What is the HEAVIEST RIFF of all time?? (I'm disappointed) 

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My favorite part of all these is the commentary on Revolver's ability to churn out endless content from the same session.

My grandma used to be such a huge fan of the HEAVIEST RIFF of all time. She would get in the pit, and during that riff she would mosh and mosh until she couldn't mosh anymore. She did this every day she was alive until the day that she died, which was sadly yesterday. I will miss granny June forever, and I will always remember her when the HEAVIEST RIFF of all time plays on the radio. Even though I am sad she is gone, I know that she's looking down on me from heaven, proud as ever, still listening to the HEAVIEST RIFF of all time.

MGK actually created the "American Badass" riff for Kid Rock.

I am amazed that Pantera was barely mentioned. Not suprised it wasn't mentioned but the heaviest riff of all time is in "unsilent death" by Nails. You can fill that thing crushing your skull

Finn reacting to Mikes dead answers always crack me up. Please make a video reacting to his music!

The hardest riff is clearly fireflies by owlcity

I love how much content you are able to chug out from all this revolver content.

Also the reason Meshuggah is glorified for the 000-000-0000-00-00-000-000-0000-00-00 is because they have extraordinarily unique timing. It was groundbreaking

March of the S.O.D. is the heaviest riff ever. No contest.

'Mouth For War' has to be my answer. Kicked my teeth in the first time I heard it, and it still does to this day. One of Pantera's finest offerings, imo.

Finn summarized my thoughts on Gojira perfectly: “Light on the songs, heavy on the riffs.”

The two heaviest riffs that popped into my mind were Necromancer - Sepultura and Slaughtered - Pantera!!

Crowbar is a pretty good call. "Oh What a Feeling" is a really heavy song, in a psychedelic way.

The verse riff to Nomad by Sepultura is one of my favs

Floods by Pantera has an amazing riff, not to mention an amazing guitar solo and outro.

I mentioned it on the metal vocals video too, but To Sirius by Gojira has my favorite and heaviest-feeling to me riffs of all time. The back-and-forth heavy sections on the back half of the song are just completely nuts. The fact the very heaviest moment in the song comes while he's growling something like "dolphins from outer space will show us the way" is the icing on the cake. EDIT: Posted before I got to Tetrarch lol, their answers were also good.

Your level of irony has reached another level Finn. Amazing

May not be the heaviest, but my personal favorite is the riff from "Just One Fix" by Ministry. You can feel the heroin withdrawal emanating from that one.

Black Sabbath totally deserves to be on here. Breakdown riff in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!

Suffocation - Liege Of Inveracity The slam riff in the middle that so many bands steal (with good reason)

Flying Whales by Gojira. That chuggy, heavy, world destroying riff is yet to be matched. 6:24 in the song to be exact

I love the riffs when Emmure does them too 😍

The heaviest riff for me is from knocked loose EP “A tear in the fabric of life”, the theme of that EP is so heavy especially with the animation of the accompanying visuals they put out with it. “God Knows” is when the full weight of guilt seems to hit the main character and when the coffin drops and the breakdown hits I think that’s what makes the riff hit so hard.

"From Skin to Liquid" by Cannibal Corpse always struck me as almost a blatant exercise in exploring the furthest reaches of riff heaviness. It's so far over the top.

Had to pause and listen to Bleed, and Courtney's on the spot rendition of it was exactly in key with the original.. respect!

Meshuggah “Demiurge”, right after the lyric “a profit of extinction” sounds like the GATES OF HELL OPENING

Gojiras entire discography is a good start... 'Heaviest Matter of the Universe' is a no brainer classic. "The Link Alive" performance of 'Remembrance' is basically straight from space itself.

Nostalgia by Gorguts is the heaviest song for me. Heavy af, eerie and chilling yet brutal riffs and terrifying vocals. Just amazing

Nobody defined "heavy"..... but to me it's a song that makes you move involuntarily, head bang and make an angry face. Like it's so heavy you can't NOT do these things. That being said.... Gojira - To Sirius

Kinda surprised nobody mentioned "The Only Thing They Fear Is You" off the Doom Eternal OST. I just about died at "Icey Dicey," btw. RL lmao

Pantera is getting a lot of love on the video and in the comments! Glad to see the world is still spinning. My vote would be Strength Beyond Strength or Great Southern Trendkill. Also, Meshuggah is respected because of the time signatures and pioneering Djent. What Emmure did was is in no way comparable to Meshuggah.

the bridge riff of Esoteric Surgery by Gojira using that double tritone chord is the heaviest riff of all time. Change my mind.

