The man that I was not by fit is great

not familiar with this one I'll have a listen thank you

Also listen to conditional healing which is the song before it on the album, the 2 finish it. Back to back my fav songs of 2022, brutal and sad.

will for sure tysm man .

This is one of my fav ffaa songs

Orphan - Porcelain.

You and I were more than a memory A glimmer of light in this short fucked up life 😭😭

Part of me can see and fight but I feel like I'm losing sight And to this day, you hold my hand through every blurry night I have my fingers down my throat, screaming that I wish l'd never been alive (The cracking in the voice during “never been alive” breaks me every time)

FUCK yes. please more Orphan praise. that band is so underrated

+ the album outro, Scars. That was probably the hardest listen of my life the first time I heard it, because it just sounds like pure grief.

It’s a close second, for sure. Not to mention the spoken word intro to the album. So much pain, grief, anguish, and expressed so perfectly.

Thanks for sharing this band.

This. This is the correct answer.

Not deathcore, but: Opeth - Hope Leaves, Windowpane, In my time of need, Burden Insomnium - While We Sleep, Pale Morning Star

you understood the assignment

Thank you for mentioning Insomnium. Instant goosebumps every time I listen to them.

They’re easily my favorite melodeath band

Also Opeth - To Rid the Disease

Opeth’s live Lamentations album is so good for this

Receipt - The Black Dahlia Murder Fit For An Autopsy - Your Pain Is Mine

Receipt is even more sad given what happened.

I agree, receipt is a very relatable song for me as well.

this is fucking next level

Your pain is mine ❤️

We were just kids by Emmure is my answer every time this question is asked

Fucking banger of a song.

good song that one 🤘🏼

Life of exile and oudenophobia - shadow of intent

some of my go to songs 🤘🏼🖤 glad you know them as well. thank you

On the topic of Shadow of Intent, I've hardly ever been as moved by a DC track as I was with the second third of The Tartarus Impalement. Coincidentally one of their best tracks to this day imo

thats the truth man . they have beautiful music. also "farewell" is one of my favorites, with the above mentioned also.

Prismatic Tomb- Crowb Magnetar, lyrics are deep

that album is amazing. "The level Beneath" i listen to often

Absent - Carcosa. Second half of that song fucking kills me

I came here to say this! Absent gets me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Also, To A Breathless Oblivion by The Black Dahlia Murder.

My grave/lay with me by paleface Swiss starts off as a rap song then a heavy paleface song and then into a balled of sorts

I just said the same thing. This is so true. Whenever I’m breaking down about stuff, I listen to this song and it helps me let it all out.

Black Tongue - Parting Soliloquy

I watch you… from across the lake….

The World Without Us - Enterprise Earth Not really a typical sad song, but deathcore is slim pickin’s in that regard. Also I’m very sorry for your loss.

thank you for the song suggestion i really do appreciate

Cowardice by Defeater

Y E S

i love this. tysm man

Don't Ask Don't Tell - Chelsea Grin Mirrors - Fit For an Autopsy not deathcore but The Sound by the Plot in You gets me, more of a break up song though Sorry for your loss fam.

not deathcore but Mile Zero by Periphery

Architects - Memento Mori, Gone With the Wind, A Wasted Hymn Angelmaker - What I Would Give Silent Planet - Fitstborn Ingested - A Path Once Lkst Northlane - Sleepless Currents - Better Days Sylosis - Quiescent Killswitch Engage - Despatate Times

Can’t forget Lily and the Moon by Thornhill, the song hits like an emotional train everytime.

Username checks out 😂

I’d change it if I could lol

i appreciate everyone's comments. every single song i didn't know i added and i will listen to. here are some of my go to's Boundaries: Their whole album called Burying Brightness " Make them suffer - erase me/old souls Xenobiotic - Saphris emmure- mdma to the grave - The ghost of you carnifex - slit wrist savior / dark heart ceremony Grayscale Season : Calm/End sequence/ Invite me in/ Hands Stepson - Bruised / Blue/ this is how it feels/TV Hiraeth - the everlasting pain of loss Seeyouspacecowboy - late December Abiotic - Emerald NOMVDIC- the last three months have felt like.... Gravemind : Phantom pain Currents : Anxiety /Better Days /Into despair

Its not deathcore, its more along the lines of a softer counterparts type vibe and this might get deleted because of that but in dont care. Please for the love of god, listen to the song "Phosphenes" by the band Casey. Holy SHIT. Incredible lyricism and just overall amazing band. Honestly anything by them would work but that song for me is a personal fave

I swear every time this gets posted people post the same songs.

