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* Music/DollSkin is normally a punk rock/pop punk band with fast, energetic songs about topics ranging from misogyny to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAeEiiQP48 fascism]]. "Sweet Pea", by contrast, is a slower song about missing a loved one while on the road. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "This is just a song about how I love you..."]]
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** From the same album, "The Light" is, while not a ballad, a very hopeful song of encouragement. Again, harkening back to their earliest hit, it's hard to picture the same guy screaming "Open up your hate and let it flow into me" being the same guy singing "When you think all is forsaken, listen to me now, you need never feel broken again..."
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%%ZCE* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's first album had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqDZGuWl_A Cat and Mouse]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE Your Guardian Angel]]".
%%ZCE** Compare a [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes-flavored]] love ballad like ''Your Guardian Angel'' with their SignatureSong, the powerful rant against domestic abuse "Face Down". You wouldn't believe they were the same band.
%%ZCE* Scary Kids Scaring Kids has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN81CbkD5wg Watch Me Bleed]]".
%%ZCE* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAISpk4ods Three Shadows, Part I]]" from Bauhaus' third album, The Sky's Gone Out.
%%ZCE* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQbxTvyzq4 Gasoline]]" by Moist, for you Canadians.
%%ZCE* "In Vino Veritas II" by A Wilhelm Scream.
%%ZCE* "The Vulture Act I" by Gallows.
%%ZCE* "Speak My Name" by IQ.
%%ZCE* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXdMr0YQCQ Sabrina]]'' by Inkubus Sukkubus
%%ZCE* "The Last Man On Earth" by Schoolyard Heroes.
%%ZCE* "Metaphor" by In Flames is an example of them writing an actual gentle song rather than the folk passages they used on early albums to give the listener's a break. Gentle, understated, melancholic but [[LyricalDissonance very bitter and resentful lyrically.]]
%%** They also have "Come Clarity". "Take me somewhere/don't wanna live/in this dream one more day."
%%ZCE* Shadows Fall has "Another Hero Lost", which was written in memory of a dead relative of Brian Fair's that died in Iraq. There's also the acoustic instrumentals that the band always includes once per album.
%%ZCE* "Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)" by Atreyu.
%%ZCE* Music/{{Godsmack}} have "Serenity" off their ''Faceless'' album.
%%ZCE* "More Than Words" by Extreme, which ironically is their biggest radio hit, remains [[SignatureSong their most well-known song]], and is the [[OneHitWonder only song]] they're really remembered for.
%%** Their other top 40 hit, the relatively obscure "Hole Hearted" was another similar ballad.
%%ZCE * A number of BlackMetal bands do these, particularly as ambient interludes, intros, or outros. Burzum is a particularly influential example.
%%ZCE* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You on their debut album, about an unrequited crush.
%% ZCE* The Break Up's aptly titled "Tread Softly".
%%ZCE * Music/MotleyCrue's "Home Sweet Home".
%%ZCE * Iggy Pop's "Candy".
%%ZCE * Gridlink have Thirst Watcher from Longhena.
%%ZCE * Even Hellektro artists occasionally have these, such as "The Carnival is Over" by Leaetherstrip and "Song of No Tomorrow" by Suicide Commando.
%%ZCE * Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 on their second album, Iron, with female vocals provided by guest musician Kaisa Saari, who also provided the vocals for "Ferrum Aeternum", track 1 from the same album.
%%ZCE* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic since the song is based on Anime/KillLaKill.
%%* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} = snarky breakup songs, right? Well, not always. "Under The Tide" especially is absolutely heartrending.
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%%ZCE* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's first album had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqDZGuWl_A Cat and Mouse]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE Your Guardian Angel]]".
%%ZCE** Compare a [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes-flavored]] love ballad like ''Your Guardian Angel'' with their SignatureSong, the powerful rant against domestic abuse "Face Down". You wouldn't believe they were the same band.
%%ZCE* Scary Kids Scaring Kids has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN81CbkD5wg Watch Me Bleed]]".
%%ZCE* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAISpk4ods Three Shadows, Part I]]" from Bauhaus' third album, The Sky's Gone Out.
%%ZCE* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQbxTvyzq4 Gasoline]]" by Moist, for you Canadians.
%%ZCE* "In Vino Veritas II" by A Wilhelm Scream.
%%ZCE* "The Vulture Act I" by Gallows.
%%ZCE* "Speak My Name" by IQ.
%%ZCE* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXdMr0YQCQ Sabrina]]'' by Inkubus Sukkubus
%%ZCE* "The Last Man On Earth" by Schoolyard Heroes.
%%ZCE* "Metaphor" by In Flames is an example of them writing an actual gentle song rather than the folk passages they used on early albums to give the listener's a break. Gentle, understated, melancholic but [[LyricalDissonance very bitter and resentful lyrically.]]
%%** They also have "Come Clarity". "Take me somewhere/don't wanna live/in this dream one more day."
%%ZCE* Shadows Fall has "Another Hero Lost", which was written in memory of a dead relative of Brian Fair's that died in Iraq. There's also the acoustic instrumentals that the band always includes once per album.
%%ZCE* "Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)" by Atreyu.
%%ZCE* Music/{{Godsmack}} have "Serenity" off their ''Faceless'' album.
%%ZCE* "More Than Words" by Extreme, which ironically is their biggest radio hit, remains [[SignatureSong their most well-known song]], and is the [[OneHitWonder only song]] they're really remembered for.
%%** Their other top 40 hit, the relatively obscure "Hole Hearted" was another similar ballad.
%%ZCE * A number of BlackMetal bands do these, particularly as ambient interludes, intros, or outros. Burzum is a particularly influential example.
%%ZCE* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You on their debut album, about an unrequited crush.
%% ZCE* The Break Up's aptly titled "Tread Softly".
%%ZCE * Music/MotleyCrue's "Home Sweet Home".
%%ZCE * Iggy Pop's "Candy".
%%ZCE * Gridlink have Thirst Watcher from Longhena.
%%ZCE * Even Hellektro artists occasionally have these, such as "The Carnival is Over" by Leaetherstrip and "Song of No Tomorrow" by Suicide Commando.
%%ZCE * Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 on their second album, Iron, with female vocals provided by guest musician Kaisa Saari, who also provided the vocals for "Ferrum Aeternum", track 1 from the same album.
%%ZCE* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic since the song is based on Anime/KillLaKill.
%%* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} = snarky breakup songs, right? Well, not always. "Under The Tide" especially is absolutely heartrending.
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* Music/TheUsed have quite a few, and write damn good slow, sensitive songs when they're not writing agressive, fast punk rock songs. To name a few: "Smother Me", "All That I've Got", "Kissing You Goodbye", "Tunnel", "Yesterday Feelings" and "Blue And Yellow".
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have quite a few of these."If", "Tear," "Slow Cheetah," and "Dosed" are just a few of their newer examples.
** Early in their career they used this trope sparsely, with songs like "Grand Pappy Du Plenty," "Lovin' And Touchin'," and "Behind the Sun.". Now however, they pretty much do this style of song all the time.
** While most of 1991's ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a special case as it is one of their [[SignatureSong most famous songs.]]
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have quite a few of these."If", "Tear," "Slow Cheetah," and "Dosed" are just a few of their newer examples.
** Early in their career they used this trope sparsely, with songs like "Grand Pappy Du Plenty," "Lovin' And Touchin'," and "Behind the Sun.". Now however, they pretty much do this style of song all the time.
** While most of 1991's ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a special case as it is one of their [[SignatureSong most famous songs.]]
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
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* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have quite a few of these."If", "Tear," "Slow Cheetah," and "Dosed" are just a few of their newer examples.
** Early in their career they used this trope sparsely, with songs like "Grand Pappy Du Plenty," "Lovin' And Touchin'," and "Behind the Sun.". Now however, they pretty much do this style of song all the time.
** While most of 1991's ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a special case as it is one of their [[SignatureSong most famous songs.]]
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
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* A very minor example as the band incorporates a lot of folk passages in most of their songs, but Music/{{Cormorant}}'s album ''Metazoa'' ends on "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPv9fizGrg Voices of the Mountain]]"; a breath-taking guitar duet with a soft crackle of fire.
* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's first album had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqDZGuWl_A Cat and Mouse]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE Your Guardian Angel]]".
** Compare a [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes-flavored]] love ballad like ''Your Guardian Angel'' with their SignatureSong, the powerful rant against domestic abuse "Face Down". You wouldn't believe they were the same band.
* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGtN-dplYk Vermillion, Prt. 2]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVPUqN4q4o Circle]]". And more recently "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFJv5-JjdM Snuff]]".
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye24cqG8j3M Nothing Else Matters]]".
** Before this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQnzs8wl6E Fade to Black]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw&feature=related Welcome Home (Sanitarium)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ob=av3n One]], which are what's usually called "semi-ballads": songs that start as traditional ballads, but around the middle of the song they become a lot heavier.
** Following this was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlahvvymkxc The Day that Never Comes]] and don't "Low Man's Lyric".
* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, Wiki/ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
* Scary Kids Scaring Kids has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN81CbkD5wg Watch Me Bleed]]".
* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEwK_H2ixQ Promises]]" , which is a beautiful power ballad, complete with string arrangements and being based around a Romeo And Juliet theme. If someone else was singing it, you would never know Dave Mustaine had written this song.
** Don't forget about A Tout Le Monde, a song about loss and grief.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAISpk4ods Three Shadows, Part I]]" from Bauhaus' third album, The Sky's Gone Out.
* J-Rock band Chatmonchy is normally known for upbeat songs that are heavy on the drums and guitar like "Hana No Yume" - except for a slow piano-and-vocals piece called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI1sA4tjb0 Sunao]]."
* "The Garden of the Goddess" by Music/{{Galneryus}}
* "Ares's Lament/"So Lonely," "The Love Of My Life," and "Never Change Your Mind" by Music/{{Loudness}}
* "Wake Up Honey" and "Thanx Givin Day" by Music/{{Miyavi}}
* "Serenade", "Love will be born again" and "Episode" by Music/{{Versailles}}.
* Music/XJapan has plenty of these. The better known ones are: "Crucify my Love", "Tears" and "Forever Love".
* ''Music/TenaciousD'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvkRZookFM Fuck Her Gently]], which is a parody of this trope.
* ''Music/DogFashionDisco'' is an avant-garde metal band who frequently include a "gentle in sound but not subject" track on their albums. However, on their album Experiments in Alchemy, they played this straight with "En La Noche" a latin/jazz fusion love song about a newly married couple dancing in the moonlight. It's a big departure for a band whose other gentler songs are about burying someone they killed in the desert, knowing that someone who has wronged them is already destined to die, and Pogo the Clown.
* Music/VelvetUnderground pulled an entire album of this with ''The Velvet Underground''. Part of this was because a lot of the band's gear was stolen, but they also deliberately wanted to make a LighterAndSofter album after the DarkerAndEdgier ''White Light/White Heat'' so as to avoid painting themselves into a corner. The trend continued with ''Loaded'', which was their response to their record company asking them to make an album "loaded with hits".
** So did Music/NickCave with ''The Good Son'', and even gentler with ''The Boatman's Call'' and ''No More Shall We Part''.
** This was the premise behind Nick Cave's "Lyre of Orpheus," as opposed to its raucous companion piece, "Abattoir Blues."
* Similarly, Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, famous for ear-splitting feedback and concerts that ended in violence, did this with the albums ''Darklands'' and ''Stoned and Dethroned''.
* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's first album had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqDZGuWl_A Cat and Mouse]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE Your Guardian Angel]]".
** Compare a [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes-flavored]] love ballad like ''Your Guardian Angel'' with their SignatureSong, the powerful rant against domestic abuse "Face Down". You wouldn't believe they were the same band.
* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGtN-dplYk Vermillion, Prt. 2]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVPUqN4q4o Circle]]". And more recently "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFJv5-JjdM Snuff]]".
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye24cqG8j3M Nothing Else Matters]]".