First, your commentary is genius Finn! Secondly, I think Enter Sandman has to be one of the most iconic heavy riffs I heard growing up. I wasn’t a Metallica fan at the time but I’m getting to respect them. The first heavy riff I ever really appreciated was Sick of It All ‘Burn the District’ and then more recently Suicide Silence’s ‘You only live once.’ Of course there were all the Cannibal Corpse albums, but anything mainstream that would be recognized today would be considered something more hard rock (unfortunately)

Suffocation's Liege of Inveracity. Not just the heaviest, it pioneered a whole subgenre of Death Metal

Pantera Domination

not sure if the heaviest but Vacuity by Gojira is heavy af

Don't know if it's the heaviest riff ever but I've always loved the droning guitar in 4th of July by Soundgarden

The chorus of Listen to the Bell by Mercyful Fate has always been memorable to me for how heavy it is. It's in E standard tuning, but the the combination of guitar tone and snare is so damn powerful.

I absolutely love the Blackened breakdown tbh. (Metallica)

Ending riff of "bulls on parade" of RATM . To make it that heavy without downtuning is hard. I'm a bit nostalgic about that one, it was THE song that introduced me to metal.

Based on sheer heaviness alone, researchers have agreed that The Underground in America by Pantera has indeed, the heaviest riff of all time.

Haven’t watched the video yet, but my vote goes to Sad But True by Metallica, with honorable mentions to the breakdown from Pantera’s Domination and Omertà by Lamb of God. Also Raise your Horns by Amon Amarth. And the opening riff from Sixpounder by Children of Bodom.

Future breed machine, heeell yeah brother 😤 I came here for affirmation on the best/heaviest meshuggah riff and you delivered. Preciate ya

I’m disappointed that no one has mentioned the opening to “World Eater (89)” by Bolt Thrower

For me, the riff like 45 seconds into “strength beyond strength” by pantera. Especially when Vinnie slows it down on the drums 🤤

“Oblivions Peak” Knocked Loose. That tempo change in the intro is so fucking sick, the tone is bruuuutal, and the riff itself is so evil.

This whole entire video was just a non stop riot man 🤣🤣 Lmfaoo I absolutely was just in tears by that PANTERA meme Sir Finn, like damn I didn’t see that coming 🤣🤣

In terms of heavy riffs, i do think blesd by mushuggah always comes to mind, as well as surfacing by slipknot, two of my favorite riffs of all time, as well as just going hard

Gojira - Space Time. Still sticks out to me as pretty ridiculously heavy.

The band was only mentioned once but I think “To carry the load” by crowbar is the heaviest riff. Especially the final 40 seconds of the song. Breakdown to end is amazing

. World Eater by Bolt Thrower . The opening riff of Everything Dies by Type O, heaviest Ballard of all time. . The bridge riff in Forgotten Days by Pallbearer . Casket Garden by Dismember . Most Boris riffs but Kuruimizi edges it . Arbeit Macht Fleisch by Carcass So many riffs, such little time…

The Eternal Return To Ruin by Black Tongue is my go to, any riff off of nadir really is heavy as hell

i'd probably have to go with "Stone" by Alice in Chains, specifically the bridge riff although the main riff is pretty damn heavy too

The final chorus in Freak On A Leash, IMO one of the heaviest riffs ever. Crushing

Greatest content farming of all time: Revolver on this day vs Finn reacting to every Revolver video.

Finn is so sarcastic, that I can’t even tell when he’s being serious.

Devil In I - Slipknot! Love those gallops tjey're magical! Also I love The Clincher by Chevelle, that Drop-B, man! I'm also really surprised that Did My Time isn't mentioned when you talk about Korn. Some gitpunching riffs!

the outro for 5 minutes alone by Pantera has got to be up there

The breakdown in Stoopid by Snot is a huge contender

the iron gate by iam is the heaviest thing i’ve ever listened to, the big main chunky riff never gets old

My vote is for a couple of the riffs from Crawl on Entombed's 2nd album Clandestine. Still gives me ugly face with sneer sound since 1991.

A song that's new to my list is From the Sky's main riff, after the intro That scrape mixed with the power chords gives me goosebumps

Best Finn commentary to date. Thank you.

