You’re such an intelligent music nerd. I could listen to you describe albums all day. Big respect

Xasthur albums prior to the "Portal of sorrow" are journeys to the land of dread and immeasurable psychological pain for me. While listening, I always get that feeling like I'm wandering in an endless maze of mind torture. It is really impressive how Scott creates those dark landscapes with his works. Like, I'm not a depressive type of person at all, but Xasthur's art left some scars somewhere deep inside my soul.

That Leviathan album has been with me in my darkest years

Trist has some of the most depressing music you will ever hear. Sneni is absolutely terrifying and beautiful

My additions to the list: - The Body - I Have Fought Against, But I Can't Any Longer - Current 93 - I Have a Special Plan For This World - Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper When I was going through tough times those albums felt so heart wrenching it was cathartic bonus song: Today Is The Day - Never Answer The Phone

World coming down by Type O negative. Not only did it not have joke tracks other than the first one, Peter Steele's pain is genuine as many family members were dying at this time so the pain is genuine.

A Crow Looked at Me is the only Mount Eerie album I've ever listened to, back when it came out in 2017, and I've only ever returned to it once. The lyrics of Real Death have stuck with me since and probably will for a very long time.

On Lurker of Chalice, while the entire album has a gloomy despondency, the track "This Blood Falls as Mortal, Part III" is one of the most depressing songs I can think of out of what I listen to and stands out to me as the most depressing moment on the album. Also, the Sylvia Plath sample at the start is a great touch that sets the tone perfectly. Also, Mozart's Lacrimosa because it automatically reminds me of Come and See

I also consider "The Age Of Naples" by Coil a very depressing record due to its main theme: the death of one of the members. Especially the final track which gets me every time. A soul crushing experience. It sounds great and feels incredibly chill.

Leviathan and Xasthur seem to be the only guys in DSBM that aren’t overly whiny nor overly poetic in lyrics

Broo on point with dsbm. Many bands in sub-genre make some kind of "aesthetic" around depression etc. Only a few like xasthur and leviathan express this authentic misery you can feel in your bones man

Abandon - The Dead End, 106 minute sludge / funeral doom album, is so hopeless and miserable that its downright horrific. that ones always hard to make it through.

‚Close‘ by Sadness is one of the rawest, most devastating records I’ve heard when it comes to Depressive Black Metal.

Thank you SO MUCH for mentioning Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition. I'm just an old ass metalhead from Finland, but this album is so good. Definitely one of the best finds in a while. Video was awesome too, as always :) .

Completely agree with you on "The Tenth Sublevel," it truly has a bleakness that no other black metal album does. Some I'd add: Lingua Ignota - Let The Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (All of her discography is hard to listen to, but something about this album legitimately froze me to my seat) Xasthur - Telepathic With the Deceased Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale Mizmor - Cairn (Yodh is also devastating) The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time

Giles Corey is such a heartbreaking project. As well as Have a Nice Life, it's hard to think that the guy who worked on those projects came from an emo hardcore band from the 2000's.

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Coldworld - Melancholie Glad to see warning on your list, amazing album. Highly recommend these two albums if you want to ruin your mood.

Not many people are talking about An Autumn for Crippled Children, especially their debut album Lost, which is a perfect mix of claustrophobic depressive black metal with some shoegaze influences. Worth checking out

*The 3 most depressing albums ever* (according to me / my opinion) 3. Der Golem - _Zmet_ 2. Escape the Day - _Ghostless_ 1. I'm in a Coffin - _One Final Action_

'Icon' by Paradise Lost is not only one of my favourite albums but also the first time I felt depressed while listening to music. I could not listen to it in one sitting when it was released because it was so overwhelming and almost exhaustive. 'The Silent Enigma' by Anathema is another album I associate with deep sadness, depression and emotional emptiness.

Cant wait to see this. Your stuff is always awesome.

Nice one Wyatt. Just to name a few albums that I find depressing : - Planning for Burial - "Below the House", just plain fucking sad stuff - Hangman's Chair - "A Loner", Doom/Stoner band from Paris' suburbs, heavy and bleak af - Battle of Mice - "A Day of Nights", this one just has that very depressing vibe overall, imo - Heinali & Matt Finney - "Ain't no Night", "Conjoined", and pretty much every other album that I know of on which they worked together - Lingua Ignota - "All Bitches Die" and "Caligula", both crushing in their own right, and the context in which both were written makes it worse imo - Wormfood - "Posthume", not much about this one available online (it was pulled from Spotify, shame), and might not appeal or induce the same effect for non french speakers.

