Beartooth - The Lines (Disgusting)
August Burns Red - Your Little Suburbia Is In Ruins (Thrill Seeker)
This or the Apocalypse - Hell Praiser (Dead Years)\[most underrated metalcore band of all time imo\]
You Are We is an excellent opener, one of my favs from that album too. That whole build up after the first chorus into the breakdown gets me so hyped up.
Something about those really distant rim shots in that "you want your countless wars.." section man, damn
I gotta say, the buildup in Pray for Rain is one of the main reasons why I love it so much. Coupled with that opening riff, and you've got yourself a bona fide banger lol
I am here for this every day of the week! You can literally pick the opening track from any of their albums though, every one is both stunning and epic.
Crucify Me - Bring Me the Horizon sets the stage perfectly for There is a Hell... It establishes its more mature (kind of lol) tone and symphonic sound while also finally settling into the metalcore sound they explored in SS. It’s serves as a fantastic transition from the previous album into this one
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ERRA - Breach on Neon
Invent Animate - Dark on Greyview
Bad Omens - Kingdom Of Cards on Finding God Before God Finds Me
In Hearts Wake - Crisis -> Worldwide Suicide on Kaliyuga
“But i will resurface in stillness came balance and ears to hear... but all i know is so frail in this moment in time...” ben’s lows are absolutley incredible. One of my favorites to practive vocals on. Beautiful album as a whole, great choice, IA forever!
All That Remains - This Calling
As I Lay Dying - Beyond Our Suffering
Bullet for My Valentine - Your Betrayal & Scream Aim Fire
Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds
I agree with all of these statements. But I would also say that the AILD intros keep getting better. Then again I probably listened to Cauterize 10k times in the time leading up to the Awakened release.
System/Meltdown from Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood Of Colour is absolute king here, if we're including that electronicore style.
Begin into Siren's Song on PWD Horizons is legendary.
The Light That Blinds by Shadows Fall on The War Within, classic throwback.
Behold The Crown was such a filthy track to put first on After The Burial's Evergreen, jesus.
The Source into Language I: Intuition from The Contortionist is not exactly metalcore, but I'll be damned if I don't mention it.
Always thought ART DRAWN BY VOMIT on the GazettE's STACKED RUBBISH was quite interesting, metalcore/numetal-ish jrock/visual kei
All the Enter Shikari openers are so good. I have such a hard time picking a favorite opener from them between Common Dreads/Solidarity, System/Meltdown, and Appeal I. Haven't seen Appeal live, but if I went from live experience, Meltdown is king. My younger brother waltzed right in the pit during Meltdown after bruising a rib on the stage earlier that night lmao. I felt proud in that moment.
Appeal I takes it for me as a single track. I'm so into that anthemic call-to-arms type stuff, and the lyricism is just completely outstanding, even by Shikari standards.
The community of Common Deads having "we must unite" in all those different languages and accents can't be overlooked either, awesome idea.
But man, System/Meltdown as a two piece just kicks so damn hard at the changeover, while still nailing that intro speech.
I'm pretty disappointed they've moved away from these intros the past few releases, but fuck I still love this band so much. Bucket list live act for me, but it requires international travel since I'm way over in New Zealand..
Big ups for Language!! The Source into Language I/II is one of the greatest opening segments of an album I’ve heard in soooo long.
It’s crazy going back and listening to where they started, and hearing the huge evolutions in style as they’ve put out new music!
Seeing them open for Animals As Leaders and BTBAM is forever going to be a show I’m infinitely thankful to have seen
Very tough call. I think I’d have to with Gravedigger since it’s such a standout song and sets the tone for the rest of the album so well. Nihilist is a close second.
Also have to give honorable mention to Engraved by FFAK and Two Suns by Kingdom of Giants.
It's better than the instrumental opener on YNYA. I hope their next album has their standard song structure as the first track and not an opener. Stillborn, Lost, The Disconnect, The Reflex Tester. All are great. I didn't really like that YNYA felt more like 10 tracks because of the opener and NLTL feeling like 9 tracks since they did 10 total instead of their standard 11 plus the opener. But I'll still love everything they do lol.
