Mohs Rock Metal / Level-5

Genres: Most Hard Rock, harder Progressive Rock, Early Punk Rock, Post-Industrial, Experimental Rock, Rap Rock, soft Hair Metal ^note  As well as the very softest metal in general., softer Industrial, softer Post-Hardcore, harder Alternative Rock, Power Pop, harder Futurepop, Hyperpop, harder Jazz Fusion, the softest Industrial Hip-Hop and Trap Metal, traditional Dubstep, harder Shoegazing, Post-Grunge, Noise Pop, softer Grunge

Matching mineral: Apatite

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• Silly Love and Wall Street Shuffle (10cc)
• bloodstains ^note  Most of the song is a 2 or 3, but the ending is an 11. and Doritos & Fritos ^note  Borderline 6. (100 gecs)
• Cyclone (12012)
• Mourning Soul ^note Borderline 6 and Gates of Heaven (Absurd) ^note  And if you want to see what terrible production can do to a song's hardness, check out the older versions of Mourning Soul and especially Gates of Heaven
• Crawl (Absynthesis)^note Here because of being too loud for level 4.
• Highway to Hell, You Shook Me All Night Long, T.N.T., and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC/DC)
• Same Old Song and Dance (Aerosmith)
• The New Black ^note  Borderline 6 overall. (Aesthetic Perfection)
• Miss Murder ^note  The bridge goes up to a light 7, and keeps this from a 4. and Medicate (AFI)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (The Alan Parsons Project) ^note  This is APP's hardest song. The instruments are at a solid 4, but Arthur Brown's Large Ham vocals make it a somewhat low 5.
• Down in a Hole, Got Me Wrong, Private Hell and Choke (Alice in Chains)
• Beyond The Lights (Extended Mix) ^note  Borderline 6. (Aly & Fila)
• One Last Goodbye (Anathema)
• Summer Dive (An Cafe)
• 4 Degress (ANOHNI)
• Black Lodge (Anthrax)
• Girl/Boy Song (Aphex Twin)
• Escape to Beyond the Planet of the Super Ape (Apollo 440)
• S.H.O.D.A.N. (Apoplexy)
• I Like to Rock and Roller (April Wine)
• ад реален (Aqua Fina)
• Normal Person (Arcade Fire)
• Hollow Crown (Architects) ^note  First part of the song is 2-3, second part is a 7-8.
• Arabella (Arctic Monkeys)
• La La (Ashlee Simpson)
• The Ace, The Only (Atlas Plug)
• Guren No Yumiya (Attack on Titan)
• Dael, Dropp ^note  Not a 6 due to the intro., and nodezsh (Autechre)
• Opheliac (Emilie Autumn) ^note  The instrumentation is soft enough for a 3 or 4, but the Industrial influences and Emilie's Harsh Vocals puts this song above those levels.
• This Means War (Avenged Sevenfold)^note Probably the hardest level 5 song.
• Burn It Down ^note  One of the harder Level 5 examples thanks to the scratchy synths, Aaron Bruno's very hammy vocals and the overall fast pace., THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT ^note  A noticeably softer song than Burn It Down, but still ranks at a solid 5 due to its grunge-y musicianship. and Sail (AWOLNATION)
• Lunatic Tears, theme for 11eyes (Ayane)
• Red Shift (Ayria)
• Spaceman (Babylon Zoo) ^note  The intro and ending are a 2.
• Can't Get Enough, Movin' On, and Good Lovin' Gone Bad (Bad Company)
• Victory (Bad Religion)
• Disrupted Original and Last Legs (Kelly Bailey, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two soundtracks)
• It Ends (Danny Baranowsky, Super Meat Boy soundtrack)
• Bart Goes Downtown and Halloween Havoc (Marc Baril, The Simpsons Hit & Run soundtrack)
• dlp 4 (William Basinski)
• Crawling After You (Bass Drum of Death) ^note  Borderline 6.
• Bass Head ^note  A soft 5 due to the amount of softer sections. and Timestretch (Bassnectar)
• Belgrade (Battle Tapes)
• (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party) and No Sleep Till Brooklyn (Beastie Boys)
• Taxman, Hey Bulldog, Yer Blues, and Revolution ^note  The aggressively distorted guitars puts this closer to a 6. (The Beatles)
• E-Pro (Beck)
• Shaar - Landstalker Stalkin' (David Bergeaud, Ratchet: Deadlocked soundtrack)
• In My Eyes (Best Coast)
• Don't Lie to Me (Big Star)
• In the Dark (The Birthday Massacre)
• Army of Me and Declare Independence ^note  The more intense later section of the song move this up from a 4. (Björk)
• Another End and Quest (This Can't Be All) (Black Gryph0n & Baasik)
• Young Men Dead, The First Vietnamese War and Bad Vibrations (The Black Angels)
• Remedy, Jealous Again (The Black Crowes)
• Stormy High (Black Mountain)
• Endourban and Xibalba Road Metamorph ^note  Borderline 6 for the later parts of the song at that level. (Black Rain)
• Berlin (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
• No Depression In New Zealand (Blam Blam Blam)
• Mr. Sandman ^note  Borderline 6. (Blind Guardian)
• Dammit (blink-182)
• Song 2 ^note  Most of Blur's early and middle songs are in levels 1 and 2, and from their self-titled 5th album onward they moved frequently between the first four levels with more songs in levels 3 and 4, but Song 2 is an unusual and a notable level 5 for them, Crazy Beat ^note A borderline 6., Movin' On (Blur)
• Droid Void and Mask Search (Andy Blythe & Marten Joustra, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Finding Nemo soundtracks)
• Gyroscope (Boards of Canada)
• You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi) ^note  The song's catchiness prevents it from being a 6.
