Mohs Rock Metal / Levels 10 and 11

WARNING: Here lies by far the heaviest, darkest, grittiest sonic material to have been ever conceived by the human brain. Be very sure you're highly trained before you listen to any of these songs, especially those residing at Level 11, otherwise you better grab some Brain Bleach. Really, if you're starting here, to say that you're out of your damn mind would be one hell of an understatement. You Have Been Warned. ^note  ...Or, you know, you can just ignore our warning and listen to them at full volume with headphones on. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (cue head explosion)

Level 10

Genres: Death Metal, Deathcore, Mathcore, Stenchcore, Aggrotech, Grindcore, harder Melodic Death Metal, the hardest Thrash Metal / Crossover Thrash, harder Djent, the hardest Folk Metal, softer Powerviolence, harder Screamo, Emoviolence, Black Metal, Crust Punk, harder Industrial Hip-Hop, Digital Hardcore, harder IDM, harder Drum and Bass, Darkstep, Neurofunk, Minatory, Drill 'n' Bass, the hardest EBM, harder Brostep, Deathstep and Psychostep, the hardest Trap Metal, Glitch, softer Drone Metal, Death/Doom and Funeral Doom, the softest Noise

Matching mineral: Diamond

• xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx ^note  While most of the song is softer than 10, there are 2 parts that reach 11. (100 gecs)
• Slaves to Slaughter (1349)
• Killer Instinct (Soberts Remix) (1.8.7. Deathstep & Static:Reset)
• Broken Hearted & Disregarded (1ucky Se7en)
  • Indifferent (1ucky Se7en & LilithVI)
• Masters of Morbidity (200 Stab Wounds)
• Neighbours (32Crash)
• Adept in Divinity (A Hill to Die Upon)
• False Mystics (Abbey Nex)
• Monarch Omega (Abnormality) ^note  A female fronted example.
• Medical Deviance, To Roast And Grind ^note  Borderline 11., The Extirpation Agenda, Divine Impediment (ft. Travis Ryan) and Retrogore (Aborted)
• Heaven in Blood ^note  the Der Fünfzehnjährige Krieg version;a rare instance of the more raw sounding original being softer. and Eternal Winter ^note  The Facta Loquuntur version; this was also remade for Der Fünfzehnjährige Krieg. (Absurd)
• Programmed to Consume and The Inevitable Return to Darkness ^note  Borderline 11. (Abysmal Dawn)
• The Impaler (The Acacia Strain)
• Intolerable Apathy ^note  Would be an 11 without the level 1 intro. (Acid Enema)
  • Embers Glowing in the Twilight (Acid Enema ft. C1B2)
• Kill Yourself, Plastic Bath and Bug Vomit (Admiral Angry)
• Berserker (After the Burial)
• And their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep (The Agonist) ^note  Despite the clean vocals halfway into the song, it's too heavy to be a 9.
• Sacrifice (Agonoize)
• Like Red Foam (The Great Storm) (Ahab)
• Principalities (Alex S.) ^note  The trance sections keep it from being an 11.
• Wage Slaves (All Shall Perish)
• Despair (Algo & Dubloadz)
• Hell S.D. and Death to Pigs ^note  Borderline 11. (Alien Vampires)
• Our Cosmic Casket and 1.618 (Allegaeon)
• Junky ^note  Borderline 11 thanks to the industrial influences. (The Amenta)
• God, His Son, and Holy Whore (Amon Amarth) ^note  Undoubtedly Amon Amarth's hardest song to date.
• Drug-Fucking Abomination, Forging Towards the Sunset ^note  Borderline 11 and prevented from that level pretty much only due to the soaring chorus. Virus Bomb, Shatter the Empyrean, Depravity Favours the Bold and Hold your Children Close And Pray for Oblivion (Anaal Nathrakh) ^note  All of these songs reach the brutal level 11 sound this band is known for, but the softer/more melodic aspects of Anaal Nathrakh's sound drag these down to a 10.
• Downward Spiral Into Madness (Anata)
• Dissenter (Anberlin) ^note  Bizarrely high up on the scale for a band that otherwise tops out at 7 for the most part.
• Arisen ^note  Borderline 11. (Andorax & Tezzin)
• Brain Surgery (Androgyn Network)
• Toxic Girl (Angelspit) ^note  Although this is a pretty soft 10, it's still Angelspit's hardest song to date.
• A Profit on Greediness (Animosity & Drumcorps)
• Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Anorexia Nervosa)
• Portrait of Souls (Annotations of an Autopsy)
• Unchained and Remnants ^note  Borderline 11. (Antestor)
• Welcome to Death (Antidemon)
• Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix) ^note  Borderline 11 thanks to Richard's distorted vocals and long, anguished scream in the middle, along with the overall harsh production. and Elephant Song (Aphex Twin)
• Bone Grinder and Hellmouth ^note  The drops can border on 11. (Apoplexy)
• Ferocious Mercenary ^note  Mostly an 8-9; put up here due to the most aggressive parts reaching level 11. (Araf)
• Throat Shovers (Archagathus)
• Deathless Ringing (Archspire)
• Carve My Cross (Arsis)
• Twisted (Art Attack & Archie)
• My Fears Have Become Phobias (As Blood Runs Black)
• War Ensemble (Slayer cover) (As I Lay Dying)
• Morte Et Dabo (Kayros Remix) ^note  The more melodic segments make it a soft 10. (Asking Alexandria)
• Eisenbahnmorser (Asphyx)
• Ansia (Asseptic Room)
• Soda in the Water Cup (Attila (Metalcore))
• Direct Injection (Audeka)
• Becoming God (Augury)
• Rainbow Factory (Remix) (Aurelleah)
• Pen Expers ^note  Starts at a 9, but gets progressively harder overtime. (Autechre)
• Beastland ^note  Not an 11 due to the slightly softer sections, though still close to that level., Incinerator, Shame and Void, Null, Alive (Author & Punisher)
• The Sky is Not Yours (Auto Aggression)
• After the First Blood Flows (Autonon)
• Charred Remains (Autopsy)
• 264 BPM Super Gore Nest Beta (Andrew Baena)
• I See People And They Say Hi ^note  Gets up here due to its atonal and harsh sound, especially in the middle. (BaronVonBadGuy)
• Slaves Shall Serve (Behemoth) ^note  A VERY hard 10.
• Suck My Blood (Beherit)
• Subconscious Terror (Benediction)
• Icon and Bestial Breeding ^note  Borderline 11. (Benighted)
• Hell's Ambassador (Belphegor) ^note  Borderline 11 due to the sheer loudness.
• Omnipresent Perception (Beyond Creation)
• Torn the Fuck Apart (Bitchsectomy)
• Climactic Degradation, What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse ^note  Both are borderline 11's thanks to the rampant musicianship, a staple of TBDM. and Into the Everblack (The Black Dahlia Murder)
• Death (Teminite Remix) (Black Tiger Sex Machine & Lektrique)
• Eclipse, I'm So Tired of Sighing. Please Lord, Let It Be Night and Parting Soliloquy (Black Tongue)
• I Worship Satan (Blarf) ^note  Barely teetering onto 11 due to the song's volume being intentionally lowered on the album; any louder would've classified this song as harsh noise.
• Mouth of Empty Praise, The Soulcollector and Eaten (Bloodbath)
• Piss Stomper (Blood Duster)
• Smite and In Hell I Roam (Blood Red Throne)
• Sickening Dogma and Godless ^note  Borderline 11. (Bloodshot Dawn)
• No Guts No Glory (Bolt Thrower)
• Terrorizah (Bong-Ra)
• 1077 (Boom Kitty) ^note  The beats are harsh enough to push the song this high up.
• Sovereign and Mescalink (Bossfight)
• Vices (Brand New) ^note  This version removes the minute-long opera intro, which isn't part of the actual song. A rare example of an indie rock band going screamo.
• Pray for Plagues (Bring Me the Horizon)
• Incinerated (Broken Hope)
• Silence (Brunatny)
• Crushed (Brutality)
• LXXXI (Bull of Heaven)
• Whiskey Fit (Buzzov En) ^note  Easily a borderline 11.
• Hammer Smashed Face, Necropedophile ^note  These would be considered borderline 11 at the time of release due to Barnes' husky growls., Demented Aggression and Kill or Become (Cannibal Corpse)
• Corporal Jigsore Quandary and Incarnated Solvent Abuse (Carcass)
• H1 Post-awareness confusions^note  Goes to 11 during the "Hell Sirens" section from 14:25 to 16:20, which is offset by the softer parts before and after. , K1 Advanced plaque entanglements, and M1 Synapse retrogenesis (The Caretaker)
• Hell Chose Me (Carnifex)
• Turbo Killer (Carpenter Brut)
• Your Disposal (Cattle Decapitation)
• Judas Pariah (Cavalera Conspiracy)
• Renai Circuit Bent (CDR) ^note  The original Renai Circulation, which this samples, is a 2.
• One Good Reason, First Person Shooter, ShutEmDown and My Disintegration (Celldweller)
• Endless Cycle of Violence (Cephalic Carnage)
• The Bald Cadaver (Cerebral Bore) ^note  One of the few female-fronted bands to reach this level. Borderline 11.
• Repulsive Infestation of Cadaver ^note  Borderline 11. (Cerebral Rot)
• Suicide Jag (Chemlab)
• Comatose, Destroy And Dominate, Nothing Remains, Resurrection (Chimaira) ^note  Comatose and Nothing Remains are examples of a Metalcore/Groove Metal song reaching level 10.
• Christaggedon (Christaggedon)
• The Only Thing I Know for Real (Maniac Agenda Mix) (Jamie Christopherson, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance soundtrack) ^note  The intensely chaotic and noisy electronic elements boosts a standard 8 to a soft 10.
• Open Season and Slow Death ^note  The live recording on Knife Protocol is even harder due to the demo-quality sound. (City Hunter) ^note  Both are borderline 11 due to the loud and abrasive production, as well as the snarling and heavily distorted vocals.
• Pyroclasm (Clonepa)
• Ultra Beast ^note  Borderline 11. (Coakira)
• Arsonry (Cobalt)
• Forever and Swallowing the Rabbit Whole (Code Orange)
• God Complex (Demonic Pressure Remix) (Code: Pandorum)
• My Favorite Things (Olatunji Concert version (John Coltrane) ^note Only brought down from being off the scale from the more subdued bass intro.
• My Spine! My Spine! My Spine! (Combat Wounded Veteran)
• Never Surrender and This Shit Will Fuck You Up (Combichrist)
• Consume (Big Chocolate Remix) (Commissioner)
• Entombment (Ruined Remix) and Lucifugous (Concavenator)
• Combat Cocktail and Divinity of the Office ^note  Borderline 11. (ConsumerSoftproducts, Cruelty Squad soundtrack)
• Remover ^note  Overall; the hardest parts are level 11, but there are softer sections to balance them out. (Container)
• No Heroes, Wishing Well ^note  The rock n' roll influenced intro keeps it from being a borderline 11. and Concubine ^note  The faster parts are a borderline 11 at some points. (Converge)
• Out Of Reach and Tentacle Vortex (Crash Scan) ^note  Both are borderline 11 material due to their harsh textures and incredibly bleak atmosphere.
