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A Sub-Trope of Epic Rocking. In essence, this is when a song has a long instrumental lead-in. It may be part of the song itself, causing the routine overlap with Limited Lyrics Song. When the instrumental is combined with the track that follows, we might have Siamese Twin Songs. A variation on the overture, common to Operas, Musicals, and some films. Done right, it can produce an interesting buildup. Done badly, and it will suffer Slow-Paced Beginning syndrome. Contrast with Lyrical Cold Open. |
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A typical Dream Theater song will usually have at least a minute of instrumentals before the vocals kick in, often much longer. Dream Theater have a possible inversion. The 3-minute song Vacant leads into the 11-minute instrumental Stream of Consciousness. "A Change Of Seasons"'s intro runs about 4 1/2 minutes. The track itself clocks in around the 24-minute mark. The longest ones were probably "Octavarium", where the first lyrics aren't sung until 5 and a half minutes in (this intro was probably a tribute to Pink Floyd's "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"), and "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", which not only begins with a nearly seven-minute-long overture but ends with a 2-minute-long keyboard note that fades out slowly. "In the Presence of Enemies" starts out with 5 minutes and 12 seconds of instrumentals before the vocals finally start. |
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"Sacred Worlds", the opener to the Blind Guardian album At The Edge of Time, has a minute-and-a-half of instrumental build-up before the guitars kick-in. The song is even Book Ended by another instrumental section leading it out. | |
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Metallica's "Some Kind of Monster" (from St. Anger). The vocals don't start until about 2 minutes in; it's an 8-minute song. They have many more. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has a 2-minute intro... for a 5-minute song! The first part of that intro is a wah-infused bass part by Cliff Burton. From their first album, Cliff's arguably sloppyish bass solo "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth" segues into "Whiplash". "One". Metallica are probably the reason so many metal bands use a peaceful-sounding instrumental intro to their songs; "Fight Fire With Fire", "Battery" and "Blackened" all have it. Granted, this sort of thing was done by Black Sabbath as well but the songs were usually indexed separately. And, of course, the famous intro to "Enter Sandman". |
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The vocals for Versailles' "Faith & Decision" begin seven minutes into the sixteen-and-a-half-minute-long song. | |
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Caravan have several examples, the most obvious being "Nine Feet Underground", which takes six minutes to get into the vocal section. A few of their songs invert the trope, such as "Can't Be Long Now / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock", which only has vocals in the first section and goes on for several minutes after. | |
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Out of the Blue actually has two: First is "Believe Me Now", which leads into "Steppin' Out". The second one is part of the opening track to the four-song "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite, starting with "Standin' in the Rain" (again integrated into the first two minutes of the song itself). |
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"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" by The Temptations has a nearly 4-minute-long instrumental opening. | |
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This is a recurring aspect of Rush's longer songs: "Xanadu" and "Cygnus X-1" both have about 5 minutes of music before the vocals come in. "2112" opens with a 4-minute Overture. "The Camera Eye" has about 3 and a half minutes of instrumentals at the beginning. There is another Epic Overture to "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres", lasting 3 minutes. The same happens in their shorter songs, as well. "Subdivisions" starts with a 1 minute instrumental, and the obscure "Before and After" starts with a 2-minute intro. |
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Fluxion by The Ocean opens with "Nazca", a sludgy, heavy opener. | |
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Iolanthe: "The Law is the true embodiment" is preceded by entrance music which is long and elaborate enough that "Entrance of Lord Chancellor" is indexed separately in some editions of the vocal score. | |
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"Magic Pig Detective" by Melvins starts with three and a half minutes of ambient guitar feedback - it then segues into a faster section with vocals, which only lasts about two minutes. | |
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Many Guns N' Roses songs, including Signature Songs "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Sweet Child O'Mine". The most blatant is "November Rain", where the orchestral intro doesn't seem to end. | |
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Several songs by Theocracy feature long introductory instrumental sections. I AM, for example, doesn't have vocals until 1:46, and Laying the Demon to Rest is instrumental until 1:35. The Healing Hand lasts 73 seconds without vocals. Naturally, all of these songs are longer than 9 minutes. | |
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"I Need A Lover" by John Mellencamp goes on for 2:20 before John starts singing. | |
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"Crazy On You" by Heart has an acoustic guitar intro of about a minute, before the main rocking riff, and eventually vocals, start. | |
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The Radiators (US): "Number Two Pencil" from their first album, Work Done on Premises opens with a lengthy duel between the guitars and keyboard. | |
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Avenged Sevenfold is fond of instrumental intros that are one, one-and-and-half or even two minutes long − most notably in "Strength Of The World" from City of Evil, in "Save Me" from Nightmare and in "Exist" from The Stage. The last example starts with a 90-seconds synth intro before a 5-minute-long metal instrumental, with lyrics starting about seven minutes into a sixteen-minute song. | |
