15 Greatest METAL Clean/Acoustic Intros Of All Time

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[@RC32Smiths01]

Clean tones in metal and heavy music is a fine blend when done right. The unique contrast between distortion and clean makes for some chaotic yet beautiful

[@harrisontownsend910]

Great example is Cemetery Gates, and Arials.

[@PizdusPlastus]

basically opeth

[@MCHiphopotamus]

@@harrisontownsend910 I love Cemetery Gates but I find the clean tone to be terrible.

[@harrisontownsend910]

@@MCHiphopotamus The clean tone is 3 layers a clean acoustic, a glean chorasy electric, and a piano. But I'll agree that it isn't the best clean tone because of how the mix is done.

[@thedancingguy828]

Death Magnetic has a lot of those

[@peeledapples4176]

Metallica genuinely have some of the best clean passages in metal. Battery, Fade To Black, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), the middle of Master of Puppets...

[@beng1137]

Intro / middle part of To Live is To Die as well.

[@peeledapples4176]

@@beng1137 yeeessss, that bit is so fucking good

[@rk_18]

Fight Fire with Fire

[@A.Grapefruit]

and justice for all intro is great too

[@rk_19]

@@rk_18 ending is near

[@negativexmilitia1]

The Buried Alive intro is one of my favorite peices of music.

[@worshiptheanimal]

VENOM!

[@Dustiniscool43]

It's actually not acoustic though. It's just a clean tone. Love buried alive

[@negativexmilitia1]

@Dustiniscool43 the description is clean/acoustic.... I almost did the same thing!

[@negativexmilitia1]

@Dustiniscool43 oh and I think the nature of the video stipulated that he focus on that guitar only... 😅

[@PapaRolenn]

Man I feel like there could be so many Opeth intros here but The Moor was a solid choice!

[@PuggetronicsPioneer]

Incredible musicianship as always. You never fail to provide us with absolutely incredible content. You've been one of the driving forces that has prompted me to get back into playing my guitar regularly. Thanks again mate

[@ShaneT5S]

I've always loved when metal songs have an acoustic intro. You playing Buried Alive just send a huge kick of nostalgia

[@joaovictorpires3804]

Finally, Bradley showing some love for Bathlord (Bathory)

[@Draztikus]

RATLORD

[@pedrocabrita555]

Quorthon is a god

[@andrefaria2921]

Ratlord!

[@Taylor-ou7xp]

Seeing Bathory in a video is always a welcome surprise. Quorthon what an underrated genius

[@flamethegame1]

This may seem like I'm overly praising Metallica but one of my favorites is the intro to battery So ominous yet so epic at the same time And when it kicks into the absolutely monster that is the main riff to that song, it's like an adrenaline injection straight into the veins!

[@chambeet]

It's pretty hard to overpraise Metallica. They are at worst a top 3 metal band of all time, and I'd argue they deserve the number one spot. And yes, I love that it's the opening song on the album, too. Reminds me of how the acoustic intro to "Fight Fire with Fire" opens the previous album, but they build on it and have an even better one to open Master of Puppets (the album).

[@CC--jn8sw]

Battery is my fav for metallica acoustic

[@mikej9619]

Yes I love that intro as well. I honestly expected to see it in there.

[@tyrancarter9684]

@@chambeet metallica is at worst in the top 10 for greatest bands of all time, maybe even top 3

[@proteusblack8913]

Fight Fire With Fire.

[@alejandrocastillo5097]

Me: how many synths do you want? Brod: YES

[@acgm046]

That intro for The Count of Tuscany sounded glorious! The tone is amazing. If I'm honest, I've never heard the full song, like thinking the intro is so epic that being such a long song it probably couldn't get better than that. I might be wrong, though! Should I give the full song a chance? 😅

[@acgm046]

@@BradleyHallGuitar i better get to it then! Oh, and I forgot to mention how your playing translates to acoustic so excellently! I hope we get to see more of your tasty riffage on acoustic 😎

[@generalissimustg810]

Song is real rollercoaster, after great intro goes in generic prog, but then lifts itself toward the end, there is beautiful clean wah instrumental, that goes again in acoustic guitar, and then powerful outro.

