Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Cryptopsy - Two Pound Torch
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Iron Maiden - Run For The Hills
Metallica - Battery
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Tempation (leading into the start of The Hypocrisy)
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns

The intro to Mayhem's Deathcrush album. not that it is the best, but it is easily recognizable. within 2 seconds of hearing it, there is no mistake as to what album is about to play

Burzum -Ea, Lord of the depths
Antimatter - Monochrome
Death - Pull The Plug
Entombed - Left Hand Path

Yeah, it has to be the one of 'At The Heart Of Winter' for me as well. It just paints this majestic picture of a forsaken castle in a cold and deadly vale. If there was an Immortal video game, this song would start playing during the cutscene before the final boss fight. ^^

Atm what comes in my Mind, is amorphis from karelian and eos spectral sorrows. Amazing riffs soft intro, then first sseconds when real song comes, its pure dm classic

Tristania: Beyond the Veil (song). The sweet voice of Vebeke is so calming-then the guitars pick up and the song never stops moving.

Amongst latest albums it gotta be Darker Thoughts from Paradise Lost's Obsidian.

Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Acid Bath - The Blue
Testament - D.N.R.
Metallica - Battery
Pantera - Heresy

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

"Circle" from The Maniacal Vale by Esoteric. Such a simple, hauntingly beautiful melody that relies on a gorgeous chord progression. That progression is rarely used and never used as well as in "Circle".

Written by Metren on 04.11.2020 at 23:16

"Circle" from The Maniacal Vale by Esoteric. Such a simple, hauntingly beautiful melody that relies on a gorgeous chord progression. That progression is rarely used and never used as well as in "Circle".

Hauntingly beautiful indeed. It's a real tone setter.

Here's a huge ass long list of my fav awesome intros:

