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

[Kolosus]

omg i like hannah montana, she's like the best... n' stuff

*Shrug*...

OT:
Ok I'm a 8 - 9.5'ish.
I'm a HUGE fan of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, but Slayer and Dimmu Borgir is awesome as well, but once in a awhile, Jazz is all i need to make me cheer up.

 

[Rathands]

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.

It's so sad - the new Robot Unicorn game got me addicted to Blind Guardian's 'Battlefield'. XD

 

[Balmong7]

I listen to all of the above depending on my mood

 

[Enigmers]

I guess 8 is probably my cut-off point, though I guess a lot of music I think is 8 someone else might say is 7 or 9, but 8 is about as good a guess as I can make.

By the way, The Trooper was a great choice. Mm-mm.

Edit: If I was supposed to put down a range, it'd probably be around 1-8.

 

[KefkaCultist]

I listen to all levels, but the majority of my music is in the 7-9 range.

That Fleshgod Apocalypse song is badass though, I'm gonna have to get them on my ipod

 

[Random berk]

I'd go mosstly with 6-7, although I do like some less hard music like Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Bob Marley. I also know one or two, such as Airbourne or Dragonforce, who could be in the 8 region.

Incidentally, if your going to compare this scale to the Mohs scale, you should only have ten levels.

 

[direkiller]

1-10
i draw the line at them just screaming in the microphone(so at about Metalica-all nightmare long)

 

[KefkaCultist]

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

Spoiler: 1:

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

The Norwegian foreign exchange student my school had last year introduced me to Kaizers Orchestra. They're pretty good even though I can't understand a word of them

 

[KefkaCultist]

I listen to all levels, but the majority of my music is in the 7-9 range.

That Fleshgod Apocalypse song is badass though, I'm gonna have to get them on my ipod

If you like Fleshgod Apocalypse, i recommend you Necrophagist,Obscura and The Faceless. ^.^

Sweet I'll check them out thanks.

 

[Zarmi]

Everything from 1 - 11.

 

[daavisb]

I'd say somewhere around 8.5.

 

[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.

It's so sad - the new Robot Unicorn game got me addicted to Blind Guardian's 'Battlefield'. XD

I'd never heard of that game until now, thanks!

 

[Ironic Pirate]

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)

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 :')

It's still better than no examples! I'll put them in the OP in a second...

 

[darth gditch]

One through 8.

I like most rock, so long as it contains creative musicianship and/or intelligent lyrics.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

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.

Awesome, thanks. I feel bad for Owens, actually. A lot of people hate him, because twice he's replaced two really good metal vocalists, but he's actually a great singer.

Anyway, thanks again for the recommendation.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Between 1 - 10 as 11 doesn't sound like music anymore.

Their the worse examples of 10-11 sadly :-(

Could you show me some better examples? I'm not really familiar with anything above 9...

I did get a new 11 though, based on someone else's recommendation. Is it better?

 

[bad_dog14]

Anywhere from 1 to 9 I guess, but I mostly listen to Slayer, so I suppose I'm a niner.