. 😅😂

@WickedIndigo Месяц назад

How could you not love Scott Ian. What a badass

@randallbryant9456 3 дня назад

🤟"SCOTTY"🤟

@BaronVonSavage Месяц назад

March of the SOD is Scott's greatest riff 🤘

@sirkazm Месяц назад

2:56 🙌🏼

@SlaytanicMusic Месяц назад

municipal waste is the shiiiit!!!!

@dryerofdoom 21 день назад

Burnt offerings is one of testaments best songs

@DantesPop Месяц назад

I think the best, just based on sound is Alex and Eric. Just my opinion, no one has to agree. I think they sound great

@johnwojcik977 29 дней назад

As far as Anthrax, I Am The Law.

@vio-noob_6737 Месяц назад

Verbal Razors !!

@drugdracula Месяц назад

It's soooo weird to see lefthanded guitarists like Ryan, but the funniest thing is that I'm actually a lefthanded guitarist😂 Btw I'm a huge fan of Wastes, Thrash 'till Death!!! \m/

@morejelloplease Месяц назад

Where can I find the phil demmel back to you song? The merkins? Can't find it anywhere

@BenAbe218 Месяц назад

Gary Holt = most underrated metal guitarist. Change my mind Also, Shovel Headed Kill Machine was the most brutal and crunchy album I’ve ever heard from start to finish.

@neilpatrickhairless Месяц назад

Criss Oliva, but Gary is also pretty underrated. Or at least not really talked about in normie metal circles that much

@roaming740 Месяц назад

Brian Tatler

@Automatic13 Месяц назад

Verbal Razors is such a sick song.

@davidasullivan1971 28 дней назад

I can hear some Grim Reaper "see you in hell" inspiration in a few of these guy's riffs ❤

@nonsuch Месяц назад

Nothing really beats "March of the S.O.D. / Sargent D and the S.O.D.".

@bobsurface908 Месяц назад

Somehow, Verbal Razors ended up one of the first songs I learned to play all the way through....which makes no sense, because it's really hard. But somehow something clicked for me and I just "got" it.

@Julian-we1xk 24 дня назад

I vote for Carcass - No Love Lost. Or an underrated one. Machine Head - Imperium!

@skarlottt 15 дней назад

Im proud of his beard 😊

@smokingcrab2290 Месяц назад

3:56 I didn't realize Owen Wilson's dad played heavy metal bass

@jonsirammst 4 дня назад

Gary Holt, all the way.

@Kevincarlloven Месяц назад

Kreators "Riot of Violence"!

@user-uh9lz7qg6b Месяц назад

I think Jump in the fire riff is fun to play tremelo then turn in slam riff

@MikeHunt-fo3ow День назад

its ok to like listen or play this music and look like a regular person

@krisfrederick5001 Месяц назад

Who doesn't love their favorite riffs by the way they look?

@FriedEggsandJellyfish Месяц назад

David Ellefson's favorite riff is Trust. Lol that's funny

@AdreenBean Месяц назад

I like this❤

@TwithGazz Месяц назад

Dave E has really decked out his prison cell.

@evigkrig4386 Месяц назад

The riffs that Ol Drake plays are thrash to me . Check out the underground band Deathhammer from Norway for similar stuff. 🤟

@trillrifaxegrindor4411 Месяц назад

mad thrash,like old metallica meets megadeth with a side of slayer but slightly better

@poindextertunes Месяц назад

if y’all got the line out from the amp instead of from the camera mic for the audio… man

@jakobthonen9411 Месяц назад

YES VERBAL RAZORS🤘

@dcfromthev Месяц назад

11:50 It is impressive just how few pieces of clothing this man is wearing LOL

@rkgaustin9043 Месяц назад

Love that riff in Municipal Waste 'Bangover'. The camera work in that segment was terrible though.

@Bangyourbirdnumb Месяц назад

Dave Ellefson, Megadeth. How old is that clip?

@larrycooper5328 Месяц назад

How does that dude from Gwar even play guitar with them big gorilla hands?

@Swodie_Jeetin Месяц назад

Lmao I wonder the same about Michael Angelo... Dude has 10 thumbs and still shreds like a maniac

@C_mao Месяц назад

And how does he always gotta talk like that? Does he ever give it a rest? That sh*t looks so corny, i laugh but i can't get into it.

@C_mao Месяц назад

Dude's insane.

@axelsb08 Месяц назад

I had no clue Municipal Waste's guitarist wast left-handed, FUCKING RADDD!!! (I'm a lefty and it makes me happeh to see other lefty guitarists in the wild 😎)

@78gagta78 Месяц назад

Would love to hear the band with Phil Demmel & Steve Zetro Soua, anyone know the name?

@doordashdriver Месяц назад

I always get Scott Ian mixed up with Dave Attell. lol

@zhegwood 19 дней назад

JFC, the Evile dude.

@fatimapalacios2292 Месяц назад

Ryan Waste is awesome

@Mr.CoachBeaulieu 28 дней назад

Poor Scott Ian the only riff he ever brings up is that SOD riff lol

@Godric_71 9 дней назад

PLAY 'FREEBIRD'

@superultrasmash9790 15 дней назад

FfS put a mic on the amp! All I can hear is strings clacking. Such iconic musicians and this is how you do em? Damn it.

@lynnlovesmetal Месяц назад

❤

@XtremeKillah101 Месяц назад

I read that thumbnail as trash musicians and they put Scott Ian in the thumbnail . I was like Damn they did him dirty

@wyattjacob34 Месяц назад

Well that's pretty friggin metal

@greekfrenchman4434 27 дней назад

I can't hear any of that in burnt offerings

@user-vk3lk1zf3g Месяц назад

The S.O.D. record and basically everything Nuclear Assault did before 1993 is more powerful and harder hitting than the Anthrax catalogue (and everything POT and before is at a minimum, at least decent).

@jordyjordz55 Месяц назад

Riffy staniffy🤘😈🤘

@rocketpocket99 Месяц назад

The tic

@ostravia Месяц назад

When you do a C chord in reverse is the heaviest - We all know that but these cannot do it.

@benjaminlecter Месяц назад

2:35 Whats this Song called? I Knew it but cant remember the Name

@AntEF85 Месяц назад

At the risk of you saying you're being sarcastic Angel of death

@screwface1971 Месяц назад

eggsodus 🤘

@TRUMP4PREZ 4 дня назад

How in thee fuck do yall not have the riff lord Tony Iommi in here?

@poindextertunes Месяц назад

Gear Factory?

@thrashmetalmatters4678 Месяц назад

Finally loudwire posts something cool lol. Bout time

@gungriffen Месяц назад

Anthrax heavist riff is Medusa.

@CarlosSpiecyWeeny Месяц назад

The guy's asking scott ian like he's the one that writes the music in anthrax 😂 dont get me wrong he probably get riffs here and there but its mostly charlie (the drummer)