** Before this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQnzs8wl6E Fade to Black]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw&feature=related Welcome Home (Sanitarium)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ob=av3n One]], which are what's usually called "semi-ballads": songs that start as traditional ballads, but around the middle of the song they become a lot heavier.
** Following this was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlahvvymkxc The Day that Never Comes]] and don't "Low Man's Lyric".
* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, Wiki/ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
* Scary Kids Scaring Kids has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN81CbkD5wg Watch Me Bleed]]".
* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEwK_H2ixQ Promises]]" , which is a beautiful power ballad, complete with string arrangements and being based around a Romeo And Juliet theme. If someone else was singing it, you would never know Dave Mustaine had written this song.
** Don't forget about A Tout Le Monde, a song about loss and grief.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAISpk4ods Three Shadows, Part I]]" from Bauhaus' third album, The Sky's Gone Out.
* J-Rock band Chatmonchy is normally known for upbeat songs that are heavy on the drums and guitar like "Hana No Yume" - except for a slow piano-and-vocals piece called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI1sA4tjb0 Sunao]]."
* "The Garden of the Goddess" by Music/{{Galneryus}}
* "Ares's Lament/"So Lonely," "The Love Of My Life," and "Never Change Your Mind" by Music/{{Loudness}}
* "Wake Up Honey" and "Thanx Givin Day" by Music/{{Miyavi}}
* "Serenade", "Love will be born again" and "Episode" by Music/{{Versailles}}.
* Music/XJapan has plenty of these. The better known ones are: "Crucify my Love", "Tears" and "Forever Love".
* ''Music/TenaciousD'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvkRZookFM Fuck Her Gently]], which is a parody of this trope.
* ''Music/DogFashionDisco'' is an avant-garde metal band who frequently include a "gentle in sound but not subject" track on their albums. However, on their album Experiments in Alchemy, they played this straight with "En La Noche" a latin/jazz fusion love song about a newly married couple dancing in the moonlight. It's a big departure for a band whose other gentler songs are about burying someone they killed in the desert, knowing that someone who has wronged them is already destined to die, and Pogo the Clown.
* Music/VelvetUnderground pulled an entire album of this with ''The Velvet Underground''. Part of this was because a lot of the band's gear was stolen, but they also deliberately wanted to make a LighterAndSofter album after the DarkerAndEdgier ''White Light/White Heat'' so as to avoid painting themselves into a corner. The trend continued with ''Loaded'', which was their response to their record company asking them to make an album "loaded with hits".
** So did Music/NickCave with ''The Good Son'', and even gentler with ''The Boatman's Call'' and ''No More Shall We Part''.
** This was the premise behind Nick Cave's "Lyre of Orpheus," as opposed to its raucous companion piece, "Abattoir Blues."
* Similarly, Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, famous for ear-splitting feedback and concerts that ended in violence, did this with the albums ''Darklands'' and ''Stoned and Dethroned''.
* The Music/FooFighters have many. From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
* Music/LinkinPark tends to have one or two of these per album, ranging from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgAAqCqiBI "My December"]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYiIBCN9ec "Iridescent"]].
* Music/LinkinPark tends to have one or two of these per album, ranging from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgAAqCqiBI "My December"]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYiIBCN9ec "Iridescent"]].
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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQbxTvyzq4 Gasoline]]" by Moist, for you Canadians.
* Music/{{Rammstein}} often has one toward the end of an album: e.g. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHldRJfTxY Roter Sand]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZlCL9pyDg Nebel]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSL62BUyY0U Ohne Dich]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKSfQKbPXE Ein Lied]]."
* "Heal" by Buzzov-en from ''At a Loss''. They're a Sludge Metal group. This is probably the only non-angry song in their entire discography. (If the WikiMagic could cough up a link, that'd be great.)
* Music/LinkinPark tends to have one or two of these per album, ranging from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgAAqCqiBI "My December"]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYiIBCN9ec "Iridescent"]].
* Music/{{DragonForce}} has [[OncePerEpisode one slow song per album]] in between all the blazingly fast PowerMetal: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApV7JJfXk Starfire]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVavyOChAY Dawn Over a New World]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk77wRGnwZM Trail of Broken Hearts]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyqdvCcnWk A Flame for Freedom]]", and an acoustic version of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8vuMD3a9c Seasons]]".
* The {{Grindcore}} band Music/AnalCunt had an entire ''album'' of surprisingly gentle songs called ''Picnic of Love''.
* "In Vino Veritas II" by A Wilhelm Scream.
* "The Vulture Act I" by Gallows.
* "Speak My Name" by IQ.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXdMr0YQCQ Sabrina]]'' by Inkubus Sukkubus
* Music/{{Pantera}}'s cover of "Planet Caravan" by Music/BlackSabbath - enough so that the ''Far Beyond Driven'' liner notes include a short message from Phil Anselmo explaining to fans (who might not be familiar with the original) that they're just covering a song they like, not attempting to have a pop hit.
** The Music/BlackSabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid".
** Pantera themselves are not immune to writing gentler songs, "Cemetery Gates" is Pantera's attempt at a Power Ballad and Suicide Note Pt. I is extremely subdued and depressing.
*** Speaking of the latter, [[MoodWhiplash then there comes]] [[LastNoteNightmare "Suicide Note Pt. II"]], '''EASILY''' Pantera's hardest song.
* A well-known example is Music/RiseAgainst having the all-acoustic "Swing Life Away," and "Hero of War".
** Not to mention 'Roadside'
* "The Last Man On Earth" by Schoolyard Heroes.
* "Metaphor" by In Flames is an example of them writing an actual gentle song rather than the folk passages they used on early albums to give the listener's a break. Gentle, understated, melancholic but [[LyricalDissonance very bitter and resentful lyrically.]]
** They also have "Come Clarity". "Take me somewhere/don't wanna live/in this dream one more day."
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tORtmKIjE "The Bard's Song"]] by Music/BlindGuardian qualifies with its medieval folk sound contrasted against the blazing, speedy, PowerMetal sound they normally have.
** They tend to have one per album; there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOZMpuGBjI "A Past And Future Secret,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar,"]] (except for the MetalScream) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PJnBflzmI "Harvest of Sorrow,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_S1Q40HZo "Skalds and Shadows"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAjzJ-62ag "War of the Thrones"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWQKTbneLw "Miracle Machine"]].
* Bad Brains have some, mostly due to their reggae influences coming to the forefront: Their self-titled album, for instance, consists of HardcorePunk interspersed with a few down-tempo reggae songs ("Jah Calling", "Leaving Babylon", and "I Love I Jah" specifically).
* Shadows Fall has "Another Hero Lost", which was written in memory of a dead relative of Brian Fair's that died in Iraq. There's also the acoustic instrumentals that the band always includes once per album.
* Music/{{Flyleaf}}, while not a loud band at all, has had a few songs that are dramatically more calmer and quiet then their usual songs. Mostly in their first studio album.
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
* Early on, gentle Music/FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". They even had a hit with a cover of Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores' "Easy".
* "Come Away Melinda" on Music/UriahHeep's first album. Especially since the rest of the album is Very 'Eavy (and very 'umble). It's also this song that made them become Uriah Heep (having gone into the studio as a band called 'Spice' and using a session keyboardist on the track made them realise they needed a permanent keyboadist, which led to them changing their name to Uriah Heep)
* Music/{{Glassjaw}}, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
** And now, their latest work, "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiwmbHMSgk Daytona White]]''" and "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGMKYwBsac&feature=related Stations of the New Cross]]''" also count. In fact, most of their ''Coloring Book'' album (from which these two songs come from) is this compared to some of their previous work.
* "Louder Than Thunder" by Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, sung entirely by guitarist/clean vocalist Jeremy Depoyster.
* The last two tracks off of the album ''Abducted'' by DeathMetal band Music/{{Hypocrisy}} are mellow [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd-esque]] ProgressiveRock tracks. This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and their discography.
* [[Music/DreamTheater Dream Theater's]] "Vacant" is the Surprisingly Gentle Song off of ''Train of Thought,'' which is an 8+ on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness , since it's slow and melancholy, and just piano, cello, and vocals.
* Music/{{Kyuss}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PqRgmL4Xg Space Cadet]]" on the ''Welcome to Sky Valley'' album, where it comes between the much heavier "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnfyMGBi6w 100]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLdOlzIRCdk Demon Cleaner]]", though Demon Cleaner's still a tad lighter than the rest of the album.
* Music/{{Showbread}} has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity.
* Music/{{Annihilator}}'s very first track [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYS3VYHGW9Y "Crystal Ann"]] is a classical instrumental.
* Music/{{Epica}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqAyelPcaHI Delirium]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb17Yc1a8lE Solitary Ground]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkJkcvaA1A Tides of Time]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbTu92k-EU Trois Verges]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtBUXnoFoo White Waters]]".
* "Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)" by Atreyu.
* "As Tears Go By," "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow" and "Angie" by Music/TheRollingStones.
* Music/{{Death}} have the moving instrumental named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4q0Xx-u1Y "Voice Of The Soul"]] which contains no drums whatsoever.
* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''Film/TheProposition''.
* Music/JudasPriest: "Angel," "Lost and Found," "Before the Dawn," "Epitaph", "Last Rose of Summer", "Lost Love", "New Beginnings", "Never Forget".
* Music/BadReligion: "Million Days" off of the CanonDisContinuity album Into the Unknown.
** "Slumber" from ''Stranger Than Fiction'' may also qualify - it resembles an alternative rock song of the loud-soft-loud variety more than it does a PowerBallad, but the verses are surprisingly soft.
* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song [[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
* Music/{{Danzig}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kehhT_qQU Sistinas]]. While it's technically credited to Glenn Danzig & The Power Fury Orchestra, there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EieqgGA-8 "You And Me"]], from the soundtrack to ''Less Than Zero''. Both are Roy Orbison-influenced ballads that show off Glenn Danzig's crooning vocal style, rather than the dark metal he's commonly associated with.
* "''Darkness''" by Music/{{Disturbed}}, a soft, acoustic dirge with a cellist section of all things. This from the band who an album earlier provided the world with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JBlUm2KMY#t=3m27s No, Mommy! Don't do it again!]]".
** Even though it's much heavier, "Overburdened" would count as well.
** Their cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for.
* Death metal band Music/MorbidAngel featured the haunting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPKBAnkEaE "Desolate Ways"]] on their ''Blessed Are The Sick'' album.
* A few of Music/ThePaperChase's songs depart from their usual highly confrontational noise-rock/post-hardcore approach in favor of more melodic, introspective songs, though titles such as "Out Come the Knives" and "At the Other End of the Leash" show that the mood isn't necessarily any different.
* "Lost in You" by Music/ThreeDaysGrace, which was a major hit for the group, is a little different from their normal sound to say the least. While the recent album was quite a bit softer than previous ones, this one still stands out.
* The point of the ''Colma'' album by Music/{{Buckethead}} was to give his mother something calming to listen to while recovering from illness. Thus, it is a ''dramatically'' different sound from his usual stuff.
* {{Metalcore}} band Demon Hunter seems to pile on more and more of these with every album, but they'd be hard pressed to top their first notable one, the EPIC TearJerker "My Heartstrings Come Undone".
* Music/{{Underoath}} are usually placed around Level 7-8 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness. But of course, being a Christian band, have a good number of these spread across their discography. Most notably, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOwB_gaJ1A "Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63EetspU6Is&ob=av3n "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"]]. These were sung almost entirely by former drummer and [[SopranoAndGravel clean vocalist]] [[FieryRedhead Aaron Gillespie]], with occasional peppering in by [[MetalScream screamer]] Spencer Chamberlain.
* Gentleness is hardly a surprise coming from ChristianRock band Disciple nowadays thanks to LighterAndSofter, but "After The World" and "No End At All", both tender GodIsLoveSongs, stuck out like a sore thumb on their mostly heavy album ''Scars Remain''.
* "Flower Sun Rain" by Japanese DoomMetal band Boris is very relaxing until the very end, when it builds into a scorching guitar solo accompanied by heavy drum fills.