• Flirt Flirt Oh It Hurts and The Empire Of Toads (Bossfight)
• Foreplay/Long Time (Boston)
• Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Watch that Man and Diamond Dogs (David Bowie)
• Industrial Accident (Allister Brimble, Descent, Macintosh version soundtrack)
• Ain't It Funny (Danny Brown)
• Smokin' in the Boys Room (Brownsville Station)
• Konya Wa Hurricane (Bubblegum Crisis soundtrack)
• Jonathan Jet-Coaster (BUCK-TICK) ^note  Places here on a musical level, though the chorus being a Cluster F-Bomb and the implications of death by sex would place it around a 6 or 7 on the Mohs Scaleof Lyrical Hardness.
• Rainbow Man (Busy P)
• Boogie Bam Dance (Caramella Girls)
• Lycanthropy (Cardi)
• Sullivan (Caroline's Spine) ^note  Would be a solid 6 if not for the quiet interludes.
• Just What I Needed and Magic (The Cars)
• Beach Life-In-Death (2018) ^note  Most of the song is a 6, but it dips to a 3 around the middle before coming right back up to a 6 at the end, bumping it up to a 5 overall. (Car Seat Headrest)
• Reach for the Stars (Cash Cash, Sonic Colors soundtrack) ^note  Would've been a 4 if it weren't for the repetitive drums in the background.
• The Terminator (Caspa)
• Hemlock Drone Attack and Sloth Battle (Celldweller, Dead Rising 3 soundtrack)
• Blind Faith (Chase & Status ft. Liam Bailey)
• Big Eyes (Cheap Trick)
• Believe, Horse Power, and Saturate (The Chemical Brothers)
• Birthday Cake (Cibo Matto) ^note  Would probably be around 4 if not for the screamed vocals.
• Ted (Clark)
• Story 2 (clipping.)
• The Elephant Riders (Clutch)
• Riggs and Welcome to Hell (Elia Cmíral, Spec Ops: The Line soundtrack)
• With A Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker)
• A Favor House Atlantic (Coheed and Cambria)
• Chinese Sleep Chant (Coldplay) ^note Coldplay doing shoegaze. Also a rare example of them reaching this level, as they usually don't go higher than a 3.
• Shepherd's Hymn (Comrades) ^note A rare example of Harsh Vocals this low. Despite this and that much of the song near the middle is at least a 7, the first half of the song and outro bring it down to this level.
• Tender Sugar (Alias Conrad Coldwood, OFF soundtrack)
• Dollhouse (Concrete Castles)
• Cancer City Megamall and Wheel of Fortune ^note  Soft 5. (ConsumerSoftproducts, Cruelty Squad soundtrack)
• Exploration of Space (Cosmic Gate)
• Zombie (The Cranberries) ^note The guitars in the chorus, beginning, and end are a 6, while the rest of the song is a 2.
• Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, and Crossroads (Cream)
• Fortunate Son, Commotion, Ramble Tamble and Suzie Q (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• Higher (Creed)
• lost (CRIM3S)
• Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
• His World (Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) soundtrack, remix) and Watch Me Fly (Crush 40)
• Trip Like I Do ^note  A soft 5 overall due to the level 2 intro. The version with Filter, (Can't You) Trip Like I Do, is a 6 due to the added heavy metal guitars. and Weapons of Mass Distortion (The Crystal Method)
• Night in Motion (Cubic 22)
• Fire Woman (The Cult)
• Contact ^note  Would be a 4, but the track rises in hardness near the end of the song, jumping to a 7 and finally a hard 9., Da Funk ^note  Initially starts at 2 with just the beats, then becomes a 4 when the main melody comes in and a 5 when the synths pick up just before the 2:30 mark. Overall, a soft 5. and Technologic (Daft Punk)
• New Rose (The Damned)
• Blooting Hornets, Nothing But Rust and Now Or Never ^note  Borderline 6. (Danger, Haven (2020) soundtrack)
• Long Live the New Fresh (Danimal Cannon)
• Tri Poloski (Davay)
• Deja Vu (Dave Rodgers)
• Misirlou (Dick Dale) ^note  This may be the earliest rock song at this level to gain widespread recognition.
• Repetition (DD Smash)
• Ghosts 'n' Stuff (feat Rob Swire) (deadmau5)
• Voice of the Soul (Death) ^note  A very rare example of a death metal band dropping to this level!
• Black History Month (Death from Above 1979)
• Eh and Beware (Death Grips)
• Can You Seen Straight? (The Death Set)
• Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
• Rock of Ages (Def Leppard)
• Hole in the Earth ^note  Borderline 6. (Deftones)
• Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo (Rick Derringer)
• Empire (Dictate)
• Red Battle (Sascha Dikiciyan, Dead Rising 3 soundtrack)
• Black Bubblegum (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
• Freak Scene (Dinosaur Jr.) ^note  The aggressively distorted guitars in the solo makes this a borderline 6.
