In the mood for something depressing

[plfffffft]

Hey, can anyone recommend a good depressive album? I know this kinda mirrors the "Depressing Song thread, but I['m looking for a whole album of stuff that'll make me wanna kill myself. I'm thinking somehting by Anathema, My Dying Bride, or Sentenced, bands I never really got into, but I've heard nothing but good things about. But any other suggestions are welcome.

 

[The ORIGINAL South Of Heaven]

Anything by N*SYNC

 

[union9]

Vast,NIN,Type O Negative,Portishead.
Listening to these guy's i've sometimes wanted to slash my wrist's.

 

[opacity]

listen to Yearning, album: Plaintive Scenes

 

[genocide roach]

definatly go for type o negative. i would reccomend the album world coming down. you cant get lyrics more depressed than "everyone i love is dead" as the chorus
~gR~

 

[XprettylushX]

Stabbing Westward. Jeebus on a stick, is that stuff depressing.

I'd suggest Dashboard Confessional too..or Thursday..but the whiney vocals can become very annoying at times. Especially with Dashboard.

 

[Board]

I have the Yearning album and I don't find it that great. I listened to it a couple of times and then threw it on the shelf. It didn't really catch me. If I listen to it some more, maybe it will or maybe it won't!
I can also clearly recommend Type O. "World coming down" or "Bloody Kisses" are probably the most depressing, although "October rust" is my favorite by them.
If beatiful is allowed, I can most definetly recommend Marvin Gaye's "What's going on". A superb album, with beatiful songs and Marvin's incrediblely beatiful voice! This isn't metal, but if you're into other stuff than just fast banging try this out! "Mercy mercy me" & the title track are both fantastic songs (and it's very, very rare that I use that phrase!)!!!!

 

[Dead Winter]

THE QUINTESSENTIAL depressing doom album would be The Silent Enigma by Anathema.

"YOU'RE DOOMED TO MISERY!!!! RESTLESS OBLIVION FOREVER!!!"

Restless Oblivion, great fucking song. Fun to play on guitar too.

 

[DogVomit]

Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress

 

[SculptedCold]

Abruptum 'De Profundis Mors Vas Consumet'

 

[dill_the_devil]

How about some songs on their own?

NIN - Something I Can Never Have
My Dying Bride - The Crown Of Sympathy
Anathema - Shroud Of Frost
Downer - Bi-Furious

Be careful with that razorblade, now!

 

[St. Vitus]

Originally posted by thrashmetal78
THE QUINTESSENTIAL depressing doom album would be The Silent Enigma by Anathema.

EXCELLENT recommendation! I would also add:
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
Saturnus - Martyre
November's Doom - To Welcome the Fade (esp. the first song - "Not the Strong")
...and a second recommendation as well for Shape of Despair's "Angels of Distress"

 

[The Wanderer]

EVOKEN QUIETUS completely soul crushing
shape of despair shades of i think is a bigger downer than AOD

 

[alpha666]

try Anathema - a fine day to exit & alternitive 4. Amorphis - anything. Autum ablaze. anything on profacey productions, HIM, Paradise lost,

 

[The Wanderer]

HIM is depressing?

Anathema, yeha, but i'd go with judgement or eternity. amorphis i dont find depresseing at all.

how bout doom-metal.com

try dusk, void of silence, unholy, funeral, skepticism.

 

[alpha666]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seads. it may not be metal but it is damn depressing!

 

[MacMoney]

The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - Disintegration

Hell, any early The Cure album should do.

Other than that:

Rapture - Songs For The Withering
Katatonia - pre and including Brave Murder Day
Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens

 

[Dead Winter]

OOOOHHHHHHH HOW I LOOOOVVVEE JUDGEMENT BY ANATHEMA!!!!

My favorite album by them BY FAR.

Not really that depressing, but there is one song on there that made me weep....never happened before until I heard this song. And it wasn't one of those gay, I-can-relate-because-I've-been-there kind of songs, you could just feel his pain. The song is called "One Last Goodbye", and the solo at the end is heartbreaking. I can play it on my guitar and it wretches every bit of feeling out of you.

 

[MURAI]

Katatonia, Opeth, Neurosis and Cold are some depressing bands that I suggest.

 

[SculptedCold]

Neurosis are really oppressive. They make you feel this > . small