Sad / Depressing music

[Torniojaws]

Oh, looks like this thread is diverging towards neoclassical, ambient and such, instead of melancholic/dark rock/metal so I guess I'll list my recommendations from the aforementioned (and there are a few The wealth of incredible music is astonishing in those genres):

Dark Ambient / Ambient

Aghast - Hexerei im Zwielicht der Finsternis
Apoptose - Nordland
Beyond Sensory Experience - The Dull Routine of Existence
Biosphere - Insomnia
Bruno Sanfilippo - InTRO
Coph Nia - That Which Remains
Cyclotimia - Wasteland
Desiderii Marginis - Deadbeat
Desiderii Marginis - That Which Is Tragic and Timeless
Encomiast - Winter's End
Liquid Morphine - Grijsgebied
Lustmord - Carbon Core
Necrophorus - Drifting In Motion
Raison d'Être - In Sadness, Silence and Solitude
Raison d'Être - Requiem for Abandoned Souls
Sephiroth - Cathedron
Sephiroth - Draconian Poetry
Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun

Horror Ambient / Horror Neoclassical / Darkwave

Atrium Carceri - Seishinbyouin
Chaostar - The Scarlet Queen
Coph Nia - Shapeshifter
Dark Ages - Twilight of Europe
Dark Ages - A Chronicle of the Plague
Deutsch Nepal - Erotikon
Elend - Leçons des Ténèbres
Elend - Les Ténèbres du Dehors
Elend - The Umbersun
Elend - A World In Their Screams
Ice Ages - Strike the Ground
Ice Ages - This Killing Emptiness
Karjalan sissit - Tanssit on loppu nyt
Letum - Broken
Raison d'Être - Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations
Raison d'Être - The Empty Hollow Unfolds
Shinjuku Thief - Medea
The Protagonist - Songs of Experience

IDM/Electronic/DnB

Aphex Twin - drukqs
Noise Unit - Voyeur
Synæsthesia - Embody
Synæsthesia - Ephemeral
The Third Eye Foundation - Ghost
The Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul
Ulver - Perdition City

Martial Industrial

Puissance - All Hail the Mushroom Cloud
Puissance - Total Cleansing
Puissance - State Collapse

Neoclassical

All My Faith Lost - The Hours
Arcana - Dark Age of Reason
Arcana - The Last Embrace
Arcana - Inner Pale Sun
Dargaard - In Nomine Aeternitatis
Dark Sanctuary - De Lumière et d'Obscurité
Dark Sanctuary - Les Mémoires Blessées
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas - Dusk and Void Became Alive
Gothica - The Cliff of Suicide
Qntal - Qntal VI: Translucida
Tenhi - Airut aamujen
Trobar de Morte - Fairydust
Ulver - Svidd Neger

Ethnic / Folk / World Music

Arcana - Le Serpent Rouge
Autumn Tears - Love Poems for Dying Children... Act II: The Garden of Crystalline Dreams
Autumn Tears - Eclipse
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride
Delerium - Faces, Forms & Illusions
Delerium - Morpheus
Delerium - Syrophenikan
Delerium - Stone Tower
Delerium - Spiritual Archives
Karl Sanders - Saurian Meditation
Nebelhexë - Laguz: Within the Lake
Predella Avant - Carbon Figures
Ulver - Kveldssanger

 

[BrettT]

Mouth of the Architect ..post-rock
Bohren Under Club of Gore ..really dark and jazzy ambient stuff
Amber Asylum ...dark classical-type stuff
Waking Life OST ..performed by the Tosca Tango Orchestra. Really dark, moody stuff. Excellent!
Baron Grod ..local Austin post-rock band
Bartok's string quartets ..Atonal classical stuff. Incredible and quite dark.

 

[Gelatin]

Really? I always felt I&W was quite a happy album, considering it uses so many major key sigs (not a bad thing).


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. YouTube ain't great but it gives you an idea..
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=p8T3IxGOHHY

The singer is Emiliana Torrini - she has a new album out which is quite good in my oppinion, not so melancholic though..

http://www.myspace.com/emilianatorrini

 

[Splat88]

when i want to chill out, i listen to:

Isis, Tool, Pelica, Jesu, Cavite, March Hare(seriously), bossk, and Russian Circles


check afew of them out if you haven't already

Hey thanks for the March Hare comment!


My chillout music would be:

The Cure (Bloodflowers especially)
Anathema
Katatonia
Godflesh (slower material)
Massive Attack
And my favorite Pink Floyd album Animals.

 

[Metaltastic]

If no one has mentioned Opeth's Damnation yet - shame on you all

 

[Splat88]

If no one has mentioned Opeth's Damnation yet - shame on you all

Don't know how that one got missed. Easily one of the best albums for the genre at hand. The acoustic moments in My Arms Your Hearse deserve an honorable mention as well.

 

[James Murphy]

flim music, post-rock instrumental shit, 70's prog and fusion, and neoclassical shit like Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard's solo stuff, Kronos Quartet, et.

anyone in to dark ambient industrial/electro shit and film music, do yourself a favor and look up the artists called Blackfilm. that's not their pic in their profile, btw... that's the Ornette Coleman Quartet. not sure why they have that there. check out all their tracks.. this first one is not a good indicator really.

 

[J the TyranT]

This thread has taken off ridiculously...its gonna take me all night to check this many bands out, lol.

 

[schismatic]

got to give big +1 to agalloch and mogwai. agalloch's "she painted fire across the skyline' has a stunning intro.

 

[abyssofdreams]

I gotta say, some REALLY good stuff in here... and I considered myself to know quite a bunch...