Great choices. Some others I would add are: Numenorean- Home Lichtblick- Phrenesis Bell Witch- Mirror Reaper

Tenth Sub Level is one of my favorites. You can hear pain in his voice In the vocals

My Arms, Your Hearse reminds me of my late grandparents

Xasthur's "Telepathic With The Deceased", and "Murdered Echoes of the Mind" on that album specifically, are some of the darkest and most depressing soundscapes I have ever heard in my life, and it has definitely been there for me, the beginning synth melody of "Murdered Echoes of the Mind" is extremely intense and it can only fill me with despair and sorrow when I listen to it

Good to see that NIN made the list. If you haven't heard their album, Still, you should absolutely give it a listen. It's such a miserably beautiful album, easily one of my picks for some of the most depressing albums I know.

Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s daughter’. It tells the story of a young woman who runs away from her complicated family and religion to be with an abusive man. He ends up murdering her and she is too powerless to avoid her demise. The song ‘Ptolemaea’ is absolutely soul crushing. This energy of ‘I’d rather die than be used again’ is something I’ve felt as a woman before and it’s so painful to hear it out loud.

The album that got me through my most depressive sad stage was Woods of Ypres and their final release “Woods V: Grey Skies and Electric Light”. It’s just so beautifully sad and depressing in parts but musically it’s incredible. It mixes both black and doom metal really really well and definitely worth a listen if you’re feeling worthless and alone 🤘🏻 songs like “Lightning and Snow”, “Traveling Alone”, “Silver”, “Finality” and the album epic “Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye)” are just incredible melancholic but so goddamn beautiful

Weighing souls with sand the last album of The Angelic Process is so depressing to me, it’s drone metal and the fact that the two members passed away very young and in very depressing situation (rest in peace to both) makes this album sounds extremely sad especially on the tracks with background screaming voices such as Million Year Summer

Needed this. Thanks, Wyatt.

that earl record is one of my all time faves and you summed it up perfectly, a good extension of that would be his EP solace which i find to be an even more desolate continuation of the themes on IDLSIDGO (as well as it coming out a month after the album and wasn't promoted at all as its only on youtube). Some other picks id chuck in there for yall to check out would be Triple One - The Libertine and Huskii - Brainumb, both are Aussie rap projects, Libertine being more sonically depressing with running themes of suicide, existentialism and depression, and Brainumb being more lyrically depressing with themes of guilt and self-scrutiny

Grief - Come to Grief Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering Saint Vitus - Born Too Late Hangman's Chair - (A Lament for...) The Addicts Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton Mournful Congregation - The June Frost Funeral - Tragedies Evoken - Embrace the Emptiness Forgotten Tomb - Songs to Leave Life of Agony - River Runs Red Low - I Could Live in Hope

"Porcelain" by Orphan. Its extremely heavy and vitriolic music sonically, but the lyrical subject matter is extremely depressing and downright heartbreaking, dealing with loss, self hatred, self harm, suicide, rape, child abuse, and many other topics from a first person perspective. One person I saw described it as a "Bleak masterpiece of sheer emotion", and I can't agree more.

Great picks, these are the first few albums that come to my mind: Discouraged ones, Tonight’s decision and last fair deal gone down by Katatonia Songs about leaving by Carissa’s wierd Soft black stars by Current 93

Some of my favorite depressive albums include: Burial - Burial The Residents - Not Available The World of Skin - Ten Songs for Another World Coil - The Ape of Naples Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind

My Dying Bride come to mind straight away. "Come to Grief" by Grief was depressing in a heavy as f**k crushing fashion as well.

Love these style of vids Wyatt!

"Somewhere Along the Highway" by Cult of Luna definitely gets to me, it's one of the albums I rarely listen to unless I'm *very* depressed or worse. I think it's the lyrics of men being broken as well just setting it down in a rural setting (reminding me of my young kid days being in Mexico) really hitting close to home. That being said, I do agree that Giles Corey is far more haunting than Deathconsciousness. It feels more rougher and "spookier" than Deathconsciousness's despairing theme.

I know this record has been overly talked about and discussed on this platform but for me is gonna have to be “Everywhere at the end of time” by The Caretaker. It hits a bit deep with me because a few years ago I lost my aunt who I was close to due to dementia. Towards the end if I listen to it, I have to shut it off or I feel a dark rain cloud following me all day.

Okay so something I've always thought about is some of the darker crust and d-beat can have in terms of realistic detections of things like torture, war, hate, and general depressing subjects I think it's often looked over as just fast and in your face with the 180 bpm and riffs being blazingly fast but looking at the lyrics and themes I think it does hold a light to some more depressing genres nowhere near the most depressing albums but I think it should definitely be a footnote in this topic anyways amazing video!!