* Portrayed in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece.
* Music/{{Rammstein}} often has one toward the end of an album: e.g. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHldRJfTxY Roter Sand]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZlCL9pyDg Nebel]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSL62BUyY0U Ohne Dich]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKSfQKbPXE Ein Lied]]."
* "Heal" by Buzzov-en from ''At a Loss''. They're a Sludge Metal group. This is probably the only non-angry song in their entire discography. (If the WikiMagic could cough up a link, that'd be great.)
* Music/LinkinPark tends to have one or two of these per album, ranging from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgAAqCqiBI "My December"]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYiIBCN9ec "Iridescent"]].
* Music/{{DragonForce}} has [[OncePerEpisode one slow song per album]] in between all the blazingly fast PowerMetal: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApV7JJfXk Starfire]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVavyOChAY Dawn Over a New World]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk77wRGnwZM Trail of Broken Hearts]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyqdvCcnWk A Flame for Freedom]]", and an acoustic version of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8vuMD3a9c Seasons]]".
* The {{Grindcore}} band Music/AnalCunt had an entire ''album'' of surprisingly gentle songs called ''Picnic of Love''.
* "In Vino Veritas II" by A Wilhelm Scream.
* "The Vulture Act I" by Gallows.
* "Speak My Name" by IQ.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXdMr0YQCQ Sabrina]]'' by Inkubus Sukkubus
* Music/{{Pantera}}'s cover of "Planet Caravan" by Music/BlackSabbath - enough so that the ''Far Beyond Driven'' liner notes include a short message from Phil Anselmo explaining to fans (who might not be familiar with the original) that they're just covering a song they like, not attempting to have a pop hit.
** The Music/BlackSabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid".
** Pantera themselves are not immune to writing gentler songs, "Cemetery Gates" is Pantera's attempt at a Power Ballad and Suicide Note Pt. I is extremely subdued and depressing.
*** Speaking of the latter, [[MoodWhiplash then there comes]] [[LastNoteNightmare "Suicide Note Pt. II"]], '''EASILY''' Pantera's hardest song.
* A well-known example is Music/RiseAgainst having the all-acoustic "Swing Life Away," and "Hero of War".
** Not to mention 'Roadside'
* "The Last Man On Earth" by Schoolyard Heroes.
* "Metaphor" by In Flames is an example of them writing an actual gentle song rather than the folk passages they used on early albums to give the listener's a break. Gentle, understated, melancholic but [[LyricalDissonance very bitter and resentful lyrically.]]
** They also have "Come Clarity". "Take me somewhere/don't wanna live/in this dream one more day."
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tORtmKIjE "The Bard's Song"]] by Music/BlindGuardian qualifies with its medieval folk sound contrasted against the blazing, speedy, PowerMetal sound they normally have.
** They tend to have one per album; there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOZMpuGBjI "A Past And Future Secret,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar,"]] (except for the MetalScream) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PJnBflzmI "Harvest of Sorrow,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_S1Q40HZo "Skalds and Shadows"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAjzJ-62ag "War of the Thrones"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWQKTbneLw "Miracle Machine"]].
* Bad Brains have some, mostly due to their reggae influences coming to the forefront: Their self-titled album, for instance, consists of HardcorePunk interspersed with a few down-tempo reggae songs ("Jah Calling", "Leaving Babylon", and "I Love I Jah" specifically).
* Shadows Fall has "Another Hero Lost", which was written in memory of a dead relative of Brian Fair's that died in Iraq. There's also the acoustic instrumentals that the band always includes once per album.
* Music/{{Flyleaf}}, while not a loud band at all, has had a few songs that are dramatically more calmer and quiet then their usual songs. Mostly in their first studio album.
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
* Early on, gentle Music/FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". They even had a hit with a cover of Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores' "Easy".
* "Come Away Melinda" on Music/UriahHeep's first album. Especially since the rest of the album is Very 'Eavy (and very 'umble). It's also this song that made them become Uriah Heep (having gone into the studio as a band called 'Spice' and using a session keyboardist on the track made them realise they needed a permanent keyboadist, which led to them changing their name to Uriah Heep)
* Music/{{Glassjaw}}, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
** And now, their latest work, "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiwmbHMSgk Daytona White]]''" and "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGMKYwBsac&feature=related Stations of the New Cross]]''" also count. In fact, most of their ''Coloring Book'' album (from which these two songs come from) is this compared to some of their previous work.
* "Louder Than Thunder" by Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, sung entirely by guitarist/clean vocalist Jeremy Depoyster.
* The last two tracks off of the album ''Abducted'' by DeathMetal band Music/{{Hypocrisy}} are mellow [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd-esque]] ProgressiveRock tracks. This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and their discography.
* [[Music/DreamTheater Dream Theater's]] "Vacant" is the Surprisingly Gentle Song off of ''Train of Thought,'' which is an 8+ on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness , since it's slow and melancholy, and just piano, cello, and vocals.
* Music/{{Kyuss}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PqRgmL4Xg Space Cadet]]" on the ''Welcome to Sky Valley'' album, where it comes between the much heavier "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnfyMGBi6w 100]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLdOlzIRCdk Demon Cleaner]]", though Demon Cleaner's still a tad lighter than the rest of the album.
* Music/{{Showbread}} has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity.
* Music/{{Annihilator}}'s very first track [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYS3VYHGW9Y "Crystal Ann"]] is a classical instrumental.
* Music/{{Epica}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqAyelPcaHI Delirium]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb17Yc1a8lE Solitary Ground]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkJkcvaA1A Tides of Time]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbTu92k-EU Trois Verges]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtBUXnoFoo White Waters]]".
* "Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)" by Atreyu.
* "As Tears Go By," "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow" and "Angie" by Music/TheRollingStones.
* Music/{{Death}} have the moving instrumental named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4q0Xx-u1Y "Voice Of The Soul"]] which contains no drums whatsoever.
* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''Film/TheProposition''.
* Music/JudasPriest: "Angel," "Lost and Found," "Before the Dawn," "Epitaph", "Last Rose of Summer", "Lost Love", "New Beginnings", "Never Forget".
* Music/BadReligion: "Million Days" off of the CanonDisContinuity album Into the Unknown.
** "Slumber" from ''Stranger Than Fiction'' may also qualify - it resembles an alternative rock song of the loud-soft-loud variety more than it does a PowerBallad, but the verses are surprisingly soft.
* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song [[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
* Music/{{Danzig}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kehhT_qQU Sistinas]]. While it's technically credited to Glenn Danzig & The Power Fury Orchestra, there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EieqgGA-8 "You And Me"]], from the soundtrack to ''Less Than Zero''. Both are Roy Orbison-influenced ballads that show off Glenn Danzig's crooning vocal style, rather than the dark metal he's commonly associated with.
* "''Darkness''" by Music/{{Disturbed}}, a soft, acoustic dirge with a cellist section of all things. This from the band who an album earlier provided the world with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JBlUm2KMY#t=3m27s No, Mommy! Don't do it again!]]".
** Even though it's much heavier, "Overburdened" would count as well.
** Their cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for.
* Death metal band Music/MorbidAngel featured the haunting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPKBAnkEaE "Desolate Ways"]] on their ''Blessed Are The Sick'' album.
* A few of Music/ThePaperChase's songs depart from their usual highly confrontational noise-rock/post-hardcore approach in favor of more melodic, introspective songs, though titles such as "Out Come the Knives" and "At the Other End of the Leash" show that the mood isn't necessarily any different.
* "Lost in You" by Music/ThreeDaysGrace, which was a major hit for the group, is a little different from their normal sound to say the least. While the recent album was quite a bit softer than previous ones, this one still stands out.
* The point of the ''Colma'' album by Music/{{Buckethead}} was to give his mother something calming to listen to while recovering from illness. Thus, it is a ''dramatically'' different sound from his usual stuff.
* {{Metalcore}} band Demon Hunter seems to pile on more and more of these with every album, but they'd be hard pressed to top their first notable one, the EPIC TearJerker "My Heartstrings Come Undone".
* Music/{{Underoath}} are usually placed around Level 7-8 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness. But of course, being a Christian band, have a good number of these spread across their discography. Most notably, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOwB_gaJ1A "Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63EetspU6Is&ob=av3n "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"]]. These were sung almost entirely by former drummer and [[SopranoAndGravel clean vocalist]] [[FieryRedhead Aaron Gillespie]], with occasional peppering in by [[MetalScream screamer]] Spencer Chamberlain.
* Gentleness is hardly a surprise coming from ChristianRock band Disciple nowadays thanks to LighterAndSofter, but "After The World" and "No End At All", both tender GodIsLoveSongs, stuck out like a sore thumb on their mostly heavy album ''Scars Remain''.
* "Flower Sun Rain" by Japanese DoomMetal band Boris is very relaxing until the very end, when it builds into a scorching guitar solo accompanied by heavy drum fills.
* Portrayed in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece.
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* Music/TheHives are mostly known for high speed garage rock, but their album ''Veni Vedi Vicious'' throws in "Find Another Girl", a pretty faithful cover of a 60's R&B ballad by Jerry Butler. It sticks out quite a bit in the middle of the album.
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* Music/TheHives "Misguided Ghosts" by Music/{{Paramore}} is a soft, slow acoustic number, which makes it a stark contrast to the rest of ''Brand New Eyes'', which consists of loud, aggressive songs (and more than a few {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es).
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have quite a few of these."If", "Tear," "Slow Cheetah," and "Dosed" aremostly known for high speed garage rock, but just a few of their album ''Veni Vedi Vicious'' throws newer examples.
** Early in"Find Another Girl", a their career they used this trope sparsely, with songs like "Grand Pappy Du Plenty," "Lovin' And Touchin'," and "Behind the Sun.". Now however, they pretty faithful cover much do this style of song all the time.
** While most of 1991's ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a60's R&B ballad special case as it is one of their [[SignatureSong most famous songs.]]
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
* Music/SmashingPumpkins's "Stumbeline" off of ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is a wistful, acoustic song sandwiched between two much louder and guitar-heavy songs, "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" and "XYU", which is the hardest song on the album.
* "Lost in You" byJerry Butler. It sticks out Music/ThreeDaysGrace, which was a major hit for the group, is a little different from their normal sound to say the least. While the recent album was quite a bit in the middle of the album.softer than previous ones, this one still stands out.
* Music/TheUsed have quite a few, and write damn good slow, sensitive songs when they're not writing agressive, fast punk rock songs. To name a few: "Smother Me", "All That I've Got", "Kissing You Goodbye", "Tunnel", "Yesterday Feelings" and "Blue And Yellow".
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* Gentleness is hardly a surprise coming from ChristianRock band Disciple nowadays thanks to LighterAndSofter, but "After The World" and "No End At All", both tender GodIsLoveSongs, stuck out like a sore thumb on their mostly heavy album ''Scars Remain''.
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have quite a few of these."If", "Tear," "Slow Cheetah," and "Dosed" are
** Early in
** While most of 1991's ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
* Music/SmashingPumpkins's "Stumbeline" off of ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is a wistful, acoustic song sandwiched between two much louder and guitar-heavy songs, "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" and "XYU", which is the hardest song on the album.
* "Lost in You" by
* Music/TheUsed have quite a few, and write damn good slow, sensitive songs when they're not writing agressive, fast punk rock songs. To name a few: "Smother Me", "All That I've Got", "Kissing You Goodbye", "Tunnel", "Yesterday Feelings" and "Blue And Yellow".
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* Gentleness is hardly a surprise coming from ChristianRock band Disciple nowadays thanks to LighterAndSofter, but "After The World" and "No End At All", both tender GodIsLoveSongs, stuck out like a sore thumb on their mostly heavy album ''Scars Remain''.
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* Music/ModestMouse, whose songs typically consist of shrieking existential crises [[WordSaladLyrics in the form of really elaborate metaphors]], also produced "Little Motel," a sober reflection after the loneliness "earned" after destroying a relationship.