• Disobey and Aeon (Crystal Lake)
• Phobophile ^note  The beginning prevents it from getting an 11. and Open Face Surgery ^note  Borderline 11. (Cryptopsy)
• Leash (Cult of Luna)
• Dark Rain and Running ^note  The brutal electronic hits make this a borderline 11, but the lighter parts keep it lower. (Current Value)
• Trigger (Cylab)
• Die Tomorrow (What If You Should?) and Face The Colossus (Dagoba) ^note  The clean vocal sections keep both of these at a 10. That said, the latter is still a borderline 11 due to production reasons.
• Invasion ^note  Borderline 11. (Dajjal)
• The Burning of Sodom (Dark Angel) ^note  The slower riff would be more at home in a level 8 or 9 song, but the rest of the track, including its vocal style, is abrasive, fast, and evil enough to earn a 10.
• My Funeral (Dark Funeral)
• Isolated In Despair (Excitatio Spiritualis & Prince ov Darkness Remix) ^note  Beats start at a borderline 10, but the song gets heavier, and a few parts are at 11. (The Dark Sanctuary)
  • Burning Away ^note  The heaviest parts are definitely an 11, but there are some other parts that aren't as heavy. (The Dark Sanctuary ft. Osidra)
• Dead Inside and Oblio (Darkblack XIII)
• Dark 3.14 (Darkspace)
• Battle Master (Datach'i)
• The Flammable Man (Daughters)
• Party Starta (Dayn) ^note  Hard enough to be an 11, but the interludes preceding the drops are fairly soft.
• אתה (Dead Cowboy)
  • The Gates Of Hell (Dead Cowboy & Devouring Annihilation)
• Noise Killer (Deadface)
• Killing Myself Again (Deadstar Assembly) ^note  Despite having snarling vocals a la Thrash Metal rather than death growls, it's here for the sheer aggression of the main melody and the blatant Industrial Metal influences. Their hardest song yet.
• Useless Sacrifice (Death Decline) ^note  For the Nightmare Retardant edition, see here.
• Jubilate Deo (O Be Joyful in the Lord) (Deathspell Omega)
• Full Moon (Death Classic) ^note  Borderline 11; while the heaviest parts are 11, the entire song isn't at that level., I Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States ^note  Borderline 11., Inanimate Sensation, Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix) ^note  Borderline 11 on the basis that some parts of this are clearly not 11, though it rarely dips below 8. The 11 parts are very hard though (probably the group's heaviest music they've ever done). Hardest parts are first 2 minutes, last 3 minutes, and 14:05-16:10., The Powers That B and Hot Head ^note  Would probably be 11 if not for the softer sections. (Death Grips)
• Spheres of Madness (Decapitated)
• Sunder ^note  Borderline 11. (Deceiver)
• Combustion and Slaughter (Decoded Feedback)
• Polarity (Decrepit Birth)
• Blissfully Exsanguinated ^note  Borderline 11. (Defeated Sanity)
• When Girls Telephone Boys and Elite ^note  Due to the downright frightening, borderline uncanny distortion on Chino Moreno's vocals, which keeps it from being a hard 9. Also, this is the hardest Grammy Award-winning song in the scale. (Deftones)
• Fuck Your God and Homage for Satan ^note  A solid 11 when it first came out. (Deicide)
• Inevitability (Deindividuation)
• GODS SERVANTS (DELROATH)
• End Of Days and Gargantua ^note  The second drop edges dangerously close to 11. Also the heaviest song they've made, and that's saying a lot coming from a duo with a name like Delta Heavy. (Delta Heavy)
• Autistic Savant (De Liriums Order)
• Pyroclastic Annihilation (Demolition Hammer) ^note  Again, a rare instance of a thrash metal song reaching level 10.
• Storm the Gates of Hell (Demon Hunter)^note It's too aggressive for Level 9, despite the thrashy guitar tone.
• No One Can and Unholy Paradise (Demonic Pressure)
• I Ejaculate Fire (Dethklok)
• Suicide The End (Detrimental)
• Alien Washcloth Tumor and Society of Defilement (Dev/Null)
• Dead To Rights (DevilDriver) ^note  An example of a Melodic Death Metal song reaching 10. The very heavy grooves keep it from being a hard 9.
• Killbot ^note  Dj Frenkreturn's sped-up remix is an 11. (Devin Martin)
• Pandemic and Poltergeist (Devin Townsend Project)
• Distorted (Devolved)
• Flesh to Flesh and The Wrath of a God (Devouring Annihilation)
• Roll Out (Dex Arson)
• Rich Kids (DHC Meinhof)
• Coma Gold (DIO Distraught Overlord) ^note  The rearrange is an 11.
• 43% Burnt, Farewell Mona Lisa ^note  Kept from 11 by the soft interlude at 2 minutes., Lurch, Panasonic Youth, Limerent Death and Prancer ^note  Borderline 11. (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
• Don't (Dinosaur Jr.) ^note  An odd example of Dinosaur Jr. being at this level, considering they usually don't go above a 7.
• OBSCURE (Video Highly NSFW) ^note  Never mind the ambient intro. The wholeness of this song is extremely heavy, mosh-friendly deathcore In the Style of SikTh. Easily ranks at a 10, even with an intro like that.The 2011 rearrange is just as heavy., Reiketsu Nariseba ^note  The song also has an ambient section (which keeps this song from entering level 11), though not an intro; it's actually halfway through the song., AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS ^note  Easily a borderline 11. There's an unplugged version for those who can't handle the original., Zan (2011 Rearrange), Karuma (2011 Rearrange) and Kiri to Mayu (2011 Rearrange) ^note  All three are solid 10s. The original versions are around the 7-8 range. (Dir en grey)
• Walk In The Fire ^note  Due to the near-ubiquitous use of heavily distorted guitars and the brostep influences. and Power Now (ft. Matt Rose) (Dirtyphonics)
• Your Prophetic Throne of Ivory (Di SEMBOWELMENT)
• Skin Her Alive (Dismember)
• Bleed the Fifth (Divine Heresy)
• Death Seer ^note  Borderline 11. (DJ Hidden)
• Trigga Finga ^note  A very soft 10. (DJ Isaac & DJ The Viper)
• You’re a Hardcore Hooligan ^note  Borderline 11. and One day we kill em all (DJ Paul Elstak)
• Fuck Me I'm a DJ (DJ Mutante & Smurf)
• Machine Soldier (DJ Sirio)
• Gradiusic Cyber (DJ Taka, beatmania IIDX soundtrack)
• Bitch Punch (Dj-Nate) ^note  This is fairly light as far as speedcore goes; there's some nasty spots, but overall there's enough calm parts to keep it at 10.
• Big Boss ^note  The softer parts keep it from 11. (Doctor P)
• Vacuum, Cleaner and Vacuum Cleaner (Mashup) ^note  Borderline 11. (Doin, Pump It Up Fiesta EX soundtrack)
• In Die Nacht (Dornenreich)
• Botch Up and Die ^note  Shifts between 10 and 11; borderline 11 overall. and Time (Drumcorps)
• Cobra (Drumsound & Bassline Smith)
• Ode (Drunkdriver)
• This Is Fucking Doomcore (DWAAS [K.O.S.])
• One Shot, One Kill (Dying Fetus)
• Cowards Feed, Cowards Bleed (Dying Wish) ^note  Pretty impressive for a metalcore band to reach this level.
• Slave to Life (Dylan & B Key)
• Destruction ^note  Hard 10. Nightmare’s remix and Hardwiya's remix are both 11. (Dyroth)
• Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T., Tanz Debil, Negativ Nein and Schmerzen Hören (Hören mit Schmerzen) (Einstürzende Neubauten) ^note  Negativ Nein is one of the most bizarre 10s listed here because of a combination of the wobbly water-like sounds generated from the treatment of custom musical instruments and Blixa Bargeld's incredibly abrasive vocals.
• Return Trip (Electric Wizard) ^note  Despite being incredibly loud, the melody and singing are too chilled out to count as an 11.
• Sworn (Emperor)
• Chocoreeto and Cagayake Fakku (Emray)
• Necrochrist (Enormity)
• Verrat (Equilibrium) ^note  A rare Folk Metal example to reach this level. Arguably 9 for the more melodic parts though.
• Evil Dwells Out There (Evil Damn)
• Inferno (Extol) ^note  And that's even despite having a violin in it!
• Murder (Extreme Noise Terror)
• Sharpening Our Blades on the Mainstream (Eyeconoclast)
• Coldly Calculated Design (The Faceless)
• Consume Devour Repeat (The Famine)
• Drop the Bomb and 600 Years (Far Too Loud)
• The Industrialist, Fear Campaign, End of Line and Self Immolation (Concrete) (Fear Factory)
• Bastardised ^note  The first drop is a 10, while the second is a soft or borderline 11. Borderline 11 overall, thanks to a few parts fully reaching level 11. (Feast for Crows & Psyfiend)
• Powerful Sickness (Fetal Decay)
• Beast Mode (Figure)
• Bloodgod (The Final Harvest) ^note  Example of a pure metalcore song reaching this level.
• Visualized ^note  That band pic at :10 is probably NOT what you were expecting them to look like, right? and In the Gray Room (Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation)
• 「A Daily Dose of Bullshit」 (F̰̓L͓̒Ă͙Ṱ͊L̩̈́I̎ͅN͎͂E̳̊R͚͘)
• Thru Our Scars (Fleshgod Apocalypse)
• Demented Cupcakes (Foozogz)
• Dissolve (Fracturus)
• Low Life Criminals (Fragz ft. Katharsys)
• Hate ^note  Gets here due to its very harsh bassline. Some parts even reach 11. (Adam Freeland)
• Echogenetic and Exhale (Front Line Assembly)
• Kampf den Maschinen (Funker Vogt)
• 50 Caliber and Snake Fist Style (FuntCase)
• HOAX (Furyan & Angerfist)
• Speedcore Lacrima ^note  Way too many softer parts for it to be higher. (Gabba Front Berlin)
• NRJ ^note  Borderline 11 due to the section near the middle. (Gancher, Ruin & The Panacea)
• One Winged Angel (in the style of Doom Eternal) (Geoff Plays Guitar)
• Hate or Glory (Gesaffelstein) ^note  The song starts around 9 and gets slowly heavier overtime, with the climax being a solid 11. It sits around a 10 on average.
• Fallout (FuntCase Remix) (Getter)
• Bonesaw and Bonesaw VIP (Getter & Trampa) ^note  Both were 11s when they first came out, though the latter is a borderline 11.
