Your favorite album opening song?

[fps]

Machine Head's Imperium meant a lot to me - they had really dropped the ball, and hearing that track put such a smile on my face, they were back.

 

[Hoss632]

Probably a dark horse. But Up Into The Either from I Built the Sky's album The Zenith Rise. A lot of that is because this just happens to be my favorite song on the planet and has been since release.
Others would be Down from 311's self titled album. Cowboys from hell. Enter Sandman. Your Betrayal.

 

[Lemonbaby]

Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Mr. Bungle - Sweet Charity

 

[Seabeast2000]

I'm an old guy but I'll throw in:

 

[Yul Brynner]

Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen

 

[nightsprinter]

My top 3 are "San Lorenzo" and "Have You Heard" by the Pat Metheny Group (if you want to work on your chromatic soloing listen to that solo starting at 1:52 in have you heard... holy smokes..) and "Lightning & Snow" by Woods Of Ypres. Weird combo, yeah.

 

[ThePIGI King]

Obscura - Septuagint - Omnivium
Revocation - Of Unworldly Origin - Outer Ones
Revocation - Arbiters of the Apocalypse - Great is our Sin
Revocation - The Grip Tightens - Teratogenesis
Within The Ruins - Gods Amongst Men - Phenomena
Necrophagist - Stabwound - Epitaph
Cyborg Octopus - Old Stories - Between The Light and Air
Black Dahlia Murder - Black Valor - Deflorate
Amon Amarth - Vahall Awaits Me - With Oden on Our Side
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods - Deceiver of the Gods
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God - Twilight of the Thunder God
Archspire - Lucid Collective Somnambulation - The Lucid Collective
Archspire - Involuntary Doppelganger - Relentless Mutation
Pronostic - Indefinite Continuity - Chaotic Upheaval
Psycroptic - We Were the Keepers - As the Kingdom Drowns

Now that I list it out, I really like the opening tracks on a regular basis.

 

[crushingpetal]

I dunno if it's my favorite, but the second I hit play on Kublai Khan's New Strength, it's like... daaaaaaaaamn.

 

[BlackMastodon]

Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen

This reminded me or much I love Reise Reise for Rammstein's album of the same name

 

[Sammy J]

 

[wheresthefbomb]

This album was a pretty weak followup to their S/T, but this song is still an absolute banger. Still has that Kevin Cadogan magic.

 

[p0ke]

Ah, it was posted already. Anyway, could've gone with Needled 24/7 too. It just goes a different kind of hard.

But I've also gotta admit that the first thing that came to mind was Battery.

 

[soldierkahn]

8 pages deep and I havent seen anyone mention my favorite opener:

 

[Kosthrash]

Beloved 80s thrash album/song!!! (From Overkill's "Horrorscope" )

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Another classic opening banger....

 

[LCW]

Fucking Battery, go!

 

[JD27]

So many good ones already mentioned.

Entombed - Left Hand Path
Helmet - In the Meantime
S.O.D - March of the S.O.D
Lamb of God - Ruin
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
Madball - Set it Off
Arsis - The Face of My Innocence

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Machine Head's Imperium meant a lot to me - they had really dropped the ball, and hearing that track put such a smile on my face, they were back.

Idk why that whole album doesn't get more love. I actually like it a lot more than even The Blackening and stuff after that since they still retained some of that classic MH groove feel without going too deep into thrash.

 

[Marked Man]

Metallica - Battery. I had never heard that song before (or many songs at all from the band other than Master and Harvester of Sorrow).

Put the vinyl on my brand new (and first) stereo and heard clean guitars.....hmmm, not what I expected. But then sat in awe as the album unfolded. I can't think of any album discovery experience I've had since that compares. Every Track = WIN!!! And good vinyl sounds so alive.

Others are Slayer Hell Awaits (the long intro is LEGENDARY) and South of Heaven. The lean, razor sharp crunch they had in the '80s is still my preferred rhythm tone and sets the standard.

 

[soldierkahn]

oh wow I totally forgot to mention Gravedigger