Best dark albums

Di seguito trovate un elenco, secondo il giudizio della nostra redazione, dei migliori dischi in area dark, gotico, con tutti i suoi sottogeneri e generi di confine, quali gothic rock, folk apocalittico, neo folk, dark ambient, EBM, death rock, electro dark.
Sono in ordine di uscita, dal più recente al più vecchio e per ogniuno è presente nome del gruppo, titolo del disco e tra parentesi l'anno.

Cliccando sul nome, compariranno, ove presenti, informazioni aggiuntive o video.

1) Cossacks Are 4:32
2) Clara 12:43
3) Jesse" 6:28
4) Jolson and Jones" 7:45
5) Cue" 10:27
6) Hand Me Ups" 5:49
7) Buzzers" 6:39
8) Psoriatic" 5:51
9) The Escape" 5:18
10) A Lover Loves" 3:11

1) Redefine Pure Faith - 5:19
2) Fin de Siècle - 5:53
3) With My Sorrows - 7:03
4) For You Will Burn Your Wings Upon the Sun - 26:20
5) Wings Tattered, Fallen - 6:24
6) Fitful - 4:56
7) Remnants of a Deeper Purity - 4:36
8) Again, to Drift (for Veronika) - 6:00
9) I Have No More Answers - 10:33

 

Cd1
1) A Presence in the Woods 4:09
2) Wandering Soul 4:47
3) The Dust Settles (Part 1) 1:52
4) Sleepless 3:27
5) The Dust Settles (Part 2) 1:29
6) The Return of Nothing 4:43
7) The Dust Settles (Part 3) 2:54
8) Pray5:20
9) The Better Things to Come 4:32
10) On the Horizon 3:10
11) Where Has All the Time Gone 3:13
12) Silence and Distance 3:31
13) Anywhere But Home 3:57
14) In the Fire and Flames 2:12
15) Slip Away 6:17
16) The Last Day 4:27

Cd2
1) August (Part 1) 4:39
2) Nine Hours Later 4:46
3) Nimble 3:43
4) August (Part 2) 6:13
5) The Facade Fades 4:10
6) Resigned 6:36
7) Surrender 4:28
8) These Memories Pass 9:18
9) The Burning Circle 6:24
10) The New Day 5:57

Cd

  1. "A Beginning" – 0:44
  2. "The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon" – 3:00
  3. "A Sadness Song" – 4:14
  4. "A Song for Douglas After He's Dead" – 4:58
  5. "In the Heart of the Wood and What I Found There" – 2:50
  6. "Mary Waits in Silence" – 2:56
  7. "A Silence Song" – 5:27
  8. "Lament for My Suzanne" – 4:20
  9. "Riverdeadbank" – 3:46
  10. "All the Stars Are Dead Now" – 9:06
  11. "Rosy Star Tears from Heaven" – 3:05
  12. "When the May Rain Comes" – 3:24
  13. "Thunder Perfect Mind I" – 5:05
  14. "Thunder Perfect Mind II" – 2:21
  15. "Hitler As Kalki (SDM)" – 16:28
  16. "A Sad Sadness Song" – 4:40
  17. "An Ending" – 2:21 — originally a hidden track

The Thunder, Perfect Mind (2003 bonus disc)

  1. "Suzanne: She and I in Darkness We Lay and Lie" – 4:26
  2. "Red House" – 0:28
  3. "Our Lady of Horsies" – 6:34
  4. "Anyway, People Die" – 1:46
  5. "Silence As Christine" – 2:24
  6. "Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded" – 12:10
  7. "They Return to Their Earth" – 6:18
  8. "In Sadness Sang" – 4:19
  9. 'Khor Ba'i Nyes Dmigs (Live)"
  10. "Lament for Her (Live)" – 3:59
  11. "A Song for Douglas After He's Dead (Live)" – 6:14
  12. "They Return to Their Earth (for My Christ Thorn) (Live)" – 6:52
  13. "A Song for Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth) (Live)" – 5:43

Side A

  1. "(Dead But Dreaming)"       1:28
  2. "For Her Light"       3:01
  3.  "At the Gates of Silent Memory"       8:24
  4. "(Paradise Regained)"       2:29
  5. "Submission"       8:28

