5 sad songs for when you’re sad

Welcome to The Outer Void’s first 5 on Friday playlist. On these playlists you can expect to see and hear sad songs, happy songs, angry songs, uplifting songs, experimental songs, and everything in between. Every playlist post will be placed in the 5 on Friday category so you can conveniently revisit them as your musical moods please. Listen, enjoy, cry, laugh, drift away, relax, scream into a pillow, etc.

1. Losing Fight – Movements

The last song from the band’s first official EP that released in 2016, and also one of the saddest. The way it quickly builds from a soft melancholy feel, to a more anguished psyche, while still keeping that same delicate mood will get you every time.

2. Phosphenes – Casey

Off their 2018 album Where I Go When I Am Sleeping, “Phosphenes” is a deep and brutally honest take on living with depression, much like many of Casey’s songs. Give it a listen in honor of their years together as a band, ending this year.

3. ruiner – nothing,nowhere.

Who knew that combining emo and rap could create something so beautiful? Sorrowful and distressed rapping over somber guitars and beats is a fusion that we do not hear enough of, but could be hearing more of soon.

4. Avalanche – Bring Me The Horizon

Blending symphonic elements with rock and metal is something Bring Me The Horizon have been exceptional at for a long time. And when you throw heart-wrenching lyrics and vocal dynamics over that, the result can be even more powerful.

5. I Tore You Apart In My Head – Balance and Composure

Another banger from a beloved band that ended this year. You can feel the frustration in the gritty vocals and heavily distorted guitars, and then shortly after float away with the whimsical outro.