Favorite Opening Tracks.

[Edgecrusher]

The first track of an album can sometimes make or break the whole deal. In some cases it may even be the best song while the others tend to drag.

What are your guys' favorite Track #1's? The ones that really set the mood for the entire CD.

...and save your collective breaths with your Angel of Death's, One's, Holy War's, and the like we already know that those are classics.

Here are some of the greats and my personal faves.

Cannibal Corpse- "Hammer Smashed Face"
Carcass- "Inpropagation"
Children Of Bodom- "Deadnight Warrior"
Death- "Flattening Of Emotions"
Decapitated- "Perfect Dehumanisation (The Answer?)"
Dream Theater- "Pull Me Under"
Fear Factory- "Demanufacture"
Gorguts- "Obscura"
In Flames- "Jotun"
Lamb Of God- "Ruin"
Machine Head- "Davidian" and "Ten Ton Hammer"
Meshuggah- "Paralyzing Ignorance"
Nevermore- "Seven Tongues Of God"
Sepultura- "Beneath The Remains"
Shadows Fall- "Pain Glass Vision/ Crushing Belial"
Slayer- "Bitter Peace"
S.O.D.- "March Of The S.O.D."
Strapping Young Lad- "S.Y.L."
System Of A Down- "Suite-Pee" and "Prison Song"
Testament- "Practice What You Preach", "Low", "Demonic Refusal", "D.N.R."

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Arghoslent - Flogging The Cargo

whomag riffage

 

[Spirit In Black]

Slayer - Hell Awaits
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
Immolation - Higher Coward, Nailed to Gold
Entombed - Living Dead
Decaptitated - Winds of Creation
Morbid Angel - Rapture, Immortal Rights
Nile - The Blessed Dead
Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity, Pierced From Within, Beginning of Sorrow, Funeral Inception
Vader - Silent Empire
Immortal - One by One, Withstand the Fall of Time
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
Fear Factory - Martyr
Lamb of God - Black Label

 

[Esteban]

Rage - Orgy of Destruction / A War of Worlds

 

[Spirit In Black]

How could I forget Nocturnus - Lake of Fire????

 

[Slipknot are tr00]

Slipknot- Wait and Bleed

 

[Varulv]

I'll only a few 'cause I'm lazy...

Vital Remains - "Dechristianize"
Grand Belial's Key - "Foul Parody of the Lord's Supper"
Rossomahaar - "Into The Domain Beyond All Horizons"
Dub Buk - "Idu na Wy!"
Arkona - "Skrajna NienawiϾ Egoistycznej Egzystencji"
Sorcery(us) - "Into Corridors of Ancient Hatred"
Basiliskk(us) - "Eternal Desolation of the Weak"

 

[tapegasser]

Opeth-The Leper Affinity

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

\m/ GBK

 

[SculptedCold]

I'll only a few 'cause I'm lazy...

Vital Remains - "Dechristianize"

Probably one of the best openers ever.....exemplified in its case by the fact that ther rest of the album never manages to top it. (not nearly)

meh, I can think of song after song after song that is awesome and just happens to be the first track of an album, but for being a good 'opener', the first track for me really has to set-up the oncoming album, or distinguish itself by completely blowing the rest of the album away (Dechristianize) or something else like that. A song, basically, that works best at the start, and wouldn't really feel right or fit in if it was arranged somewhere else in the tracklisting.

With my own criteria in mind, I can't think of any openers offhand that I find amazing. I'll think of some later tho.

 

[Nihilistic]

Disgorge - Revelations XVIII
Psycroptic - The Colour of Sleep
Aborted - The Holocaust Incarnate
Saprogenic - Occular Desication
Retch - Vomitous Anal Douche Ingestion
Cinerary - Undying
Severe Torture - Butchery of the Soul

 

[SculptedCold]

Disgorge - Revelations XVIII
Psycroptic - The Colour of Sleep

I agree with those two. The Colour of Sleep isn't anything different from the rest of the album, but it still stands on its own and is the perfect opener.

Revelations XVIII for the sinister, kickass ending that makes you feel like the real brutality is still to come.

 

[ShadowOfDeath]

Metallica - Blackend(..and justice for all)
Metallica - Enter Sandman(Black Album)
Metallica - Fight fire with Fire(Ride the Lightning)
Metallica - Hit the lights (Kill 'em all)
Cannibal Corpse - Severed head stoning(Tomb of the mutilated)
Nile - The Blessed Dead (In their darkend shrine)
Hammerfall - The dragon lies bleeding (Glory to the brave)
Hammerfall - Riders on the storm(Crimson Thunder)
Testament - Eerie inhabitants(The new order)
Slayer - Angel of Death (Reign in blood)
The Kovenant(Covenant) - Towards the crown of nights(In times before the light)
Cattle Decapitation - Testicular Manslaughter(To Serve Man)
Arch Enemy - Silent Wars(Anthems of Rebellion...i know it's not the track #1 but it's the first actual song on the album)
Emperor - Into the infinity of thoughts(In the nightside eclipse...read arch enemy)

I'll try to think of more later.

 

[SculptedCold]

Cannibal Corpse - Severed head stoning(Tomb of the mutilated)

That's the opener of The Wretched Spawn. If you're thinking of Tomb of the Mutilated, then you'd mean Hammer Smashed Face.....which I'd imagine is much more likely. =)

Your post reminds me though;

Testament - D.N.R.

 

[speed]

Angel of Death and SOuth of Heaven- SLayer

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath- still maybe the best metal song ever

Into the Lungs of Hell- Megadeth

Hm pretty general stuff i got here-oh well first things that come to mind

 

[andrew_plamondon]

Gorguts - Inverted is really hard to beat in my opinion !

 

[Slayed Necros]

Krieg - Destruction Ritual
Grand Belial's Key - The Tenderhearted's Manifesto
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone - Kathaarian Lifecode
Abyssic Hate - Depression-Part I
Beherit - Salomon's Gate
Graveland - Blood of Christians on my sword
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
Unanimated - Life Demise
Necrophobic - Awakening
Nokturnal Mortum - The Funeral Wind Born in Oriana
Von - Devil Pig
Deathspell Omega - The Victory of Impurity

 

[Victim of Deception]

Slayer - Angel of Death
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Judas Priest - Victim of Changes
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Obituary - Infected
Carcass - Inpropagation
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Isis - The Beginning and the End
The Chasm - Deathcult Arrival
Testament - D.N.R.

Amongst others...

 

[Nihilistic]

Revelations XVIII for the sinister, kickass ending that makes you feel like the real brutality is still to come.

Yeah! It goes really well into She Lay Gutted as well. Gets a bit monotonous from then on, but still.

 

[Edgecrusher]

...and save your collective breaths with your Angel of Death's, One's, Holy War's, and the like we already know that those are classics...

Whoa! Caught myself in a senior moment there! I have no idea why I mentioned "One" as that is the 4th track into 'And Justice For all'