Easy enough. Tell us what you feel is the best riff or riffs the genre has to offer.

Emperor-Ye Entrancempirium(every riff from this song is amazing)
Behemoth-Forgotten Empire of Dark witchcraft
Marduk-With Satan and Victorious weapons
Darkthrone-Skauld au Satans Sol

these are a few, check 'em out if you havent already\m/

All riffs off Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant.

Immortal - the chorus of Sons Of Northern Darkness
Mayhem - A Grand Declaration Of War
Satyricon - Mother North (main riff), Transcendental Requiem Of Souls (all riffs)

thorns - aerie descent
emperor - thus spake the nightspirit
immortal - In my Kingdom Cold
darkthrone - cromlech

gorgoroth - crushing the scepter
emperor - everything
dimmu borgir - everything
hecate enthroned ________

RustedAngel said:

True that.

especially that second riff from "the loss and curse of reverence". also, everything from the band impiety from singapore. they're as metal as it fucking gets.

dimmu's new album sucks ass.
but i agree with everything by emperor and pretty much anything by burzum, though poorly recorded.

I rather enjoyed death cult.

I thought I was listening to the star wars soundtrack.

I thought I was listening to Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armeggedon.

def ye entranceempirium by emperor

Anaal Nathraakh - The Techno Goat
Mayhem - Funeral Fog
Marduk - Bleached Bones
Emperor - The source of Icon E

It depends on what style of black metal your refering to. If your talking about old school cheap production style , every riff sounds easy and basically the same(I still enjoy it though). I persoanlly think some of the best riffs are found on Anthems to Welkin, Nemisis Divina, and the last 3 Immortal albums ( Off the top of my head.)

despit the fact that they're not a black metal band, I go with

Arch Enemy - Behind the Smile

Immortal- The Darkness That Embrace Me, Damned in Black, Antartica, Pure Holocaust
Darkthrone- Cromlech
Marduk- Bleached Bones
Dark Funeral- Hail Murder
Mayhem - DEATHCRUSH
Satyricon- Mother North
Gorgoroth- Procreating Satan
Emperor- Thorns on my Grave


and new Dimmu blows, mainly because Shagrath has to stop signing

id say cromlech and evrything on soulside is death metal, or at least the riffs. Still good\m/

last one was me

Marduk-Bleached bones
every Dissection song
Immortal-In my kingdom cold
Dark funeral-The arrival of satans' empire

Dark Funeral-Armageddon finally comes
Emperor-wrath of the tyrant, night of the graveless souls, open riff of into the infinity of thoughts, sworn
mayhem-to daimonion
dimmu borgir-stien, stormblast, mourning palace
windir-everything ive heard
dissection-where dead angels lie

Emperor - Inno A Satana intro
Dodheimsgard - Traces of Reality main riff
Marduk - Dreams of Blood and Iron intro
Emperor - Loss & Curse... bridge intro, best simple riff ever (2 string same note 1/4 step bend)

Abbath said:

Shagrath never sings, that is Simen doing the singing, and his voice is awesome. I like new Dimmu.

whos Simen!?

Oh, sorry. ICS Vortex. His real name is Simen Hestaes.

OH NO!!!! you got me wrong now!!! hahaahhahahahaha i meant shagrath should stop throating (singing) ahahah sorry! i love Vortex's singing, i'm just sick of shagrath! sorry for the confussion!

hahahaha, no, i knew what you meant the whole time, I just like doing things like that cause I have no life...

Anyway, I am intrigued! What don't you like about Shagrath's growls? Do you like his old ones?

i'm a huge HUGE fan of dimmu's older stuff all the way up to SBD, but after that i feel like Shagrath went more computer in the last two albums, it feels to me that he almost doesn't even make a huge effort in them, and for me, i'm a vocalist and i think if a vocalist uses a shit load of effects then it kind of takes away from the raw emotion of growls and screams
i have more but i can't think of some other examples right now....

the only black metal song i like is amon amarth
last with the pagan blood.
its all cuz of hoser

Soulside Journey is Dark Thrones best album.

"I don't have a fuckin favorite album I have a a fuckin favorite riff!" - Wise words from Fenriz.

funeral fog- mayhem
anything off of dark mideval times- satyricon
anything judas iscariot ever did
det som engang var- burzum
nights blood- dissection
anything darkthrone

Abbath said:

True, but that is still him growling, he just puts effects on some songs to make it sound funky. But don't you like Abbath's participation on Death Cult?

haahahahha that's the only reason why i love that album!!!!! hahahahaaha oh abbath such a god

LEGION - Conqueror / Leviathan. if you haven't checked'm out yet, do it. they're amazing. i can honestly say "how the fucked they do that" with every instrument on this album.

NONE

anything off of Black Metal - Venom.

Abbath said:

Yes yes, I do indeed appreciate his participation on that album. What songs does he lend his voice to? Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse and Blood Hunger Doctrine I know, but aren't there one or two others?

nah he only does vocals for those two songs, which is a shame
i can't wait for his solo album, it's going to blow everyone away

whoaaa! He's doing a solo album? Nice, I've been longing for more Immortal material.