Side B

  1. "Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)"       11:09
  2. "Wail of Sumer"       6:24
  3. "And There Will Your Heart Be Also"       7:37
  1. "He Is Everywhere Nowhere" - 2:55
  2. "Northforth" - 0:38
  3. "Hail" - 2:40
  4. "The Return of the Final Church" - 5:06
  5. "Snow" - 1:59
  6. "Oh Thou Coal Black Smith" - 4:44
  7. "From Boyd's Bunker" - 0:33
  8. "Ending Ending" - 0:59
  9. "The Summer Past" - 2:06
  10. "The Sickstair Song" - 0:35
  11. "Toytown Awakes" - 0:30
  12. "Dark Wood Too Awakes" - 1:27
  13. "After Tomorrow" - 4:03
  14. "Hey Ho the Nodding God Comes!" - 1:42
  15. "Looney Runes" - 6:17
  16. "The Ballad of Bobby Sunshine" - 7:58
  17. "The Use of Compassion Explained" - 2:13
  1. Spellbound (3:17)
  2. Into The Light (4:13)
  3. Arabian Knights (3:06)
  4. Halloween (3:42)
  5. Monitor (5:33)
  6. Night Shift (6:03)
  7. Sin In My Heart (3:37)
  8. Head Cut (4:22)
  9. Voodoo Dolly (7:03)
  1. The Mercy Seat – 7:18 (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey)
  2. Up Jumped the Devil – 5:16 (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Roland Wolf, Thomas Wydler)
  3. Deanna – 3:45 (Nick Cave)
  4. Watching Alice – 4:01 (Nick Cave)
  5. Mercy – 6:22 (Nick Cave)
  6. City of Refuge – 4:48 (Nick Cave)
  7. Slowly Goes the Night – 5:23 (Nick Cave)
  8. Sunday's Slave – 3:40 (Nick Cave)
  9. Sugar Sugar Sugar – 5:01 (Nick Cave)
  10. New Morning – 3:46 (Nick Cave)
  11. The Mercy Seat (Video mix) – 5:05 (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey)
  1. New Mind - 5:13 (Gira/Kizys/Parsons/Westberg)
  2. In My Garden - 5:34 (Gira/Kizys/Jarboe)
  3. Our Love Lies - 5:50 (Gira/Kizys/Westberg)
  4. Sex, God, Sex - 6:49 (Gira/Westberg)
  5. Blood and Honey - 4:46 (Gira/Jarboe)
  6. Like a Drug (Sha La La La) - 5:36 (Gira/Kizys/Parsons/Westberg)
  7. You're Not Real, Girl - 4:21 (Gira)
  8. Beautiful Child - 5:16 (Gira/Kizys/Parsons/Westberg)
  9. Blackmail - 3:34 (Gira/Jarboe)
  10. Trust Me - 5:23 (Gira/Jarboe/Westberg)
  11. Real Love - 6:23 (Gira/Kizys/Westberg)
  12. Blind of Love - 7:46 (Gira/Westberg)
  13. Children of God - 4:34 (Gira/Jarboe)
  1. Ascension – 3:05
  2. Circumradiant Dawn – 3:17
  3. The Cardinal Sin – 5:29
  4. Mesmerism – 3:53
  5. Enigma of the Absolute – 4:13
  6. Advent – 5:19
  7. Avatar – 4:35
  8. Indoctrination (A Design for Living) – 4:16
  1. "Blood of Winter" - 4:09
  2. "Hidden Among the Leaves" - 4:29
  3. "Torture By Roses" - 3:31
  4. "Come Before Christ and Murder Love" - 4:26
  5. "Love Murder" - 5:08
  6. "Rule Again" - 4:02
  7. "Break the Black Ice" - 4:06
  8. "Rocking Horse Night" - 3:39
  9. "Blood Victory" - 5:17
  10. "Death of a Man" - 15:28
  11. "Reprise #1" - 3:23
  12. "Reprise #2" - 4:05
  13. "Reprise #3" - 5:21

A: "Deliver Me from Mine Enemies" - 19:15

        i. This is the law of the Plague
        ii. Deliver Me from Mine Enemies
        iii. We Shall not accept your Quarantine
        iv. Εξελόυμε (Deliver Me)
        v. Γιατί, Ό Θεός? (Why, God?)
        vi. Psalm 22

