https://soundcloud.com/heos2a03/ceyx Maybe

theres a lot of old module stuff thats really melancholy, when i get home ill be able to give more comprehensive recommendations, but dsck is good, not exactly "dark" id say, but certainly melancholy
https://soundcloud.com/dsck

theres a few tracks on my album that are melancholy-ish
https://deadbliprecords.bandcamp.com/al … sages-demo

Melancholy? Yeah.

Falling for a square
https://fallingforasquare.bandcamp.com/ … 96-forever

J. Arthur Keenes
https://thejarthurkeenesband.bandcamp.c … est-violin

One of mine perhaps... Over the mountains and over the seas, there is hope.
https://calaveralovesyou.bandcamp.com/t … re-is-hope

a lot of suggestions in here are artists who use stuff other than LSDJ, in case that part of the original question was important to you..if its not, then most of what i did as environmental sound collapse would count, so would my stuff under my new project d_strct
also noticed that no one had mentioned Wet Mango or Baseck yet, which sort of surprised me

oh also, these dudes don't get nearly the love they deserve....but Greenleaf is one of the best of all time. All time.

http://greenleaf.hemlockrecords.com/alb … berry-hill

+1 for Norrin Radd. The best chipmetal out there, hands down.

Not sure if this is what your looking for, but there's an artist by the name of Stagediver that sounds pretty dark kinda heavy but overall great.

I try to make some dark, melancholic type of music if you have the time to check that out as well.
https://zetetica.bandcamp.com/album/cognizant

http://music.stress-tn.org/album/consolisation

Ah I found it! My noise! this is the waveform of a gameboy's Triangle wave run through a granualizer and distorted. Much fun https://manicsavant.bandcamp.com/track/bass-on-crack

I have a song called hidden microplay that is totally of the speedcore and it is hardcore in many different ways... you can download it... but it's a hidden track off of this album... https://b1t-w0lf.bandcamp.com/album/01 and I will be making more microplays (is what I named it, it's like an EP but a whole album within a single song)  enjoy. gotta download the whole album to get this unique song nobody knows about. it will be about what I will be basing my music sets off of. I technically have another song for you, but it's not free.... but free to listen... it's alt-chip https://wowbobwow.bandcamp.com/track/zynthrope it's really weird.... then there's this >>> https://wowbobwow.bandcamp.com/track/co … ociety-exe what I call DeathChip...  A computer synthesized-voice doing metal-licks to Noise-Dub

Heosphoros, Norrin Radd, maybe even virt.

Generally people are slightly put off during my sets because I make the gameboy do dissonant abrasive stuff, write undanceably fast shit, break stuff, scream pessimistic things about the future, and mosh into the crowd a lot. Not "metal" really; usually hardcore/harsh noise/breakcore/shitdicks

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … e-emulator

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … reattthhss

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … ked-brunch

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … /lightning

also check out dudes like overthruster, shitbird, b4byf4c3, nnnnnnnnnn, kool skull, desumate, comptroller, 10thousandfreemenandtheirfamilies, timeheater, ccdm, narwhalz of sound, ralp, abortifacient, hexadeci, and meneo

Cool thanks guys ill start searching through these

http://www.kittenrock.co.uk/?page_id=12

not very metal, more sort of techno/electronic/idm/ stuff but avoids chirpy happy lsdj stuff.

ovenrake, Secret Lab, kraettz, Dot.AY, Da Pantz,

oh and Silent Requiem Silent Requiem Silent Requiem

Well it's not LSDJ, it's all made in Klystrack.... but I do think this fits the bill for "dark and melancholic"

https://n00bstar.bandcamp.com/album/cause-and-defect

(yes... shameless self promotion)