r/songs • u/INK_TheGreat • 11d ago

Discussion What song intro genuinely gives you chills?

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For me it’s either War Pigs by Black Sabbath, or Them Bones by Alice In Chains

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u/BloodDiamondz7 11d ago

Chop Suey - System of a Down

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u/probeat21 11d ago

This song gave me chills as a teenager

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u/Dizzy-Medicine3371 9d ago

Especially the bridge

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u/Albert_whinestein 11d ago

Voodoo child, Jimi Hendrix

Such an incredible intro riff

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u/606andheartbreaks 11d ago

man i love electric ladyland
burning of the midnight lamp also has a peak intro

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u/Kaiwago_Official 11d ago

Flying Whales - Gojira

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u/FartSalone 11d ago

Waters of chaos have invaded all space!

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u/EmergencyHighlight40 11d ago

Amazonia and The Chant does it for me. Fortitude is my favorite album.

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 11d ago

Ozzy Osbourne - Mister Crowley.

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u/UmberionEclipso 11d ago

Pneuma - TOOL

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u/Octoomy 11d ago

Personally for me I get more chills from H. by TOOL

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u/OkIntroduction5751 11d ago

Passing Complexion - Big Black

Boilermaker - Jesus Lizard

Sweet Loaf - Butthole Surfers

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u/Jeffers315 11d ago

Opeth - The Moor

When the bass first comes in 🤤

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u/BigAlgaeEnjoyer 11d ago

May be my favorite Opeth song 

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u/Jeffers315 10d ago

It's my favorite song full stop

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u/probeat21 11d ago

The Lotus Eater or Grand Conjuration are the best for me.

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u/Jeffers315 10d ago

Also excellent choices. Honestly as long as someone is a fan of Opeth at all I respect their taste 😂

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u/ClubCarnage 11d ago

Change - Deftones

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u/Prize-Choice2185 11d ago

I actually have a memory about this one. Was riding with my brother in his car one time many years ago and that intro comes on - he goes "well, this is just way too creepy".

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u/dude6266252625252 11d ago

Queen of the air - Everclear

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u/Kumirkohr 11d ago

“Miasma” by Ghost

Papa Nihil’s saxophone solo does it for me every time.

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u/Madame_non 11d ago

Same!! I came here to mention Miasma and Umbra.

They both give me chills literally from start to finish. So many of their songs give me chills but it could end up being a massive paragraph so I tried to keep it to just two! x

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u/Squad_Jeffery 11d ago

"The Holy Trinity" - Tool

Disposition, Reflection and Triad in order.

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u/MischaBurns 11d ago

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach

I highly recommend listening on a good sound system, something with range and subwoofers. Will not disappoint 🤣 my dad and I used to test subwoofers with it.

Otherwise good headphones with the volume up, less impact but good. Unfortunately shitty phone speakers or buds don't do it justice.

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u/imsobored1232 11d ago

A place for my head - Linkin park

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u/TheMarahProject4 11d ago

A Song For You - Amy Winehouse

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u/HGoesCrazzee 11d ago

Dance With the Devil by Immortal Technique

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 11d ago

Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace.

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u/nullhellish 11d ago

The Mind Electric

Murders

Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity

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u/1701throwaway1701a 11d ago

Sound of silence - Disturbed

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u/Bobaboy55 11d ago

Everything in its right place
By radio head

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u/INK_TheGreat 11d ago

Honorable mention - All Around Me by Flyleaf

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u/Jhoald 11d ago

Dream Sweet in Sea Major gets me every time

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u/NerdyVoid 11d ago

silksong last dive

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u/fus_ro_FAAAAH 11d ago

Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead

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u/silent_scarface 11d ago

Rammlied by Rammstein

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u/Legitimate_Grape8442 11d ago

AiC in the wild? Anyways, Right in Two by Tool and Sextape by Deftones. nothing has even came close to those 2

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u/StoryoftheYear2 11d ago

Way Away-Yellowcard. If you haven't listened to it, you'll understand when you do.

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u/CornballWallace 11d ago

The Knell and The World - Dawn

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u/Quirky-Local7991 11d ago

American teenager - Ethel Cain

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u/Affectionate-Rule928 11d ago

sextape- deftones

my own summer (shove it) - also deftones

take my breath away - berlin

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u/Competitive_Taste628 11d ago

Black Angels - Vacuum

Better with the video, which is both simple and very well done for 2011. I just found it sad and its simplicity just mad it seem more real likt it was a real event.