• You Think You're (John Fucking Lennon) ^note  It would easily be an 11 due to Daryl’s EXTREME vocals, but gets down to a soft 10 due to the melodic chorus, which goes down to a 6. Pretty impressive for a Post-Hardcore band.(Glassjaw)
• AZALEA (Glitched Hero Y)
• Can't Kill Us and Better Hide, Better Run (ft. Mark Johns) (The Glitch Mob)
• L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante ^note A soft 10 overall, since some parts, like the ending, are closer to 9, and one section briefly reaches 1. (Gnaw Their Tongues)
• The Lair of the White Worm (God Dethroned)
• Streetcleaner (Godflesh)
• Adoration For None (ft. Randy Blythe) and Backbone (Gojira)
• The Mudhorn (Ludwig Göransson, The Mandalorian soundtrack)
• Rip & Tear, BFG Division, Cyberdemon ^note  A few parts go up to 11. and SkullHacker (Mick Gordon, Doom (2016) soundtrack)
• For the Masses (Gorefest)
• one way to hannover and matzcore (goreshit)
• Revelation of Doom and Carving a Giant (Gorgoroth)
• Earthly Love, Sweet Silence, Obscura and Condemned to Obscurity (Gorguts)
• Disavow Your God (Gorod)
• Burn (Grave)
• Fear of the Dark (Graveworm) ^note  Despite the long, softer symphonic sections, the Black Metal parts alone bring it to this level. Arguably a 9 overall, though.
• Cheeseburger Karma 2004: A Jam Odyssey (The Great Redneck Hope)
• Earthworm (Grief)
• Il Était Une Forêt (Gris)
• Va faire la vaisselle (Gronibard) ^note  The vocals alone make it a very hard 10.
• Waiting For The Engineer (Hildur Guðnadóttir, Chernobyl soundtrack)
• The Lake Ladoga Massacre (Hail of Bullets)
• Kill Them All (Hallucinator)
• Heat Shadows and Venomous (Rio Hamamoto, Ridge Racer 3D soundtrack) ^note  The two single hardest pieces that have ever appeared in the Ridge Racer series. The former is a borderline 11 due to the extremely noisy passages and slam death influences.
• Pentagram of Coke ^note  Borderline 11. (The Hard Way)
• Mephisto's Pact (Harsh')
• Defeatist (Hatebreed)
• Faceless One and King Of All Kings (Hate Eternal)
• Domination (Hate Forest) ^note  With the exception of the level 1 intro.
• Big Smile (Hatred Surge)
• Days (HaXim & FilthSkreamer)
• Dragonborn ^note  The more melodic parts keep it from 11. (Headhunterz)
• Mein Kampf ^note  The drop shifts between 10 and 11. Overall, the softer intro keeps it at this level. (Heathen, Influx & Punishment)
• Combat (Heaven Shall Burn)
• Terrifying Power ^note  Borderline 11; kept from 11 by the softer sections. and In Memoriam (Hecatonchires)
• Beauty (Hellshock)
• Summoning Fists to Heaven (Hideous Divinity)
• Battlefield 2042 (Hildur Guðnadóttir & Sam Slater, Battlefield 2042 soundtrack)
• Murdered By A Woman (HIRS)
• Tiempos de Furia (Hocico)
• Suffering ^note  Borderline 11. (Homicidal)
• Invert the Inverted Cross (Horde)
• Sedition Through Scorn ^note  The more melodic guitar sections prevent it from going over to 11. However, the loudness alone (what Hour of Penance is more infamous for) should put it at 11. and Regicide (Hour of Penance)
• Monsters Attack (Huber Cuber)
• Blackmetal Wargod ^note  Speedcore sections range from 10 to 11; balanced out by the softer/spoken-word sections. (Human End)
• Beware (Humanity's Last Breath)
• Be Here Now (Alex Banks Remix) (Hybrid, Driveclub soundtrack)
• Killing Art and War-Path (Hypocrisy)
• Testify ^note  Much of the song is an 11, though there are softer parts to balance it out. (I:gor)
• Perfect Night (Tsuneo Imahuri, Trigun soundtrack)
• Higher Coward (Immolation)
• My Nemesis (Impending Doom)
• Yomi Yori Kikoyu, Koukoku no Tou to Honoo no Shoujo (Imperial Circus Dead Decadence) ^note  This song is all over the scale: there are very calm parts, and stuff that goes up to 11. The interweaved inhuman vocals and drum beats bring this up to a 10, though.
• Scream (In Flames) ^note  The scratchy guitars, brutal drumming and Anders Friden's high-pitched Harsh Vocals puts this above 9. Turns out the new Nu Metal-influenced In Flames can, at rare instances, be even harder than the old In Flames.
• The Gun Show (In This Moment) ^note  The shrieked vocals bump it up a level or two.
• Self-Pity Human (In Thy Dreams) ^note  Here because of the sheer aggression of the music, in contrast to most of the Melodic Death Metal out there.
• Nerds on Mushrooms (ft. Pegboard Nerds) and Kazabubu (Infected Mushroom)
• Broken and THE STAR OF ISHTAR ^note  Brought up from 9 due to the faster bit in the middle and the harsher ending. (Influx)
• BOW_DOWN ^note  The metal sections border on 11 sometimes. (INHUMAN & Qoiet)
• Tides of Vengeance and Encysted and Dormant ^note  Borderline 11. (Iniquity)
• STRUCTURE (INTERNET CLUB) ^note  The sounds used in this track aren't very harsh, but it gets this high due to its extremely chaotic nature.
• These Walls (Have Seen) and Particular Hatred ^note  Both are borderline 11. (Iperyt)
• The Minus Times (Isis)
• Elephant Talk 2 (Takumi Iwasaki, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure soundtrack)
• Tastes Like Kevin Bacon (iwrestledabearonce) ^note The song features Genre Roulette, which contributes greatly to its extremely jarring sound. In fact, the song ranges from full-on level 11 grindcore to poppy level 3-4 interludes.
• Slam Metal Instrumental (J Metal Guitarist)
• Knee Deep and Nourishment Through Bloodshed (Job for a Cowboy)
• CXEMA (Kabutogani)
• Godeye (Kalmah)
• requiem ^note  Not an 11 due to the softer parts. (KASHIWA Daisuke)
• The Awakener and The Ambassador of Pain (Kataklysm)
• Untrue (Katatonia)
• The Black Uncharted (Keep Of Kalessin)
• Shadow (Kevorkian Death Cycle)
  • The Hex Rx remix is also at this level.
• No Joy (James Plotkin remix) (Khanate)
• Leviathan (Killsonik)
• To The Sons of Man (Killswitch Engage) ^note  Though this is a soft 10, this song is very hard for Killswitch Engage's standard, as most of their work hovers around an 8.
• No Name (Kittie) ^note  Example of a song from an all-female band at this level. Reaches a 10, due to the song's death metal-influenced riffs and black metal-like vocals.
• Haunt (Frank Klepacki, Universe at War soundtrack)
• Saft Und Kraft, WWIII ^note  Was an 11 back when it was released. and The Unrestrained Use Of Excessive Force (KMFDM)
• Destroy Them with Lazers ^note  Though the song features the band's signature sound, the house interludes keep it from 11., Internet Friends VIP ^note  The intro sounds almost exactly the same as the original version, which is a level 9, but the added harshness to the bass drop (especially in the finale) rank it at level 10. and EDM Death Machine ^note  Borderline 11 thanks to the shrill basslines. (Knife Party)
• The Gospel and Mistakes Like Fractures (Knocked Loose)
• Tool-Assisted Speedcore ^note  Borderline 11, specficially for the glitchier and more beat-heavy parts. (Kobaryo)
• Haterealm (Kronos)
• Against Possession (K-TecK)
• Mercilessness (Yoshimi Kudo, DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu BLACK Label soundtrack)
• Ars Manifestia (Kvist)
• Material Identity (Last Sacrament)
• Black Label (Lamb of God)
• Aroused by Death (Lepidoptera)
• Dream Genie (Lightning Bolt)
• Feral (Lilith)
• Nothing Left and Unnamed Deathcore Instrumental #1 (Jacob Lizotte)
• Second Skin (Loadstar)
• Ultimate Weapon ^note  The first drop is a 10, while the second is a borderline 11. (Lowroller & Igneon System)
• 96 Knights (To the Death Mix) (Jack Lucifer)
• Land Where Sympathy Is Air (Lykathea Aflame) ^note  Probably one of the most melodic songs at this level, but the sheer brutality of the music can't keep it from being anything below a 10.
• Speedcore Dandy (M1dy)
• This is Your Face on Dogs and A Decent Man (Machine Girl)
• Restart! ^note  Borderline 11. (Mad Capsule Markets)
• Heat of Fusion (Maissouille)
• Blunder (Marauda)
• Blooddawn (Marduk)
• Shit Power in a Showdown ^note  Borderline 11. (Maruosa)
• Get Retarded (The Masochist, Bass-D & King Matthew)
• Enjoy the Violence (Massacra)
• Symbolic Immortality (Massacre)
• Bladecatcher (Mastodon)
• What's Up People? (Maximum the Hormone) ^note  The finale is a solid 11.
• War on Terror (MaYaN)
• Deathcrush ^note  Acid Enema's cover is an 11., Life Eternal and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Mayhem)
• Suicide Bassline (Mefjus)
• The Hive (Melt-Banana)
• mikusnares ^note  Averaged out here, since it moves throughout the scale initially, but turns into an 11 partway through. (meronti)
• Tadpole (Merzbow) ^note  Starts at a 1 (borderline 2), then gradually rises in volume and distortion until it eventually reaches an 11 some time after the 3:30 mark.
• I Am Colossus and I ^note  Borderline 11 due to the inhumanly heavy instrumentation, noisegrind influences and Jens Kidman's harshest vocals to date. Its sheer length and the sudden Mood Whiplash towards the middle of the song makes it even more unsettling, making it one of the harder level 10 songs., New Millenium Cyanide Christ ^note  Was an 11 when it first came out., Bleed ^note  Possibly the hardest level 10 example., Dehumanization and The Hurt That Finds You First (Meshuggah)
• Slipstream (Metrik)
• Noise Theater (Micropoint)
• The Amazing Nero ^note  Hard 10. (Midnight Tyrannosaurus)
  • Revenge of the Goldfish (Midnight Tyrannosaurus & Subtronics)
• No W (Ministry)
• From Me to You Too (Ibuki Mioda, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair soundtrack) ^note  The Creepy Monotone she speaks in for the lyrics is what keeps this song from reaching 11.
• Dreamdecipher (Miseration)
• Weight of the World (Misery Signals)
• Parasignosis (Mitochondrion)
• 道理の隙間 (Monnier)
• Taistelu Pohjolasta (2008 Version) (Moonsorrow) ^note  Easily their heaviest song. They're normally in the 7-9 range.