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"Remnants" from Disturbed's Asylum album, which is also the opener to the album's title track. It starts with a mournful acoustic segment, soft drumming, and droning bass before the amplification comes in, after which it starts to take a few cues from classic Metallica. The song "Asylum" officially starts at 2:43, segueing into a guitar sustain and thundering bass along with the lead singer's Evil Laugh. | |
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"2112" opens with a 4-minute Overture. | |
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"The Passing" by Lamb of God. | |
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Burzum is no stranger to this, the most notable example being the song "Det Som Engang Var", where the vocals don't come in until the 4:53 mark. | |
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Miyamoto Shunichi's "Caged Bird" (from D.N.Angel) has a near two-minute piano intro, and its gorgeous and utterly heartbreaking. | |
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"I Robot" from I, Robot is a robotic sound that slowly fades in and then gets backed by an Ethereal Choir. | |
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Kansas's "Song for America" has an intro of a few minutes. "Magnum Opus" might count as well, although most of the song is instrumental, with only one verse of singing in the middle of its eight minutes. | |
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Slayer's "Darkness of Christ" off of God Hates Us All. "Raining Blood" has a 1:20 minute intro before the lyrics kick in. "Seasons In The Abyss" has a two minute intro. |
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Ultravox: "Western Promise" opens with a two-minute instrumental section in a five-minute song. | |
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The keyboard riff from The Who's "Baba O'Riley". Also "Won't Get Fooled Again" from the same album. "Eminence Front" from It's Hard opens with a jam that falls just short of the two-minute mark. |
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Nightwish's song "Music" opens with a three-minute-long instrumental. And "The Greatest Show On Earth" goes on for slightly under four minutes before the first lyrics are heard. Of course, there's still another 20 minutes of the song ahead at that point. | |
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"Eldorado Overture" from Eldorado, which opens with Jeff Lynne reciting a "voice-of-God" prologue to the song over subdued instruments before the instrumental climbs to its climax. | |
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Panopticon, being such a lover of Epic Rocking, uses this frequently. An extreme example is "...speaking..." which doesn't feature vocals until the 6:42 mark; that's over halfway through the song and enough to classify as Epic Rocking by TVTropes' definition in and of itself. The shorter "collapsed" version has vocals that enter at 5:35, which is also just over halfway through the song. | |
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While AC/DC does not always use this trope, it appears in several songs such as "Hells Bells" (one minute and a half in of a 5-minute song), "The Razors Edge" (a minute and a half in for the main vocals, with some undertone used after around 45 seconds), "Walk All Over You" (at 1:15 in), and "For Those About to Rock" (at 45 seconds). It is worth noting that their songs usually averages between 3 and 5 minutes long. | |
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Bush's "Comedown" has about a minute of music before Gavin Rossdale starts singing. | |
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"Mannen i den vita hatten" by the famous Swedish band Kent has a 1:38 long intro. | |
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"Prologue" from Time does the same thing, though the buildup leads straight into the next track. | |
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U.K. have "Alaska", an instrumental that starts slow and quiet and gets faster and louder, and which serves as an opening for the next song, "Time to Kill". | |
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Trance tracks usually have minute or longer length percussion intros to facilitate DJ mixing, but the original version of Underworld's "Born Slippy"(not NUXX) has a rather elaborate 3-minute breakbeat intro before the synth melody kicks in. | |
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About half of "Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes is the instrumental opening. Since this song isn't very long, there isn't much time left for actual lyrics. | |
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The Cure's "Fascination Street" has a 2:23 intro (out of a total time of 5:16). A vast number of Cure songs boast long intros, invariably combined with Epic Rocking. Almost every album has at least one. |
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Some older movies, such as Lawrence of Arabia, feature overtures set to blank screens, mirroring a lowered curtain. The opening credits sequence of a more recent movie may resemble an overture, with visuals restricted to the credits themselves or general establishing shots. | |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra is a fan of this trope. Some of their longer songs have long opening instrumental sections, and they have a few short instrumental tracks that lead into other songs. | |
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Iron Maiden has an upbeat instrumental track, "Transylvania", which segues into the vocal ballad "Strange World". | |
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Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Murder Mix)", and "Turn Around and Count 2 Ten" to a lesser extent. | |
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Two of Foals' oldest songs contain lengthy intros. Try This on Your Piano has 42 seconds of intro, while Look at My Furrows of Worry takes 1:39 to kick in with vocals | |