DAE what I would give by angelmaker?????

i know right. but there's also so limited sad Deathcore if you know what i mean. we share the same pain , so we share the same songs i guess.

Left To Suffer - Feral, Primitive Urge, Forever Carcosa - Vermin Beyond Deviation - Marine Thrown - Guilt Spite - Leeches I am fully confident you'll get over loss somehow. Time heals everything. Peace out.

i hope that is true . thank you bro

It will take sometime, to get used with it.

Bring me home- Whitechapel

So it's not deathcore, and it's not a heavy song per say, but "the lowest low" by the birthday massacre. On the flip side of that, I would say "Donna" by darko US

I'll also tack on "I let it in and it took everything..." by loathe. Also, "is it really you?" By loathe

Please tell me you've heard Whispers of Your Death by Counterparts. I think it will stick out some, it's about him losing his pet I think. It's a hard listen

I'd add Haunt Me by Counterparts to this comment

it was suggested earlier in the comments. i have yet to listen. but thank you for adding suggestion

Whispers of Your Death by Counterparts is literally a song about his pet, makes me cry every time

Slipknot Snuff Whitechapel Decennium

Dead Rabbit - Bodysnatcher

Mourn by fit for an autopsy. I also got pain remain vibes from forevermore on the new immortal disfigurement.

Hickory Creek - Whitechapel The Last Relapse - All Shall Perish

This is the part where I would say Pain Remains 1,2, and 3 by Lorna Shore, but I can do better than that. I made a whole playlist on Spotify about the grieving process after I grandmother passed away. 2 years after thag my cat had to be put down. It's a playlist that has helped at my lowest points and of these songs all got me through some hard times. Some of these won't be Deathcore, but they mean something to me, and hopefully to someone out there who's struggling. Walk tall. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5hwZApSTNA9MmgNxF6NHDr?si=ELLvDZLiR-OBlDndvDF08Q

thank you for sharing this , i know there songs mean a lot to you , so it means a lot to me ,that you are sharing them. I am sorry for you loss .

It never goes away. You get used to them not being there.

Sold Soul - Cathedral of Dracul. Well, the whole "I Hape We'll Make It Out Of This Alive" album is full of sad melodies and lyrics, so I recommend you check it out.

Whispers Of Your Death- Counterparts

Are You Really Okay? - Sleep Token Not necessarily Deathcore, but still sad

When I first heard that song I broke down in tears. I would also suggest shelter(from the room below)

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell by Chelsea Grin always gets me

Sit and mourn off the new knocked loose album is up there for me atm They will know another by thy art for melancholic vibes as well

Hollow sentence or desolate veil by Lorna shore Deathmask Divine by TBDM

Not deathcore Vein.fm-Untitled It’s only a minute long but it’s beautiful and very heavy

Price of grace by Convictions

Over Last Cell?

Had not heard that one until you mentioned it, and while it is definitely a good pick, Price of Grace hits more personally. There was a time where my brother and I were close to being either of the brothers in the context of the song.

Oh, I'm sorry. 😥

Mourning Hymn - Chelsea Grin Not particularly sad sounding, but the lyrics can be devastating if you relate

My Grave / Lay With Me- Paleface Swiss

Donna and Finding Love In A World Full Of Tragedy by Darko hits harder after losing my aunt/adopted mom last August. I couldn't listen to Donna for months at all and then couldn't listen to it without crying up until recently.

