What is the darkest coldest music you can think of

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:17 pm

This is getting bad. I listen to the most extreme thing I can find and I'm like 'well... it's kind of dark... I guess... could be colder...'

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:23 pm

Not that this is what you're going for, exactly, but the first thing that leapt into my head was Oxbow's An Evil Heat.

Problem is, that's a very "hot" album. Dark, sure, but not cold at all. Any way you could throw down some reference points?

bigchiefbc · Post by **bigchiefbc** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:34 pm

Darkest coldest. To me, that sounds like Autechre, probably Amber. Unless you're excluding electronic music.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tosnLO1eG48[/youtube]

MSUsousaphone · Post by **MSUsousaphone** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:40 pm

If you're going for dark and cold emotions....check out The Antlers - Hospice. That whole album is gut wrenching.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:42 pm

D.o.S. wrote:Any way you could throw down some reference points?

Wrath of the Weak - Solace
Byla + Jarboe - Vicera
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante
Portal - Swarth
Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence
Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore

Trying to think of some more Black Metal-ish stuff but for some reason my mind is blanking.

Basically what I'm looking for, is a scale of darkness, coldness, and chaos, that from 1 to 10 puts everything above at a 0.

snipelfritz · Post by **snipelfritz** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:45 pm

The trick to extreme qualities in music is to find music that is the exact opposite genre of what you'd expect. You want dark and cold, most people think metal when you really should be listening to Bright Eyes or The Cure (specifically Disintegration).

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:49 pm

snipelfritz wrote:The trick to extreme qualities in music is to find music that is the exact opposite genre of what you'd expect. You want dark and cold, most people think metal when you really should be listening to Bright Eyes or The Cure (specifically Disintegration).

Maybe sometimes, but I have a very specific idea of what I'm looking to hear. I just can't find anything that matches it.

We have very different ideas about what is dark or cold I think. That's fine. Just not what I'm looking for. To me both of those groups sound really happy and bright.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:49 pm

Check out Nadja's split with Black Boned Angel.

And never commit the should-be-war crime of listening to Bright Eyes.

bigchiefbc · Post by **bigchiefbc** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:03 pm

jfrey wrote:
D.o.S. wrote:Any way you could throw down some reference points?

Wrath of the Weak - Solace
Byla + Jarboe - Vicera
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante
Portal - Swarth
Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence
Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore

Trying to think of some more Black Metal-ish stuff but for some reason my mind is blanking.

Basically what I'm looking for, is a scale of darkness, coldness, and chaos, that from 1 to 10 puts everything above at a 0.

AHH, ok. I didn't know you were looking for metal, you didn't specify in the OP. I thought you meant amongst any genre. Sorry, can't help ya.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:03 pm

For reference. This is warm happy music. I'm looking for cold dark music.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdILE7ZdFBY[/youtube][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7aljhTpGvM[/youtube]

I've been told by one of my friends that what I'm looking for either doesn't exist or is so unpopular that it is impossible to find.

unownunown · Post by **unownunown** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:04 pm

XENAKISSSS

not dark, but definitely cold.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOyxFybxPY[/youtube]

wait. this doesn't help now that i know you're looking for metal, lol.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:06 pm

unownunown wrote:wait. this doesn't help now that i know you're looking for metal, lol.

That's cool. Not what I'm looking for at the moment, but I'll check it out. I like all music, just suddenly today I felt like I hit a plateau like a junkie where the extreme wasn't extreme enough anymore.

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:13 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFd01mxu8YM[/youtube]

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:16 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8cPTlFpx9o[/youtube]

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:52 pm

it's not exactly metal, but when i think of dark, cold music i think of Fripp/Cross/Wetton/Bruford period King Crimson or of Henry Cow with Dagmar Krause on vocals. or Van Der Graaf Generator. you might like VDGG.

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