From downpicking endurance to 8-string chugging, metal guitar riffs are the heartbeat of heavy music. Players from legends like Meshuggah to Avenged Sevenfold have refined their tone, technique, and ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

The greatest classic rock and metal hits always seem to be accompanied by a slamming guitar solo that ranks among the ...

Here are the 10 most metal My Chemical Romance riffs! Guitarist Ray Toro grew up on heavy metal, vocalist Gerard Way has cited Iron Maiden as a key influence ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...