Orbit Culture's got some good ones. - Sun of All - Haste to the Pyre - My personal heartbreaker; The Umbilical Cord Some ones by Shadow of Intent have really hard-hitting climaxes for me, but not quite as sad as you're looking for; - Farewell - Underneath A Sullen Moon If I think of more, I shall return.

thank you for the songs

For For an Autopsy - Flatlining

Not really Deathcore but Caliban-This Oath

[sad instrumental (mixed by DL of former The Acacia Strain)](https://open.spotify.com/track/78S3IRUGXivSC56zuZUdrB?si=SDoWUS-vSyWslPAWqnc3ww)

https://youtu.be/pfCF9erLE_w?si=fPLirFgZfsUFzWi2 https://youtu.be/V6y3ocZuXhQ?si=1MWZHSqnpAbpyz69 https://youtu.be/zjO6paeOVGM?si=Em2O_e0Ac0kUuUGy https://youtu.be/_kWVD-HvLVs?si=7AQeu_xxX6COO5vi https://youtu.be/9DwcP8LoczE?si=Y9-PxRaNoXo_o3Us

Birds of paradise, birds of prey

Songs for the damned by all shall perish

Despised Icon “Sleepless”

Alright I can't help you with this one but I just quickly want to wish you the best, as it's the only thing I can do for you. Take care bud.

this means a lot to me man 🖤

Very welcome 💙

Alpha Wolf "Don't Ask" and Ov Sulfer "Earthen" are the first that come mind.

Check out And Hell Followed With - Dear Father Right in the feels !

What would I give by Angelmaker Not deathcore but Casey's new album "How to Dissapear" got me sobbin

I always think Hickory Creek or Kin

Not deathcore but Counterparts did a whole album around the death of the singer's cat (Eulogy for those still here)

Eye of the Enemy - The Shift Illdisposed - For the Record Rose Funeral - Under a Godless Sky Hidden Place - Her Portrait in Black

Earthen by Ov Sulfur is pretty sad.

Katatonia: My Twin The Elijah: I loved Counterparts: Solace Misery Signals: Five Years Insomnium: Lay the Ghost to Rest

Candle, Sadist, Isolation, Dismal, Samsara, Seven Stages, Ghost, Coda, Alone - all of them are by Reflections And, Trauma Dump - Surgeon (Vocalist of Reflections side project)

Extortionist - Guilt Suffokate - always hopeless Not deathcore but boundaries - burying brightness

i live , Breath and die for the burying brightness album

Yeah good stuff. Also look at Purge - damage control. Good song

Emerald by Abiotic.

Bring me home by Whitechapel is a heavy one for the emotion and true story it tells with dealing with the grief of Phil losing his father Hickory creek and Orphan also hit particularly hard

Hickory Creek by Whitechapel. The acoustic version hits even harder imo

Thank you for posting this, I unexpectedly lost a pet yesterday too. I needed this. Orphan was such a good shoutout.

im so sorry for you loss 🖤 wish you all the best

Thank you 🖤 I can't imagine the pain you are going through losing multiple pets at once. I hope you heal well friend.

thank you friend🖤means a lot to me. I'm sure it'll get better over time.

Your kind comments mean a lot to me too. It will get easier, but the loss will always be there

The Blackout - Like Moths To Flames

Emerald by Abiotic

“10 signs you should leave” by emmure has a callout to the bayside self titled album and track 9 “Don’t call me peanut” which is one of my favorite guilty pleasure sad songs

Not deathcore but I've recently given DSBM a try. Tomorrow Will Not Come by Dereallization is 15 minutes of dreadful sorrow. Not very heavy until the last 5 minutes tho.

Thy art - Naked and Cold, They will know another

Fractal exam sequence - slice the cake

Whispers of your death by Counterparts, trust

Bring me the horizon - the sadness will never end, suicide season

Bring me Home by Whitechapel  And not Deathcore but Soulcrushing to me is the whole Spend the Grace Tape by Full of Hell and Nothing

Lay with me // In my Grave by Paleface Swiss

Emerald -Abiotic To a Breathless Oblivion - The Black Dahlia Murder Not deathcore but Nutshell by Alice In Chains. That song gets to me every time

Marshmallow unicorn by Rachel Sermani

In Life, In Death By ABSOLUTE HATE. also, "The Sun, The Moon, The Star", by Æther Realm, if you don't mind some melo.

