Best opening song in an opeth album?

[Opet]

When an album starts, the first songs, IMO, are all brilliant. April Ethereal isn't really the first in my book. You've just got to count Prologue. Didn't it give you goose bumps the first time you heard it? OK, how about the second time...knowing what’s to come. I think that was brilliant. AND ADVENT! The way it starts off...just busts open the floodgates. Killer! And well, I can tell by the votes that many of you appreciate The Moor. Unsettling almost...then the comfort of the first full notes. MMmm. Good stuff. The Leper Affinity is truly a song that I will be continuously appreciating for many years to come because I don't think I've fully grasped what it's all about. My view on it will change.

But for today, I admire "In The Mist She Was Standing" the best. Wow. Just fucking wow. I love the way it's just relentless...going on and on, change after change...up and down. It's fucking awesome! Their first song on their first album. The impression they hoped would keep the attention to hear the next...the one that would reach out to starving metalheads and grab them by a choke hold and scream...

"We are OOOOOOOOOPEEEEEEEEETH!!"

OK, maybe it wasn't like that. Actually, I'm sure. Yeah, sure, I've been told I get a bit nutty/overboard praising Opeth.

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

The correct little faces can get your point across much better, I love them! I can't believe I use to post without them

 

[Demonspell]

I just realized that in the Opeth survivor thread, I unintentionally put the openers of the first and last album against each other. A symbolic accident?

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Tempted to vote advent... but no. It goes to the moor. THE MOOR.

The intro still bugs me a little bit... just a little. It somewhat reminds me of something Meshuggah would do (hmmm??). But the rest of the song is awesome.

I chose the moor over advent as although advent is pretty cool, the moor is much stronger, and frankly a better song. Also, the moor leads into the album better, it IS a better intro song than advent, even if advent might actually be a little bit better of a song.

 

[S4R]

MOOR, MOOR, MOOR!!!!!!!

 

[Johan]

The best closing song is without a doubt Epilogue though

 

[Itay]

In Mist She was Standing!

Yeah!

 

[Mayh]

Leper Affinity, The Piano sound that kicks the song in is extreamly cool, and the first line "We enter winter once again"