Best intro's ????

christophicus

I realise that this has probably been asked before an probably quite recently but I can't remember one off of the top of my head, and after a quick search I cannot find anything.

I have been listening the WMP on random for the last few days and Implements of Destruction by Chimaira has come up a near statistically impossible amount of times, but it has a really good intro imo and that got me thinking about other songs with good intro's; hence the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYkL4cd8g4

Blind by Korn has to go in there, even if you don't like korn, eveyone knows that intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUn8Kc_dLd0

orestes

The intro to Kids Aren't Alright by the Offspring always gets me

Americana was the first album I ever bought and I got it the day after hearing them play that song at the MTV awards that were in Dublin, as soon as the intro started I knew I'd found what was for me. So that song got me into rock music and literally changed the course of life, so all of the things that have happened to me since then I associate with the intro to that song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4-aUiddpUo

Ah, there it is, awesome :cool:

Jack Vegas

Crazy Train, Raining Blood and Iron Man remain class after all these years.

cournioni

I love the intro to Slayer's "Hell Awaits"... Creepy as fcuk. "The Moor" by Opeth is pretty cool too!

Delirium

Love the intro to Soilwork - Song of the damned

ZakAttak

The start of 'Legion' by 'Deicide'- Lambs bleeting I tells ya!!!

The start of 'Carnivore' by 'Carnivore'- someone puking complete with the unique echo effect that one can only achieve when hurling into a toilet bowl.

'Everything's Ruined' by 'Faith no More'- Another one with animals, this time its seagulls!

DeadSkin

christophicus wrote: »

I realise that this has probably been asked before an probably quite recently but I can't remember one off of the top of my head, and after a quick search I cannot find anything.

A very quick search indeed :pac:;):p

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

I love the intro to Slayer's "Hell Awaits"... Creepy as fcuk.

+1, see the above link [assuming it hasn't been taken down, can't see youtube links here in work.]

christophicus

DeadSkin wrote: »

A very quick search indeed :pac:;):p

Christ, sorry man. I think I searched metal intros or something and only 3 threads came up, all from 2004 . Sorry man.

DeadSkin

christophicus wrote: »

Christ, sorry man. I think I searched metal intros or something and only 3 threads came up, all from 2004 . Sorry man.

No worries dude!!

Mushy

For me personally, my favourates are either Better Living Through Chemistry by QOTSA, or Once by Pearl Jam.

Many great ones out there, most mentioned already.

Joe_Dull

koth wrote: »

Love the intro to Soilwork - Song of the damned

+1

Also the Quiet Place by In Flames

Tommy the Cat

Gimme Shelter: Rolling Stones.

damonjewel

Tommy the Cat wrote: »

Gimme Shelter: Rolling Stones.

Good call, not that its anyway super outstanding, but everytime I hear it I get goosebumps

Bongomc

'Phantom of the Opera' and Wasted Years' by Iron Maiden are defo my favourite intros. The bass intro to 'Man overboard' by Blink 182 as well as the intro to 'Impulse' by An Endless Sporadic are very catchy.

Karl Hungus

As far as iconic intros go... The first few seconds of this amazing song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCZvRNgLnI

Morf

Corporal Jigsore Quandary

Mr. CooL ICE

Pink Floyd - Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U

Blue Oyster Cult - Joan Crawford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY

Ozzy - Mr Crowley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnj8X1zAZI

Anthrax - Madhouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syBH1aJOH5A

overexcitedaj

The intro to honor thy father by dreamtheater. Mike Portnoy is God

Xavi6

Always loved the intro to 'Lounge Act' by Nirvana. The bass line is just quality.

Whistle intro to 'Winds of Change' by the Scorpions is fantastic too.

And thirdly I'll nomintae both 'Stockholm Syndrome' and 'Plug In Baby' by Muse.

yknaa

Hells Bells - complete with bells (from hell, I presume)

Malice

I've always liked the intro to Fight Fire With Fire from Metallica's Ride The Lightning. It was the first time I'd ever heard them and I was in awe that guitars could be that loud and fast . I also like the intro to Orion. It's so simple yet so effective.

An honourable mention also to Pisschrist by Fear Factory.

grumpytrousers

damonjewel wrote: »

Good call, not that its anyway super outstanding, but everytime I hear it I get goosebumps

Re Gimme Shelter - isn't the fact that you get goosebumps from a very simple guitar line and drumbeat enough to make the intro outstanding. The fact that it's not, of itself, 'musically' spectacular makes it all the better; it's got a threatening feel that sounded like an impending apocalypose in 1969 and it still works today.