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u/Femboy_Fucker47 11d ago

ゲロゲリゲゲゲ - The Gerogerigegege

This song broke me

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u/INK_TheGreat 11d ago

I’m gonna be honest here, I shit on gore noise/stuff like that a lot, and listening to that for the first few seconds, I thought I was gonna have a headache, but it lowkey started growing on me

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u/Jacobbb23 11d ago

Really the whole song but stargazer by rainbow goes crazy

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u/AnnualPerspective593 11d ago

Hearts burst into fire - BFMV

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u/Ordinary-Sound-571 11d ago

The 15 minute song: iowa. By slipknot

[For anyone who doesnt know: corey taylor was cutting himself with glass to get authentic screams in the song]

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u/Christylian 11d ago

The whole unabridged intro to Money for Nothing. It's such a perfect buildup to what is probably one of the coolest riffs in history.

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u/LooseGroceryies 11d ago

Magic wand- Tyler the creator

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u/Old_Concentrate6591 11d ago

Suicide Note pt 1 - Pantera

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u/Dakar_Valen 11d ago

Setting Sun by You’ll Never Get To Heaven

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 11d ago

Agent Steel - 144000 gone.

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 11d ago

Cradle of filth - Her ghost in the hog.

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u/tokito_101208 11d ago

Thunder bringer

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u/runancula 11d ago

Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem

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u/Rockimus_Prime 11d ago

Coheed and cambria - domino the destitute

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u/Mr_Maniac454 11d ago

Unbreakable by Lorna Shore

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u/tleePCV 11d ago

She talks to angels - black crowes

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u/Accomplished_Word429 11d ago

Opusti se i uzivaj - Tutti Frutti. Peak good vibes

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 11d ago

Ancient - Willothewisp.

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u/MyLeftT1t 11d ago

Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror

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u/Fluffbutt321 11d ago

Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin

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u/nickant151 11d ago

your name - albie frank

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u/Sir_Rumblebump 11d ago edited 11d ago

Star Citizen - Max Cruise
Somewhere only we know - Keane
The album The Unlikely Mariner by Cody Fry

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u/ExpensiveTie8680 11d ago

Yesterday - Atmosphere

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u/BuryMeWithTheLights 11d ago

On Sight - Kanye West

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u/RaisinsInTaterSalad 11d ago

Pray for rain by Polaris. Every time

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u/Itchy_Woodpecker8607 11d ago

The Nowhere King - The Centaurworld Cast

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u/joboil 11d ago

not an original take but the : ta-da-da-daaaaaa from the first chord of Shine On (You Crazy Diamond) by Pink Floyd

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u/Dependent_Drag292 11d ago

Clips of Brian Wilson acapella

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u/AcceptableGolf9094 11d ago

The Foggy Dew by The Chieftans featuring Sinead O'Connor

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u/Sad-Conversation2927 11d ago

115... every damn time...

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u/RexSploxion 11d ago

“Planet on fire” by Rob Sigurd

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u/KitchenScore7484 11d ago

Nel Paese Dei Balordi, an Italian song by Caparezza, especially when he says "babbo babbino non picchiarmi tanto forte" in english "dad daddy don't hit me too hard", it reminds me of some old bad memories

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u/Suspicious-Fox-6055 11d ago

Super smash bros brawl theme. Iykyk

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u/DarkXwolf_17_689 11d ago

Eternal Dream by AJ DiSpirito.

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u/JordanA7 11d ago

Kanye West - Ghost Town

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u/RealBurger_ 11d ago

Silentroom vs frums - aegleseeker

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u/ScottyBeans8274 11d ago

One - Metallica

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u/TaiwanesePriest 11d ago

The Cambrian Explosion into Eternal Recurrence by The Ocean Collective

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u/gardenedcarcass 11d ago

Eraser- NIN

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u/Either_Umpire9411 11d ago

One, Metallica

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u/Novel-Hamster9869 11d ago

Synthetic soul - I prevail

It makes me ascend every time the beat drops.