[@colemantrebor6574]

@@generalissimustg810 wah instrumental?

[@sparkinu1687]

Only worth it for the ending really

[@badbob1156]

One of my favorite DT songs! You should definitely check out the whole thing!

[@silverrider5967]

I honestly always loved the acoustic end to perennial quest by death

[@yeeyee1690]

It's beautiful

[@drunkenjames5814]

🤘🏼rip chuck

[@dancer_to_a_discrodant_system]

Being able to play these intros is nice, being able to play these intros with your eyes closed is amazing

[@aleisterdavisalt8477]

I would have to say that Cemetery Gates is my favorite one of them all. It just has such a unique feeling, and listening to it in 8D is just magical.

[@mateuszsuchy4679]

i’m so glad that Count of tuscany made it here. Definitley DT underrrated song, and actually one of the best of DT whole repertuar

[@counterfit5]

This list would have been incomplete without it. (repertoire)

[@jimit.4220]

wouldn't say it's underrated, imo it's overrated, A nightmare to remember on the same album is better honestly, not to say count of tuscany is bad obviously.

[@QueenFreak13]

This was actually so damn relaxing, I love it! Excellent content as always 🖤

[@andrewpappas9311]

While Chop Suey is definitely one of (if not) the definitive clean SOAD riff some other ones I'd have included would be Aerials (my personal favourite), Soldier Side and Lost In Hollywood, and for some other bands I'd also throw in X Japan's Art of Life. A 30-minute-exactly epic with one of the coolest acoustic intros I've ever heard

[@andrewpappas9311]

@@BradleyHallGuitar Makes sense, that's also a good one as well as Question!

[@jacopopadoan7955]

I don't know if you can call it a riff but that clean section in the middle of Science is just amazing

[@cheechunlimited]

Ego Brain as well

[@alexgag1117]

Maybe you would also enjoy spiders by SOAD. It has incredible acoustic parts

[@andrewpappas9311]

@@alexgag1117 There are some good clean parts during the verses but I don’t think there’s any acoustic in that song

[@mariosapostolidis8437]

Great selection of acoustic intros. I'd throw in there Queensryche - revolution calling and Annihilator - Crystal Ann (even if the latter can be considered an acoustic song on its own really)

[@ygslyn6732]

Absolutely

[@ashcreekAER]

This is half of what captured me into guitar, the pretty clean melodies. One was the first thing I started trying to teach myself.

[@user-jo5vy8iw3l]

One of my absolutely favorite ones would be The Sparrow by Mastodon, Born In Winter by Gojira, Voice Of The Soul by Death, Locust by Machine Head, My Curse by Killswitch Engage, Sextape by Deftones

[@MaciejMielka]

"Pendulous Skin" and "Hearts Alive" by Mastodon both have great acoustic/clean intros, my personal favourites :) I definitely recommend to check out if someone doesn't know these

[@That80sGuitarist]

Glad to see Diary Of A Madman on here. Great video, man 🤘

[@nicolaswutzmusic]

When metal Is accoustic, it's so fucking emotional. I'm crying

[@worshiptheanimal]

A Fine Day to Die is just... gorgeous. Horned is the Hunter by Sabbat is another favourite of mine

[@SuicidalGrind]

That last one by Cacophony was absolutely bean steaming beautiful.

[@Burl_Hurlbutt]

I'd like to nominate Annihilator - Crystal Ann/Alison Hell. Absolutely incredible acoustic playing, and Jeff Waters is an unbelievably unique guitar player.

[@captainturf3995]

That’s a great tune. If you haven’t heard it, Death’s “Voice of the Soul” is amazing as well.

[@user-jo5vy8iw3l]

@@captainturf3995 absolutely agree.

[@Burl_Hurlbutt]

@@captainturf3995 Absolutely love that song, great choice.

[@guywholovesmusic4611]

That whole album is full of bangers

[@meles_brody]

yep

[@nightstalker3060]

Lovely and relaxing, thank you for this beautiful work. I like how Megadeth make their intros, and also love One and Cemetary Gates

[@MetalMachineShop]

Awigh’ mate! Great compilation! I was waiting for One and you didn’t disappoint. I’d tentative suggest Heart Like the Grave too.