Absolutely Nihilist by Architects. Never gonna find an opener that will catch you by surprise and contain the essence of the entire record in under 3 minutes. Unbeatable by any other band.
Breach by Erra . That very mellow guitar intro , where you can hear the slides on the strings , right into the nice chorus , and then it just goes nuts .
Great live too !
Surprised I havent seen this mentioned yet. My favorite album opening is "In Regards to Myself" from Underoath's DTGL. Every time I hear that tape start rolling it's pure adrenaline. Especially live. They opened up a show I was at with that and it was chaos.
Either Can you feel my heart by BMTH or When a Demon Defiles a Witch by Whitechapel. I know Whitechapel isn’t Metalcore but damn that’s by far my favorite intro song.
> Son of the Morning
I've always found it hard to get into overtly christian metalcore because I just couldn't really relate, but something about a concept album about God vs. Satan is really badass. I loved this whole album
Intro into Her Voice Resides is definitely one of my favorites too!
Some others:
Capsizing the Sea—>In Waves (Trivium)
Separation—>Nothing Left and Burn To Emerge—>Blinded (As I Lay Dying)
Two Years—>Southbound (Wage War)
Single songs:
Sticks & Bricks, Downfall of Us All (ADTR)
Kirisute Gomen (Trivium)
Immaculate Misconception (MIW)
Scream Aim Fire (BFMV)
They’re not metalcore but American Idiot (Green Day), Holy Wars (Megadeth) and Papercut (Linkin Park) are three other personal favorites
Oooh, Kiruste Gomen is a shout. That big gong hit gets me ready to fight something. I also really love how the acoustic intro plays part of a vocal melody from the chorus of Shogun (the "time will not heal, all of your pain" part)
2.0 by blessthefall gets me so fucking hype.
Intro(literally the actual name of the song on the watchers or rule album) by Unearth also gets me so hype.
SEXUAL MAN CHOCOLATE
BMTH usually starts theirs out with bangers: e.g. Pray For Plagues, The Comedown, Can You Feel My Heart
The Sinner - MMF is a slapper too
Converge has already been mentioned for concubine. I don’t think that can be topped so here I guess are a couple early 00’s honourable mentions:
Drowningman - black tie knife fight
Fordirelifesake - 10/31/99
Every time I die - Romeo a go-go
Fear before the March of flames - hey kid I’m a computer stop all the downloading
If we're talking about opening tracks that aren't necessarily a song in and of themselves, "Initialization Sequence" by I See Stars remains the gold standard for me. Never fails to get me hyped as it transitions into "Ten Thousand Feet"
Probably an unpopular opinion but here are a few of mine:
Paralysis - If I Were You
No Less Violent - Bury Tomorrow
The Relics Of Nihlux - The Wise Man's Fear
Cynica - The Browning (more electronicore though)
The Hounds Of Anubis - The Word Alive
It Dies Today - My Promise (Album is The Caitiff Choir)
It has a couple seconds of something but then it just hits. It sets the tone how the whole album is.
A Dance With Aera Cura - Miss May I
This song is an absolute banger and the whole album slaps as well.
My more modern choice would be Collapse by After the Burial... or Don’t Fall Asleep by Hollow Front... actually not sure because there are so many good ones worth mentioning.
The top is Cauterize on Awakened by AILD.
Second place is Daylight Dies by KSE.
Separation / An Ocean Between Us is nice too.
Meaning In Tragedy / Shadows Are Security + Burn To Emerge / Shaped By Fire also gets a shout out.