• Imperial Doom (Monstrosity)
• The Friendly Faith Plate (Mike Morasky, Portal 2 soundtrack)
• The Ancient Ones and 10 More Dead (Tek-One Remix) (Morbid Angel)
• Terminal Liberation (Mors Principium Est)
• Scrolls of the Megilloth (Mortification)
• Falsified Existence ^note  A bit too clean for level 11. (Moth & Harsh')
• Determined (Mudvayne)
• ]-[_-34(#! ^note  Borderline 11 at times., Zatsuza ^note  Borderline 11. and Tenshi ^note  Borderline 11. The arrange also borders on 11. (Manabu Namiki, DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu, DaiFukkatsu BLACK Label and SaiDaiOuJou soundtracks)
• Plague Rages (Napalm Death)
• Gloom Witch and Monolith of Disease ^note  Borderline 11. (Necrofiler)
• Stabwound (Necrophagist)
• Necrogenesis of the Wendigo (NECRVPVCVLYPSE)
• Broken Insects (Negative Network)
• Codename: Zero ^note  Borderline 11, especially due to the harsh dubstep section and the brief moments where it does reach that level. (NeLIME)
• Darkness Prevails (Neuraxis)
• Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve its Possessor Against Attacks From He Who is in the Water (Nile)
• Venom (Nocturnal Bloodlust)
• Revolution is Here (Noisecontrollers)
• Regurgitate, Tommy's Theme ^note  Not an 11 for the softer sections. and Incessant (Noisia)
• Moonway Renegade (Noisia & Mayhem) ^note  Borderline 11; some parts reach 11 while others are softer.
• Dead Man ^note  Kept below a borderline 11 for the softer sections. (Nordcore GMBH)
• Let It Burn (Nothingface)
• Lazarus Regret and The Pale Haunt Departure (Novembers Doom)
• Days of the Weak (Nuclear Death)
• Slowly We Rot (Obituary)
• Inflicted (Obliteration)
• Ocean Gateways (Obscura)
• Nightmare (Obsidia)
• War (Oceano) ^note  The original by Edwin Starr is a 2 or a 3. If it were a smidge faster it could be an 11. Even still, it's a pretty hard 10.
• FL Studio Haters (Omnitica)
• I Do My Crosswords In Pen (On Broken Wings)^note  Despite the brief clean vocals part and a few other melodic bits, on a whole this is far too heavy for a 9. Very rare example of a metalcore song this high.
• Reciprocal (Origin)
• Masters Symphony (Outblast & DJ Wicked)
• Hours & Dreams (The Outside Agency)
  • Separate Ways (The Outside Agency & SPL)
• Seven Organism Study (Charlemagne Palestine)
• Suicide Note, Part 2 (Pantera) ^note  One of the harder Level 10 examples due to the full-on drum blasting, the grindcore influences and Seth Putnam's backing vocals. The transition from Part 1 (which is a 2) makes it even more jarring. Might even enter level 11 due to its appalling musicianship.
• Subject ^note  The first four minutes of the song is an 11, then there is a much softer interlude before going to a level 9 until the end of the song. In the remastered Revisions of the Past Version both sections on the side of the soft interlude are harder, with the latter now possibly pushing into a 10 itself. , Resident ^note  Again, the remastered version is harder Can you Loan me a Raven? and I, Hedonist (Panopticon)
• The Lean Black Cruisers (Panzerchrist)
• Drunk Vampire ^note  Borderline 11. (Pattern J)
• Take Your Body Off ^note  Borderline 11. (Perc)
• Shin-Ken, Part 1 (Persefone) ^note Part 2 is a 3.
• Out of the Body (Pestilence)
• Blood Eagle (Periphery)
• Tainted Empire (Perturbator) ^note  Most of this is a hard 9, though 3:36-4:25 is hard 11, pushing this up to a 10.
• Speculate (Phear Phace) ^note  Borderline 11; the softer melodic bits and the woman vocalizing keeping from being a full on 11.
• Towering Flesh, Starbelly and Terrifyer ^note  Easily a borderline 11. (Pig Destroyer)
• Landfill (Pitch Shifter) ^note  The majority of the Industrial album hits this level, but their sound reaches its zenith with this song.
  • The cover version by Fear Factory also sits at this level.
  • These demos for Landfill and Brutal Cancroid are even harder than their studio counterparts. They reach this level as well.
• Amnesia ^note  Some parts reach level 11. (Pixel Terror)
• Bloodmoney (Poppy)
• The Kosmokrator (Nano Infect Remix) ^note  The original mix is a hard 9. (Preemptive Strike 0.1)
• Nasty (Spor Remix) ^note  The original is a soft 9. (The Prodigy)
• Splice, Pitch Black, and Enchanted Dots of Light (Project Pitchfork)
• Wanna Play? ^note  The hardstyle sections, which are 11, are balanced by softer sections. (The Prophet)
• Sworn to Degeneracy (Prostitute Disfigurement)
• Hypercube (The Prototypes)
• Beat Torture Kill ^note  Borderline 11. (Psiko)
• The Velvet Machina (Psyborg Corp) ^note  Borderline 11.
• Epoch of the Gods and Alpha Breed (Psycroptic)
• Ghost Fight (The Psyke Project)
• Happy Valentine's Day (Psyopus)
• No More and Apocalypse (ft. Robin Hawkins) (The Qemists)
• Why You Are Laughing ^note  Borderline 11 for some of the heavier portions. (QroH)
• Six Shooter (Queens of the Stone Age) ^note By far, their heaviest song.
• Silence Calls the Storm (Quo Vadis)
• Seduction (Randy & Radium)
• Simple Sight 2010 RMX (vocals) (RealFaction) ^note  A soft 10, due to the comprehensible lyrics in the second verse. The original is closer to a 7 or 8.
• Demoralizer (The Red Chord)
• Anatomy of the Unknown (Red Harvest) ^note  Despite the middle part in the song, it remains in this level because of the brutality.
• All your base are belong to ME ^note  Overall, borderline 11, as it goes through several of the upper levels of the scale. (Reizoko Cj)
• Dead Forever (Ribspreader)
• Help ^note  Borderline 11. (Ricebeats)
• Living In The Light (Ridiculon, The Binding of Isaac soundtrack)
• Overkill (RIOT)
• Skyclad (Alvin Risk)
• Riot in N.Y. (The Original) (Rob Gee, Repete & MC Romeo Romeo)
• Nataimasu ^note  A soft 10 due to the piano melodies; however, the beats are heavy enough to get up here. (Rory in early 20s)
• Shock Fight Fist ^note  Borderline 11 overall; the heaviest parts reach 11. (Rotator)
• Lifelight (Redestructed) ^note  The original is a 6. (Rotersand)
• Santa Muerte (Rotting Christ) ^note  Hard 10 due its relentless aggression.
• I Saw the Face of the Person (Royalston)
• Clinpf Eepfwoof (Ruby My Dear)
• Jahrhunderte (Ruined)
• Dark Side (Samael) ^note  Pushed up here by its relentless speed.
• Pain (Scarred)
• Raging Blood (Screw)
• Title Screen (Tom Scripts, CrazyBus soundtrack)
  • The Argent Remix by Geoff Plays Guitar is an 11.
• C.T.F.O. (SebastiAn ft. M.I.A.)
• Hardware (Septic Death)
• The Vampire From Nazareth (Septicflesh) ^note  Downtuned guitars, heavily guttural vocals and extensive use of double-bass drumming keep it above 9.
• Sadness and Hatred ^note  Borderline 11; the hardest parts reach level 11. (Serendipity Liche)
• Queen of Darkness (Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave)
• Rewards of Cruelty (Severed Savior)
• Grave Condition (Severe Torture)
• 21st Century Schizoid Man (Shining (Norway)) ^note  Portions of this song easily reach 11 and could be considered to be off the scale entirely. The original by King Crimson is a soft 5 (at its time a solid 11).
• Emptiness (Shizuo)
• Chaos Theory (ShockOne)
• Osc-Sync Carnival (Lightning) (Hidenori Shoji, F-Zero GX soundtrack) ^note  Would probably be a soft/borderline 10, but the ending gives it that extra edge.
• Dagon Undone: The Reckoning (The Showdown)
• Death With Dishonor (Sigh)
• Hour of Abhorrence (Oni̸̢̠̲̤̦̜͎̙̗͙̩͖͆̒sm Remix) (Signs of the Swarm)
• Road to Cerulean City: Leaving Mt. Moon (OST Version) ^note  A soft 10 overall; while it starts off tame, the track gets drenched in reverb progressively that, by the end, it is at level 11. and Without Warning (Epilepsy warning!) ^note  Not an 11 due to the level 11 part only occurring in the second half; the first half (the normal part of the song) is softer. (SiIvaGunner)
• Suffice (SikTh)
• Frozen at the Moment of Death and Gruesome (Six Feet Under)
• Ungrund (Skaabz)
• Noisex ^note  Borderline 11 overall; the song is a 10 in the first half, but becomes an 11 in the middle and especially the ending. Yes, SP made an oddball and wrote a breakcore song. (Skinny Puppy)
• Black Hole ^note  Borderline 11. The amount of open space in the drops balances out the brutal synths enough to keep it in 10 territory. Midnight Tyrannosaurus' remix is an 11; so is TrollPhace's remix. (SKisM & Trampa)
• Slutstation Babylon (Skitsystem)
• Scatta (Skrillex ft. Bare Noize & Foreign Beggars)
• Evil (Skyheaven)
• Necrophobic ^note  While the rest of Reign in Blood sits at a 9, this song is a solid 10, due to the strong death metal influence and sheer speed (248 bpm). (Slayer)
• People = Shit, The Heretic Anthem, The Negative One, Solway Firth, (Sic) (Live Version) ^note  The original version is a hard 9., Get This ^note  Reaches this level due to its grindcore influences. and The Chapeltown Rag (Slipknot)
• Roswell ^note  Borderline 11. (Snarekrow)
• Brandish the Sceptre (Sodom)
• Options (Sonic Spinball soundtrack)
• Freezer Burn / I Wanna Be Your Dog (Sonic Youth) ^note  A very hard 10, due to the chaotic vocals and sheer noise throughout most of the song. Would be an 11, if not for the (eerie) quietness of the intro. In 1983, the song would have simply been off the scale.
• Deeper (Sons of Aliens)
• L.O.V.E. ^note  Mainly consists of a loud and high-pitched Drone of Dread. There are some gentler parts in between that make this a soft 10. and Ponyboy (SOPHIE)
• regimentation (Sorry about my face)
• Into Darkness, Transhuman, and Perversion of the Cross (Soul Embraced)
• In My Own Greed ^note  The first minute of the song is a 9; the rest is a solid 10 through and through. and Lash By Lash (Spawn of Possession)
• Mausoleal Drift (SPECTRAL WOUND)
• #$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin (Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion Soundtrack) ^note  Yup, Nintendo made a Grindcore track. It's mitigated a bit by Pearl of all people singing it, but it's still a solid 10.
• Menelec (Squarepusher)
• L.A. Blues (The Stooges)
• Rape Song, Detox and All Hail the New Flesh (Strapping Young Lad) ^note  Fairly soft songs for a band that makes level 11 Industrial Metal. They're still pretty heavy, nonetheless.
• You Must Follow (Stratus)
  • Also, the Evol Intent VIP remix.