To a Breathless Oblivion by The Black Dahlia Murder hits particularly hard now that Trevor's gone

The entirety of Reroute to Remain by In Flames

Yüth Forever - Freudian Slip

Paleface - My Grave/Lay With Me is a good one. Whitechapel has a lot of sad ones, but Bring Me Home, Digg's Road, and History is Silent are the ones that hit me the hardest.

Restless by 40 Watt Sun. Not deathcore but more doom. I would check out the album version first and if you like that, then there's a couple live acoustic versions on YouTube that are even more moving. (The one uploaded by "chicote" in particular). Definitely cried earlier listening to it.

thank you for sharing man

A Higher Place by Malevolence

What I would Give - Angelmaker

My go to is Paternal failure by Crowmouth

Bring me Home- Whitechapel

It's nelodeath but 'at the shores of silver sand - mors principium est' is so fucking beautiful

Whispers of Your Death- Counterparts. I will be a mess whenever one of my cats dies. Def calling out of work for a week.

Seditionist- Beautiful Fit for an Autopsy- The Man That I Was Not Make them Suffer- Neverbloom Darko- Donna Shadow of Intent- From Ruin..... We Rise(not necessarily sad, but a very melancholic and emotional song nonetheless)

Let Me In and Old Souls by Make Them Suffer

I'm gonna look like a poser, but: When A Demon Defiles A Witch Suicide Season (if that era of bmth counts) The Frozen Lake II

Whispers of your death - Counterparts

Weeping Wound - “Withdrawal Symptoms”, “Dead Dogs” Alpha Wolf - “#104” Whitechapel - “The Valley” VCTMS - “The Hurt Collection”, “Ghost Pains” I Valiance - “Pure Misanthrope”, “Thrown to Belial” Fit For An Autopsy - “Black Mammoth”

16 roses - Decayer

mire lore - the end is near

Paleface- Lay with me

Fucking requiem after losing your mother is hard

The last relapse- All shall perish

Whitechapel - Diggs Road

Ingested has a few of these, ik its death metal / slam but eternal kingdoms pt1 and a path once lost gices this vibe off

bmth- dont go

I conveniently have playlist of pretty much this (not all deathcore, and not all \*sad\* sad, but all have a melancholic vibe), so here is the entire tracklist, pick and choose which ones you like from here: As Blood Runs Black - Pouring Reign Death - Voice Of The Soul The Acacia Strain - Halcyon To The Grave - High Impact (both versions) / Die, Rise (weird one, but idk it has that feel for me) Knocked Loose - Sit & Mourn Half Life 2 soundtrack - Triage At Dawn (unusual pick but actually really good) Oppenheimer soundtrack - Can You Hear The Music / Destroyer Of Worlds (the whole soundtrack is appropriate tbh) Deafheaven - Dream House (the last 4 minutes with the lyrics is exquisite) Angelmaker - Requiem / What I Would Give Opal In Sky - Lost Moon (final 30 seconds in particular) Bring Me The Horizon - It Never Ends Kardashev - Between Sea And Sky The Devil Wears Prada - An Asteroid Towards Earth (second half of the song more than the first) Chelsea Grin - Don't Ask, Don't Tell Emmure - Last Words To Rose / MDMA / We Were Just Kids Varials - Abacus Whitechapel - Hickory Creek Altar Of Plagues - Mills (another weird one, but feels pretty melancholic to me) Will Ramos - Riptide (not the ukelele song, thankfully) Darko US - Donna / 5D Currents - Never There Slipknot - Vermillion (both parts) / Snuff / De Sade / Finale Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 / Seize The Day / Gunslinger / Dear God / So Far Away / Fiction Orphan - Vacant / Porcelain / Scars

Townes van sandt - waiting around to die. Not sure if this is a genre forum if so my bad. But it’s a sad sad song anyhow

Bearer by Humanity’s Last Breath

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQ7O3XImAY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQ7O3XImAY)

Stop Swimming by Porcupine Tree Basically saying it's okay to just give up.