The heaviest song I’ve ever heard is “Shitstorm” by Strapping Young Lad. It genuinely sounds like a nervous breakdown set to music… and you can literally feel that shit.

For me it's probably the Liege of Inveracity slam riff.

Jose picking a heaviest riff reminded me of the part of ratatouille where the rat is trying different foods.

just discovered this other channel of yours finn. new sub

Davidian by Machinehead

Jose totally nailed it....the breakdown on Dead Embryonic Cells is brutal

I was living in Minneapolis one block from the Metrodome Stadium when they demolished it at 6am with multiple explosions. Not sure that it was the heaviest riff ever, but I did wake up and piss the bed.

I'd love to see Jose on your podcast, would be nothing but good vibes with you two 🖤

I haven’t watched yet… but if Into the Void by Sabbath isn’t on here I will be very disappointed.

cannibal corpse - evisceration plague

Too Quick To Grieve by Tallah has like multiple contenders for heaviest riff of all time, but that breakdown, dude… DUDE! Such a meaty, pounding riff

I saw this as well and was left wondering "how do all these musicians not know what a heavy riff is"? Whats amazing here is a bunch of them actually mention it has to be fast.... WHY would anyone think a requirement for a riff to be heavy, is it being fast?

The outro to Backbone by Gojira for me, especially live its so heavy.

KoRn - Somebody Someone!

I love Alter Bridge 😅 You're right though, hardly gets talked about in the states.

The intro riff of bolt thrower-cenotaph that is used in numerous bolt thrower songs

"I don't speak English, I only speak american" that's right Finn, hell yeah brother! Keep fighting the good fight!😂

The breakdown in Pain Remains Part 3 by Lorna Shore after the "bury me" lyric. So simple and the drums 😱

The guy from Wargasm said: Ivy Lab - Orange. They are a drum & bass group from the UK and they really great music, but it's definitely more on the vibier chill spectrum. Top notch tunes though. I can't believe no one mentioned any Fear Factory song... like Edgecrusher!

That riff that you didn’t know was laid to rest by lamb of god

Alter Bridge fan here. I got to see them live in Boston a couple months ago. They were really good 👍

The theory and technical capabilities behind Meshuggah and Acacia Strain or Emmure are wildly different. The tab might be 00000, but the rhythm is dramatically different

Does the intro to High on Fire's Snakes of the Divine count as a riff?

Jesus Christ when will this interview series end!!!

Come My Fanatics by Electric Wizard is heavy af. Stoner doom bands like them and Ufomammut are the heaviest.

My favorites: Pantera - Domination The Thing that Should Not Be - Metallica If The Truth Be Known - Napalm Death Are some of my favorite heaviests

does it have to be guitar? cuz if not then my pick is Cultist Base by Mick Gordon (its a chainsaw riff but still a riff)

The emmure/meshuggah comparison is too real.

Broken by Pantera is definitely up there

The Just One Fix riff by Ministry. Heavy AF.

Maybe I'm just weird, but I still think the main riff from Deep Purple's "Burn" is one of the heaviest.

Fear Factory - Smasher/Devour Pantera - Hellbound Chimaira - Eyes of a Criminal Unearth - Predetermined Sky Machine Head - Imperium Sepultura - Breed Apart Slayer - Gemini Crowbar - High Rate Extinction Hatebreed - Remain Nameless

Finn is disappointed?… Nah, I don’t believe that, let me watch this 25 minute featured film to find out

I think the absolute heaviest riffs belong to the Doom/Sludge/Stoner genres. Sure, Death Metal is more "brutal" and crazier in general but for sheer heavy guitar riffs...I can think of so many from that sphere. Its a toss up between Electric Wizard - Barbarian Electric Wizard - Return Trip Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Crowbar - New Dawn Crowbar - To Build a Mountain Down - Bury me in Smoke Bongripper - Reefer Sutherland Conan - Satsumo Conan - Hawk as Weapom High on Fire - 10,000 Years The riff that basically started this whole thing is probably Black Sabbath - Under the Sun. You can see from the small amount of songs I have posted that these are far heavier(guitar wise) than your standard thrash and death. Its crushingly heavy.

13:30 Ivy Lab is actually very underappreciated project. Some of the best electronic music out there

Korn should be up with the best in heaviest riffs discussion. Those riffs are so dark and bassy.