• Rainbow In The Dark (Dio)
• THE FINAL (Dir en grey) ^note  Borderline 6.
• Expresso Love and Money For Nothing (Dire Straits)
• Overburdened (Disturbed) ^note  Their softest metal song.
• It's a Dream (DJ Analyzer Mix) (DJ Dean & DJ Analyzer)
• Wax Trip (Roofie Side) (DJ Inx)
• Theory of Everything 2 (Dj-Nate, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• Who We Be ^note  Rare example of a straight-up hip hop song at this level, due to DMX's extremely guttural vocal delivery. (DMX)
• Snail (Do As Infinity)
• We Are Rockstars (Does It Offend You, Yeah?)
• Homicide (Dom & Roland)
• China Grove (Doobie Brothers)
• The End ^note  Pretty hardcore for 1967. and Waiting for the Sun (The Doors)
• Hungry Like The Wolf (Duran Duran)
• Life in the Fast Lane, Victim of Love, and Those Shoes (Eagles)
• Funktion (Ed Rush & Optical)
• Free Ride (Edgar Winter Group) ^note  While it's a low 5, it's still a good example of how hard folk rock can get.
• you should see me in a crown (Billie Eilish) ^note  A soft 5 due to the harder chorus being balanced out by gentler parts. This and "Happier Than Ever" are two of Billie's hardest songs to date.
• Die Interimsliebenden, Let's Do It a Dada ^note  One of Neubauten's harder and noisier 2000s songs. and Z.N.S. (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• Staggered (Ekstrak, Need for Speed: Carbon soundtrack)
• Gay Bar (Electric Six)
• The Little Things (Danny Elfman, Wanted soundtrack)
• SugarCrash! (ElyOtto)
• Kim (Eminem) ^note  The instrumentals are a 3, but the screamed vocals drag it up. The lyrics, on the other hands, are a solid 11 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness.
• Heaven Rd. 2 (from The Impossible Game) and Pneumatic Tokyo (EnV)
• Get the Funk Out (Extreme)
• Yellow Bream ^note  The guitar portions are 6, but the rest of the song is softer than that. (F-Fields, Jet Set Radio soundtrack)
• Stay With Me, Miss Judy's Farm and Borstal Boys (Faces)
• Acid 8000, Star 69 and Ya Mama (Fatboy Slim)
• Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) (Don Felder)
• Paralyzer (Finger Eleven)
• Freefall (Fixmer/McCarthy)
• Mellann (The Flashbulb)
• The Day We'll Be Gone (Fleshgod Apocalypse) ^note  The opening instrumentation is a 2-3. The metal sections play with the rather slow, soaring orchestration, blunting the hardness from an 8 to a 5-6. This is probably the softest song on this scale that's still clearly recognizable as Death Metal. The 2020 acoustic version of this song is a 1.
• Fool For the City and Slow Ride (Foghat) ^note  The long version of "Slow Ride" goes up to a very high 6 at the end.
• Rockin' the Suburbs (Ben Folds)
• Boss ^note  Solid 5. (Tim Follin, Equinox soundtrack)
• Best of You (Foo Fighters)
• Pinkie Pie Loves Sugar (Foozogz) ^note  Borderline 6 for how it sounds metallic in brief moments, but most of it is clean enough to be here.
• Hot Blooded and Dirty White Boy (Foreigner)
• Burn in Despair!, Last Goodbye ^note  Would be closer to 6 if not for the middle/end parts and the slightly softer intro. and Vs. Susie (Toby Fox, Undertale and Deltarune soundtracks)
• Fear (Adam Freeland, Rez soundtrack) ^note  Not a 4 and a borderline 6 due to the heavy texture of the beats in some places.
• Headhunter V1.0 ^note  The yelled vocals and some of the heavier moments later on push it up from 4. Apoptygma Berzerk - Kajamoto's remix is a 6. (Front 242)
• Humanity (World War Three) ^note  Would probably be a 4 if not for the more distorted parts. (Front Line Assembly)
• Maschine Zeit and The Race Is On (Funker Vogt)
• Itooshii Hito no Tame ni ^Translation For the Sake of My Beloved Fushigi Yuugi's opening (Lyrics here) ^note  The first stanza is level 2 for its vocal distortion, but the hard rock orchestra begins immediately afterwards and it doesn't let go, thus putting the song here.
• Supervixen, Why Do You Love Me and Subhuman (Garbage)
• 11:11 and Train ^note  Starts at 4 and ends at 7. (Gearwhore)
• Pursuit and Obsession ^note  Starts at level 4. (Gesaffelstein)
• Dance Macabre (Ghost)
• Serotonin (girl in red) ^note Despite the softer chorus, the noise-influenced verses and dark themes put it at this level.
• Get It Together (The Go! Team)
• Doom Hunter Base (Ambient) ^note  The more intense sections bring it up from 4. and Voices of Urdak ^note  Starts out at 1 and builds up to an 8 before dropping to 1 again. (Mick Gordon, Doom Eternal soundtrack)
• Punk (Gorillaz)
• American Idiot and Holiday (Green Day)
• Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars) (Grinderman)
• Strawberry Trapper (Guilty Kiss)
• Magical Girl (Guitar Vader)
• Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns N' Roses) ^note A softer level 5 example, Slash's guitar riff and solo push it above a 4.