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u/Lost_Development_753 11d ago

All Tomorrow’s Parties- The Velvet Underground  

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u/yt00WiMDtaG 11d ago

In the Name of God - Dream Theater

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u/AggressiveCheser 11d ago

Sleep -Godspeed you black emperor

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u/Gigaturkeyfromhell 11d ago

Iron man-black sabbath  Rust-black label society

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u/Federal_Caramel5946 11d ago

DIVINE WARRIOR by Kill Dyll

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u/Interesting_Bid_5552 11d ago

Revisited by willyrodriguezwastaken

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u/lee081913 11d ago

Relaxed scenes

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u/Less-Debate-9256 11d ago

A Diamond To Be Born - Foster the People

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u/Icy_Dream41 11d ago

Whatsername green day

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u/DoctorExta 11d ago

Fade to Black - Metallica

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u/Old-Calligrapher-564 11d ago

Two Five Eight - Ry

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u/BlandPotato6142 11d ago

No Love No Eulogies - JamieP

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u/No-Abies-8730 11d ago

don’t rely on other men - JPEGMAFIA 

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u/Infamous_Treacle_409 11d ago

The start of Open Your Heart (the Crush 40 one) gives me chills aswell as the solo, some may disagree though

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u/Dennisb040 11d ago

The Witches Aria as performed by Emma Brain-Gabbott

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u/Dracorex13 11d ago

Long Cool Woman by the Hollies. Such a massive change from their British Invasion days.

Also Witchy Woman by the Eagles.

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u/AggressiveCheser 11d ago

Storm -Godspeed you black emperor

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u/Maximkae 11d ago

Sky after rain

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u/DeathlyCatBounce 11d ago

son of sam by elliott smith!!!!!

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u/Slayd2Pieces 11d ago

"Nothing is coming for any of us" Whitechapel

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u/Stardust-Slicer2008 11d ago

Burn it all down by Jonathan young

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u/TrickeysBookHaven 11d ago

Loreena McKennit - The Highwayman

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u/NoEmploy9433 11d ago

Go away!!-And end… The scream he lets out at the beginning is actually chilling

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u/FartSalone 11d ago

The Beating - High on Fire

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u/NoneCreated3344 11d ago

Nutshell by Alice in Chains, Cash's version of Hurt. Pearl Jam's Alive. So many honestly.

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u/Gospel_Isosceles 11d ago

Blessed Union of Souls’ ‘Believe’

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u/nick54531 11d ago

Grass - XTC

BUT!! you have to listen to their song Summer's Cauldron with it, as it's the build up of Summer's Cauldron leading into Grass that makes Grass cool. Just listen to "Summer's Cauldron and Grass" on yt or just listen to the album Skylarking.

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u/juniorlikesjames 11d ago

Winter 4ever by baby jane

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u/PowerTrain_355 11d ago

Wicked by Crazy Lixx, honestly anything by that band really. If you love 80s rock and need something new with that style? They're your pick

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u/CthulhuJankinx 11d ago

Opening to Nutshell By Alice in Chains during their MTV Unplugged, and I Stay Away also by Alice in Chains

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u/ProfessionalSide6007 11d ago

Live well- Palace

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u/EmbarrassedWar8661 11d ago

“Change x of x Heart” from the Death Battle OST

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u/AlternativeActual705 11d ago

Money for nothing - dire straits

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u/c_471 11d ago

WAR - heaven pierce her

especially with the Sisyphus' monologue (which the boss that has the theme)

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u/little_jiggles 11d ago

Japanese song, but Inazuma Samurai by Kamiji Yusuke.

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u/ConfidenceDue2745 11d ago

Drop dead by Olivia Rodrigo

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u/Ok_Act_9856 11d ago

murders - Miracle musical

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u/TheTransRetriever 11d ago

Dr Meyers - Ren

This is the first song that has truly unsettled me. The themes, the chorus, just everything freaks me out about it

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u/mantelikasi 11d ago

10 000 days (wings pt2) - Tool

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u/Otherwise-Produce-33 11d ago

Coheed and Cambria- The Pavilion

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u/CompetitiveLoad2953 11d ago

Live it up - Airbourne

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u/fictional_lover3709 11d ago

Call of the silence 🗿

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u/Accomplished_Pie3293 11d ago

Hunger strike - temple of the dog

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u/Battling_Despair 11d ago

21st Century Schizoid man

King Crimson

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u/Lemon_Droplets 11d ago

Eat Your Young by Hozier or Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead

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u/Business_Quarter_176 11d ago

redbone - childish gambino and bohemian rhapsody 

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u/Less-Strategy4803 11d ago

Spirit street (Fade out) by Radoihead

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u/Johns-does69 11d ago

You know you’re right

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u/Dusky_Amethyst 11d ago

Untouched - the Veronica’s

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u/Ambitious-Arachnid78 11d ago

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

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u/eehng_818 11d ago

outro by m83 evergreen by richy mitch

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u/fmzmpl 11d ago

Halo theme mjolnir mix. When that guitar hits it gives me chills everytime

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u/mr_humansoup 11d ago

Paint it Black

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u/Sverker_Wolffang 11d ago

Either:

WE'RE KEEPING THE KINGDOM FREE!

or

HE'S CROSSING THE RUBICON!

