HardLore: Hard Songs by Soft Bands

Months after presenting you their picks for "soft songs" by "hard bands", Colin and Bo finally present their highly requested picks for HARD songs by soft bands...
Hard and soft are as subjective as they come, but enjoy our insane rationalizations to why these songs belong in our least hardcore-oriented episode yet (sorry!)
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Episode Preview
0:48 - HardLore Time
3:36 - Live - All Over You
6:03 - Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
7:36 - Third Eye Blind - Narcolepsy
9:41 - Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart
11:46 - Weezer - Hash Pipe
14:09 - Saves The Day - As Your Ghost Takes Flight
15:17 - Saves The Day - Banned From the Back Porch
16:14 - Third Eye Blind - How's It Gonna Be
17:13 - Coheed & Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
18:31 - Tool rocks
19:16 - Bjork - Army of Me
21:36 - Torche - Tarpit Carnivore
23:19 - Johnny Cash - Boy Named Sue
24:37 - Faith No More - Jizzlobber
27:13 - The Stooges - Search & Destroy
28:16 - Hans Zimmer - Gladiator Medley
28:55 - Classical music rocks
30:38 - Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time... lmao
32:02 - My Chemical Romance - Mama
34:52 - Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
36:59 - The Mountain Goats - No Children
38:55 - Alice in Chains - Rooster
39:59 - Alice in Chains - Sludge Factory
41:38 - Pardon this interruption...
45:21 - Citizen - The Night I Drove Alone
46:26 - DVORAK - SYMPHONY No. 9
49:15 - The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
50:18 - The Cranberries - Hollywood
51:49 - The Cranberries - Salvation
53:08 - Melissa Etheridge - I'm The Only One
55:08 - CCR - Fortunate Son
56:57 - Collective Soul - Heavy
58:14 - Alanis Morissette - You Gotta Know (lol)
1:00:16 - Lady Gaga - G.U.Y.
1:02:02 - Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
1:04:00 - Katy Perry - Mannequin
1:05:33 - Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs
1:07:56 - Oasis - I Hope, I Think, I know
1:08:48 - Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
1:11:19 - Into Another - Ungodly
1:12:35 - Tears For Fears - Mad World
1:14:46 - halsey - honey
1:16:23 - Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
1:21:14 - Next week on HardLore...

[@knotfest]

Listen to the official playlist with all of the picks from this episode here: Spotify - open.spotify.com/playlist/4qM43HqPA39ZiRNE8p93N8?si=4f8b75e98cdd408e Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/playlist/hardlores-hard-songs-by-soft-bands/pl.u-yZyVWdLtd4kG1p3

[@mattygunner]

Colin's wearing sleeves...shit's about to get serious

[@MazChuga]

Must be laundry day 😂

[@spencerwood5304]

Shirt just got serious lol

[@alexpdrumz684]

Bands: soft Lore: hard as fuck

[@chuckjamesnorris5928]

Colin just looking at Bo like a teacher looking at a student who didn’t understand the assignment

[@nicolaskeating8962]

What If by Creed, the breakdown is INSANE and it's Scott Stapp's most angry performance

[@SBeckerDTD]

And it's on the Scream 3 soundtrack which is hard.

[@user-dn2bg9lx1m]

My own prison

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

Solid choice 💯

[@jimmyjawn723]

song fucking riiiiips

[@masterofnull9695]

Glad to see this getting the love it deserves and always has

[@brndn666]

The lady Gaga intro was top tier

[@wileyhxc]

Huge points to Colin for Coheed’s No World for Tomorrow. As a longtime fan of them and hardcore, hearing that breakdown made me so happy.

[@alanavalos934]

Green Day - Take Back I still remember that song catching me off guard at first listen

[@tacotacotacobajablast6821]

platypus on that album too.

[@psychedelicjesus89]

Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy Heavy bass, crazy break beat, insane vocals with screaming at 2:37, unhinged music video "I want your soul I will eat your soul Come to daddy"

[@tmw3489]

Aphex Twin isnt soft on any planet.