** Much of ''The Moon and Antarctica'' is surprisingly gentle, to the point where ending it with "What People Are Made Of", and, more specifically, a scream, comes as a surprise.
* "Acrid Placidity" by Music/{{Meshuggah}} of the album Future Breed Machine. However, the song is still extremely off-putting.
* Music/SystemOfADown's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg "Lonely Day"]] is considerably softer than their usual style.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ri5mmIb-EI "Roulette"]] is even softer. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YluAMCRT8 Soldier Side]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc Hypnotize]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJhAOsTsLXI Lost in Hollywood]]" also qualify.
* Black Label Society has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3HJSPRCL8&feature=related Spoke in the Wheel]], a very mellow and depressive song that contrasts with other songs sung and composed by bearded, foul-mouthed, pinch-harmonic-crazed Zakk Wylde.
** The Black Label Society album ''Hangover Music Vol. VI''' is made up mostly of softer songs that utilize acoustic guitar and piano, meaning that the album really ''is'' good music to listen to while hungover.
** "In This River", from their ''Mafia'' album, was a quiet ballad Wylde dedicated in memory of [[{{Music/Pantera}} Darrell Abbott]] (he'd actually written it months before Abbott's death.
* Akercocke has a few parts with clean vocals in their otherwise extremely heavy blackened death metal, but the last song off the album Antichrist - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJAm3RSmZw Epode]] - is fully mellow, beautiful (and is about [[LyricalDissonance Satan himself]].)
** Each of Akercocke's last three albums ended with a song that fell under both this trope and LyricalDissonance. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21jQSxyXlx8 Goddess Flesh]]" closes out ''Choronzon'' with a rare example of an IntercourseWithYou ballad, while "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptsl4Pb4eM Lex talionis]]" (Latin for ''the law of talion'', most frequently expressed as "An eye for an eye", which provides a fair indication of the lyrical content) closes out their ''Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone''.
* "Spit on a Stranger" by indie rockers Music/{{Pavement}} is a ballad (albeit a rather bizarre one) from a band who usually did uptempo songs with WordSaladLyrics.
* Music/{{Godsmack}} have "Serenity" off their ''Faceless'' album.
* "More Than Words" by Extreme, which ironically is their biggest radio hit, remains [[SignatureSong their most well-known song]], and is the [[OneHitWonder only song]] they're really remembered for.
** Their other top 40 hit, the relatively obscure "Hole Hearted" was another similar ballad.
* Music/NineInchNails did this every now and then, considering that the usual sound of the band is industrial metal. Examples include "A Warm Place", "Lights in the Sky" and "Every Day Is Exactly the Same."
** Much of ''The Moon and Antarctica'' is surprisingly gentle, to the point where ending it with "What People Are Made Of", and, more specifically, a scream, comes as a surprise.
* "Acrid Placidity" by Music/{{Meshuggah}} of the album Future Breed Machine. However, the song is still extremely off-putting.
* Music/SystemOfADown's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg "Lonely Day"]] is considerably softer than their usual style.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ri5mmIb-EI "Roulette"]] is even softer. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YluAMCRT8 Soldier Side]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc Hypnotize]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJhAOsTsLXI Lost in Hollywood]]" also qualify.
* Black Label Society has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3HJSPRCL8&feature=related Spoke in the Wheel]], a very mellow and depressive song that contrasts with other songs sung and composed by bearded, foul-mouthed, pinch-harmonic-crazed Zakk Wylde.
** The Black Label Society album ''Hangover Music Vol. VI''' is made up mostly of softer songs that utilize acoustic guitar and piano, meaning that the album really ''is'' good music to listen to while hungover.
** "In This River", from their ''Mafia'' album, was a quiet ballad Wylde dedicated in memory of [[{{Music/Pantera}} Darrell Abbott]] (he'd actually written it months before Abbott's death.
* Akercocke has a few parts with clean vocals in their otherwise extremely heavy blackened death metal, but the last song off the album Antichrist - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJAm3RSmZw Epode]] - is fully mellow, beautiful (and is about [[LyricalDissonance Satan himself]].)
** Each of Akercocke's last three albums ended with a song that fell under both this trope and LyricalDissonance. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21jQSxyXlx8 Goddess Flesh]]" closes out ''Choronzon'' with a rare example of an IntercourseWithYou ballad, while "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptsl4Pb4eM Lex talionis]]" (Latin for ''the law of talion'', most frequently expressed as "An eye for an eye", which provides a fair indication of the lyrical content) closes out their ''Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone''.
* "Spit on a Stranger" by indie rockers Music/{{Pavement}} is a ballad (albeit a rather bizarre one) from a band who usually did uptempo songs with WordSaladLyrics.
* Music/{{Godsmack}} have "Serenity" off their ''Faceless'' album.
* "More Than Words" by Extreme, which ironically is their biggest radio hit, remains [[SignatureSong their most well-known song]], and is the [[OneHitWonder only song]] they're really remembered for.
** Their other top 40 hit, the relatively obscure "Hole Hearted" was another similar ballad.
* Music/NineInchNails did this every now and then, considering that the usual sound of the band is industrial metal. Examples include "A Warm Place", "Lights in the Sky" and "Every Day Is Exactly the Same."
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* Music/{{Motorhead}}, a band commonly known for being one of the rowdiest, loudest, crudest bands, released a song titled "1916", a slow, mournful song about a young man being killed in battle in World War 1.
** They actually have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side".
* A number of BlackMetal bands do these, particularly as ambient interludes, intros, or outros. Burzum is a particularly influential example.
* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
* Music/EmilieAutumn: The Art Of Suicide and Shalott are this on Opheliac.
** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You on their debut album, about an unrequited crush.
* The Music/FooFighters have many. From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
* [[MemeticMutation There's also]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs&ob=av3e Miracles]], which differs rather significantly from their [[AxCrazy normal fare.]]
* While ''Music/{{Lyriel}}'' is a SymphonicMetal band that tends towards the softer side of the genre, their album Paranoid Circus contains the track [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Lullaby" which is exactly what the tittle suggests]]. This track is preceded and followed by tracks that feature aggressive drumming.
* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ and again]]). On Melancholy Hill is fairly mellow and has very sweet lyrics, so it could fit, but is perhaps too upbeat for this.
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
* Though [[Music/HuskerDu Hüsker Dü]] gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example", "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", and "No Promise Have I Made".
* Music/AvengedSevenfold has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about them without mentioning [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country ballad. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk album where all the other songs are screamed.
* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band.
** They actually have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side".
* A number of BlackMetal bands do these, particularly as ambient interludes, intros, or outros. Burzum is a particularly influential example.
* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
* Music/EmilieAutumn: The Art Of Suicide and Shalott are this on Opheliac.
** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You on their debut album, about an unrequited crush.
* The Music/FooFighters have many. From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
* [[MemeticMutation There's also]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs&ob=av3e Miracles]], which differs rather significantly from their [[AxCrazy normal fare.]]
* While ''Music/{{Lyriel}}'' is a SymphonicMetal band that tends towards the softer side of the genre, their album Paranoid Circus contains the track [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Lullaby" which is exactly what the tittle suggests]]. This track is preceded and followed by tracks that feature aggressive drumming.
* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ and again]]). On Melancholy Hill is fairly mellow and has very sweet lyrics, so it could fit, but is perhaps too upbeat for this.
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
* Though [[Music/HuskerDu Hüsker Dü]] gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example", "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", and "No Promise Have I Made".
* Music/AvengedSevenfold has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about them without mentioning [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country ballad. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk album where all the other songs are screamed.
* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band.
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* Music/{{Motorhead}}, a band commonly known for Music/{{Underoath}} are usually placed around Level 7-8 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness. But of course, being one of the rowdiest, loudest, crudest bands, released a song titled "1916", a slow, mournful song about a young man being killed in battle in World War 1.
** They actuallyChristian band, have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side".
* Agood number of BlackMetal bands do these, particularly as ambient interludes, intros, or outros. Burzum is a particularly influential example.
* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
* Music/EmilieAutumn: The Art Of Suicide and Shalott are this on Opheliac.
** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You onthese spread across their debut album, about an unrequited crush.
* The Music/FooFighters have many. From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
* [[MemeticMutation There's also]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 'sdiscography. Most notably, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs&ob=av3e Miracles]], which differs rather significantly from their [[AxCrazy normal fare.]]
* While ''Music/{{Lyriel}}'' is a SymphonicMetal band that tends towards the softer side of the genre, their album Paranoid Circus contains the track [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Lullaby" which is exactly what the tittle suggests]]. This track is precededcom/watch?v=aZOwB_gaJ1A "Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape"]] and followed by tracks that feature aggressive drumming.
* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[http://www.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ and again]]). On Melancholy Hill is fairly mellow and has very sweet lyrics, so it could fit, but is perhaps too upbeat for this.
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
* Though [[Music/HuskerDu Hüsker Dü]] gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example",com/watch?v=63EetspU6Is&ob=av3n "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"]]. These were sung almost entirely by former drummer and "No Promise Have I Made".
[[SopranoAndGravel clean vocalist]] [[FieryRedhead Aaron Gillespie]], with occasional peppering in by [[MetalScream screamer]] Spencer Chamberlain.
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*Music/AvengedSevenfold The techno/electronica musician Cursor Miner has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about them without mentioning [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country ballad. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love pop ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk titled "For Each Other".
* mind.in.a.box's chiptune albumwhere all ''R.E.T.R.O.'' ends with the other songs are screamed.
* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is apower ballad with a seemingly Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band."Whatever Mattered".
** They actually
* A
* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
* Music/EmilieAutumn: The Art Of Suicide and Shalott are this on Opheliac.
** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You on
* The Music/FooFighters have many. From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
* [[MemeticMutation There's also]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 's
* While ''Music/{{Lyriel}}'' is a SymphonicMetal band that tends towards the softer side of the genre, their album Paranoid Circus contains the track [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Lullaby" which is exactly what the tittle suggests]]. This track is preceded
* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[http://www.
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
* Though [[Music/HuskerDu Hüsker Dü]] gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example",
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*
* mind.in.a.box's chiptune album
* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a
* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band.
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* Music/TheHives are mostly known for high speed garage rock, but their album ''Veni Vedi Vicious'' throws in "Find Another Girl", a pretty faithful cover of a 60's R&B ballad by Jerry Butler. It sticks out quite a bit in the middle of the album.
* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
* Music/ModestMouse, whose songs typically consist of shrieking existential crises [[WordSaladLyrics in the form of really elaborate metaphors]], also produced "Little Motel," a sober reflection after the loneliness "earned" after destroying a relationship.
** Much of ''The Moon and Antarctica'' is surprisingly gentle, to the point where ending it with "What People Are Made Of", and, more specifically, a scream, comes as a surprise.
* "Spit on a Stranger" by indie rockers Music/{{Pavement}} is a ballad (albeit a rather bizarre one) from a band who usually did uptempo songs with WordSaladLyrics.
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* Music/TheHives are mostly known for high speed garage rock, but their album ''Veni Vedi Vicious'' throws in "Find Another Girl", a pretty faithful cover of a 60's R&B ballad by Jerry Butler. It sticks out quite a bit in the middle of the album.
* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
* Music/ModestMouse, whose songs typically consist of shrieking existential crises [[WordSaladLyrics in the form of really elaborate metaphors]], also produced "Little Motel," a sober reflection after the loneliness "earned" after destroying a relationship.
** Much of ''The Moon and Antarctica'' is surprisingly gentle, to the point where ending it with "What People Are Made Of", and, more specifically, a scream, comes as a surprise.
* "Spit on a Stranger" by indie rockers Music/{{Pavement}} is a ballad (albeit a rather bizarre one) from a band who usually did uptempo songs with WordSaladLyrics.
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* mind.in.a.box's chiptune album ''R.E.T.R.O.'' ends with the power ballad "Whatever Mattered".
* The Break Up's aptly titled "Tread Softly".
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
* Between their second and third albums, Music/AliceInChains released ''Sap'' and ''Jar Of Flies'', two [=EPs=] which proved them capable of surprising versatility and restraint. They played mostly acoustic and clean electric guitars and made use of strings as well.
