Poll: How Hard/Heavy do you like your music?

[Summerstorm]

Hm... depending on my mood but i am on the softer side, i guess. While speed is mostly ok... i don't like screaming/growling in my songs. But most important is the melody the FLOW of the music. I even enjoy a FEW melodic-death metal songs.

But overall i mostly like the classic-rock/beginning of metal phase.

Something like this is undeniabel epic:


Or something like the Metallica-phase of about 1990-1999 (I really like the S&M album for example) or awesome power-metal like THIS:


Or many other bands.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Only works for rock music?! Ahem, techno here: (Skip half way thru each, they all got dull intros)

Spoiler: Scale 1:

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Spoiler: Scale 11:

Best example si could find, in a rush and most of the insanly hard stuff isnt on youtube.. (i gues sive got some uploading to do laster on)

Do you mind if I add those to the OP? I have zero experience in techno...

No problem. Like i say, there are better examples bu tim in the middle of doign a Uni assinment so they are the fastest youtube searchs i could find :')

 

[Metal Brother]

9 or 10 for me, but most of what I listen to is in the 7-9 range.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

This is as heavy as I can go, and that still can give me a headache after a while.

Only works for rock music?! Ahem, techno here: (Skip half way thru each, they all got dull intros)

Spoiler: Scale 1:

Spoiler: Scale 4:

Spoiler: Scale 8:

Spoiler: Scale 11:

Best example si could find, in a rush and most of the insanly hard stuff isnt on youtube.. (i gues sive got some uploading to do laster on)

Heh heh... that's nothing.

Spoiler: Scale 12

 

[sindremaster]

everything from 1-9

 

[RanD00M]

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I'm not really all that anal when it comes to genres. But I just hate it when Black and Death metal get mixed up. And they have a more Death than Black metal sound to them, even if they mix Black, Death, Industrial and Grindcore.

 

[Nickolai77]

5-7. I quite like bands like Gun's and Roses, but most my music tastes fall into around the Iron Maiden and power/prog metal area. (Listening to Blind Guardian right now) I probably won't go further than a 7, bands like Rammstein are probably about as heavy as i would go.

 

[Tharwen]

I usually listen to Disturbed, which I'd say is a 7.8(?)

When I'm gaming, I'll tolerate up to about 10ish.

Disturbed is like 1.

Eh? Are we talking about the same thing?

You can't put Disturbed lower than a six...

Can put it below 1.

If 10-11 is maximum, Disturbed cant even come close to being that high.

It is a very soft band, no harsh sounds or atmospheres at all.

I'll just leave this here:


They can't come close to 10 or 11, but that's the point of having a scale. You seem to be rating things as 'heavy' or 'not heavy'. Either that or you're just joking, which I think must be more likely.

 

[gl1koz3]

I must say the stuff above 8 is barely pushing it. Overdone rhythm, that's all. 8 sounds best. Will try looking for something heavy, but I'm not sure I'm sure about what I'm talking about myself.

 

[Wardnath]

I can listen to anything on the scale, from calm ambient to psychotic death/grind.

But as Novskij said earlier, I often listen to stuff that goes leaps and bounds beyond the 11 range.

Here's some examples:

Spoiler: 1-6:

Spoiler: 11+

Hell of a contrast, eh?

Also, OP, I'd swap out number 1 on the scale for the Dead Can Dance song I've posted, and move the top 3 on the higher end down a notch. And probably fill the 11 spot with anything in this spoiler of mine.

I like Fleshgod Apocalypse, but they're around the 9-10 range. Just saying.

 

[lightningmagurn]

Anything from 6-10, mostly around the 9 on the scale. And a very small amount of select Classical pieces, but I don't know where they fall.

 

[Sparrow]

I have Take That on my most played list on iTunes. I'm going to take a guess that anything beyond 3 would melt my face.

 

[R0cklobster]

well it kinda depends. If you were going to do it on a scale of how low tuned the guitars are in SOME of the music I like it would easily be 11 (I'm pretty sure that song didn't have 8 string ), but I kinda dislike more screaming than, say, Periphery

 

[hurfdurp]

The heaviest I go is like Balrog's theme music.

 

[theguitarhero6]

Between an 8 and a 9 cuz I like me some thrash metal!

 

[GiantRedButton]

LOL
i just listened to the last song you linked so i guess im an 11. But i like symphonic stuff too,

 

[-Ulven-]

I love the most in the rock genre. I guess I range 1-10

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Spoiler: 10(+?):

And everything in between, like Slayer, Devildriver, Stone SOur, Slipknot, some local bands etc.

 

[brunothepig]

Your scale seems very broken. Sorry, but I think the leap from regular Death Metal (Cannibal Corpse) to whatever the fuck your 11 is supposed to be is retarded. You do know there is heavier stuff than Cannibal Corpse that is actually music? The Faceless, Suicide Silence, The Black Dahlia Murder etc.
Plus, Anthrax to Slayer makes sense, but what about Black Metal? Much heavier than Thrash, not as heavy as Death.
Anyway, I can listen to the heaviest stuff, as long as it's still musically correct, and it still sounds like music, instead of idiots screaming and hitting instruments.
However, my favourite bands sit around your 8 and 9. I do really like Cannibal Corpse, but I love bands like Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Slayer, Dream Theater.

I fixed the eleven. I'm not very familiar with that level, so I was kind of guessing a bit.

The link had some examples of black metal, I wasn't familiar enough with it to really put an example. The more ambient stuff would start around nine, with most falling in near ten. It's not as musically heavy as, say, Brutal Death Metal, but it's very harsh. Some black metal goes to 11 though.

I've heard some Iced Earth on youtube and enjoyed it, what would you say is their best album?

That depends. How much do you like Judas Priest?
The Glorious Burden (get it with the Gettysburg bonus disc, thank me later) has Ripper Owens on vocals. Me, I love that man (he filled in for Halford on Demolition and Jugulator) and I think that is easily their best album. The rest have their normal vocalist. He's good, but nowhere near the levels of Ripper IMO. Anyway, check out a few songs from Glorious Burden, Gettysburg is amazing to just listen straight through, takes about half an hour. If you don't like his vocals (I have met a few crazy people who don't lol) then I'd suggest Horror Show.

 

[Owlslayer]

I guess from 1 to 7 or so. There are always exceptions, though.
I like some epic orchestral music, but i like SOME heavy songs too.

 

[miscelaneous]

1 through 8. Maybe... maybe 9.