[@Megaalith]

@@tmw3489I get what he means though, electronic is not usually known for being in the realm of insanity like Aphex

[@notfugazi]

They put alice in chains there

[@djsmith1166]

You said ‘Paramore but hard’ talking about Katy Perry and that leads me to throw down my own pick “All We Know” Track One. First album. It has a legit spinkick breakdown. It’s brief but perfect. BAAA DAAA DAAA *WEEEEEEE* NYOW NYOWWW NYOW iS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED !?? DA NA NA *EEEEEEEEEEEE* IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED ??? I have ripped it off in my old hardcore bands. It rules. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[@j0sedotexe]

if there's anyone that deserves to go to tied down after this comment section it's you, because JESUS CHRIST this song rules

[@chasebahne7195]

Amen brother

[@ianjones1814]

Gotta go with I Want You (Shes So Heavy) - The Beatles. The ending ending gets heavier every time they play the riff over again. Lyrically not hard at all but the riff is hard af

[@fatdelinquent85]

Great concept. Really enjoy this format. I discover so much cool music through this and your breakdown series. I personally would like a "best of two step sections " or something like that. Always love a great two step :D

[@mycoachknowsthesheriff8396]

MCR is sick and they do rock, indeed

[@ianmontesinos1001]

I want you (She’s so Heavy) - the Beatles. Unbelievably heavy riff and how it it just keeps getting louder and louder and then abruptly cuts out of the blue?? Unbelievable.

[@bluenitriletouch2842]

This is what I was gonna comment with! That part goes so hard

[@sinclairsamuels5077]

YES

[@brandonmartinez1662]

exactly the song i was going to comment

[@paraworldblue]

That outro is the sound of the world getting ripped apart. People always say they invented metal with Helter Skelter, but it doesn't even come close to this song

[@SBeckerDTD]

White Limo by Foo Fighters goes so fucking hard. The riffage and Dave just screaming into a megaphone effect. The dropout in the last 15 seconds. Total banger.

[@josephchubb1528]

I thought this but couldn’t say foo fighters was a soft band. But for a pop band it is hard hard. And stacked actors

[@8195229]

Foo Fighters - FFL Is also a hard track. Bonus song on In Your Honor.

[@chaoticfirearm]

Also Lemmy is in the music video

[@DFMusic811]

Foo Fighters are hard rock though. They have poppy hooks, but the sound is heavy enough.

[@Dennis_The_Peasant]

Weenie Beenie is the hardest Foo Fighters song and I'll die on that hill. I could 2step to that shit all day

[@moshua]

Patti Smith - Because the Night goes h a r d. Bonus points to the 10,000 Maniacs live cover featuring a whole ass orchestra

[@__mamabruja138]

My pick is: Sh!t Luck by Modest Mouse This song always has people moshing at their shows 🤘🏽

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

I said Bury Me With It lol

[@corycourtney8923]

The Toy Machine ad in Zero's Misled Youth put me on to that one. It wouldn't be till years later till I got into their other stuff.

[@davidwright3827]

Damn wish I thought about this song, but yes very hard song

[@wozaow]

What People Are Made Of goes hard as well.

[@brendanhorner5727]

Future by paramore, the last song on the self titled, as a teenage emo kid, was the heaviest thing I've ever heard still to this day

[@bigbadbeardo]

This

[@samwarren5025]

Oasis - morning glory That intro is heavy as fuck

[@satorified1612]

Badass track, maybe their best. And makes for some excellent 90s nostalgia.

[@robotomassi2011]

High Vis covered it at Outbreak and it went OFF

[@bengreenbank]

Cigarettes and alcohol would be my pick

[@RandomPandaX78]

Bring it on downnnn

[@Yabutstill]

Hum-Stars

[@samwarren5025]

I feel like hum is heavy rather than hard

[@DigitalBath306]

hum is hard af

[@Yabutstill]

Hum is soft as babyshit

[@CountryMouseCityCrimes]

Yeah bro... Hum was pretty hard as fuck.

[@Yabutstill]

There is literally nothing hard about hum

[@gabeg1211]

Saves The Day was the low key hardest band in the Jersey hardcore circuit back in the day. Every show was a bloodbath.

[@mollystrohl199]

Criminal by Fiona Apple “What would an angel say? The devil wants to knowwwwwwww” Hard AF.

[@jerryrose9472]

Take on Me by A-ha. Chorus during the "I'll be gone" part it switches to a half time ass beater for like two bars then picks right up into two-step territory.

[@riv6580]

I’ve always acknowledged this. I explain it every time too! Haha

[@thechubbman]

Check out the a-ha Limmy sketch. Hard band for sure.

