Sad / Depressing music

[J.DavisNJ]

Jeff Buckley!

Man, what a voice...

It can be quite depressing (depending on your mood), but "Grace" is just a fantastic album that always puts me in that mood.

-Joe

 

[J.DavisNJ]

I like this type of music a lot, but all the good bands that I know of in this genre have already been mentioned. Keep them coming however



I can stongly recommend the following:

Alquin - The Mountain Queen
Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings
Focus - Moving Waves
Mithrandir - For You the Old Women
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
Pentacle - La Clef des Songes
The early Antonius Rex and Jacula stuff for some necessary evil :Smokedev:

and of course the obvious stuff like:
Early Camel
Early King Crimson
Early Genesis

I also really like some of the more contemporary scandinavian bands with that 70's sound like Anekdoten, Anglagard, Landberk, Paatos, Morte Macabre, Dungen (actually anything with Reine Fiske in it ).

Anekdoten is great too. "Gravity" is such an amazing album.

-Joe

 

[Deadstar]

Jeff Buckley!

Man, what a voice...

It can be quite depressing (depending on your mood), but "Grace" is just a fantastic album that always puts me in that mood.

-Joe

yep! katatonia covered "nightmares by the sea" which is in Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley. I 've noticed they took a lot from him but who in this genre doesn't?

Goblin fucking rule!

 

[J.DavisNJ]

yep! katatonia covered "nightmares by the sea" which is in Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley. I 've noticed they took a lot from him but who in this genre doesn't?

Goblin fucking rule!

Oh really?? I think i need to check that out.

I still don't have "Sketches..." I need to get on that, thanks for the info!

-Joe

 

[Heb]

Khoma- The second wave

 

[Damian B]

Swallow the Sun
Depressed Mode
Virgin Black

 

[Deadstar]

Type o negative

 

[Dom Ostarig]

Draconian, In The Woods (pretty good but not metal...it's more "prog") , 3rd And The Mortal (amazing!!! with Kari Rueslaten), and swedish pop Midnight Choir.... i like very much all that bands

 

[ze kink]

Just start with ISIS and then venture to explore more post-metal bands. Cult of Luna might be a good starting point too, the newest album is pretty awesome: http://www.myspace.com/cultofluna

 

[Torniojaws]

Not all of these are like Katatonia, but you should like them just the same anyways:

Arcana (The Last Embrace, Inner Pale Sun, Dark Age of Reason)
Autumn Tears
Charon (Tearstained, and Downhearted)
Dargaard - In Nomine Aeternitatis
Darkspace - III
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas - Dusk and Void Became Alive
Gothica - Suicide Cliff
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Sentenced (almost all, their first two albums (Shadows of the Past, North from Here) were a bit more death metal)
Shining - V: Halmstad
Tenhi - Airut aamujen

 

[HandsOfDespair]

Shape of despair, absolutely depresseing and dark atmosphere

Radiohead

Mar de grises , it is one of my favorite bands atm, you have to hear a complete album of them to really like them

Empyrium, October Tide,

 

[Rich - Rannoch]

Kevin Moore's 'Chroma Key' or OSI (Matheos/Moore)

 

[coldthrn]

MOGWAI

 

[t-rave]

Vast is a really cool band/artist - It's a guy named Jon Crosby and he is kind of in the Trent Reznor/Devin townsed mold as far as a guy who has his hands in the product from top to bottom..The music is more dramatc moody and sometime rocking with acoustics, sample, and rockers... "Music For People" is a good one

RPWL Experience - moody prog rock with a huge nod to David Gilmour/pink Floyd..check out some good tunes!

http://www.myspace.com/rpwl

Chroma Key and OSI - solo projects form Kevin Moore of Dream theater..not like DT at all and definitly for moody and psychadelic ( espeically Chroma Key..OSI is more of a moody hard rock band with jkim matheos form Fates warning)


Demians - sort of a mellow Porcupine tree rock type band .

http://www.myspace.com/demiansmusic

 

[spioraid]

Some sad/mellow bands I chill to:

Azure Ray (Hold On Love is an amazing album)
Gandalf (psudeo-classical new age...very passionate though)
Days of the New - Anything by Travis Meeks
Pre-"Fallen" Evanescence - albums like Origin and Evanescence are great, nothing like the newer stuff
Jimmy Eat World
Nickel Creed - Why Should the Fire Die?
Sixpence Non the Richer (well not sad, but that voice...oh man...)
The Smiths
Belle and Sebastion
Starflyer59

 

[t-rave]

for some cool 80's wave stuff....

The Cure
Joy Division
Depeche Mode
Nick Cave

 

[slashvanyoung]

Kevin Moore's 'Chroma Key' or OSI (Matheos/Moore)

Chroma Key and OSI - solo projects form Kevin Moore of Dream theater..not like DT at all and definitly for moody and psychadelic ( espeically Chroma Key..OSI is more of a moody hard rock band with jkim matheos form Fates warning)
http://www.myspace.com/demiansmusic

I LOVE Chroma Key! Especially Kev's debut. It's such an overlooked project...

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

I find film music the most emotional, but thats just me. Check out "Gollum's Song" from the LOTR: Two Towers soundtrack. That is depressing, really. Amazing vocals.

Gollum's song is one of the greatest pieces of film music EVER.



Also, I was going to add Through Silver and Black by Neurosis.

 

[Sloan]

The Cure - Pornography

Some Elliott Smith stuff

The Denver Gentlemen's second album (self titled)

 

[TomiR]

I like this type of music a lot, but all the good bands that I know of in this genre have already been mentioned. Keep them coming however



I can stongly recommend the following:

Alquin - The Mountain Queen
Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings
Focus - Moving Waves
Mithrandir - For You the Old Women
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
Pentacle - La Clef des Songes
The early Antonius Rex and Jacula stuff for some necessary evil :Smokedev:

and of course the obvious stuff like:
Early Camel
Early King Crimson
Early Genesis

I also really like some of the more contemporary scandinavian bands with that 70's sound like Anekdoten, Anglagard, Landberk, Paatos, Morte Macabre, Dungen (actually anything with Reine Fiske in it ).

A lot of killer stuff there!

I just listening to the Moving Waves album a couple of hours ago, a prog masterpiece! I actually have the original vinyl from the 70's(along with my CD)

Early Camel, oh yes! Snowgoose is one of my all time favourite albums, easily in the top 5.

Early Genesis is killer stuff as well, the Gabriel-era and a couple of albums after that. Gentle Giant is brilliant stuff as well.

As a Finn, I have to recommend old Wigwam albums (Being, their masterpiece) and Tasavallan Presidentti, which is a bit more jazzy than Wigwam.