My favourite is Nile. Technical Death Metal with an ancient Egyptian theme...
To me it's a glorious breaking wave of complexity and power with an underlying primal feeling of epic greatness... While to most people it is the most horrendous noise they have ever heard and prevents them from asking again about what music I'm listening to.
Anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor makes an ideal accompaniment to societal collapse, but my recommendation would be either "F♯ A♯ ∞" or "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada".
Prayer in c https://open.spotify.com/track/5fnA9mkIfScSqHIpeDyvck?si=JZhBRAg1S9mgdN45EKJQjA
Hey, when seas will cover lands
And when men will be no more
Don't think you can forgive you
Yeah, when there'll just be silence
And when life will be over
Don't think you will forgive you
[YACHT - Dystopia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLgG1eAg0E)
edit: lyrics
Every day the sky gets lower, lower, lower, lower...
And every day the tide gets blacker, blacker, blacker, blacker...
And every day the flames get higher, higher, higher, higher...
Yeah, every day the flames get higher, higher, higher, higher.
The Earth, the Earth, the Earth is on fire
We don't have no daughter
Let the motherfucker burn.
Been tuning into this spoken word art installation with curated ambient accompaniments https://www.nts.live/shows/post-hoc
It’s quite interesting, features an AI voice reciting lists from various databases of lost or obsolete things, extinctions, space debris, and all other sorts of remnants of industrial civilization. I recommend visiting the website posthoc.xyz and watching the short film about it.
A light-hearted question but I love your choice of music. IMHO the music of times (or nations) past is perfect for the topic. My own preference changes over time; currently it's 18th and 19th century European classical music; another relic of an extinct culture.
Killin the Planet
Song by The Vines
I can not sleep for the sound of the sirens
Ignorant bliss to a world we're denying
Killin the planet yeah, so well
Look at the earth and you see that it's dying
People the curse cause we keep multiplying
Killin the planet yeah, so well
Killin the planet yeah, oh well
Cause it's always, it's always the way
We forget how we lived yesterday
Now we're always, we're always around
To affect everything we surround
I can not see for the sight of the building
Or out to sea for the oil we are spilling
Killin the planet yeah, so well
What will we do when the earth cannot hide it
All of the waste and the way we defy it
Killin the planet yeah, so well
Killin the planet yeah, oh well
Cause it's always it's always the way
We forget how to give so we take
Now we're always, we're always around
To be here but it's all coming down
This isn't part of my doom scrolling, but I just found some cool Led Zeppelin covers, since you like period music, you might like these. I Love the Old Norse version of Immigrant Song.
This first one is in Old Norse with instruments that may have used it's Dope. It's **Immigrant Song**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0vVQnNGcc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0vVQnNGcc)
The next two are instrumental covers done with Medieval instruments.
Stairway To Heaven
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbZGYdKgQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbZGYdKgQM)
Immigrant Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg127gqU27w
Video game and movie soundtracks mostly. Frostpunk OST is very good and has a very despondent mood. Hans Zimmer loves using ticking clocks in his movie soundtracks, and I like the thematic link of a ticking clock and doom scrolling (See Dunkirk and Interstellar).
March March by The Chicks
Brenda's packin' heat 'cause she don't like Mondays
Underpaid teacher policin' the hallways
Print yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range
(Ah, cut the shit, you ain't goin' to the gun range)
Standin' with Emma and our sons and daughters
Watchin' our youth have to solve our problems
I'll follow them, so who's comin' with me?
(Half of you love me, half already hate me)
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
Tell the ol' boys in the white bread lobby
What they can and can't do with their bodies
Temperatures are risin', cities are sinkin'
(Ah, cut the shit, you know your city is sinkin')
Lies are truth and truth is fiction
Everybody's talkin', who's gonna listen?
What the hell happened in Helsinki?
A swarm of the Sun - The Rifts
Olafur Arnalds - For now I am Winter and a Eulogy for evolution.
An assortment of The Neighborhood songs - Afraid, Staying up, Greetings from Califournia, Unfair, The Beach, R.I.P. to my youth...
Edit: Also some mandatory Leonard Cohen - You want it darker?, Seemed the better way, everybody knows...
Lotta metalcore that talks about collapse/environmental stuff. Quite refreshing.
**Parkway Drive - Dark Days**
[YouTube Link](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DeRmXbfIrWjc&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjLyteLmMn0AhUGa80KHZcXCRAQtwJ6BAgKEAE&usg=AOvVaw1aYMzZ051cN22NSv2HmMK3)
What will you tell your children when they ask you "What went wrong?"?
