I see people's definitions of dark vary quite a bit. I don't really enjoy too much of what I consider to be dark music. I'm very much a melancholic kind of guy, though. Anyway, a masterpiece I consider to be pretty damn dark is:
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica would never, before or after, be this depressing or pissed off again. Most likely a product of bassist Cliff Burton's untimely death.
Other than that, I would say a few Radiohead songs sound dark, or bleak, which is really the other side of the same coin.
I Could Live In Hope by Low
But only on some songs. I believe it has a really hopeful and comforting theme to it most of the time, but in the case of songs like "Cut" or "Rope", I think the dark tag would fit it.
Both Coldworld albums, The Stars Are Dead Now and Melancholie.
Not depressing or disturbing, it just feels really contemplative and brimming with wonder and curiosity, though it still feels dark, in the most literal sense in that it feels like blackness.
And I'd actually say Fever Ray and Bloom by Beach House as well. They have a sort of mechanical, glassy, clean darkness, even if they can convey non-dark emotions, happiness even. I'm interpreting darkness in the more literal way than strictly emotions. Even Treasure by Cocteau Twins or Shrines by Purity Ring could perhaps fall under this definition, though I don't think so.
As you can see, I don't listen to much that is overwhelmingly dark, and yet I really appreciate and love darkness regardless. I just like to see that little glimmer of hope at the end of my darkness. Some spirituality in the void. Some meaning for the chaos, eh?
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