00:00That riff still sounds so incredibly heavy and when it gets to the down,
00:07I just get goosebumps all over my arms no matter how many times I've listened to it.
00:14Hello this is Sammy from Employed to Serve and this is my five favourite metal riffs.
00:19So my first favourite metal riff I feel it comes from one of the most underrated
00:24metal bands of all time and that is Crowbar, I Feel the Burning Sun.
00:32It is just heavy as hell, all of their riffs are heavy as hell, I feel like you could kind
00:37of pick any
00:38Crowbar song and I would say yeah that's probably one of the best you know metal riffs of all time
00:43and I feel like the band is finally getting the credit they're due now and a lot more people are
00:46cottoning on to Crowbar so big up Crowbar forever. The most Crowbar moment we've ever had was not on
00:53our most recent album but our last one Conquering, there's a track called Set in Stone where there's a
00:58middle riff, middle eight riff which was originally written at like like twice as slow because it
01:05was just me trying to be Crowbar and then basically I just sped it up and then wrote the rest
01:09of the
01:09song around it just because I like the riff so much. Number two and me and my fellow Axe Slinger
01:15David will bond on this is God of Emptiness by Morbid Angel.
01:22I mean the first time I heard that riff and the video if anyone's familiar with the video it's just
01:27the most satanic looking thing which is very apt to say whilst we're sitting here in the Lucifer
01:32Lounge and yeah and I would say Morbid Angel was definitely bled into Employed to Serve I mean
01:37particularly with David coming on board as well I mean him just like nerding out over you know Trey from
01:42Morbid Angel and his good kind of guitar playing he also wears leather pants as well so I guess he's
01:47kind of influenced that aspect of my uh my metal career. I also feel he had like such a kind
01:54of
01:54influence on the more esoteric side of things like me and David always talk about his well his lead
01:59playing because it's not necessarily um melodic as such it's kind of more of like an atmosphere and
02:06kind of like we call them chaos solos because there's not really like a melody or a lead line
02:11going on it's just kind of like it sounds like hell essentially like his his guitar leads and he's
02:16got this kind of wiggle and pull in his rhythm playing which once again me and David are like
02:21super keen on it just it sounds like metal warping in the fires of hell which is yeah six what
02:28it's all
02:29about the third one ah spheres of madness by decapitated love decapitated and vog such a an
02:39inspiration on me as a guitar player but first time I heard that kind of mechanical
02:46I was just like holy I'd never heard anything like that before so I think that kind of introduced
02:52me to the more the more techie side of death metal and we were talking about Trey being such an
02:56in you know influence sorry um like a yeah huge kind of moment for death metal by tightening it up
03:02but I think vog took that like a step further I mean those first few decapitated records particularly
03:07when they came out were groundbreaking weren't they you know they just it was like a machine was playing
03:12those songs I can't remember what made me buy the cd but I remember buying um organic hallucinosis around
03:19about the time it came out so I guess I would have been 14 or so but I also bought
03:23a copy of uh in
03:25Wolverine Blues by Entombed which should probably be in my five favorite metal riffs of all time but
03:30I actually hadn't thought of that but I bought those two CDs at the same time and I just absolutely
03:35rinsed them to death like those those two records were just huge for me and organic hallucinosis to
03:41this day actually even though spheres of madness isn't on that record that's probably my favorite
03:45decapitated album because it's like the perfect blend of where they came from with all the death
03:50metal and stuff but then kind of merged with Meshuggah and Fear Factory and Coven's vocals
03:55as well on that record I think are truly unique and yeah something special the fourth one that's
04:00a good question what was the fourth one ah Liege of Inveracity by Suffocation
04:08when it gets to the oh man just like too heavy I mean
04:15yeah picking a lot of death metal today but once again that's been a huge influence on me not
04:20necessarily all have employed to serves music but at least my growth as a musician and um yeah Effigy
04:27of the Forgotten that record by Suffocation I mean it's just yeah it's timeless and it influenced so
04:33much you know you hear all these like like deathcore bands that came after there's like a huge kind of
04:38slamming death metal scene that's like coming about again nowadays and they're kind of the first stop on
04:44that journey is that riff from Liege of Inveracity essentially it's like if not the first at least
04:49one of the first like slamming death metal riffs and um yeah kind of like crowbar it's nice to see
04:56bands like Suffocation who for years and years you know were down the road from the underworld for me
05:01that's like that's as big as those bands would get really you know they were just always you know
05:06which is you know it's not a bad place to be but to see them coming back around and playing
05:09places like
05:10the academy and um Brixton electric and kind of more younger people as well because that's the
05:16other thing when I was going to death metal shows when I was younger it's like it was me and
05:20maybe
05:20a sprinkling of other younger people then there's just a bunch of like 40 year old dudes just stood
05:24at the back so it's nice to see these bands like crowbar and suffocation kind of getting the the
05:29recognition they deserve within the the heavy metal history you know last one right it was having to
05:35pick because I was thinking right I'm gonna obviously oh no so I was gonna pick a do track
05:40but then I thought I have to kind of give it up to just the og black sabbath and into
05:45the void
05:45by black sabbath is undoubtedly one of the best best riffs of all time
05:55does it matter that like production standards today comparative to what it sounded sounded like back
06:00in the 70s that riff still sounds so incredibly heavy and when it gets to the down the down the
06:06down
06:08I just get goosebumps all over my arms no matter how many times I've listened to it
06:12and yeah I mean black sabbath just one of the best metal bands of all time the godfathers right
06:19the originators I guess everyone at least knows the name black sabbath pretty early doors when you
06:24get into like heavy music because you know people will be the be they'd be tales from people older than
06:29you and of course people will be wearing the t-shirts because it's so iconic sort of like guns
06:33and risers and the rolling stones you kind of it's pop culture almost isn't it so you you can't escape
06:39it but I think when I really like first started listening I got a copy of um of the self
06:45-titled
06:46record with the first album when I was about 14 or something I mean to tie this all together you
06:51know
06:52for hammer it was it was around sort of like the I don't know 2005 2006 era where you had
06:58a lot of these
06:59new wave of american metal bands who wore their influences on their sleeve and a lot of those
07:04bands would always be citing black sabbath and stuff like that and as an impressionable young
07:09person you're kind of like you know you're listening to chimera or lamb of god or whatever you're like
07:14you want to know what influenced them you want to know what they you know where they got all the
07:17inspiration for their riffs from and yeah so that was sort of around the time I really started to
07:22listen and I got that first record and like the wizard from from that album is still one of my
07:27yeah favorite jams of all time
07:30you
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