Metallica's James Hetfield Talks 'Riff Lord' Tony Iommi

(SiriusXM's Maximum Metallica) In the latest episode of James Hetfield's Riff Life show on SiriusXM's Maximum Metallica, James praised Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath for being the ultimate "Riff Lord"

James Hetfield's Riff Life features Metallica frontman James Hetfield sharing riffs, bands and artists that have inspired and entertained him through his career on SiriusXM's Maximum Metallica. New episode is available on the SiriusXM app.

James Hetfield: Tony Iommi is the Riff Lord in in my mind and he is the one that has inspired me the most out of any guitar player for my rhythm guitar playing and songwriting. Yeah, "The Children of the Grave" riff.

Obviously, Tony is the Riff Lord and everyone starts the song together on the one riff.... You know, basically Tony plays off that riff, goes in to hit the big giant chords, which opens the song up. I really love the drum overdub that they did to help with that percussion of the riff and the real cool ghostly guitar sounds at the very, very end.

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