• Theatre of Redemption (Harmony)
• Flagpole Sitta (Harvey Danger)
• War Machine (Matthew E. Harwood, Castle Crashers soundtrack)
• Boss Area, Simulation Level 35/50 and Real Battle Final (Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Raiden Fighters Jet soundtrack)
• Cannonball (Headless Horseman)
• Fight for the Future (HeartCatch Pretty Cure! soundtrack)
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
• Dirty Laundry (Don Henley) ^note  With the guitar solos, it's a pretty hard 5, leaning toward 6.
• Hex Girls and Earth, Wind, Fire and Air (Hex Girls) ^note  Yes, this is a fictional band from Scooby-Doo.
• Yell Dead Cell (Norihiko Hibino, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty soundtrack)
• Genkai Haretsu (hide) ^note  Could have been a 4 but the slightly heavier guitar puts it here.
• My Name Is Human (Highly Suspect)
• Free Tibet (Vini Vici Remix) (Hilight Tribe)
• Tick Tick Boom (The Hives) ^note  Would have been a 6 if the guitars were more downtuned.
• Celebrity Skin (Hole) ^note  Mostly a 6, but there are some sections that are at level 2 that average it out here.
• Fist Bump (Hoobastank, Sonic Forces soundtrack)
• Slide (Billy Howerdel & Dean Menta, Jak X soundtrack)
• Stars (Hum) ^note  Most of the song is a 6, the mellow parts lower it a bit.
• 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)
• Makes No Sense At All, Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely (Hüsker Dü)
• Consumer (Icon of Coil)
• I Love It (Icona Pop) ^note  A rare example of electro-pop reaching a 5. The noise pop influences and shouted vocals (by not only by both Icona Pop members, but also Charli XCX simultaneously) brings it here.
• Rebel Yell (Billy Idol) ^note  This would sit comfortably at a 6, but the soft interludes keep it here.
• Blame Myself (Artimaze Bootleg) (Illenium & Tori Kelly)
• Numb (ill niño) ^note  The guitars keep it from getting a 4.
• Stellar (Incubus)
• Vampyre Erotica (Inkubus Sukkubus)
• Digging In Your Soul (Insekt Remix) (Insekt)
• Who Do You Think (Interpol)
• Silence (Intoxication Advice)
• Can I Play With Madness? (Iron Maiden) ^note  Pretty good example of what pure metal sounds like at this level
• Mountains in an Angry Sky (Jun Ishikawa & Hirokazu Ando, Kirby: Triple Deluxe soundtrack)
• The Realest (Issues) ^note  Hard to pin down. Most of the song is influenced by teen band-like pop and funk, but their usual metalcore influence, complete with some screams, still shows up a bit, bumping it up some. We'll settle with a hard 5.
• Febreze (ft. 2 Chainz) and To Ü (ft. AlunaGeorge) ^note One part in the middle reaches level 6. (Jack Ü)
• The Causeway ^note  Builds up to an 8 at the end. (Henry Jackman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier soundtrack)
• Mountain Song (Jane's Addiction) ^note  Borderline 6.
• Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)
• I Love Rock n' Roll (Joan Jett)
• Shades of Grey (Billy Joel)
• (Going to Get Myself) A Meal Ticket (Elton John)
• Living After Midnight, Head Out to the Highway, and You've Got Another Thing Coming (Judas Priest)
• Waking Up (Julien-K, Shadow the Hedgehog soundtrack)
• Genesis (Justice)
• Limewash (Barrelled) (Karenn)
• You Gotta Love Me, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace's ending theme (Kato*Fuku)
• Launch Hearts and Yummy ^note  Some parts reach 6. (Jake Kaufman, Mighty Switch Force! soundtrack)
• Blammed ^note  Hard 5. and M.I.L.F ^note  It's mostly a 4, with some parts reaching 5, but the beat drop reaches a 6, elevating the overall level to a 5. (KawaiSprite, Friday Night Funkin' soundtrack)
• Rest Stop (Kero Kero Bonito) ^note A 1 at first. Then, it suddenly turns into a 6, and stays like that for the rest of the way until the end. Even though some sections are of lower harshness than the first part that is a 6, the disturbing mood is enough to keep it up.
• Cowboy ^note  Balances out here, as the first half of the song is a 4, and the second half is a 6. (Kid Rock)
• Jenny Was a Friend of Mine and All These Things That I've Done ^note The intro is a 1. Also noticeably heavier than "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine", due to a lesser use of electronics, but still not quite hard enough to reach a 6. (The Killers)
• You Really Got Me, All Day And All Of The Night (The Kinks) ^note  Both songs were pretty hardcore for 1964. The Van Halen cover of "You Really Got Me" is a 6.
