Heaviest Guitar Riffs Before the 1980s

The Top Ten
1 Dissident Aggressor - Judas Priest

Ancestor of Painkiller

2 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The brutal riff beginning around 3:18

3 Stargazer - Rainbow
4 Stone Cold Crazy - Queen

Called as the first thrash metal song

5 Black Night - Deep Purple
6 Symptom of the Universe - Black Sabbath
7 Mistreated - Deep Purple
8 Hard Lovin' Man - Deep Purple

Always reminds me to "Fast as a Shark" just 12 years earlier...

9 A Light In the Black - Rainbow
10 I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges

Sounds like a new wave song in 1969

The Contenders
11 That's Rock n' Roll - Accept
12 Into the Void - Black Sabbath
13 Kill the King - Rainbow
14 Burn - Deep Purple
15 Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
16 Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
17 Mystery Rider - Highway Robbery
18 Helter Skelter - The Beatles
19 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
20 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin

One of the heaviest of 60s

21 The Shed (Subtle) - Rainbow
22 Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones

I added it cause its pretty fast paced and heavy for a 70s rock.plus there was I wanna be your dog which is pretty close to this song

23 Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 1 - King Crimson
24 Sails of Charon - Scorpions
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