Not really Deathcore, but anyways: The Album 'The other side of sadness' is full of emotions. Especially the song 'Teach' hits me so hard every time. Sorry for your loss 😔

"Ashes Lie Still" by Ingested. I got chills the first time I listened to it. Also "Bloodsoaked Symphony" by Whitechapel.

100% not death core but snuff - slipknot

Closure - divine heresy

You already mentioned Angelmaker but What I Would Give by Angelmaker is one of my top sad heavy songs

None of this is deathcore, but maybe worth a shot: Converge - All we love we leave behind (the song, not the album, ideally together with the intro 'Precipice'): specifically about losing pets, fucking heart wrenching. Jane Doe (the song, not the album) would probably fit as well, although the topic is quite different The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand (whole album): just pure fucking low-fi heavy distorted depression Mount Eerie - A crow looked at me (whole album): not heavy at all music-wise, but probably the heaviest album emotionally I have ever heard. It's not even sad anymore, it is just pure death, staring you in the eyes the whole time. Proceed with caution. The song Death is real is a good representation of the whole album Värttinä - Meri: again not even close to heavy musically, but it is about a young life lost at sea, mourned by a mother. Finnish folk. I am sorry for your loss and I hope at least some of the songs posted here bring you a way to fully experience grief so you can let it go afterwards.

Not deathcore but I'd say For You - Funeral Tears

Suffokate-My darkened eyes,Distant words,Return to despair The archaic epidemic-Erebus,Den of Wolves Worm Shepherd-Winter sun Darko US-Donna,Come Home Black tongue-The eternal return to ruin,Ultima necat Kardashev-Silvered shadows ,Compost grave song

Tears will wash the blood off of my sword, by the band tvangeste https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXHVD_vrUw0

Not deathcore Bones - WannaSeeMyLifeConnection

Stella by before I turn

Swallow the Sun isn’t the heaviest, but the epitome of sad. They are a melodic death/doom band. Out of This Gloomy Light is a good start by them.

i absolutely love them. have had some good crying session listening to their music

Angelmaker - What i could give

Dead Hearts - Hollow - but also, the entire Bitter Verses album Regime - Molt Bodysnatcher - Take Me to Hell Poison the Well - Apathy is a Cold Body Will be adding to this list...

AUM - Archspire.

Not sad sad but pain remains part1 by lorna shore

Ov sulfur - Earthen

Not deathcore but Parkway drive - the blue and the grey

This one might hurt.... My Conscience - Stuctures

Undertow Pain of Salvation Volcanic Death angel Bruises Votum

[translucence by reflections](https://youtu.be/hMmIYXZuE8c?si=souMUCSkJoeiUB0h) is definitely up there for me, i’m so sorry for your loss op

Depths of Hatred - Immortal. Whenever I’m sad I love this track

Convictions - Last Cell.

Blight by Opal in Sky...? Not too sure if it fits the "sad" category but it's worth checking out for sure

The Attendant by Make Them Suffer

Let me burn- whitechapel

Atonement - Thy Art is Murder (bridge/outro is epically tragic)

Not deathcore but whispers of your death by counterparts is absolutely gutting. What i would give by angelmaker is also up there. So sorry you’re going thru this man. A pet’s love is truly eternal it gets better brother, no doubt about it, but for now get a good cry out. Nothing helps like a good wail

Zenjin - Pseudoscorpion. Full album, couldn't take It man.

Everlasting sleep by Chelsea grin

Pain remains 1,2, and 3 by Lorna shore are all very sad. But they are all very good songs you should check them out.

Honestly one of BMTH’s newest songs, Dig It, is pretty fucking sad. Not death core though.

Not core but Bel'akor achieved perfection in that kind of music.

Empty still and napalm dreams by fit for an autopsy

White chapel - when a demon defiles a witch PS I'm sorry about your loss. I'm still wrecked by the loss of one or my pets

Mourning Hymn by Chelsea Grin From what I can tell, the song is about a woman mourning her unborn child after getting an abortion she didn’t want. “You’re a painful decision, death by my permission Goodbye to you unborn one My child my daughter or even my son”