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Bonus points for a song that has a good part for that instrument.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Just love a heavy well produced guitar riff. Might be a boring answer but that’s the one for me.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm also fan of a particular type of guitar riff that I can only describe as "crunchy" with my limited music vocabulary.

The best example I can give is Spirit in the Sky. The lyrics are cheesy, but damn the guitars are fine in that track.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

To this day, nobody knows how they got that unique guitar distortion sound in that song. It's been long-forgotten, even by those that were at the session.

[–] fan0m@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

You might be thinking about a sound with a lot of distortion

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 19 hours ago

Spirit in the Sky specifically is a fuzz running on a near-dead battery, so it's a bit of an odd one. I think the broad approach to the sound is fairly popular though. Stone Foxes come to mind as an example

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 20 hours ago

I feel like Moist does amazing crunchy but melodic riffs personally

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes stuff is just popular for a good reason. I love loads of different styles of guitar, but I think my favourite heavy riff is probably the chorus one starting at 2:02 in Saor's Children of the Mist

Or maybe Flying Whales because, I mean, it's Flying Whales

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 22 hours ago

The intro to Power by KMFDM and the intro to Sold by Imperanon are two of my favourite riffs, but I love all kinds of heavy/death metal and industrial and hardcore punk rock and classic rock. Just gets my testosterone going. Makes ma ballz buzz.