Absu - PIllars Of Mercy
Abysmal Dawn - Levelling The Plane Of Existence
Aeternus - Under The Eternal Blackened Sky
Agalloch - Limbs
Agonist, The - Birds Elope From The Sun
Ahab - Old Thunder
Alcest - Percées de Lumiére
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Altar of Plagues - Feather And Bone
Amon Amarth - Shield Wall
Amon Amarth - As Long As The Raven Flies
Amon Amarth - Death In Fire
Amorphis - The Bee
Amorphis - House of Sleep
Anathema - Deep
Anathema - Sleepless
Arch Enemy - We Will Rise
Arcturus - The Chaos Path
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Avatarium - Moonhorse
Ayreon - Dawn Of A Million Souls
Bal-Sagoth - The Voyagers Beneath The Mare Imbrium
Baroness - Take My Bones Away
Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay
Becoming The Archetype - Ransom
Behemoth - Decade Of Therion
Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void
Behemoth - Horns Ov Baphomet
Be'Lakor - In Parting
Black Heart Rebellion, The - Avraham
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blaze Bayley - Eating Lies
Blind Guardian - Sacred Worlds
Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song
Bloodbath - Treasonous
Bolt Thrower - Inside The Wire
Burst - I Hold Vertigo
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Candlemass - Solitude
Candlemass - Mirror Mirror
Candlemass - The Well Of Souls
Candlemass - At The Gallows End
Candlemass - A Cry From The Crypt
Candlemass - Witches
Candlemass - The Day And The Night
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
Carcass - Buried Dreams
Celtic Frost - Into The Crypts Of Rays
Converge - Concubine
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace
Cradle Of Filth - The Forest Whispers My Name
Cradle Of Filth - The Black Goddess Rises
Crimson Glory - Where Dragons Rule
Cult Of Luna - Echoes
Cult Of Luna - Waiting For You
Cult Of Luna - Light Chaser
Dark Funeral - Shadows Over Transylvania
Darkthrone - In The Shadows Of The Horns
Dark Tranquillity - Final Resistance
Dark Tranquillity - Lost To Apathy
Dark Tranquillity - Through Smudged Lenses
Dark Tranquillity - ThereIn
Death - Symbolic
Deathspell Omega - Dearth
Deathwhite - In Eclipse
Deicide - Dead By Dawn
Desaster - End Of Tyranny
Dimmu Borgir - Reptile
Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace
Dimmu Borgir - The Insight And The Catharsis
Dimmu Borgir - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
Dio - The Last In Line
DHG - Carpet Bombing
Draconian - Daylight Misery
Draconian - Seasons Apart
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
Emperor - Iam The Black Wizards
Emperor - Beyond The Great Vast Forest
Enslaved - Isa
Enslaved - The Voices
Evoken - Vestigial Fears
Evoken - In Pestilence, Burning
Exodus - War Is My Shepherd
Exploited, The - Law For The Rich
Faceless, The - Xenochrist
Firewind - Head Up High
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Warpledge
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Kingborn
Foreshadowing, The - Havoc
Forest Of Shadows - Submission
Ghost - He Is
Gojira - Where Dragons Dwell
Gojira - Silvera
Gorgoroth - Sorg
Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire
Havok - The Disease
Helloween - Future World
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Hypocrisy - Warpath
Iced Earth - Dracula
Iced Earth - Damien
Iced Earth - A Question Of Heaven
Iced Earth - Pure Evil
Iced Earth - Burning Times
Immolation - Swarm Of Terror
Immolation - A Glorious Epoch
Immolation - Majesty And Decay
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
In Flames - Take This Life
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
Isis - Carry
Isole - Hollow Shrine
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - The Sentinel
Judas Priest - Hellion/Electric Eye
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms Of Death