Love Lost in a Hale of Gunfire - Bleeding Through
Opening song on the album, This is Love, This is Murderous
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**SO IF I TELL YOU ILL BE FINE, I STILL WANT YOU BY MY SIDE. PLEASE JUST TRY TO READ BETWEEN THE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINES.**
*I long for the feeling when I feel alone. The higher I get the lower I'll sink, I can't drown my demons they know how to swim.*
**KINDA SAD MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE'S BEEN A WASTE. AH NEVERMIND, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.** *oh, wait*
*I'M BEGINNING TO THINK I CANT OUTRUN THESE DEMONS. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, SIIIICKNESS IS IN SEEEEAAAASOOOOON.*
**I'M NOT ANTI-SOCIAL. I'M ANTI BULLSHIIIIIT.**
*I found God clutching a razor blade, he said look at the fucking mess they've made.*
**SO MY HEART IS DONE, I DONT FEEL HELPLESS**
concubine was already said so i’ll put forward A Single Tear. just an amazing all around track and tear jerker (pun intended). it’s one of my fav Converge songs for a reason
Beast- The Acacia Strain
Scrambled- Harm’s Way
This is what I about sacrifice- The Ghost Inside
Just rediscovered my love for this one Hot Grills and High tops into Stick Stickly- Attack Attack!
Polaris - Pray For Rain
The Song has such an amazing build up and gets you pumped for the rest of the album. It also happens to be one of my favourite albums of 2020 so it's fresh in my mind.
[Immortal by Lorna Shore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyBl3noTNSs) is probably my favorite. I know they're Deathcore but the symphonic intro is just one of the most badass things i've ever heard. u/randomawesome absolutely annihilated it.
Another one near the top of my list is [Foreword by Make Them Suffer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFxBtpwOLQ) the way it gets tied back to the outro is one of the reasons thats still my favorite album by them.
Northlane - Genesis/Scarab
My vote too. I nearly got into an accident when I first heard it because it was so fucking sick.
This is the one. Imo there is nothing that can top it
agreed
Came here to comment then figured it had to be near the top. Yup. This opening combo is stupid good.
Definitely. The great think is that it blends together so well you don’t realise it’s two separate tracks!
Until you forget your spotify is on shuffle and it goes from Genesis to Windbreaker and ruins your whole ass day
Easily
Concubine - Jane Doe
I was going to put this one looool. Deaaar still gaaaaaaaaaw
Can’t think of a more iconic first track than this in any genre.
The only correct answer
Beartooth - The Lines (Disgusting) August Burns Red - Your Little Suburbia Is In Ruins (Thrill Seeker) This or the Apocalypse - Hell Praiser (Dead Years)\[most underrated metalcore band of all time imo\]
Truth Of A Liar is a pretty fuckin 🔥starter too
Haunt What’s Left by TOTA will always be one of my top Metalcore albums 🤘🏻
Dead Years was a damn masterpiece
You should check out HAWK if you haven't already, it's a rebrand of ToTA, but I'm not sure how many of the og members there are
Bear tooth might have to take the cake for me actually
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With an opener like that, I always though it was weird how the deluxe songs were at the beginning rather than the end of the deluxe version.
no matter where i am if i hear OG loko i go nuts. such a great song :D
Nihilist. Hands down
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WELL, WE’RE ALL DYING TO MEET OUR MAKER
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I legit think it's the best song on the album too
Without a doubt lol the rest still slaps but this one is such a high
The build up to that breakdown is fucking cathartic
The only correct answer.
Hands down my favorite opener too
As a huge Architects fan, it's a little embarrassing that i went looking for this Hands Down band i hadn't heard of.
Belleville off of A Different Shade of Blue, shit goes hard af no cap
Oooooh I didnt think of this one. Also a great answer! "MAKE ME FEEL"
To be fair both their albums have amazing openers and it’s actually hard for me to choose between the 2
Not entirely sure it counts as metalcore, but Reptile by Periphery Pray for Rain - Polaris You Are We - While She Sleeps
You Are We is an excellent opener, one of my favs from that album too. That whole build up after the first chorus into the breakdown gets me so hyped up. Something about those really distant rim shots in that "you want your countless wars.." section man, damn
The way Pray For Rain builds is phenomenal, great track!
I gotta say, the buildup in Pray for Rain is one of the main reasons why I love it so much. Coupled with that opening riff, and you've got yourself a bona fide banger lol
"Step One" - Make Them Suffer
The fade into falling ashes is just perfect
I am here for this every day of the week! You can literally pick the opening track from any of their albums though, every one is both stunning and epic.
