As the subject says, I'm searching for songs that have that "post-apocolyptic" feeling. Or Sci-Fi/Fantasy in general.

Any suggestions?

30 Seconds to Mars' self-titled album has a very sci-fi field. I write Sci-fi to it myself.

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Here are some songs I can thing of... They're from a weird variety of genres, so just use whatever floats your boat.

Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
Red Right Hand - Nick Cave
The Mercy Seat - also Nick Cave
11h30 - Danger (this was a free song on itunes a couple weeks back)
The Guns of Brixton - both the original Clash version and Arcade Fire's cover
Derelict - Beck
Bukowski - Modest Mouse
Infra-Red - Placebo
Natural Anthem - Postal Service
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber - a sad song, kind of classical, but very dramatic. I recommend the version by Kronos Quartet. Come to think of it...
Ghost Opera - Kronos Quartet (very bizarre)

Kind of depends on what kind of apocolypse we're dealing with.

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- Tony Kushner, The Illusion

Within Temptation is also very good.

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If you prefer something lyric-free, I suggest the Donnie Darko soundtrack. It's almost completely instrumental and it sounds very creepy at times.

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I dont remember his name, but there's an East European composer who contributed to the soundtrack of 2001. He does these very strange, hugely choral operas about the end of the world and voyages through space and I dont know what all else. Gorgeous stuff, but very, very ethereal and very, very strange....

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I always thought "Wu-Tang Forever" had a very post-apocalyptic feel to it.
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I must offer up the glam king of Sci-Fi, David Bowie. Anything from the Ziggy Stardust years could work, or some of the newer stuff (like "I'm Afraid of Americans" - Bowie and Trent Reznor = brilliant).

Some of Patrick Wolf's stuff kind of fits my idea of post-apocalyptic, too. Songs like "Accident and Emergency" or "Tristan" have that kind of angry-glam sound that I always associate with the post-apocalyptic future.

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

I used to put together soundtracks for every major event that had me in a position to listen to music while working or driving, but I've discovered that things were pretty repetitive after, say, the sixth hour even with my gigantic music collection. One thing that really helps me these days, is access to XM Radio Online since I'm an XM subscriber. I can usually find -something- to listen to that helps me with any mood I want to get into when writing.

For example, I'm considering a sort of "post-apocalyptic dramedy", and that'll have me bouncing between the XM "Liquid Metal" station for hardcore and miscellaneous heavy metal. A few longer trips to the 80's channel as it's a period piece. Of course with me, these are pretty much my typical rotation anyhow, but the basic message is that what's helped for me is to incorporate a lack of control over what I hear into the writing process. If I know every song coming up, I find myself more easily falling into a rut.

... However, on reflection I can always suggest at least one song: "Land of Confusion", either the Genesis version for a good 80's/cold war vibe or the cover by Disturbed for something more modern.

If you're looking for a post-apocalyptic soundtrack, look no further than Godspeed You Black Emperor! (or, as they have recently been renamed, Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

If you need a specific song, try The Dead Flag Blues or East Hastings, but really all of their music is spectacular.

While writing, I listen to GYBE almost exclusively, unless I'm listening to jazz.

FYI, a number of their songs were used in 28 Days Later, so you've probably heard their music and didn't know it.

Depends on what sort of post-apocalypse your story takes place in -- or, conversely, what sort of feeling you want.

For a colder, more rural apocalypse -- Cormac McCarthy's The Road kind of stuff -- I'd have to recommend Current 93 (especially Black Ships Ate the Sky, and particularly Bonnie "Prince" Billy's version of "Idumæa." Other good music along those lines: Sol Invictus' Against the Modern World, Agalloch's The Mantle and Ashes Against the Grain (if you've a tolerance for death-metal-ish vocals).

Tori Amos' cover of "Raining Blood" works well for this kind of thing, too.

If you've got a more of a sci-fi/cyberpunk future, I'd highly recommend Killing Joke's catalogue. Like, pretty much all of it. Very dark, dirty, ugly, tribal industrial-punk stuff that's perfect for conjuring up spiky-haired gangs roaming the garbage-strewn streets of a post-industrial futuristic dystopia. The Sisters of Mercy's Floodland -- along with the singles collected on Some Girls Wander by Mistake -- would also slot in well here.

And if it's more of an Orwellian, futuristic-fascist state you're in the market for: Arcade Fire's Neon Bible.

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time plotting and scoring apocalypses.