Recommend Very Depressing Metal

[Donnie Darko]

Candlemass

 

[darkenedsoul]

See my post in the "what the fuck in funeral doom" thread in this forum.

Mike

 

[no country for old wainds]

Half the bands here don't really deserve the tag "depressing", Skepticism for example are incredibly uplifting, just listen to The Gallant Crow. I don't personally feel that there's a place for the "depressing" in music at all though, nobody listens to music to depress themselves whatever they claim.

 

[ProjectedBlack]

Half the bands here don't really deserve the tag "depressing", Skepticism for example are incredibly uplifting, just listen to The Gallant Crow. I don't personally feel that there's a place for the "depressing" in music at all though, nobody listens to music to depress themselves whatever they claim.

Do people listen to music to anger themselves? It' just music, that's a style of sound that I sometimes prefer because it can apply musically to how I'm feeling at the time. Sometimes the music does depress me or makes it worse but sometimes I prefer that, being depressed can be a positive thing if you use it properly, just like being angry.

 

[Life Sucks]

Do people listen to music to anger themselves? It' just music, that's a style of sound that I sometimes prefer because it can apply musically to how I'm feeling at the time. Sometimes the music does depress me or makes it worse but sometimes I prefer that, being depressed can be a positive thing if you use it properly, just like being angry.

Exactly. It's not like depressing music makes you more depressed and angry music makes you more angry. Natrually, people strive to be happy, but I don't listen to any happy music at all, because I don't like it.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

Hammerfall are depressing for all the wrong reasons.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Do people listen to music to anger themselves? It' just music, that's a style of sound that I sometimes prefer because it can apply musically to how I'm feeling at the time. Sometimes the music does depress me or makes it worse but sometimes I prefer that, being depressed can be a positive thing if you use it properly, just like being angry.

I find the possibility of ever desiring actual depression questionable. Finding beauty and meaning in the gloomy or melancholic is something else entirely. Maybe I'm just being pedantic...

 

[Jesse Pohjalainen]

Rapture, Shape of Despair, Swallow the Sun...lots of finnish bands!!!!!

 

[Life Sucks]

I find the possibility of ever desiring actual depression questionable. Finding beauty and meaning in the gloomy or melancholic is something else entirely. Maybe I'm just being pedantic...

I agree. It's not like I want to be derepssed. I just am, so I like depressing music because of that - because I can kind of relate to it, and it makes me feel better in a weird way.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

I find the possibility of ever desiring actual depression questionable. Finding beauty and meaning in the gloomy or melancholic is something else entirely.

Yup. Ved Buens Ende and Esoteric make me pretty happy.

 

[Ceremony]

Crowbar

 

[Life Sucks]

Lykathia Aflame. Definitely, albeit in an odd way.

 

[Susperia]

Yeh for some reason happy music pisses me off. I guess it's because I'm so incredibly Metal.

 

[Hugtseh]

I'd say Sentenced, not the old albums like North from here and Amok but the newer ones ^^

 

[Alex78]

Neurosis - The Eye of every storm / Times of grace
Isis
In The Woods

 

[Life Sucks]

I'd say Sentenced, not the old albums like North from here and Amok but the newer ones ^^

The ironic thing is, that it is their newer hard rock albums that are more depressing, while thier old death metal albums are not depressing.

 

[Erik]

That's what he said.

 

[CF87]

'Shadows of The Past' the first Sentenced(the death metal one) has some depressing parts. It's death metal but has some slower doomy type parts. Not really depressing in a way like Mourning Beloveth,etc.. but alittle depressing sometimes. North From Here is a lot faster. You can see the band discovering Iron Maiden and doing some crack(haha j/k).

Sentenced needs to reform one more time with Taneli Jarva doing something musically like North From Here or even Amok. I can't believe their last album has the annoying vocalist from At The Gates.

 

[Life Sucks]

That's what he said.

I know. And I was just commenting that it was their soft albums, and not their heavy albums, that are depressing.

 

[Life Sucks]

I know their name pops up in just about every thread here, but once again, Primordial must be mentioned. Some of their songs are very depressing, both in lyric and sound: The Coffin Ships, Bitter Harvest, Autumn's Ablaze, End of All Times, Cast to the Pyre, Cities Carved in Stone, etc.