Top Ten Music Genres with the Best Intros
Thrash Metal is a Heavy Metal subgenre developed during the early 1980s and an early precursor of Extreme Metal. Thrash Metal features a faster and more aggressive guitar work than Traditional Metal with shredding and double-bass drums and can range from melodic singing to loud shouts.The English band, Venom is credited for laying the groundwork for Thrash Metal with their debut album "Welcome... read more
Yes, the famous thrash riffs. Famous for a reason.
Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Progressive rock is a genre where humanity can never run out of ideas. Together with jazz, you have the most possibilities to write songs. No wonder why is there no more boogie these days: there were so many regulations that nearly everything sounded the same.
A lot of times, prog songs open with an intro that just takes you on a musical journey and gets you excited for what's going to come next.
Hard Rock is a subgenre of rock music known for having heavier guitar riffs/solos. It originated around 1964-1965 with various Garage Rock bands. The otherwise spam voted Top 10 Instantly Recognizable Song Intros list is full of hard rock songs.
Very good intros. One of my favorites is The Trooper by Iron Maiden.
I tried to listen to different death metal bands more times (didn't succeed), I always loved the songs until the singing started.
Edit: this is only partially true now
Check out "And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope" by Ne Obliviscaris.
Already here at #9
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music".
Although for me, experimental isn't a genre, it is anything that doesn't want ot fit it any other genres.
You can detect the genre in two seconds. Ragtime songs also make me think of Chaplin.
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
Rock music is a music genre that was created in the 1940s. The genre was popular during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Rock bands generally consists of a guitar player, a drummer, bass player and singer. There are many rock subgenres - such as heavy metal, alternative, hard rock, grunge, and more. Notable rock bands and music artists include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Van Halen, Foo Fighters,... read more (for @LightningStrike:) What did you mean by Rock and Roll in your remix? In my country, "rock and roll" only refers to the 1950s genre with dominant second and fourth crotchets. However, on this site, it seems people use it for classic rock, or for any kind of rock music.
Public Enemy,Tupac and Eminem(I don't know if Eminem counts as old school to be honest) have amazing intros
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s. Just listen to the opening of the song Lithium which is by Nirvana
Punk rock is a subgenre of rock music. It usually has rebellious lyrics and down stroked power chords played on guitars. Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, and Green Day (actually pop-punk, which is still punk in a way) are a few punk rock bands. The subgenre influenced thrash metal because of it's down stroked guitar playing and other factors. Punk to the bones
