What are some good metal songs about depresssion, suicide?

[Alteredmindeath]

Exercise helps depression and staying busy.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

exercise is the best weapon against depression. crossfit for life.

 

[Belligerent]

I'd have to agree. I lift weights 5x a week and have a strict diet for the most part. I'd be severely depressed if i was fat and useless.

 

[Goffdahl]

Standing on a crossfit machine makes me depressed. There's nothing worse than exercise. but well, it helps me pick up chicks and in the end it's probably worth it.

 

[Ryuuzaki]

Rapture - Someone (I Don't Know)

edit: i don't know if the song is about suicide, to me its depressing and beautiful.

Agreed. Gets me every time.

 

[RavageTheKingdom]

You refuse to take pills for it, and listen to depressive music, and ENJOY feeling miserable?
Maybe that's why you always feel depressed.....?



You say you're getting married too? Well a)does she know you like feeling miserable and b)if you think you're miserable NOW wait till you're married!

Listen to some DLR-era Van Halen people!

(And yes, I was diagnosed with clinical depression too, years ago so I do know what I'm talking about)

Depression is a mental illness, you cant expect the person to get themselves help. Usually a family member or friend does it.

Maybe when you get married you will be happier. Most depressed people are alone which is just like a breeding ground for more depression and eventually suicide.

 

[JontRevolting]

So amny god damn gay BM musicians.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Standing on a crossfit machine makes me depressed. There's nothing worse than exercise. but well, it helps me pick up chicks and in the end it's probably worth it.

Crossfit the exercise program is what I was referring to. Not a crossfit machine.

 

[Sven Pakkanen]

At everyone who replied to my previous post: I'm considering what you all said, and I'm trying out not listening to specifically depressive music. I'm also going to the gym a little more often. I have a subscription, but it's a 20 minute drive so I've been lazy about it. As little as I mind feeling down I do want to be healthy, I have always seen myself in the distant future as 'The Wise Ol' Grandpa Who WILL Kick Your Ass'

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

good. keep going to the gym and try not to let the drive or difficulty stop you.

 

[GrayRain]

I've had a pretty difficult time with depression for the past few years now, and I don't listen to depressive music to make me feel depressed. Rather, I listen to it when I'm already feeling depressed. In a sense, just knowing that there are other people out there that are having just as difficult a time is comforting, and listening to depressive music gives me this knowledge.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

and you live in a miserable place with cold rainy weather, as do I. haha..

 

[GrayRain]

Haha yeah, that's all too true. I feel like I see an inordinate number of depressed looking people walking around here

 

[damnromulans]

I can't think of any famous Seattle people without links to suicides, actually.

Pretty much anything Sentenced ever released qualifies. Joyless are rock not metal but they fall well under the depressive umbrella.

I'm not clinically depressed but I do go through spells lasting a few months at a time. I found Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows (not metal at all) to be extremely cathartic.

+1000 for exercise too, if you're really down and out you'll feel almost baseline or "normal" for several hours after a workout. If you spread your workouts throughout the day (lift in the am, run in the pm etc) you can feel okay for most of the day.

 

[GrayRain]

Oh and as far as songs go, this song is in my opinion the most accurate analog of severe depression musically:

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[Wolves83]

so guys...what's your suicide playlist?

 

[The Butt]

I haven't been diagnosed with any depression, but I'd be lying if I said I've felt "good" in quite a few years now. But I honestly don't understand how depressive, or dark/gloomy BM, can make someone more depressed. For someone who loves a genre, no matter the mood or subject, one would think that it would make one feel better, not worse.

I know I feel better, listening to such BM. It's honestly just really moving stuff IMO... and I get a short-lived blast of joy from hearing a really, really good part in a song.

 

[sevag00]

True. I love depressive black metal. I listen to it when i'm depressed or not. Those riffs are just beautiful.

 

[The Emptier]

what is Watching?

 

[Manic Ferocity]

FUCK depressive black metal for the most part. Forgotten Tomb is great.