10 Most Emotional Rock Albums Ever Made

Most of the metal that reaches the masses isn't supposed to be the most thoughtful thing in the world. If you look at the biggest metal acts that have come and gone throughout the years, the only emotion they are able to muster is anger more than anything else. Once Trent Reznor earned his dreams of being a rock star though, all of his internal feelings got that much worse on the Downward Spiral.

Framing itself as a concept album in the same spirit as The Wall, the entire project follows a man named Mr. Self Destruct, as he loses all contact with reality and starts to go absolutely insane across the album. It's almost difficult to handpick any track off of this record, since each of them seem to be coming from a different moment in his self destruction, from cutting off ties with most of his friends on songs like Piggy to eventually trying to dominate in the sickest of ways on Big Man With a Gun.

The emotion really comes in on the back half though, where you start to see the person underneath all the excess, from A Warm Place setting up a nice world in your mind before any of the madness happened to Hurt showing him trying to make sense of it all. It might be too late for him to repent for his sins, but there's always that little sliver of hope to carry on.