Artist	Song
Venom	Black Xmas
from Venom's Metal Punk (2006)
Yngwie Malmsteen	Blitzkrieg (Live)
from G3 Live - Rockin' In the Free World (2003)
Paul Gilbert	B.R.O
from Guitar Attitudes "Heroes" (2002)
Grim Reaper	See You In Hell
from Best of Grim Reaper (1999)
Marduk	Still Fucking Dead
from Dark Endless (2007)
Shawn Lane	The Way It Has to Be
from The Tri-Tone Fascination (2006)
Joe Stump	Speed Metal Messiah
from Speed Metal Messiah (2005)
Enslaved	Heimdallr
from Enslaved (2009)
Michael Angelo Batio	No Boundaries
from No Boundaries (2004)
Bathory	Holocaust
from Blood Fire Death (1988)
Rusty Cooley	War of the Angels
from The Alchemists (2004)
Tony MacAlpine	Autumn Lords
from Maximum Security (1994)
Mayhem	A Grand Declaration of War
from Grand Declaration of War (2005)
Diamond Head	Am I Evil
from Am I Evil (2009)
Marty Friedman	Lovesorrow
from Music for Speeding (2003)

Comment:

While they were a lo-fi thrash band at heart, Venom gave black metal its name and a few sonic starting points with the ravenous riffs and Satanic stance of their sophomore album. Bathory also set the bar for black metal's rapid-fire riffage through its own brand of vicious "viking metal," but the genre's inherent grimmer-faster-stronger competitiveness made sure that more sinister and sinewy riffs unfolded in the decades since, from Emperor's archetypal debut — a thorny, tangled display of speed and agility — to Marduk's frenzied, foaming-at-the-mouth approach to guitar anti-heroism.

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