Top 10 Halloween Guitar Riffs to Get You in the Spooky Spirit

Guitar Bomb's Top 10 Halloween Guitar Riffs to Get You in the Spooky Spirit. Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to get into the spooky spirit than with some spine-chilling guitar riffs? Here are ten spine-chilling riffs that are sure to give you goosebumps.

Top 10 Spooky Guitar Riffs

With Halloween here, it's time to swap those summer strumming patterns for something a little more sinister. To help you trade the sunshine for the scary, Guitar Bomb has compiled the Top 10 Halloween Guitar Riffs guaranteed to get you in the spooky spirit. Prepare for some serious, spine-chilling riffs that are sure to give you goosebumps.

1 - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Bauhaus dropped a stone-cold Halloween classic with their atonal and dark ambient masterpiece Bela Lugosi's Dead. Indeed, this is the quintessential spooky guitar track at Halloween.

2 - Tear You Apart

A modern classic, She Wants Revenge, droppedTear You Apart, and the Goth kids went wild! This proves that the goth movement isn't dead and that the Dark Wave rules the modern world. A rumbling bassline and a hollow-bodied guitar' 50s-style riff underpins this epic, moody modern classic.

3 - Fade To Black

Metallica's Fade To Black is a song about loss, despair, and emptiness. Its moody, atmospheric intro sets the stage for a romping, riff-filled ride to oblivion. Nice.

4 - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Marilyn Manson's take on Sweet Dreams is the perfect cover for Halloween and takes the Eurythmics classic track and puts it down in a hole.

A dark, lonely hole, perfect for staring into the abyss.

5 - Freezing Moon

Mayhem's Freezing Moon from their De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album is a perfect way to summon Samhain into your home and celebrate the Celtic New Year.

6 - Black Sabbath

Yes, we had to include Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath as the intro is spooky with Church bells, rain, and an impending storm of impending doom. The riff is heavy, and it started a whole movement of down-tuned Doom and Stoner glory!

7 - Floods

The track Floods is the perfect spooky riff; Pantera nailed the atmosphere with that acoustic guitar line and dark, brooding track.

8 - South of Heaven

Slayer's South of Heaven had to be on this list. The ultimate in dark and moody with crushing riffs throughout the whole track!

9 - Memento Mori

Lamb of God's Memento Mori has a circular riff that sets up this dark, moody anthem. Perfect for summoning the darkness.

10 - Black No. 1

Type O Negative has many tracks that fit the Top 10 Halloween Guitar Riffs, but we went with Black No. 1 as it has all the hallmarks for an epic Halloween riff-filled tune!

Let's face it: Steele could have read his shopping list, and it would have summoned the devil.

To help get you into the spirit of Halloween, try our Goth Guitar Tones lesson to get the spooky tones.

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