* The Break Up's aptly titled "Tread Softly".
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
* Between their second and third albums, Music/AliceInChains released ''Sap'' and ''Jar Of Flies'', two [=EPs=] which proved them capable of surprising versatility and restraint. They played mostly acoustic and clean electric guitars and made use of strings as well.
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* mind.in.a.box's chiptune album ''R.E.T.R.O.'' ends with the power ballad "Whatever Mattered".
*Music/EmilieAutumn: The Break Up's aptly titled "Tread Softly".
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then thereArt Of Suicide and Shalott are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
* Between their second and third albums, Music/AliceInChains released ''Sap'' and ''Jar Of Flies'', two [=EPs=] which proved them capable of surprising versatility and restraint. They played mostly acoustic and clean electric guitars and made use of strings as well.this on Opheliac.
** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
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* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there
* Between their second and third albums, Music/AliceInChains released ''Sap'' and ''Jar Of Flies'', two [=EPs=] which proved them capable of surprising versatility and restraint. They played mostly acoustic and clean electric guitars and made use of strings as well.
** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
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* Music/MotleyCrue's "Home Sweet Home".
* Iggy Pop's "Candy".
* Music/DirEnGrey's "Jealous -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "Jealous", featuring nothing but Kyo and piano. Also, "Ain't Afraid to Die" is Kyo and piano only until the guitar solos kick in, halfway through the song. Even then, it's still very gentle.
* Iggy Pop's "Candy".
* Music/DirEnGrey's "Jealous -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "Jealous", featuring nothing but Kyo and piano. Also, "Ain't Afraid to Die" is Kyo and piano only until the guitar solos kick in, halfway through the song. Even then, it's still very gentle.
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* Music/MotleyCrue's "Home Sweet Home".
* Iggy Pop's "Candy".
* Music/DirEnGrey's "Jealous -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "Jealous", featuring nothing but KyoMusic/NickCave with ''The Good Son'', and piano. Also, "Ain't Afraid to Die" is Kyo even gentler with ''The Boatman's Call'' and piano only until ''No More Shall We Part''.
** This was theguitar solos kick in, halfway through the song. Even premise behind Nick Cave's "Lyre of Orpheus," as opposed to its raucous companion piece, "Abattoir Blues."
* Music/NineInchNails did this every now and then,it's still very gentle.considering that the usual sound of the band is industrial metal. Examples include "A Warm Place", "Lights in the Sky" and "Every Day Is Exactly the Same."
* Iggy Pop's "Candy".
* Music/DirEnGrey's "Jealous -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "Jealous", featuring nothing but Kyo
** This was the
* Music/NineInchNails did this every now and then,
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* The techno/electronica musician Cursor Miner has a pop ballad titled "For Each Other".
* The Birthday Party's "Jennifer's Veil", from their final EP, is musically quieter and folkier than anything they'd ever done before, and a pointer towards the more tasteful moments of Music/NickCave's solo career. (However, it's purely a musical example: the lyrics appear to be about a guy coming back from a war to discover that his girlfriend or sister has been hideously disfigured and probably raped by enemy soldiers.)
* Music/{{Converge}} has "Phoenix In Flight", off the album ''Jane Doe'', which is ''very, very soft'' for being a song by them. But right after that, there comes [[LastNoteNightmare "Phoenix I]][[EarRape n Flames"]], which is just your average Converge song, but harder.
* A rare producer-based example. Producer Dann Huff is usually known for his bombastic country-pop arrangements for the likes of Music/RascalFlatts, with swelling string sections and loads of heavy guitar (Huff is a former member of the rock bands White Heart and Giant, and a session guitarist as well). Even his up-tempos are usually very loud and guitar-driven. But 2013 has seen him moving toward gentler arrangements, as seen in Music/TheBandPerry's "Better Dig Two", which sounds surprisingly rootsy; Music/KellyClarkson and Music/VinceGill's "Don't Rush", which sounds like an early 80s country-soul ballad; and Music/HunterHayes and Music/JasonMraz' light, acoustic "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me". Not that he's given up the louder production entirely — The Band Perry's "DONE." is closer to his usual style.
* Music/ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
* The Birthday Party's "Jennifer's Veil", from their final EP, is musically quieter and folkier than anything they'd ever done before, and a pointer towards the more tasteful moments of Music/NickCave's solo career. (However, it's purely a musical example: the lyrics appear to be about a guy coming back from a war to discover that his girlfriend or sister has been hideously disfigured and probably raped by enemy soldiers.)
* Music/{{Converge}} has "Phoenix In Flight", off the album ''Jane Doe'', which is ''very, very soft'' for being a song by them. But right after that, there comes [[LastNoteNightmare "Phoenix I]][[EarRape n Flames"]], which is just your average Converge song, but harder.
* A rare producer-based example. Producer Dann Huff is usually known for his bombastic country-pop arrangements for the likes of Music/RascalFlatts, with swelling string sections and loads of heavy guitar (Huff is a former member of the rock bands White Heart and Giant, and a session guitarist as well). Even his up-tempos are usually very loud and guitar-driven. But 2013 has seen him moving toward gentler arrangements, as seen in Music/TheBandPerry's "Better Dig Two", which sounds surprisingly rootsy; Music/KellyClarkson and Music/VinceGill's "Don't Rush", which sounds like an early 80s country-soul ballad; and Music/HunterHayes and Music/JasonMraz' light, acoustic "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me". Not that he's given up the louder production entirely — The Band Perry's "DONE." is closer to his usual style.
* Music/ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
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* Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, famous for ear-splitting feedback and concerts that ended in violence, did this with the albums ''Darklands'' and ''Stoned and Dethroned''.
* A few of Music/ThePaperChase's songs depart from their usual highly confrontational noise-rock/post-hardcore approach in favor of more melodic, introspective songs, though titles such as "Out Come the Knives" and "At the Other End of the Leash" show that the mood isn't necessarily any different.
* Music/{{Showbread}} has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity.
* Music/VelvetUnderground pulled an entire album of this with ''The Velvet Underground''. Part of this was because a lot of the band's gear was stolen, but they also deliberately wanted to make a LighterAndSofter album after the DarkerAndEdgier ''White Light/White Heat'' so as to avoid painting themselves into a corner. The trend continued with ''Loaded'', which was their response to their record company asking them to make an album "loaded with hits".
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* Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, famous for ear-splitting feedback and concerts that ended in violence, did this with the albums ''Darklands'' and ''Stoned and Dethroned''.
* A few of Music/ThePaperChase's songs depart from their usual highly confrontational noise-rock/post-hardcore approach in favor of more melodic, introspective songs, though titles such as "Out Come the Knives" and "At the Other End of the Leash" show that the mood isn't necessarily any different.
* Music/{{Showbread}} has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity.
* Music/VelvetUnderground pulled an entire album of this with ''The Velvet Underground''. Part of this was because a lot of the band's gear was stolen, but they also deliberately wanted to make a LighterAndSofter album after the DarkerAndEdgier ''White Light/White Heat'' so as to avoid painting themselves into a corner. The trend continued with ''Loaded'', which was their response to their record company asking them to make an album "loaded with hits".
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* Gridlink have Thirst Watcher from Longhena.
* Even Hellektro artists occasionally have these, such as "The Carnival is Over" by Leaetherstrip and "Song of No Tomorrow" by Suicide Commando.
* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutely despised SillyLoveSongs and didn't care about be taken seriously, making most of his music comedy stuff. Yet Zappa could write very heartwarming music if he wanted, notably in his guitar solos and some of his instrumental compositions, but also in genuine non-comedy songs like "Lonely Little Girl" and "Mom & Dad" (''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''), all tracks on ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', "Valerie" (''Music/BurntWeenySandwich''), "Directly from My Heart to You" (''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''), "Sharleena" (''Music/ChungasRevenge''), "Tears Began to Fall" (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''), "Village of the Sun" (''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''), "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (''Music/JoesGarage'') and "Alley Cat" ("The Lost Episodes").
* Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 on their second album, Iron, with female vocals provided by guest musician Kaisa Saari, who also provided the vocals for "Ferrum Aeternum", track 1 from the same album.
* Similarly, Sabaton has a number of softer pieces, most notably the outro of the Primo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album.
* Music/DropkickMurphys have "Broken Hymns" and their popular cover of "The Green Fields of France", which are gentle anti-war songs in comparison to their usual Irish punk style.
* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot.
* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic since the song is based on Anime/KillLaKill.
* [[{{Music/CultOfLuna}} Cult of Luna]] have a few instrumental interludes that aren't crushing metal, but they have a few full-length songs here and there. "Marching to the Heartbeats" on Somewhere Along the Highway sounds like a lighter {{Music/Jesu}} track. "And With Her Came the Birds" from the same album sounds almost like a depressing folky blues track. "Passing Through" on Vertikal ends the album on a simple, somber note.
* Music/TheOcean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in the middle of their progressive metal album.
* "Misguided Ghosts" by Music/{{Paramore}} is a soft, slow acoustic number, which makes it a stark contrast to the rest of ''Brand New Eyes'', which consists of loud, aggressive songs (and more than a few {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es).
* Even Hellektro artists occasionally have these, such as "The Carnival is Over" by Leaetherstrip and "Song of No Tomorrow" by Suicide Commando.
* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutely despised SillyLoveSongs and didn't care about be taken seriously, making most of his music comedy stuff. Yet Zappa could write very heartwarming music if he wanted, notably in his guitar solos and some of his instrumental compositions, but also in genuine non-comedy songs like "Lonely Little Girl" and "Mom & Dad" (''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''), all tracks on ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', "Valerie" (''Music/BurntWeenySandwich''), "Directly from My Heart to You" (''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''), "Sharleena" (''Music/ChungasRevenge''), "Tears Began to Fall" (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''), "Village of the Sun" (''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''), "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (''Music/JoesGarage'') and "Alley Cat" ("The Lost Episodes").
* Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 on their second album, Iron, with female vocals provided by guest musician Kaisa Saari, who also provided the vocals for "Ferrum Aeternum", track 1 from the same album.
* Similarly, Sabaton has a number of softer pieces, most notably the outro of the Primo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album.
* Music/DropkickMurphys have "Broken Hymns" and their popular cover of "The Green Fields of France", which are gentle anti-war songs in comparison to their usual Irish punk style.
* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot.
* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic since the song is based on Anime/KillLaKill.
* [[{{Music/CultOfLuna}} Cult of Luna]] have a few instrumental interludes that aren't crushing metal, but they have a few full-length songs here and there. "Marching to the Heartbeats" on Somewhere Along the Highway sounds like a lighter {{Music/Jesu}} track. "And With Her Came the Birds" from the same album sounds almost like a depressing folky blues track. "Passing Through" on Vertikal ends the album on a simple, somber note.
* Music/TheOcean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in the middle of their progressive metal album.
* "Misguided Ghosts" by Music/{{Paramore}} is a soft, slow acoustic number, which makes it a stark contrast to the rest of ''Brand New Eyes'', which consists of loud, aggressive songs (and more than a few {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es).
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* Gridlink have Thirst Watcher from Longhena.
* Even Hellektro artists occasionally have these, such as "The Carnival is Over" by Leaetherstrip and "Song of No Tomorrow" by Suicide Commando.
* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutely despised SillyLoveSongs and didn't care about be taken seriously, making most of his music comedy stuff. Yet Zappa could write very heartwarming music if he wanted, notably in his guitar solos and some of his instrumental compositions, but also in genuine non-comedy songs like "Lonely Little Girl" and "Mom & Dad" (''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''), all tracks on ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', "Valerie" (''Music/BurntWeenySandwich''), "Directly from My Heart to You" (''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''), "Sharleena" (''Music/ChungasRevenge''), "Tears Began to Fall" (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''), "Village of the Sun" (''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''), "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (''Music/JoesGarage'') and "Alley Cat" ("The Lost Episodes").
* Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 onBetween their second album, Iron, and third albums, Music/AliceInChains released ''Sap'' and ''Jar Of Flies'', two [=EPs=] which proved them capable of surprising versatility and restraint. They played mostly acoustic and clean electric guitars and made use of strings as well.
* Akercocke has a few parts withfemale clean vocals provided by guest musician Kaisa Saari, who also provided in their otherwise extremely heavy blackened death metal, but the vocals last song off the album Antichrist - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJAm3RSmZw Epode]] - is fully mellow, beautiful (and is about [[LyricalDissonance Satan himself]].)
** Each of Akercocke's last three albums ended with a song that fell under both this trope and LyricalDissonance. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21jQSxyXlx8 Goddess Flesh]]" closes out ''Choronzon'' with a rare example of an IntercourseWithYou ballad, while "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptsl4Pb4eM Lex talionis]]" (Latin for"Ferrum Aeternum", ''the law of talion'', most frequently expressed as "An eye for an eye", which provides a fair indication of the lyrical content) closes out their ''Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone''.
* The {{Grindcore}} band Music/AnalCunt had an entire ''album'' of surprisingly gentle songs called ''Picnic of Love''.
* Music/{{Annihilator}}'s very first track1 from the same [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYS3VYHGW9Y "Crystal Ann"]] is a classical instrumental.
* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
*Similarly, Sabaton Music/AvengedSevenfold has a number few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about them without mentioning [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country ballad. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk album where all the other songs are screamed.
* Black Label Society has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3HJSPRCL8&feature=related Spoke in the Wheel]], a very mellow and depressive song that contrasts with other songs sung and composed by bearded, foul-mouthed, pinch-harmonic-crazed Zakk Wylde.
** The Black Label Society album ''Hangover Music Vol. VI''' is made up mostly of softerpieces, most notably songs that utilize acoustic guitar and piano, meaning that the outro album really ''is'' good music to listen to while hungover.
** "In This River", from their ''Mafia'' album, was a quiet ballad Wylde dedicated in memory of [[{{Music/Pantera}} Darrell Abbott]] (he'd actually written it months before Abbott's death.
* "Flower Sun Rain" by Japanese DoomMetal band Boris is very relaxing until the very end, when it builds into a scorching guitar solo accompanied by heavy drum fills.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tORtmKIjE "The Bard's Song"]] by Music/BlindGuardian qualifies with its medieval folk sound contrasted against the blazing, speedy, PowerMetal sound they normally have.
** They tend to have one per album; there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOZMpuGBjI "A Past And Future Secret,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar,"]] (except for the MetalScream) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PJnBflzmI "Harvest of Sorrow,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_S1Q40HZo "Skalds and Shadows"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAjzJ-62ag "War of thePrimo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", Thrones"]] and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWQKTbneLw "Miracle Machine"]].
*Music/DropkickMurphys have "Broken Hymns" and "Heal" by Buzzov-en from ''At a Loss''. They're a Sludge Metal group. This is probably the only non-angry song in their popular cover entire discography. (If the WikiMagic could cough up a link, that'd be great.)
* A very minor example as the band incorporates a lot of"The Green Fields folk passages in most of France", which are gentle anti-war songs in comparison to their usual Irish punk style.
* Pretty much allsongs, but Music/{{Cormorant}}'s album ''Metazoa'' ends on "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPv9fizGrg Voices of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot.
* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic sincethe song is based on Anime/KillLaKill.
* [[{{Music/CultOfLuna}} CultMountain]]"; a breath-taking guitar duet with a soft crackle of Luna]] fire.
* Music/CultOfLuna have a few instrumental interludes that aren't crushing metal, but they have a few full-length songs here and there. "Marching to the Heartbeats" on Somewhere Along the Highway sounds like a lighter {{Music/Jesu}} track. "And With Her Came the Birds" from the same album sounds almost like a depressing folky blues track. "Passing Through" on Vertikal ends the album on a simple, somber note.
*Music/TheOcean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in Music/{{Death}} have the middle moving instrumental named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4q0Xx-u1Y "Voice Of The Soul"]] which contains no drums whatsoever.
* {{Metalcore}} band Demon Hunter seems to pile on more and more of these with every album, but they'd be hard pressed to top their first notable one, the EPIC TearJerker "My Heartstrings Come Undone".
* "Louder Than Thunder" by Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, sung entirely by guitarist/clean vocalist Jeremy Depoyster.
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of theirprogressive singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
* "''Darkness''" by Music/{{Disturbed}}, a soft, acoustic dirge with a cellist section of all things. This from the band who an album earlier provided the world with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JBlUm2KMY#t=3m27s No, Mommy! Don't do it again!]]".
** Even though it's much heavier, "Overburdened" would count as well.
** Their cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for.
* ''Music/DogFashionDisco'' is an avant-garde metal band who frequently include a "gentle in sound but not subject" track on their albums. However, on their album Experiments in Alchemy, they played this straight with "En La Noche" a latin/jazz fusion love song about a newly married couple dancing in the moonlight. It's a big departure for a band whose other gentler songs are about burying someone they killed in the desert, knowing that someone who has wronged them is already destined to die, and Pogo the Clown.
* Music/{{DragonForce}} has [[OncePerEpisode one slow song per album]] in between all the blazingly fast PowerMetal: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApV7JJfXk Starfire]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVavyOChAY Dawn Over a New World]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk77wRGnwZM Trail of Broken Hearts]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyqdvCcnWk A Flame for Freedom]]", and an acoustic version of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8vuMD3a9c Seasons]]".
* [[Music/DreamTheater Dream Theater's]] "Vacant" is the Surprisingly Gentle Song off of ''Train of Thought,'' which is an 8+ on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness , since it's slow and melancholy, and just piano, cello, and vocals.
* Music/{{Epica}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqAyelPcaHI Delirium]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb17Yc1a8lE Solitary Ground]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkJkcvaA1A Tides of Time]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbTu92k-EU Trois Verges]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtBUXnoFoo White Waters]]".
* Early on, gentle Music/FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". They even had a hit with a cover of Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores' "Easy".
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
* Music/{{Flyleaf}}, while not a loud band at all, has had a few songs that are dramatically more calmer and quiet then their usual songs. Mostly in their first studio album.
*"Misguided Ghosts" "The Garden of the Goddess" by Music/{{Paramore}} Music/{{Galneryus}}
* The last two tracks off of the album ''Abducted'' by DeathMetal band Music/{{Hypocrisy}} are mellow [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd-esque]] ProgressiveRock tracks. This isa soft, slow acoustic number, which makes it a stark in sharp contrast to the rest of ''Brand New Eyes'', which consists of loud, aggressive songs (and more than a few {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es).the album and their discography.
* Even Hellektro artists occasionally have these, such as "The Carnival is Over" by Leaetherstrip and "Song of No Tomorrow" by Suicide Commando.
* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutely despised SillyLoveSongs and didn't care about be taken seriously, making most of his music comedy stuff. Yet Zappa could write very heartwarming music if he wanted, notably in his guitar solos and some of his instrumental compositions, but also in genuine non-comedy songs like "Lonely Little Girl" and "Mom & Dad" (''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''), all tracks on ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', "Valerie" (''Music/BurntWeenySandwich''), "Directly from My Heart to You" (''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''), "Sharleena" (''Music/ChungasRevenge''), "Tears Began to Fall" (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''), "Village of the Sun" (''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''), "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (''Music/JoesGarage'') and "Alley Cat" ("The Lost Episodes").
* Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 on
* Akercocke has a few parts with
** Each of Akercocke's last three albums ended with a song that fell under both this trope and LyricalDissonance. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21jQSxyXlx8 Goddess Flesh]]" closes out ''Choronzon'' with a rare example of an IntercourseWithYou ballad, while "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptsl4Pb4eM Lex talionis]]" (Latin for
* The {{Grindcore}} band Music/AnalCunt had an entire ''album'' of surprisingly gentle songs called ''Picnic of Love''.
* Music/{{Annihilator}}'s very first track
* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
*
* Black Label Society has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3HJSPRCL8&feature=related Spoke in the Wheel]], a very mellow and depressive song that contrasts with other songs sung and composed by bearded, foul-mouthed, pinch-harmonic-crazed Zakk Wylde.
** The Black Label Society album ''Hangover Music Vol. VI''' is made up mostly of softer
** "In This River", from their ''Mafia'' album, was a quiet ballad Wylde dedicated in memory of [[{{Music/Pantera}} Darrell Abbott]] (he'd actually written it months before Abbott's death.
* "Flower Sun Rain" by Japanese DoomMetal band Boris is very relaxing until the very end, when it builds into a scorching guitar solo accompanied by heavy drum fills.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tORtmKIjE "The Bard's Song"]] by Music/BlindGuardian qualifies with its medieval folk sound contrasted against the blazing, speedy, PowerMetal sound they normally have.
** They tend to have one per album; there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOZMpuGBjI "A Past And Future Secret,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar,"]] (except for the MetalScream) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PJnBflzmI "Harvest of Sorrow,"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_S1Q40HZo "Skalds and Shadows"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAjzJ-62ag "War of the
*
* A very minor example as the band incorporates a lot of
* Pretty much all
* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic since
* [[{{Music/CultOfLuna}} Cult
* Music/CultOfLuna have a few instrumental interludes that aren't crushing metal, but they have a few full-length songs here and there. "Marching to the Heartbeats" on Somewhere Along the Highway sounds like a lighter {{Music/Jesu}} track. "And With Her Came the Birds" from the same album sounds almost like a depressing folky blues track. "Passing Through" on Vertikal ends the album on a simple, somber note.
*
* {{Metalcore}} band Demon Hunter seems to pile on more and more of these with every album, but they'd be hard pressed to top their first notable one, the EPIC TearJerker "My Heartstrings Come Undone".
* "Louder Than Thunder" by Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, sung entirely by guitarist/clean vocalist Jeremy Depoyster.
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their
* "''Darkness''" by Music/{{Disturbed}}, a soft, acoustic dirge with a cellist section of all things. This from the band who an album earlier provided the world with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JBlUm2KMY#t=3m27s No, Mommy! Don't do it again!]]".
** Even though it's much heavier, "Overburdened" would count as well.
** Their cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for.
* ''Music/DogFashionDisco'' is an avant-garde metal band who frequently include a "gentle in sound but not subject" track on their albums. However, on their album Experiments in Alchemy, they played this straight with "En La Noche" a latin/jazz fusion love song about a newly married couple dancing in the moonlight. It's a big departure for a band whose other gentler songs are about burying someone they killed in the desert, knowing that someone who has wronged them is already destined to die, and Pogo the Clown.
* Music/{{DragonForce}} has [[OncePerEpisode one slow song per album]] in between all the blazingly fast PowerMetal: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApV7JJfXk Starfire]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVavyOChAY Dawn Over a New World]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk77wRGnwZM Trail of Broken Hearts]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyqdvCcnWk A Flame for Freedom]]", and an acoustic version of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8vuMD3a9c Seasons]]".
* [[Music/DreamTheater Dream Theater's]] "Vacant" is the Surprisingly Gentle Song off of ''Train of Thought,'' which is an 8+ on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness , since it's slow and melancholy, and just piano, cello, and vocals.
* Music/{{Epica}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqAyelPcaHI Delirium]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb17Yc1a8lE Solitary Ground]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkJkcvaA1A Tides of Time]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbTu92k-EU Trois Verges]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtBUXnoFoo White Waters]]".
* Early on, gentle Music/FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". They even had a hit with a cover of Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores' "Easy".
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
* Music/{{Flyleaf}}, while not a loud band at all, has had a few songs that are dramatically more calmer and quiet then their usual songs. Mostly in their first studio album.
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* Future of the Left, a band known for their aggressive post-hardcore sound and singer Andy Falkous' often darkly funny lyrics, has "French Lessons", a quiet song about love and unhappy marriage. The band's playing is much more subdued on this one, and while Falkous' lyrics are still humorous, the tone much bleaker than it is on their usual songs.