[@AverageLone]

My pick for weezer would have been tired of sex personally. Low key a break down at the end. Hash pipe is hard asf tho I made this before bo shouted out pinkerton. Bo’s the man for that

[@celticmoose33]

Maladroit is an underrated Weezer album with plenty of awesome riffs. Fall Together, American Gigolo, Take Control.

[@hogpattyslap9607]

AFI - Death of Seasons While AFI was technically considered a hardcore band, this song in the greater context of this album and stage of their career is insane.

[@craigjames8569]

Despite Sing the Sorrow being their "sellout" album (i love the record) it has the hardest moments in their career. The breakdown in But Home is Nowhere also goes pretty hard

[@Megaalith]

@@craigjames8569 It's also their best album

[@sighswoons]

DUDE THE MOUNTAIN GOATS LFG

[@DrLangly]

Live - Throwing Cooper has bangers on it for sure. Great choice!!

[@matthewramey5677]

Guys you have to check out more of the band Live. They go really hard most of the time even though they have all those great softer songs too and they are amazing live. But they do have of alot of heavy of harder songs check out Stage, waterboy, lakininis juice, tbd operation spirit, hero psycho dreamer, just a few. Thank me later Live is amazing.

[@tootoo2354]

“XYU” by Smashing Pumpkins Frantic, emotional, and yes.. HARD!

[@playstation2icon271]

Disintergration - The Cure

[@robotomassi2011]

Converge cover is so good

[@Bleepbloop123]

@@robotomassi2011didn’t know this at all Wtf🤦🏽‍♂️🙏🏽

[@nicolegomez8066]

No Ordinary Love by Sade why do they use that guitar tone it goes so crazy

[@FranciscoRodriguez-ly9so]

Not sure if you’re into the deftones but they do a better than decent cover of no ordinary love.

[@TBliss88]

Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work. Hardest shit ever. The atmosphere will crush anyone’s soul.

[@paulderbyshire6953]

👌

[@zaqkern]

Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreets Back) Insane riff

[@samwarren5025]

Sabotage too. That bassline makes me want to punch a baby

[@celticmoose33]

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave? (you are correct)

[@Megaalith]

And the music video is Thriller-esque

[@cletusbeauregard1972]

yeah, that bass riff is a straight rip from Alice Cooper's Eighteen, and it's a brilliant rip.

[@zubrhero5270]

Doesn't matter if you're a big, beardy tattooed metalhead... That's one song we can ALL agree was an absolute banger when it released, and is still a banger to this day.

[@carl3038]

The editing on this episode goes crazy hard

[@morbidtank5244]

A little band called Toto-hold the line

[@abelpf1]

LAAAARG-OVE ISNT ALWAAAYS ON TI-YIIIME

[@jvogele7190]

Blur- Song 2 I went to their concert in 1997 while they toured with that album. My friend said, "there isn't going to be moshing!" I told him to wait and see!

[@kellymoon3406]

Militarie Gun played it recently in Atlanta on their tour and it went hard af.

[@benxo]

Thankyou for mentioning the Neurosis tuning because I remember the first time I heard Given To The Rising, on headphones at that, and it completely changed the way I understood music. Completely blew my teenage mind

[@cidnemo]

do you know what Song Bo is talking about?

[@benxo]

@@cidnemo he'll be talking about about a distinct sound across Neurosis's albums but id say for me 'Through Silver In Blood' and 'Given To The Rising' It's just oppressively heavy, Mastodon do it really well on Crack The Skye

[@jessedampolo]

So glad you guys put Into Another on here, they have to be one of the most criminally underrated bands of all-time. They actually just put out a new album at the beginning of the month and it's really incredible.

[@bengreenbank]

Nick Cave - Stagger Lee From the album Murder Ballads. Both lyrics and song goes hard as fuck and the outro has the snare from stanger in it

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

Nick Cave rules

[@MetalVolcano]

Stagger Lee doesn't even make the top 20 of hardest Bad Seeds songs

[@markperry6017]

the whole skeleton tree album is brutal lyrically

[@connorsmyth3403]

Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees The drums are heavy and the song is about a volcano erupting

[@ceradaddygibson]

This is a great episode 😤

[@GreggNapes]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Self-Immolate A song literally gooning so hard to set yourself on fire. Crazy time sig on this one too. This band rips like 3 albums a year of folky-experimental madness and decided to lay some pipe on us with an entire full length thrash album.

