1. I don't know what to say other than that it's really soft.
5.5 - It has a halfway sturdy verse riff but wow, those choruses right out of a post grunge single arrive just in time to arrive you this is work safe, lightweight fare.
The Artificer
9.5 Plenty of distortion, lots of dissonance, would be a 10 if not for the slow section.
The Angelic Process - Burning in the Undertow of God
8.5 The clean singing and over-all relaxing/uplifting feel drag down sections that would otherwise by a 10, maybe even an 11. Awesome song, btw.
Your Face is a Rape Scene by pageninetynine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phTOC30BSKM
I like noises.
Overall probably a 5: the moments of heaviness are few and far in between. The song goes for the atmosphere first, and the couple precise strikes are just a part of it.
Mastodon - Where Strides The Behemoth
A high 7 or a low 8. Heavy but with plenty of melody.
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Apparition in the Woods
7. A classic song, and still surprisingly hard-edged.
Indian, "Rape" (From All Purity, Relapse Records, 2014).
Trigger warning, I guess?
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
9. Pretty brutal, I have to say. Not much else I can describe it really, just a bunch of blazing noise.
C O D E N A M E : X
Hits everywhere from 4 to 7 for me. I'd rank it at about a 6.
Xtrullor and Panda Party - Sheol (I know it's damn hard, but can't decide between 10 or 11)
I like noises.
Feels like a light 8: the harder moments are offset by calmer parts, and the attack is not very dense except for the drop by the end.
Time to remember the classics.
Venetian Snares - Pressure Torture
C O D E N A M E : X
Good God, just an assault on the ears. I'd give it a 10 because of the softer break and outro, but still a pretty hard 10.
On the topic of electronic, been listening to some Au5 recently. Here are a few of his songs I want to add, ordered from softest to hardest. Inane motivational quote goes here
I'm going with the last one.
I'm not in a position to rate electronic music's hardness due to it being different from rock and metal, but I guess an 8?
6.5 - Cites bits of metal in an attempt to sound harder edged, fumbles with what to actually do with them and consistently falls back on post grunge/alt/hard rock tricks that work against what the actual metal parts would do. Stylistic confusion leads to all the heaviness becoming illusory at best and moments of pop single singalong catchiness with ill fitting vocals, and any sense of aggression quickly becomes neutralized by its own stylistic contradictions.
Apparition in the Woods
9. This sort of springy, treble-heavy mixing kind of shaves off some potential heaviness in this sort of music, particularly in the drum production, even while it makes the moving parts clearer. Still a highly enjoyable BDM cut with some excellent playing, just not quite the skull-crushing experience it could be.
Swans, "Blind Love" (Children of God, Caroline, 1987).
I would post a live version, but I couldn't find one under twelve minutes, and the definitive version from Feel Good Now is eighteen. If you want to invest the time, compare and contrast the two or just rate the live version.
I listened to the studio version. It gets a 4.5 from me. It's more lyrically heavy than musically heavy.
Mastodon-Spectrelight
someone
I'd say an 8, although I don't think I'm terribly qualified to rate metal. Cool album art, though.
edited 28th Sep '17 8:26:29 PM by iflewaway
something
5 - This feels very big and booming with its immense bass drum sound and cavernous, echoing effects and the breaks in intensity to allow short interludes add to this. However very little of what happens has much actual solid weight to it so it feels like something that was made to *appear* heavy but without actually being so.
C O D E N A M E : X
A hard 8-9. Very thrashy, very aggressive, but it doesn't quite have the same edge that a 10 or 11 would have.
Dirtyphonics and Sullivan King- Vantablack
On the Mohs scale of electronica, I'd say it's a high 8/10. Nice additions of the guitar.
DOOM 4 OST - 04 Rust, Dust & Guts (warning - slow build)
Hmmm, it has that slow build you mentioned, and also a lot of rather subdued sections but it also features some quite heavy guitar tones and ear peircing electronic elements. From one listen, I judge it to be a 7-8
edited 14th Oct '17 5:11:42 PM by Iampureevil
I'm barely there, I'm everywhere
5.5 - Black metal elements but the resulting package makes me think more of an angrier post rock band; there's little in the way of definite, solid riffing or vicious tremolo attack. The clean, drifting melodies if separated from the vocals would be almost radio friendly, something not even the blast beats can do beyond make them seem faster but not more impact-heavy.
10. That was like projectile vomit in music form, damn.
Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- OST - Destructive Goodwill
It has a somewhat classic metal sound to it, not that heavy by modern standards.The piano elements also soften it a little, but not much as they aren't that prevalant. I'd say it's a 6.
edited 15th Oct '17 10:38:45 AM by Iampureevil
I'm barely there, I'm everywhere
5.5 - To their credit, there's somewhat distinguishable riffing here and they have a halfway decent tone with impressive bass and snare drum presence along with a vicious howl that passes for vocals. However, the constant need to break what's an ambling, grooving, almost friendly verse riff up into stop-pause motions tames any of the aggression when it basically falls back onto the kind of expectant rhythmic tropes that makes a lot of hard rock tepid and tame; a paper tiger of heaviness essentially. Dressing it up with meatier production and thicker riffing doesn't really change this no matter what legions of proawgdj0nt bands try.
Heavy 7 - Noise rock, possibly metal. The vocals are a bit quiet in the mix and not too distorted.
Listener - Building Better Bridges