• Thrillseeka ^note  Borderline 11 for some of the heavier parts. (The Stunned Guys & DJ Paul)
• Afraid of Everything and So On (Including the Future and Knowledge of Self) ^note  The intro is a 1, which turns into a 10 and then a 9. Around the middle, the song becomes an 11 before moving back to a 10 in the end. (Stunt Rock)
• Impact (Oolacile Remix) ^note  Some parts of the drop are 11 while others aren't. (Subtronics)
• Damage (SubVibe)
• Synthetically Revived and Bind, Torture, Kill (Suffocation)
• Hellraiser, The Pleasures of Sin, Time (Rewind) ^note  The original is an 8. and Evacuate (Where's The Exit Remix) (Suicide Commando)
• You Only Live Once and Bludgeoned to Death (Mantis Remix) (Suicide Silence)
• Tragic Alert and Smash and Grab (Surgical Meth Machine)
• Raping a Slave (Swans)
• Origin of Life (Switch Technique)
• Emma-0 and Dynamic ^note  Despite the clean vocals at the end, the song's ultra-aggressive pace still keeps it at this level. (Sybreed)
• Amputation (Synthetic Torture)
• Censored!! (t+pazolite)
• Giygas' Static (Hirokazu Tanaka & Keiichi Suzuki, EarthBound (1994) soundtrack)
• Borrowed Time (TC ft. Sub Focus)
• Lion Girl and Full Metal Teknoist (The Teknoid)
• SHIMASHO!!!!!!! ^note  Borderline 11, especially for the ending with its heavily-clipped drums. (Temma)
• Eye of the Tiger (Survivor cover) (Ten Masked Men)
• Ranshuo (Tetsuo)
• Everlasting (Thergothon)
• Norge (Thorr's Hammer)
• Discipline (Throbbing Gristle) ^note  Despite being released in 1979, it still has the fair bit of harshness that makes it a 10. Repetitive beats, shouted unintelligible lyrics and a VERY lo-fi sound are all factors that contribute to the heaviness of this industrial song.
• Reign of Darkness, The Purest Strain of Hate and Shadow of Eternal Sin (Thy Art Is Murder) ^note  All are among the hardest level 10 examples, although they are pretty soft for a band once known for making level 11 deathcore.
• Knee-Deep in the Dead (At Doom's Gate) (Daniel Tidwell)
• Can You Hear Me? (TiltHAMMER)
• The Descent (Today is the Day)
• Yippie-Kay-Yay Mother!@#$%^ (The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza) ^note  Borderline 11, easily.
• Achtung! (T.O.P.D.R.O.P)
• Fuck You (Toxic Narcotic)
• Bulldozer, Rocket Fuel, Runners, Get Wicked, Terminating and Blow Up ^note  The last 3 are borderline 11. (Trampa)
• Typhoeus (Tremorr)
• Time's Up (The Bomb Remix) (Trip Theory) ^note  The original mix is a 9.
• Dusk Dismantled (Trivium) ^note  Another rare example of a metalcore band reaching 10.
• La Ch'nille (Ultra Vomit) ^note  A cover of a French popular song mainly used at marriages and parties. The vocals alone make it a rather hard 10.
• Hymn I: Of Wolf and Fear (Ulver) ^note  The only thing that keeps this from being a hard level 11 is how melodic it is. Back when it was released, it would have been nearly off the scale.
• The Quantum Symphony (Unexpect)
• Blood of Lies (Unleashed)
• Xeper and Dark Transmission (Vader)
• List of Lists (Vaetxh)
• Are You Descent? (Ron Valdez, Descent II soundtrack) ^note  Doesn't start at 10, but eventually reaches that level. An 11 in 1995.
• Subject Zero (Veil of Maya)
• Broken Glass Complexion (Vein)
• Befriend a Childkiller ^note  The intro keeps it from 11., Fuck Toronto Jungle, Hand Throw ^note  Borderline 11, since the first half is a 10 while the second half is an 11., Szycag ^note  Begins in the 8-9 range, until it becomes a 10 around 4 minutes in. Just before the 6th minute, it turns into an 11 and stays that way until the end. and Ultraviolent Junglist (Venetian Snares)
• Scum (Vile Gash)
• Burn in Despair and Virulent ^note  The guitars make it a soft 10. (Viridus)
• Dechristianize (Vital Remains)
• GO! and Dying Memory (The Violent Vocations)
• Fragments ^note  Borderline 11 due to some parts reaching level 11, if not bordering on it. (VNV Nation)
• Living In A Whirlwind (Warbringer) ^note  Rare example of a Thrash Metal song getting this high.
• Slaagt ^note  The ending is an 11. (Whourkr)
• Pazi Sta Radis ^note  A hard 10 for the very heavy bass. (Sky Wikluh, A Serbian Film soundtrack)
• Hit The Floor (Wilkinson & TC)
• This Is Exile, Vicer Exciser and The Saw Is The Law (Whitechapel (Band))
• Progressive Plantation (World I Hate)
• Tomb Of The Ancient King (Wormphlegm) ^note  Borderline 11. Despite the absolutely demented vocals, the calmer, more melodic sections keep this from being an actual 11.
• Myalgia (Show Your Bones) (Wounder) ^note  approaches 11 towards the end
• Carrion Flowers (Chelsea Wolfe) ^note  Borderline. Gets here more so for its atmosphere than anything else. Rare example of a female solo artist getting this high.
• Oration of Ruin (Xasthur)
• Akustika (X-Fly)
• The Saw ^note  Borderline 11. (xKore)
• Scorched Blood (album version) ^note  Similar to the level 9 Torch Mix from the single, but the percussion is more distorted. The original single version is an 8, and the Inferno mix is an 11. (Xorcist)
• Paracosm ^note  Borderline 11. (Xtrullor)
• Path of Torment, I'll Kill You, Betrayal (in-game version) ^note  The OST version is a borderline 8 for the loud banging in the middle., Butterflies ^note  Borderline 11. and Prayer (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 soundtracks)
• E.M.M.I. Chase ^note  Borderline 11. (Kenji Yamamoto, Metroid Dread soundtrack)
• Beat of Destruction (Ryu Yonemitsu, Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (PC Engine version) soundtrack)
• Omega and Skinwalker (Your Chance to Die)
• Season of the Fallen (Yrgh)
• Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Frank Zappa) ^note  Would be an 11 if not for the last 30 seconds being applause.
• Make Some Noise (Zatox & Activator)
• Psyklon Aeon (Zyklon)

Level 11

Genres: Any and all harsh and abrasive musical subgenres ^note  Brutal/Slam Death Metal, War Metal, Harder Grindcore, Deathgrind, Goregrind, Mincegore, Gorenoise, Cybergrind, Cybergore, Pornogrind, Pornogore, Noisegrind, the rawest of Raw Black Metal and Bestial Black Metal, Drone Metal, Death/Doom, Funeral Doom, the hardest Sludge Metal, Mathcore / Mathgrind, the hardest Deathcore, the hardest Noise Rock, Powerviolence, Noisecore, harder Crust Punk, harder Emoviolence, Power Noise, Power Electronics, Death Industrial, the hardest Old-School Industrial, harder Aggrotech, the hardest Industrial Metal, the hardest Dark Ambient, the hardest Djent, the hardest IDM, harder Brostep (especially Noisestep, Deathstep, Psychostep and Glitchstep), harder Drum and Bass (e.g. Darkstep, Neurofunk), Hardcore Techno (especially Extratone, Hypertone, Supertone, Deathtone, the hardest Gabber, Crossbreed, harder Digital Hardcore, Frenchcore, Industrial Hardcore, Speedcore, Splittercore, Suizidcore, harder Breakcore and Terrorcore), Harsh Noise, Black Noise, Noise, Minatory, Harsh Noise Wall, Black MIDI music, Electroacoustic Improvisation, Lowercase, the hardest Industrial Hip-Hop, Sonic Art, Glitch, Danger music

Matching mineral: Hyperdiamond (Aggregated diamond nanorods)

• Tokyo ^note  Being over an hour long, the song jumps all over the scale. But at 22:25, the track becomes Harsh Noise, firmly staying in the 11 territory. (・・・・・・・・・)
• VGhlIHNrZXB0aWNzIHdpbGwgYmUgY29udmluY2VkIG9uIDE4LzExLzIwLi4u ^note  Soft 11. ()&!%+^=!)
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• The Purification of Nancy (1ucky Se7en)
• Essersmooter ^note  Industrial Metal meets power noise. By far the hardest track Abbey has released. and Excuses (Abbey Nex)
• Anal Destruction and Using Rapebabies as Riotshields (Abörted Hitler Cöck)
• Child of Demons (Acting Damage ft. Xenixa)
• Built to Grind (Agoraphobic Nosebleed)
• Future Junkie War Machine (Al Core)
• Cränk (Al Hickley)
• dlsc​(​Z​)​|​0 ne cc​/​te d ^note  The hardest parts of this track fly off the scale but there's enough respite to bring it back down. and Rabbit Head (Aleph-7)
• Harsh Drugs & BDSM (W.A.S.T.E. Harsh Noise Mix) (Alien Vampires)
• Demons (Alon Mor)
• Burnt Year ^note  The somewhat more subdued ending makes this a soft 11. (Altar of Plagues)
• Pandemonic Hyperblast, I Am the Wrath of Gods and the Desolation of the Earth, Satanarchrist, So We Can Die Happy, The Final Destruction of Dignity and Castigation & Betrayal (Anaal Nathrakh) ^note  The most extreme Black Metal songs on the scale, hands down. The latter is nearly off the scale!
• Egg Plant Man ^note  NSFW album cover. (Anal Compost)
• You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You in the Stomach and I Ate Your Horse (Anal Cunt)
• New Dawn (Angel Enemy & Nevarez)
• Street Fighter and Don't Fuck with Me (Angerfist)
• Beyond Me (Antigama)
• I Hear A New World (Aphasic & DJ Scud)
• Ktpa1 ^note  Under the AFX alias. VERY close to becoming Harsh Noise., Aphex Airlines and Ventolin ^note  If it didn't have an actual beat, this song would be off the scale. (Aphex Twin)
• Blasphemy (Araf)
• Blessed Vulva (Archgoat)
• A Feast for the Liars' Tongue (Arsis) ^note  Another melodeath example at this level. Also, this is possibly the softest level 11 song.
• Never Stop Speedcore (Vieze Asbak)
• The Future of War and Start the Riot! (Atari Teenage Riot)
• Fol3 ^note  While not as harsh-sounding as "Gantz Graf", it's chaotic enough to reach this level. and Gantz Graf (Autechre)
• The Speaker is Systematically Blown, Nihil Strength, Ode to Bedlam and Terrorbird (Author & Punisher)
• Acetoxy (SCARRED Remix) (Automatik)
• Expressure (Christoph de Babalon)
• Dissection of Brutalized Victims (Backyard Cannibalism)
• PartiesOver/PizzaPieCircleJerk (BaronVonBadGuy) ^note  The complete lack of production puts it higher than it should be; combine that with many loud and chaotic sections (especially towards the end), and you get a song that's too insane for level 10, but not harsh enough to fly off the scale.
• System X (Barron)
• No One Wins and Burnt (The Berzerker)
  • And stepping up to the bat live ^note  This also serves as evidence that the band didn't need a drum machine in order to excel at this level of noise. In fact, the album containing this song was recorded with a live drummer and drum triggers instead of a drum machine by itself, just because the band had a drummer that could pull this off. Let that sink in for a moment.
