Slow, dark, instrumental music

Flay

Hey guys, I'm looking for some music to use as background music for an animation I'm working on for university, based on Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'. Although I can find stuff that's close, I can't quite find exactly what I'm looking for. This is the best example I can give:



Does anyone have any suggestions?

Darkewolfe

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Flay

The beginning's not too far off (perhaps a little less ambient) but the drums interrupt a bit too soon.

EDIT: More near misses

saltiness

Some bands to try:

Mogwai
Mono
Explosions in the Sky
Tarentel
Red Sparowes
Do Make Say Think

Griswold

hmmmm

i'd take a look at some of tool's and nine inch nails' deeper tracks

tool, disposition:


nine inch nails, lights in the sky:



or taking a slightly different tack, some of the darker/more ambient square rpg tracks

ff6, world of ruin:


chrono cross, dead sea:


ff7, the great northern cave:

Nappuccino

Something by Grails maybe?





Murder by Death has one that may work

http://murderbydeath.bandcamp.com/track/those-who-left

Oh, check out some of the early Silver Mt. Zion records. They're a side project of Godspeed.

schuss

Russian circles may be good as well

DisruptedCapitalist

Laura Palmer's theme:

Natas_Xnoybis

russian circles
pelican
red sparows
Isis (has vocals but they have very extended sections with no vocals)
Jesu (vocals but tracks without, and very long instrumental sections)
Final
Explosions in the sky (though if you listen to godspeed I am sure you are familier with these folks)

something that I always recommend when people ask about dark feeling stuff is Samuel's Era 1 and Magic, a 2cd album that is vastly different from their normal stuff:





OR something very different look for Dark Tranquility album closers, recently they have been doing amazing outros like the following (even if this is not at all what you are looking for, this is an amazing song)

Flay

saltiness: A couple there I've been looking at, and several I haven't. These are all really good suggestions!

Griswold: I don't know why I didn't think of Nine Inch Nails earlier, thanks for reminding me!

Napp: Grails is also very, very close, a few songs of theirs are in the running for the winner. Also holy shit Murder By Death are in Australia.

schuss: That song not so much, but some of their other stuff might fit.

DisruptedCapitalist: The tone is right, but the synths don't fit the feel that I'm going for.

Natas: Really good Suggestions! Again I've been browsing through a couple of these but there are several there I haven't heard at all.

I'll give all of these a good listen, cheers everyone! Don't let me stop you if you have more suggestions, though.

Nappuccino

Glad I got you something super close! I'll keep mulling over my music and see if something else pops up.

Also, I hate to break it to you, but MBD had to cancel their Australia tour... I'll send you a PM with the details since it isn't exactly on topic.

Flay

Damnit. I thought it was too good to be true.

The Ender

Not sure if this qualifies or not.

Eupfhoria

unless I missed it, I don't think anyone has mentioned The Fountain soundtrack yet. That would be my pick

Flay

Ender: Cool, did you write that yourself? It's not quite the tone that I need, but I like it.

Eupfhoria: Yes! Lots of good stuff, thanks.

Mike Danger

Slowest, darkest:

Cantido

Amon Tobin

Like... damn near everything he does.

.red

here's some stuff; last one's very ambient.






NB: Has chorus/choir but subtle not profound and overrunning the instruments

Flay

Cheers guys!

Raekreu

Someone mentioned NIN earlier in the thread and I just happened to be listening to this:



EDIT: Also, as this is a vidya games forum:

Tin

I know that people mentioned NIN already, but look into the ghosts IV album, it's nothing but instrumental tracks.

kaliyama

just keep listening to godspeed till you find the track you need.

RT800

Spoiler:

Hewn

Not sure you want to go too industrial if the theme is The Road. The film has a really stunning soundtrack that might point you in the correct direction, specifically they went with a more folk sound with the violin. And it wasn't all gloom and doom. Sometimes it was downright pretty.



Have you thought about how something like this might contrast with your animation?



I only throw this out since you already have a million great suggestions that would be my answer. Mogwai and Godspeed have to have something you're looking for. Or the Ghosts album, for sure.

Vegemyte

And then everything else off of Ambient 4!

Psychotic One

Maybe check out OCRemix and see if theres something up your alley. The Darkside of Phobos album has some tracks that might work for you. I've always been fond of this one myself

Sheep

Beck

Yeah Earth/Sunn definitely rule for this.

Try out The Soft Moon, too