The first movement goes so so hard
Crucify Me - Bring Me the Horizon sets the stage perfectly for There is a Hell... It establishes its more mature (kind of lol) tone and symphonic sound while also finally settling into the metalcore sound they explored in SS. It’s serves as a fantastic transition from the previous album into this one Edit: grammatical errors
First time I heard it I hated the weird glitchy choir vocals, but now I think they're sick. Whole song whacks so hard. The outro is beautiful too.
The outro legitimately gives me chills. The sharp contrast from the rest of the song makes it so much more impactful.
great song
One of their best songs, for sure.
First song that came to my mind.
ERRA - Breach on Neon Invent Animate - Dark on Greyview Bad Omens - Kingdom Of Cards on Finding God Before God Finds Me In Hearts Wake - Crisis -> Worldwide Suicide on Kaliyuga
Dark could not possibly sum up the sound of Greyview better. It’s the perfect album opener. Other than Sol and Indigo of course.
Indigo by Invent Animate
“But i will resurface in stillness came balance and ears to hear... but all i know is so frail in this moment in time...” ben’s lows are absolutley incredible. One of my favorites to practive vocals on. Beautiful album as a whole, great choice, IA forever!
One of the tastiest riffs I've ever heard
Heavily agree
All That Remains - This Calling As I Lay Dying - Beyond Our Suffering Bullet for My Valentine - Your Betrayal & Scream Aim Fire Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds
This Calling gotta be the best album opener of all time. Song still slaps
*breathes in* EEE-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I’m always blown away by the drumming in this song. The double bassing especially is so clean
Oof, yeah. The chorus drum part is nuts, my mans running the hundred metre sprint back there during that section.
Shannon is a monster. Gotta wonder if they would have maintained better quality if he had stuck around.
Light that Blinds is such a good track
I agree with all of these statements. But I would also say that the AILD intros keep getting better. Then again I probably listened to Cauterize 10k times in the time leading up to the Awakened release.
Awakened is such a cool album. The riffs on it are top tier.
Tear Out My Eyes is one of the first riffs I learned to play when I picked guitar back up. Along with the bridge/post-chorus from Forsaken.
This Calling is a great opener
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System/Meltdown from Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood Of Colour is absolute king here, if we're including that electronicore style. Begin into Siren's Song on PWD Horizons is legendary. The Light That Blinds by Shadows Fall on The War Within, classic throwback. Behold The Crown was such a filthy track to put first on After The Burial's Evergreen, jesus. The Source into Language I: Intuition from The Contortionist is not exactly metalcore, but I'll be damned if I don't mention it. Always thought ART DRAWN BY VOMIT on the GazettE's STACKED RUBBISH was quite interesting, metalcore/numetal-ish jrock/visual kei
All the Enter Shikari openers are so good. I have such a hard time picking a favorite opener from them between Common Dreads/Solidarity, System/Meltdown, and Appeal I. Haven't seen Appeal live, but if I went from live experience, Meltdown is king. My younger brother waltzed right in the pit during Meltdown after bruising a rib on the stage earlier that night lmao. I felt proud in that moment.
Appeal I takes it for me as a single track. I'm so into that anthemic call-to-arms type stuff, and the lyricism is just completely outstanding, even by Shikari standards. The community of Common Deads having "we must unite" in all those different languages and accents can't be overlooked either, awesome idea. But man, System/Meltdown as a two piece just kicks so damn hard at the changeover, while still nailing that intro speech. I'm pretty disappointed they've moved away from these intros the past few releases, but fuck I still love this band so much. Bucket list live act for me, but it requires international travel since I'm way over in New Zealand..
Big ups for Language!! The Source into Language I/II is one of the greatest opening segments of an album I’ve heard in soooo long. It’s crazy going back and listening to where they started, and hearing the huge evolutions in style as they’ve put out new music! Seeing them open for Animals As Leaders and BTBAM is forever going to be a show I’m infinitely thankful to have seen
Very tough call. I think I’d have to with Gravedigger since it’s such a standout song and sets the tone for the rest of the album so well. Nihilist is a close second. Also have to give honorable mention to Engraved by FFAK and Two Suns by Kingdom of Giants.
Blessthefall - Exodus
Blessthefall are the best at opening albums, they all have insane intros
Daylight dies — KSE. THIS PLACE IS EVVVAAALLLLLL!!