Kamelot - Center Of The Universe
Kamelot - Forever
Kamelot - Karma
Kamelot - Fallen Star
Katatonia - Ambitions
Katatonia - Old Heart Falls
Katatonia - Unfurl
Katatonia - For My Demons
Khold - Dodens Grode
Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days
King Diamond - Abigail
Kreator - The Patriarch/Violent Revolution
Lacuna Coil - Heaven's A Lie
Lamb Of God - In Your Words
Leviathan - Dawn Vibration
Lord Weird Slough Feg, The - Warriors Dawn
Luca Turilli - Demonheart
Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
Machine Head - Davidian
Man Must Die - Gainsayer
Manowar - Blood Of My Enemies
Manowar - KIngs Of Metal
Mastodon - Blood And Thunder
Mastodon - Ol'e Nessie
Mayhem - Freezing Moon
Mayhem - Funeral Fog
Mayhem - Life Eternal
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Megadeth - Ashes In Your Mouth
Melechesh - Ladders To Sumeria
Mercyful Fate - Gypsy
Meshuggah - Rational Gaze
Metallica - Blackened
Metallica - One
Metallica - Dyers Eve
Metallica - Fade To Black
Metallica - Battery
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Metallica - My Friend Of Misery
Monolith Deathcult, The - Human Wave Attack
Moonspell - Darkness And Hope
Moonspell - Ruin & Misery
Morbid Angel - Chapel Of Ghouls
Morbid Angel - Fall From Grace
Morgion - The Serpentine Scrolls
Morgul - The Horror Grandeur
Mourning Beloveth - The Sickness
Mourning Beloveth - It Almost Looked Human
My Dying Bride - Your River
My Dying Bride - The Thrash Of Naked Limbs
My Dying Bride - She Is The Dark
My Dying Bride - The Wreckage Of My Flesh
Neurosis - From The Hill
Nevermore - Narcosynthesis
Nevermore - Born
Nevermore - My Acid Words
Nightwish - Nemo
Novembers Doom - Autumn Reflection
Obscura - Septuagint
Ocean, The - Anthropocentric
Onslaught - Killing Peace
Orphaned Land - From Broken Vessels
Overkill - Ironbound
Overkill - Electric Rattlesnake
Pain Of Salvation - Sisters
Pallbearer - I Saw The End
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Paradise Lost - Never For The Damned
Paradise Lost - The Enemy
Paradise Lost - Beneath Broken Earth
Paradise Lost - Crucify
Parkway Drive - Old Ghost/New Regrets
Perfect Circle, A - The Outsider
Portal - Awryeon
Primordial - The Coffin Ships
Primordial - No Grave Deep Enough
Primordial - Empire Falls
Prophecy, The - The Odyssey
Rhapsody - Land Of Immortals
Rhapsody - Holy Thunderforce
Rhapsody - Knightrider Of Doom
Rotting Christ - Demonon Vrosis
Royal Thunder - Time Machine
Samael - Jupiterian Vibe
Satyricon - Fuel For Hatred
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Savatage - When The Crowds Are Gone
Saxon - Princess Of The Night
Sentenced - Dead Leaves
Sentenced - Nepenthe
SepticFlesh - Sunlight/Moonlight
Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
Shining - Lat Oss Ta Allt Fran Varandra
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Angel Of Death
Slayer - Raining Blood
Slayer - Postmortem
Slipknot - Duality
Sodom - Agent Orange
Sodom - City Of God
Sons Of Aeon - Faceless
SYL - Love?
Suffocation - Infecting The Crypts
Suidakra - Birogs Oath
Swallow The Sun - Cathedral Walls
Swallow The Sun - Deadly Nightshade
Swallow The Sun - Horror Pt.1
Swallow The Sun - Stone Wings
Symphony X - Accolade II
Symphony X - Inferno (Unleash The Fire)
SOAD - Prison Song
SOAD - Chop Suey!
Taake - Atternatt
Testament - Into The Pit
Theatre Of Tragedy - Venus
Therion - Blood Of Kingu
Therion - To Mega Therion
Therion - The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah
Tiamat - Whatever That Hurts
Tribulation - Melancholia
Triptykon - Tree Of Suffocating Souls
Tristania - Pale Enchantress
Trivium - Kirisute Gomen
Unholy - Of Tragedy
Vader - Wings
Ved Buens Ende - I Sang For The Swans
WASP - Wild Child
Watain - Malfeitor
YOB - Beauty In Falling Leaves
Zyklon - Hammer Revelation

