10. Uniformly, Death Metal is almost always at this level which makes rating it easy.
Author.
Definitely between a 7 and 8. If has some harsh, heavy riffs but the clean singing and electronics bring the song down a bit.
Nevermore-Narcosynthesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgV33bP6AtE
edited 25th Jan '17 3:10:48 PM by pointless233
Hard 7 or light eight.
Here's a song i've been listening to a lot lately, that also features Warrel Dane:
Sanctuary- Battle Angels
8 - Might be how the production treats Warrel's voice but he skirts the edges of over-performance with just how goddamn savage he sounds here. Riffing wise this basically sounds like as aggressive as the original American school of power metal gets without crossing over into speed/thrash territory though there seem to be slight touches of that here and there with some of the tempo changes.
9. Pretty standard Death Metal apart from the incredibly dissonant opener.
BABYMETAL - Road of Resistance (Live)
I don't know what to rate this. Maybe I'll give a 7 to an 8.
Eyehategod-99 Miles Of Bad Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKzxkMvItFw
edited 28th Jan '17 7:57:00 AM by pointless233
I like noises.
A light 8: the sludgy production brings out the heaviness, putting this on the harder end of stoner metal.
Here's a fun experiment.
Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
8.5 - Sounds like a death/thrash track filtered through malfunctioning computer programming. At times it comes off more as gears moving wildly with the spastic intensity jumps but it doesn't quite commit to a lot of what it shows off to really get the full mileage out of them.
It's a 10, though here is one case of death metal vocals being more laughable than intimidating.
Eluveitie - Meet The Enemy
7 - The emphasis on pedal riffs and ear candy stomp riffs (over which you get renfair folk bits) makes this feel more celebratory than savage, somewhat at odds with the whole heathen warriors association.
8. It's very loud and heavy but the jazz intro kind of brings it down when critiquing the song as a whole.
Author.
8. Pretty heavy but not that heavy.
Mastodon-Crack The Skye
6.5 - Sounds like a stoner rock band picking up random bits of hardcore and alternative rock for a vague, poorly defined slurry of ambling grooviness. It's got some rhythms that might be weighty but too mellow as a whole to do much beyond maybe give the listener the equivalent of a slightly red eyed vaguely confrontational look before fumbling with the bong.
Malignancy - Contagious Psychosis
edited 4th Feb '17 12:55:10 PM by StillbornMachine
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Mastodon are Sludge/Prog Metal. I also don't hear any alt rock influence in their sound.
Anyways, your song is a 9. Nothing more to say.
Nevermore-Inside Four Walls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJBMIUydWi0
edited 4th Feb '17 2:15:04 PM by pointless233
7. It's heavy but still melodic overall which keeps it from being higher.
Author.
Level 4 and level 2 in some parts. A light Progressive Metal ballad with some Progressive Rock influences.
Deafheaven - Dream House
Blackgaze
6.5 - If you removed the drumming, this would basically lose roughly 90% of any stopping power.
9. Typical for death metal.
Candiria-Constant Velocity Is as Natural As Being At Rest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGv3FM4Qp74
edited 5th Feb '17 8:03:19 AM by pointless233
Okay, that jazzy intro was certainly deceiving. I'd probably put it at a 7 overall, though the last section with the heavy breakdown is an 8.
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
edited 5th Feb '17 2:44:02 PM by djbj
7 - Would've rated this a 12 if Richard's jawbone broke. Sadly it didn't.
Somewhere between 7 and 8. Heavy riffs but the melodic vocals and sounds prevent it from getting higher.
Dillinger Escape Plan-Jim Fear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mdsm5K8bHc
edited 16th Feb '17 2:11:43 PM by pointless233
6 - One of those cases where a band has a production style that could make them sound heavy if their playing wasn't tepid, jaunty, fun times stoner rock. It's a case of what's being played being completely at odds with what the production would be suitable for. Then again that grainy treble reduces most of the riffing to a somewhat melodic version of TV static.
Nox - Blind Mad God
edited 23rd Jan '17 11:39:01 PM by StillbornMachine