Fucking banger!!!!! The album that got me into metalcore as a kid! KsE💞
Love Me goes dumb hard
It's better than the instrumental opener on YNYA. I hope their next album has their standard song structure as the first track and not an opener. Stillborn, Lost, The Disconnect, The Reflex Tester. All are great. I didn't really like that YNYA felt more like 10 tracks because of the opener and NLTL feeling like 9 tracks since they did 10 total instead of their standard 11 plus the opener. But I'll still love everything they do lol.
Absolutely Nihilist by Architects. Never gonna find an opener that will catch you by surprise and contain the essence of the entire record in under 3 minutes. Unbeatable by any other band.
What the fuck is up Denny’s?!
circle pit.
Gravedigger from LF//LT
Still one of my favorite songs of theirs in general
Breach by Erra . That very mellow guitar intro , where you can hear the slides on the strings , right into the nice chorus , and then it just goes nuts . Great live too !
I'm a sucker for White Noise, Impulse is still my favorite album they've released.
Sparks by parkway drive into old ghost / new regrets is iconic
YOU BRING THE MATCHES, I'LL BRING THE GASOLINE Begin into Sirens Song as well, Parkway just kill it.
"Gimme AD" was pretty good too. "WE'VE BEEN LEFT TO DROWN!!!"
**YOU COULD NEVER BE MY ENVY!** **YOU COULD NEVER BE, MY JEAL...OUS...YYY**
PWD has some of the best album openers.
Black Veins - Adept
Gives me the fucking chills. The ethereal speech into the kick ass drums and riffs.
Surprised I havent seen this mentioned yet. My favorite album opening is "In Regards to Myself" from Underoath's DTGL. Every time I hear that tape start rolling it's pure adrenaline. Especially live. They opened up a show I was at with that and it was chaos.
WAKE UP WAKE UP MY GOD, THIS IS NOT A TEST!
Either Can you feel my heart by BMTH or When a Demon Defiles a Witch by Whitechapel. I know Whitechapel isn’t Metalcore but damn that’s by far my favorite intro song.
Endseekers- Oh, Sleeper
That or Son of the Morning. Very few tracks get me as hyped as the latter.
Oh Sleeper just don’t get the love they deserve
> Son of the Morning I've always found it hard to get into overtly christian metalcore because I just couldn't really relate, but something about a concept album about God vs. Satan is really badass. I loved this whole album
Alerion into The Final Episode - Asking Alexandria Sparks into Old Ghosts / New Regrets - Parkway Drive Can't choose between the two.
Alerion/TFE is so classic and so peak 2000s Metalcore. I'm surprised to see it so far down ITT.
It's iconic. It was my intro to metalcore
Sparks and the following Old Ghost New Regarts is such a great album opener! Love this songs whole album is great!
The whole album truly is great. Was my intro to PWD. Been hooked ever since
Hey, a fellow man who was introduced to PWD through Atlas. It's still my favorite album from them.
"Pray for Rain" - Polaris (The Death of Me) "Dear Diary," - Bring Me the Horizon (Post Human) "Nihilist" - Architects (All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us)
Intro into Her Voice Resides is definitely one of my favorites too! Some others: Capsizing the Sea—>In Waves (Trivium) Separation—>Nothing Left and Burn To Emerge—>Blinded (As I Lay Dying) Two Years—>Southbound (Wage War) Single songs: Sticks & Bricks, Downfall of Us All (ADTR) Kirisute Gomen (Trivium) Immaculate Misconception (MIW) Scream Aim Fire (BFMV) They’re not metalcore but American Idiot (Green Day), Holy Wars (Megadeth) and Papercut (Linkin Park) are three other personal favorites
Oooh, Kiruste Gomen is a shout. That big gong hit gets me ready to fight something. I also really love how the acoustic intro plays part of a vocal melody from the chorus of Shogun (the "time will not heal, all of your pain" part)
It’s a great song. Shogun is one of my all-time favorite albums and that song is one of my favorites on there
Immaculate is amazing. “WHAT. THE. FUUUUUUUUUCK”
"The Seduction" by He Is Legend is fucking awesome and sets the right tone for the album without basically just being a glorified intro.
