81. Sorrowful Lands - "Faded Anchors of the Past"

In retrospect, there are actually quite a few one-person outfits on this list. Sorrowful Lands are a one-man doom outfit from Ukraine. This is a deeply personal album that looks at the environmental apocalypse that we seem to be blindly heading toward. 

The doom metal is used to paint a horrific picture of a desolate future where our planet has failed us due to our own neglect. It is slow, mournful, and full of haunting melodies. To accentuate the lingering horror of our slow descent into a planet-wise ecological meltdown, the doom metal is pensive as opposed to predatory. The heaviness has been toned down in order to ramp up its lingering pensive atmosphere. A Startlingly evocative album.