The 13 Bleakest Rock And Metal Albums Ever

The days are shorter. The sun grows wan in the sky. Everyday existence becomes a trudge from darkness to further darkness, with only biting cold and the misery of the working day wedged in-between. As December looms, most folk might be looking towards the electric light and popping parties of the festive season, but true miserabilists and misanthropes know that the dark end of the year belongs to them. In ‘celebration’, we’ve compiled our rundown of the 13 bleakest and most outright nihilistic releases in the history of rock and metal. Prepare to feel the misery… 13. Godflesh – Streetcleaner Thirty years old on November 13 just passed, the monolithic masterpiece from Birmingham industrial metallers Godflesh still delivers that stomach lurching sense of hollow dread as severely to...

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