[@Wasyashock]

Descent of the Asheran by DVNE, Undying Spear by Ulthar and Sleep Of Restless Hours by Disillusion have great acoustic intros

[@mot0rdeth]

The keybords really added an unique layer to the video. Nice idea Brad

[@johnjohn37371]

King's X had a song years back called The Difference. It was off the Gretchen Goes to Nebraska album. I always found it really appealing....

[@CompleteProducer84]

Awesome vid, and would absolutely love another one for intro solos! For that vid, The Count of Tuscany solo could just pick up right where you left it

[@EthanBuildz]

I feel like Battery deserved a spot, I know its not the most impressive riff but its a hell of an intro

[@PaulFarrerMusic]

Awesome as always dude!

[@gncy583]

Maybe this because of a huge metalcore fan myself but I think the intro of my curse - killswitch engage is the greatest. 🥀

[@bradzillarocks]

I would have included "Moonshield" by In Flames. Glad to see "The Count of Tuscany" get some recognition though.

[@micahmagnet]

Awesome video! Would love to see more in this format, whether it be more clean songs, or extremely heavy riffs! Awesome mate 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@nihil626]

Sick video, guitar looks super neat too. Super happy to see The Ninja on here, Cacophony is one of my teenage favs. Septuagint by Obscura is probably my fav acoustic intro in metal

[@Nah_IdLose]

Tallica's Battery/Fight Fire with Fire have clean intros that work well

[@iriartuselemperador5952]

You can't imagine how much I appreciate you including The count of Tuskany

[@daglasan4285]

Metallica have many great clean/ acoustic intros ( my favourite is to live is to die) . Another great clean intro is " this is the end " by Machine Head

[@mangrangpordung8883]

His greetings in Hindi made up the intro for me ❤️

[@davidpalestina]

Towards the Pantheon is my favorite song ever. What an incredible job! 🤘🏽

[@peterthegreat86]

DT - Count of tuscany and Opeth - The Moor are my favorites in this list. Very good picks.

[@eamonahern7495]

Thanks for including Slayer in that. I happened to listen to that album today.

[@gerarrockzone7146]

the clean thones in guitar go well with the heavy sound of Metal in the intros.

[@danieljabbusch4983]

Metal is beautiful . And your playing is fantastic

[@akarshshekhar5233]

Surprised to not see Blood Red Skies and Forbidden City here. Everything included was great though.

[@superslayerguy]

One of the few video sponsorships where I actually watched the whole thing

[@superslayerguy]

@@BradleyHallGuitarTHANK YOU FOR THE HEART BRADLEY I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL I WILL REMEMBER THIS MOMENT FOREVER

[@mozza1983]

Testament The Ballad. Such a great intro/solo and always fun to play

[@SumOrange.]

Love this so much!

[@TristanB93]

And death in my arms- All that remains is pretty awesome as well.

[@papawheelie1645]

I also like Megadeth's "Good Mourning Black Friday" opening and "My last words" well the part before the other guitars come in.

[@MetalJare]

Bathory intro has always been awesome! 🤘🤘

[@mikej9619]

Great video, great skills playing those beautiful compositions.

[@zaakknight]

I was hoping to see Count of Tuscany here and man you delivered!!!

[@DrClawsPHD]

the backing track made all of these melodies flow so well into each other, video was just nice to listen to. I've played one of these guitars myself and only really had one complaint and it was about the feedback (mainly with distortion settings) at higher volumes due to the acoustic nature of the guitar (not really a fault of the instrument, just electro-acoustics) but besides that it's an amazing instrument.

[@eremgame]

Very pleased to hear the ninja! I recommand everyone the intro of "good mourning/black friday"

[@jamiereekie9342]

I thinking to myself some Opeth would be brilliant in here.. wasnt disappointed when the moor turned up. Nice one!

[@TheSoulmarine]

I feel so clean and refreshing after listening to this

[@albertogiachetti3162]

I didn't expect Ninja, what a nice surprise and great ending to a beautiful video!

[@CommanderCodyChipless]

I have moments when I write my music that I tend to forget about having clean parts, except for synth/strings. But this was a good reminder that I should practice on making good clean acoustic parts

[@grimtheassassin]

This is incredible.

[@pezboy715]

These videos are bloody gem

[@rutger4131]

Kudos for Opeth. There could've been some In Flames in there, like Moonshield, Gyroscope or Square Nothing! That last one is one of my favourites as of late.

[@randomapples]

I love when bands have an acoustic intro then just blast your ears! My two favourite examples I can think of are Lamb of God's Ghost Walking and Coheed and Cambria's Welcome Home

[@manofhatz6495]

Ghost walking has such a great intro

[@stephenmccallum7686]

So what I have learned today is having synthesizers in the background can even make Mary had little lamb sound epic.

[@ShantanuSuchil]

Just goosebumps from Tears don't Fall....Dam.... Guess I'll have no choice and go see them live next month

[@DavidNwokoye]

I need to make a visit to The Metal Spa one of these days

[@jhin4158]

Beautiful vid

[@thrashmarky]

That was so beautiful

[@naguso971]

Fantastic bro!

[@cabledmoon6242]

that was actually so relaxing

[@revhappymv]

Marty wrote that solo for The Ninja when he was just a wee lad. He's just mile beyond anyone else when it comes to melody. Great vid Beansly. Only gripe is you left out Testament's A Dirge

[@Razoredge]

Seeing Bradley playing some Bathory is neat. Really neat. Thanks bro.

[@morerandomcontent6856]

spill the blood has always been my favorite, how scary it sounds and now clean it is

[@thefenrisianssweatshop]

Anyone else immediately and hoarsely screech ‘reverannnnnnnd!’ When cemetery gates started up? No? Just me? K…. I’ll get me coat. Awesome vid Bradders!

[@Novaprotocol]

Love this, and that guitar! 😍 The Contortionist - Language I: Intuition has a great clean intro too.

[@ethankirk9279]

It's nice to see cacophony represented. I don't hear much about them despite Marty Friedman's success unless it's something I'm specifically looking for.

[@mrpresident8546]

Imagine being like "damn my guitars not charged"

[@douken8835]

Great video! I love this kind of songs, but i was expecting all these things i hate by bfmv! hope you can make a part 2 with that song!

[@go_out_now]

This is relaxing

[@samuelkupec9533]

Absolutly blast ❤❤❤

[@22brasklapp]

Off topic but you absolutely own the guitar!!! Love your channel.

[@xx-----------xx873]

I mean it would be unlikely he’d be leasing it or anything lol

[@rubyblack7240]

i kinda hoped alter bridge’s blackbird would be on this

[@judas_saves]

Thanks to you I am now again on heavy doses of Cacophony !! What a riff and lead haven

[@OneTrueVikingbard]

That Slayer intro sounded like something Randy would have composed for Ozzy if he hadn’t died and hadn’t gone ahead with his plan to leave rock and become a music teacher. That’s high praise for Kerry and the late Jeff Hanneman (RIP)

[@Archemist03]

Some of my all time favorites on here

[@nescaudrummer]

I love your work Opeth, I mean Bradley 😅. You're also in my top 15 favorite British person who also loves metal music

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Nice playing dude.

[@arkadius21]

sick guitar and some sick tracks

[@danlpez07]

Shout out to The Count of Tuscany which is one of the best prog songs ever recorded , what a fricking amazing song. Great video mate !

[@loganonyx6624]

As a huge Maiden fan did not expect to hear you pull something off fear of the dark like Afraid to shoot strangers lol

[@Bangaudaala]

Also love it when they resolute in acoustic Like Master of puppets

[@mr.rhubarb]

I still can’t believe i just now recently discovered Cacophony through this video after 12 years of playing metal. Man is it glorious.

[@meowth9245]

the intro of count of tuscany is for sure the music you hear when you die and go to heaven

[@Jester1411]

great selection overall...loved what you chose for opeth. i think you should have put some King Diamond in also and DEFINITELY some Fates Warning

[@RayCharound]

fates warning - the guardian

[@Altropos]

Could have listed half of Opeth's discography but The Moor is a beautiful song indeed.

[@NoOne-tg3xl]

Thanks for adding BFMV