music that sounds like the apocalypse

[Norton]

Rob Dougan-Clubbed to Death

[AfterForever]

Nightwish - End of all hope

[slayer32390]

How about "The Black Rider" from the Lord of The Rings soundtrack? Somewhat happy-ish in the beginning but it quickly degenerates in world ending music IMO.

[chrisolson]

Nirvana - they ended the world as we knew it...

[SeventhSon]

"The End" - The Doors

[guitar08man]

holy crap yes, alot of these songs are kickass!!! keep all this stuff coming!

[charvelguy]

Nirvana - they ended the world as we knew it...

but we still have the poo poo flingers..all is good.

[Sergio]

Dimmu Borgir, and some Nightwish songs!

[Tashtego]

Swans - Holy Money (A Screw)
I used to have it on a 45 and would play it at 33 rpm. Try it at 3/4 speed if you can get an mp3 or something.

[nsubulysses]

Sunn0))) - Black One

[marcus]

Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood

In fact most of the stuff by these guys is pretty apocalyptic

[nateb]

Slayer... There are so many songs that have that "In the middle of a air-raid" feeling to them, it's hard to nail down which are the most ground pounding.

- Hell awaits
- Rain in Blood
- Angel of Death
- Seven Faces

-Nate

[richardlawson]

Tricky- Bury the Evidence. Just wait for the guitar to kick in.

[guitarsjb]

The Wanderer by Johnny Cash. It's on U2s album Zooropa

[Number Of The Priest]

The original soundtrack from the motion picture "The Terminator" (1984). It's synth-driven with VERY little organic instrumentation which gives it a very dark, cold, dreary, post-apocalyptic feel, perfectly suited for the visuals of the film.

It's a strange album by my typical standards. A lot of it is what I would consider "background noise" due to the repetitive mechanistic banging and grinding noises. But then there are chilling-to-the-bone inorganic synthesizer motif-laden melodies on top of the rhythmic noises which are so damn memorable (like the main theme) that make the album a real sonic journey.

One album track really creeps me the hell out. Remember when Kyle Reese manages to lodge a pipebomb into the terminator's exposed endoskeleton, blowing it apart? Sarah Connor discovers that Kyle dies in the ensuing explosion and the terminator torso suddenly awakens to creep after her. The moment the damn thing lurches awake, a wickedly shrieking violin orgy happens on the movie's soundtrack. That particular track is called "Reese's Death".

The movie's sequels, which use a full orchestra, have a more organic and lifelike feel, probably because Schwarzenegger's sequel characters are able to "learn" how to be "more human". This makes them a different listening experience from the cold, dark, dreary, post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the original movie's soundtrack.

It's a memorable one... I was born in 1983 and I remember watching the movie over and over again around the time I learned how to talk, so it and the soundtrack have a very special place in my heart.