• Buried in the Back, Demonic Electronic, Legion, Solitude Is Bliss and Suckpump (BILE) ^note  The third track is the hardest conventional song the band has made thus far. The other four are noise pieces.
• STUPiG (BiS)
• I'm About to Jack your Goth Bitch and Life is inherent suffering… (Biwee)
• A Vulgar Picture and Catacomb Hecatomb (The Black Dahlia Murder) ^note Some VERY rare examples of Melodic Death Metal reaching this level.
• Ritual (Blasphemy)
• The Sculpture (Blister Germinal)
• The Little Death (The Body & Full of Hell) ^note  Considering what genres both bands play, anything that either of them have made will undoubtedly sit at this level.
• Sadistic Abductive (Brain Drill)
• Frenchcore S'il Vous Plait Part 3 (The Braindrillerz)
• In Pursuit of Misery (BRÄSS)
• Forsaken and Strangling The Weak (Bratkilla)
• "Friends" and Meaning (Brunatny)
• Roughcore (Bruno)
• Gebrechlichkeit i ^note  Gebrechlichkeit ii is debatable. and Jeg Faller (Burzum)
• Sore (Buzzov En)
• M^6 and His Eyes (Car Bomb)
• Festerday and Carbonized Eye Sockets (Carcass)
• L1 Advanced plaque entanglements and N1 Sudden time regression into isolation (The Caretaker)
• Vacuity (Carthus)
• Regret & The Grave ^note  Though the intro is around a 9 or 10, the rest of the song is a rock-solid 11., The Prophets of Loss, A Living, Breathing Piece Of Defecating Meat and Forced Gender Reassignment (Cattle Decapitation)
• Tsurupetakore and Aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai (CDR)
• Life's a Glitch (Celldweller)
• Bind, Torture, Kill and Silhouette of Death (City Hunter) ^note  Many of their songs make it onto this level, but these two are extreme even by their usual standard.
• Intro (clipping.) ^note  A soft 11 for the vocal sections breaking up the extremely harsh main body of the song.
• Retrofit (C-Netik & Cooh)
• Mermaidream (Coakira)
• Salem and Sacrificed (Code: Pandorum)
  • Antisepsis (Code: Pandorum & Creation)
• U U UWA UWA (CONSTANTAUTUMN)
• Rent Due (ConsumerSoftproducts, Cruelty Squad soundtrack)
• Axe to Fall and Phoenix in Flames (Converge) ^note  Both are ultra-rare examples of Metalcore songs reaching 11.
• Error (Converter)
• Toilet Cleaning (Corpse Penis Eaten By Rectum)
• Paso Inferior (Corrupted)
• Choke (Crash-Scan) ^note  The band's heaviest song thus far.
• Slit Your Guts (Cryptopsy)
• Parasite (Curse of the Golden Vampire)
• Ionosphere (Cytotoxin)
• True and Sieg (Dajjal)
• Nothing As Darkness and In Jeraspunta (Dark Tribe)
• Dark 3.16 (Darkspace)
• The Bishop (Dead Inside)
• Die (Death Dust Extractor)
• Giving Bad People Good Ideas (Death Grips)
• where are my fucking pills? (Death Spells)
• Sectioned (Deathmachine)
• Shrine and Addicted (Deathpile)
• The Shrine of Mad Laughter, II, Internecine Iatrogenesis, Scorpions and Drought and Famished for Breath (Deathspell Omega)
• Warm Leatherette ^note  The original by The Normal is an 8. (Decoded Feedback)
• Hammer-Forged Blade (Deeds of Flesh)
• Consumed by Repugnance (Defeated Sanity)
• Real Hardcore and Atomizer (Delta 9)
• Intrauterine Disembowelment (Delusional Parasitosis)
• Maria, Angst, Don't Change, Nothing, Cruel World and She is Mine (Demonic Pressure)
  • Hitori Kakurenbo (Demonic Pressure & Porcelana)
• Odium and Meld (Influx Remix) (Demoralized)
• Been Lead, Llevame, Lost and Losing, PCP Scapegoat, My West Side Horizon ^note  Wild and outright ridiculous tempo changes prevent this from being any lower on the scale. The 25 second mark is especially gruesome. and Past Reasons (Despise You)
• Midnight Motherfuckers (Detest)
• Noise Step (Devilman)
• Damnare Pythonissan (Devouring Annihilation & Padifer)
• Self Disembowelment (Devourment)
• Worst Nightmare, Dead Zone, Entire Universe, Inside of the Mind, Recharge, Addicted to Games, Convicted for Subreality, System Failure, Voice of the Past and Uranoid (Diabarha)
• The Litanies of Satan (Diamanda Galás)
• When I Lost My Bet, Fix Your Face and Good Neighbor (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
• Coma Gold -the god dead- (Rearrange) (DIO -Distraught Overlord-) ^note  The original version is a 10.
• Tsumi to Kisei/Tsumi to Batsu (2011 Rearrange)^note  The original version is a 7., Kyoukotsu no Nari ^note  Nearly off the scale. and AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS(Unplugged) ^note  Despite 100% acoustic instrumentation, it's even heavier and crazier than the original! The live version is even harder. (Dir en grey)
• Rhizome (Disavowed)
  • And stepping up to the bat live
• Castration Rite, Angel Present, Radiant Arkham, Pattern Blue (Discordance Axis)
• Teeth of Emulation (Disfiguring The Goddess)
• Consume the Forsaken (Disgorge (USA))
• Jaundice of Hookworm (Disgorge (Mexico))
• Dead Nation (DJ 6666)
• The Fear (DJ Tron)
• The Return of the Gods (DJ Unscarred)
• Terror Tourette (Dr. CoZmo)
• Vive la Frenchcore and Frenchcore Paradise (Dr. Peacock)
  • It's Called XTC (Dr. Peacock & Billx)
  • Rising Sun (Dr. Peacock & Deathroar)
• Boiled Angel (Dragged Into Sunlight) ^note  Probably the heaviest Doom Metal song on the scale. This track is astonishingly harsh and raw.
  • They also have this intense beast Volcanic Birth ^note  The noise elements cause this song to possibly break the scale!
• Licht (Drago)
• Shotta (Drokz)
• Manrammer (Duran Duran Duran)
• Destruction VIP and Slenderman (Dyroth)
• I Don't Wanna Be a Part of This (EC8OR)
• Spinal Exposure (Effluence)
• Generation N, Nihilist Antiorem, Nothing Is (not) ^note  The intro makes it a soft 11., Self-Destruct Intelligence and Truth Nonexistence (Eftos)
• Acute Episode (Eight Frozen Modules)
• Steh auf Berlin (Einstürzende Neubauten) ^note  Starts out off the scale with the sound of drilling before settling into a hard 11 thanks to the enormously noisy usage of found objects and the brutal vocals.
• Do Not Crack This and Suction (ELECTR)
• Dead Before Death (Emit) ^note  At the very far end of the scale.
• Idol Saucer Breakfast, Rabbits Are Cool and Chipmunk Fuckfest (Emray)
• Rites of Ceremonial Embalm'ment (Encoffination)
• Ruin, Calamity, and Endless Dismal Moan [9 To Death] (Endless Dismal Moan)
• Itabashi Girl (Kazumoto Endo)
• War on War (Enduser)
• Disembowel the Meek (Enmity)
• RananaBananaPhone10 (EpreTroll) ^note  Synthesia shows us that it is possible to get up to this level using only piano.
• memory=entryrrrr///// (Esselfortium, My House soundtrack)
• Codename X (Ryle & Sullivan King Remix) (Excision)
• Casket Krusher (Exhumed)
• The Authority of Angels and The Tower Guards (The Fallen)
• Doomsday Machine (Far Too Loud)
• Deception (Fear Factory) ^note  Many of the songs on Concrete are 10s, but Deception is a rare 11 for this band.
• Visage V ^note  While there are some parts that aren't 11, the song's overall chaotic nature and that parts that are 11 put it here. (Luc Ferrari)
• Torture and Terror (Figure & Midnight Tyrannosaurus)
• Dumbass Retribution (Five Star Hotel)
• The Violation ^note  An example of a song where the symphonic elements make it heavier. (Fleshgod Apocalypse)
• Werewolf (Kris Force, The Path soundtrack) ^note  Starts at a 1, but grows in intensity over time, especially after the loud screeching noise heard after the first minute rises in volume, which solidifies the track at this level. The growling and screaming don't help matters, either.
• Prototype (Front Line Assembly)
• Colon Commando (Fuck... I'm Dead)
• Race You to My Bedroom/Spirit Rise, Rough Steez and Brainfreeze (Fuck Buttons)
• Ghosts (FuntCase)
• Vive la Guerre (Genocide Organ)
• ØRDER 66 ($YZ3N Flip) (GENOCIDEGHØST)
• Instruments Disorder (The Gerogerigegege) ^note  At the very top of the scale.
• Necrofantasia (Gingeas)
• AZZ (Glitched Hero Y)
• Healing Open Wounds With Salt, The Atrocious Angel of Scatology, Nihilism Tied Up and Burning and Ten Bodies Hanging (Gnaw Their Tongues) ^note  By far the very, very, VERY hardest songs at this level.
• Mastermind (Mick Gordon, Doom (2016) soundtrack)
• Grotesque Appetite (Gore Beyond Necropsy)
• it’s sad ^note  A soft 11 overall; the beginning is a 10. (goreshit)
• Stitched Oral Asphyxia (Gorgasm)
• Clouded (Gorguts)
• Croatan (The Goslings) ^note  Possibly the harshest Shoegaze band.
• Asuka (Gridlink)
• Depression (Grief)
• Punie Amen 2019 and Love Density (GUNSLINGER-R)
• Razorized Ball Gag (Gutteral Secrete)
• Limytz (Hamunaptra)
• A typical live performance by Hanatarash.
  • And here's another one.
• Devil Worshipping Motherfuckers (The Hard Way) ^note  Despite their tongue-in-cheek "satanic" aesthetic, titles like Pentagram of Coke and Suck Satan's Cock do little to temper the heaviness of The Hard Way's music.
• Hell Yeah, Wrath VIP and Wrath (Hardwiya)
• Bird Seeds of Vengeance (Hatebeak) ^note  Could you believe this song was sung by actual animals?!
• With Discipline Upon Mankind (Havoc Unit)
• Playrooms ^note  Would easily be a 1 if not for the disturbing sounds of children's screams, chainsaws, and tearing flesh in the background. (Tim Haywood, Shadow Man soundtrack)
• A Complete and Utter Destruction of the Senses (Heaven Pierce Her, ULTRAKILL soundtrack)
• Titan (Hecatonchires)
• Victus (Hell) ^note  By far one of the harshest Sludge Metal tracks on this list.
• Cotton Eye Joe Gregorian Chant Nightcore Hardcore Dubstep Remix (Horologium) ^note  Despite how humorous the concept may be, the harshness of the beats and the chaos created by the music genres fused together pushes it up to this level despite the relatively soft intro.
