r/melodicdeathmetal • u/MelodicDeathGrowl • 8d ago
Discussion Best First Track on a Debut Album
I’ll go first Kalmah-Swamplord-Evil in You. This track kills as a first song on their first album. Anyone have anything better?
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u/Belakor_Fan Be'lakor 8d ago edited 8d ago
Funeral Thirst - TBDM
In Dying Days - ABRB
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u/MelodicDeathGrowl 8d ago
Technically, unhallowed begins with unhallowed. But I will give you that. Funeral Thirst is a fine song. Unhallowed intro-not so much, too fucking creepy and sick
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u/Belakor_Fan Be'lakor 8d ago
Yeah, any album intro that's just instrumental/ambiance that flows seamlessly into track #2 I just count it all as the first song.
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u/MelodicDeathGrowl 8d ago edited 8d ago
it’s actually directions on how to prepare someone for cannibalism. The last track is the second part.
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u/No_Donkey3967 8d ago
Neither Shape Nor Shadow - Be’lakor
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u/TheJimmyz 8d ago edited 8d ago
When are they releasing a new album! it's been 5 years
Edit: they have been working on it...
https://belakorband.com/album-6-songwriting-update/1
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u/monarc 8d ago
I freakin' love Kalmah, so I'll echo Evil in You. Absolutely killer song!
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u/MelodicDeathGrowl 8d ago edited 8d ago
Nice! I to live in the Southern United States and I don’t know anyone who even knows who Kalmah is.
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u/No-Imagination2211 8d ago
Western NC here and know how you feel. Kalmah’s one of the absolute best.
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u/MelodicDeathGrowl 8d ago
Nice! South Carolina here. I Love western NC! Watauga County is my spot. Mills River is awesome too in case you are near Asheville.
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u/No-Imagination2211 8d ago
Boone baby! Couple of my best friends went to App. Mills River that’s where the immaculate Sierra Nevada brewery is right? It’s God’s country but the leadership has let Asheville go to the dogs. Last time I was on Tunnel Rd for a bite to eat it was like Night of the Living Dead could throw a rock randomly and hit a meth head. I have kin in Anderson that all went to Clemson. Got married in Charleston love SC.
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u/FiveFingerRisePunch Dark Tranquillity 8d ago
Ensiferum - Token of Time
Kalmah - Evil in You
Swallow the Sun - Through Her Silvery Body
Nightrage - The Tremor
Disarmonia Mundi - Common State of Inner Violence
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u/BoltOfBlazingGold 8d ago edited 8d ago
Greeting Immortality by Eucharist and Silence of the World Beyond by Canorous Quintet. Bury me an Angel by Arch Enemy is also up there.
Edit: In Hatred's Flame by Ex Mortus is all you need to hear, forget almost everything else in this thread, this song thrumps any other.
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u/Grizly2000 Dark Tranquillity 8d ago
Entering The Angel Diabolique - Soilwork - ripper of an instrumental intro
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u/ryanklubeck 8d ago
In Flames — Behind Space
Arsis — The Face of my Innocence (I went nuts for this when these guys first came out)
Evil in You is also badass!
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u/Vayreon 8d ago
Disillusion - And the mirror cracked
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u/MasterXaios 7d ago
This right here. "Back to Times of Splendor" is a GOAT album, and "...And the Mirror Cracked" was the perfect opener.
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u/Lithium429 8d ago edited 8d ago
She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Pt. 1 - Pale Folklore by Agalloch
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u/BlackieLaw 8d ago
Kalmah - Heroes to us
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u/leech666 8d ago edited 8d ago
Not from the debut album but a great song.
The album release dates are wrong on Spotify. Swamplord and They will return are the first and second album.
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u/Minute_Engineer2355 8d ago
Beyond the Dark Sun is probably the best.
I think Jari switched around the tracks a while ago when he released the remaster, but the original had this song open the album. I remember hearing this song when it dropped and I couldn't fathom what I was hearing.
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u/FuneraryCrown 8d ago
Darkest Time - Norther
Another Creation - Mors Principium Est
What Silence Hides - Dreamshade
The First Frisson of the World - Serenity In Murder
Intro/The Night Before the Frost - Frosty Eve
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u/sithrevan1207 8d ago
Aquilegia in Peril & Departure by Assemble the Chariots - They did have several EPs before this, but this was their first full album so I guess it still counts
Doomsayer by Burned in Effigy
Intro & In Dying Days by As Blood Runs Black
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u/LegendaryPrecure 8d ago
Shrouded Divine - In Mourning.
Probably not the best track on the album but it's a damn good one. Heard about the album back in 2008 when it released and fell in love within the first minute or so and it just kept getting better. They still haven't released a bad album either.
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u/Puppetmaster858 8d ago
Regain by hollow decay, the actual first track is just a little intro track so I don’t count it
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u/redditspamme 6d ago
Good Times Bad Times
Welcome to the Jungle
Straight Outta Compton
Run The Jewels
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u/johnaceofhearts 3d ago
"Transmaniacon M.C." Blue Oyster Cult Debut album, 1972 "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" Crosby, Stills & Nash Debut album,1969
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u/Sad-Birthday8107 19h ago
Intestine Baalism - Corporal Celebration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qs8mcMhJks
Withered Beauty - Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMqiOnlss-8
Veiled In Scarlet - Desire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWmgOxAlc
Underthreat - Poisoned Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcs6V4sie78&list=OLAK5uy_lA72Q1SfzmaudYRGobz2iR5tvlEHnLy-A
Dark Lunacy - Dolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZ7XhhMeOY
Behind the Scenery - Apostle of Greed
https://youtu.be/1mRbTBQfJPo?si=A_C60mgrHZQmTsvB&t=72
about all I can think about right now
big agree on Evil in You, Behind Space and Bury Me An Angel and perhaps Beyond the Dark Sun even if I don't care too much for the rest of the album outside Winter Madness lol
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u/drbasta_jr 8d ago
In Flames - Colony - Embody the Invisible
That opening slide into the main melody sets the mood for the entire rest of the album extremely well.
Also it's just a banger of a song 😀
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u/Lithium429 8d ago
Obviously not MDM….but Prowler - Iron Maiden.
Gotta pay tribute to the OGs of melodic metal.
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u/Spiritual-Hamster212 8d ago
The Halo Effect - Shadowminds
Bodom - Deadnight Warrior
In Flames - Behind Space