Most despondent/depressing song/album

[Nico]

I'm looking for something extremely sad and moody. Listening to My Dying Bride has made me hungry for more. I know there's much better stuff out there, and I'm sure you know of them.

 

[Naggamanteh]

A lot of albums and bands come to mind (Deinonychus, Elend, ...) but one beats them all:

Dissolving of Prodigy - Time Ruins Also Beauty

 

[None_So_Vile]

Forest of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn To Dust (3 track EP of really sorrowful doom)

Forest Stream - Tears of Mortal Solitude (great melodic and symphonic doom, mixed with bits of melodic black metal)

Novembers Doom - Any of their releases. For heavy, slow, growly doom try their earlier stuff, they get more melodic as the albums get newer, all good stuff

Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came (really good heavy, slow, depressing doom)

Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress (depressing doom, really good symphonics, recommended)

Of course there's the early periods of the bigguns - Katatonia, Anathema and Paradise Lost (and My Dying Bride but you already know them)

Lacrimase Profundere, good band along the lines of early Katatonia and My Dying Bride, good stuff, although not everyone likes it (especially luminousaether )

The Prophecy - Ashes (really good british doom band)

 

[Spirit In Black]

Forest Stream - Tears of Mortal Solitude (great melodic and symphonic doom, mixed with bits of melodic black metal)

I'll second that

 

[Slayed Necros]

Abyssic Hate - Suicidal Emotions.

 

[Nico]

I fucken love Suicidal Emotions, it's one of my personal favorites of all time. Along that sort of line, if possible.

None So Vile - That doom stuff isn't realy what I'm after. I've heard a lot of Katatonia/Novembers Doom/Anathema, but none of it realy brings out the pure feelings of hopelessness that I'm talking about.

 

[Black Winter Day]

skepticism
sunn 0)))
khanate
pantheist
tyranny
goatsnake
burning witch
earth

 

[speed]

Excellent List Blackwinter day. Id add any song off of Today is the Day's Sadness Will Prevail.

Lasting Dose and Suffering brings wisdom off Sonic Excess by Crowbar.

Oh and The Scream of the Butterfly by Acid Bath.

 

[Darth Kur]

Funeral
Worship
Anything you can find from either project is very good.

 

[[0hr]Sunlapse]

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets is by far the most depressing/hopeless album on the planet, much more so than any doom album

 

[J.]

Until Death Overtakes Me - Prelude to Monolith
Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Pantheist - O Solitude

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Type O Negative:

Everyone I Love is Dead
Bloodly Kisses (A Death in the Family)
The Dream is Dead

 

[Stormwatch]

Alice In Chains. I put their albums on when I was in a great mood and wanted to slash my fucking wrists shortly after. What a fucking shitty, depressing band - and how they can be called "metal" i don't know. Fucking shite, that's what I'd call them. If you want to feel desperate and depressed, stick "Dirt" on and wallow in self pity.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Haha, you don't like AiC, and you like Deicide? Get off my board.

 

[Disturbed4ntics]

Morgion

 

[SculptedCold]

Abruptum, easily. One of the first 'black' bands I ever heard, and no black, noise or doom i've heard since touches the depressing, hopeless and disturbing noise Abruptum are responsible for.

 

[[0hr]Sunlapse]

yeah, Abruptum are pretty fucked up.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Worship
Forgotten Tomb
Leviathan - Tenth Sublevel of Suicide
Skepticism
Tyranny
Until Death Overtakes Me
Thergothon
Winter
Goatsblood - Drull
Reverend Bizarre (more so on In The Rectory....)
Xasthur
Funerary Dirge
Black Mass of Absu
Bohren Und Der Club of Gore - Gore Motel
Burning Witch
Khanate
Evoken
Long WInter's Stare
Bunkur
Monolithe
Unholy
Moss
Nortt
Solicide
Morgion
Uncertainty Principle
Pantheist
Through The Valley
Shape of Despair
Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
Sopor Aeternus
Wormphlegm


Also, for some reason Radiohead's Kid A depresses the fuck out of me.

 

[Perdition's Light]

Worship
Forgotten Tomb
Leviathan - Tenth Sublevel of Suicide
Skepticism
Tyranny
Until Death Overtakes Me
Thergothon
Winter
Goatsblood - Drull
Reverend Bizarre (more so on In The Rectory....)
Xasthur
Funerary Dirge
Black Mass of Absu
Bohren Und Der Club of Gore - Gore Motel
Burning Witch
Khanate
Evoken
Long WInter's Stare
Bunkur
Monolithe
Unholy
Moss
Nortt
Solicide
Morgion
Uncertainty Principle
Pantheist
Through The Valley
Shape of Despair
Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
Sopor Aeternus
Wormphlegm


Also, for some reason Radiohead's Kid A depresses the fuck out of me.

That list is going to keep me busy for a while...I'm starting to really "enjoy" (ha) doom metal! I didn't dig Things Viral though. Maybe it will grow on me.

 

[jonnykungfu]

Although not metal, a lot of Univers Zero's catalog is pretty damn depressing. I'm sure a lot of metal-heads could dig their stuff. It's very dark, chamber influenced, prog rock.

As far as metal goes, I'm not much of a doom fan, but plenty of black metal is dark and depressing.


And anyone that HONESTLY finds Type O depressing has a very low tolerance for sadness.