[@J-gr1ie]

So good

[@samwarren5025]

Invade the rats nest is such a good record

[@twenty1129]

Your comment along with the story about Weezer at 33RPM reminded me of this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZCzlJuqjZ2id9Esi=PsfRHwqkYzhIov8d Gaia at 33RPM goes HAAAAARD

[@SHAOL_NSITH]

The drums from Bjork’s Amy of Me are taken from Jon Bonham in When the Levee Breaks 🤘🏻

[@jacobdent7884]

Soft band: Alien Ant Farm Hard song: Wish

[@stevehunt7549]

Some amazing choices and and some head scratchers 😂 How can you not pick The Working Hour or Head Over Heels when you picked Songs From the Big Chair?! Great episode, this was a blast to watch!

[@rmy3178]

Yooooooo......Going the Fleetwood Mac route...."Big Love." That riff, Lindsey Buckingham singing his heart out wanting love & you have the "Ooooohhh/Ahhhhh" at the end? HARD.

[@user-mw3ks3zl2k]

Jane’s Addiction Mountain Song. A song so heavy that my favorite Judge riff is Jane’s Addiction Mountain song

[@illyacotten]

No Doubt - Ex Girlfriend the chorus is hard, the snare is dope, and Tony’s bass is thick as hell at 2:24 Smashing Pumpkins - Zero - one of the sickest riffs and one of their heaviest songs. God is empty just like me. Hard Soundgarden - Birth Ritual and Room a Thousand Years Wide - both songs are hard as shit, beginning to end, come on. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - dark tone and theme, insane lyrics, homie talking about cutting throats of babies. Claudio is a master. Song had me floored at 13. Paramore - My Heart - song builds and builds and then goes off at 2:37. Double bass at the end lol Hard way to close an album. Emma Ruth Rundle - Real Big Sky - the heaviest song on here, with just an acoustic guitar, that could be a doom song. witnessing someone’s pain and them waiting to die. Crushing. Emma deserves more praise.

[@constructionbootgazer]

Emma Ruth Rundle - Protection would be my choice, but I’m so pumped someone else mentioned her

[@andrewkong3154]

Just gotta say, I had to file for FMLA a few weeks ago due to a freak injury from doing some work on the heavy bag. The lack of an outlet, along with the social isolation has been crazy on my mental health. Gentlemen, thank you for providing some reprieve to pass the time.

[@michael4301]

San Quentin - Nickelback also has the hardest intro 100% spin kickable

[@eliving4]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star

[@LBOTrecords]

Song: The Con Band: Tegan and Sara

[@rmartin978]

Headwalkable

[@callmeozen]

Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream That riff has so much attitude, the whole track is a high energy 2-step with a hard solo/instrumental outro. Bonus points for pulling off a mean-ass banger that has “woohoo”s in it.

[@guillermosanchez3932]

Artist/band: Vincente Fernandez Album: El Idolo de Mexico Song: El Rey Reason why it’s hard: HARD Lyrics Con dinero y sin dinero Yo hago siempre lo que quiero Y mi palabra es la ley No tengo trono ni reina Ni nadie que me comprenda Pero sigo siendo el rey Translation: With money and without money I always do what I want And my word is the law I have no throne or queen Nor anyone who understands me But I'm still the king

[@rubaneitor]

Muse - Stockolm Syndrome has some serious breakdowns for a soft band

[@jbasti227]

Muse has SO many awesome heavy parts throughout their discography. Absolutely love that band.

[@bluenitriletouch2842]

Straight up. The end is soooo heavy.

[@kuntry816]

Knights of Cydonia was my pick

[@tonyvarella7297]

Live and Let Die - Wings when it kicks in its a borderline two step part

[@benjaminadam666]

what an amazing episode this is

[@jeffreyorzell]

No One Loves Me and Neither Do I by Them Crooked Vultures. Not a soft band but the breakdown of that song is insane and makes me want to run through a wall

[@dollyfarton666]

nick cave - red right hand

[@bookwormjosh]

Sugar Ray - Breathe

[@BigPapaSam96]

Idk, man. I think Dance Party USA goes pretty hard. That breakdown is insane

[@ccoletti81]

Lemonade & Brownies has some legit heavy songs. You could pit to Mean Machine or 10 Seconds Down.

