Hell yes. Some of the most intense music ever made. People talk about how "Oh, this artist or that song saved my life!" John Congleton is the opposite of that. Music to destroy your life to.
Emily, one of the singers from Ladybaby (the screamy one, who joined after the cross-dressing pro wrestler left), has a new Japanese djent band.
J-djent? Jjent...?
She's also got a Soundcloud, apparently, which is averaging less than a thousand views. This one is more like trapcore, I guess...? Is that even a thing? Anyway, if you dig metal or hardcore, check it out. You could be one of the first thousand listens!
Do you obscure Chilean folk-doom metal? You should. Uaral (they've split up now sadly) created possibly the most depressing music ever recorded. I'm not joking. The first track of this album is just the singer crying for four minutes. So is the last track. In between is music so incredibly bleak and cold that you can feel the freezing Andean wind. You can keep your DSBM, this is *real* misery.
A 90s era Boston lo-fi band consisting of drums, sax, and a bass guitar with 2 strings (when they absolutely sold out they added a 3rd string--scandalous!). They had a dark, jazzy alt rock sound with fantastic lyrics and a guy with the smokiest voice. They had 5 great albums. They were college radio and local scene darlings, but their popular culture peak was an appearance on Conan O'Brian.
They were so 90s, their lead singer dropped dead of a heart attack on stage in Italy in 1999 because the 21st Century couldn't handle them.
Despite not having a guitar, they could rock the fuck out:
Morphine is a band I never tire of. Happy or sad, I can put them on no matter what and they enhance my mood. I might go through phases of listening to this or that band or genre, but I can always listen to Morphine, and will til I die.
We might never get to 9/9/99, but maybe one day we'll find out what happened on March 4th, 1982.