Hi Everyone!

Lordy Lou I haven't been here in ages!

Anyway, I'm interested in looking in some sad melodic music. For example the song "Sorgen Kammer" by Dimmu borgir in their first album "Stormblast" is a very beautiful song. I want songs in the similar vein. In piano, violins, guitars etc whatever you think is an engrossing sad, sorrowful, melancholic, beautiful song please share. Some folk music is also pretty sad.

Thanks You Metal Heads.

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i always found "13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side Of Your Bed" by A Silver Mt. Zion to be very sad, melancholic and absolutely beautiful. It's nothing like Dimmu though, but check it out if you can, it's off the album "He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms"

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Basically any Aggaloch would be what you're looking for.

Uhm.. some of the saddest/sorrowful songs that come to my mind at the moment are:
Empyrium - Fossegrim
My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel (but many other songs may be as well)
Forest Of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn to Dust (I cant choose a single song)
Hypocrisy - Paled Empty Sphere
Shape Of Despair - ..In the Mist

Alot of this stuff isn't metal (with obvious exceptions) but it's the saddest music I know.

Ulver - Kveldssanger (album)
Fields Of The Nephilim - songs like "Love Under Will" & "And There Will Your Heart Be Also"
Abyssos - "Together We Summon the Dark" (the instrumental from the same album)
Solefald - "When The Moon Is On The Wave"
Kommunity FK - "Something Inside Of Me Has Died"
Big Black - "Bad Houses" (from the Atomizer album)
Genesis - "Firth Of Fifth" (especially Steve Hackett's guitar solo)
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (album)
Love Is Colder Than Death - "The City In The Sea"
Bauhaus - "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything"

EDIT: Crap, how could I forget Priest's "Beyond The Reams Of Death"

Some parts of Devil Doll's works are complete downers as well.

Schizoid, if it's more stuff like Sorgens Krammer you want, I highly recommend getting "Musick In Theory And Practice" by Le Rue Delashay, it's exactly what you're looking for.

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Most MDB i'd say, but the earlier albums, the last 2 or 3 are not as 'good' in that sense (and generally).

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generally sad bands:

Summoning
Embraced
Mourn In Silence
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Agathodaimon

Theres a good amount of that from those bands. some specific songs from other bands:

Theatre of Tragedy-...a distance there is...
The Elysian Fields (greece)- I am the unknown sky
Cadacross-at the heart of night
Hecate Enthroned-for thee sinful obscurity
Cradle of Filth-bathory aria

As an addendum to all I recommended before:

any of the following by Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows:
Dead Lover's Sarabande Parts I and II
Todeswunsch Sous le soleil de Saturne

I can't recommend anything more sad, or spot on. Both of those albums are like suicidal, depressive chamber music.

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will you describe them. is it darkwave? ive heard 2 sad darkwave bands: Ordo funebris and Die verbannten kinder evas

Yeah it's considered "darkwave" but it's not like any darkwave I know. Dead Lover's Sarabande uses no keyboards at all as far as I remember; it's all orchestral instruments with a minimal amount of drums. A bit of classical/acoustic guitar. "Todeswunsch" is more ethnic and tribal, it's got folk instruments on it but I have no idea what they are, lots of odd woodwinds. Any keyboards on these albums are really, really lo-fi. There's also some processed-the-fuck-out electric guitar and some acoustic guitar... acoustic drums and tons of ethnic drums, great songs. The singer is totally ghastly and wierd. Never heard anything like it since.

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I'll give you a few songs, non-metal.

Alice in Chains - Love, Hate, Love
Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
Pantera - Suicide Note pt. 1
Bad Company - Simple Man
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
Black Sabbath - Megalomania

Those are some of my favorites.

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Patterns In The Ivy - Opeth
Mexico - Incubus
Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley
Unforgiven - Metallica
Videotape - Radiohead
The Tourist - Radiohead
Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa - Sigur Rós
Saeglopur - Sigur Rós
Heysatan - Sigur Rós
After All These Years - Silverchair
Shape Of My Heart - Sting
Poor Edward - Tom Waits (haha this is more for fun)
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Jesus Etc. - Wilco
Trouble - Coldplay
Rooster - Alice In Chains
Down In A Hole (unplugged) - Alice In Chains
Golden Slumbers - Beatles
Something In The Way - Nirvana

And "The Drapery Falls" is just so cool so it's on here too.

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How could I forget!!!

About Summoning I'd say in particular:
Land Of The Dead
Where Hope and Daylight Die
Like Some Snow-White Marble Eyes

for Die Verbannten Kinder Evas:
Catharsis

I'll add also other 2 song for Hypocrisy:
Living To Die
Apocalypse

For My Dying Bride, The Angel and The Dark River and Turn Loose the Swans are the albums I like the most. Shame on me, I dont know they're first one.

The Cure.

Boys don't cry.

Ain't nothing in this god damn world as sad as a 40-something year old goth dude telling you how it is, you know.......

http://www.lyricsondemand.com/c/cur...tcrylyrics.html

Dude...............dude.............dude...........you know...........this shit is pretty heavy stuff.

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That's the first one I thought of.

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Jag Panzer - Hidden in My Eyes
Iced Earth - Watching Over Me, Ghost of Freedom, Melancholy (Holy Martyr), I Died For You
Damageplan - Soulbleed
Sonata Arctica - Replica
for sure, Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
Danzig - How the Gods Kill
Testament - Trail of Tears, The Ritual
Judas Priest - Angel
Morbid Angel - Desolate Ways

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Slipknot
Mudvyane
MCR

It makes me sad listening to these shite bands.