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* Future of Music/JudasPriest: "Angel," "Lost and Found," "Before the Left, a band known for their aggressive post-hardcore sound and singer Andy Falkous' often darkly funny lyrics, has "French Lessons", a quiet song about love and unhappy marriage. The band's playing is much more subdued on this one, and while Falkous' lyrics are still humorous, the tone much bleaker than it is on their usual songs.Dawn," "Epitaph", "Last Rose of Summer", "Lost Love", "New Beginnings", "Never Forget".
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* Music/CHVRCHES = snarky breakup songs, right? Well, not always. "Under The Tide" especially is absolutely heartrending.
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* Music/CHVRCHES = snarky breakup While ''Music/{{Lyriel}}'' is a SymphonicMetal band that tends towards the softer side of the genre, their album Paranoid Circus contains the track [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Lullaby" which is exactly what the tittle suggests]]. This track is preceded and followed by tracks that feature aggressive drumming.
* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEwK_H2ixQ Promises]]" , which is a beautiful power ballad, complete with string arrangements and being based around a Romeo And Juliet theme. If someone else was singing it, you would never know Dave Mustaine had written this song.
** A Tout Le Monde, a song about loss and grief.
* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''Film/TheProposition''.
* "Acrid Placidity" by Music/{{Meshuggah}} of the album Future Breed Machine. However, the song is still extremely off-putting.
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye24cqG8j3M Nothing Else Matters]]".
** Before this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQnzs8wl6E Fade to Black]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw&feature=related Welcome Home (Sanitarium)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ob=av3n One]], which are what's usually called "semi-ballads": songs that start as traditional ballads, but around the middle of the song they become a lot heavier.
** Following this was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlahvvymkxc The Day that Never Comes]] and don't "Low Man's Lyric".
* Death metal band Music/MorbidAngel featured the haunting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPKBAnkEaE "Desolate Ways"]] on their ''Blessed Are The Sick'' album.
* Music/{{Motorhead}}, a band commonly known for being one of the rowdiest, loudest, crudest bands, released a song titled "1916", a slow, mournful song about a young man being killed in battle in World War 1.
** They actually have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side".
* Music/TheOcean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in the middle of their progressive metal album.
* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
* Music/{{Pantera}}'s cover of "Planet Caravan" by Music/BlackSabbath - enough so that the ''Far Beyond Driven'' liner notes include a short message from Phil Anselmo explaining to fans (who might not be familiar with the original) that they're just covering a song they like, not attempting to have a pop hit.
** The Music/BlackSabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid".
** Pantera themselves are not immune to writing gentler songs,right? Well, not always. "Under The Tide" especially "Cemetery Gates" is Pantera's attempt at a Power Ballad and Suicide Note Pt. I is extremely subdued and depressing. [[MoodWhiplash It is immediately followed by]] [[LastNoteNightmare "Suicide Note Pt. II"]], '''EASILY''' Pantera's hardest song.
* Music/{{Rammstein}} often has one toward the end of an album: e.g. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHldRJfTxY Roter Sand]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZlCL9pyDg Nebel]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSL62BUyY0U Ohne Dich]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKSfQKbPXE Ein Lied]]."
* Similarly, Sabaton has a number of softer pieces, most notably the outro of the Primo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album.
* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGtN-dplYk Vermillion, Prt. 2]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVPUqN4q4o Circle]]". And more recently "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFJv5-JjdM Snuff]]".
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
* Music/SystemOfADown's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg "Lonely Day"]] is considerably softer than their usual style.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ri5mmIb-EI "Roulette"]] is even softer. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YluAMCRT8 Soldier Side]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc Hypnotize]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJhAOsTsLXI Lost in Hollywood]]" also qualify.
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* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutelyheartrending.despised SillyLoveSongs and didn't care about be taken seriously, making most of his music comedy stuff. Yet Zappa could write very heartwarming music if he wanted, notably in his guitar solos and some of his instrumental compositions, but also in genuine non-comedy songs like "Lonely Little Girl" and "Mom & Dad" (''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''), all tracks on ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', "Valerie" (''Music/BurntWeenySandwich''), "Directly from My Heart to You" (''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''), "Sharleena" (''Music/ChungasRevenge''), "Tears Began to Fall" (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''), "Village of the Sun" (''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''), "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (''Music/JoesGarage'') and "Alley Cat" ("The Lost Episodes").
* "Come Away Melinda" on Music/UriahHeep's first album. Especially since the rest of the album is Very 'Eavy (and very 'umble). It's also this song that made them become Uriah Heep (having gone into the studio as a band called 'Spice' and using a session keyboardist on the track made them realise they needed a permanent keyboadist, which led to them changing their name to Uriah Heep)
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* Bad Brains have some, mostly due to their reggae influences coming to the forefront: Their self-titled album, for instance, consists of HardcorePunk interspersed with a few down-tempo reggae songs ("Jah Calling", "Leaving Babylon", and "I Love I Jah" specifically).
* Music/BadReligion: "Million Days" off of the CanonDisContinuity album Into the Unknown.
** "Slumber" from ''Stranger Than Fiction'' may also qualify - it resembles an alternative rock song of the loud-soft-loud variety more than it does a PowerBallad, but the verses are surprisingly soft.
* The Birthday Party's "Jennifer's Veil", from their final EP, is musically quieter and folkier than anything they'd ever done before, and a pointer towards the more tasteful moments of Music/NickCave's solo career. (However, it's purely a musical example: the lyrics appear to be about a guy coming back from a war to discover that his girlfriend or sister has been hideously disfigured and probably raped by enemy soldiers.)
* Music/{{Converge}} has "Phoenix In Flight", off the album ''Jane Doe'', which is ''very, very soft'' for being a song by them. But right after that, there comes [[LastNoteNightmare "Phoenix I]][[EarRape n Flames"]], which is just your average Converge song, but harder.
* Music/{{Danzig}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kehhT_qQU Sistinas]]. While it's technically credited to Glenn Danzig & The Power Fury Orchestra, there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EieqgGA-8 "You And Me"]], from the soundtrack to ''Less Than Zero''. Both are Roy Orbison-influenced ballads that show off Glenn Danzig's crooning vocal style, rather than the dark metal he's commonly associated with.
* Music/DropkickMurphys have "Broken Hymns" and their popular cover of "The Green Fields of France", which are gentle anti-war songs in comparison to their usual Irish punk style.
* Music/{{Glassjaw}}, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
** And now, their latest work, "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiwmbHMSgk Daytona White]]''" and "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGMKYwBsac&feature=related Stations of the New Cross]]''" also count. In fact, most of their ''Coloring Book'' album (from which these two songs come from) is this compared to some of their previous work.
* Future of the Left, a band known for their aggressive post-hardcore sound and singer Andy Falkous' often darkly funny lyrics, has "French Lessons", a quiet song about love and unhappy marriage. The band's playing is much more subdued on this one, and while Falkous' lyrics are still humorous, the tone much bleaker than it is on their usual songs.
* Though [[Music/HuskerDu Hüsker Dü]] gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example", "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", and "No Promise Have I Made".
* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band.
* Music/RiseAgainst have the all-acoustic "Swing Life Away," "Hero of War," and 'Roadside'.
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* [[MemeticMutation There's]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs&ob=av3e Miracles]], which differs rather significantly from their [[AxCrazy normal fare.]]
* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, Wiki/ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
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* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
* The point of the ''Colma'' album by Music/{{Buckethead}} was to give his mother something calming to listen to while recovering from illness. Thus, it is a ''dramatically'' different sound from his usual stuff.* J-Rock band Chatmonchy is normally known for upbeat songs that are heavy on the drums and guitar like "Hana No Yume" - except for a slow piano-and-vocals piece called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI1sA4tjb0 Sunao]]."
* Music/ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ and again]]). On Melancholy Hill is fairly mellow and has very sweet lyrics, so it could fit, but is perhaps too upbeat for this.
* Music/{{Kyuss}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PqRgmL4Xg Space Cadet]]" on the ''Welcome to Sky Valley'' album, where it comes between the much heavier "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnfyMGBi6w 100]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLdOlzIRCdk Demon Cleaner]]", though Demon Cleaner's still a tad lighter than the rest of the album.
* "As Tears Go By," "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow" and "Angie" by Music/TheRollingStones.
* ''Music/TenaciousD'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvkRZookFM Fuck Her Gently]], which is a parody of this trope.
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* Music/DirEnGrey's "Jealous -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "Jealous", featuring nothing but Kyo and piano. Also, "Ain't Afraid to Die" is Kyo and piano only until the guitar solos kick in, halfway through the song. Even then, it's still very gentle.
* "Ares's Lament/"So Lonely," "The Love Of My Life," and "Never Change Your Mind" by Music/{{Loudness}}
* "Wake Up Honey" and "Thanx Givin Day" by Music/{{Miyavi}}
* "Serenade", "Love will be born again" and "Episode" by Music/{{Versailles}}.
* Music/XJapan has plenty of these. The better known ones are: "Crucify my Love", "Tears" and "Forever Love".
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* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song [[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot.
* Portrayed in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece.
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* A rare producer-based example. Producer Dann Huff is usually known for his bombastic country-pop arrangements for the likes of Music/RascalFlatts, with swelling string sections and loads of heavy guitar (Huff is a former member of the rock bands White Heart and Giant, and a session guitarist as well). Even his up-tempos are usually very loud and guitar-driven. But 2013 has seen him moving toward gentler arrangements, as seen in Music/TheBandPerry's "Better Dig Two", which sounds surprisingly rootsy; Music/KellyClarkson and Music/VinceGill's "Don't Rush", which sounds like an early 80s country-soul ballad; and Music/HunterHayes and Music/JasonMraz' light, acoustic "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me". Not that he's given up the louder production entirely — The Band Perry's "DONE." is closer to his usual style.
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* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEwK_H2ixQ Promises]]" , which is a beautiful power ballad, complete with string arrangements and being based around a Romeo And Juliet theme. If someone else was singing it, you would never know Dave Mustaine had written this song.
** A Tout Le Monde, a song about loss and grief.
* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''Film/TheProposition''.
* "Acrid Placidity" by Music/{{Meshuggah}} of the album Future Breed Machine. However, the song is still extremely off-putting.
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye24cqG8j3M Nothing Else Matters]]".
** Before this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQnzs8wl6E Fade to Black]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw&feature=related Welcome Home (Sanitarium)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ob=av3n One]], which are what's usually called "semi-ballads": songs that start as traditional ballads, but around the middle of the song they become a lot heavier.
** Following this was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlahvvymkxc The Day that Never Comes]] and don't "Low Man's Lyric".
* Death metal band Music/MorbidAngel featured the haunting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPKBAnkEaE "Desolate Ways"]] on their ''Blessed Are The Sick'' album.
* Music/{{Motorhead}}, a band commonly known for being one of the rowdiest, loudest, crudest bands, released a song titled "1916", a slow, mournful song about a young man being killed in battle in World War 1.
** They actually have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side".
* Music/TheOcean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in the middle of their progressive metal album.
* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
* Music/{{Pantera}}'s cover of "Planet Caravan" by Music/BlackSabbath - enough so that the ''Far Beyond Driven'' liner notes include a short message from Phil Anselmo explaining to fans (who might not be familiar with the original) that they're just covering a song they like, not attempting to have a pop hit.
** The Music/BlackSabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid".
** Pantera themselves are not immune to writing gentler songs,
* Music/{{Rammstein}} often has one toward the end of an album: e.g. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHldRJfTxY Roter Sand]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZlCL9pyDg Nebel]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSL62BUyY0U Ohne Dich]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKSfQKbPXE Ein Lied]]."
* Similarly, Sabaton has a number of softer pieces, most notably the outro of the Primo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album.
* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGtN-dplYk Vermillion, Prt. 2]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVPUqN4q4o Circle]]". And more recently "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFJv5-JjdM Snuff]]".
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
* Music/SystemOfADown's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg "Lonely Day"]] is considerably softer than their usual style.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ri5mmIb-EI "Roulette"]] is even softer. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YluAMCRT8 Soldier Side]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc Hypnotize]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJhAOsTsLXI Lost in Hollywood]]" also qualify.
