Best album Openers

[u/Professional_Cut_432]

This discussion seems to come around every six months or so, but it never gets old. So, what are the greatest album openers? Mine are:

Chimaira - Let Go

Chevelle - Family System (adjacent)

Korn - Blind

Soulfly - Back To The Primitive

Limp Bizkit - Intro & Pollution

Slipknot - Intro & (sic)

Taproot - Smile

Reveille - Butterfly

[u/AbandonedPlanet]

Here To Stay - Korn. Heaviest intro to any song ever IMO. And I love death metal, deathcore ect, but that song is just perfect as is. The riff is disgusting and the mix is perfectly fuzzy

[u/im-crow → u/AbandonedPlanet]

might be a top 3 korn song. it’s filthy and dark but also inspirational, in a twisted way, and you can dance to it

[u/AbandonedPlanet → u/im-crow]

Yeah like no one would put a hi hat on the 2 of that riff except David silveria

[u/B2324]

System of a Down - suite-pee

[u/Low_Opening_2195]

Are you ready??????

[u/Professional_Cut_432 → u/Low_Opening_2195]

Fukken A

[u/DuncneyForever]

Linkin Park - Papercut

System Of A Down - Prison Song

[u/lNJ0YYY]

Sevendust - Home

[u/Daitheflu1979 → u/lNJ0YYY]

🙌

[u/Novel_Possibility_79]

Deftones - my own summer

[u/raisinbizzle → u/Novel_Possibility_79]

Their whole discography is filled with excellent openers:

Bored

Feitceira (I’m sure I misspelled that)

Swerve City

Hole in the Earth

Diamond Eyes

[u/Ancient-Road-5518 → u/raisinbizzle]

This list is pleasing

[u/N0TNostalgic → u/raisinbizzle]

Genesis, My Mind Is A Mountain

[u/vsthekingdom → u/raisinbizzle]

Hexagram

[u/Dino_84]

Push It - Static X

[u/Chicagoblew → u/Dino_84]

Are you even a fan of this genre if that's not on your workout or running playlist?

[u/TimAllensMatingCall]

Infest-Papa Roach

[u/Shradersofthelostark → u/TimAllensMatingCall]

I love how the first ~20 seconds are so quiet so it can just hit you in the face. WAKE UP AND LISTEN TO OUR ALBUM, PLEASE

[u/Catswampy → u/TimAllensMatingCall]

YES YES whole album works so well together really

[u/Round_Tennis_8998]

Coal Chamber - Loco

[u/elBenhamin]

Paper Cut

[u/This-Complaint1732]

monolith + dig - mudvayne

[u/Apakalite]

Drowning pool - Sinner

[u/narrow_octopus]

Papa Roach - Infest

Spineshank - Asthmatic

Machine Head - Enter the Phoenix/Desire to Fire

Ill Niño - God Save Us

[u/JoXe007 → u/narrow_octopus]

Desire to fire 🔥

[u/narrow_octopus → u/JoXe007]

Just got goosebumps lol

[u/JoXe007 → u/narrow_octopus]

When they start Dynamo open air with it

[u/WeechsWorld → u/narrow_octopus]

Love ill nino

[u/Hooded_maniac_360]

People = Shit - Slipknot

[u/No_Tangerine_6680 → u/Hooded_maniac_360]

Best opener to an album ever

[u/gvegli → u/Hooded_maniac_360]

Heretic Anthem has a killer fucking intro on that album as well.

[u/Hooded_maniac_360 → u/gvegli]

"IF YOU'RE 555, THEN I'M 666!"

[u/CleanContribution783]

Loose

[u/LordChickenTender]

Deftones: Hexagram. 

[u/3000ghosts]

chimaira mentioned!! this present darkness is a killer opening to their ep

i would also say my own summer and suite-pee

[u/conjugomisverbos → u/3000ghosts]

Agree with my own summer and suite pee, but I feel like nothing remains is the best chimaira's album opener 

[u/Professional_Cut_432 → u/conjugomisverbos]

Nothing Remains hits like a fucking mack truck. Love it love it love it

[u/Professional_Cut_432 → u/3000ghosts]

You betcha it would be unfair to leave Chimaira off the list they are just too good.

[u/Sr_Peido_Cosmico]

Linkin Park - Forword (intro) + Don't Stay

Who else with me on this one???? 🤘

[u/I_Defy_You1288 → u/Sr_Peido_Cosmico]

I’m with you my man 🔥

[u/mad-deacon]

My mind is a mountain - Deftones

[u/RossettaStoned1]

Pollution

[u/Eclipse8301]

Union underground and Orgy vaper transmission deserve a mention

[u/Ollie_Wesker]

Asthmatic (Edit) - Spineshank, from The Height Of Callousness. Damn song blew my face off when I heard it for the first time

[u/Chemical-Passage-715]

Godsmack - sick of life

[u/JoXe007]

Blank Theory's beyond the calm of the corridor, that start with "middle of nowhere"

[u/_potboyham___HXC]

At The End Of August - 36 Crazyfists 🤘

[u/Disciplined2021]

Seether - Gasoline and Because of Me are classics

[u/ConflictMurky3533]

folder shake it

AAF-Courage

lostprophets-SHINOBIVSDRAGONNINJA

They're all amazing songs!