Really good takes, especially Giles Corey. Probably one of my favorite albums ever. I'd also recommend the works of Jason Molina. He has many albums under the name Songs:Ohia, but probably his most devastating work is "Let me go let me go let me go" released under his own name. Another one is Lil ugly Mane, his newest album (Volcanic Bird Enemy and the vouced Concern) was one of the most depressing musical experiences I've ever had because I recognized myself way too much in this album. Also, in my opinion a depressing albums list is missing something without Xiu Xiu. A Promise is absolutely depressing, Angel Guts or Knife Play are also recommendable in this context.

The Winding Sheet by Mark Lanegan for me. It’s his voice and lyrics, and to an extent, some of the vocal melodies that make me sad. Plus there’s a cameo appearance by Kurt Cobain, which is a bonus.

That leviathan album I love it so much, I imagine myself trapped in a well in the dark and cold screaming ( like the ring haha). Some depressing/sad albums there is : 1. Advent sorrow - as light leaves her 2. None albums , they just released a new one 3. Funeral mourning - drown in solitude 4. Blut aud Nord - disharmonium undreamable abysses ( feels like there is no hope only a dark void and misery) 5.Mutiilation - vampires.. and remains of a ruined... ( Always give that depression angry feeling) And you know the dsbm stuff like thy light and psychonaut 4

I love it when a new Wyattxhim video is posted. Update: This is soul crushing.

Jef Whitehead's side project Lurker of Chalice is one i'd rank in my personal list. Sonically, it's very much like when you can't struggle anymore and give in to the depression you're trying to fight. Good call on the Con Dom record too, im not sure i ever want to hear it again.

Love this channel and superb taste in music I own damn near everything on this list good times or depressing times IDK anymore

Glad you're showing Earl Sweatshirt some love SRS I my favourite album of all time. I have Solace tattooed on my arm, beautiful short EP.

As sad as the Johnny Cash American series is, he has easily changed the entire world of music by those releases. I've listened to Johnny Cash longer than I have listened to metal, it's gotten me out of some dark places. Strongly recommend checking out his stuff!

Great video!!!! A concept that so many people have so many different answers to. Thank you

I met a friend on a boat, he got me into AHAB, two years later he passed away. Brings me joy and sadness anytime I listen to any Ahab.

Ah yes, The Downward Spiral. Nine inch nails was one of the first bands I discovered on my own back in 2017.

Absolute respect for putting that final Con-Dom record on here. That record is an incredibly rough sit and deeply, uncomfortably personal in a way that relatively little of Mike Dando's work is.

Really liking these videos, it would be cool if you do a Heaviest Albums That I Know too

I would say that "The Silent Enigma" by Anathema is a very emotionally heavy album, but at the same time the songwriting on it is amazing and very moving.

Jesu’s “Ascension” and “Every Day I get closer to the light from which I came” are both very depressing and dark albums. Personal favorites.

Just listened to Mount Eerie. Seaweed is such a beautiful song. Very sad but pure. Thanks for that man

Found some pretty sweet bands from this video. Thanks man. Im new here so I don’t know if you know them but, I’m into Nøne right now. Damp Chill Of Life is a banger. Hopefully you or someone will enjoy it. The newest album Inevitable is the same tier.

Hugely recommend Purple Mountains self titled. Its a singer/songwriter country album from one of the best indie rockers of the 90s, David Berman of Silver Jews and it pretty much reads like a suicide note, considering he tragically commited about a month after its release. Its uniquely sad in its acceptance of defeat, the kind of acceptance of failure in your life that makes you end it. Its one of my favourite albums ever and a prime example of a piece of art transcending its original meaning with the context of the artists death

Good video, I will check some of these out. 2 records I find depressing: - Curve "Doppelgänger" wall of sound shoegaze, consumed with sadness, self-loathing and despair - Philippa Nihill "A Little Easy" singer-songwriter ballads with a trip-hop tinge, love gone bad and losing time to depression

I think you should check out Mouth of the Architect - Time & Withering if you haven't already. Excellent heavy emotion-filled progressive post-rock with very poetic lyricism. Their sophomore album is also decent, but T&W is one of the most underrated albums of all time.

Excellent choices dude. I’m about to post three of my most depressive selections this weekend. That Warning and Giles Corey are both brilliant albums

I would easily add every album from Endless Dismal Moan when its only member was alive. Also, TotalSelfHatred’s self-titled debut and Whitechapel’s last two albums are unequivocally emotional and heavy at the same time.

