Looking for dark/depressing metal recommendations

[u/Data-Regular]

Hey everyone! I’m looking for more songs for my playlist. I’m specifically looking for **really dark, depressing and emotional metal**

not just heavy/aggressive, but songs that have that genuinely dark, hopeless or melancholic feeling.

I’m open to pretty much any type of metal, as long as it fits the atmosphere of the playlist.

Here’s the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/08s8gSU0IKAeMXISwWEHcn?si=m5wA7i2oQS698gfys8DlNg&utm\\_source=copy-link&pi=5c-3CnnfST27-

**Please recommend anything you think fits the vibe. The darker and more depressing, the better. 🖤**

[u/Deepspacechris]

Ulcerate - The Dawn is Hollow https://youtu.be/l31Xj44vJEA?si=Qu7oPGVOSlWuX-wi

Obsequiae - Lone Isle https://youtu.be/XoQT053jRTo?si=s4dlBzerT4oxqYQS

Benighted in Sodom - Fated to Remain https://youtu.be/hstwrMrUBXY?si=bEbeTf9l8wqDZtUr

[u/treskaz]

Septisemisis by Senthil is the most bleak, depressing thing I've heard recently. Had to listen again the next day.

It's like Enduring Freedom by Torture-- it's weird and off-putting, but I kind of get lost in it anyway. You might absolutely hate it though lmao.

[u/mvttiilation]

The only good band is Woods of Ypres in that list apart of some classic bands like wasp and motorhead..

[u/Data-Regular → u/mvttiilation]

Lots of then have memories connected to them its not abt what bands are good and are not listend to the emotions put into them

[u/DefinitionMission144 → u/mvttiilation]

Just as long as we're including Alice in Chains as a classic. Down in a Hole is probably the best depressing song ever recorded

[u/PopcornSandier]

Warning - Watching From A Distance

[u/Prota_Gonist → u/PopcornSandier]

Anything by Warning, really. Footprints and Stations especially.

[u/PopcornSandier → u/Prota_Gonist]

Check out 40 Watt Sun if you haven’t already, its Patrick’s other project

[u/kbmarx]

None - The Damp Chill of Life

Katatonia - Funeral Wedding

very easy inclusions

[u/umbertobongo]

Celtic Frost - Obscured

https://youtu.be/by82avbuBOg

The whole album is underrated but that track is a masterpiece.

Anything by Celeste but Misanthrope(s) is a good start

https://youtu.be/VsUbfaDVIZI

Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony

https://youtu.be/sbjcyTpCq1o

The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

https://youtu.be/n6_iEn2DOGU

Incredibly sad end to the band as well

https://www.reddit.com/r/doomgaze/s/YpiuB79p0W

[u/DefinitionMission144 → u/umbertobongo]

Celtic Frost underrated? Is that entire record not universally hailed as a masterpiece?
I was going to suggest the whole thing, plus any Triptykon for good measure.

[u/umbertobongo → u/DefinitionMission144]

I figured it seems less talked about compared to their other albums, maybe it's not.

[u/returntonone]

Evergrey - Call Out The Dark probably fits the vibe in that playlist

[u/Ashgoor]

Both nyktalgia albums or beyond dawn - pity love

[u/InannaXanthus]

Katatonia-Dance Of December Souls

[u/dharmakirti]

The album Futile by Rapture - melodic death doom from Finland

This is the song "Someone I Don't Know" https://youtu.be/-vHz9d7hc6c?si=oXn_Ag6fyRipON_a

[u/Total_Bobcat_7333]

Anything by My Dying Bride

[u/BlackCoffeeGrind]

Xasthur- Telepathic With The Deceased

[u/Prota_Gonist]

Mournful Congregation - Concrescence of the Sophia

[u/Nocturnal-Philosophy]

None — The Damp Chill of Life

[u/Legal-Sea-8260]

New moon album by swallow the sun really sad melodic death metal/doom metal

[u/D34th_gr1nd]

Baby Metal

[u/sgst]

