Dark Music
 

Hey guys!
So I was wondering if anyone has come across any dark sounding music?
I'm trying to make a playlist to go along with something i'm writing.
Stuff I already have is:
Crazy in Love (50 Shades of Grey Remix)
Breath of Live - Florence and the Machine
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lorde version
I'd Love to Change the world - Jetta


any help would be great!

Depending on what you mean by dark sounding, here are a few songs I like for my own writing. Of course, the preferred music depends on the mood of the scene.

Skillet - Falling Inside the Black
Amberian Dawn - Cold Kiss (2013 Version)
Amaranthe - Exhale

My playlist is a little rock/metal heavy so it can be aggressive in sound and lyrics.

Not what im looking for, but some intresting bands ill have to look more into!

Here's Lordes version on something im looking for:

Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat
Beyonce - Haunted
Woodkid - Iron
Woodkid - I Love You
Woodkid - Run Boy Run
UNKLE - Burn My Shadow
Emily Browning - Sweet Dream (Are Made of This)
Bjork - Army of Me
Yoko Shimomura - Somnus
The xx - Together
Lana del Rey - Once Upon A Dream
Lana del Rey - Born to Die

Those are some probably lol I just keep remembering songs

Lana Del Rey - Old Money
Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise
Lana Del Rey - Carmen

They're dark in a melancholy fashion though, rather than just "dark" like Lorde's version of Rule the World.

Mylène Farmer: Nuit d'Hiver, Je Te Rends Ton Amour

thanks guys! Im gonna look into all of them... its like I'm trying to put together an OST for my book... lol.

songs from Silent Hill OST

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn - Shot Down in Flames
O.r.t.
One More Soul to the Call
Elle Theme
Alex Theme (Machine Head Mix)
Hell Frozen Rain

Maybe you could try out Sóley, she has some dark music. I would recommend you songs like "Kill the clown" "I will never" or "Ævintýr"

thanks everyone!!

Oooh great choices! I would also add the Silent Hill version of Always On My Mind. The only version of that song I like!

Other recommendations - not sure if it fits what you're after or if you already have these but...:

Raign - Raise The Dead
Raign - A Queen's Head
Chihiro Onitsuka - This Silence is Mine
Chihiro Onitsuka - Inori Ga Kotoba Ni Kawarukoro
Florence + the Machine - Heavy In Your Arms
Patrick Wolf - Damaris
Hurts - Sandman

The xx - Together

You might already heard " Cold " - Aqualung & Lucy Schwartz . It's a soundtrack from Breaking Dawn part.1. I think it's dark, gloomy yet ethereal. Genius on lyric too.
Other than that maybe M83 feat. HAIM - Holes in the sky ost. Insurgent.

Gothic Storm Music – Courage of Nations Full
Gothic Storm Music – Saviours Of The Universe Hybrid
Gothic Storm Music – Apocalypse Dawns
Imagine Dragons – Battle Cry
Imagine Dragons – Warriors
THE HARDKISS – Tell Me Brother
Two Steps From Hell – Power of Darkness
Two Steps From Hell – Dark Side Of Power
Two Steps From Hell – Memories
Two Steps From Hell – Wrath Of Sea

Here are my adds to the list


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Everyone pretty much listed everything I was going to say, so this is all I can think of that haven't been mentioned.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 Soundtrack - About Her
Tricky - Christiansands
Tricky - Passion of the Christ
Portishead - Scorn
Black chords - Into the Unkown
Lily Chou Chou - Ether
Silent Hill 4: The Room Original Soundtrack - Your Rain

thanks for all the great songs peeps!

If you decide you need even darker music than the already mentioned, you can check Portishead first two albums, Diamanda Galás (she is the queen of horror in her first albums), Nico's albums The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End. Then, as for boys, Coil are masters (were, they both passed away :( ) I suggest their last album, The Ape of Naples. Current 93 have many horror songs, but his albums Dog's Blood Rising and The Inmost Light are among the scariest stuff you'll ever hear :D Enjoy!