Really interesting how music works. And affects mood aswell. If I come to work blasting heavy ass aggressive metal, then I feel aggressive and also... Kinda relaxed and happy. Mixed bag of good stuff.

But you listen to something melancholy and watch yourself come right down to low really quickly.

Although strangely music that I find depressing, my wife tells me she finds relaxing.

I was listening to Heilung the other day and I find that puts me in a really good place. Like a state of readiness, but my wife says it makes her chest feel tight and triggers a fright response. Which was interesting. But she'll listen to Damien rice and say it's calming and relaxing, but I find it sad and depressing.

It's fascinating what/how music affects us.

This sent me to a place of focus. Sounds fantastic, goth trad seems like a brilliant creator. Some of the sounds he uses are really subtle but add so much, like the water droplets. Really creative. Great track.

I'd never heard this before! What a gem! I didn't expect Chester's voice to fit with a dark kinda theme, lyrics yes, but his voice usually gives a different vibe to eerie. But it really works, there really was nothing he couldn't do. Brilliant vocalist and so multidimensional. Thanks for this recommendation.

Surprisingly never did very much deftones when I was younger. But that's a great track, really fits the theme of the week, might be the only one of theirs I actually know haha. The vocalist had these really long almost strained and whining notes that fit the dark and eerie nature to the track.

I get what you're saying. It's good, but there's something about it that I just can't describe... It's almost eerie but not like standard eerie feelings, ominous is a good description.

Big nightwish fan, same for evanescence. And Bill bailey is a national treasure. Great tracks.