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* In choral settings of the Christian Mass, the music often lands in a minor key and slows down in the section of the Credo when Christ is crucified. When, in the next sentence, he is resurrected, the music perks right up into a major key and the tempo moves briskly along.
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* In choral settings of the Christian Mass, the music often lands in a minor key and slows down in the section of the Credo when Christ is crucified. When, in the next sentence, he is resurrected, the music perks right up into a major key [[{{Tonality}} key]] and the tempo moves briskly along.
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* Music/{{Zucchero}}: The theme of "Miserere" (Miserable), and to an extent the album of the same name it hosted. It tells about Zucchero's profound sorrow following his worst moments in life, and how he tries to cope with it by celebrating life. The song and its album were recorded around the time the musician divorced from his first wife, and was a way to express his heartbreak. A factor that actually helped him overcome the depression was that the song was also made as a duet with Pavarotti, who himself faced many struggles in his life and thus could relate to Zucchero's own.
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* Unblack metal (or Christian black metal) is this to the general Christian metal.
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* "End of All Hope" by Music/{{Nightwish}}
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* "End of All Hope" by Music/{{Nightwish}}Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}
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* Arguably, Rock and Roll circa 1960. Elvis had turned to Frank Sinatra-style pop after his Army hitch, Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly were dead, Carl Perkins had never really recovered from his car accident (and was playing mostly country), Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were reeling from sex scandals, and Little Richard had quit to become a minister. [[Music/TheBeatles It got better.]]
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* Arguably, Rock and Roll circa 1960. Elvis had turned to Frank Sinatra-style pop after his Army hitch, Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly were dead, Carl Perkins had never really recovered from his car accident (and was playing mostly country), Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were reeling from sex scandals, and Little Richard had quit to become a minister. [[Music/TheBeatles It got better.]]
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* Music/FrancoDeVita: The theme of "¿Dónde está el amor?" (Where Is Love?). In this song, the world has been corrupted by prejudices, resentment, selfishness and insecurity; compassion ceased to exist, and there's nothing good to believe in anymore. Franco frequently asks where love has gone, and prays so his voice can allow him to keep denouncing the injustices, and so his heart keeps beating for him to live for long enough to see love once again.
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* {{Music/Kamelot}}'s concept [[Music/EpicaAlbumSeries albums]] ''Epica'' and ''The Black Halo'' tell a two-part story of a man on a final journey to discover the meaning of life, not knowing that his soul has been wagered in a bet between Heaven and Hell. Almost the entire second album acts as a Darkest Hour for the protagonist, after the [[DownerEnding tragic event]] that occurs at the end of the first album.
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* Paul Kelly's "Bradman" (about Australian UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} legend Don Bradman):
--> A team came out from England,
--> Wally Hammond wore his felt hat like a chief
--> All through the summer of '28/'29
--> They gave the green caps no relief
--> Some reputations came to grief
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--> They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn
--> And in the hour of greatest slaughter, the great avenger is being born
--> But who then could have seen the shape of things to come?
--> In Bradman's first Test, he went for 18 and for 1
--> They dropped him like a gun.
--> A team came out from England,
--> Wally Hammond wore his felt hat like a chief
--> All through the summer of '28/'29
--> They gave the green caps no relief
--> Some reputations came to grief
-->
--> They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn
--> And in the hour of greatest slaughter, the great avenger is being born
--> But who then could have seen the shape of things to come?
--> In Bradman's first Test, he went for 18 and for 1
--> They dropped him like a gun.
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{{Darkest Hour}}s in music.
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* Arguably, Rock and Roll circa 1960. Elvis had turned to Frank Sinatra-style pop after his Army hitch, Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly were dead, Carl Perkins had never really recovered from his car accident (and was playing mostly country), Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were reeling from sex scandals, and Little Richard had quit to become a minister. [[Music/TheBeatles It got better.]]
* "Our Solemn Hour" by Music/WithinTemptation.