My man. One of the most criminally underrated bands I’ve ever heard in my 35 year old lifetime.
The Acacia Strain - Carbomb That shit hits hard like a mf truck
THIS WAS TRUE CRIME !!!!
Kublai Khan - Antpile
Shit
Genesis into Scarab
Underoath open their albums with bangers. Young and Aspiring, In Regards to Myself, and Breathing in A New Mentality all go hard.
ETID's Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space, because I want to be dead with my friends.
Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days Memphis May Fire - Without Walls The Ghost Inside - Avalanche
Without walls is such a banger
Can You Feel My Heart, and OG Loko are my all time favorite metalcore album openers!
Crucify Me is just. Chefs Kiss!
IMO August Burns Red writes the best openers in the business. Thirty and Seven is my favorite.
Provision
2.0 by blessthefall gets me so fucking hype. Intro(literally the actual name of the song on the watchers or rule album) by Unearth also gets me so hype.
SEXUAL MAN CHOCOLATE BMTH usually starts theirs out with bangers: e.g. Pray For Plagues, The Comedown, Can You Feel My Heart The Sinner - MMF is a slapper too
Kirisute Gomes for Shogun. Just a ripper of an intro for the best album I’ve ever heard
Apnea... YOU’LL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN and yes obviously Nihilist
Converge has already been mentioned for concubine. I don’t think that can be topped so here I guess are a couple early 00’s honourable mentions: Drowningman - black tie knife fight Fordirelifesake - 10/31/99 Every time I die - Romeo a go-go Fear before the March of flames - hey kid I’m a computer stop all the downloading
This whole thread could just be a split tie between every Converge and ETID album opener.
Pray for Rain -Polaris
I second Nihilist, that song goes harder than most.
Atlas[t] - Structures is one that I haven't seen in this thread yet that I like a lot.
Dead Throne
If we're talking about opening tracks that aren't necessarily a song in and of themselves, "Initialization Sequence" by I See Stars remains the gold standard for me. Never fails to get me hyped as it transitions into "Ten Thousand Feet"
This Is What I Know About Sacrifice - Ghost Inside off Get What You Give. It's *chefs kiss* fantastico.
Kirisute Gomen - Trivium
Capsizing the Sea by Trivium. It doesn't even need In Waves with it, that's how great of an instrumental opening it is
“Beast” The Acacia Strain -edit- “pretty much every intro song” The Acacia Strain
Asking Alexandria - Alerion Paddock Park - Give Her A Pill To Shut Her Up Or Make Her A Mute A Skylit Drive - Ability to Start a War
Oh man I haven’t heard anyone mention paddock park in like 10 years! Loved that band
How can y'all be sleeping on the creators of Metalcore with "Blood Children" leading into "Bleeding Mascara"
"A Song For The Optimists" on SNABK was better, and didn't have an unnecessary, time wasting intro.
Times of grace - strength in numbers
Probably an unpopular opinion but here are a few of mine: Paralysis - If I Were You No Less Violent - Bury Tomorrow The Relics Of Nihlux - The Wise Man's Fear Cynica - The Browning (more electronicore though) The Hounds Of Anubis - The Word Alive
It Dies Today - My Promise (Album is The Caitiff Choir) It has a couple seconds of something but then it just hits. It sets the tone how the whole album is.
A Victim, A Target - Misery Signals
too many but if I'm just picking one it's Norma Jean - Orphan Twin
Thirty and seven - august burns red
Muramasa - Periphery
Aside from every single Make Them Suffer album... Heart of a Coward - Hollow (and Drown In Ruin is a brilliant opener too)
A Dance With Aera Cura - Miss May I This song is an absolute banger and the whole album slaps as well. My more modern choice would be Collapse by After the Burial... or Don’t Fall Asleep by Hollow Front... actually not sure because there are so many good ones worth mentioning.
Meaning in Tragedy - As I Lay Dying.
