Best Intro's Ever

Buck Owens

you know like.....the start.... of like.....songs and stuff.

Melvins- Revolve, Hooch
tool- stinkfist, the grudge,Lateralis, Traid,Sober
Iron maiden- no More Lies, run to the hills,Dance of death
Black sabbath- Black sabbath, war pigs, Children of the grave
system of a down-know
Mars volta- son et lumiere/inertiatic esp
AC/DC- Hells Bells
AudioSlave- Cochise
A perfect curcle- judith/ the Noose
janes addition- Just because
Kyuss-Thumb
Alice in chains-Would, Rooster
Queens of the stone age-you think I ain't worth a dollar....,A song for the deaf, A song for the dead, in the fade.


Now your turn!:D

Dathai

Children of Bodom-Black widow,lake bodom..so many others
Grave digger- twilight of the gods
Janes addiction-true nature
I'll post tons more later just havent got time..........

Creamy Goodness

weezer - only in dreams

Brian Houlihan

Paradise Lost - Say just words

j0e9o

beavis and butthead - ??

Fuhrio

Tool - Ticks and Leeches, lateralus (simple but effective)
A Perfect Circle - The Noose
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, Fade to Black

Civilian_Target

Mars volta- son et lumiere/inertiatic esp is definitely one of th best.

Therapy - Knives/Screamager from Troublegum is definitely up there too and of course, how can we forget the legendary Come Together/Something combo of Abbey Road.

Also, Battery from Master of Puppets.

I presume we're only talking about album intros here, not actual track intros.

NightStrike

AC/DC - Thunderstruck, Back in Black

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast - "Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six" (revelations ch. XII v.12, ch XIII V.18)

Explosive_Cornflake

Cryptopsy - Serial Messiah : Haven't met a person yet that hasn't found it funny.
This thread will continue i believe...

nosmo

Opeth - The Moor
Opeth - Under the Weeping Moon
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Type O Negative - White Slavery
Lard - Mate Spawn and Die
Dead Kennedys - Riot
Tool - Flood

Explosive_Cornflake

I assume this counts.
Opening track on The Haunted Made Me Do It including the drum roll over to track 2, thhats one of my favorite bits of music of all time.

cournioni

Morbid Angel - Dominate
Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill, Cowboys From Hell
Metallica - Master of Puppets, For Whom The Bell Tolls
AC/DC - Thunderstruck, Highway to Hell
Slayer - Raining Blood, Silent Scream
Steve Vai - For The Love Of God
Sonata Arctica - Picturing the Past, Wolf And Raven

The BEST...
In Flames - Gyroscope.

Dun

Presuming that it's actually the intro to the songs..

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Pearl Jam - Given To Fly, Corduroy, Immortality
Silverchair - Israel's Son
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Metallica - Motorbreath, Seek & Destroy
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

Kurdt

my favourite intro to any song ever would have to be

eyes of the south by down! if ya havent got it, go get it!

Explosive_Cornflake

A lot of impaled songs.
Back to the grave ; "do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with"

Gorenography; "Ametuer photographer, always cutting off the head"

Krisiun - Evil Mastermind. just cuz its a drum solo.

Kataklysm - Beconing Of The Xul ; wtf were they thinking.
They're playing tomorrow night BTW, supporting corpse.

I'll come up more later.

Cianan2

Originally posted by Explsv_Cornflk
A lot of impaled songs.
Back to the grave ; "do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with"

I thought that was Rob (or White) Zombie??!!

Explosive_Cornflake

actually i read about that, its on the impaled web site, they both use it, but impaled claim they never knew it was White Zombie song.

Cina

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

Pugsley

Top 3 anyway:
In Flames- Biosphere + Gyroscope
Dark Tranquility - Punish my Heaven

Other worthy mentions:
Sonata Arctica - Wolf and Raven + peacemaker
Children of Bodom - Warheart
Yngwie Malnsteen - Beethovens 5th Symhpony
Opeth - Bleak + to bid you farewell (well, the first 6 minutes are so intro )
Nightwish - Crownless
Elvenking - Pagan Purity (first 3 seconds are so are brilliant )

Zoton

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (its so obvious ya wouldnt really think of it)
Blur - Song 2
Tool - Lateralus/Aenima
Guns N'Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For a Hero
Jimmy Eat World - Blood Sweat Sugar
Sepultura - Roots
Korn - Blind/Faget

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Strapping Young Lad - Centipede and Japan (and Detox too, deffo!!!)
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
NIN - Closer, Wish, Mr. Self Destruct and Into the Void
Pantera - Walk (from the Live album) and the guitar bit after about a minute into Suicide Note Pt. 1.
Rollins Band - Rejection
In Flames - Only for the weak
Therapy - Loose
Machinehead - Ten ton hammer, Old and The Burning Red
Pi$$ing Razors - Dodging Bullets
The Refused - New Noise
Anathema - Fragile Dreams and Pressure
Type O Negative - Wolf Moon, A Dish best served cold, Cinnamon Girl, Anesthesia and Gravity ("one, two, three, four. I dont wanna live no more")
Gravity Kills - Enough
Hell is for Heroes - You drove me to it
Xecutioners - Its going down
Linkin Park - One step closer
Metallica - Sad but true
Mushroomhead - Bwomp and Solitare Unravelling
Sepultura - Rattamahatta and Refuse/Resist
Anthrax - Only (just that bit when the guitar kicks in after the drum roll)