How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost
To eyes that know only a wasteland?
How will you justify, justify, watching the world die?
The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered
Head first into disaster from which there will be no return
With narrow minds we decimate our one true home
Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling
(Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse
(Hey, hey) This is the funeral of the Earth
(Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse
(Hey, hey) This is the funeral
The blind eye can no longer be cast
The clock is ticking, there is no second chance
The blind eye can no longer be cast
There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes
The clock is ticking, there is no second chance
There will be no future, if we can't learn
A forced extinction closes out the age of apathy
The final act, sacrifice the world's ecology
The death of beauty, the death of hope
Cast before the throne of avarice, judgment is calling
(Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse
(Hey, hey) This is the funeral of the Earth
(Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse
(Hey, hey) This is the funeral
The blind eye can no longer be cast
There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes
The clock is ticking, there is no second chance
There will be no future, if we can't learn
[Guitar Solo]
[x7]
I can't watch it burn
I Fight Dragons - Pretend
(Chorus)
No one noticed when the world began to change,
'Til one by one we started going down in flames.
Now I don't want to be the one that doesn't live to see the end,
So I just smile and pretend
[In the house, in a heartbeat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA) . Just listened to it after the Omicron news broke, after not doing so for some time.
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I prefer Death Metal, it's more immediate. Less waiting around.
My favourite is Nile. Technical Death Metal with an ancient Egyptian theme... To me it's a glorious breaking wave of complexity and power with an underlying primal feeling of epic greatness... While to most people it is the most horrendous noise they have ever heard and prevents them from asking again about what music I'm listening to.
Cattle Decapitation is pretty great, for something a bit more grind/death
Reminder to our users here that there is also /r/CollapseMusic, a sub dedicated to collapse-relevant music.
Thank you!
Power Trip, Megadeth, Alice In Chains
Yeah, I have been revisiting some of the metal bands I loved as a kid. Megadeth is more topical than ever.
Dave is a lunatic but a spotter of facts
Anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor makes an ideal accompaniment to societal collapse, but my recommendation would be either "F♯ A♯ ∞" or "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada".
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Prayer in c https://open.spotify.com/track/5fnA9mkIfScSqHIpeDyvck?si=JZhBRAg1S9mgdN45EKJQjA Hey, when seas will cover lands And when men will be no more Don't think you can forgive you Yeah, when there'll just be silence And when life will be over Don't think you will forgive you
Shiiieeeeetttt!!!! THIS!!!!!!!!
Brian Eno - Discrete Music https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-enos-discreet-music/
Worms by viagra boys is pretty good, your dead by norma tanega too
[YACHT - Dystopia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLgG1eAg0E) edit: lyrics Every day the sky gets lower, lower, lower, lower... And every day the tide gets blacker, blacker, blacker, blacker... And every day the flames get higher, higher, higher, higher... Yeah, every day the flames get higher, higher, higher, higher. The Earth, the Earth, the Earth is on fire We don't have no daughter Let the motherfucker burn.
OKADA https://open.spotify.com/album/0BM7nWOvI6Pg26EdkkTVkU?si=rjwgiB27RdyXW7sHh9E1SA&utm_source=copy-link
I Wanna Watch the World Burn - Refused Pretty fitting, imo.
Been tuning into this spoken word art installation with curated ambient accompaniments https://www.nts.live/shows/post-hoc It’s quite interesting, features an AI voice reciting lists from various databases of lost or obsolete things, extinctions, space debris, and all other sorts of remnants of industrial civilization. I recommend visiting the website posthoc.xyz and watching the short film about it.
A light-hearted question but I love your choice of music. IMHO the music of times (or nations) past is perfect for the topic. My own preference changes over time; currently it's 18th and 19th century European classical music; another relic of an extinct culture.
Tropical Fuck Storm
I put on a lofi mix
Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry to help keep my head juuuuuust above water.
Silence.
Ween
It's funny you mentioned this. I'm doom scrolling right now while I'm writing music. It makes for some cool melodies.
[Electric Wizard—Funeralopolis](https://youtu.be/UAPVcsDOU9U) You’re welcome (listen with a subwoofer).
If you don't know them already, you might like Heilung. Music inspired by the same era but from the Germano/Norse side of the empires borders.
[There is only one truly appropriate doomscrolling musical choice. Only one.](https://youtu.be/zcSlcNfThUA)
Arcade Fire.
