Nightwish - Away
Stratovarius - 4000 Rainy Nights

i am sometimes not far from going to cry when hearing one of them...those Glory to the Brave and Ghost Love Score from the starting post are nothing in compare with them (although they aren't happy, of course)...

(and i made a video from the 300 movie on Away and that is but depressing to watch Spartan soliders dying under the rain of perisan arrows and the lyrics "Away, away, away in time, every dream is a journey away..." :-D)

One very depressing ballad that comes to mind right away would be "The Sins of Thy Beloved - Until the Dark" This quite often succeeds to bring me to tears when I hear it. Expecially the part with the violin near the end is so perfectly sad.

There are quite a few, but right now i can think of Silent Tomorrow - Novembers Doom... Its a brilliant song, but it leaves you feeling quite empty in the end... Ironic that im here calling it brilliant though it leaves me feeling empty.

Written by APOHAKC on 13.01.2007 at 21:46

Maybe someone took my list little strange for this topic but this is how things work in my brain, I really find this songs heavy (not like HM)

My Dying Bride - Angel And The Dark River - album
Raintime - Chains Of Sadness
Iced Earth - A Question Of Heaven
Grave Digger - A Ballad Of Marry
King Diamond - So Sad
Whispering Gallery - Shades Of Sorrow - Almost all songs from this album
London After Midnight - Almost all songs from this great band
... and many more this is what was first on my mind and what I am listening right now but most of this staff would definetly be my first choice

Good chouse about MYD all albusm and lyrics are depresive realy depresive but about GD I woud say i think its 'Dark of the Sun' and 'Rebelion'

Anthem by Kamelot, a song about life, such a great song, and the one song that makes me really appriciate life.

Written by Bad English on 13.06.2007 at 23:52

Written by APOHAKC on 13.01.2007 at 21:46

Maybe someone took my list little strange for this topic but this is how things work in my brain, I really find this songs heavy (not like HM)

My Dying Bride - Angel And The Dark River - album
Raintime - Chains Of Sadness
Iced Earth - A Question Of Heaven
Grave Digger - A Ballad Of Marry
King Diamond - So Sad
Whispering Gallery - Shades Of Sorrow - Almost all songs from this album
London After Midnight - Almost all songs from this great band
... and many more this is what was first on my mind and what I am listening right now but most of this staff would definetly be my first choice

Good chouse about MYD all albusm and lyrics are depresive realy depresive but about GD I woud say i think its 'Dark of the Sun' and 'Rebelion'

But they are not ballads?!

Hmm... Dark Sanctuary have some good ones..although I'm not really into gothic, but...Miserere, Profonderur De L'ame, Le Paradis Noir, Loin Des Mortels, L'ombre triste and L'Autre Monde are really really nice..and she has a stunning voice. In Sight from dark Tranquillity... Last Song from Edge of Sanity.... And lots and lots of Sentenced......

Damn, I forgot Swallow the Sun-Too cold for Tears.

hope leaves - opeth, is perfect if you're looking for a reason to commit suicide aftrer breakin up with someone...

Flowing Tears have a few ballads which sound depressing. imo i think most of their songs are depressing but i still like it because i think their music is very different. other depressing ballads i think are, Feint by Epica, A Question Of Heaven by Iced Earth and Death Whispered a Lullaby by Opeth.

I would choose not something overly depressive like cut your veins doom metal.
Virgin Steele is much sadder when it comes to ballads. Just listen to House of Dust or Forever Will I Roam..

Mourn,Cross my heart and hope to die and rain comes falling down by Sentenced.Tjese have mortal effects on listeners.This is what sentenced does best.

Dream theater - Wait for sleep
Stratovarius - 4000 rainy nights
Theatre Of Tragedy - ...a Distance There Is...
Haggard - Lost
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
Sonata Arctica - The Misery

those are some very depressive songs!
those have a big message in their lyrics!