I'm giving it a +1

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Otis Driftwood

Into the Lungs of Hell by Megadeth is hard to top in terms of an album opener IMO.

Jack Sheehan

I love the intro to 'Roll another number for the road' by Neil Young. He messes up the start so much he ends up just really apruptly starting it.

Mushy

overexcitedaj wrote: »

The intro to honor thy father by dreamtheater. Mike Portnoy is God

Just had to be done!

rainbow kirby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAKUauvayc

Nightwish - Planet Hell

fourmations

without too much thought....

blackened by metallica is one of my all time fave intros
airbag by radiohead
snail by smashing pumpkins


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Ho-Hum

Alice in chains - we die young

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=mTIAaJcc0I0

Dolph Starbeam

Foo Fighter - Times Like These, even better known because of Sports Tonight

Caco

Mushy wrote: »

For me personally, my favourates are either Better Living Through Chemistry by QOTSA, or Once by Pearl Jam.

Many great ones out there, most mentioned already.

+1 for both!

Chinatown- Thin Lizzy
Negasonic Teenage Warhead- Monster Magnet

Mushy

Caco wrote: »

+1 for both!

Chinatown- Thin Lizzy
Negasonic Teenage Warhead- Monster Magnet

Rock Werchter '07 for Pearl Jam:D:D:D:D:D. Pretty much creamed myself when Once was played!

Xavi6

Just thought of another -

'Twisted' by Skunk Anansie

What an song and a great intro.

Max_Damage

For me it would have to be 'For Whom The Bells Toll' by Metallica.

rainbow kirby

Max_Damage wrote: »

For me it would have to be 'For Whom The Bells Toll' by Metallica.

That's awesome, especially on the S&M album.

Slashman X

Sweet Child O' Mine
Enter Sandman

Coma by GNR is the one that gives me goosebumps though, just the heartbeat and the bass.

Max_Damage

I also quite like the long intro to 'Zero Signal' by Fear Factory.

Dr.Slurm

A few of my faves:

Mastodon - Crystal Skull

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

djScarey

Max_Damage wrote: »

For me it would have to be 'For Whom The Bells Toll' by Metallica.

Same here. Also short and simple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpc6pW7Tvjw

and long and complex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvPe0uqjjY

Stev_o

This always gets me, if i hear the intro i have to listen to the rest of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLkaGcpJFA

Just where he goes "Bass! how low can you go? " fits perfectly

Fishyfreak

Gimme a Bullet AC/DC, Intro always gives me a shiver down my spine.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eDjKl41gs54

fredzer

More sheep etc and some backwards sounding voices on Ozzy's Bloodbath in Paradise... love that track. Favorite would be the guitar intro on Tornado of Souls by Megadeth.

KevLeppard

Wasted by Def Leppard

Baby Please Dont Go by Thin Lizzy

Moneymaker

overexcitedaj wrote: »

The intro to honor thy father by dreamtheater. Mike Portnoy is God

this.

Stella89

My favourite intro's have to be:

Thunderstruck by Ac/Dc

Welcome to the jungle by Guns n Roses

dregin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkJIlCBoZI

Caco

Mushy wrote: »

Rock Werchter '07 for Pearl Jam:D:D:D:D:D. Pretty much creamed myself when Once was played!

Same here man... I was on top of the crowd when they broke into it

Schism

I seen a few mentions of tracks from Demanufacture there, can't believe no one mentioned H-K, great intro.

Can't really think of any other intros right now.

Other than that I've always loved the endings of Machine Head's A Nation on Fire, and Lamb of God's Vigil.

Mushy

Caco wrote: »

Same here man... I was on top of the crowd when they broke into it

Its why I mentioned it...you enjoyed metallica from some of my pics:D. But yeah, would have been amazing if PJ played Once as a sarter song, cos it had the cd start before the first song.

chin_grin

High on Fire - Rumours of War.

Slayer - Angel of Death. Gets me every time.

Sepultura - Rattamahatta.

skinner2x

Altered state . .Sepultura
Raining Blood , Dead Skin Mask..Slayer
Seek and Destroy... Metallica

Great reading all these, reliving the songs....

gosplan

Hells Bells - ACDC gets my vote. My gf is currently banging on about sanitarium though.

Slayer get the evil vote - great intros