[@BigPapaSam96]

@@ccoletti81 I was in the pit at a Sugar Ray

[@danielkopolovic7218]

What a cool idea! Surprised no Doors made the list. Seems like they were the darkest band to come out of the 60's sonically and lyrically. Especially on "the end" and "when the music's over". "Inside Looking Out" is a banger by Grand Funk RR/The Animals. Lyrically "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire is good, as are some Pink Floyd songs like "two suns at sunset", "free four", and "when the tigers broke free". Actually alot of stuff from the wall goes dark, like "waiting for the worms", "run like hell", "one of my turns", maybe even "mother" or "comfortably numb". Others that came to mind were the Stones "paint it black", "gimme shelter", and "sympathy for the devil" and CCR "run through the jungle", although those seem almost cliché. Anyway, thanks for the vid!

[@Noahm9696]

Bloodborne OST - Ludwig the accursed & the holy blade

[@satanscowgirl]

i’m sure it’s been said before already but The Devil Wears A Suit and Tie - Colter Wall insane it goes that hard.

[@morgue_file]

More hard songs by soft bands! Loved this episode!

[@xj4maroon5dude]

My Pick: Title Fight: Head In The Ceiling Fan. You can’t not just not, that was the first song I ever heard by them and was blown away. Even if it’s soft in some parts; the lyrics just speak to you. Either your moshing or your crying. Miss you Title Fight, if you come back you’ll still have a place to call home.

[@coreygoodtimes]

Outfield “Your Love” is hard. The way the drum work against the riff? Delicious. Also Tori Amos “God” is basically a NIN song.

[@AlexM-ok4ho]

In honor of Detroit I have to say Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground by the White Stripes. That intro riff is very spincuckable. Could be the heaviest riff out of Detroit by a notoriously not heavy band. Great list. Hope to see yall in Detroit.

[@warlok9]

Great video. Minor correction, Mad World by Tears for Fears is on the album The Hurting.

[@derekchacon7584]

Genuinely my favorite episode so far.

[@rnbwsmtl]

the youth of benatar crossover needs to happen at all costs

[@farkle]

Pat of Today

[@conormclaughlin5811]

I think one of the hardest songs by a soft band is “All these things that I’ve done” by The Killers. The palm muted chug part, if played on an Ibanez through a cranked 5150, would signal the start of the purge. It got both me (who only wanted to listen to Perseverance) and my college roommate (who only wanted to listen to Nile and Napalm Death) to both go “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” when we heard it.

[@evanjones2377]

Cursive - A Gentleman Caller Heavy riff with heavy lyrics

[@masterofnull9695]

so many cursive picks for me too, maybe cursive is just a hard fuckin band.

[@evanjones2377]

@@masterofnull9695true I started thinking and so many came to mind after

[@immigrationproblems]

I was thinking Cursive and Trail of Dead. Both indie soft bands but I think undeniably hard lyrics and hard parts

[@xxxtkvxxx]

Burst and Bloom is full of breakdowns

[@_D_E_N_N_I_S_]

Big bang live 😮 I punched a nerd in 2012 by accident when they randomly started playing that song at the union transfer in Philly . Doesn’t hit the same on the record but live …. Holy shit

[@curtisbush5728]

You two are great the way you riff off one another! My best friend and i were exactly the same way when we were teens in the late 90s through our early to mid 20s when he moved! Wed sit for hours and pick apart the songs on our casettes in our tour van! Bands like steve miller band, bruce springsteen abd the E street band, green day etc. and listen to pop music and talk about what riffs were gold! Also, though Nirvana was a pretty heavy band, but they werent a dissonant noisy hardcore band! So "endless nameless" the secret song on nevermind is amazingly heavy, and im pretty sure its in a weird made up tuning! Shits heaaaaaaaavy!

[@aaronjbrock]

“Ring Around the Rosie” - Mother Goose. Mostly known for their child friendly nursery rhymes this one is actually about open sores, the black plague, and impending death. Extremely hard.

The classical song Bo is asking about is “Night On Bald Mountain” composed by Modest Mussorgsky. N64 Earth Worm Jim OG’s know what’s up! 47:43

[@PetesMusicTweets]

That drum breakdown in "I hope, I think, I know".... fuck it's awesome.