• Misconception (Hour of Penance)
• Degredation Paradox (Human Mincer)
• Stop it~ (Hylna)
• The Choking Stutterer (I:Gor)
• The Black Hole Era ^note  Soft 11. Vortex Reaper’s remix is also here. (ij9j9j9j99j9)
• Atrocities (Impact Hammer)
• In Reverence Of and Silence the Oppressors (Impending Doom) ^note  The former was easily off the scale when it first came out, in 2006.
• Abandoned Bathrooms (Incudine Pesante) ^note  One of the hardest songs on the scale, if not the hardest.
• Soil the Stillborn and Unholy Gravebirth (Infant Annihilator) ^note  The entire band sits at this level for the most part as an Affectionate Parody of death metal.
• Titanomachy (Ingested)
• God The Animal (In Gloom ft. Kyle Anderson)
• ETERNITY (Demonic Pressure Bootleg) (INHUMAN)
• In for the Kill (Inhume)
• Ascension to Immortality, Dagon's Rising (Internal Suffering)
• Rectum Grinder (Intestinal Disgorge)
• Kneel, Shut Up, I'm Trying to Worry, Substantial Guilt Vs. the Irony of Enjoying (Ion Dissonance)
• Totalitarian Love Pulse ^note  A very soft 11. (Iperyt)
• Charmicarmicarmicat Shines to Earth (Isis) ^note  Easily the harshest song Isis has ever released.
• Culmine (Iskra)
• Death Is My Gift, Princess Parts and Vodsel ^note  Soft 11. (Isserley) ^note  This artist is a rare case where the clean vocals do nothing to soften her songs, with her style of singing actually making them an even more disorienting listening experience.
• Exile (iVardensphere)
• Testicles Dance (Jig Ai)
• Last Night on Earth (June Miller) ^note  Despite the spoken word samples, the dark, penetrating atmosphere, the droning, distorted bass and the extremely fast beats (even for drum and bass standards) make this song an 11.
• Teeth, At the Limit of Fertile Land ^note  Bandcamp link for track. and Fauna of Mirrors (Jute Gyte) ^note  Probably some of the heaviest Black Metal in existence; the 24-note scale this artist has employed since Discontinuities has taken the genre's trademark dissonance to new heights (or depths, depending upon one's perspective).
• Disintegration of European Union (Slobodan Kajkut) ^note  Considering that classical music doesn't nearly reach this level, this is quite possibly the heaviest piece played by an orchestra.
• Amongst Phantom Worlds (Katalepsy)
• Light Fields (Kevorkian Death Cycle)
• Tenebre Rosso Sangue (OST Version) (Keygen Church ^note  An alias of Master Boot Record., ULTRAKILL soundtrack)
• Pieces of Quiet and Under Rotting Sky (Khanate)
• FACE ^note  Soft 11. (KIKIYAMA, Yume Nikki soundtrack)
• Bloodlust (Killsonik)
• Barbarous (Killstep)
• Thrones (Dark Hide Remix) (Klijin)
• Fix Me Up, Mating Sounds of Helicopters and Nihil (skip to 4:42) (KMFDM)
• Windows 10000 (Kobaryo)
• Mondo Brutale (Komprex)
• Purgatory (Kranary)
• Release Aggression and Mmmm (K-TecK)
• Galaxy Collapse (Kurokotei) ^note  Tops out at 520 BPM.
• A typical live performance by Kylie Minoise
  • It gets worse...
• Wolves (Ladyscraper)
• Ulcerated Offal, Intrigue Redolence Inside Putridity and A Divine Proclamation of Finishing the Present Existence (Last Days of Humanity)
• Mope Mope (LeaF) ^note  Song is tough to classify, half the song is at a 1-3, while the other half is at an 11. However, the song is built around the parts at 11, so that's the ranking it gets.
• Khult ov Abaddon and Tha Archangel ov Hell (Legionz ov Hell)
• Where Annihilation Dwells (Leviathan)
• Club Doom (Danny Lewis, DOOM (PlayStation) soundtrack)
• Mega Ghost, Dead Cowboy and Dracula Mountain (Lightning Bolt) ^note  Almost any song by this band that wasn't already at an 11 in the studio release will immediately jump to that level during live performances. The duo's sound is notorious for being loud enough to damage eardrums in a live setting, with some fans claiming to have been unable to hear properly for several days after having showed up to one of their concerts.
• Chop Shop (Lil Texas) ^note  Lil Texas's brand of uptempo hardcore could easily be considered "more accessible" than many other artists, but that doesn't stop its abrasive nature from reaching a solid 11 from I Am Excited on.
• Ex Illuminati (LilithVI)
• Vourdalak ^note  A very soft 11. (Lneheb)
• Terror Rape Machine (Loffciamcore)
• Blackened Speedcore (Low Entropy)
  • Darkened Speedcore (Low Entropy ft. Countess M)
• HALLELUYA (LSD, Tears Of Fury & D-Element)
• 960 BPM Speedcore and Kamikaze (m1dy)
• Dark Lady (Magwi)
• Black Sky (Mainliner)
• Neglected Rejection (Malignancy)
• American Embassy ^note  Off the scale for it's time. (Manufacture)
• Travel Sex (Maria & the Mirrors)
• A typical live performance by Maria Cross.
  • And here's another one. ^note  The video has fairly bad audio, but one can easily tell that Maria is definitely doing extremely harsh music.
• Inner Mind Mystique 3 (Masonna) ^note  What if you took harsh noise and threw some shrieking grindcore style vocals on top of it? You'd have Masonna. Easily above an 11. Easily.
• Free The Bee (Melt-Banana)
  • The live version is even harder, due to the even greater speed and the omnipresent noise influences in the guitar. ^note  This song is a good example of how hard Noise Rock can get, and also of a song that reaches this level with instrumentation alone while still utilizing clean vocals.
• Promotion Man, Minus Zero, Forgotten Land ^note  This and "Promotion Man" come form Merzbeat, one of Merzbow's softest albums , Requiem and 1930: Part 1 ^note  Part 2 is even harder (Merzbow) ^note  More than half of his discography consists of songs that are simply too hard for this scale; one of his well-known songs, I Lead You Towards Glorious Times, is quite possibly the single hardest and loudest musical piece of all time.
• Trip 1: The Beginning of the End, Trip 2: Metamorphosis of the Sphere, Trip 3: Calls From the Otherworld, and Trip 4: Decomposition of the Mind (Mescalin Massacre)
• Demiurge, The Demon's Name is Surveillance, Elastic ^note  Starts at 10, then progressively gets crazier., Future Breed Machine (Mayhem version) ^note  The original is a 10. and Concatenation (Meshuggah)
• Communicating With the Dead (Micron)
• Samurai Sword (The Microphones)
• Follow the Dealer (Micropoint)
• Six Feet Underneath (ft. Sevora) (Midnight Tyrannosaurus)
  • Welcome to Yharnam (Midnight Tyrannosaurus & Oolacile)
  • Ork Technology ^note  Mur Da's remix is also here. (Midnight Tyrannosaurus & Kadaver)
  • Grave Robber (Midnight Tyrannosaurus & MurDa)
• On the Supreme Legions (Against Failing Humanity) (Mindly Rotten)
• Side F/X Include Mikey's Middle Finger (TV 4) (Ministry)
• Thousand (Moby)
• Botan Ricecore (Mochipet)
• ;3333333333333 ^note  A very hard 11. and im so much cuter than you ^note  Possibly the softest song on the album, that doesn't stop it from being an extremely hard 11. (MOETANNN) ^note  The other three songs on the album, die ;3, im much cuter than you, and shut the fUck up are simply too hard for the scale.
• Skinned (Mortician)
• Stockholm Syndrom (Moth)
• Version and 010 (Mr. 76ix)
• Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead (Mr. Bungle) ^note  Unlike the overwhelming majority of their material, this song stays in Level 11 territory throughout its duration. Intentionally so, as the band created the song with the goal of making it completely unlistenable.
  • And stepping up to the bat live ^note  Yes, they did a 17 minute version of this song live. The last five minutes or so is just them destroying all of their equipment and making as much noise as they can.
• Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds (Nadja)
• Abandon All Life, Violence Is Forever and You Will Never Be One Of Us (Nails)
• Bonehead (Naked City)
• You Suffer (Napalm Death)
• Mutilated Blasphemists (Necroptic Remnants)
• Fuck You (Nekrosystem) ^note  Typical speedcore.
  • Speedcoredrang (Nekrosystem & Komprex)
• A Lie Temporarily Becomes the Truth (Nero's Day at Disneyland) ^note  The intro starts an 8 and gets heavier with more sounds until it eventually gives way to the main body of the song, which is at this level.
• EXORCIST (Night RioX)
• Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (Nine Inch Nails)
• Sacramentum ov Filicide (Nitheful) ^note  The horrifically distorted scream at the end doesn't help with the hardness either.
• Downsided (No Comment) ^note  This is technically an entire EP but it's short enough to be a song. Gets up here mainly through inhuman, absurd speed, feedback at the start of Soiled by Hate and insane tempo changes. It has over 11 songs in 7 minutes, and fits 10 of those under 5 minutes.
• Living Now and Bureaucratic Channels (No Faith)
• 666 BPM and Low Budget Terror (Noisekick)
• Everything Comes (Noizy Az Fuck)
• Abrahamic Godhead Besieged by Adversarial Usurpation (Nyogthaeblisz)
• Ocular Intercourse and Limp Dick Coprophilia (Odiusembowel)
• Veneti (OGNIR)
• Respawn (Omega Weapon)
• Saligia (Origin)
• Pass the Buck (The Outside Agency)
• Leikkuri/Cutter, Corona ^note  A soft 11, since a few parts aren't at that level. and Rähinä I/Mayhem I (Pan Sonic)
• There’s a Reason You’re Single (Party Cannon)
• I Staple Tapeworms on My Penis, Vomit Up Your Ass and Snort White Poo Powder Up Goat Cunt ( Passenger of Shit)
• Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (Krzysztof Penderecki) ^note  Soft 11.
• Machine Gun (The Peter Brotzmann Octet) ^note  Completely broke the scale back in the '60s, and quite possibly the only jazz band to make it this high on it today.
• No Natural Order (Pharmakon) ^note  One of the more outstanding examples of what she does for a living. Much like Merzbow above, over half of her entire body of work consists of songs that are too hard for the scale.
• Jotaro (Phiso)
• Gregarious and Wisdoom (P.H.O.B.O.S.)
• Satellite - Needle in the Groove ^note  The finished/released version is an 8., The King Of Negativity ^note  BILE's re-recorded version is a hard 7. and Steamroller (Pigface) ^note  All three of these tracks are prime examples of what truly godawful production can do to a song that is otherwise far lower on the scale.
• Yasawa Archipelago (Phyllomedusa)
• Get Out 3 (Pita) ^note  Starts at level 3 with a reversed sample of a Ennio Morricone composition, jumps to 11 at 1:40 as the track gets consumed by a wall of noise and distortion, and remains like this for the remaining 9 minutes.
