Best Metal Intro Songs

The best intro songs in heavy metal. By intro I mean short songs that typically are the first track of an album.
The Top Ten
1 Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold

I don't know what it is about this song that I find really catchy for it being a minute and a half -. -

It's a relax kind of intro, then Unholy Confessions kicks in and it's so epic.

Great for the small amount of time it consumes.

2 Now Let Them Tremble - All That Remains

Awesome song that leads into the album's title track, For We Are Many.

3 A Cold Day in Hell - Winds of Plague

This intro is really awesome with great symphonic background music

4 The End of Everything - Trivium

This one has a sort of sinister vibe to it. Sounds awesome.

This is the perfect way to start off an album.

5 Induction - Gamma Ray

The most commanding intro song and the best I know - 1:01 min long (2001 album). Should be #1.
Lyrics with deep meaning. Same for the song that follows (Dethrone Tyranny).

6 Crystal Ann - Annihilator

Brilliant soft acoustic intro song (1:40 min) to a thrash album.

7 Necrotizing - Whitechapel
8 Inquisition - Blind Guardian

This intro song is a Gregorian chant and it's the first track of the album Follow the Blind. It's logically followed by a song called Banish From Sanctuary. While the intro is slow and soft, the song Banish From Sanctuary is quite fast and heavy, and I love this contrast.

9 To End the Rapture - Avenged Sevenfold

This song has an awesome guitar solo.

10 In Sacred Flames - Iced Earth
The Contenders
11 Overture - Savatage

A 1:50 min long instrumental piece - prog and symphonic elements are well combined to create a really impressive sound.
1996 album.

12 Separation - As I Lay Dying

Really sad sounding intro with an awesome guitar melody.

13 Rites of Passage - Demons and Wizards
14 Painkiller - Judas Priest

It's not an intro song - it's a full length song. Intro songs are short, 1-2 min.

15 Enter the Realm - Iced Earth
16 Intro - Bullet for My Valentine

It's got a symphonic background like A Cold Day In Hell but with a guitar solo in it.

17 Unbreakable (Part 1) - Primal Fear

An instrumental piece of symphonic metal type - 1:40 min long (2012 album).

18 War Pigs - Black Sabbath

It's not an intro song - it's a full length song. Intro songs are short, 1-2 min.

19 Judgement - Chelsea Grin
20 Countdown to Insanity - Primal Fear
21 742617000027 - Slipknot
22 Neon Knights - Black Sabbath

It's not an intro song - it's a full length song. Intro songs are short, 1-2 min.

23 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Primal Fear
24 Ace of Spades - Motörhead
25 Peace Sells - Megadeth

This intro alone makes me want to play bass. Ellefson killed. It's so catchy too!

Not an intro song.

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