Europe, "The Final Countdown" The iconic keyboard riff to "The Final Countdown" is cheesy pop-metal perfection, but John Norum's fiery guitar solo ... his solo is heavy, menacing and flashy ...

He pioneered heavy metal guitar with his dark, heavy riffs and detuned sound. Iconic for the fact that he lost the tips of his fingers, and often played with miniature thimbles — using a coin in ...

But there is a balm for your chapped mind and raw heart: bounce riffs. A product of groove metal that was later perfected by nu-metal and carefully adapted by death metal, these guitar parts put a ...

Mat of Artificial Fear performed an impressive heavy metal cover of the stark piano intro theme for Severance, using the ...

During her chat with Guitar World ... up and getting into heavy music, I was always really drawn by these sort of inversions and chords that Swedish melodic death metal bands used, and this ...