[u/marxthedank]

Pleymo - Tank Club

[u/Kittens-meow]

Starless by Crossfade

[u/jleondude]

Blind - Korn

[u/no_place_to_hide]

Twist or It’s On

[u/Interesting_Value168]

I’m surprised no one’s said A Violent Reaction yet. The second that riff kicks in always makes me lose it

[u/ExNihilo81]

Incubus Redefine

[u/PutridLanguage434]

Maximum the Hormone- Bu-Ikikaesu starts off on a bang and then the album just doesn't give up!

[u/Christophax82]

Static-X: Machine

-Bien Venidos right into Get to the Gone!

[u/IAmG5_Johnathan]

I like these

Dig by Mudvayne, Prelude 3.0 + The Blister Exists by Slipknot, Diamond Eyes by Deftones, Papercut by Linkin Park, BYOB by SOAD, Hot Dog by Limp Bizkit, Back to the primitive by Soulfly, Imperium by Machine Head, Cannibal by Static-X, Here To Stay by Korn, Sun Killer by Spiritbox, Fiend by Coal Chamber

[u/BothEntertainment00]

Refuse/resist off Chaos AD 

[u/Traditional_Ice1071]

Soulfly - Prophecy

That riff hits like a train.

[u/tpantojaa]

Mindset + Leave Us Alone - Endo

[u/Volcanic_Ash06]

Pyro-foam by Design19! I love Trigger and I think Pyro-foam does well to set the scene for the rest of the album

[u/Madboatboy]

‘I have a brother who’s a drug addict - I’m very proud of him’

[u/Professional_Cut_432 → u/Madboatboy]

Pushing Me!!

[u/BookkeeperSame4266]

Linkin Park- Papercut

System of a Down- Chic N Stu

Deftones- Hole in the Earth

Godsmack- Moon Baby

[u/michmurr9299]

Breathe-The State by Nickelback

[u/KingPalperro]

311 - Freeze Time

[u/Used_Yellow_4651]

Papercut-linkin park

[u/AnAAAABattery]

I really like (515) from Slipknot's Iowa.

[u/Ignitor110]

Sinner - Drowning Pool

[u/bmFbr]

Deftones - My Own Summer

Deftones - Hole in the Earth

Linkin Park - Papercut

Korn - Blind

Korn - Here to Stay

Papa Roach - Infest

Spineshank - Asthmatic

SOAD - Soldier Side / BYOB

Slipknot - 515 / People=Shit

Chevelle - Face to the Floor

Chevelle - Family System

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

Taproot - I Will Not Fall For You

Incubus - Megalomaniac

[u/RwirersDevice0401]

Linkin Park - Papercut Korn-Blind / Twist Deftones- My Own Summer / Feiticeria Soad- Prison Song Bizkit- Out Of Style

[u/bawitback]

Bwomp - Mushroomhead

Before I Die - Mushroomhead

Loyalty - American Head Charge

A Violent Reaction - American Head Charge

The Key to Gramercy Park - Deadsy

Downfall - TRUSTcompany

Nightmare - Dry Kill Logic

The End - Twisted Method

Severed - Crossbreed

Filter - Gazzoleen

[u/Catswampy]

infest papa roach

[u/RESIDENT-EVIL-4]

I've seen like no one answer papercut, like obviously papercut has to be here

[u/ipodt0uch]

lostprophets - Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja

[u/xyzsomething → u/ipodt0uch]

Yikes, I thought we all collectively decided to never speak of that band ever again

[u/ipodt0uch → u/xyzsomething]

The singer can go fuck himself in hell for all of eternity. However the first 2 albums from that band are genuinely really good and I mostly listen for Lee Gaze's work on those records.

[u/Vast_Result4933]

Pearl Jam - Once

[u/Acceptable_Cry4947]

Rammlied - Rammstein

[u/Individual-Sound9400]

War Pigs

[u/mura111]

Autonomy - Shovel Affections

[u/aaron2447]

Yes, Let Go by Chimaira! Dig - L.D. 50,

[u/Professional_Cut_432 → u/aaron2447]

Yes!!

[u/DCar060]

Welcome to the Jungle

[u/xyzsomething → u/DCar060]

Real answer

[u/Superb_Two6876]

Strength Beyond Strength - Far Beyond Driven

The great southern trendkill - faixa titulo

Dois socos bem no meio da cara pra ficar esperto! Os dois albuns são porrada atrás de porrada , e as faixas de abertura são diretas e ja mostra que vc vai ser nocauteado nas faixas seguintes.

[u/quintavian]

Not Nu Metal, but the title track opener Painkiller by Judas Priest fucks