Best Album Introduction

[Shogunautz]

What's the best album intro you ever heard from any band? (Preferrably metal, but not confined to just this genre!)
It doesn't matter if it's an intro track, or if it's the first song that starts with an intro, or if you think the first song itself is a perfect intro to the rest of the CD!

 

[Domson as TIOBS]

I absolutely love Opeth's Prologue of the "My Arms, Your Hearse" album as well as the intro of the "Still Life" openingtrack "The Moor", so wonderful...

Someone know the Austrian band Dornenreich? Their Album "Her von welken Nächten" has a cool intro too ^^

 

[Anesthesia]

Darkane - Insanity has a pretty wicked intro, the first three songs introduce the album beautifully. Also, Black Sabbath - Vol. 4, the first track perfectly sets the tone for dark atmosphere of the rest of the album.

 

[TheFourthHorseman]

Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows...there's just something about it.

 

[AngelinaBlakkheim]

I love Seven Dreaming Souls, from Dance Of December Souls. Those voices and the spectrum sound.. I really like it.

 

[Ergol The Ineffable]

Yeah, me too. It really gets you, deep

 

[Twilight_Eternal]

I love the intro to Slayer's "reigning blood". Just the thunder and rain then the kicking in of a wicked guitar riff was fuckin awesome!

 

[Demonspell]

Among Katatonia albums, I think Brave and For My Demons have the best intros...

 

[RuinerXL]

The intro on the new Vital Remains CD is fucking wicked...O Fortuna never sounded so brutal.

 

[The Scourge]

Hmmmm, at the risk of beriddlement, I would actually have to assert my praise for Emperor's "The Eruption" off of Ihsahn's blindingly overambitious effort, Prometheus, The Discipline of Fire and Demise . It really showcases Ihsahn's loose but adequate knowledge of counterpoint, and how to develop and conclude a fugue and a canon. Although not perfect, I rather enjoy it, especially the seamless segue into the drums, bass, and guitars.

 

[OracleDeist]

Garden of Shadows-Oracle Moon is one of the best intro's I have ever heard but thats just me.

 

[yv]

SAVATAGE the wake of magellan

Garden of Shadows is great though.

 

[Allan]

"Sentient" for "Eternity" (Anathema). I still can't quite comprehend the beauty of it.

 

[my dying groom]

Nice choice, Allan.
I'd go for MDB's "Sear me MCMXCIII". I think it was quite brave of them to make that song the album's opener, but it works perfectly.
"War" from Bolt Thrower's '...for Victory' deserves an honourable mention 'cause it's a great buildup for 'Remembrance'. Every time this one kicks off I bang my head like no tomorrow, so they must have done something right !

 

[Neurotomania]

I'd have to agree with whoever said the moor.

followed by dark tranquillity's 'final resistance' from damage done.

 

[Wolf Moon]

Thousand Lakes from Amorphis' Tales From the Thousand Lakes.

I had never listened to any metal harder than Metallica before my friend put that album in his stereo. Halfway through the track I knew I had to get that cd, when Thousand Lakes collided w/ the next track (Into Hiding) there was no going back for me. That track was the gateway to all the doom/black/death metal I listen to today.

 

[valafar]

on thorns i lay - future narcotic...

the intro sounds really atmospheric and mystic...

 

[VaginaPanzerfaust]

mh.. there is a little verse on Edge Of Sanity´s Purgatory Afterglow.. the first song.. its buaaahhh

And unity from Devin Townsend´s Official Bootleg ^_^

 

[dead end]

Katatonia - for my demons

 

[Hypnos]

It's definitely ANCIENT RITES with 'The Return' on Dim Carcosa