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KharBevNor:


MY DYING BRIDE - TURN LOOSE THE SWANS

When I bought Turn Loose the Swans, I knew there was something different about this album to what I'd heard before. The artwork, the band photos, spoke of something on a completely different planet to the music I'd heard before. And so it was. Turn Loose the Swans is an album about the loss of a loved one, and the subsequent loss of Faith and poetic inspiration, ultimately leading to the good old favourite: suicide. The genius of the album comes in several places. The pacing is of course the first. Though this album is heavy as fuck, there's not even a single guitar chord until about 10 minutes into it. Just piano and violin. When the blast-beats kick in on 'The Snow In My Hand', with Aarons despairing roars over the top you are almost knocked out your chair. Aarons voice is the other thing. The man does not sing different keys, he sings different tones of misery and depression, perfectly summing up the emotions conveyed by the lyrics. And then, of course, there is the violin. Oh Gods, how beautiful. This album was one of the many that helped wean me off the more vacuous music I had been listening to and on to new things. It didn't half make me glum in the process though. The really wonderful thing about this album is how cathartic and personal it seems. It's also great for bus journeys in the winter.



BLOOD AXIS - THE GOSPEL OF INHUMANITY

The Gospel of Inhumanity covers a much wider theme than TLTS, and requires a bit more thought before its message hits you. The message is, ultimately, that we are doomed. The opening tracks, with the brilliant sampling from the Wicker Man, opening with Howies futile prayers to his God, and ending with his denunciation of the futility of the islanders actions ("Desire shall fail, and ye shall all die!"), foreshadows 'The Voyage', which quotes Tiresias' prophecy in the underworld from The Odyssey. The main hit of the album, however, is with the double-whammy of 'Herr, nun lass in Frieden' and 'Reign I Forever'. War is meaningless, the first track tells us. We are all the same, all brothers. The second track, however, is merciless. War shall rule humanity forever, and all goodness shall be crushed. There is no escape. A truly terrifying, but engrossing album.

Discuss and add your own, I shall be back with more. Many more!

Scytale:
That My Dying Bride Cd is very good.

I'm going to have to go with Filosofem




Everything about this album is depressing, the production, the wonderfully tortured vocals, Varg's best IMO and the lyrics, good god.

"I wonder how winter will be
With a spring that I shall never see
I wonder how night will be
With a day that I shall never see
I wonder how life will be
With a light I shall never see
I wonder how life will be
With a pain that lasts eternally "

Runner up for me is At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Dissease




The way the violins merge into the guitar melody at the start of  
"The Swarm" is amazing sounds like a funeral dirge or something and then the vocals hits Tomas Lindberg sounds he's most angry and spitefull on this album, I don't know if I've ever heard anyone manage to sound more pissed off.  The two instrumental tracks are brilliant. The lyrics are also brilliant:

"In this cell that is ours there is no pity
No sunrise on the cold plain that is our soul
No beckoning to a warm horizon
The sun shall never greet my eyes again

It is our world
It has been stolen from us, bastards

No goddamn sun
No goddamn pain
I've searched my heart for love
But all in vain
No goddamn sun, no goddamn pain

Exploring life without fear -
Without feeling I am one with
My torment and forever blind

My desire clenches itself in a hungry fist
And welcomes my soul to the thirst of dying
Mother of all, come take your revenge
The sun shall never greet my eyes again"

Inlander:
Well, obviously I'm not qualified to comment on the most depressing album ever, but of the ones I've heard there's no contest: it's August and Everything After by Counting Crows.

For serious.

Ribbon Fat:

JLM:
The most depressing album ever?



They should have hung it up years ago.

Or did you mean something else by "depressing?"

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