5.5 - Fairly raw-yet-clean paradoxical as it sounds, with the harsher vocals sounding appropriately wet and ravenous, but everything else is so jaunty and flamboyant as to be nearly unfitting of its own production values and subsequently more playful than it is punishing.
Hard 10/light 11: Heavy, not much melodic sound at all.
Listener - Ozark Empire, or a snake oil salesman comes to your town.
I don't know how to rate this since there is no guitar, but I'll try my best. I think this is a 2 or 3. It's loud but it's not really heavy.
Death-Spiritual Healing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJQOeCSs_o
I'm kind of getting into Death, and I felt like posting this song.
edited 15th May '18 7:31:20 AM by pointless233
9. Old-school death metal; heavy but not as heavy as what one would expect from more modern death metal.
I'm barely there, I'm everywhere
4.5 - Honestly if you removed the vocals, I'd think this would be some indie rock band with a notably beefier production.
10 - Heavy, evil stuff; level 10 being Black Metal's home level, this seems to keep itself from being any heavier or lighter than a solid 10.
Somewhere between a 7 and 8. It has some surprisingly heavy moments but there's enough melody to keep it from going higher.
Pig Destroyer - Towering Flesh
Very hard 10: Very loud and heavy. It starts at an 11. However, some softer sections knock it back.
Mixes level 2-3 poppy sections with level 8-9 metalcore, and dips somewhere in between those two at a couple points. Overall about a 7.
I'm barely there, I'm everywhere
7.5 - Extremely abrasive vocal production that convey an absurd sense of threatening paranoia though there's a serious lack of lower frequency bass presence or anything that occupies and weaponizes space.
11 - It has some slower sections, but overall the vocals, guitars, and tempo outside of the slower sections are heavy enough to warrant an 11.
While the soft sections are worthy of a 2-3 (that very high-pitched sound popping up throughout is mostly what bumps it up from being a 1) the song also hits as high 6. I'd give this song a 4.
edited 3rd Jun '18 11:07:30 AM by Iampureevil
I'm barely there, I'm everywhere
9. That's some pretty harsh noise there.
Incinerate! ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!
Easy 9. Helps that it's on the album where the band tries to reach Industrial Metal levels of hardness.
For something lighter, L7 -- "Shitlist"
edited 10th Jun '18 10:22:54 AM by ZeroDozer
Growing up, it's like a civil war, don't turn away, it's something you can't ignore...
It's a 6, at least in my opinion.
Death - Together As One
8.5 - Mean and chunky with its progressive aspirations doing little to hold back its downstroke crunching and churning tremolo but this specific era of Death subtly felt like they were trying to hide older 80's prog/tech/thrash aspirations in a death metal shell and subsequently the raw firepower it brings to the table comes off as a bit muted or even soft compared to their competition.
10. It certainly is something to behold in that they play so loud it hurts your ears.
7 - A straight-forward heavy metal instrumental, with one small section that that dips around a 5-6.
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Mega Steve
Can't talk right now. Listening to Ecco 2 K and Dr
A hard 7. Surprisingly dark for Limp Bizkit
Death - Living Monstrosity
7.5 - A number of things hold this era of Death back from sounding particularly intimidating especially its reliance on slightly modified thrash technique with its most aggressive portions being fairly flat and tonally tame tremolo sections over weirdly goofy sounding tupa-tupa skank-y beats. The soloing in the middle and quasi-proggy part that ensues also don't really help its case; it ends up sounding more tame with this reliance on weirdly out of place holdovers from Chuck's love of older prog/power/thrash that go against the already bare-bones death metal packaging they had. Also the hilarious ineptitude of his lyricism, sounding like garbage scrounged from a Fox News article's comment section filtered through some angry reactionary twatbag told to write metal lyrics, end up making this sound outright goofy at parts and really detract from the actual aggression.
Oxygen Destroyer - Biomechanically Imprisoning the Sacred Beast of the Apocalypse
Edited by StillbornMachine on Jul 10th 2018 at 5:27:59 AM
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I personally don't think the lyrics are as bad as you make them sound like, Stillborn. Also, I like the pseudo-proggy part and the solo that the song has.
Anyways, your song gets a 9. It's pretty heavy and has both harsh vocals and loud guitars.
Pig Destroyer - Towering Flesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Db6LBlrZmM
Edited by pointless233 on Jul 11th 2018 at 2:07:31 AM
If you're okay with "Fuck those poor single mothers and drug addicts, they should get the fucking electric chair" ain't that bad, well, I don't have any good news for you lmao.
Edited by StillbornMachine on Jul 12th 2018 at 8:48:40 AM
I don't see why you're getting so worked up over me saying the lyrics aren't that bad. Aren't you supposed to be reviewing my song?
Edited by pointless233 on Jul 12th 2018 at 10:09:31 AM
10 - Definitely heavy, however it does not go very fast or very slow, the screams stay mid-range and do not growl, and the screams are also a bit buried into the mix. I would put this at a light 10.
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Gordon Paul (2016 Version)