The most depressing song you can think of.

[cannibal corpse]

The most depressing song I can think of is probably Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. It uses the tritone extensively and the tritone is credited as "The Devil's Note" but because the tempo is so low and the singing is so minor based it just gets me really depressed, I dunno.

How about you guys?

 

[Life Sucks]

Mourning Beloveth - Narcissistic Funeral

 

[cookiecutter]

Warning - Watching From a Distance (or really anything off that album)
Wedard - Auferstand Aus Ruinen
Blutklinge - The Ghost II
I Shalt Become - Want
Be Persecuted - Revolves Weakly Falls

 

[whiskey funeral]

Any Silencer song.

 

[Contra dk]

Silencer - Sterile Nails And Thunderbowels
Katatonia - Quiet World
Shape Of Despair - Quiet These Paintings Are
Opeth - Hours Of Wealth

Can't think of anymore at the moment...

 

[XSASweet]

Shining - Ytterligare Ett Steg Narmare Total Javla Utfrysning is the only one I can think of atm.

 

[Zephyrus]

Leviathan - Unfailing Fall into Naught
Krieg - Without Light
Xasthur - Forgotten Depths of Nowhere

 

[Alter]

I don't mind metal songs as sad as they are negative.

 

[Zephyrus]

I don't mind metal songs as sad as they are negative.

Sadness is a negative emotion.

 

[Alter]

So is anger and hatred, which is the two emotions that I hear in metal, but that is just me.

 

[Zephyrus]

Metal can convey any emotion most other music can. I'm sure your precious indie rock can do the same.

 

[Belligerent]

Type O Negative - Death in the Family
Anathema - One Last Goodbye (depressing and beautiful all at once)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - The River Flows Frozen
Riverside - Loose Heart

actually most of the depressing songs i like are beautiful.

 

[Alter]

I know that. Which is why I said, "but thats just me." I thought I made that clear that is was a personal thing.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Warning - 'Footprints'
Mütiilation - 'Suffer the Gestalt'
Absurd - 'Wartend in Einsamkeit'
Absurd - 'Mourning Soul'
Abyssic Hate - 'Knight of the Living Dead'
Morrigan - 'Anam Cara'
Sortsind - 'Blandt Grå Monumenter'

 

[Kushantaiidan]

Funeral - Pendulum
Funeral - Saturn
Esoteric - Circle

 

[Bitencourt29]

Any Shining album's filled with terribly depressive songs.

Angst (III) and The Eerie Cold (IV) are pretty decent albums.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Black Sabbath - Solitude

 

[mutantllama]

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath

Also, Iced Earth's A Question of Heaven makes me feel sad.

Oh, and Candlemasses At the Gallows End.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I really don't think metal is a genre that captures sadness well, given the inherent unsubtlety of most of it. It's dark, sure, but usually in a more inhuman way than in a way that captures emotional frailty, depression, suicidality, etc.

I generally avoid depressing music, but one song that's always seemed to sap me of hope for living is Pink Floyd's "Time" - mainly because of the lyrics.

As far as metal goes, I think Alice in Chains has done some of the most depressing metal songs.

 

[Omni]

Mournful Congregation - The Monad Of Creation

Yes! Buying that CD was such a good idea.