songs with great openings.

personally i absolutely love the opening to The State of Massachussetts by Dropkick Murphys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALXJAf2pJrc

Song for the Dead by Queens of the Stone Age.

Played out, but Welcome Home By Coheed and Cambria is a great opening.

I got to go classic and say the opening riff and accompanying chant for AC/DC's Thunderstruck.

The Live at Donington version is even better with tens of thousands chanting along.

Thunderstruck

I got to go classic and say the opening riff and accompanying chant for AC/DC's Thunderstruck.

The Live at Donington version is even better with tens of thousands chanting along.

Thunderstruck

Buck_Hotep

Agreed. It's just plain awesome.

Trample the Weak Hurdle the DeadJuggernaut140

Demigod by Behemoth. epicdante_123456

[QUOTE="Juggernaut140"]Trample the Weak Hurdle the Deadfreek666

Demigod by Behemoth. epicdante_123456

I got to go classic and say the opening riff and accompanying chant for AC/DC's Thunderstruck.

The Live at Donington version is even better with tens of thousands chanting along.

Thunderstruck

Buck_Hotep

Jesus Christ they're playing in front of a lot of people...

I like the opening minuteto Holiday by The Birthday Massacre, cute mix of guitars and keyboard.

Dead Souls from Nine Inch Nails. Although it pretty much starts as it means to go on. That drum rhythm with the guitar that just bursts out before the leading to the lyrics is pure evil madsex.

The Muse Plug it Baby and Knights of Cydonia are very popular. New Born, also fromThe Muse is a great opener but in a different kind of way. It sort of sets up the song perfectly.

That's about all I can think of.

[QUOTE="Juggernaut140"]Trample the Weak Hurdle the Deadfreek666

Demigod by Behemoth. epicdante_123456

I really, really, really enjoy the first 5 minutes of Heathen.

Dave Matthews Band - Two Step

I like it :oops:

The Scorpions - Hurricane 2000

Played out, but Welcome Home By Coheed and Cambria is a great opening.

warbmxjohn

Cowboys from Hell - Pantera

m-flo - The Other Side of Love

Few more:

Cleansing by Wolves in the Throne Room

Alt Lys Er Svunnet Hen by Dimmu Borgir (Enjoyable intro, despite being completely unoriginal and associated with Dimmu Borgir)

Mother North by Satyricon

Obscura by Gorguts

Coporeal Jigsore Quandry by Carcass. Monster opening riff.

Mercyful Fate - Into the Coven
Death - Zombie Ritual
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Dream Theater - Take the Time
Blind Guardian - Mordred's Song
Morbid Angel - Hatework

Coporeal Jigsore Quandry by Carcass. Monster opening riff.

yellerbelly

Oh, and Meathook Sodomy by Cannibal Corpse, and The Forest Whispers My Name by Cradle Of Filth...

I'll probably keep popping back in with ideas...

intro to smoke on the water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WX_4FNoto4

For me it's this. It's not some guitar solo or anything.

All Hope In Eclipse, From The Cradle to Enslave and Her Ghost In The Fog by Cradle of Filth.

Stabwound by Necrophagist

The opening to "The Light that Blinds" by Shadows Fall is pretty awesome.

Master of Puppets by Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra is great.

The Panic Song - Green Day

la villa strangiato by rush has an amazing build up.

also Annihilation Of The Wicked by Nile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_snHHioLgd4&feature=related

Severed Hand by Pearl Jam, the opening gives the riff its power

The old "I Heard It Through The Grapevine".

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

Ride the Lightning by Metallica and Judas Risingby Judas Priest.

I just love the way it starts out relatively quiet and crescendos to epicness.

Just WHY hasn't Judas priest's painkiller been mentioned yet? i saw them live yesterday at the priest's feast in lisbon, the intro drums were even longer and more awesome