Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

As rock and metal fans, we bow down at the altar of the almighty riff! These are our picks for the Greatest Riff Lords of all time! One simply can’t speak about riffs without mentioning Black ...

The band’s latest EP, Smoke & Mirrors (released March 2025 via Woe to You Music and distributed by Foundation Media), has ...

Epic riffs by Van Halen, Black Sabbath, and Ozzy Osbourne are sure to inspire the "devil horns," the universal symbol of heavy metal.

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The 1980s was riff heaven for metalheads. With the advent of thrash and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal further advancing to metal’s forefront, a golden age of music ruled the decade. Though ...

Tony Iommi is the undisputed champion of the heavy metal riff. He earned that title in the early ’70s, as his memorable guitar riffs — short, repeated chord progressions that help form the rhythmic ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

Curse, the band formerly known as Lightning Rules, have just released their new song "20th Century Dreams" and we're more than stoked to bring forth all these riffs for you! Vocalist Wess Willis ...

The main criticisms against nu-metal during its heyday were that a) it wasn’t metal enough, and b) it was too mainstream, and therefore watered down its punch. While both of these takes have merit (I ...