YEah so here are some more of those riffs I fucking enjoy.

Fast Woman - Barn Burner
Twisted Into Form - Forbidden
D.O.A. - Havok
Black River Flows - Lazarus A.D.
Conjuring The Cataclysm - Revocation
Escape Artist - Arsis
On The Shores Of Ithaka - Quo Vadis
Released From The Catacombs - Skeletonwitch
Spill The Blood - Slayer
Sadistic Magician - Municipal Waste
I Am Ahab - Mastodon
Serenity In Fire - Kataklysm
Heroes To Us - Kalmah
Strike Of The Beast - Exodus
Jake Leg - Baroness

Just to name a few...

Written by Guib on 29.07.2012 at 08:07


Released From The Catacombs - Skeletonwitch

I Am Ahab - Mastodon

Yes, and yes.
Also,

Sigh - A Sunset Song
Sigh - Iconoclasm in the 4th Desert
Moonsorrow - Kyöliönjärven Jäällä (Pakanavedet II)
Mastodon - Crusher Destroyer
Death - Zero Tolerance

This is going to be difficult, but here we go:

I, Caligvla - Ex Deo

Time - Wintersun

And Then There Was Silence (along with just about every other song in their discography really) - Blind Guardian

Wind of the Night Forest (favorite black metal song ever written) - Drudkh

I Am The Black Wizards, The Burning Shadows of Silence, Empty, The Tongue of Fire, In The Wordless Chamber, The Eruption, With Strength I Burn, Curse You All Men!, The Elegy of Icaros, Decrystallizing Reason - Emperor

Hand of the Host, Hall of the Dead, Ghost Key, In Fiction, Backlit, Wills Dissolve - Isis

Alexander the Great, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Sign of the Cross, Phantom of the Opera, Genghis Khan, Remember Tomorrow, Strange World, The Nomad, Journeyman, For the Greater Good of God, Moonchild, Dance of Death - Iron Maiden

The Great Escape - Seventh Wonder

I would also like to add. The whole ''Forests Of Legend'' by Vektor, this is simply marvelous.

The riff in Estranged with Guns n' Roses
The solo in Gates Of Babylon with Rainbow
The part that starts I think around 6.30 in At War With Satan with Venom

Dat riff...

http://youtu.be/dWOyaqxm8SE?t=3m47s

This is the answer that instantly comes to mind:

Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave
Amon Amarth - Guardians Of Asgaard or Runes To My Memory or Fate Of Norns
Pantera - Walk or Psycho Holiday or Cowboys From Hell or Cemetary Gates
more stuff....

This is just amazing:

Written by Guest on 25.07.2013 at 13:56

Pantera - Walk or Psycho Holiday or Cowboys From Hell or Cemetary Gates

Walk barely even has a melody...

So let's talk riffs and melodies again!

Candlemass - If I Ever Die
Annihilator - The Fun Palace
Barn Burner - Holy Smokes
Magrudergrind - Bridge Burner
Diamond Head - Am I Evil
Metal Church - Metal Church
Toxik - Spontaneous
Coroner - Skeleton On Your Shoulder
Death - Scavenger Of Human Sorrow
Decapitated - Spheres Of Madness
The Sword - Arrows In The Dark

And for mine. Melodies is way too hard (though on another forum I did best synth riffs), so I'll do riffs. I'm including some non-metal songs as they're riffs are just too good, and they fit well enough. I'll order them more or less from my favorite down. Gosh, there is too many awesome riffs, I'm forcing myself to stick to 25.

Crawl Through Knives - In Flames
Layla - Eric Clapton
Patterns - Tony Iommi
Lucid - Heylasfas
Broken - Pantera
Supernaut - Black Sabbath
Stricken - Disturbed
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
Ain't Talking About Love - Van Halen
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Pick Me Up - Dinosaur Jr.
Advantages - Tarby
Stand Up - Stony Blues
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Freezing Moon - Mayhem
Raining Blood - Slayer
Rocket Skates - Deftones
Scarlet - Periphery
In Flames - Cloud Connected
Holy Wars - Megadeth
Mudshovel - Staind
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Back in Black - AC/DC

Also, while I don't feel it fits with the other riffs, the outro riff to Flood's by Pantera is one of my favorite things ever.

I'll add a few keyboard melodies:
Edge of Thorns - Savatage
Amaranth - Nightwish
Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
The Smoke - Amorphis
The Reflection - Tarby
Suicide Notes - Dethonator
Stand Ablaze - In Flames

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal and For Victory
Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry and Hornets Of The Pogrom
Slayer - Hell Awaits, Reign In Blood and Show No Mercy
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power and The Great Southern Trendkill
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Grand Belial's Key - Judeobeast Assassination and Kosherat

Those albums have a looot of badass riffs.

Some of Jon Schaffer's work:

Iced Earth: Frankenstein, Red Baron/Blue Max, Burning Times,...

Demons And Wizards: Dorian

My kind of topic. These come to mind when I think of songs with great melodic riffs.

Amon Amarth - Runes to my memory
Amon Amarth - Embrace the endless ocean
Amon Amarth - Fate of the Norns
Amon Amarth - Vs the world
Bolt Thrower - The kill chain
Bolt Thrower - When cannons fade
Bolt Thrower - World Eater
Bolt Thrower - Celestial Sanctuary
Slayer - Angel of death
Slayer- Postmortem
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Slayer - Hallowed point
Black Sabbath - Children of the grave
Black Sabbath - Sweat Leaf
Black Sabbath - Fairies wear boots
Black Sabbath - Iron man
Running Wild - The Privateer
Running Wild - Treasure Island
Running Wild - Marooned
Running Wild - Riding the Storm
Immortal - Mighty Ravendark
Immortal - Withstand the fall of time
Immortal - Solar fall
Iron Maiden - Trooper
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
Inquisition - Rituals of human sacrifice for Lord Baal
Inquisition - Imperial Hymn for our master Satan
Melechesh - Ladders to Sumaria
Rotting Christ - Saturn unlock Aveys son
Rotting Christ - He the Aether
Mayhem - Freezing moon

I have a current top 11 riff melody list. In no particular order here it is:

- Saturnus - "Pretend" (opening riff)
- Death - "Scavenger Of Human Sorrow"
- Quo Vadis - "Shores Of Ithaka"
- Black Sabbath - "Iron Man"
- Black Sabbath - "Children Of The Grave"
- Running Wild - "Treasure Island"
- Mayhem - "Freezing Moon"
- Immortal - "Withstand The Fall Of Time"
- Bathory - "Enter The Eternal Fire"
- Rotting Christ - "He The Aethyr"
- Carcass - "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"