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Matthew Good's song Champions of Nothing (off the album Hospital Music) starts with an instrumental that lasts for 3 minutes, full of looping sounds and repeating riffs, and then launches into a bridge rather than a verse. | |
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"War Pigs" by Black Sabbath has a fairly lengthy dirge of an intro, featuring an air-raid siren. "Fairies Wear Boots" and "Into the Void" both have intros that run for a minute and a half. Both have their own names, "Jack the Stripper" and "Death Mask," though they aren't always listed. And if you count "Bassically" as part of N.I.B. it takes almost a minute for the vocals to come in. The eponymous song "Black Sabbath" has an ominously slow buildup that begins with church bells in the rain. The longish intro to "The Wizard", featuring a harmonica, also could qualify. |
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Cheap Trick's cover of "Ain't That a Shame" | |
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Peter Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do". | |
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The 2014 remix of "Get Wild" by TM Network (famously used as the ending theme for City Hunter) is twice as long as the original, with the intro extended from around 30 seconds to two and a half minutes. Live versions are even longer, with one version having eleven minutes of intro. | |
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A fair amount of Phish tracks do this, such as "You Enjoy Myself", "Run Like an Antelope", and "Seven Below". | |
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Iron Maiden has a few of those. For actual length, "Caught Somewhere in Time" (1 1/2 minutes) and "Face in the Sand" (nearly 2 minutes). Iron Maiden has an upbeat instrumental track, "Transylvania", which segues into the vocal ballad "Strange World". |
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The eponymous side-long title track of Close to the Edge by Yes opens with a gaggle of environmental sound (birds chirping and what sounds like a rushing waterfall) which fades into a two-minute assault of seemingly chaotic guitar racket, occasionally overlaid with Jon Anderson's high-pitched, wordless chanting. Around the three-minute mark, a proper melody finally starts to emerge from the chaos, and it is only at the four-minute mark that Anderson steps in with probably the most cryptic, mind-boggling Word Salad Lyrics he'd ever write this side of Tales from Topographic Oceans. "Heart of the Sunrise" from Fragile has a three and a half minute bass intro before getting to the first verse. |
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Kamelot takes way over a minute to set the scene for their song "Seal of Woven Years". | |
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Genesis and the opening 2 songs of the album Duke. Takes a couple of minutes for "Behind the Lines" to start the vocals, and a minute or so for "Duchess" to start. "Watcher of the Skies" has a Mellotron(!) Epic Riff as an instrumental opener. Also, "Firth of Fifth" has a minute of elaborate piano instrumental before the lyrics start. |
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Clan of Xymox's "Stranger" has a 5-minute warmup before the vocals kick in, and those only last for a single stanza. The Matters of Mind Body, and Soul album has the 7-minute overture "Once in a Blue Moon" leading into "She's Falling in Love", and on a smaller scale, "Hector 00-00"->"I Close My Eyes". | |
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Iced Earth's The Glorious Burden starts with an instrumental version of The Star-Spangled Banner which leads directly into Declaration Day. High Water Mark begins with two minutes of drum pounding. |
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HIM are pretty fond of this trope; you could easily list half their catalog, but perhaps the most notable example would be "Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly". | |
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Supergrass' "Tales of Endurance Parts 4,5, and 6," the opening track to their superb Road to Rouen. Presumably, the intro is Part 4. | |
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"Heart of the Sunrise" from Fragile has a three and a half minute bass intro before getting to the first verse. | |
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Similarly, 1974's Red, consisting mostly of outtakes (extremely high-quality outtakes, mind you) from the previous two albums, opens with an eponymous eight-minute instrumental track. Structurally a pop song, with verses, a chorus, a middle-eight, and everything, the song once again has no lyrics and is filled with even more distorted, hyper-aggressive (for the period) riffage that seemed to point the way for everything from punk to grunge to death metal. | |
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The intro track "Prologue: Earthrise" on Genki Rockets' Heavenly Star album is a prelude to the title track, although it doesn't directly precede it track-wise, segue-ing to "Breeze" instead. The game Child of Eden somewhat inverts this by making it the last song of Archive 5 before the credits sequence, after two remixes of "Heavenly Star". | |
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Armin Van Buuren's 76 album begins with an ambient intro track titled "Prodemium" that segues into "Precious". Later pieces by him with orchestral openings included "Hymne/Sail", "Miserere/Rush Hour", and "Desiderium 207 / Mirage"(in which case it's an epic One-Woman Wail vocal opener). | |
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Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir often open their songs with ominous orchestration before the heavy guitars and the screaming starts. This is fairly standard for Black Metal. | |
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The title track of 'Nordland I' by Bathory has an intro that lasts just under two minutes. This is straight after an intro track that lasts 2:34. | |
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Most of Dragonforce's songs have these (and, by extension, many metal bands). It's typical for the vocals to come in thirty to one hundred and twenty seconds into the song. | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener / int_ff32515d |
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