Now to actually post something that will help you.

Woods of Ypre
Agalloch

Sorry dude, but I can't tell people not to post copyrighted lyrics everywhere else except this thread, much as I'd like to.

Try the 'Camilla' theme from Contempt.

Oh, sorry about that.


On a more serious note, anything by the band "the carpenters"


The most self-loathing, suicidal music possible.

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Metallica - To Live Is To Die

Love that song.

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Pretty much any black metal band, To me Burzum's Baldrs Dod is sad.

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Voice of the Soul- Death

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ha was gonna post that one.

i'll try to hit on shit i haven't already seen mentioned..

at the gates has some good ones, surprised they haven't been mentioned. the swarm, through gardens of grief, stardrowned, into the dead sky, and the burning darkness

dawn - the knell and the world

nasum - shadows

katatonia - deadhouse

gates of ishtar has a bunch.. dawn of flames, when daylight's gone, a bloodred path, never alone again, dreamfields, no time, perpetual dawn, etc.

cephalic carnage - ontogony of behavior

bathory - blood fire death

malevolent creation - day of lamentation

shadows fall - of one blood, the first noble truth

iron maiden - fear of the dark

dissection - thorns of crimson death

sacramentum - far away from the sun, cries from a restless soul, beyond all horizons, to the sounds of storms, etc.

arch enemy - dead inside and seed of hate.

darkest hour - a paradox with flies

keep of kalessin - winged watcher, through times of war, i choose to suffer

neurosis has some good ones. under the surface (the mp3 i have is from contaminated 2 i think and says "special edit" in parenthesis) and locust star are my favorites.

today is the day - sadness will prevail (there are at least 2 different versions of this song..i like one much more than the other)

pretty much anything by dismal euphony, graveworm, or naglfar

old man's child - felonies of the christian art, agony of fallen grace, st. aidens fall, ..og jeg laktokk dodsrikets inntog, hominis nocturna, soul possessed, what malice embrace, etc.

lamb of god - 11th hour

burnt by the sun - forlani

the crown - angels die, the black heart, misery speaks

not exactly metal, but pg. 99 - comedy of christ, humans with forked tongues, muder, conductor (that's one song name, not two), in love with an apparition, punk rock in the wrong hands, the hollowed out chest of a dead horse, etc.

satyricon - mother north

This thread makes me cry.

Dark Mirrors ov Tragedy - Through the Mist That Reigns

Genesis - Harold the Barrel, Harlequin

Insomnium - In The Grooves of Death

My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel

Nest - Last Voyage of Old Joy

Opeth - In My Time of Need

Scar Symmetry - Chaosweaver

Sonata Arctica - My Home

Bands in general:

Uaral
Woods of Ypre
Agalloch
Demons & Wizards
Green Carnation

I'll keep updating as more come to mind.

Iced Earth - Watching Over Me, A Question Of Heaven, I Died For You

At The Gates - The Swarm, The Beautiful Wound, And The World Returned

Candlemass - Samarithan

Death - Voice Of The Soul

Korpiklaani - Tuli Kokko (this is folk, since you asked for some)

Lake Of Tears - To Blossom Blue, The Organ

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde

Metallica - One

Blutklinge - Call Of The Blackened Woods (whole demo)
Dark Fortress - Moments Of Mournful Splendour

Other mainly piano tracks:
Sirenia - Seven Sirens And A Silver Tear
Dissection - No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep
Dream Theater - Space-Dye Vest

Thought of another one, this one is metal.

Fates Warning - Epitaph

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Cynic - How could I?

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all your replies! I greatly appreciate it. I will check the songs out when I have time.
A couple of you put some Cradle of Filth songs. I'm a big fan of Cradle of Filth and I don't think they make any sad music in my opinion, it is more evil sounding than sad. I can't believe non of you posted graveworm! It is one of the sadest music from a band I have. They did a cover of "Fear of the Dark" by Iron Maiden which a couple of you posted. Non of you posted Anathema! I think they have a lot of sad sounding music.

Thanks Everybody!

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try some Borknagar

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Epic and Empiricism are Borknagar's best.

Well if you want a band like Graveworm listen to Illnath. (Graveworm is my favorite BM band)

see:

'Fear of the Dark' definitely doesn't come across as sad to me.

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ehh.. i listed it..i guess it's not too sad sounding, more somber i guess.

Really? Just wondering.

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Insomnium - Nocturne
In The Woods... - Pigeon

Bands in general:
Antimatter
Swallow The Sun

Tristania's Beyond the Veil

"Mourning The Death Of Aase" is another incredibly sad song by them also. So good.

One last one to throw in here:

King Crimson - Epitaph

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Thanks, I had forgotten it! I like it a lot too.

Avathar - Atani
Helloween - Forever And One (Neverland)
Sonata Arctica - Gravenimage
Obtained Enslavement - O' Nocturne

Not properly metal
Scorpions - Wind Of Change

haha fuck dude I thought you were talking about these guys:
woops

haha I looked up the real band, sry

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*in whiny voice* "Do you like my belt buckle? G-Unit, I love G-Unit"

It's ok graf, you are too metal for sadness anyways.

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Can't believe I forgot to mention

Maudlin of the Well
Kayo Dot
Ulver (A Quick Fix of Melancholy)

Just some songs:
Xasthur- Screaming at Forgotten Fears
Ulver- Vigil
Dawn- The Knell and the World
Thanks to Teh Timez for that album!
Pantera- 10's
Katatonia- Teargas
Pretty every song on Katatonias Last Fair Deal... album is depressive sounding.

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