I'm not really good at rating hardness as far as electronic music goes, but I guess 7.5?
Nonpoint - Bottled Up Killer Bees
10/10 for headbang, 7/10 for actual metalness.
Doom 4- Hellwalker.
Really gets going about the minute mark.
7, I guess. It gets extremely loud and heavy but is interuptted frequently by more subdued sections (however, you can still hear the chainsaw sounds and guitars in many of them,)
Anaal Nathrakh - Castigation and Betrayal
8.5 - Probably would've been heavier if there was more bass range; the overly loud snare drum comes off as more noisy than it does heavy, mostly seeming to obscure the guitar tone while the vocals kind of blend into the trebly rush. More bass is needed; the rest of it is too cleanly produced to make its high speed blackgrind feel as threatening as it should.
Definitely a 10. It's fast, loud and harsh.
Converge-Heaven In Her Arms
Apparition in the Woods
A hard 9. About as heavy as metallic hardcore gets without diving headlong into noise while still being tastefully melodious. Impressive.
Seized, "Total Mess" (split EP with Devoid Of Faith, Gloom Record, 1995).
Where powerviolence becomes straight doom. Another two-bass one-drummer band.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
An 8. Pretty heavy for a song with no guitars.
Fear Factory-Arise Above Oppression
8 - Manages to achieve some moderately threatening grindcore esque chaotic moments but the effect is more or less lost when they revert into tame, tepid, stutter rhythms that seem to exist solely to tame the former portions in their entirety.
C O D E N A M E : X
An 8.5. It might have gone up to 9 if it weren't for the intro, which is relatively melodic in comparison to the rest of the song.
Dirtyphonics and Sullivan King- Navigator
A 9, in my opinion. It's not metal but it's pretty loud stuff.
Kyuss-Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMwQ2ym4ygo
edited 5th Nov '17 10:16:53 AM by pointless233
5.5 - They have a fairly dingy, garage-y tone that could be used for some impressively heavy stuff but too much of it is rooted in ambling, magic carpet ride, groovin' stoner rockin' to really convey much in the way of intimidation and threat.
I'd put that at a solid 10. The blazing and dense riffs combined with the indecipherable growling vocals definitely give it that heavy feel.
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It's an 8. It's pretty loud and heavy but a little too melodic to get high on the scale.
Zao-Fifteen Rhema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG-ZmRhbiEM
edited 6th Dec '17 9:02:52 AM by pointless233
9. This is some pretty heavy metalcore music that leans heavily to the former, and the constant anguished vocals certainly bring it up there.
7 - Ominous but not really crushing. The echoing and arguably atonal harmony is definitely a major focal point but the moments of actual rhythm backing it up are doing mostly just that. There's a halfway meaty rhythmic backdrop but the element they support isn't really meant to convey visceral force or density as much as a creeping sense of discomfort.
Cadaveric Fumes - Knowledge of the Ancient Ones
edited 6th Dec '17 7:28:06 PM by StillbornMachine
Light 9: For death metal, I say this sounds pretty light. Most of the vocals and even drums are drowned in the guitars, and I feel like the guitars seem almost melodic. Also has a slight atmospheric sound at times.
The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Lioness
Love your hair, hope you win
Like a 6? I don't know how far you can actually get on spoken word alone.
Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
4. Not particularly heavy.
7.5. It's a heavy track but the sung chorus and melodic sound prevent it from going higher.
Zao-Ember
9. It's pretty heavy, with the quiet vocals contrasting the harsh screaming, while the riffs have a sense of weight to it.
It's a High 7. It's got some heavy riffs but not that heavy and the rapping kind of lowers it as well.
Fear Factory-Desecrate
9 - About par the course for death/grind though the oddly bouncy riffs in the second half give it a detracting catchiness.
Black Magician - Full Plain I See, the Devil knows how to Row
7. The Sabbath influence is pretty prominent, which means while definitely hard-hitting compared to mainstream music I'd say it's much darker than it is heavy.
6. Fast-paced, but still very melodic
Iron Maiden: Man on the Edge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5UqJWRV55E
A borderline 9. The vocals are some pretty harsh stuff, and the entire song is unpredictable. It starts losing steam towards the end, though, becoming easier to follow and losing the vocals.
Excision and Dion Timmer- Africa VIP
(IMO, it's plenty hard but still pretty soft for an Excision song)
edited 16th Oct '17 5:49:38 PM by KingBowser9001
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