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* Music/KingCrimson's 1972 album ''Music/LarksTonguesInAspic'' opens up with "Lark Tongues in Aspic Part 1", a twelve-minute instrumental piece that can best be described as a collection of bizarre percussion rhythms and quiet, creepy violin lines, occasionally topped off (for the sake of diversity, you see) with some of the most aggressive and distorted heavy metal riffs heard in rock music up to that point.
** Similarly, 1974's ''Music/{{Red|KingCrimsonAlbum}}'', 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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* Music/KingCrimson's 1972 album ''Music/LarksTonguesInAspic'' opens up with "Lark Tongues in Aspic Part 1", a twelve-minute thirteen-minute instrumental piece that can best be described as a collection of bizarre percussion rhythms and quiet, creepy violin lines, occasionally topped off (for the sake of diversity, you see) with some of the most aggressive and distorted heavy metal riffs heard in rock music up to that point.
** Similarly, 1974's ''Music/{{Red|KingCrimsonAlbum}}'', consisting mostly of outtakes (extremely high-quality outtakes, mind you) from the previous two albums, opens with an eponymous eight-minute six-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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