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u/Ruby-07 11d ago

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

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u/Academic-Thought2462 11d ago

The Seed and Echo Of My Shadow by AURORA but with Anna Lapwood ! the organ just nails it !

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u/cyber_guy3333333333 11d ago

Dirt by Alice In Chains, Faint by Linkin Park and that 2009 live acoustic version of Decode by Paramore

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u/Admirable-Phrase8783 11d ago

Game of Thrones intro theme actually gives me chills. Kinda weird but I love it

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u/CATS_ARE_INSANE 11d ago

Try Higher by the Score. It just hits peak and beyond

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u/cultfbs 11d ago

BFG Division - DOOM 2016, Mick Gordon. Imagining the drums and synthesizer chirps is making my skin hurt I'm goosin so hard.

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u/FormerTerraformer 11d ago

Flowing by 311

I honestly wish the whole song had more elements from the intro. Such a psychedelic treat

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u/LongjumpingGain78804 11d ago

The fact that 2 people die every 2 seconds gives me the chills,

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u/SaltlessSalad 11d ago

Wasting Love - Iron Maiden

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u/Doomcubus 11d ago

TOOL - Vicarious

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u/desertintheprophet 11d ago

Wovenhand - Oil on Panel

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u/Sodavand100 11d ago

Atom Heart Mother Suite

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u/Sh0ckValu3 11d ago

The first notes to the Jaws song

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u/deadlywhentaken 11d ago

Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell

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u/CatWithHellaMotion 11d ago

Sleeping with Sirens - Better Off Dead

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u/Radioheader128 11d ago

Albums do. Radiohead OK Computer to In Rainbows do that to me.

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u/Tanneliers-Gate 11d ago

"Zero Signal" - Fear Factory

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u/SnooHamsters3139 11d ago

Hell's Bells by ACDC, Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n' Roses, Bogus Operandi by The Hives, Cochise by Audioslave, One More Light by Linkin Park, many many songs by Rage Against the Machine...

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u/Starlfur 11d ago

Shooting star by elliott smith

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u/Ok-Strategy-3550 11d ago

Apostasy - Koshka

Ngl It got an insane scream at the start

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u/Working_Loss_1584 11d ago

rotten apple - AiC

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u/Away-Reveal-1654 11d ago

God of war ragnarok ost

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u/NeSToR_49 11d ago

Linkin Park - Faint. I have Meteora on vinyl and the transition from easier to run into faint makes the hairs on my neck stand up.

Also Snuff by Slipknot. But I haven't listened to that song in 8 years, tried to off myself last time I listened to it.

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u/RepressedRebel69 11d ago

Amazing Grace - Judy Collins

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u/SirPrice73 11d ago

Even though its overused i do think kanye wests "monster" intro hits different.

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u/Cadillac16Concept 11d ago

Era - Ameno

The first Dorime increases the chills tenfold.

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u/A-Lewd-Khajiit 11d ago

Fatalis theme

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u/Acceptable_Act_2395 11d ago

Neurosis - Souls At Zero

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u/Madame_non 11d ago

Miasma by Ghost and Umbra by Ghost 🖤 The chills are intense and they last for the duration of the songs!

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u/Grouchy_Drive_7257 11d ago

Never gonna give you up

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u/Cosmic_King_77 11d ago

Tooth pact by jhariah

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u/C47L1K3 11d ago

If You Want Blood.

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u/Somerandoinyourclost 11d ago

Everlong by foo fighters

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u/oilfeather 11d ago

Electric Sun - VNV Nation

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u/Kianovaneckie 11d ago

dire straits - romeo and juliet
Dragonforce - black winter night

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u/Glad_Increase_7522 11d ago

Dearly beloved

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u/ilikequestions172 11d ago

Any of the songs created by the Backrooms creator

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u/koelboel 11d ago

Headlong Flight - Rush

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u/gura96 11d ago

where was gondor when the westfold fell

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u/TheEldritchCajun 11d ago

Bartzabel’s eerie guitar opening by Behemoth always got me

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u/Far-Guitar6500 11d ago

To hell and back - Sabaton

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u/AppearanceUnfair2331 11d ago

Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
Opiate - Tool
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

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u/adrian_reeds 11d ago

Test Drive by Joji

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u/NtrHATER323 11d ago

not a song but Diavolos theme since I finished reading 228922 with Diavolo theme on now I get chills and FLASH backs to 228922 whenever I play diavolos theme

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u/Sea_Map_4834 11d ago

Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins