Mohs Rock Metal / Level 4

Things start to get a bit heavy here, but the songs are still very accessible. A vast majority of the most influential and respected artists in Classic Rock, progressive rock and modern rock can be found here.

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Genres: Softer Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Post-Grunge, Power Pop, Hyperpop, Futurepop, Experimental Rock, Rap Rock, Post-Industrial, Techno, Dance Punk, Harder Pop, harder Post-Rock, Jazz Fusion, Pop Punk, harder Boom Bap and Old-School Hip-Hop, Shoegazing, most Progressive Rock, AOR, harder Post-Punk, harder Trap, harder early Electronic Music, traditional Dubstep, Big Room, harder New Wave

Matching mineral: Fluorite

• Yadnus (Still Going to the Roadhouse Mix) (!!!)
• Money Machine ^note  Borderline 5 for the heavier sections in the main part, and the ending, which is level 11. (100 gecs)
• Get Ready for This (2 Unlimited) ^note  A soft 4; the instrumental sections bump it up a bit.
• Kryptonite (3 Doors Down)
• Beautiful Disaster (311)
• I Remember (32Crash)
• Rockin' Into the Night (.38 Special)
• Drowning in Her (4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse)
• Rigor Mortis (A Split Second)
• ageing fortress (acolyte)
• Antmusic (Adam and the Ants)
• 4U (Aero Chord)
• POMEGRANATE (AERO GROS M)
• Dream On and Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
• Come Back to Reality (Ajna)
• The Raven ^note  The soft verses keep it from a 5. and Snake Eyes (The Alan Parsons Project)
• Écailles De Lune Pt. 1 and Untouched (Alcest)
• Hidden Sun of Serenity (Alex M.O.R.P.H. ft. Cheryl Barnes)
• I Stay Away and No Excuses (Alice in Chains)
• Carbon Kid (Alpinestars ft. Brian Molko) ^note  Continuously goes up and down on the scale, the first part is a solid 4, then to a 6 at 2 minutes, going back to 4 at 2 and a half minutes, the breakdown is a 3, and the finale starts with a 5, then dips down to 2, and finally 1.
• In My Heart There's a Star Named After You ^note Hilariously, this would sit comfortably at a 1 with the other songs from Picnic of Love.....if not for the screamed vocals you would expect to hear in a level 10 or 11 song that occur halfway through the song, bumping this up a few levels.(Anal Cunt)
• Escapism (An Cafe)
• Military Fashion Show ^note  Borderline 5. (And One)
• Brother Sport (Animal Collective)
• Hill Valley (Ankor) ^note  Most of the song falls into a 3, but the heavy breakdown, leveling at an 8, brings it to a 4 overall.
• Matrix (Apache)
• Windowlicker (Aphex Twin) ^note  Most of the song is a soft 4, but some sections go up to 6 or 7, namely the bass section towards the end.
• Eclipse (Apoptygma Berzerk)
• O Fortuna (APOTHEOSIS)
• Bomber (VIP Hardsteppers Special) (Aphrodite)
• I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (Arctic Monkeys) ^note  Borderline 5.
• Cloud Type Four (Armoured Rabbit)
• Get Thru This (Art of Dying)
• Absolute Territory (Ken Ashcorp) ^note  A 4 mainly for the chorus and the lead-in to it; the rest is either a heavier 3 or a soft/borderline 4.
• Disappoint (2021 Mix) (Assemblage 23)
• Love Surreal (Nicole Atkins)
• Closer (Au5 ft. Danyka Nadeau)
• Cfern ^note  Borderline 5 for the heaviness of the beats., Rae and Second Scepe (Autechre)
• Requiem and Hail to the King (Avenged Sevenfold)
• Kill Your Heroes (AWOLNATION)
• Kimi ni Furete ^note  Borderline 5. (Riko Azuna, Bloom Into You soundtrack)
• Feel Like Making Love (Bad Company)
• The Nine (Bad Company UK)
• 21st Century Digital Boy (Bad Religion)
• What Kind of Hospital is This? and Vortal Combat (Kelly Bailey, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two soundtracks)
• Asleep at the Wheel (Band of Skulls)^note Borderline 5.
• Fast Track to Browntown, It Ends 2: End Harder and Betus Blues (Danny Baranowsky, Super Meat Boy soundtrack)
• One Week, It's All Been Done, The Old Apartment, and Alternative Girlfriend (Barenaked Ladies)
• On the Move (Barthezz)
• Mile High Club (Stephen Barton, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare soundtrack)
• Where's Your Head At (Basement Jaxx)
• Speakerbox (ft. Lafa Taylor) (Bassnectar, The Fate of the Furious soundtrack)
• Atlas (Battles)
• Jungle Warriors (Bay B Kane)
• So What'cha Want (Beastie Boys)
• Hail to the Freaks (Beatsteaks)
• Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts (Sam Beddoes, The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures soundtrack)
• Cinema (Benny Benassi) ^note  The Skrillex remix is a borderline 9.
• 26 Basslines (Benga)
• Ghost Station - The Grinding Chase (David Bergeaud, Ratchet: Deadlocked soundtrack)
• September Gurls and In the Street (Big Star)
• The Bog (Shot Mix) ^note  Soft 4. (Bigod 20)
• The Bill Nye Theme (Bill Nye the Science Guy soundtrack)
• twisted grunge (BiS)
• Going Steady (Bitch)
• Enjoy (Björk) ^note  A soft 4 overall, since the verses are slightly lighter.
• Revolution (Radio Edit) (BK)
• EQUALITY (Black Gryph0n ft. Michelle Creber)
• Next Girl and Howlin' For You (The Black Keys)
• Stormy High (Black Mountain)
• Data River ^note  Soft 4. (Black Rain)
• Children Of The Sea (Black Sabbath)
• Who Goes There (bladee)
• Jungle Jungle (Bladerunner)
• All the Small Things (blink-182)
• Call Me and One Way Or Another (Blondie)
• Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult)
• Shiny (Blue Stahli, Dead Rising 2 soundtrack)
• Mask Chase ^note  A soft 4. (Andy Blythe & Marten Joustra, Finding Nemo soundtrack)
• Dayvan Cowboy, Sixtyten and You Could Feel the Sky (Boards of Canada)
• Pulsing (The Body Electric)
• Horsepower (Original Mix) (CJ Bolland)
• Livin' On A Prayer and It's My Life (Bon Jovi)
• Tornado Rex (Bootsy Spankins, Board James soundtrack)
• Milky Ways, Partyt Är Igång! and The Maze Of Mayonnaise (Bossfight)
• Peace of Mind (Boston)
• Believe in Myself (Karen Brake, Sonic Adventure soundtrack) ^note  The Sonic Adventure 2 version by Kaz Silver is a 3.
• Vertigo (Alan Braxe)
• Anthem of the Angels (Breaking Benjamin)
• Bangs (Brick + Mortar)
• Medicine (Bring Me the Horizon)
• Piece Of Me (Britney Spears)
• Cream Soda (BUCK-TICK)
• Blippblipp (Bunnymajs)
• Let Me Swim (Cactus)
• Massive ^note  Borderline 5. (Capone)
• Hello and Starry Sky ^note  The heaviness of the synths makes it a borderline 5. (Capsule)
• Tokyo (Caramella Girls)
• Nightfall (over E.C.) (The Cassandra Complex)
• Against the Tide (Celldweller) ^note  Starts at a 1.
• Block Rockin' Beats ^note Starts at a solid 3, but turns to a 4 later on., Go (ft. Q-Tip) and It Doesn't Matter (The Chemical Brothers)
• Shameful Metaphors (Chevelle)
• Bonfire (Childish Gambino)
• We Sink, Under the Tide ^note  Both - especially the former - are borderline 5's., Leave a Trace, and He Said She Said (Chvrches)
• Back on a Mission (Cirrus)
• Since U Been Gone and Hole (Kelly Clarkson)
• Rock the Casbah and Train in Vain ^note  The background noises juxtaposed over the riffs keep it from a 3. (The Clash)
• Headfuck (Click Click)
• Minuit à Fond la Caisse ^note  For the most part is a 3, but suddenly spikes to a 5-6 towards the end before delving into a soft 4, and then finally a 1., Magic Pipe ^note  Starts at a 2/3, but reaches 5 in the ending., Not Safe and Some Rudiments of Property (Alias Conrad Coldwood, OFF soundtrack)
• Shine (Collective Soul)
• Jealousy (Concrete Castles)
• Sexual Deviants (club music 2) ^note  Borderline 5. (Craig Conner, Manhunt 2 soundtrack)
• Pharmacreep, Sacrificial Mission, Meatoids and Entrapment ^note  Brought up from a light 2 due to the growls. (ConsumerSoftproducts, Cruelty Squad soundtrack)
• Oldschool '84 ^note  The shouted vocals bump it up from a 3. (Container 90)
• Fireworks Factory (Stewart Copeland, Spyro: Year of the Dragon soundtrack)
• Rock Your Body Rock (Ferry Corsten)
• Cotton Crop Blues (James Cotton) ^note  A pretty soft 4 by modern standards, but at the time it would have been an 11 simply for featuring guitar distortion.
• Code Monkey (Jonathan Coulton)
• Wir sind die Nacht ^note  The song is mainly a 4, but the middle reaches a 5 or 6. and Cryotank Expansion ^note  Gets steadily heavier as it goes on, eventually reaching a soft 8 in the end. (Covenant)
• Such Horrible Things and The Greatest Show Unearthed (Creature Feature)
• Green River, Born on the Bayou and Travelin' Band (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• I Tune In ^note  Borderline 5. (Cryo)
• Baptism and Not in Love (Crystal Castles)
• Name of the Game and The Winner (The Crystal Method)
• Crossing Over (Cult of Luna)
• Free Your Mind (Cut Copy) ^note  The background noise and the loud beats keep it from a 3.
• Overlord ^note  The heaviest parts reach a soft 5, making the overall track a hard 4. (Cyberoptics)
• Landfall and Vain Star ^note  Link to the version used in the game here. (Cycerin, Castle Crashers soundtrack)
• Aerodynamic ^note  Starts at level 3/borderline 4, but the electric guitar solo is a 6, and it goes full circle with the ending being a 1. It's been averaged out to level 4., Human After All and Superheroes (Daft Punk)
• Out of Body (Dance With the Dead)
• 11:30 (datA Remix) (Danger)
• Auctioned (Dark Tranquillity)
• Any Way You Want It (The Dave Clark Five)
• Dred Bass (Dead Dred)
• Drama Free (ft. Lights) and GH (deadmau5)
• Lotus Eater (Death & Rebirth)
• Get Got and Birds (Death Grips)
• Hush (Deep Purple)
• The Curse (The Diary of Dreams)
• Blitz (Digitalism)
• Geronimo (The Disco Boys Remix) ^note  Most of it is in the 3-4 range, though there is one part that reaches a 5. (Aura Dione)
• One of Us Is the Killer (The Dillinger Escape Plan) ^note  Considering the fact that When I Lost My Bet (a solid 11) comes right before it in the album track, it's quite a contrast. Still, it's a borderline 5, and would be on that level if not for the level 1 intro.
• Silver Blade (Dillinja)
• Tremor (Dimitri Vegas, Martin Garrix and Like Mike)
• Solid Rock (Dire Straits)
• Bonkers (Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden)
• Rollidge (DJ-SS)
• The Dark Crystl (DJ Crystl)
• Louder (DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans)
• Weird Energy (Hells Bells Mix) (DJ Hype)
• Lucky Boy (Surkin Remix) (DJ Mehdi)
• Mutant Revisited (DJ Trace)
• Clubstep, Electrodynamix and Theory of Everything (Dj-Nate, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• Can't Let Go, Dry Out ^note The dubstep influences keep it higher than a 3. and xStep (DJVI, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• The Professional (DMX)
• Sweet Shop (Doctor P)
• Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
• Break On Through (To the Other Side), Soul Kitchen and Peace Frog (The Doors) ^note  All of them were around a 9 back in their release days.
• Dawn Over a New World, Trail of Broken Hearts and Silence (DragonForce) ^note  All are Surprisingly Gentle Songs for a band otherwise known for blisteringly fast Power Metal.
• Yeah Man (Original Mix) (The Dream Team)
• Money (Dupont)
• Let's Fighting Love (DVDA)
• Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
• Don't Speak (I Came to Make a Bang!) (Eagles of Death Metal)
• COPYCAT ^note  Save for the bridge, which is a 1. and Happier Than Ever ^note  Starts at level 1 before moving up to a 5 in the second half. (Billie Eilish)
• Klangstudie II (Herbert Eimert)
• Abstieg & Zerfall (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• Sweet Victory (David Glen Eisley)
• Head in the Dirt (Hanni El Khatib)
• 10538 Overture (Electric Light Orchestra)
• Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Elton John)
• Altitude (Serobliss Remix) (Embrace One ft. Shaz Sparks) ^note  Despite the use of Uncommon Time and crunchy brostep basslines, the generally light feel of the song keeps it from becoming a 5.
• Berzerk (Eminem)
• Disorder In The Classroom (Emray)
• Push It to the Limit (Paul Engemann)
• thingsudo2me (ericdoa ft. brakence)
• Main Theme (Joel Eriksson, Battlefield 1942 soundtrack)
• The Final Countdown (Europe)
• Santa Monica (Everclear) ^note  A 4 mostly for the second half of the song; the first half is softer.
• No Life (Evils Toy)
• This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race (Fall Out Boy)
• Dreamers' Union (Fanu)
• Like A G6 (Far East Movement)
• Kalifornia and The Rockafeller Skank (Fatboy Slim)
• Edwrecker ^note  The jumbled vocals make it a bit too hard for level 3. (Feadz)
• Slave (Female)
• Endless Summer ^note  The song goes through various levels, with 1 as the lowest and 7 as the highest, though it mainly stays around 1-2. (Fennesz)
• Midnight Moonlight (The Firm)
• Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (The First Edition)
• Remember Everything (Five Finger Death Punch)
• Shake Some Action (The Flamin' Groovies)
• Crave You (Adventure Club Remix) (Flight Facilities) ^note  The dubstep parts are borderline 5, with the one at the end being a solid 5, but the softer parts keep it down.
• Highway (F.O.O.L)
• Everlong (Foo Fighters)
• Down Bad (Foodieti, Friday Night Fever soundtrack)
• Missing (For King and Country) ^note  The guitar cranks up a bit towards the end of the song, keeping it above a 3.
• Finale, Battle Against a True Hero, In My Way/Anticipation (Genocide) ^note  On one hand, it’s absolutely terrifying. On the other hand, it isn’t heavy enough for later levels; same applies to the Soulless/Post-Genocide version. and Chaos King (Toby Fox, Undertale and Deltarune soundtracks)
• Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)
• Chelsea Dagger (The Fratellis)
• Borderline (Freeland) ^note  Featuring Tommy Lee, Twiggy Ramirez, Joey Santiago and Tony Bevilacqua.
• Felines ^note  Ultimately gets up here due to some of the heavier beats. (Front 242)
• Bio-Vital (The Frozen Autumn) ^note  Much softer than the Decoded Feedback original, which is an 8.
• Badlands, Thermosphere ^note  A soft 4; the techno sections are mainly 3-4 and can border on 5, but the softer section near the end is a 2. and Shudder (Kenichiro Fukui, Einhänder soundtrack)
• Subspace ^note  Borderline 5. (Funker Vogt)
• Animals (Martin Garrix)
• Saved by the Bell opening theme (Scott Gale)
• Cassis (The Gazette)
• Zavodila ^note  The FamilyJules cover is a borderline 9. (Mike Geno, Mid-Fight Masses soundtrack)
• See the Light (Ghost)
• Dreamer (Ghost Town)
• Here We Go (Giants of Industry)
• Monochrome narrow chamber and Les (Glitched Hero Y)
• Ooh La La (Goldfrapp)
• Black Gloves (Goose) ^note  Borderline 5. The heavy guitars and raw production keep it from a 3.
• Cultist Base (Ambient) ^note  Starts at 1 but gets heavier later on. (Mick Gordon, Doom Eternal soundtrack)
• Amarillo and O Green World ^note  The instrumental sections before the chorus are closer to 3. (Gorillaz)
• Roaring Forties (The Go Set)
• 21 Guns, Basket Case, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends and When I Come Around (Green Day)
• Kill V. Maim (Grimes)
• Elevation (GTO)
• American Woman (The Guess Who)
• Two to Tango and Flame Fu (Ashif Hakik, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus soundtrack)
• Suburban Knights (Hard-Fi)
• It Doesn't Matter (Tony Harnell, Sonic Adventure soundtrack) ^note  The guitars place this at a borderline 5. The Sonic Adventure 2 version is more of a straightforward 4.
• Area 51 (Base Exterior) and Area 51 (Base Interior) (Matthew E. Harwood, Alien Hominid soundtrack)
• Underground Theme (Super Mario Land) (Koji Hayama, Super Smash Bros. Brawl soundtrack)
• Never Been Any Reason (Head East)
• Die Slow (HEALTH)
• Lsd Solution (Heavy Drop)
• Eyes Love You ^note  This one varies - the Death Hollywood version and some other mixes can ride the line between 4 and 5 - especially if hide goes for the Metal Scream despite this being a poppier song, but the lighthearted poppy sound in most mixes keeps it here. and Beauty and Stupid (hide)
• Break Free (Lead the Way) (Kate Higgins, Super Mario Odyssey soundtrack)
• Good Evening (High Sunn)
• Rawk Hawk Battle (Yoshito Hirano & Yuka Tsujiyoko, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door soundtrack)
• Loaded (HMLTD)
• Final Wily Battle (Toshihiko Horiyama, Mega Man 7 soundtrack)
• Dearg Doom (Horslips)
• Oh, Boy! (Buddy Holly)
• Battle Without Honor Or Humanity (Tomoyasu Hotei, Kill Bill soundtrack)
• Your Deep Rest ^note  The last minute or so is a soft 5, but the lyrics are a solid 9. (The Hotelier)
• Hip To Be Square (Huey Lewis and the News)
• Dominator (Human Resource)
• Relic Ruins Bad Future US ^note  Soft 4. (HyperSonic)
• The House is Mine ^note  Is at level 3 in the beginning and part of the end. (The Hypnotist)
• Daydream ^note  Borderline 5. (I Hate Models)
• I'll Be Found (IC3PEAK)
• Consequences ^note  As low as Iced Earth gets, barring a few instrumentals/interludes. (Iced Earth)
• White Wedding Pt. 1 (Billy Idol)
• Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)
• De Sangre Hermosa (ill niño)
• Radioactive (Imagine Dragons) ^note  The brostep influences keep it from a 3.
• Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) (The Immortals, Mortal Kombat: The Movie soundtrack)
• Lagtrain (inabakumori)
• Guitarmass (Infected Mushroom)
• Flesh Menagerie (Informatik)
• Ozar Midrashim (from the Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver soundtrack) and Are Friends Electric? ^note  The original Gary Numan version is a 3. (Information Society)
• Slow Hands (Interpol)
• The Strongest Foe (Mieko Ishikawa, Ys III Wanderers From Ys soundtrack)
• Factory Inspection ^note  A soft 4; gets here mainly due to the industrial influences., Boss, and Miracle Matter ^note  A somewhat heavier remix of the regular boss theme, which borders on 5 thanks to the more intense breakdowns. This Kirby: Planet Robobot-style remix is also here. (Jun Ishikawa & Hirokazu Ando, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards soundtrack)
• Home Sweet Grave (Daisuke Ishiwatari, Tetsuya Ohuchi, and Yoshihiro Kusano, Guilty Gear Isuka soundtrack) ^note  The softer sections bring this down from a 5. Also more commonly known as the theme of the first stage in I Wanna Be the Guy.
• Butsutekkai (Hiroshi Iuchi, Ikaruga soundtrack)
• Mind (ft. Kai), Take Ü There (ft. Kiesza) ^note  Borderline 5. and Where Are Ü Now (ft. Justin Bieber) (Jack Ü)
• Beat It ^note  The guitar solo in the middle brings this song above a 3. and Morphine ^note  Would reach 5 or 6 due to the somewhat harsh industrial influence and Slash's guitar work, but drops down to a 1 in the bridge. (Michael Jackson)
• Stiefelblitz (Jäger 90)
• Town Called Malice (The Jam)
• Blood and Bone (Jandek)
• Been Caught Stealing (Jane's Addiction)
• Cross-Eyed Mary (Jethro Tull)
• The Middle (Jimmy Eat World)
• You May Be Right (Billy Joel)
• Set It All Free (Scarlett Johansson, Sing soundtrack)
• Johnny (Johnny Jungle)
• Piper (Jonny L)
• Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) ^note  Borderline 5; the heavy use of synths prevents this song from reaching that level, though it still comes very close. (Journey)
• Destruction (Joywave)
• DVNO and Stress ^note  Borderline 5 for its suspenseful mood and the buzzsaw-like noises heard in the middle. Shadient's remix is a 9 bordering on 10, starting out closer to 8. (Justice)
• Polluted Blood (k?d)
• Lacrimosa (Kalafina) ^note  This is the live version. The original studio recording is a 3, due to the softer mix.
• Temples of Gold (Kamelot)
• God Badorrer (Naoki Kaneda, Brandish 2 : The Planet Buster soundtrack)
• It's All About You (Daiki Kasho, Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack)
• Kaerimichi (Emiri Katou, Bakemonogatari soundtrack)
• Caught Red Handed and Whoa I'm In Space Cuba (Jake Kaufman, Mighty Switch Force! soundtrack)
• Ugh, Guns and Stress ^note  The heaviest parts are a hard 5. (KawaiSprite, Friday Night Funkin' soundtrack) ^note  The latter two are borderline 5.
• Konspiracy (Kemal & Rob Data)
• Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me (The Killers)
• Ex's & Oh's (Elle King)
• Stray Bullet, Naïve and We Must Awaken (KMFDM)
• My Sharona (The Knack)
• LRAD (Knife Party)
• Skinheads Fuck Off! ^note  Mainly here due to the vocals. (Kommando XY)
• Metal Mario (Koji Kondo, Super Mario 64 soundtrack)
• Agony (Kotoko, Destiny of the Shrine Maiden soundtrack) ^note  Lyrics here
• Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz)
• Digital Dimension (Fumie Kumatani, Sonic Riders soundtrack)
• Automatismes Sonores (Leo Kupper)
• James Brown Is Dead (L.A. Style)
• Destroy Everything You Touch and Ghosts (Ladytron)
• She Bop (Cyndi Lauper)
• Sk8er Boi (Avril Lavigne)
• Daft Punk Is Playing At My House and North American Scum (LCD Soundsystem)
• Over the Hills and Far Away,What Is And What Should Never Be and Kashmir (Led Zeppelin)
• Vendetta Townies, Vendetta Jocks and Dishonorable Fight (Shawn Lee, Bully soundtrack)
• 12.01 and I Can't Stop ^note  Borderline 5. (Lemon D)
• It's A Shame About Ray (The Lemonheads)
• Every Word Means No (Let's Active)
• DREAMERS (Brandon Liew ft. Tofie)
• Gone Guru (Lifeseeker)
• What I've Done, Cure for the Itch and Talking to Myself ^note  Easily the hardest song on One More Light, which mostly resides at around a 2. (Linkin Park)
• Rumble ^note  This was beyond an 11 for 1958, to the point it was banned in places for supposedly causing street brawls, and was one of the first songs to ever use electric distortion. (Link Wray)
• Re-Arranged (Limp Bizkit) ^note Most of the song is a 3, but jumps into a 6 towards the end, balancing out here.
• Inspector Gadget (Liquid Stranger)
• My Own Worst Enemy (Lit)
• Breathe Again (ft. Rachael Roberts) (Little People)
• Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Song (The Living Tombstone)
• Butterfly (Loona)
• Ruby Illusions (Tee Lopes, Sonic Mania soundtrack)
• Love Don’t Cost A Thing (Jennifer Lopez) ^note  A soft 4. The heavy bass and loud timpani interpolated throughout the beat takes it above a 3.
• Let's Get High (Lords of Acid)
• Under Your Skin (Luscious Jackson) ^note  Despite the lack of an electric guitar, the song's dark and biting/cynical tone brings it above a 3.
• You Were Wrong. Go Back., An Archaeic Resonance and GOLDENVENGEANCE (Jami Lynne, OMORI soundtrack)
• Those Awful Ravenous Rainbows (Harry Mack, Slime Rancher soundtrack)
• Electric (Maddix)
• Finale (Madeon) ^note  One of the harder EDM songs at this level. Borderline 5.
• Get Off of My Way (Man With a Mission)
• Boulders, Toxic Waste, Slippery Climb, Tiny Tiger, Dr. N. Gin and Haven City Battle (Josh Mancell,Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Jak 3 soundtracks)
• Southern Hospitality and The Beginning of the End (Clint Mansell, Requiem for a Dream soundtrack)
• Armed Forces (Manufacture)
• Wario's Adventure (Masanobu Matsunaga & Kenichi Nishimaki, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! soundtrack)
• Laugh & Peace, Polaroid, and Roll Along ^note  Pushed up here for the speeding up sections and distortion; a 3 otherwise. (Masaya Matsuura & Laugh and Peace, Vib-Ribbon soundtrack)
• Death Match (Tsukasa Masuko, Megami Tensei II soundtrack)
• Jamie All Over (Mayday Parade)
• Monster ^note  The ending is a 6, making the song a borderline 5. (Meg And Dia)
• Breadline (Megadeth)
• Light Up ^note  Borderline 5. (Megalodon & 12th Planet ft. Elan Atias)
• Erwartungen (Melotron)
• Crash (MESH)
• Terminator (Metalheads)
• The Unforgiven, Part I and II ^note  Part III is a 5. (Metallica)
• Satellite (Microchip League)
• The Moon (The Microphones)
• Forgotten Years and Bullroarer (Midnight Oil)
• Crying for Rain (Minami)
• Amnesia (mind.in.a.box)
• Oblivion (Darren Mitchell, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil soundtrack)
• River Twygz Bed ^note  Placed above a potential 1 due to the distorted, inhuman vocals. (Naoko Mitome & Chika Sekigawa, Super Paper Mario soundtrack)
• Machete (Moby)
• Florida and Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse)
• WWW (Moe Shop)
• (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (The Monkees) ^note  This sounds closer to a '60s garage rock band than most of their other work.
• Space Lord (Monster Magnet)
• FALLING (MONXX)
• You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette)^note  Instrumentals are on the high end of 3, but Alanis' raw vocals push this to a 4. Even the Unplugged version of this song reaches a 2.
• Hayloft (Mother Mother) ^note  The shouted vocals and the final minute of the song bring it up quite a bit.
• Parapsychology ^note  Brought up from lower levels due to the industrial hits in the background. (Atsuhiro Motoyama, Battle Bakraid soundtrack)
• Positif (Mr. Oizo)
• Tiger Feet and Dynamite (Mud)
• Supermassive Black Hole, Dead Inside and Madness ^note  Difficult to tell if it's a 3 or 4, but the guitars towards the end put it here. (Muse)
• No More Sorry (My Bloody Valentine)
• Paralyzed (Mystery Skulls)
• Let Mom Sleep, Sneakman, The Concept of Love and Teknopathetic (Hideki Naganuma, Jet Set Radio and Jet Set Radio Future soundtracks)
• Death Egg Zone (Part 2) ^note  Borderline 5. (Masato Nakamura, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 soundtrack)
• Subversive Awareness ^note  The Rev. 2016 version is a soft 4. Shinji Hosoe's arrangement is also here. and Drag-Ster (Manabu Namiki, Battle Garegga and Armed Police Batrider soundtracks)
• Håll om mig (Nanne)
• Here Come the Drumz (Nasty Habits)
• Holland, 1945 (Neutral Milk Hotel) ^note  Reaches this level at the very least due to the distortion; would be lower if it wasn't as noisy, and probably a borderline 5.
• How You Remind Me (Nickelback)
• Swanheart (Nightwish)
• Hurt ^note  If the sudden crashing and distorted ending wasn't there it would be a 1 - which it is in Johnny Cash's cover., Discipline, and Closer (Nine Inch Nails)
• Drain You, Come As You Are and Lithium (Nirvana)
• Let Your Body Learn ^note  The shouted vocals make it a borderline 5 overall. (Nitzer Ebb)
• Barracuda (Noisestorm)
• Trip Switch (Nothing but Thieves)
• Supersonic, Some Might Say, Champagne Supernova (Oasis)
• Don't Pick It Up, Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) ^note  Would be higher if not for the "Give It To Me, Baby!" lines - definitely among the hardest level 4 examples and You're Gonna Go Far, Kid (The Offspring)
• Wacky Workbench "B" mix (JP) ^note  Soft 4. (Masafumi Ogata, Sonic CD soundtrack)
• Weird Science (Oingo Boingo)
• Rolling Glider (Keiichi Okabe, Ridge Racer 3D soundtrack)
• Adam (Crazy Clown) (Hideki Okugawa, Dead Rising soundtrack)
• Slip Thru (Optical)
• O Fortuna - Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) ^note  A prime example of bombastic classical music hitting this level, though a low 4 overall because of the calmer parts.
• Superman's Dead (Our Lady Peace)
• Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer)
• Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, Emperor's New Clothes and I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Panic! at the Disco)
• To Make an Idol of Our Fear and Call It God (Panopticon) ^note  A Surprisingly Gentle Song with still some elements of the higher levels. The screeching guitar at the end keeps this out of the first 3 levels.
• Scars (Papa Roach)
• That's What You Get, Still into You and Fake Happy (Paramore)
• Bitch Lasagna (Party In Backyard and PewDiePie) ^note  Soft 4.
• Sleepyhead (Passion Pit)
• Catalyst (Patient 0)
• Locking Up the Sun (Poets of the Fall)
• Ghostbusters (Ray Parker, Jr., Ghostbusters soundtrack)
• Cut Your Hair (Pavement)
• Alive, Lightning Bolt (Pearl Jam)
• A Black Minute (Periphery)
• Piracy is no Party! (Joey Perleoni, Mario Party DS Anti Piracy soundtrack)
• Ready, Willing, and Able (Petra)
• Extraordinary (Liz Phair)
• So What (P!nk)
• Money, When you're In and Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) (Pink Floyd)
• This Is Love (PJ Harvey)
• Strangers (Portishead)
• Schöne Neue Welt ^note  Borderline 5 for the faster parts. (Prager Handgriff)
• Rocket (El Pres!dente)
• Hound Dog ^note  A 10 when it came out in 1956! (Elvis Presley)
• Android, Climbatize, Diesel Power, Mindfields, No Good (Start the Dance), Omen ^note  Borderline 5 at times. There is enough respite to prevent it from being a full-fledged 5. and Voodoo People (The Prodigy)
• Spybreak! (Propellerheads)
• What's Wrong (Pvris)
• Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer to Fall ^note  Borderline 5, live versions rank there., and Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)
• The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret (Queens of the Stone Age)
• Radio Free Europe, So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry), Fall On Me, and The One I Love (R.E.M.)
• Escuela de Calor (Radio Futura) ^note  Translation: "Heat School"
• Paranoid Android ^note  Most of the song is a 2, but there are moments where it becomes a 6, bumping it up to a 4 overall., Creep ^note  In a similar case to Paranoid Android, the song simultaneously switches between levels 2 and 6, averaging it out to a 4., Climbing Up the Walls ^note  Kept above lower levels of hardness due to the unsettling atmosphere and the ending, which is mainly a 5 (though Thom's Metal Scream could make it even heavier)., and Black Star (Radiohead)
• Why Won't You Talk About It? (The Radio Dept.) ^note  A good example of how heavy Dream Pop can get. It's almost a 5 due to the distorted and noisy guitar work, but the overall atmosphere keeps it at a hard 4.
• Titan ^note  Borderline 5. (Ram Trilogy)
• I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
• Bob That Head (Rascal Flatts)
• Go All the Way (Raspberries)
• Dani California and Can't Stop (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• The Black Freighter (Regis)
• It's Gonna Rain ^note  Borderline 5 overall due to the second half. and Come Out (Steve Reich)
• Gang Leader Battle Pt. 1 (Brian Reitzell, Dead Rising 3 soundtrack)
• I'll Be You and I Will Dare (The Replacements)
• Edge ^note  Borderline 5. and Relax ^note  Brought up from a 3 due to the glitchy sounds. (REZZ)
• Musician (Porter Robinson)
• The Arid and Gloomy Flats and Fundamentum (Ridiculon, The End Is Nigh and The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth soundtracks)
• Brutal (Olivia Rodrigo)
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
• Waiting to Be Born (Rotersand)
• Couldn't I Just Tell You (Todd Rundgren)
• Catch Me If You Can (Rundlebee, Sonic Riders soundtrack) ^note  A light 4.
• Ghosts of my Life (Rufige Kru)
• Tom Sawyer and Entre Nous (Rush)
• Close to Me ^note  Borderline 5. (Sabrepulse)
• Battle Against The Masked Man (Shogo Sakai, Mother 3 soundtrack)
• Hello IVY!, My Graduation Toss and Verishuvi (Sakura Gakuin)
• No One to Depend On (Santana)
• Battle 2 (Ryuji Sasai, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest soundtrack)
• Boss Area ^note  Borderline 5. (Go Sato, Raiden Fighters 2 soundtrack)
• Miss America (Saving Abel)
• Lady Starlight, When The Smoke Is Going Down and Always Somewhere (Scorpions)
• Poisonous Friend (Seabound)
• Embody (SebastiAn)
• Broken (Seether & Amy Lee)
• Skeleton Song (Sevendust)
• Dead Eyes Opened ^note  Mainly a 3, but one part reaches 5. (Severed Heads)
• 13th Struggle and In the Final (Yoko Shimomura, Kingdom Hearts II and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story soundtracks)
• Pursuit ^note  Borderline 5. (Shirobon, Just Shapes & Beats soundtrack)
• Last Chance (Shooting Star)
• E.G.G.M.A.N. (Paul Shortino, Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack)
• Swirly 1000x, Numbers and Grimey (Pedro Silva, OMORI soundtrack)
• What's New, Scooby-Doo? (Simple Plan, What's New, Scooby-Doo? soundtrack)
• Gateway ^note  Borderline 5. (Sinthetix)
• Heaven ^note  Borderline 5. (Skanna)
• Shot Yourself In The Foot Again (Skream & Example)
• Make It Bun Dem (Skrillex & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley)
• You're No Rock N Roll Fun (Sleater-Kinney)
• Adderall (Slipknot)
• All Star (Smash Mouth)
• 100% Hero (Lyrics here), Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace's Image Song featuring Hisako Kanemoto, from Smile Pretty Cure! and The Best Smile (Lyrics here) from the same album featuring Misato Fukuen, Asami Tano, Hisako Kanemoto, Marina Inoue, and Chinami Nishimura. ^note  This song demonstrates how weighty lighthearted songs can get without relying on electric guitars. Borderline 5 due to the constant, in-unison enthusiasm among the 5 ladies.
• This Charming Man (The Smiths)
• Frogbass (Snails)
• Pixel Galaxy (Snail's House)
• Metal: Brute Justice Mode (Masayoshi Soken, Final Fantasy XIV soundtrack)
• Melt (The Someloves) ^note  Could be a 3, though the energetic nature gives it a notch.
• Last Boss and Final Eggman (Sonic 3 & Knuckles soundtrack)
• HARD ^note  Borderline 5., Immaterial and MSMSMSM ^note  Here due to the ambient interlude. The rest is a 5. (SOPHIE)
• Director Battle (Jeremy & Julian Soule, Dead Rising 3 soundtrack)
• Any Minute Now (Soulwax)
• Fell on Black Days ^note  Borderline 5 but the song is too mellow otherwise aside from a few sections. (Soundgarden)
• Diggy Diggy Hole (Sparkles*)
• Evader (Spetsnaz)
• Spellbound and History Never Repeats (Split Enz)
• Welcome to Europe (Squarepusher)
• Dirty Water (The Standells) ^note The raw vocals and lyrics leans this song towards a 5.
• King Henry and Wee Wee Man (Steeleye Span)
• Catgroove (Parov Stelar)
• Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf) ^note  The very light guitar tone keeps it from being a 5.
• Kontakte (Teil 1) (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
• Say You'll Haunt Me (Stone Sour)
• Die Zombiejäger (Sturm Cafe)
• Suite Madame Blue (Styx)
• So Young, Trash (Suede)
• Freak Like Me (Sugababes) ^note  Prominently samples Gary Numan’s Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, which is a 3; the added distortion is enough for this cover to reach a 4.
• In Too Deep (Sum 41)
• Chelsea (The Summer Set)
• Prowler ^note  Soft 4. (Surgeon)
• World is Mine (ft. Hatsune Miku) and Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari (from the Bakemonogatari soundtrack) (Supercell)
• The Ballroom Blitz (Sweet)
• Dsco (Sweet Trip)
• Giygas Disintegrates (Hirokazu Tanaka & Keiichi Suzuki, EarthBound (1994) soundtrack)
• Na Na Na (Tandava)
• Electroheart (EBM Radio Granaten Mix) (T.A.N.K.)
• The Story of Us and Better Than Revenge (Taylor Swift) ^note  The latter is a borderline 5, and it is easily the hardest and angriest song Taylor's ever recorded. In fact, the song would be an easy 5 if her singing was just a little rougher.
• Psycho Killer and Psycho Killer (2005 Remaster) (Talking Heads)
• You ^note  The sampled song is a 2. (Patricia Taxxon)
• Fly Away (Now) (TeddyLoid, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt soundtrack)
• Ten wo Tsuke (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann soundtrack) ^note  The fast, pounding bass lines and the prominently heavy orchestral production keep it from being lower than this. This is an excellent example of a bombastic, Classical Music-inspired song for this level.
• Bliss (Th'Dudes)
• Unity (TheFatRat)
• Semi-Charmed Life (Third Eye Blind) ^note  Could also comfortably sit at a 3, but the louder portions give it that extra edge.
• Over and Over (Three Days Grace)
• War Zone ^note  Soft 4. (Timebase)
• Feel Alive (Tiny Moving Parts) ^note  Borderline 3. The harder guitar breaks and some of the vocals make it too hard for that though.
• Eruption (Gonna Get My Hair Cut at the End of the Summer) (Tobacco)
• Refugee (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
• Acid Phase (Emmanuel Top)
• Afraid of Love (Toto)
• Stonehenge (Chaos) ^note  Borderline 5 for some of the harsher sounds. (Tri-State)
• (I'm My Best) Enemy (Trocadero)
• O.G. (TroyBoi)
• The King of the Koopas (Yuka Tsujiyoko, Paper Mario 64 soundtrack)
• What You Know (Two Door Cinema Club)
• Vertigo, The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) and Beautiful Day (U2)
• Novistadors (Shusaku Uchiyama & Misao Senbongi, Resident Evil 4 soundtrack)
• (I'm) Waiting For The Sun (uchu nekoko)
• Battle with the Four Fiends, Opening - Bombing Mission, Fight On! and One-Winged Angel ^note  Soft 4.(Nobuo Uematsu, Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VII soundtracks)
• Born Slippy ^note  Borderline 5. Born Slippy .NUXX, the more famous version of the song, is a 6. and Two Months Off (Underworld)
• Blah Blah Blah (Armin Van Buuren)
• Jump and Dance the Night Away (Van Halen)^note Unusually for Van Halen, the latter doesn't even feature a guitar solo.
• The House Is Rockin' (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
• You're a God (Vertical Horizon)
• Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground)
• Banana Seat Girl and Szamár Madár ^note  Averaged out here; the orchestral sections are mostly 1 (with some in the beginning reaching up to a light 4), while the breakcore section is a 6, ultimately kept below 7 due to the classical instrumentation. (Venetian Snares)
• Seether (Veruca Salt)
• Perpetual (VNV Nation)
• Blast Processing, Electroman Adventures and Time Machine (Waterflame, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• Knockout (Lil Wayne ft. Nicki Minaj) ^note A more Rap Rock track by Lil Wayne, as opposed to his usual Southern Rap, coming from his infamous Rebirth album.
• Say It Ain't So and Weekend Woman (Weezer)
• Boris the Spider (The Who) ^note Would have been lower if not for the growls, which, alone, make it a borderline 5.
• T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) (will.i.am ft. Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez)
• Trust Love (Jeff Williams)^note  A heavier and faster 4, only the calm and uplifting mood keeps it from 5.
• Gang-Plank Galleon and Crocodile Cacophony (David Wise, Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest soundtracks)
• Memories (Within Temptation)
• Senses Working Overtime and Mayor of Simpleton (XTC)
• Critical Moment of Contra, Terror in the Depths of the Fog, Clockwork Little Happiness, I Want Love (Studio Mix) and Your Rain (Akira Yamaoka, Contra: Shattered Soldier, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4 soundtracks)
• Blood in Face (Original Version) (yelworC)
• Roundabout (Yes)
• Volk ^note  Would probably be around level 2 (though the song starts at 1) if not for the unnerving background strings. (Thom Yorke, Suspiria (2018) soundtrack)
• Say It. (Yorushika)
• Licking an Orchid (ft. James K) (Yves Tumor)^note Even though the instrumentation would make this sit at level 2, the sudden bout of Harsh Noise in the latter half of the song knocks it up a few levels.
• My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (Frank Zappa)
• His World (Zebrahead (Band), Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) soundtrack)
• Spectrum (Zedd ft. Matthew Koma) ^note  Some of the glitcher portions are a 5.
• Gloomy Flash (Zekk & poplavor ft. mami)
• Dreams (ZHU & Nero)
• Supermarine ^note  Steadily gets heavier until it reaches around a 5 in the climax. (Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk soundtrack)
• Dead End (ZYNIC)

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