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.

riff salad by 15101844 November 4, 2017

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...

riff salad by 7568ino January 8, 2024