• Rock And Roll All Nite (Alive version), Deuce, Love Gun (KISS)
• Achtung!, What Do You Know?, What A Race, Witness and Professional Killer (KMFDM)
• Begin Again (Knife Party)
• Bowser’s Theme ^note  Borderline 6, would be an actual 6 if the soundfont was heavier. And yes, this is from a Mario game.(Koji Kondo, Super Mario 64 soundtrack)
• I'm Only Joking (KONGOS)
• Re-sublimity (Kotoko, Destiny of the Shrine Maiden soundtrack) ^note  Despite the futurepop influences, its intro and accessible sound keep it at a soft 5.
• Masturbating Smile (Kuroyume)
• Pretend We're Dead (L7)
• Closer and I Like It (Lacuna Coil) ^note  The overall more poppy tone brings them to a 5. Both are rare examples of gothic metal being this low.
• How Is the Air Up There (The La De Da's)
• Vs. Sayu (ft. Nikki Simmons) (James Landino, No Straight Roads soundtrack) ^note  Not a 4 due to some parts being a 6.
• Black Dog, Rock And Roll and Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
• Russell in the Hole and Vendetta Bullies ^note  Borderline 6. (Shawn Lee, Bully soundtrack)
• Help Save the Youth of America from Exploding (Less Than Jake)
• TKO (Le Tigre) ^note  A good example of dance-punk reaching a 5. The slightly ear-splitting chorus plays a big part in that.
• 11PM ^note  Borderline 6 for the buzzy synths. (LICK & CUBED)
• Mental Central Dialog (Lifelover)
• Because It's Midnite(Limozeen)
• Pushing Me Away, In My Remains and Breaking The Habit ^note  The fast-paced drum and bass beats and Chester's screaming get it up to a hard 5 despite the lack of distorted guitars. On the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness this is easily a hard 9. (Linkin Park)
• Nintendo (Liquid Stranger ft. Robotti)
• COSMiCA (Livetune)
• Bloodhaus and In a Bar/In a Fight (The Lizardtones)
• Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins)
• Rooftops (Lostprophets)
• Seven and Seven Is (Love) ^note  The instrumental features some fairly noisy psychedelic guitar, but it's the shouted vocals that really bring this up to this level.
• Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow (Elsie Lovelock, Hazbin Hotel soundtrack) ^note  The pop rock melody is definitely too fast for 4, but not metallic enough for 6.
• Working for the Weekend (Loverboy)
• Mascot, Wrath Battle and Greed Battle (Oleksa Lozowchuk, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3 soundtracks)
• Infinite Domain ^note  Starts at 1 and gets increasingly heavier over time. (Lustmord)
• United States of Whatever (Liam Lynch)
• THE VENGEANCE OF THOSE FORGOTTEN IN DARKNESS and Those Who Forget History (Jami Lynne, OMORI soundtrack)
• Workin' for MCA, Call Me the Breeze, Saturday Night Special (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Krystle (URL Cyber Palace Mix) and 覆​面​調​査​員 (GabberTrap Mix) (Machine Girl)
• Latin Industries and Movement Proposition (Kevin MacLeod)
• Database (theme of Log Horizon) (Man With a Mission)
• Boss 1 (Manami Matsumae, Carrier Air Wing soundtrack)
• Crash Dash, Skull Rock and War Factory (Josh Mancell, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Team Racing and Jak 3 soundtracks)
• Putting Holes in Happiness ^note  Additionally, the rest of the album it's from, Eat Me, Drink Me. (Marilyn Manson)
• Rage of Sparta (Gerard Marino, God of War III soundtrack)
• L'Via L'Viaquez (The Mars Volta) ^note  The song goes down to a high 2 and up to a low 7, but most of the song is at this level.
• Battle! Legendary Pokémon (Junichi Masuda, Pokémon Black and White soundtrack)
• Helios (Matenrou Opera)
• Overflowing Emotions ^note  Borderline 6 for the speeding up sections. and Universal Dance (Masaya Matsuura and Laugh and Peace, Vib-Ribbon soundtrack)
  • Power Off! Power On! (Masaya Matsuura, Shigeyoshi Kawago and Everett Bradley, Um Jammer Lammy soundtrack) ^note  Edges the line between 4 and 5; ultimately gets up here due to the guitar work provided by Lammy in-game.
• All Along The Watchtower (With Cylon Intro) (Bear McCreary, Battlestar Galactica (2003) soundtrack)
• Fingerbang ^note The dubstep sections are a 6; the rest of the song is a 4 and Press Start (MDK, Geometry Dash and Geometry Dash SubZero soundtracks)
• Prime Audio Soup (Meat Beat Manifesto)
• Bat Out of Hell (Meat Loaf)
• A Tout le Monde and I'll Get Even (Megadeth)
• An Die Freude (Shoji Meguro, Catherine soundtrack)
• The Hero of the Day ^note  There's brief moments where the song becomes a 7, moving it here from a 4., Ronnie and Where the Wild Things Are (Metallica)
• New York ^note  A soft 5. (Microchip League)
• Identity ^note  The bit towards the end pushes it up from a borderline 5. (mind.in.a.box)
• Ordinary (MIGGS)
• Flirtin' With Disaster (Molly Hatchet)
• Rock Candy, Bad Motor Scooter and Rock the Nation (Montrose)
• You Will Be Perfect ^note  Reaches borderline 6 at certain points. (Mike Morasky, Portal 2 soundtrack)
• San Francisco (The Mowgli's)
• Iron God: Sakupen Hell Yes RMX (mr-jazzman)
• Rooftops (Sean Murray, Call of Duty: Black Ops soundtrack)
• Teenagers (My Chemical Romance)
• Funky Dealer and Wrapped in Black (Hideki Naganuma, Jet Set Radio Future and Sonic Rush soundtracks)
• Burning Body ^note  Ayako Saso's arrangement is a borderline 7, as the main part is around level 6, but some parts are borderline 8., Thrust and Thrash! ^note  The Rev. 2016 version is a 6 for the heavier arrangement in some parts. Ayako Saso's arrangement is a borderline 7 for a few parts that reach that level. and Scaffold ^note  The Extra version and Jake Kaufman's arrangement are both 6. and Nimbus (Manabu Namiki, DoDonPachi DaiOuJou, Battle Garegga, Ketsui and Armed Police Batrider soundtracks)
• White Acropolis (The Base) ^note  The calmer bits at the beginning and end keeps it from a 6. (Mariko Nanba, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) soundtrack)
• Nuvole E Lenzuola (Negramaro) ^note  Translation: "Clouds and Sheets".
