Hey guys, brand new to the forums. Hope to have some great discussions with you all!
I wanted to get a thread going, and hear your picks, regarding opening songs on albums that alone are worth the $15 or whatever you paid for it. Even if the whole album was just that one song, it's worth the money paid.
I have two that immediately come to mind.
Portrait - "Beast of Fire" off their debut album, Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae. My god, in that eight-minute opener every single aspect of what made 80's metal so great is encompassed in that one song. The opening guitar licks, the falsetto vocals, the driving rhythm, the twin guitar attack solo, the big fina falsetto scream that leads into the driving outro of the track that ends in, almost literally, an explosion. Not to mention the production, which sounds like it really did come out of 1986. I can't gush enough about this one.
Biomechanical - "Enemy Within" off their album, The Empires of the Worlds. Sounding like a mix of Judas Priest's vocal stylings (not exactly, but the closest comparison I can make) and the heaviness and urgency of Strapping Young Lad. After a good 30-second buildup, the music explodes into more buildup of some heavy double bass drumming and keys, dropping away to make way for some sweet guitar riffs, all before flat-out dropping you into immediate head-banging territory. The solo is fantastic, the song is heavy as hell but not forgetting the fun factor with the oftentimes but not overdone falsetto vocals. I love how it ends too, even though it's the first song on the album, the song ends with a drawn-out mash of instruments, acting like it's the closer to an epic album. But it's not - it's just got things kicked off.
Let's hear your song choices!!
I wanted to get a thread going, and hear your picks, regarding opening songs on albums that alone are worth the $15 or whatever you paid for it. Even if the whole album was just that one song, it's worth the money paid.
I have two that immediately come to mind.
Portrait - "Beast of Fire" off their debut album, Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae. My god, in that eight-minute opener every single aspect of what made 80's metal so great is encompassed in that one song. The opening guitar licks, the falsetto vocals, the driving rhythm, the twin guitar attack solo, the big fina falsetto scream that leads into the driving outro of the track that ends in, almost literally, an explosion. Not to mention the production, which sounds like it really did come out of 1986. I can't gush enough about this one.
Biomechanical - "Enemy Within" off their album, The Empires of the Worlds. Sounding like a mix of Judas Priest's vocal stylings (not exactly, but the closest comparison I can make) and the heaviness and urgency of Strapping Young Lad. After a good 30-second buildup, the music explodes into more buildup of some heavy double bass drumming and keys, dropping away to make way for some sweet guitar riffs, all before flat-out dropping you into immediate head-banging territory. The solo is fantastic, the song is heavy as hell but not forgetting the fun factor with the oftentimes but not overdone falsetto vocals. I love how it ends too, even though it's the first song on the album, the song ends with a drawn-out mash of instruments, acting like it's the closer to an epic album. But it's not - it's just got things kicked off.
Let's hear your song choices!!