-->In my darkest hours I could not foresee that the tide could turn so fast to this degree
-->Can't believe my eyes
-->How could you be so blind?
-->Is the heart of stone, no empathy inside?
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyHWW35m1E&feature=related "In My Darkest Hour" by Megadeth]]
* "End of All Hope" by Music/{{Nightwish}}
* Explicitly invoked in "The Devil Came Back to Georgia"
-->Johnny did you ever know that time keeps marching on
-->The coldest hour is the one comes just before the dawn
-->The Devil's Back in Georgia will you stand up to the test
-->Oh will you let the Devil be the best.
* In choral settings of the Christian Mass, the music often lands in a minor key and slows down in the section of the Credo when Christ is crucified. When, in the next sentence, he is resurrected, the music perks right up into a major key and the tempo moves briskly along.
* Without question the ''absolute'' darkest hour in Music/{{Ludo}}'s rock opera ''The Broken Bride'' is when the Time Traveller is at the apocalypse and decides to destroy his Time Machine, marooning himself there and severing himself from his beloved wife forever, to release the only things that may have a chance at destroying the [[ZombieApocalypse zombie-making, soul-devouring]] Dragon: [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Pterodactyls.]]
* Shinedown references this in their song, "The Sound of Madness." Potentially subverted, though, as the following line gives a potential Hope Spot:
--> The darkest hour never comes in the night; When ya gonna wake up and fight?!
* The album ''Rain of a Thousand Flames'' from Music/RhapsodyOfFire.
* ''The Manual'' ([[Music/TheKLF the Timelords]]' guide to creating a #1 hit single, no money or talent necessary) tells its user to schedule a week in the recording studio actually creating the single, and warns that Tuesday will be wrecked by depression and self-doubt. The only solution is to press on: by Wednesday, everything should start to make sense again.
* The point of Wednesday 13's song, "We All Die:"
--> No matter what, you always put a smile upon my face
--> Just know that I love more than anything, just in case
--> We all die...
* The movie version of the Transformers theme describes this trope quite well and name drops it:
--> Something evil's watching over you
--> Comin' from the sky above
--> And there's nothing you can do
--> Prepare to strike
--> There'll be no place to run
--> When your caught within the grip
--> Of the evil Unicron
--> (chorus)
--> Strong enough to break the bravest heart
--> So we have to pull together
--> We can't stay worlds apart
--> To stand divided we will surely fall
--> Until our darkest hour
--> When the light will save us all
* Music/ImagineDragons has quite a few songs with this kind of vibe, such as "Demons," "Lost Cause," and "Nothing Left to Say."
* The phone call at the end of "Young Lust" from ''Music/TheWall'': Pink finally gets through to his wife, only to learn that another man is answering the phone. What's more, he has to learn this ''through the dispatcher''. At that point, he well and truly disconnects from the world around him.
** "Run Like Hell" and "Waiting For The Worms" act as another one, with Pink in full-bore fascist mode, inciting his fans to violence. It is only when Pink realizes just what the hell he is doing in "Stop" that things take a turn for the better.
* REO Speedwagon's "One Lonely Night": "They say it's darkest just before the dawn."
* Music/TomWaits, an earlier version of "More Than Rain" (and some live versions) contains, among other similarly depressing lines, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMu9M5Tr-g "We're on the darkest stretch of the road."]]
* Referenced in Music/TheMountainGoats song "No Children"
--> Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
--> We're pretty sure they're all wrong
* Florence and the Machine's song "Shake it Out".
--> I like to keep my issues strong
--> It's always darkest before the dawn
* The final verse of Music/BobSeger's "Night Moves" (according to WordOfGod):
--> Strange how the night moves, with autumn closing in
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* Arguably, Rock and Roll circa 1960. Elvis had turned to Frank Sinatra-style pop after his Army hitch, Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly were dead, Carl Perkins had never really recovered from his car accident (and was playing mostly country), Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were reeling from sex scandals, and Little Richard had quit to become a minister. [[Music/TheBeatles It got better.]]
