Favorite Album Openers

[Pagan Savior]

What are some of your favorite opening tracks, that instantly get you in the mood for the album as soon as they start?

Here's a random list of some I love:

Black Sabbath 'Sweet Leaf'
Black Sabbath 'Sabbath Bloddy Sabbath'
At The Gates 'Blinded by Fear'
Dismember 'Override to the Overture' (possibly my favorite album opener of all)
Terrorizer 'After World Obliteration'
Bolt Thrower 'In Battle There is No Law'
Emperor 'Into the Infinity of Thoughts'
Immortal 'Withstand the Fall of Time'
Dawn 'The Knell and the World'
Primordial 'Empire Falls'
Katatonia 'Brave'
Paradise Lost 'Gothic'
Exodus 'Bonded By Blood'
Slayer 'Hell Awaits'

 

[Satanstoenail]

Fight Fire With Fire
Battery
Blackened
South of Heaven
Angel of Death
Blood and Thunder
Where Eagles Dare

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Where Eagles Dare
Watchtower - Asylum
Loved to Deth
Artillery - Khomaniac

All-time metal faves.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

Agalloch - The Mantle.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Megadeth - Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due

 

[Pagan Savior]

Megadeth - Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due

That's actually the track I was listening to earlier at work that gave me the idea for this thread! Such a great fucking opening.

 

[UltimateApathy]

Even if their actual music is shit, this an awesome album opener:

 

[Satanstoenail]

That's actually the track I was listening to earlier at work that gave me the idea for this thread! Such a great fucking opening.

And yet you didn't list it...?

 

[Pagan Savior]

And yet you didn't list it...?

Yeah, I thought of the thread a few hours ago, and then when I made the thread, I took a quick skim through my albums in iTunes. I wasn't aiming to write a definitive list and still plan to add more later...

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Necropolis
Saint Vitus
Mother Man
Angel of Death
Omen - Death Rider
Scald - Night Sky
Adramelch - Fearful Visions
Blind Guardian - Banish from Sanctuary

 

[Metal_Cultist]

a few that come to mind... (ok, keep editing and adding more. lol)

Iron Savior - Condition Red - Titans of our Time
Sabaton - Primo Victoria - Primo Victoria
Bathory - Hammerheart - Shores In Flames
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter - Withstand the Fall of Time
Symphony X - Twlight in Olympus - Smoke and Mirrors
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Of Sins and Shadows
Emperor - IX Equilibrium - Curse You All Men!
Enslaved - Eld - 793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)
King Diamond - The Eye - Eye of the Witch
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath - A Dangerous Meeting
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors - Kinetic
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal - Hymn I: Of Wolf and Fear
Old Mans Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion - Towards Eternity
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God - Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth - The Avenger - Bleed for Ancient Gods
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence - Mother Man
Strapping Young Lad - City - Velvet Kevorkian
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech - Seventh Wave
Falkenbach - Heralding – The Fireblade - Heathen Foray

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Here are but a few that come to mind; I could go on but I'll leave at at this for now:

Amon Amarth - Death in Fire
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Windir - Byrjing
Primordial - The Golden Spiral
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sepultura - Morbid Visions
The Ruins of Beverast - I Raise This Stone As A Ghastly Memorial
Tyr - The Edge

 

[Slayed Necros]

Mortuary Drape - Mother / Crepuscolar Whisper
Aeternus - Black Dust
Jag Panzer - Licensed to Kill
Fates Warning - The Sorceress
Immolation - Nailed to Gold
The Chasm - Revenge Rises / Drowned in the Mournful Blood
Mercyful Fate - Evil
Scald - Night Sky
Cloven Hoof - Astral Rider

 

[Atomic Tide]

First one that came to mind... Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

 

[The Ozzman]

Amon Amarth - An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm
Amon Amarth - Death in Fire
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

I'll think of more I'm sure

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Lots of great ones listed already. These are, in my eyes, the best intros to black metal albums.

Graveland- Capatharian Wolves
"Intro"


Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
"Alsvartr (The Oath)"


Mutiilation- Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul
"Suffer the Gestalt"

 

[Satanstoenail]

Yeah, I thought of the thread a few hours ago, and then when I made the thread, I took a quick skim through my albums in iTunes. I wasn't aiming to write a definitive list and still plan to add more later...

Bit strange

 

[rms]

Artillery - Khomaniac

All-time metal faves.

But you have to take the 7:00 from Tashkent first.

 

[Pagan Savior]

Bit strange

I don't really see what's so strange, but ok!

I listen to albums pretty much all day at work. What I do right now is pretty mindless and I have many random thoughts throughout the day - which I really should get around to writing down some day because most slip away without me even remembering. So I remembered about the thread idea and didn't remember what inspired it... And this story is so dull it's boring even me!

Fact is there are a lot of opening tracks that I find rather special, and here are some more:

Ackercocke - Verdelet
Autopsy - Charred Remains
Carcass - Genital Grinder
Carcass - Reek of Putrifaction
Dead Congregation - Only Ashes Remain
Immolation - Into Everlasting Fire
Inquisition - Force of the Floating Tomb
King Crimson - 21st Century Scizoid Man

 

[Tonka Time]

Neo Inferno 262 - Black Pulse Negativity
Doctor Livingstone - Allegro Maestoso (Présentations à la Plèbe)
Carcass - Impropagation
Vegas Martyrs - The Male Poison
Leviathan - First track from Scar Sighted