The Darkest Music You've Ever Heard Thread

Well the name's in the title. I'll expect a lot of avant-garde, doom and maybe even early blues music? Great if you put those forward, especially if they are groundbreaking, but if you guys post things from a style you'd never expect to be dark, EVEN BETTER.

I'm gonna kick start this whole thing with three songs that are exceptionally dark to me:



THE darkest IDM album I've ever heard (Doll Doll Doll - Venetian Snares) and my favourite song off of it. Brilliant.



Introductory passage to perhaps the darkest Baroque suite ever. Purcell was truly a genius. A very depressed genius at that, nonetheless producing some of the finest music. The rest of Music For The Funeral of Queen Mary sustains this atmosphere, which is why I love it.




Neurosis, the darkest metal band (you don't get much heavier and brooding than their music imho), released their darkest album Through Silver In Blood, and this is by far the darkest song on there. Need I say more? You may need to go watch Slumdog Millionaire after this, because you may be crushed by it

Your turn guys Can you top those three?

Shub Niggurath's La ballade de Lénore Univers Zéro's La Faulx and Jack the Ripper

Henry Plainview wrote: I'm going to have to nominate Jandek Not just because of the music, but because of the story of the artist. Jandek has, over the last 30 years, self-released sixty albums that can only be mail ordered from him directly for $8 each (as he doesn't have a website) or from the hippest online retailers. From what I hear, most of them are in the same vein as that song, and he never appeared in public as Jandek until 2004, and he still won't tell anybody what his real name is. What kind of mental state do you have to be in to record 60 albums of that...

Psychopath - The Edgar Broughton Band
Drip Drip - Comus
Death Disco - PIL
Something I Can Never Have - NIN
Music For Strings Percussion & Celesta (1st Movement) - Bartok
Toccata - ELP
Univers Zero - Pretty much anything
Wild Women With Steak Knives - Diamanda Galas

DJPuffyLemon wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: I'm going to have to nominate Jandek Not just because of the music, but because of the story of the artist. Jandek has, over the last 30 years, self-released sixty albums that can only be mail ordered from him directly for $8 each (as he doesn't have a website) or from the hippest online retailers. From what I hear, most of them are in the same vein as that song, and he never appeared in public as Jandek until 2004, and he still won't tell anybody what his real name is. What kind of mental state do you have to be in to record 60 albums of that... There's actually a wiki page on him, and there's a LOT of info (relatively speaking). And if you want you can find out his real name too.

Yes, but the fact that there have been only two interviews with him since 1978 speaks for itself, I think.

DJPuffyLemon wrote: There's actually a wiki page on him, and there's a LOT of info (relatively speaking). And if you want you can find out his real name too.

Somebody figured out his name, yes, but he has never actually admitted to anybody he is Sterling Smith. He still says "A representative from Corwood Industries" on the back of the live albums and doesn't call himself Jandek at his concerts. I can't help but feel that at least some of that is an act, but nobody would do what he did unless he truly felt what he was expressing.

The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers is an absolutely masterpiece of blood drenched darkness. Avoiding the gloomy doldrums of most music this depressing, it is by turns savage and dispassionate but never mopey and boo-hoo-hoo- which I think is it why it so depressing. The narrator has lost interest- he contemplates death, gun control, prostution, annorexia, the Holocaust etc and can only respond with impotent anger that is slowly and gradually replaced by a void. That it preceded the real life suicide of lyricist Richey Edwards only adds to the ominous atmosphere.

Just about anything by The Residents of course.  The darkest album in my collection, which is dark in a really subtle way: Steve Roach's Darkest Before Dawn.

More Munch - hopefully this link works. Their darkest moment ever.

The Pessimist wrote: lucas wrote:   Excerpts are available on youtube, but I am too lazy to post them.     I love this Almost like the soundtrack to a war or something. A real soundtrack to a war, with all those REAL emotions (fear, sadness, panic, rage, aggression, doom) that aren't really depicted in most war film sound tracks.