Solitude - Black Sabbath

there are too many... but now, I've got in minde Insolation Years...

Manowar - Courage

- see it together with this video and try not to cry

Metallica - Fade to Black

Written by Knightrider on 07.08.2007 at 12:19

Metallica - Fade to Black

That song made me cry when I first heard the lyrics

Other depressive ballads?
"All alone" by Sins of thy Beloved
Tristania "Bird" - it's a very very sad song.
Goth is depressive....

EEEEVERY ROOOOOSE HAS ITS THORN!!! C.C Devilles solo had me in tears...of anguish!
Seriously though,
Forever-Edguy
Fade to Black- Metallica

Written by vampira on 10.08.2007 at 14:39

Written by Knightrider on 07.08.2007 at 12:19

Metallica - Fade to Black

That song made me cry when I first heard the lyrics

lol when i think of what it was written after, crying wasn't the first emotion to get to me, maybe laugh or something

some jerk stole kirk hammet's favourite guitar or something. hell of a song(it's kind of like a metallica version of "beyond the realms of death" by priest), but the point in which it started is kind of silly to me(dude, be a man, wtf, you're going to start writing suicide letters just cause some bum stole your equipment).

I would either say "Losing You" by Dream Evil or "Fade to Black" by Metallica.

Fade to Black just has this whole dark"ness" surrounding it. If you're in a depressed mood, this song will definately not make you feel any better at that specific moment, infact just the opposit. It will make you angry, it will make somekind of furiosity stir within you... Well maybe it's just me. The thing is - it's depressive.

The other song, Losing you, by Dream Evil, is also a really depressing song. The way Niklas sings the song is just so... I don't know.. Well depressive really.

Both songs are some of my favourite songs of all time.

Saturnus - For Your Demons
Saturnus - The Fall of Nakkiel
My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel

No further comments. Just listen to it.

for me now, the most depressive ballad is "always will be" by Hammerfall
i think the music gets me in a more particular way
when you like this person and there is no more hope..thats hard!

Hm i am a bit confused here...Are u asking which is the most depressive song or which song makes me cry?! I cry with chainsaw charlie by WASP but this song is not depressive! Anyway - Good topic

Nevermore- Dreaming Neon Black
Candlemass- Samarithan , Solitude, lets say their whole discography : P
W.A.S.P. - The Idol, I can't, All my life, Black Bone Torso, Heaven's hun In Black, Trail of Tears far too many but I dont think you could describe those songs as ballads really.
Iced Earth- A question of heaven - i am always getting the blues with this song
Sabbath- She'is gone just to name a few ...

One of the most depressive bands OF ALL in history of metal gotta be SAINT VITUS. * takes a bow
one thing is for sure, they dont have any ballads at all what so ever! : P

Great topic!

There are a lot but I'll try to keep it to a reasonable minimum.

My Dying Bride - My Wine in Silence, Deepest of all Hearts, The Dreadful Hours
Sonata Arctica - Graveninmage, Under Your Tree
Blind Guardian - Carry the Blessed Home
Hammerfall - The Fallen One
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Aborym - Roma Divina Urbs (Maybe not a ballad, okay, but the "worst" of all for me.)

Nightwish - Higher Than Hope

The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Until The Dark. Her voice consumes my life energy and depresses me completely And Farewell and Ruska from Apocalyptica, songs that remind me of funerals... Very depressing.

Written by Øyvind on 28.09.2007 at 14:30

The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Until The Dark. Her voice consumes my life energy and depresses me completely And Farewell and Ruska from Apocalyptica, songs that remind me of funerals... Very depressing.

I would say Djevole Kogadi song 'Maria' are depresive dunno why but it is

Southern man by Southern isolation...very somber song

The deepest of all hearts by My dying bride. What a tune, such a ballad...it's so cheesy!

I love it

Letter to Dana of Sonata Arctica is really deppresive, really sad the lyrics