Written by [user id=104220] on 09.11.2020 at 12:09

Here's a huge ass long list of my fav awesome intros:

Absu - PIllars Of Mercy
Abysmal Dawn - Levelling The Plane Of Existence
Aeternus - Under The Eternal Blackened Sky
Agalloch - Limbs
Agonist, The - Birds Elope From The Sun
Ahab - Old Thunder
Alcest - Percées de Lumiére
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Altar of Plagues - Feather And Bone
Amon Amarth - Shield Wall
Amon Amarth - As Long As The Raven Flies
Amon Amarth - Death In Fire
Amorphis - The Bee
Amorphis - House of Sleep
Anathema - Deep
Anathema - Sleepless
Arch Enemy - We Will Rise
Arcturus - The Chaos Path
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Avatarium - Moonhorse
Ayreon - Dawn Of A Million Souls
Bal-Sagoth - The Voyagers Beneath The Mare Imbrium
Baroness - Take My Bones Away
Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay
Becoming The Archetype - Ransom
Behemoth - Decade Of Therion
Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void
Behemoth - Horns Ov Baphomet
Be'Lakor - In Parting
Black Heart Rebellion, The - Avraham
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blaze Bayley - Eating Lies
Blind Guardian - Sacred Worlds
Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song
Bloodbath - Treasonous
Bolt Thrower - Inside The Wire
Burst - I Hold Vertigo
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Candlemass - Solitude
Candlemass - Mirror Mirror
Candlemass - The Well Of Souls
Candlemass - At The Gallows End
Candlemass - A Cry From The Crypt
Candlemass - Witches
Candlemass - The Day And The Night
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
Carcass - Buried Dreams
Celtic Frost - Into The Crypts Of Rays
Converge - Concubine
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace
Cradle Of Filth - The Forest Whispers My Name
Cradle Of Filth - The Black Goddess Rises
Crimson Glory - Where Dragons Rule
Cult Of Luna - Echoes
Cult Of Luna - Waiting For You
Cult Of Luna - Light Chaser
Dark Funeral - Shadows Over Transylvania
Darkthrone - In The Shadows Of The Horns
Dark Tranquillity - Final Resistance
Dark Tranquillity - Lost To Apathy
Dark Tranquillity - Through Smudged Lenses
Dark Tranquillity - ThereIn
Death - Symbolic
Deathspell Omega - Dearth
Deathwhite - In Eclipse
Deicide - Dead By Dawn
Desaster - End Of Tyranny
Dimmu Borgir - Reptile
Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace
Dimmu Borgir - The Insight And The Catharsis
Dimmu Borgir - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
Dio - The Last In Line
DHG - Carpet Bombing
Draconian - Daylight Misery
Draconian - Seasons Apart
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
Emperor - Iam The Black Wizards
Emperor - Beyond The Great Vast Forest
Enslaved - Isa
Enslaved - The Voices
Evoken - Vestigial Fears
Evoken - In Pestilence, Burning
Exodus - War Is My Shepherd
Exploited, The - Law For The Rich
Faceless, The - Xenochrist
Firewind - Head Up High
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Warpledge
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Kingborn
Foreshadowing, The - Havoc
Forest Of Shadows - Submission
Ghost - He Is
Gojira - Where Dragons Dwell
Gojira - Silvera
Gorgoroth - Sorg
Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire
Havok - The Disease
Helloween - Future World
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Hypocrisy - Warpath
Iced Earth - Dracula
Iced Earth - Damien
Iced Earth - A Question Of Heaven
Iced Earth - Pure Evil
Iced Earth - Burning Times
Immolation - Swarm Of Terror
Immolation - A Glorious Epoch
Immolation - Majesty And Decay
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
In Flames - Take This Life
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
Isis - Carry
Isole - Hollow Shrine
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - The Sentinel
Judas Priest - Hellion/Electric Eye
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms Of Death
Kamelot - Center Of The Universe
Kamelot - Forever
Kamelot - Karma
Kamelot - Fallen Star
Katatonia - Ambitions
Katatonia - Old Heart Falls
Katatonia - Unfurl
Katatonia - For My Demons
Khold - Dodens Grode
Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days
King Diamond - Abigail
Kreator - The Patriarch/Violent Revolution
Lacuna Coil - Heaven's A Lie
Lamb Of God - In Your Words
Leviathan - Dawn Vibration
Lord Weird Slough Feg, The - Warriors Dawn
Luca Turilli - Demonheart
Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
Machine Head - Davidian
Man Must Die - Gainsayer
Manowar - Blood Of My Enemies
Manowar - KIngs Of Metal
Mastodon - Blood And Thunder
Mastodon - Ol'e Nessie
Mayhem - Freezing Moon
Mayhem - Funeral Fog
Mayhem - Life Eternal
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Megadeth - Ashes In Your Mouth
Melechesh - Ladders To Sumeria
Mercyful Fate - Gypsy
Meshuggah - Rational Gaze
Metallica - Blackened
Metallica - One
Metallica - Dyers Eve
Metallica - Fade To Black
Metallica - Battery
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Metallica - My Friend Of Misery
Monolith Deathcult, The - Human Wave Attack
Moonspell - Darkness And Hope
Moonspell - Ruin & Misery
Morbid Angel - Chapel Of Ghouls
Morbid Angel - Fall From Grace
Morgion - The Serpentine Scrolls
Morgul - The Horror Grandeur
Mourning Beloveth - The Sickness
Mourning Beloveth - It Almost Looked Human
My Dying Bride - Your River
My Dying Bride - The Thrash Of Naked Limbs
My Dying Bride - She Is The Dark
My Dying Bride - The Wreckage Of My Flesh
Neurosis - From The Hill
Nevermore - Narcosynthesis
Nevermore - Born
Nevermore - My Acid Words
Nightwish - Nemo
Novembers Doom - Autumn Reflection
Obscura - Septuagint
Ocean, The - Anthropocentric
Onslaught - Killing Peace
Orphaned Land - From Broken Vessels
Overkill - Ironbound
Overkill - Electric Rattlesnake
Pain Of Salvation - Sisters
Pallbearer - I Saw The End
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Paradise Lost - Never For The Damned
Paradise Lost - The Enemy
Paradise Lost - Beneath Broken Earth
Paradise Lost - Crucify
Parkway Drive - Old Ghost/New Regrets
Perfect Circle, A - The Outsider
Portal - Awryeon
Primordial - The Coffin Ships
Primordial - No Grave Deep Enough
Primordial - Empire Falls
Prophecy, The - The Odyssey
Rhapsody - Land Of Immortals
Rhapsody - Holy Thunderforce
Rhapsody - Knightrider Of Doom
Rotting Christ - Demonon Vrosis
Royal Thunder - Time Machine
Samael - Jupiterian Vibe
Satyricon - Fuel For Hatred
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Savatage - When The Crowds Are Gone
Saxon - Princess Of The Night
Sentenced - Dead Leaves
Sentenced - Nepenthe
SepticFlesh - Sunlight/Moonlight
Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
Shining - Lat Oss Ta Allt Fran Varandra
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Angel Of Death
Slayer - Raining Blood
Slayer - Postmortem
Slipknot - Duality
Sodom - Agent Orange
Sodom - City Of God
Sons Of Aeon - Faceless
SYL - Love?
Suffocation - Infecting The Crypts
Suidakra - Birogs Oath
Swallow The Sun - Cathedral Walls
Swallow The Sun - Deadly Nightshade
Swallow The Sun - Horror Pt.1
Swallow The Sun - Stone Wings
Symphony X - Accolade II
Symphony X - Inferno (Unleash The Fire)
SOAD - Prison Song
SOAD - Chop Suey!
Taake - Atternatt
Testament - Into The Pit
Theatre Of Tragedy - Venus
Therion - Blood Of Kingu
Therion - To Mega Therion
Therion - The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah
Tiamat - Whatever That Hurts
Tribulation - Melancholia
Triptykon - Tree Of Suffocating Souls
Tristania - Pale Enchantress
Trivium - Kirisute Gomen
Unholy - Of Tragedy
Vader - Wings
Ved Buens Ende - I Sang For The Swans
WASP - Wild Child
Watain - Malfeitor
YOB - Beauty In Falling Leaves
Zyklon - Hammer Revelation

Wow that's an Epic list!

I dont really like intros that are too long or slow I prefer them to start fast and straight in there and with a good drumming beat or good base lines to start off.

Here are just a few of my favourites.

Speed King - Deep Purple
Stargazer- Rainbow
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Holy Wars - Megadeth
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Run To The Hills- Iron Maiden
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Children Of the Grave - Black Sabbath
Across The Streaming Tide - Summoning
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem
To Walk The Infernal fields- Darkthrone
Dunkelheit - Burzum
Jesus Tod - Burzum
As Rome Burns- Primordial

Here are a few of my favorite song intros:
Metal Storm/Face the Slayer
South of Heaven
Left Hand Path
Override of the Overture (Dismember)
Children of the Grave
Into the Void
Recharging the Void (Vektor)
Devils Island
Five Magics
Good Mourning
Awakening (Necrophobic)
The Hellion
The Sentinel
Painkiller
Wasted Years
Spiritual Healing
Zombie Ritual
War (Bolt thrower)
Where Dead Angels Lie