[@brentericson7447]

Jizzlobber is definitely the hardest FNM song, super cool Colin mentioned it

[@drummernkj]

Band: The Vanilla Fudge Song: You Keep Me Hangin’ On Whole into goes so hard, one of the oldest bands I’ve seen using double bass back in 1967.

[@OddityNineTwo]

Sugar Ray - Mean Machine. Really wanted to go to tied down for the first time this year. Tickets were a little out of my budget though.

[@cademiller7746]

Hey guys great ep today! The hardest song but a soft band is Bad Diary Days by Pedro The Lion.

[@sMoKEy131]

Great Episode !!!! btw. Joy Divison - Failures Soundgarten - Jesus Christ Pose Team Sleep - The Skull is Red

[@jake_villanueva]

Team sleep song is HEAVY

[@sMoKEy131]

@@jake_villanueva yeah 100%

[@antpel88]

I feel like 4th of July or outshined by Soundgarden would fit as well.

[@bigmono3000]

Tears for fear - the working hour

[@jakecasson4504]

Colin: The song is called Jizzlobber -- *KZbin ad cuts to a BetterHelp therapy commercial*

[@MarkWhorror138]

Hardest Song by a soft band: War - Don’t Let No One Get You Down Could easily be a hardcore song with the lyrics similar to Jasta or Vogel “Don't let no one, no one get you down Cause if they do, if they do I'll be around I want you near standing here by my side So my dear wipe those tears from your eyes”

[@jacobmccallon9305]

Twitching Tongues cover Dam That River at LDBBB challenge

[@thrasher5122]

Hell is for Children - Pat Benatar - lyrically heavy af, riff wise HEAVY AF if we’re allowing it’s gotta be Faith No More- Zombie Eaters (it starts soft but that breakdown at the end is KILLER added point for the 2 step riff)

[@titanovterror]

Burnin’ And Lootin’- The Wailers

[@carsone9259]

The Stroke by Billy Squire, "put your right hand out, give a firm hand shake" GUNG GUNG. It's heavy.

[@LamGK]

Soundgarden - 4th of July. Soundgarden is kind of a hard "soft" band, but 4th of July is probably the heaviest opening that any "soft" band has ever had. Kind of in the same realm as your AIC suggestions.

[@comicsmisexplained]

@21:40 the “bomb string” goes hard. If you enjoy Torche, don’t forget to check out their previous band Floor.

[@puredistraction]

Colin, I love that you picked Halsey, but you gotta go deeper than that album! "Experiment on Me" in unquestionably her hardest song and includes a legit scream. "Nightmare" is pretty hard too.

[@robotomassi2011]

The Beatles - She's So Heavy (outro) Lankum - The Wild Rover (outro) Lankum - Go Dig My Grave (outro) Carl Orff - O Fortuna (Botch even covered it)

[@bobeater934]

Angels Of The Silences- Counting Crows Starts with shrill feedback and a atmbol count in. Song is pretty fast and punky. Vocals kinda work thier way up to a yell at some points. I was caught off guard the first time I heard this one.

[@dylansmarr3254]

Big shoutout to Colin for the NWFT pick, but the intro to Hearshot Kid Disaster goes so hard and would've been a great one as well.

[@wilmurphy2695]

The Joy Formidable - Whirring. has a double kick breakdown at the end in some 2010s indie rock

[@jbasti227]

The Mastodon/Neurosis tuning is one of my favorite alternate tunings. It’s essentially drop C with the low C lowered to an A. Periphery’s also used it here and there. I forgot the song but Tool I think used it even before any of them but as drop D with the low D dropped to B.

[@moreupdog]

Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland 1945" Hard, gut wrenching lyrics and banger tempo. Great 'hard from a soft band' selection for how the song sticks out from the rest of their discog.

[@djsmith1166]

Bombs Over Baghdad - Outkast is one of the best 2 steps of all time and its the whole song. Tough as nails

[@soulsearch13]

The piece they were referring to in fantasia is 'night on bald mountain' by modest mussorgsky!

[@kolls3798]

so hype to see oasis deep cut on there, be here now is such a great album to play loud

[@christianbrooks103]

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - “Knife-Edge” Düsseldorf Broadcast 1971. Lyrically dark as a limitless void and the bass riff feels so wonderfully guttural.