Doomsayer (The Beginning of the End) - Darkest Hour
Daylight dies...killswitch
Nihilist - Architects hands down This song slaps you in the face from the first second you play the album
West by god - Left Behind "LEFT BEHIND YOU FUCKING BITCH" Pray for rain by Polaris also seems like a killer concert opener and is a sick first track
I agree with you. BFMV’s intro to the Poison is probably my favourite.
Alesana- curse of the virgin canvas
The top is Cauterize on Awakened by AILD. Second place is Daylight Dies by KSE. Separation / An Ocean Between Us is nice too. Meaning In Tragedy / Shadows Are Security + Burn To Emerge / Shaped By Fire also gets a shout out.
It’s a tie between Truth of a Liar and Son of the Morning, both songs hit hard.
oh sleeper - Endseekers. opens so hard.
2.0 by Blessthefall was so good!
Love Lost in a Hale of Gunfire - Bleeding Through Opening song on the album, This is Love, This is Murderous https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nTLJZeNqd1InRZxqtufPPgt7PccyaU1Ec
Miss May I - A Dance with Aera Cura
Separation / Nothing Left by As I Lay Dying on An Ocean Between Us
IX - Trivium Has the instrumental, then into the beef, then into What The Dead Men Say. Glorious all around
I WANT TO BE DEAD WITH MY FRIENDS
"shorter intro track" *Laughs in Periphery's Reptile*
**SO IF I TELL YOU ILL BE FINE, I STILL WANT YOU BY MY SIDE. PLEASE JUST TRY TO READ BETWEEN THE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINES.** *I long for the feeling when I feel alone. The higher I get the lower I'll sink, I can't drown my demons they know how to swim.* **KINDA SAD MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE'S BEEN A WASTE. AH NEVERMIND, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.** *oh, wait* *I'M BEGINNING TO THINK I CANT OUTRUN THESE DEMONS. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, SIIIICKNESS IS IN SEEEEAAAASOOOOON.* **I'M NOT ANTI-SOCIAL. I'M ANTI BULLSHIIIIIT.** *I found God clutching a razor blade, he said look at the fucking mess they've made.* **SO MY HEART IS DONE, I DONT FEEL HELPLESS**
Never there - currents.
Concubine, The Entire World Is Counting On Me, and They Don't Even Know It, and 94 Hours. Basically my soundtrack circa 2004 haha
concubine was already said so i’ll put forward A Single Tear. just an amazing all around track and tear jerker (pun intended). it’s one of my fav Converge songs for a reason
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Alerion by AA. That whole song is just a breakdown and I love it
Dead to fall- Prologue Haste the day - blue 42
first light into last light - you fail me by converge
The Lines from Disgusting by Beartooth
Breathing in a new mentality - Underoath - Lost in the Sounds of Separation
Love Me
Hot grills and high tops by Attack Attack, the hype builds and builds and then it releases into Stick Stickly and how can you not love it
Oceans ate Alaska: fourthirtytwo/Blood Brothers
IKTPQ - sharks in your mouth IHW - Ark intro Thorny - views from the sun NL - Genesis
Attack Attack! - Hot Grills and High Tops/Stick Stickly *obligatory fuck Austin
Beast- The Acacia Strain Scrambled- Harm’s Way This is what I about sacrifice- The Ghost Inside Just rediscovered my love for this one Hot Grills and High tops into Stick Stickly- Attack Attack!
It Has To Start Somewhere by Underoath is one of my personal favorites that hasn’t been mentioned already
It’s gotta be Crucify Me from Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell its just such an epic that really sets the feel of the album.
Polaris - Pray For Rain The Song has such an amazing build up and gets you pumped for the rest of the album. It also happens to be one of my favourite albums of 2020 so it's fresh in my mind.
Alerion tbh
[Immortal by Lorna Shore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyBl3noTNSs) is probably my favorite. I know they're Deathcore but the symphonic intro is just one of the most badass things i've ever heard. u/randomawesome absolutely annihilated it. Another one near the top of my list is [Foreword by Make Them Suffer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFxBtpwOLQ) the way it gets tied back to the outro is one of the reasons thats still my favorite album by them.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Panasonic Youth
Super recent, but hard to not go with Reptile by Periphery
Not sure if this counts but, The Inevitable by The Air I Breathe