• Armi Beter (Plonk Moist)
• Japanese Girl Scream (VIP) (Porcelana _瓷器)
• Transcending a Mere Multiverse, The Endmills, Curtain, Eye and Weptune (Portal)
• Scorn, The Lifer and Inevitable (Primitive Man)
• Sinners Eve (Progenitor)
• Lies and Truth (Programers)
• Earthworks/Buried in Secrets ^note  The opening three minutes are probably the closest thing to a proto-bass drop meme you can get., Rose Comet ^note  Starts at 1 and builds up to this level., White Hell and Apple Tree Victim ^note  Starts at 10, but is pushed up by the screams midway through. (Prurient)
• came to a point where i wish my unexistence (Pupal)
• Innate Butchery Aptitude (Putridity)
• Hyungga is a tangled story (Pyha)
• flesh holder ^note  Mainly a borderline 11, but the moments that are at level 11 push it up there. (pyre)
• The Music We Live For (Pyrotense)
• The Oracle of Nassau (Pyrrhon)
• Permanently Pissed Off and Noise Resistence (Q-Hate)
• The Big Black (The Quick Brown Fox)
• Pinkamena Friends (QuietDuck) ^note  Even harder remix of Knife Party's Internet Friends.
• Better Days (RadiaL)
• Brutal 6.0 (Radical Redemption)
• Most Misanthropic (Radium)
• Check Out the Sound (Randy & The Sickest Squad)
• Superjail! Ending Theme (Bradford Reed)
• Metal Machine Music (Lou Reed) ^note  Quite possibly the hardest album of the 70s.
• Dash Hopes, Dash Hopes II and Dash Hopes III (Renard Queenston, Mungyodance soundtrack)
• Constantinople and Satisfaction (The Residents)
• Cleansing Siege (Take Them Down) and Blood Noose (Hog-tied Like Swine) (Revenge)
• Goat. Altar. Sacrifice (Ritual Death)
• Metanoia (Rogers Met an Iranian)
• Coro (Ryuichi Sakamoto, soundtrack to the 2004 film adaptation of Appleseed)
• The City and Parade of Disasters (Christian A. Salyer, Postal soundtrack)
• An Eternity With Bathory (Sangre)
• Get Out (Satren)
• European Echoes (Manfred Schoof) ^note One of the heaviest jazz albums ever released, all the way back in 1968!
• Maniac (ScreamerClauz)
• Calling (Sefa)
  • LSD Problem (Sefa & Mr. Ivex)
• Lobotomia (Septycal Gorge)
• Buried Again (Severed Savior)
• Your Blood Is Mine (Severe Torture)
• Braindead (Shizuo)
• Aggravated Explosive (The Sickening)
• Executioner (Sinister Souls & Ruffneck)
• Zera Headroom (Sirio)
  • Loudness War and Frenchcore Guerilla (Sirio & D-Tox)
• Illusions (Six Feet Under) ^note  Beyond any doubt Six Feet Under's heaviest song.
• Иллюзия (SK7N)
• The March and the Stream (Skepticism)
• Spahn Dirge ^note  Well off the scale at the time of its release; mainly due to the vocals., Convulsion and Reclamation (Skinny Puppy)
• Längst Ner På Samhällsstegen (Skitsystem)
• Pure Evil (Skratch Therapy)
• Purgatory (Skribe)
• (515) ^note  Foray into power electronics. (Slipknot)
• Metro (Part 1) (Snuff)
• Happppy song (SOOOO)
• Without Sight (Soul Embraced)
• Slogun (SPK) ^note  It would have gone way off the scale at the time it was released, in 1979.
• Steinbolt ^note  An even more ruthless IDM song than Come To Daddy (Pappy Mix) and Gantz Graf. Relentless, long, and ultra-noisy, all complete with a heavily downtuned bass. Squarepusher's other stuff does not even get close to this in the scale (They are more of a 6-7)... But this is arguably a very hard 11. (Squarepusher)
• Shitstorm and Oh My Fucking God (Strapping Young Lad) ^note  By far the hardest Industrial Metal songs on the scale.
• Black Din, In Defense of Resentment and Victims of Nostalgia (Street Sects)
  • Their live shows also fall into this level by virtue of sheer lunacy, consisting of them filling every venue they play with fog until you can't see three feet in front of you, rapidly flashing strobe lights throughout the set, running at crowd members at random and directly screaming in their faces, wielding a running chainsaw as part of their instrumentation, and doing everything else in their power to set the audience on edge. If that weren't enough, according to this review, someone actually collapsed at one of their shows and had to be carried out.
• Basstrain (Sub Zero Project + GLDY LX)
• Effigy of the Forgotten (Suffocation)
• Murder ^note  Borderline off the scale when it was released in 1995. This and Dying Inside are probably Suicide Commando's hardest songs., Dying Inside and When Evil Speaks (Suicide Commando)
• Aghartha, Báthory Erzsébet, and O)))Bow 2 ^note  Nearly off the scale. (Sunn O))))
  • Much like Lightning Bolt above, anything that isn't an 11 in the studio version immediately becomes one in a live setting. ^note Their live music is rumored to cause physical side effects like fainting, vomiting and bowel disruption (among other things), and people who have shown up to their shows have claimed to quite literally feel the band's sound vibrating through their bodies during the concert.
• 1.3 (Supersilent)
• I'm Sensitive and Unlistenable (Surgical Meth Machine)
• 93 Ave. Blues and A Screw (Holy Money) (live version) ^note  The original studio version is an 8. (Swans)
• Killdozer (t_error 404)
• Boogie Woogie Splatter Show (DJ Myosuke remix) and do i smile´? (t+pazolite) ^note  Ultrafast Speedcore with abrasive noise thrown in. Solid 11.
• Giygas is Fatally Wounded (Hirokazu Tanaka & Keiichi Suzuki, EarthBound (1994) soundtrack)
• Love and Safe Skin (Patricia Taxxon)
• Sanctified Dysecdysis (Teitanblood)
• Dominate Through Chaos (Terminal Trauma)
• Ich and Welcome to Hell ^note  Dips to a 10 towards the middle. (Terrorfakt)
• Bad Apple!! 8.49 MILLION!! (TheSuperMarioBros2 & trollfacepalmAcer78) ^note  Typical Black MIDI. 8.49 million notes in under 5 minutes. TheSuperMarioBros2's computer can't keep up.
• Walls of Sound (Throbbing Gristle)
• Whore to a Chainsaw (Thy Art Is Murder)
• Raped by Elephants (Torsofuck)
• Death ^note  Easily the hardest solo Devin Townsend metal song. and Devlab IV (Devin Townsend)
• Pure Hate (Tripped) ^note  A perfect example of a 300-BPM terrorcore track; the extremely distorted kicks help keep it at this level.
• Headbang Gang ^note  Soft 11. (Trampa & TrollPhace)
• Eriphion Epistates (Tsjuder) ^note  An example of a more traditional Black Metal band reaching this level.
• 6 Million Ways to Die (Original Version) (Turbulence)
• D-Rythem (U.S. Hard/Contemporary)
• Please Don't Leave Me (Uboa) ^note  There is a single 15-second refrain at the 1-minute mark that is a 3 at best, before devolving into a wall of noise metal.
• Pressure Torture, Halfway Up the Stairway of Mucus (with Speedranch) ^note  A cover of the intro to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" composed entirely of a pitch-shifted scream. This could very well be the softest song on Making Orange Things, with most of its tracks being at least VERY hard 11s or even breaking the scale completely., Cobra Commander, and Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die ^note  The SKM-ETR remixis even harsher, with SKM-ETR essentially turning the song into Harsh Noise. (Venetian Snares)
• Black Demonology (Venom & Osiriz)
• Pump Up the Volume ^note  Soft 11. (Venom & Goetia)
• Bad Apple Betelgeuse Mode (Alexander Verevkin) ^note  Extreme Black MIDI. The note count (nearly 700 million) is completely ridiculous compared to most of the genre, and it isn't even in the top 20.
• Initiate Psychotic Upheaval (Vile Impregnation)
• The Clinic (The Violent Vocations)
• Waste (Viridus)
• ShatterSphere (Virtual Terrorist)
• Beyond the Realms of Reason (Visceral Bleeding)
• Quantic Suicide ^note  The drops start at level 10, but gradually move to level 11. (Voidborn)
• Prodigy of Solitude (Vomit Remnants)
• Prototypes of Values Incarnation (Vomit The Soul)
• La Sangre del Dedo Intelecto (Otto von Schirach)
• Depression X, Static IV, Dystopia, Reaper Syndrome and A Dyslexic with ADHD Suffering an Aneurysm (Vortex Reaper)
• Chased Through the Woods by a Rapist (Waking the Cadaver)
• Supreme Imperial (Warface) ^note  Good example of Xtra Raw hardstyle, which is as extreme as hardstyle gets.
• Fetus (W.A.S.P. (Band)) ^note  By far their hardest song, which is surprising considering how their material is mostly bog-standard Heavy Metal.
• Shut Up And Bleed, Scab Collector, Steel Toed Rampage and Terrorists Don't Do Drugs (W.A.S.T.E.)
• コンプレックス (Watashi no Koko)
• Mourning Glory (Ween) ^note  Although they normally rest at a lower level, this song mainly consists of static, noise and distorted vocals. If it wasn't for the fact that many of the lyrics are audible, this would reach an even higher level.
• Bite Me ("Weird Al" Yankovic) ^note  VOLUME WARNING!
• Daddo, Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel and Why You Never Became A Dancer (Whitehouse) ^note  More of their songs, like Philosophy, extend into even harsher territory than this.
• Korea (White Suns)
• 0-0 (Where Evil Dwells) (Wiseblood)
  • The cover by Fear Factory is also at this level.
• Torture Ritual (Within Destruction)
• Ylem (Wormed)
• Skin and Blood & Valor (Bestial Warlust cover) (Wounder) ^note  The former is a noise piece; the latter is an extremely brutal metal song.
• Principle of Puppet Warfare (Wormrot)
• Drunxpla (Xanopticon)
• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx)
• Tea Party (Xenixa)
• [Xo]toxic and Eisenkiller (Xotox)
• Ego Death (Xtrullor)
• Until Death, Ain't Gonna Rain, My Heaven, Don't Cry, Black Fairy, Executioner's Handywork, Warped Mind, From Below and Hellish Discord (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 soundtracks)
• Opt Out (Yellow Swans)
• The Condemnation of Being Pure Chaos ^note  Soft 11. and Pure Suffering (Toby Yerlett-Jessop)
• Histrionic II (Yves Tumor) ^note  Straight up Harsh Noise. Their music is generally not so abrasive, especially since signing to Warp Records, although it does vary all across the spectrum.
• _̶͓͛_̸͊ͅf̶̳̋i̶̺̋l̵̲̉e̷̥͐_̸̩͑_̸͉̽_̷̨͂m̸̥̆ì̸̫s̶̳̅s̷̩͛ị̷́n̶̼͌g̶͜͝ (Zecuu)
• Vortex Shot (Dark Hide Remix) (Zetmo)
• Organ Donor (Zomboy)

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