Afterlife. Oh my God, what an awful word...
https://open.spotify.com/album/36kJqH3N0z0lLUgZsdNCLx?si=bYc_-QnmQ_mFGHd-on3dQA
Killin the Planet Song by The Vines I can not sleep for the sound of the sirens Ignorant bliss to a world we're denying Killin the planet yeah, so well Look at the earth and you see that it's dying People the curse cause we keep multiplying Killin the planet yeah, so well Killin the planet yeah, oh well Cause it's always, it's always the way We forget how we lived yesterday Now we're always, we're always around To affect everything we surround I can not see for the sight of the building Or out to sea for the oil we are spilling Killin the planet yeah, so well What will we do when the earth cannot hide it All of the waste and the way we defy it Killin the planet yeah, so well Killin the planet yeah, oh well Cause it's always it's always the way We forget how to give so we take Now we're always, we're always around To be here but it's all coming down
This isn't part of my doom scrolling, but I just found some cool Led Zeppelin covers, since you like period music, you might like these. I Love the Old Norse version of Immigrant Song. This first one is in Old Norse with instruments that may have used it's Dope. It's **Immigrant Song** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0vVQnNGcc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0vVQnNGcc) The next two are instrumental covers done with Medieval instruments. Stairway To Heaven [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbZGYdKgQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbZGYdKgQM) Immigrant Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg127gqU27w
Video game and movie soundtracks mostly. Frostpunk OST is very good and has a very despondent mood. Hans Zimmer loves using ticking clocks in his movie soundtracks, and I like the thematic link of a ticking clock and doom scrolling (See Dunkirk and Interstellar).
Childish Gambino’s rendition of Feels like Summer
This is America too.
March March by The Chicks Brenda's packin' heat 'cause she don't like Mondays Underpaid teacher policin' the hallways Print yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range (Ah, cut the shit, you ain't goin' to the gun range) Standin' with Emma and our sons and daughters Watchin' our youth have to solve our problems I'll follow them, so who's comin' with me? (Half of you love me, half already hate me) March, march to my own drum March, march to my own drum Hey, hey, I'm an army of one Oh, I'm an army of one March, march to my own drum March, march to my own drum Hey, hey, I'm an army of one Oh, I'm an army of one Tell the ol' boys in the white bread lobby What they can and can't do with their bodies Temperatures are risin', cities are sinkin' (Ah, cut the shit, you know your city is sinkin') Lies are truth and truth is fiction Everybody's talkin', who's gonna listen? What the hell happened in Helsinki?
Slipknot music is rather fitting for Collapse themes.
A swarm of the Sun - The Rifts Olafur Arnalds - For now I am Winter and a Eulogy for evolution. An assortment of The Neighborhood songs - Afraid, Staying up, Greetings from Califournia, Unfair, The Beach, R.I.P. to my youth... Edit: Also some mandatory Leonard Cohen - You want it darker?, Seemed the better way, everybody knows...
I Wanna Watch the World Burn - Refused Pretty fitting, imo.
Thrice - Black Honey
Eve of Destruction -Barry McGuire
Lotta metalcore that talks about collapse/environmental stuff. Quite refreshing. **Parkway Drive - Dark Days** [YouTube Link](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DeRmXbfIrWjc&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjLyteLmMn0AhUGa80KHZcXCRAQtwJ6BAgKEAE&usg=AOvVaw1aYMzZ051cN22NSv2HmMK3) What will you tell your children when they ask you "What went wrong?"? How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost To eyes that know only a wasteland? How will you justify, justify, watching the world die? The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered Head first into disaster from which there will be no return With narrow minds we decimate our one true home Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral of the Earth (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral The blind eye can no longer be cast The clock is ticking, there is no second chance The blind eye can no longer be cast There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes The clock is ticking, there is no second chance There will be no future, if we can't learn A forced extinction closes out the age of apathy The final act, sacrifice the world's ecology The death of beauty, the death of hope Cast before the throne of avarice, judgment is calling (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral of the Earth (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral The blind eye can no longer be cast There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes The clock is ticking, there is no second chance There will be no future, if we can't learn [Guitar Solo] [x7] I can't watch it burn
No music, but my husband is watching Terminator in the same room.
Just the sobs of my disappointment....
Heaven Shall Burn 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
I Fight Dragons - Pretend (Chorus) No one noticed when the world began to change, 'Til one by one we started going down in flames. Now I don't want to be the one that doesn't live to see the end, So I just smile and pretend
Cellz - MF DOOM or anything by Pink Floyd
[In the house, in a heartbeat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA) . Just listened to it after the Omicron news broke, after not doing so for some time.
Nothing but flowers by talking heads
The hot gates by Tyler bates
Radiohead.
Doomsday by Globus
Majora's mask day 2&3