riff salad

Complex rock or metal music with no sense of style, direction or emotional expressivity.

The entire 'genre' of technical death metal (except early Decapitated) is autistic riff salad.

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riff salad

As the name implies, it is music that has no sense of where it's going with creative and/or expression, often times being filled with just riffs.

Technical death metal is given a bad image due to how the majority of the bands often make riff salads. I mean, tech-death does rely on complexity...