* "Our Solemn Hour" by Music/WithinTemptation.
-->In my darkest hours I could not foresee that the tide could turn so fast to this degree
-->Can't believe my eyes
-->How could you be so blind?
-->Is the heart of stone, no empathy inside?
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyHWW35m1E&feature=related "In My Darkest Hour" by Megadeth]]
* "End of All Hope" by Music/{{Nightwish}}
* Explicitly invoked in "The Devil Came Back to Georgia"
-->Johnny did you ever know that time keeps marching on
-->The coldest hour is the one comes just before the dawn
-->The Devil's Back in Georgia will you stand up to the test
-->Oh will you let the Devil be the best.
* In choral settings of the Christian Mass, the music often lands in a minor key and slows down in the section of the Credo when Christ is crucified. When, in the next sentence, he is resurrected, the music perks right up into a major key and the tempo moves briskly along.
* Without question the ''absolute'' darkest hour in Music/{{Ludo}}'s rock opera ''The Broken Bride'' is when the Time Traveller is at the apocalypse and decides to destroy his Time Machine, marooning himself there and severing himself from his beloved wife forever, to release the only things that may have a chance at destroying the [[ZombieApocalypse zombie-making, soul-devouring]] Dragon: [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Pterodactyls.]]
* Shinedown references this in their song, "The Sound of Madness." Potentially subverted, though, as the following line gives a potential Hope Spot:
--> The darkest hour never comes in the night; When ya gonna wake up and fight?!
* The album ''Rain of a Thousand Flames'' from Music/RhapsodyOfFire.
* ''The Manual'' ([[Music/TheKLF the Timelords]]' guide to creating a #1 hit single, no money or talent necessary) tells its user to schedule a week in the recording studio actually creating the single, and warns that Tuesday will be wrecked by depression and self-doubt. The only solution is to press on: by Wednesday, everything should start to make sense again.
* The point of Wednesday 13's song, "We All Die:"
--> No matter what, you always put a smile upon my face
--> Just know that I love more than anything, just in case
--> We all die...
* The movie version of the Transformers theme describes this trope quite well and name drops it:
--> Something evil's watching over you
--> Comin' from the sky above
--> And there's nothing you can do
--> Prepare to strike
--> There'll be no place to run
--> When your caught within the grip
--> Of the evil Unicron
--> (chorus)
--> Strong enough to break the bravest heart
--> So we have to pull together
--> We can't stay worlds apart
--> To stand divided we will surely fall
--> Until our darkest hour
--> When the light will save us all
* Music/ImagineDragons has quite a few songs with this kind of vibe, such as "Demons," "Lost Cause," and "Nothing Left to Say."
* The phone call at the end of "Young Lust" from ''Music/TheWall'': Pink finally gets through to his wife, only to learn that another man is answering the phone. What's more, he has to learn this ''through the dispatcher''. At that point, he well and truly disconnects from the world around him.
** "Run Like Hell" and "Waiting For The Worms" act as another one, with Pink in full-bore fascist mode, inciting his fans to violence. It is only when Pink realizes just what the hell he is doing in "Stop" that things take a turn for the better.
* REO Speedwagon's "One Lonely Night": "They say it's darkest just before the dawn."
* Music/TomWaits, an earlier version of "More Than Rain" (and some live versions) contains, among other similarly depressing lines, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMu9M5Tr-g "We're on the darkest stretch of the road."]]
* Referenced in Music/TheMountainGoats song "No Children"
--> Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
--> We're pretty sure they're all wrong
* Florence and the Machine's song "Shake it Out".
--> I like to keep my issues strong
--> It's always darkest before the dawn
* The final verse of Music/BobSeger's "Night Moves" (according to WordOfGod):
--> Strange how the night moves, with autumn closing in
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