40 Watt Sun, a Project by Patrick Walker, who is the frontman of Warning, is also beautifully depressing. Same goes for Panopticon, both the black metal stuff and his acoustic songs. Both these artists just manage to drag me into this otherworldy place, where you feel like it's just the music and you and nothing else.

I had to stop myself from going overboard, but these are my top picks for depressing albums: The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There David Bowie - Blackstar Converge - Jane Doe The Cure - Disintegration Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ Jesu - Jesu Joy Division - Closer Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets Lou Reed - Berlin Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress Type O Negative - World Coming Down

While NIN and Cash were included in here, PF's "The Wall" had to be listed here somewhere. Its self-absorbed, claustrophobic, and dreary pieces (Goodbye Blue Sky, Empty Spaces, One of My Turns, etc.) were some of the most depressing sounds I've encountered in my early forays into rock & metal.

Thank you Metal Wendigoon

I don’t know how you wound up on my suggested but seeing the video title and that she wants revenge record is an instant sub for me. I fucking love diverse darkbois

Pretty good list but here are my picks: Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings and The June Frost (really any album of theirs) Worship - Last tape before doomsday Black Sheep Wall - Im Going To Kill Myself Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence Type O negative - World Coming Down Mizmor - Yodh Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light Andavald - Undir skygg​ð​arhaldi Bell Witch - Longing and Mirror Reaper obviously Lurker of Chalice - Self Titled Arizmenda - Within The Vacuum of Infinity Lingua Ignota - Sinner get Ready Kodan Armada - Self titled

I love the disclaimer at the start. Depressing music can't be interpreted in so many ways. I know people who dismiss anything that's not dsbm as "not actually depressing" and it bugs me to tears. Great vid 🤘😢

Hey man, I never thank you for discovering me ærekær! It sounds like a small detail, but they became HUGE for me. By the way, Metallum included them in the enciclopedia!

Great list. Very happy to see Dystopia and Mount Eerie still getting love after listening to them for the last 20 years. For me, a really good, depressing album is Elliott Smith's "Roman Candle." I know he's notorious for his depressing songs regarding themes like addiction and heartbreak, but IMO this, his earliest work, is the most depressing. Every song on this album deals with Smith's abuse at the hands of his stepfather and the subsequent fallout after telling his mother about it, who did not believe him and sent him to live across the country with his biological father. All these songs were written by Smith when he was a teen and they have a very childlike and naive quality that isn't present in his subsequent work and which I find devastating to listen to at times- it's essentially like reading the diary of an abandoned child, a victim in the purest sense of the word. The simultaneous and contradictory feelings of anger, longing, and betrayal towards his mother are palpable.

Watching From a Distance would be my choice. First time I listened to it was after my long time relationship had become long distance and I could not get all the way through. The relentless fuzz of the guitars, the echoing, thunderous drums and high pitched wailing vocals put me in a place I hadn't been in a long, long time

thank you for including warning. I'm now a fan after listening to that record!

Some of the most depressing albums I know and love are: Xasthur: subliminal genocide Leviathan: the the tenth sub level of suicide Cattle Decapitation: Death atlas(depressing lyrically and concept wise) Sorry: all that died was my innocence Thy light: suicide depression Life is pain: bloody melancholy Hanging garden: how will you live your life today? Coldworld: melancholie2

don’t know if you mentioned it as i haven’t finished the video yet but earl sweatshirt has a project called solace, it’s only on youtube. the most depressing rap song i’ve ever heard, yet incredibly beautiful. talks about the grief of his grandmothers passing, his struggle with an eating disorder and substance abuse, and his responsibility that he feels he can’t fulfill to others

I‘m in a coffin-Waste Of Skin Apati-Morgondagen Inställd I Brist På Intresse The I’m in a coffin record just sounds so suffocating, so honest, that it makes me feel like the Band name, and Apati‘s album is like a long look into a really depressed person‘s mind

xasthur's "subliminal genocide" is my #1 album for this genre of music. mostly bc of the personal emotions and events attached with it but the overall sound definitely fits aswell. i've seen xasthur already mentioned a couple times in the comments aswell but i don't think i saw this specific album.

Great video! Two suggestions from me: More mainstream: Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss Less mainstream: Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium

Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony is really one of the first pieces of music that come to my mind when I think about depressing compositions. It was played live few days before the author's death, and it really sounds like a requiem for him. The fourth and last movement of the symphony is so lyrically painful... Other pieces of music that are capable of this intensity are, for me, Desertshore by Nico and Hole in the heart by Ramleh.