• Fluchtreflex (Neuroticfish)
• Personality Crisis (New York Dolls)
• Lost (Thomas Newman, Finding Nemo soundtrack)
• The Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nails)
• Rape Me (Nirvana)
• Tabuu (Takahiro Nishi, Super Smash Bros. Brawl soundtrack)
• Final Boss (Nitro Fun)
• Join in the Chant ^note  Gets up here due to the shouted vocals; the instrumentals are 3. (Nitzer Ebb)
• Crab Rave (Noisestorm)
• Amsterdam (Nothing but Thieves)
• Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
• Cigarettes & Alcohol (Oasis)
• The Family Disease (Oceana)
• Unfortunate Discovery ^note  The original version, What Once was Lost, is much softer. (Martin O'Donnell, Halo: Combat Evolved: Anniversary soundtrack)
• Amazed, Come Out and Play and Self Esteem (The Offspring)
• Radical Train (The Chase) (Tomoya Ohtani, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) soundtrack)
• Orbital Rock (Hiroshi Okubo, Ridge Racer 7 soundtrack)
• Let's Take This Outside (The One and Only PPL MVR)
• Demerol ^note  Starts at 1, but gets more chaotic and disorienting in the second half. (Oneohtrix Point Never)
• Breathe (Oomph!)
• Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne)
• Chaoz Airflow (ParagonX9) ^note  The soft break in the middle prevents it from becoming a 6.
• Ignorance and Misery Business (Paramore)
• Fuck the Pain Away (Peaches)
• Even Flow and Rearviewmirror (Pearl Jam)
• High (ft. Nicole Millar) (Peking Duk)
• Fasten Your Seatbelt and Propane Nightmares (Pendulum)
• Tell Me Why (Penpals, Berserk (1997) soundtrack)
• Society (Pennywise)
• The Outsider ^note  The ending and aggressive delivery make this a very hard 5. (A Perfect Circle)
• Erised (Periphery) ^note  You can definitely hear the djent metal grooves, and the guitar solo is probably worthy of about a 7, but much of the song is too subdued to justify any level higher (it also lacks any MetalScreams that might increase the level and the song is generally fairly slow.)
• This Means War! (Petra)
• Runnin' Down a Dream (Tom Petty)
• Open Your Eyes (Phace)
• polyriddim (phonon)
• Titan (Photek, WipEout 2097 soundtrack) ^note  The beats make this a borderline 6.
• Caraphernalia (Pierce the Veil) ^note  Borderline 6 due to Jeremy McKinnon's guest vocals.
• One of These Days, What Shall We Do Now, Run Like Hell and Young Lust (Pink Floyd)
• Monkey Gone to Heaven (The Pixies)
• Ça Plane Pour Moi (Plastic Bertrand)
• Escape from the City (Ted Poley and Tony Harnell, Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack)
• Next to You (The Police)
• Halo (Porcupine Tree) ^note Borderline 6 due to the metal part in the middle.
• Machine Gun (Portishead)
• Jerry Was a Race Car Driver and Wynona's Big Brown Beaver (Primus)
• Break and Enter, Colours, Narayan, Poison, Scienide, and Smack My Bitch Up (The Prodigy)
• Tormented With Fire ^note  Starts at level 1. The beats that come it make it a soft 4. Then it builds up to around a soft 7 due to the volume of background noise before becoming 1 again. (Prurient)
• They're Still Out There ^note  Starts at 1 before becoming a 4 and eventually building up to a 6 or 7. (Mac Quayle, The Last of Us Part II soundtrack)
• Now I'm Here, Sheer Heart Attack, Ogre Battle ^note  Borderline 6., Fat Bottomed Girls, and Tie Your Mother Down (Queen)
• In My Head and Regular John (Queens of the Stone Age)
• What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, Finest Worksong, Begin the Begin, and Crush With Eyeliner (R.E.M.)
• Just, Idioteque and The National Anthem(Radiohead)
• Man on the Silver Mountain (Rainbow)
• Tinfoil (Rainer Maria) ^note  Borderline 4. Ultimately the screaming vocals push it over to this.
