guitar riffs

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note… But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know like the backs of our hands. You don’t even have to be a guitarist to get the sentiment. As […]

What’s that old saying? “What goes around comes around?” All we’re saying is that plenty of new things grow out of old soil. We saw how the ’90s grunge scene killed the hair-farming aspects of ’80s metal. So it was inevitable that the next gen of rockers would marry sick riffs with expanded guitar shredding. […]

Megadeath frontman Dave Mustaine had no shortage of riffs to choose from for the upcoming album, boasting that he had an impressive 500 riffs written tucked away in his library. Read more: Cold Collective, Transit guitarist/vocalist Tim Landers dies In a recent interviw with uDiscover Music, Mustaine revealed how he takes his abundance of riffs and […]

Admit it, we've all been there–standing in front of a mirror shredding wicked awesome air guitar with reckless abandon to a song that's got  that one great riff that rips your face off and worms its way into your head forever. Those riffs are melded into the marrow of every music fan, possessing us to […]