Swans - Soundtracks for the blind would have been my first choice for your upcoming video

For me Neurosis is one of the most depressing bands. Albums like A Sun That Never Sets or The Eye of Every Storm...it's some of the most "spiritual" music I've ever listened to

Feel like 遺·白 by Dismal, especially with tracks such as 命 and Azafen (especially the end) fit the raw sadness pretty well

Love your review. Though I think you should have included Lifelover-Pulver!

Thank you for making this video. Metal is a very expressive and flexible art form. To me there is something beautiful about depressing music. I would add the Swidish black metal band's 2007 album V: Halmstad. Classical instruments are very welcomed in Metal music and this album has a wonderful rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata accompanied by a crying female. A song that was written way back in 1802.

it is easily going to be Sorni Nai by Kauan for me, The inspiration for the album is overall very depressing, (The Dylatov Pass Incident). And the way the instruments is played is very bleek and straight to the point.

I personally would include John Frusciante’s “smile for the streets you hold” John being the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers The album was written while he was going through an extreme heroin addiction, and the music reflects that. Just guitar, the vocals, the mix, everything. It was reportedly made for the purpose to get more drug money. Even though musically it’s awful I absolutely love this album.

I don't know if "depressing" is the accurate word, but Hospice by The Antlers is the most devastated I've ever been with an album. I've been through the same story that the narrator portrays with its metaphors, so the first time I heard the CD, it decimated me like very few things in my life.

Antimatter's Planetary confinement is one of the most beautiful & depressive albums I know. It's actually the only record I'm careful when listening, because it can seriously make my day bleak.

First video I've ever seen from you, nice recommend by KZfaq. Lots of artists I haven't heard here, but man the Giles Corey album is so good! Only a few others I'm familiar with from before this vid. I'm curious, have you ever heard the band Abandon, and more specifically their final album The Dead End? Released posthumously of the vocalist and artist of the album artwork. It's an extremely long and dense album with some interesting pump organs as one of the main instruments accompanying the normal drums/guitar/bass. I'm not sure what I feel about it, haven't listened through it from start to finish in a long time (but this video prompted me to do it now!). Would be interesting to hear your quick thoughts if you've listened to it in the past.

2 albums to add. 1. La dispute - wildlife - More on the emo / post hardcore side of things. This album is all about loss. To me the emotions on this album are so relatable and it absolutely wrecks me every time. Also there are 3 songs that are the iconic songs that all tell a sad story that is true. One is a drive by shooting gone wrong and the shooter kills himself while his uncle begs him to stay alive. Another is a an older man telling the vocalist about how his son is schizophenic and attacked him one day thinking he was a stranger and stabbing him many times. And one is a former english teacher who gave out a handout with her own journal entries detailing the loss of her child to cancer. Greatest album of all time for me. 2. Psychonaut 4 - dipsomnia - Kinda like Leviathan, this album is alctually depressing dsmb. Every song just pushed you further down a hole of negativity. I love it.

Such a great and diverse list!

I’m surprised you didn’t put Dictius Te Necare on here.

I subbed. Great content

You should listen to Solace by Earl Sweatshirt. It's even darker than IDLSIDGO in every way. So much so that Solace is the only album I would call perfect in terms of how it achieves the emotions and philosophy that it sets out to convey. Even down to the fact that he's mumbling through the lyrics, which are far from impressive on a technical level, sometimes even rapping off beat, and while these features might be offputting, they do a great job at communicating the straight depression. Same with the subdued and spacious instrumentals.

Woods 5 grey skies and electric light by woods of ypres is both absolutely heart wrenching yet inspiring

You should do a video on the most depressing albums of each metal subgenre. That would be really interesting

Strongly recommend Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth by Woods of Ypres as well as their earlier Against the Seasons EP. I didn't care much for the band's direction after that, but those first 2 records have some really strong, authentic songs born from depression and introspection.

Man, almost half of what you listed are albums I love and own. I Don’t Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside was the vinyl that kicked off my collection years ago. Would highly recommend his follow-up Some Rap Songs if you haven't checked it out.

Maybe not as crushingly depressing as A Crow Looked at Me and Giles Corey, but the first three Red House Painters albums straddle the line between beautiful soundscapes and bed-ridden depression so well. Slowcore is one of my favorite non-punk/metal genres. Other classics releases include : Low - I Could Live In Hope Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving Bedhead- WhatFunLifeWas American Music Club - Mercury But probably the most depressing and crushing album in slowcore is Frigid Stars by Codeine. Holy fuck that album is ridiculously despondent to an insane degree.