Top Ten Songs with Underrated Metal Riffs

The Top Ten
1 Spotlight Kid - Rainbow

The song isn't 100% metal but the riff obviously is because it was ripped off by over 10 metal bands, including Dream Theater.

2 Masked Jackal - Coroner
3 Majesty - Blind Guardian

Two riffs, both are fast and cool.

4 All for One - Primal Fear

Awesome riffs.

5 Semtex Revolution - Coroner
6 Poison Was the Cure - Megadeth
7 La Vinteren Vare Evig - Den Saakaldte

A very beautiful melodic black metal riff (at the end of the sample).

8 The Rivalry - Running Wild
9 Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags - Amon Amarth

A band with great riffs - several riffs are well known but this one is underrated.

10 Lady of Winter - Crimson Glory
The Contenders
11 Sails of Charon - Scorpions
12 Stand Up and Shout - Dio
13 21 - Annihilator
14 Slave to the Grind - Skid Row
15 Hell Bent for Leather - Judas Priest
16 Anthem - Iced Earth
17 Gorgar - Helloween
18 Neon Knights - Black Sabbath
19 March of Mephisto - Kamelot

The riff reminds me a military marching.

The sample has the riffs.

20 This Means War - Nickelback

Alternative rock and metal at the same time (curious)

21 Children of the Night - Whitesnake

Well, I know Whitesnake is a hard rock band and this song is hard rock mostly, but the riff is definitely a metal riff.

22 Replica - Fear Factory
23 Into the Storm - Blind Guardian

A headbanging and pretty brutal riff for power metal standards (at about 1:00)

24 Crying in the Rain - Whitesnake

Not a metal song but the riff and the solo are metal.

25 Uncle Scam - Blue Felix
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