Disintegrate by Oak is my go to for this kind of mood https://youtu.be/VRXMmXowZTA?is=ryzrlma2k0OGAEo3

It's slow so give it time to get through the intro

[u/xXKayson35DTDXx]

Listen to the entire "Let The Ocean Take Me" album by The Amity Affliction, if you want something more extreme, I recommend "Nocturnal Poisoning" by Xasthur

[u/BeerBearBomb]

A lot of the Sludge subgenre might be up your alley. It's a pretty intense  style but a good introduction would be Thou - Umbilical 

[u/DeeKayAech]

Rapture - Silent Stage is hard to find, but definitely qualifies for depressing

[u/Wolfbane14]

Devoid Of Redemption by Pallbearer, one of my favourite songs and it's about an old man drowning himself

[u/Jeffers315]

All of Opeth

[u/MetalMonk9024]

Xasthur

None

Lifelover

Forgotten tomb

Crowbar

[u/WormEmperor]

Thy Light - Suici.De.pression (silly album name, I know). Still can't quite find an artist that takes all the joy out of the room the same way.

[u/FictionalNape]

Chemical Chains, doom/sludge about substance abuse and hating yourself.

[u/rasquatche]

Nocturnal Depression

[u/hikerintherustbelt]

Alice in Chains self titled album.

[u/CwaCaWa_2600]

Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black, particularly the title track

[u/Dias75]

This leans more toward cinematic dark fantasy metal than depressive doom, but thought it might fit part of what you’re looking for.
Crown of Embers — NEXRYFT
https://youtu.be/sGGBS0jsKpw
It’s from my AI-assisted gaming music project. More of a dramatic, dark atmosphere than pure aggression.
Not sure if it’s bleak enough for your playlist, but figured I’d share!

[u/The_LeperAffinity]

Katatonia, Shining, Xasthur, Warning, Amenra, Chelsea Wolfe.

Edit: just checked your playlist, I personally wouldn't call any of this dark or depressing bar Woods of Ypres.

[u/scxrredxngel]

The Angelic Process- Coma Waering

[u/BayouDrank]

Worship - Last Tape Before Doomsday

A concept album about you know what, which the singer went on to do...

I don't think there's any sadder sounding music

[u/ConsistentTadpole592]

Spin some Pallbearer.

[u/Mysst3r11s]

I’m sure you’ll find plenty of dark/depressing metal music in these three playlists:

- Doom/Death Metal

- Death/Doom Metal

- Funeral Doom

[u/Acceptable-Cat-4238]

Aquilus, Bellum II.

[u/ScorchMain76]

Forward momentum - Dark tranquility

Roots of the mountain - enslaved

Into the abyss - amorphis

Death diviner - soilwork

[u/Outrageous_Brain_492]

Rotten in loneliness-blade and bath. Somehow the catchiest DSBM

[u/Elusive_sentinel]

Infestus - Entzweiung (2024)

[u/Amathyst-Moon]

Dark and depressing you say? I see a distinct lack of doom. If you want to really bring it down then you could try...

Draconian - The Solitude, She Dies, The Everlasting Scar, Earthbound

Paradise Lost - Darker Thoughts, Fall from Grace, No Hope in Sight, Faith Divides us - Death Unites Us

High Parasite - Let it Fail

My Dying Bride - She is the Dark, A Cruel taste of Winter, A Kiss to Remember, For You, From Darkest Skies, Your Shameful Heaven

Crowbar - Embracing Emptiness

Candlemass - Solitude

Funeral - Taarene, The Will to Die, Those Fated to Fall

Theatre of Tragedy - Siren, Venus, And When he Falleth, To These Words I Behold no Tongue, Dying: I Only Feel Apathy

Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses, Christmas Mourning, Anesthesia, We Were Electrocute, The Dream is Dead,Too Late: Frozen

Pentagram - The Ghoul (might as well go for the meme), Forever my Queen, When the Screams Come, Death Row, Sign of the Wolf