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* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutely
* "Come Away Melinda" on Music/UriahHeep's first album. Especially since the rest of the album is Very 'Eavy (and very 'umble). It's also this song that made them become Uriah Heep (having gone into the studio as a band called 'Spice' and using a session keyboardist on the track made them realise they needed a permanent keyboadist, which led to them changing their name to Uriah Heep)
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* Bad Brains have some, mostly due to their reggae influences coming to the forefront: Their self-titled album, for instance, consists of HardcorePunk interspersed with a few down-tempo reggae songs ("Jah Calling", "Leaving Babylon", and "I Love I Jah" specifically).
* Music/BadReligion: "Million Days" off of the CanonDisContinuity album Into the Unknown.
** "Slumber" from ''Stranger Than Fiction'' may also qualify - it resembles an alternative rock song of the loud-soft-loud variety more than it does a PowerBallad, but the verses are surprisingly soft.
* The Birthday Party's "Jennifer's Veil", from their final EP, is musically quieter and folkier than anything they'd ever done before, and a pointer towards the more tasteful moments of Music/NickCave's solo career. (However, it's purely a musical example: the lyrics appear to be about a guy coming back from a war to discover that his girlfriend or sister has been hideously disfigured and probably raped by enemy soldiers.)
* Music/{{Converge}} has "Phoenix In Flight", off the album ''Jane Doe'', which is ''very, very soft'' for being a song by them. But right after that, there comes [[LastNoteNightmare "Phoenix I]][[EarRape n Flames"]], which is just your average Converge song, but harder.
* Music/{{Danzig}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kehhT_qQU Sistinas]]. While it's technically credited to Glenn Danzig & The Power Fury Orchestra, there's also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EieqgGA-8 "You And Me"]], from the soundtrack to ''Less Than Zero''. Both are Roy Orbison-influenced ballads that show off Glenn Danzig's crooning vocal style, rather than the dark metal he's commonly associated with.
* Music/DropkickMurphys have "Broken Hymns" and their popular cover of "The Green Fields of France", which are gentle anti-war songs in comparison to their usual Irish punk style.
* Music/{{Glassjaw}}, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
** And now, their latest work, "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiwmbHMSgk Daytona White]]''" and "''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGMKYwBsac&feature=related Stations of the New Cross]]''" also count. In fact, most of their ''Coloring Book'' album (from which these two songs come from) is this compared to some of their previous work.
* Future of the Left, a band known for their aggressive post-hardcore sound and singer Andy Falkous' often darkly funny lyrics, has "French Lessons", a quiet song about love and unhappy marriage. The band's playing is much more subdued on this one, and while Falkous' lyrics are still humorous, the tone much bleaker than it is on their usual songs.
* Though [[Music/HuskerDu Hüsker Dü]] gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example", "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", and "No Promise Have I Made".
* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band.
* Music/RiseAgainst have the all-acoustic "Swing Life Away," "Hero of War," and 'Roadside'.
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* [[MemeticMutation There's]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs&ob=av3e Miracles]], which differs rather significantly from their [[AxCrazy normal fare.]]
* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, Wiki/ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
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* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
* The point of the ''Colma'' album by Music/{{Buckethead}} was to give his mother something calming to listen to while recovering from illness. Thus, it is a ''dramatically'' different sound from his usual stuff.* J-Rock band Chatmonchy is normally known for upbeat songs that are heavy on the drums and guitar like "Hana No Yume" - except for a slow piano-and-vocals piece called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI1sA4tjb0 Sunao]]."
* Music/ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ and again]]). On Melancholy Hill is fairly mellow and has very sweet lyrics, so it could fit, but is perhaps too upbeat for this.
* Music/{{Kyuss}} has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PqRgmL4Xg Space Cadet]]" on the ''Welcome to Sky Valley'' album, where it comes between the much heavier "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnfyMGBi6w 100]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLdOlzIRCdk Demon Cleaner]]", though Demon Cleaner's still a tad lighter than the rest of the album.
* "As Tears Go By," "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow" and "Angie" by Music/TheRollingStones.
* ''Music/TenaciousD'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvkRZookFM Fuck Her Gently]], which is a parody of this trope.
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* Music/DirEnGrey's "Jealous -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "Jealous", featuring nothing but Kyo and piano. Also, "Ain't Afraid to Die" is Kyo and piano only until the guitar solos kick in, halfway through the song. Even then, it's still very gentle.
* "Ares's Lament/"So Lonely," "The Love Of My Life," and "Never Change Your Mind" by Music/{{Loudness}}
* "Wake Up Honey" and "Thanx Givin Day" by Music/{{Miyavi}}
* "Serenade", "Love will be born again" and "Episode" by Music/{{Versailles}}.
* Music/XJapan has plenty of these. The better known ones are: "Crucify my Love", "Tears" and "Forever Love".
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* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song [[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot.
* Portrayed in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece.
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* A rare producer-based example. Producer Dann Huff is usually known for his bombastic country-pop arrangements for the likes of Music/RascalFlatts, with swelling string sections and loads of heavy guitar (Huff is a former member of the rock bands White Heart and Giant, and a session guitarist as well). Even his up-tempos are usually very loud and guitar-driven. But 2013 has seen him moving toward gentler arrangements, as seen in Music/TheBandPerry's "Better Dig Two", which sounds surprisingly rootsy; Music/KellyClarkson and Music/VinceGill's "Don't Rush", which sounds like an early 80s country-soul ballad; and Music/HunterHayes and Music/JasonMraz' light, acoustic "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me". Not that he's given up the louder production entirely — The Band Perry's "DONE." is closer to his usual style.
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* Showbread has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]], when Yellow Diamond orders the Pearls to sing to cheer up Blue, they start off in a soft, dissonant harmony in a minor chord. Yellow then starts singing in A minor, a semi-sweet song about how there's no point to grieving.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]], when Yellow Diamond orders the Pearls to sing to cheer up Blue, they start off in a soft, dissonant harmony in a minor chord. Yellow then starts singing in A minor, a semi-sweet song about how there's no point to grieving.
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* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
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* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, ThisVeryWiki Wiki/ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
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* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Creator/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Creator/PhilSpector-influenced Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly PhilSpector-influenced Creator/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''TheProposition''.
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* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''TheProposition''.''Film/TheProposition''.
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* Music/CHVRCHES = snarky breakup songs, right? Well, not always. "Under The Tide" especially is absolutely heartrending.
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** Surgical Meth Machine are an Al Jourgenson side-project who are usually a bit faster and heavier than Ministry... Except for the song "Invisible", a trip-hop influenced ballad with clean electric guitars and smooth vocals.
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** Their cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for.
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* AFI's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjSscjWXSHQ The Leaving Song: Part 1]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNzs5fLp3Ho The Interview]]".
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* AFI's Music/{{AFI}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjSscjWXSHQ The Leaving Song: Part 1]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNzs5fLp3Ho The Interview]]".
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* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD.
** The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song[[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
** The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song[[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
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* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD.
**CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song[[spoiler: song [[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
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* The Christian Hard Rock Band RED tends to have at least two per album, beginning with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uw8mIcQJn8&feature=related 'Pieces']], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZPjiUimhck 'Already Over (part 2)']] in "End of Silence," [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHCsyOb3Rc 'Take it all away']] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptwYUp-sJ8&feature=related 'Nothing and Everything']] (Which is an alternate version of the opening song 'Fight Inside') on Innocence and Instinct. While they aren't as intensely loud or grating as bands such as Devil Wears Prada, RED is loud enough to warrant these songs being Surprsingly Gentle.
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* The Christian Hard Rock Band RED Music/{{Red}} tends to have at least two per album, beginning with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uw8mIcQJn8&feature=related 'Pieces']], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZPjiUimhck 'Already Over (part 2)']] in "End of Silence," [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHCsyOb3Rc 'Take it all away']] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptwYUp-sJ8&feature=related 'Nothing and Everything']] (Which is an alternate version of the opening song 'Fight Inside') on Innocence and Instinct. While they aren't as intensely loud or grating as bands such as Devil Wears Prada, RED is loud enough to warrant these songs being Surprsingly Gentle.
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* ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
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* ElvisPresley Music/ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
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* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot..
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* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot..Riot.
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* American NuMetal band Music/LimpBizkit recorded a CoverVersion of Music/TheWho's "Behind Blue Eyes" for ''Film/{{Gothika}}'', which is an AlternativeRock ballad than their usual material.
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* Music/JudasPriest: "Angel," "Lost and Found," "Before the Dawn," "Epitaph", "Last Rose of Summer"
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* The Dillinger Escape Plan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
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* The Dillinger Escape Plan Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
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* Glassjaw, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
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* Glassjaw, Music/{{Glassjaw}}, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
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* The last two tracks off of the album ''Abducted'' by DeathMetal band, Hypocrisy, are mellow [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd-esque]] ProgressiveRock tracks. This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and their discography.
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* The last two tracks off of the album ''Abducted'' by DeathMetal band, Hypocrisy, band Music/{{Hypocrisy}} are mellow [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd-esque]] ProgressiveRock tracks. This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and their discography.
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* The Dillinger Escape Plan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[SmackdownVsRaw [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
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* Music/AvengedSevenfold has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about Music/AvengedSevenfold without mentioning [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country balled. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain".
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* Music/AvengedSevenfold has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about Music/AvengedSevenfold them without mentioning [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country balled.ballad. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk album where all the other songs are screamed.
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* {{Music/Ministry}} contributed a surprisingly faithful acoustic cover of [[TheGratefulDead "Friend Of The Devil"]] to the compilation ''The Bridge School Concerts, Vol. 1'' - it turns out Al Jourgenson actually has a smooth, pleasant singing voice when he's not [[HarshVocals growling]] and/or running his vocals through distortion and processing.
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* {{Music/Ministry}} contributed a surprisingly faithful acoustic cover of [[TheGratefulDead [[Music/TheGratefulDead "Friend Of The Devil"]] to the compilation ''The Bridge School Concerts, Vol. 1'' - it turns out Al Jourgenson actually has a smooth, pleasant singing voice when he's not [[HarshVocals growling]] and/or running his vocals through distortion and processing.
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** Music/{{Californication}} was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
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** Music/{{Californication}} ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
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* Future of the Left, a band known for their aggressive post-hardcore sound and singer Andy Falkous' often darkly funny lyrics, has "French Lessons", a quiet song about love and unhappy marriage. The band's playing is much more subdued on this one, and while Falkous' lyrics are still humorous, the tone much bleaker than it is on their usual songs.
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* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.
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* Music/{{NWA}} had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''. Hell, ThisVeryWiki considers it SweetDreamsFuel.
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* Portrayed in ''SpinalTap'' with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece.
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* Music/IronMaiden has "Wasting Love" (the closest they got to a ballad), "Journeyman" (their first acoustic track), and "Empire of the Clouds" (an [[EpicRocking 18-minute long]] piano-driven song).
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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih61MJ72v1Y Hello]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWioxDzDUpc My Immortal]]" by {{Evanescence}}, although the radio edition of the latter (arguably their second most well known song) ends off with a harder sound. (Link to the album version for that reason).
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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih61MJ72v1Y Hello]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWioxDzDUpc My Immortal]]" by {{Evanescence}}, Music/{{Evanescence}}, although the radio edition of the latter (arguably their second most well known song) ends off with a harder sound. (Link to the album version for that reason).
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* The Music/FooFighters have many. The very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
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* The Music/FooFighters have many. The From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
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* TypeONegative with Can't Lose You. Aside for a small pace-setting intro, it fails to break out into the bands usual rockin' guitars and shouting, (or obnoxious sex noises).
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* Music/StrappingYoungLad were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
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* Music/StrappingYoungLad [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
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* Early on, gentle FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". They even had a hit with a cover of Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores' "Easy".
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* Early on, gentle FaithNoMore Music/FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". They even had a hit with a cover of Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores' "Easy".