B: "Free Among the Dead" - 13:32

        i. Psalm 88
        ii. Lamentations
        iii. Sono L'Antichristo

  1. A Day
  2. No Words
  3. Stumble and Fall
  4. Cry in the Wind
  5. Stranger
  6. Equal Ways
  7. 7th Time
  8. No Human can Drown
  9. Stranger remix
  10. A Day remix
  1. "Talk About the Weather" – 4:04
  2. "Hand on Heart" – 3:49
  3. "Feel a Piece" – 2:42
  4. "Hollow Eyes" – 3:38
  5. "This Today" – 3:23
  6. "Sometimes" – 3:01
  7. "Strange Dream" – 3:13
  8. "Happy" – 3:23
  1. Black Planet
  2. Walk Away
  3. No Time to Cry
  4. A Rock and a hard Place
  5. Marian (Version)
  6. First and Last and Always
  7. Possession
  8. Nine While Nine
  9. Logic
  10. Some kind of Stranger
  1. Ivo – 3:53
  2. Lorelei – 3:43
  3. Beatrix – 3:11
  4. Persephone – 4:20
  5. Pandora (For Cindy) – 5:35
  6. Amelia – 3:31
  7. Aloysius – 3:26
  8. Cicely – 3:29
  9. Otterley – 4:04
  10. Donimo – 6:19
  1. "Isabel" – 4:57
  2. "Torn on Desire" – 4:30
  3. "Walk Away" – 3:45
  4. "Pleasureland" – 5:28
  5. "Return to the East" – 4:03
  6. "No Motive" – 4:12
  7. "Holy Holy" – 3:59
  8. "Weeping Blood" – 6:19
  1. Kangaroo - cantata da Gordon Sharp - 3:30
    (scritta da Alex Chilton e pubblicata con i Big Star)
  2. Song to the Siren - cantata da Elizabeth Fraser - 3:30
    (scritta e pubblicata da Tim Buckley)
  3. Holocaust - cantata da Howard Devoto - 3:38
    (scritta da Alex Chilton e pubblicata con i Big Star)
  4. Fyt (strumentale) - 4:23
  5. Fond Affections - cantata da Gordon Sharp - 3:50
    (scritta da Rema-Rema)
  6. The Last Ray (strumentale) - 4:08
  7. Another Day - cantata da Elizabeth Fraser - 2:54
    (scritta da Roy Harper)
  8. Waves Become Wings - cantata da Lisa Gerrard - 4:25
  9. Barramundi (strumentale) - 3:56
  10. Dreams Made Flesh - cantata da Lisa Gerrard - 3:48
  11. Not Me - cantata da Robbie Grey - 3:44
    (scritta da Colin Newman)
  12. A Single Wish - cantata da Gordon Sharp - 2:26
  1. Ulakanakulot
  2. Decline And Fall
  3. Sweethome Under White Clouds
  4. Bau-Dachöng
  5. Pagan Lovesong
  6. Baby Turns Blue
  7. Ballad Of The Man
  8. Walls Of Jericho
  9. Caucasian Walk
  10. Theme For Thought
  1. Cavity - First Communion (Rozz Williams, Rikk Agnew) – 4:06
  2. Figurative Theatre (Williams) – 2:41
  3. Burnt Offerings (Williams, Agnew) – 3:43
  4. Mysterium Iniquitatis (Williams, Agnew) – 2:46
  5. Dream for Mother (Williams, Agnew, James McGearty) – 3:21
  6. Stairs - Uncertain Journey (Williams, McGearty) – 3:06
  7. Spiritual Cramp (Williams) – 2:55
  8. Romeo's Distress (Williams, Agnew) – 3:15
  9. Resurrection - Sixth Communion (Williams, Agnew) – 3:45
  10. Prayer (Williams, Agnew) – 2:41
  1. The Litanies of Satan – 17:48
  2. Wild Women with Steak-Knives (The Homicidal Love Song for Solo Scream) – 12:04
  1. One Hundred Years (6:40)
  2. A Short Term Effect (4:23)
  3. The Hanging Garden (4:33)
  4. Siamese Twins (5:30)
  5. The Figurehead (6:15)
  6. A Strange Day (5:04)
  7. Cold (4:27)
  8. Pornography (6:28)
  1. Four Enclosed Walls – 4:44
  2. Track 8 – 3:15
  3. Phenagen – 2:40
  4. Flowers of Romance – 2:51
  5. Under the House – 4:33
  6. Hymie's Him – 3:18
  7. Banging the Door – 4:49
  8. Go Back – 3:46
  9. Francis Massacre – 3:31
  1. Dark Entries - 3:52
  2. Double Dare - 4:54
  3. In the Flat Field - 5:00
  4. God in an Alcove - 4:08
  5. Dive - 2:13
  6. Spy in the Cab - 4:31
  7. Small Talk Stinks - 3:35
  8. St. Vitus Dance - 3:31
  9. Stigmata Martyr - 3:46
  10. Nerves - 7:06
  11. Telegram Sam - 2:11 (cover dei T-Rex)
  12. Rosegarden Funeral of Sores - 5:34 (cover di John Cale)
  13. Terror Couple Kill Colonel - 4:21
  14. Scopes - 1:34
  15. Untitled - 1:27
  16. God in an Alcove - 4:09
  17. Crowds - 3:15
  18. Terror Couple Kill Colonel (remix) - 4:32
  1. Atrocity Exhibition - 6.07
  2. Isolation - 2.53
  3. Passover - 4.47
  4. Colony - 3.56
  5. A Means to an End - 4.08
  6. Heart and Soul - 5.52
  7. Twenty Four Hours - 4.26
  8. The Eternal - 6.07
  9. Decades - 6.10
  1. "Requiem" – 3:44
  2. "Wardance" – 3:49
  3. "Tomorrow's World" – 5:30
  4. "Bloodsport" – 4:46
  5. "The Wait" – 3:45
  6. "Complications" – 3:08
  7. "S.O.36" – 6:52
  8. "Primitive" – 3:35
  1. Bela Lugosi's Dead - 9:36
  2. Boys - 3:12
  1. Disorder - 3:36
  2. Day of the Lords - 4:43
  3. Candidate - 3:00
  4. Insight - 4:00
  5. New Dawn Fades - 4:47
  6. She's Lost Control - 3:40
  7. Shadowplay - 3.50
  8. Wilderness - 2:35
  9. Interzone - 2:10
  10. I Remember Nothing - 6:00
  1. Janitor of Lunacy - 4:01
  2. The Falconer - 5:39
  3. My Only Child - 3:27
  4. Le Petit Chevalier - 1:12
  5. Abschied - 3:02
  6. Afraid - 3:27
  7. Mütterlein - 4:38
  8. All That Is My Own - 3:54