I hate seeing people on a happiness high and am trying to come up with a depressing song to get them off of it. I wanna go with Anathema's Lost Control, but I'm wondering what else is there that's really depressing. Any suggestions?
Warning - "Footprints"
Slumber - "Where Nothing Was Left"
Doom:VS - "Oblivion Upon Us"
Solitude Aeturnus - "Upon Within"
Katatonia - "I Break"
Pale Divine - "Cemetery Earth"
Xasthur - "Achieve Emptiness"
Anathema - "One Last Goodbye"
Rapture - "Two Dead Names"
Asunder - "A Famine"
Type O Negative - "Everything Dies" or "Everyone I Love is Dead"
Mirror of Deception - "Mirthless"
Damn that was quick. I like katatonia and all, but I never got how they were all that depressing. I mean, don't get me wrong, it does sound sad in a way, but they've never gotten me to feel bad. Though Xasthur does for some reason.
Metal, I don't know. Non-metal, The Wind Up Bird - This is the answer. The backstory alone is a heartbreaker.
It doesn't have to be metal. But anything works I guess. But that's another thing. Most metal that tries to just doesn't get me down. I try to let it, but it just doesn't affect me. I could listen to My Dying Bride all day and be walking on sunshine (well, maybe not THAT cheerful, but you get the idea). On MDB btw, I would have to say the only thing they've ever done that actually got me a little depressed was For My Fallen Angel. But that's about it.
sloanan:Damn that was quick. I like katatonia and all, but I never got how they were all that depressing. I mean, don't get me wrong, it does sound sad in a way, but they've never gotten me to feel bad. Though Xasthur does for some reason.
xasthur just creates a sickeningly depressing atmosphere, and Malefic needs to keep up the mysterious persona to sell albums so he never provides the lyrics for his songs, combined with those vocals all works to make the listener feel totally empty, which is pretty cool if you ask me
jacksonlefteye: sloanan: Damn that was quick. I like katatonia and all, but I never got how they were all that depressing. I mean, don't get me wrong, it does sound sad in a way, but they've never gotten me to feel bad. Though Xasthur does for some reason.get Brave Murder Day, Discouraged Ones (which is where "I Break" comes from) and Last Fair Deal Gone Down if you haven't already, and really get to know the lyrics which i've always felt was Katatonia's strength, especially on BMD because they're terribly vague but about as deep as you can get; DO and LFDGD really bring it home in the musical department though, the vocals on DO are very downtrodden and LFDGD was the first Katatonia material i'd ever heard back when i first started listening to metal, and that opening riff in "Dispossession" just floored me xasthur just creates a sickeningly depressing atmosphere, and Malefic needs to keep up the mysterious persona to sell albums so he never provides the lyrics for his songs, combined with those vocals all works to make the listener feel totally empty, which is pretty cool if you ask me
sloanan: Damn that was quick. I like katatonia and all, but I never got how they were all that depressing. I mean, don't get me wrong, it does sound sad in a way, but they've never gotten me to feel bad. Though Xasthur does for some reason.
Damn skippin on Xasthur. But with Katatonia, I have every one of their albums except BMD, but I've heard most of it. Though I really like the stuff, it just doesn't get me down. But it is true that they generally have good lyrics. Course, I'd need to check BMD's before saying it doesn't get me down.
sloanan:It doesn't have to be metal. But anything works I guess.
It doesn't have to be metal. But anything works I guess.
Well then, listen to Swans. Blind KILLS me, but I think I'm just at that age where the lyrics have finally taken on meaning, haha.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4OK1kDLj8MM
jacksonlefteye:Warning - "Footprints"
Winner.
Katatonia - "I Break" Good choice but my theme song is Cold Ways.
There is a Shining song called Manipulation Session that only features the Lyrics "Kill yourself now" set to a droning industrial beat, that is interesting and upbeat.
What is more depressing than Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? Keep the razorblades away while listening to any of that shit. But I love it.
Rapture-Futile. An entirely depressing album
Eyes of Fire -Prisons. Another depressing one
The song "When" by Opeth. Quite sad.
Daylight Dies depresses the shit out of me.
Don't listen to Jesu after a break up, unless you enjoy suffering. Which I do. But she came back to me and I'm happy agian. So now I listen to more Kyuss and the like and get stoned.
Woods of Ypres - Distractions of Living Alone
Awesome lyrics, atmosphere and crushingly depressing to me.
flah: sloanan: It doesn't have to be metal. But anything works I guess. Well then, listen to Swans. Blind KILLS me, but I think I'm just at that age where the lyrics have finally taken on meaning, haha. http://youtube.com/watch?v=4OK1kDLj8MM
sloanan: It doesn't have to be metal. But anything works I guess.
Yes.
Also, on the metal front:
Primordial "The Coffin Ships" - Some of the most honest sorrow I've heard in metal.
A few to mention..
Neurosis - No River To Take Me Home
Jesu - Ruined
Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter
Pain of Salvation - Oblivion Ocean
Opeth - Windowpane
I third Katatonia's 'I Break'.
Most of Ulver's new one is pretty damn depressing.