Your favorite album opening song?

[Kosthrash]

How could i forget this epic opener?

 

[gunch]

 

[mastapimp]

Fear Factory: album openers on Demanufacture, Obsolete and Digimortal
Korn: It's On
The Amity Affliction: Chasing Ghosts, I Hate Hartley
Machine Head: Imperium
Dream Theater: Glass Prison
Meshuggah: Stengah, Humilitave, Future Breed Machine, Concatenation
Knocked Loose: Oblivion's Peak
Northlane: Dispossession, Soma
A Day to Remember: The Downfall of Us All, Sticks & Bricks
Sevendust: Home, Disease
The Dirty Nil: Fuckin Up Young
Paramore: Fir a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic, Careful
Parkway Drive: Samsara. The way it leads into Unrest and that song being a beatdown is spectacular
Karnviool: COTE, Simple Boy
Chimaira: Let Go

Oh man, I forgot about some of the Chimaira openers..."Nothing Remains" is my pick.

 

[SalsaWood]

 

[RCB]

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundries


Soul Whirling Somewhere - Opening the Ten End

The first three tracks on this record act like one bit opener in my book. Definitely one of my absolute favorites.

Swans - New Mind


Godflesh - Spite


Triptykon - Goetia

Ugh!

 

[OmegaSlayer]

Opening a record that is not instrumental with such a sweep is so cocky it hurts

 

[myhandhurts]

Fear Factory: album openers on Demanufacture, Obsolete and Digimortal
Korn: It's On
The Amity Affliction: Chasing Ghosts, I Hate Hartley
Machine Head: Imperium
Dream Theater: Glass Prison
Meshuggah: Stengah, Humilitave, Future Breed Machine, Concatenation
Knocked Loose: Oblivion's Peak
Northlane: Dispossession, Soma
A Day to Remember: The Downfall of Us All, Sticks & Bricks
Sevendust: Home, Disease
The Dirty Nil: Fuckin Up Young
Paramore: Fir a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic, Careful
Parkway Drive: Samsara. The way it leads into Unrest and that song being a beatdown is spectacular
Karnviool: COTE, Simple Boy
Chimaira: Let Go

I'm so glad Chimaira is getting some love nowadays
Their older 7 string stuff just works so well and sounds so good
I'd kill to see them live

 

[Crungy]

I'm so glad Chimaira is getting some love nowadays
Their older 7 string stuff just works so well and sounds so good
I'd kill to see them live

As far as I know they're reuniting for at least a handful of shows... I honestly like Pass Out of Existence the best, so basically all of their 7 string stuff lol

 

[thrsher]

judas priest - painkiller
korn - blind
fear factory - demanufacture
soilwork - stabbing the drama
tony danza tapdance extravaganza - vicki mayhem

 

[Alex79]

Angel of Death

 

[Alex79]

Slayer - Angel of Death
Dying Fetus - Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)
Dying Fetus - Your Treachery Will Die With You
Cannibal Corpse - Time to Kill is Now
Kreator - Enemy of God
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare

Kreator have quite a few awesome starts. Hordes of Chaos is also awesome.

 

[zappatton2]

Here's an obscure little number from an album called "Appetite For Destruction". Sorta flew under the radar, some indie band, I think they're called Snakes N' Barrels, strong recommend.

 

[Wiltonauer]

So many strong openers here. I’ll echo many that already have multiple mentions in a few that comes to mind:

“Rotten Apple” on Alice in Chains’ Jar of Flies
“Monkey Business” on Skid Row’s Slave to the Grind
“Angel of Death” on Slayer’s Reign in Blood
“War Ensemble” on Slayer’s Seasons in the Abyss
“Prowler” on Iron Maiden’s self-titled debut
“Women” on Def Leppard’s Hysteria
“Telegraph Road” on Dire Straits’ Love Over Gold
All four of the first ‘tallica records. No secret there.
“Bad Horsie” on Steve Vai’s Alien Love Secrets
“Beginning of the End/Face in the Sky” on Testament’s Souls of Black
“Black Star” on Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force
“So What” on Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue
“Flight Over Rio” on Al Di Meola’s Elegant Gypsy
“Yankee Rose” on David Lee Roth’s Eat “Em and Smile
“Crimson King” on Demons & Wizards’ Touched by the Crimson King
“Holy Wars” on Megadeth’s Rust in Peace
“Saturation Point” on Marty Friedman’s Dragon’s Kiss
“Mean Street” on Van Halen’s Fair Warning
“My Medicine” on The Pretty Reckless’s Light Me Up
“To Bring You My Love” on PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love
“Tiger” on Paula Cole’s This Fire
“Bark at the Moon” on some Ozzy solo record, the name of which eludes me at the moment

 

[TheBolivianSniper]

Killer opening to one of the best death metal albums ever made



Transition from this into ...For We Are Many is monstrous. This album is so so fucking underrated as is all of All That Remains' discography

 

[MedShred]

 

[myhandhurts]

As far as I know they're reuniting for at least a handful of shows... I honestly like Pass Out of Existence the best, so basically all of their 7 string stuff lol

Yeah I saw that they're gonna be playing at Inkcarceration in July
I love Pass Out, but I also love This Present Darkness. Songs like Silence, Empty, and the original version of Sphere, are all really good

 

[Shawn]

 

[Crungy]

Yeah I saw that they're gonna be playing at Inkcarceration in July
I love Pass Out, but I also love This Present Darkness. Songs like Silence, Empty, and the original version of Sphere, are all really good

I have to listen to other albums, I've really only heard bits and pieces of the other albums. I really like POoE lol

 

[ZLE]

Annihilator's Never Neverland album,The Fun Palace:
That's actually one of the few songs ever,that i actully took the time to listen carefuly to the Bass part aswell.

 

[myhandhurts]

I have to listen to other albums, I've really only heard bits and pieces of the other albums. I really like POoE lol

I get that lol, but their later albums like The Impossibility of Reason and self-titled are really good, since they had switched to drop C 6s and everything got a bit more... raw?
Rob and Matt are really good musicians though