Top 10 Extreme Metal Riffs of the 21st Century

The Top Ten
1 Eyrie - Ne Obliviscaris

The riff at 4:30-5:05 is amazing - heavy, memorable and interesting. It also appears later in the song again (a song of 2017).

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2 The Pursuit of Vikings - Amon Amarth
3 Silence Calls the Storm - Quo Vadis

A lesser known band and song but it's awesome.

4 Shadowfear - Vader

A very beautiful riff - just play the sample

5 Bleed - Meshuggah
6 La Vinteren Vare Evig - Den Saakaldte

I mean the riff that begins in the 2nd half of the sample

7 Akroasis - Obscura

I mean the melodic riff you hear in the last part of the sample

8 The World is Yours - Arch Enemy

You can hear 2 riffs on the sample

9 Synaptic Plasticity - Blotted Science

Brutal and sick stuff by Ron Jarzombek (aka the Godfather of technical metal).
Just play the sample.

10 Kafir! - Nile
The Contenders
11 Septuagint - Obscura
12 Ode to the Sun - Obscura
13 Hexed - Children of Bodom
14 Everytime I Die - Children of Bodom
15 Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth
16 Krater - Tsjuder
17 Dechristianize - Vital Remains

My second favorite metal riff

18 Carven Stone - Numenor
19 Freedom and Salvation - Crimson Shadows
20 Kill the Silence - Nervosa
21 One by One - Immortal
22 Flying Whales - Gojira
23 Eaten - Bloodbath
24 Scourge of Iron - Cannibal Corpse
25 Paradygmat - Infernal War
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