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AFI – Girl's Not Grey
Weezer – Hash Pipe
The Black Keys – Grown So Ugly
Kasabian – Underdog
Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff
System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.
Billy Talent – Devil In A Midnight Mass
Biffy Clyro – Bubbles
Elbow – Grounds For Divorce
Alter Bridge – Ties That Bind
Alice In Chains – Check My Brain
Rage Against The Machine – Renegades Of Funk
Stone Sour – 30/30-150
Green Day – American Idiot
Razorlight – In The Morning
Metallica – The Day That Never Comes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With The Night
Megadeth – Head Crusher
Tool – Schism
Pantera – Revolution Is My Name
The Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Bloc Party – Hunting For Witches
Audioslave – Cochise
Bullet For My Valentine – Waking The Demon
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Milk Lizard
AC/DC – Black Ice
Clutch – 50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Slash – By The Sword
Metallica – That Was Just Your Life
Opeth – The Grand Conjuration
Mastodon – Iron Tusk
Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Them Crooked Vultures – Mind Eraser, No Chaser
The White Stripes – Hardest Button To Button
Deftones – Rocket Skates
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Can't Stop
Cancer Bats – Lucifer's Rocking Chair
Joe Bonamassa – The Ballad Of John Henry
Lamb Of God – Redneck
Avenged Sevenfold – Beast And The Harlot
The Killers – Mr Brightside
Machine Head – Halo
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
Muse – Knights Of Cydonia
Dream Theater – The Dark Eternal Night
Avenged Sevenfold – Afterlife
Velvet Revolver – Slither
Muse – Plug In Baby
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Want to know more about the 'Grounds For Divorce' riff? So did we. Read our Elbow interview
Total Guitar issue 207 is a Monster Riffs special. In an effort to put the final nail in the coffin of ‘Smoke On The Water’ and find a new set of classic riffs which we could spend our days eulogizing, TG asked you to vote for The Greatest Riffs Of The Decade. Anything post-1999 was valid, as long as it featured an identifiable guitar riff. Here’s what you came up with...
Check out Total Guitar issue 207 (on sale 1 October - 29 October) for a more detailed look at the riffs featured on the list, including learn-to-plays, artist interviews and technical analysis. Not to mention a cover feature on 'The Human Riff' Keith Richards and a riff-writing masterclass with Tom Morello, Wes Borland, Razorlight and Cancer Bats.