• Engel (Rammstein)
• Blitzkrieg Bop and Poison Heart (The Ramones)
• Power of Equality and Especially in Michigan (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Gang Leader Battle Pt. 2 (Brian Reitzell, Dead Rising 3 soundtrack)
• Bastards of Young, Alex Chilton and Left of the Dial (The Replacements)
• Ready to Go (Republica)
• Starvation (REPULSIVE)
• Rainbow's End (Resurrection Band)
• Hypnocurrency (REZZ & deadmau5) ^note  Some parts may go up to 6.
• Flight of the Bumblebee (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) ^note  Borderline 6 due to its blistering speed and disorienting dynamics. At its time, however, it would have easily been a VERY HARD 11.
• Satellite (Rise Against)
• For Want Of (Rites of Spring)
• The Time Warp (The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack)
• All-American Bitch (Olivia Rodrigo)
• Calm Before The Storm (BiXX Remix) (Ronski Speed ft. Lucy Saunders)
• Madness (Rozebud, The Tricky Mod soundtrack)
  • Juno Songs' vocal cover is a borderline 7.
• Cherry Bomb (The Runaways)
• La Villa Strangiato (Rush)
• Skyfire Ace (Sabrepulse)
• Greedy Game (Tomoko Sasaki, Ristar soundtrack)
• Last Boss ^note  Starts at a 3/borderline 4 and ends at level 6. (Go Sato, Raiden Fighters 2 soundtrack)
• Princess of the Night (Saxon)
• Amputation (Scattle, Super Meat Boy soundtrack)
• Wind of Change, Still Loving You and Holiday(Scorpions)
• Ross Ross Ross (SebastiAn)
• Tonight (Seether)
• Regenerator ^note  A soft 5; the electronic drone and the tense atmosphere put it higher than 4. (Misao Senbongi & Shusaku Uchiyama, Resident Evil 4 soundtrack)
• Anarchy in the U.K. (Sex Pistols)
• Mask Walk (Kevin Sherwood, Call of Duty: Black Ops soundtrack)
• Bring Your Adz (Jake Shimabukuro) ^note  Jake shows us you CAN get this heavy with a ukulele.
• Naraku no Hana and Super Scription of Data (Eiko Shimamiya, Higurashi: When They Cry soundtrack)
• Thwomp Caverns (Yoko Shimomura, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time soundtrack)
• Monochrome No Kiss (main theme for Black Butler) (SID)
• Sinking and Underwater Prom Queens (Pedro Silva, OMORI soundtrack)
• There's No Secrets This Year (Silversun Pickups)
• Love in a Void (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
• Weak ^note  Goes up from a 4 due to the soaring final minute. (Skunk Anansie)
• Run Run Away (Slade)
• Jumpers ^note  This is easily a 9 lyrically, though and Entertain (Sleater-Kinney)
• If You Can't Hang (Sleeping with Sirens) ^note  The guitars are fairly loud, but the lack of a crunchy, metallic tone keeps it from going higher.
• Bone Church (Slipknot)
• Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am and Song of a Baker (The Small Faces)
• FROGKIND (SNAILS)
• Vầng Trăng Sầu (Sói đen)
• Delight (Solitary Experiments)
• The Witch (The Sonics) ^note  As with The Kinks above, pretty hardcore for 1964.
• 100% and Kissability (Sonic Youth)
• LEMONADE (SOPHIE)
• Murder (Soulji)
• Head Down (Soundgarden)
• Mecha Bandicoot (Spiralmouth, Crash Twinsanity soundtrack)
• Babylon (Original Mix) (Splash)
• Necronomicon (Splatter Squall)
• Give It a Whirl (Split Enz)
• Do You Know Squarepusher ^note  The glitched drums and sound effects put it above a 3, and it gets heavier towards the end, peaking at a 6. Overall, it's at this level. and Planetarium (Squarepusher)
• The Stroke, Lonely is the Night (Billy Squier)
• Decoy (Stakka & Skynet)
• Sun King (State of Mind)
• All Around My Hat (Steeleye Span)
• Bodhisattva (Steely Dan)
• Gesang der Junglinge (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
• Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart, Meatplow, Vasoline, and Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)
• The Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)^note Probably a soft 5 overall due to many soft, slow passages barely worth a 1. On the other hand, it can go up as high as 7 or 8, which is really impressive for any classical piece, and back in the day, the whole work was a definite 11, riot or not (with the hardest parts being completely off the scale back then).
• Oppression (Studio Pixel, Cave Story soundtrack)
• Animal Nitrate, Metal Mickey, and The Drowners ^note Borderline 6. (Suede)
• Bio Wars (Kōichi Sugiyama, Godzilla vs. Biollante soundtrack)
• Hyper Enough (Superchunk)
• Gruesome (The Surfdusters) ^note  It's a borderline 5 at first, then goes up to a 5 bordering on 6 due to the added distortion on the riffs. The guitar solos starting after 1:20 are 6, and the breakdown is a borderline 7/hard 6 due to the more intense percussion and faster guitar playing. The remainder of the song is a borderline 6 again, and overall, it's a hard 5/borderline 6.
