The Top 10 MEANEST Guitar Riffs Ever Written

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[MusicisWin]

Which riff is meanest? Mean answers only.

[CesarCordova]

Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath made me crap my pants when I was a kid.

[arjansandhu]

Every Breath You Take is obviously the meanest riff because it breaks your fingers.

[ghazihadihussain]

Tyler bro u forgot some of the meanest ones
1. Raining Blood - SLAYER
2. Domination - PANTERA
3. Walk - PANTERA
4. Cowboys from hell - also PANTERA
5. Painkiller - Judas Priest
6. Breakin the law - Judas Priest

[SY-nqqp]

The riff starting at 3:20 in "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" is one of the most lethal guitar riffs of all time.

[MarkToast]

Walk by Pantera is pure pissed off energy. It’s probably the easier riff on earth to play, but it just has that anger to it like nothing else

[joshthebavarian]

Cant forget the breakdown mid solo on Pantera’s “ Domination “

[saigoogias]

massive respect for including bodom bro! my all time fave band, saw them times here in scotland, great content as usual man, big love

[jbuell]

“Mouth for War” or basically anything by Dimebag. Also love the breakdown on “I’m broken” and the harmonic breakdown at the end of “Great Southern Trendkill”
All good stuff!!

[xodiaq]

Pantera, “Five Minutes Alone”. It isn’t just mean, it’s BRUTAL.

[michelejoyce]

I’m broken by Pantera should have been here. And there should have been some Black Sabbath.

[cynicald]

Looking forward to part 2 mate. Maybe riffs that you can help head banging along to when playing?

[tomflynn]

Dude, you have some of the coolest guitars I've ever seen. Your playing is awesome!

[Leo-fqsx]

Harvester Of Sorrow is honestly just evil, I just love it, specially when the distortion kicks in

[liamcondon]

The end of Domination by Pantera is the textbook definition of “mean mugging”

[KBIbanez]

That main riff to “Unchained” by Van Halen especially when the flanger kicks on has to be the meanest of all time

[markslima]

Okay you really delivered on the mean riffs! Most of which I've never heard before, good stuff!

[Luke_Marinara]

I love how at 1:07 he said aggression is not necessary and then at 8:08 he said it's all about the aggression.

[ethanlyles]

can’t believe a radiohead song made this list but there isn’t a single pantera one. i mean the whole Far Beyond Driven album exists

[youpeopl_music]

I was certain you would include Pantera's 'I'm Broken' but I think it's really cool that you included (my favorite band) Radiohead! Great list, TL!