Lemming

Hmmm, so many. I'll name my short list, and then the songs I consider the best out of that. Only way I can do it

No doubt i'll be accused of being a sell-out or "rock by numbers" by some little 15 year old who's too metal for everyone else :rolleyes:

But ... I'll happily place credit where it's due, as opposed to naming some obscure band/song to look 'l33t' for the sake of it.

Short List:

White Zombie:
I, Zombie
Real Solution #9

Metallica:
Battery (quite possibly one of the most distinctive intros in metal)
Master of Puppets
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Four Horsemen
Nothing Else Matters
Blackened

Iron Maiden:
Two minutes to midnight
Run to the Hills
Paschendale (especially with the oratory delivered before the song begins - live)
Fear of the Dark (live)

AC/DC:
You Shook me all night long
Highway to hell
Whole lotta rosie (live of course ... )
Are you ready
Thunderstruck

Jimi Hendrix:
Voodoo Chile
Little Wing
Red House

Nirvana:
Smells like teen spirit

Guns n'Roses:
Welcome to the Jungle
Sweet Child of Mine
Night Train
Civil War

Black Sabbath:
War pigs
Iron man

Led Zeppelin:
Rock and Roll
Whole Lotta Love
Stairway to Heaven (come on ... I'm surprised nobody mentioned this yet!)

Thin Lizzy:
Whiskey in the Jar
Cowboy Song (live & dangerous)
Jailbreak

Faith No More:
Crack Hitler
Easy
Midlife Crisis

Eric Clapton:
Layla

Eagles:
Hotel California (I'm also surprised nobody has mentioned this)

Lynyrd Skynyrd:
Sweet Home Alabama
Tuesday's Gone

Meat Loaf:
I would do anything for love
Bat out of hell
Dead ringer for love (rocky horror baby, yeah!!! )

Rage Against the Machine:
Bullet in the Head
Killing in the name of
Know your enemy

Red Hot CHilli Peppers:
Otherside
Rollercoaster of Love
Under the Bridge

Van Halen:
Jump

T-Rex:
20th Century Boy

Queen:
Under Pressure
Bohemian Rhapsody
A kind of magic

David Bowie:
Rock & Roll Suicide

The Best of the short-list: in no particular order

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile - by faaaaaaaar the greatest intro in rock/metal. Ever.

Metallica - Battery - quite possibly one of the most distinctive intros in metal

Guns n'Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar

AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (live)

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

Faith No More - Easy

Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love

Eagles - Hotel California

Eric Clapton - Layla

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the name of

Queen - Under Pressure, Bohemian Rhapsody (the most technically impressive intro in this list)

T-Rex - 20th Century Boy

Explosive_Cornflake

Machinehead - Ten ton hammer, Old and The Burning Red

I'd forgotten about machine head. How the mighty have fallen.

Ameirgin

Hmmmmm.......in no particular order.....

Savatage - Prelude to Madness/The Hall of the Mountain King
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Metallica - One
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Primus - Sgt Baker
AC/DC - Hells Bells
Whitesnake - Love 'Aint no Stranger

There are probably a few I've forgotten, but those are definitely top of my list.

niallith

battery,master of puppets,blackened - metallica
lateralus,schism - tool
know your enemy - RATM
face in the sky - testament
hysteria - muse
holy wars - megadeth

AngelofFire

Nirvana-frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle
Dire straights-money for nothing
U2-New years day
U2-Until the end of the world
Pink floyd-Keep Talking
Inme-Neptune
AFI-this time inperfect
Finch-New Begginnings
Linkin park-with you
Pearl jam-Alive

40crush41

aye, after Lemming what else is there... classic songs there.
hmm...
led zeppelin: kashmir
led zeppelin: stairway to heaven b/c i don't think that song can be mentioned too many times
coldplay: clocks
u2: where the streets have no name (i get goosebumps just thinking about it.)
dmb: (cover of) all along the watchtower.. a good 10 mins, nice stuff
dmb: seek up.. bout 15 mins before dave opens his mouth more nice stuff
flecktones: trouble and strife
.. eh, thats a few neway

the cat

Alice in chains-would
Korn-blind
Muse-Hysteria
Nirvana-Smells like teen spirit
Rage against the machine-killing in the name of
Guns n'Roses-welcome to the jungle/sweet child of mine
Queen-under pressure

colincarnate

Megadeth - Angry Angry

begbie

The Bronx and A Static Lullaby have good intros to most of their songs. Oh, and also My Chemical Romance.

