What's your most melancholy album of doom?

SA's, Into The Depths of Sorrow takes me to places I can't describe. Blissful meloncholia of doom. I don't think they got better than this.

Saint Vitus' Mournful Cries is a pretty melancholy album ...

Forest of Equilibrium while very heavy is also very melancholy. That's my vote, by george.

Is FOE the band Spec?

Sorry. Cathedral is the band.

Probably MY SLIENT WAKE's Anatomy of Melancholy.

TrogDawn wrote:

Probably MY SLIENT WAKE's Anatomy of Melancholy.

Word!

Sevenchurch- Bleak Insight (by far)...see existing thread below.

Interesting, because Anatomy gets me fired up.

etombdissonance wrote:

Interesting, because Anatomy gets me fired up.

Perv.

TrogDawn wrote:

Probably MY SLIENT WAKE's Anatomy of Melancholy.

I agree. Out of my collection anyway

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etombdissonance wrote:

Interesting, because Anatomy gets me fired up.

Perv.

Herm.

Probably my ex-wife's DC Talk album... I never hear it but when I do I get very depressed, weep bitterly and want to die.. doesn't get more melancholy than that does it?

ghosts of athanasius wrote:

Probably my ex-wife's DC Talk album... I never hear it but when I do I get very depressed, weep bitterly and want to die.. doesn't get more melancholy than that does it?

Yet another reason not to listen to DC Talk. Actually Anatomy of Melancholy made me feel that way too the first time I heard it and read along with the lyrics. I was very unstable at the time though, as I was completely exhausted. I'm able to really enjoy it now though.

OCEAN - Here Where Nothing Grows

The title says it all...

Ok maybe not so doomy but I have a hard time listening to
Nevermore-Dreaming neon black although I love that album but its heartbreaking especially the last track Forever.

Nevermore is cool maybe not doomy but still cool.

I have no idea what is the single most melancholy album is but I do like darker moments so for me Undercover's Branded has some great moments in the melancholy department as does their Balance of Power album. Many in fact seeing how much of the album is about the death of the guitarist's wife...

If we expand outside of the boundaries of doom, one album that is extremely melancholy and very difficult for me to listen to anymore is The Final Cut_ by PINK FLOYD.



Such a great album, but SO many painful memories are tied to it for me.

I love The Final Cut. Its my 2nd favorite Floyd. I think it's much better than the Wall and much darker. Sorry that bad connotations are attached to that masterpiece for ya.

spectrefate wrote:

I love The Final Cut. Its my 2nd favorite Floyd. I think it's much better than the Wall and much darker. Sorry that bad connotations are attached to that masterpiece for ya.

Oh yeah, it's definitely higher on my list than The Wall - I think it's awesome and definitely one of my favorites. It's got ties to my first heartbreak as a teen...you know the drill. I did pick up the remaster last year though (with bonus track "When the Tigers Broke Free" - score!) and I still give it a spin once in a blue moon.

I find Animals to be very melancholy as far as the Floyd go.

I can hardly listen to Floyd. Aside from the flashbacks there is some deeply imbedded memories that PF brings out that I don't understand. When he starts singing, Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn, I almost lose it. Why PF and not Iron Maiden, I was listening to them too.

FLOYD is an emotional HEAVY_ no matter how you slice it...

And let me say, don't EVER do mescaline and listen to their live stuff.

I think something about PF makes me feel my age like the best stuff flew by me and I missed most of it.

"And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..."

Yeah, I can understand that...

TrogDawn wrote:

FLOYD is an emotional HEAVY_ no matter how you slice it...

That is part of their later day strength, it really played on your emotions. The lyrics, music and emotions all interwined together for the full effect.

IMO, Wish You Were Here is a pretty sad album...

A lot of it is based on Syd Barrett and his struggles and how they impacted Roger Waters and the band if I understand it correctly.

I think most of PINK FLOYD's post-Syd music is about Syd in some way...