Album openers that are ballads
1. Dire Straights - So Far Away
2. Between The Buried And Me - Mirrors
3. Dream Theater - Regression
4. Dir En Grey - Conceived Sorrow
5. Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing Part 1
6. Opeth - Coil
7. Marillion - Dreamy Street
8. Styx - A.D. 1928
9. Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World
10. Ghost Brigade - In the Woods
11. Marilyn Manson - Godeatgod
12.
E: I got one more, but does someone else want to take the 12th pick? This seems to be a difficult theme.