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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2005 at 21:31
Originally posted by Petra Petra wrote:

Try Anathema especially their album 'A natural Disaster' its so dark and gloomy but at the same time full of stunningly beautiful atmospheric tunes.


I'd second the recommendation of Anathema, but I'd moreso go for the album "Eternity" which I think is a fair bit better than A Natural Disaster.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2005 at 00:14

Originally posted by Karl Hungus Karl Hungus wrote:

Originally posted by Petra Petra wrote:

Try Anathema especially their album 'A natural Disaster' its so dark and gloomy but at the same time full of stunningly beautiful atmospheric tunes.


I'd second the recommendation of Anathema, but I'd moreso go for the album "Eternity" which I think is a fair bit better than A Natural Disaster.

 

I agree with Eternity.  Alternative 4 is another one that really enjoy. 

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that I really enjoy. 
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement, are roads of genius.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2005 at 08:19
VDGG - The least we can do is wave too each other, oohhh the darkness, ahhhh the beauty ... great album
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2005 at 10:22
Since someone else has already suggested VDGG and Balletto di
Bronzo I'll go with Osanna - Palepoli. Or maybe Still Life (well, I was
about to add Procol Harum's Home for the morbid lyrics and the
depressing tone of some songs but I'm not sure you would
appreciate it...)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 16:49

White Willow "Storm Season"..

Cyndee 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 17:47

anthema,no doubt!!

 I would choose "A natural disaster"

..You´re not alone...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 18:15

VIRGIN BLACK

PETER GABRIEL

SAVIOUR MACHINE

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:54
Originally posted by antibiotic antibiotic wrote:

Thanks for the replies. Keep them coming.

Some of the more obvious ones I know: VDGG, Tool, GYBE!, Anathema, Devil Doll...

But thank you for the replies anyway. I shall check out the stuff I haven't heard before.

d.o.k. : Have you heard a Finnish band called Skepticism? It's funeral
doom, but you may be interested in checking them out seeing as you're a
fan of Godspeed.



have seen it mentioned a couple times, you should check this out


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Space is dark it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is small
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2005 at 20:18
All my favorite dark bands come from Sweden: Anekdoten, Sinkadus, Landberk, Opeth, Paatos...

What's going on over there?

...cheer up guys!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2005 at 20:49
Guapo (five suns)
Magma
Thinking plague
comus

all very good, dark.
Blarg! My cheese has bones!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2005 at 20:50
oops, almost forgot. There is none darker than Heresie and other early
Univers Zero. The audio equivelant to H. P. Lovecraft.
Blarg! My cheese has bones!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 12:35
OPETH: try the darkly gentle 'Damnation' and the black-metallic/acoustic 'Blackwater Park'. 'Deliverance' is dark as hell as is the new one, 'Ghost Reveries',  but the key feature about the band is the light/dark contrast of the music that is an aspect of all their recordings. Swedish prog/black metal...another sub-genre! Music without barriers, thats PROG!!!     
Mart, the Old Progger is Listening to:

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Yes - Topographic Oceans
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Steve Hillage - L
Hawkwind - 1st LP


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 12:55
Check out the obscure and indie American Goth/prog band called The Red Masque. They make Peter Hammill and VDGG sound like child's play. Halloween, horror, terror, demonic, possessed, psycho, and the undead are just some of the words that come to mind when listening to their album called "Feathers for Flesh." With otherworldly dark female vocals, heavy gothic organ, treated mellotrons, radical dissident guitars, and a raw prog approach, this band comes off as authentically terrifying. Not easy to find, not easy to listen to, and not for the faint of heart. Hard to find but available through their web site. http://theredmasque.com/   
"Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 13:07
I will say Anathema for the Th time... The Album "Judgment" is the most sad thing You ever heard In your entire miserable life...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 13:15

Alan Parson's Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

Van Der Graaf Generator - H To He Who Am The Only One

Peter Hammill - The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Peter Gabriel - Up (very dark mood at times)

 

If you can stand metal, try these bands:

Opeth

Godgory (album: Final Journey)

Evergrey

Type O Negative (album: World Coming Down)

 

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 13:17
Guapo, Polytown
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 13:18

^ Godgory album - "Way Beyond", the first track is called Final Journey, sorry

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 13:25

TOOL's "Aenima" and "Lateralus" are dark, and listenable inspired by King Crimson.

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2005 at 16:17
Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses are a more acoustic, acid - prog - folk sister band to the mighty Guapo. Very dark and sinister stuff with an East European feel (logically enough for a band from South London).
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