tman

Europe - the final countdown:cool:

Kersh

Ministry - psalm 69
slayer - dead skin mask and
south of heaven.

wiped

The Who : Baba O'Reilly

Doctor J

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

Pugsley

Originally posted by tman
Europe - the final countdown:cool:

Children of Bodom done a class cover of that song

flogen

not my favorite, but I love the intro to 'Last night I dreamed somebody loved me' by The Smiths.
sounds really wierd, like a group of screaming souls... or something :P

Flogen

nesthead

Demons And Wizards - Blood On My Hands, Heaven Denies

Iced Earth - The Path I Choose, Jack

Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant, Phantom Of The Opera

Metallica - Jump In The Fire, The Four Horsemen, Sad But True, For Whom The Bell Tolls

Opeth - Master's Apprentices, By The Pain I See In Others

Pantera - Strength Beyond Strength

Slayer - Warzone, War Ensemble, Captor Of Sin

Primal Fear - Fear

Arch Enemy - Ravenous

At The Gates- Slaughter Of The Soul

cant think of many more, more to come!

SirLemonhead

Originally posted by Ameirgin
Hmmmmm.......in no particular order.....

Savatage - Prelude to Madness/The Hall of the Mountain King
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Metallica - One
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Primus - Sgt Baker
AC/DC - Hells Bells
Whitesnake - Love 'Aint no Stranger

There are probably a few I've forgotten, but those are definitely top of my list.

Nice to see someone else here who appreciates Savatage

I'd do a list but i'm tired. And I agree with this guy for most songs anyway, so i'll quote him.

Sauron

Pumpkins- Cherub Rock, Bullet with butterfly wings,
RATM- Wake up, Sleep now in the fire
Nirvana- In Bloom
Foo Fighters- Hey Johnny Park
Chili Peppers- Around the world
Incubus- Wish you were Here
Hendrix- Fire
Muse- Hyper music

too many to remember tbh....a lot of good drumming in there...
:dunno: :rolleyes:

ferdi

plug-in baby by muse
panic song by green day
car jamming by the clash
royal oil by the mighty mighty bosstones
bad town by operation ivy

Karl Hungus

Probably Metallica's Battery... I really don't think you can get a more distinctive classical acoustic intro to a Metal song than it.

And for the absolute cheese-factor, The End Of This Chapter by Sonata Arctica.
If you've heard this, you'll know why I mention it.

nosmo

I am required to add Carcass' Genital Grinder, simple, but incredibly powerful. One of the few good things about Reek of Putrefaction

girella

kyuss-demon cleaner, space cadet
metallica-battery
faith no more-midlife crisis,woodpecker from mars,stripsearch
alice in chains-would,nutshell,bleed the freak,over now
madseason-wake up
pearl jam-no way,rearviewmirror,garden,nothing as it seems,jeremy,state of love and trust
primus-puddin taine,over the falls,greet sacred cow
blindmelon-skinned,car seat/gods presence
jimi hendrix-purple haze
pantera-walk
system of a down-shimmy,know,suggestions,peephole
the doors-five to one
jefferson airplane-white rabbit
rage against the machine-bullet in the head,know your enemy,clear the lane,killing in the name
sepultura-ratamahatta,roots boody roots,look away
soundgarden-4th of july,jesus christ pose,
in flames-gyroscope
deftones-7 words,bored
morphine-buena
mr bungle-girls of porn,retrovertigo,sweet charity,pink cigarette
sublime-date rape
buckethhead-jumpman,night of the slink

powerage22

metallica - for whom the bell tolls
ac/dc - thunderstruck
pantera - walk
black sabbath - iron man
thin lizzy - whiskey in the jar
iron maiden - fear of the dark
megadeth - angry again
deep purple - smoke on the water
judas priest - painkiller


...to name but a few

begbie

Slayer - Season in the abyss

its prob being mentioned loads of times before, but thought i'd say it again.

toffo

Album wise has to be the first 2 tracks off The Ritual by Testament. Alex Skolnick's solo on Signs of Chaos, breaking straight into Electric Crown pure class.

PlasseyMinstrel

AC/DC - Back In Black
Guns N Roses - Welcome to The Jungle
U2 - Where the Streets Have no Name
Nirvana - You Know You're Right
Doves - Pounding
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Muse - New Born
Muse - Sunburn
QOTSA - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar
QOTSA - The Sky Is Fallin

Marq

Master of Puppets

evad_lhorg

porcupine tree - blackest eyes

that riff just kicks ass then the song just gets a bit fruity.

bumblebeemouth

Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Korn - It's On
Silverchair - Slave
Pantera - Regular People
Alice in Chains - God Am

Fungtank

Definately,

**The wizard - Black Sabbath**

Thunderstruck - AcDc

Mater of Puppets - Metallica

or

**Hear My Train a Comin' - Jimi**