• Prowler (Surgeon)
• Radio Fireworks (Original Mix) ^note  Starts at a 3/borderline 4 but eventually turns into a 6. (Surkin)
• Dark Side Of The Moon (Ferry Tayle Remix) ^note  A soft 5 overall due to its melodic tones and the initial beats not being as heavy as the climax. (Susana)
• Hell Raiser (Sweet)
• 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
• Make Damn Sure (Taking Back Sunday)
• Turn the Lights Off (Tally Hall)
• Elephant (Tame Impala)
• Where do I go now? (Patricia Taxxon)
• Sssselvanegra!! ^note  The more drum-heavy parts put this close to 6. (Team Mekano)
• Cocotte (Album Version) ^note  The first part is a 5, the second is a 2, and the third is a 7. (Teenage Bad Girl)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) theme song (Season 1-7) (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) soundtrack)
• Scumbag Blues (Them Crooked Vultures)
• Here's Your Future (The Thermals)
• Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood & The Destroyers)
• Break (Three Days Grace)
• I Come from the Mountain (Thee Oh Sees)
• The Boys Are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy)
• Speed Queen (Thunderpussy)
• Born to Lose and Chinese Rocks (Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers)
• Human Om ^note  The heavier parts bring it above 2. (Tobacco)
• You Are Smart (Akitaka Tohyama, Katamari Damacy soundtrack)
• Don't Chain My Heart (Toto)
• Control (Juno Reactor Instrumental) (Traci Lords, Mortal Kombat: The Movie soundtrack)
• Talk to You Later (The Tubes)
• Heart of Courage (Two Steps from Hell)
• Evening Star (Týr) ^note  While some elements of Folk Metal and Progressive Metal are present in this song, it's still very clearly a Power Ballad.
• El Gigante ^note  Borderline 6. (Shusaku Uchiyama & Misao Senbongi, Resident Evil 4 soundtrack)
• Rock Bottom (UFO) ^note  Borderline 6.
• Captive (Ume)
• Maquinas de Guerra (U.M.M.)
• Gun, Graveyard Shift and Factory Belt (Uncle Tupelo)
• Teenage Kicks, Jimmy Jimmy and My Perfect Cousin (The Undertones)
• Incantation for Tape ^note  Up here due to its chaotic and somewhat unsettling sound. (Vladimir Ussachevsky)
• Runnin' With the Devil, Panama, and Ain't Talkin' Bout Love (Van Halen)
• Hajnal ^note The orchestral sections range from 1-2, the jazz section is a 1, and the breakcore section is a 7, sometimes bordering on 8. and XIII's Dub (Venetian Snares)
• DESTINY -The Lovers- (Versailles)^note Depending on your view, either the guitar solos keep this from being a 4 or the ballad sections keep this from being a 6 or 7.
• Highly Evolved (The Vines)^note Shifts between a hard 4 and a 6 with the screamed background vocals.
• Blue Butterfly (Violet UK) ^note The Trip Hop nature of the song places it here, but keep an eye out for future versions - reorchestration for live could easily put this one up higher
• Party Hard (Andrew W.K.)
• Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
• Geometrical Denominator (from Geometry Dash) and Ricochet Love (Waterflame)
• Buddy Holly, Hash Pipe ^note a borderline 6 and California Kids (Weezer)
• To Lose My Life and E.S.T. (White Lies) ^note  The liberal use of distortion keeps both of these above a 4.
• Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
• Here I Go Again (Whitesnake) ^note  A soft 5; despite the hard rock guitars, the synths and the intro bring it down a little bit.
• Won't Get Fooled Again, My Generation ^note  Very light 5 for most of the song. The chaotic drumming and feedback at the end of the song would have been off the scale for 1965. (The Who)
• Random Name Generator (Wilco)
• The Wondrous Boat Ride (Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory soundtrack)^note The mounting tension and the scream at the end places this incredibly high for a family musical number!
• On Your Knees (Jeff Williams) ^note Reaches 6 in the faster parts, including the rap.
• Higher State of Consciousness (Josh Wink) ^note  Starts at 2 and initially builds up to a 3 or 4. By the climax, it's an 8 due to the high-pitched beeps.
• Joker and the Thief (Wolfmother)
• You're Not Salinger. Get Over It. (The Wonder Years)
• Silent Melody (Working for a Nuclear Free City, Infamous soundtrack)
• Week End (X Japan)
• Masterpiece (X Marks the Pedwalk)
• Oh Bondage Up Yours! (X-Ray Spex)
• This Sacred Line (Akira Yamaoka ft. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Silent Hill: Homecoming soundtrack)
• Shapes of Things, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, The Train Kept a' Rollin, and Over Under Sideways Down (The Yardbirds)
• Stronger Together (Daniel Yates, DEATH BATTLE! S3 soundtrack) ^note  Borderline 6.
• Lava Scarves and Red-Hot Blargss (Yoshi's Woolly World soundtrack) ^note  Yes, you did read that right.
• Cinnamon Girl ^note  This one tends to sound heavier in concert., Rockin' in the Free World, Southern Man, and Alabama (Neil Young)
• Chum Bucket Lab (Yummysoise, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom soundtrack)
• Heavy Is the Head (Zac Brown Band ft. Chris Cornell)
• Extraction Point and Onwards (Hans Zimmer, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soundtrack)
• Foxy Foxy (Rob Zombie)
• Legs and Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)

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