I RANKED every HARDER STYLES Genre in a Top Tier List

[@Mindprinter]

What is your TOP TIER LIST! Make your own Top Tier Ranking here: tiermaker.com/create/harder-styles-genres-top-tier-ranking-17127529 Would love to see you list in a post or even better as video! -------------------- TRACKLIST -------------------- below! Share your favorite Harder Styles Genres, here is the template: Early Hardstyle Hard Trance Classic Hardstyle Rawstyle Xtra Raw Euphoric Early Gabber Millennium Hardcore Modern Hardcore Uptempo Frenchcore Terror Industrial Hardcore Speedcore Hardtekk Hardtechno TOP TIER LIST: S - A - B - C - D - -------------------- TRACKLIST -------------------- Intro 0:00 ??? Jumpstyle Meetup Classic Hardstyle Track 0:04 Destructive Tendencies - Do you bleed 0:08 Nomad - Taken Early Hardstyle 1:38 K-Traxx - Hardventure (Technoboy Remix) 2:21 Builder - Doberman Hard Trance 3:01 Alex Kidd & Kidd Kaos - Tom's Diner (KloneZ remix) 3:45 Danny V. - My Rules Classic Hardstyle 4:26 Headhunterz - Hate It Or Love It 5:12 D-Block & S-te-Fan - Ride with uz 5:55 Ran-D - Living for The Moment Rawstyle 6:03 Unresolved & Jason Payne - Nuclear 6:40 Warface - Day One Xtra Raw 7:17 Delete - Munky Shit VIP 7:58 Rebelion - A - Bomb Euphoric 8:19 Wasted Penguins - Melancholia (Toneshifterz Remix) 8:53 Frontliner ft. John Harris - Halos Early Gabber 9:43 Dj Weirdo & dr. Phil Omanski - Young Birds 10:49 Peckerhead - Just Talk About It Millennium Hardcore 11:55 Nosferatu - Hate On Yourself (with The Viper) 12:31 Ophidian & Tha Playah - Illusions Modern Hardcore 13:10 Access One - Gods & Devils 13:55 Nosferatu - And Died Again Uptempo 15:20 F. Noize - The Religion Of Evil (Official Pandemonium 2015 Anthem) 15:49 Lady Dammage & Thunder - Today Is The Day 16:36 Partyraiser, Destructive Tendencies - Sound Becomes One Frenchcore 17:52 Dr. Peacock - Trip To Ireland 18:27 A-Kriv & Maissouille - Against Me Terror 19:12 Dione - Torture (SRB Refix) 19:52 Extreme Rage - Penitenziagite Industrial Hardcore 20:45 N-Vitral ft. Sei2ure - Noise Pumper 21:32 Innominate - The Price You Pay Speedcore 23:05 Dr. Peacock & Hellcreator - Untold Prophecy (AI-Made Videoclip) Hardtekk 23:50 Amo - Tekk To Romani (Tekk To Balkan) 24:32 TBK - Rabenvater (traterrek Tekk remix) Hardtechno 25:40 Felix krocher - Travel Pussy 26:28 Klangkuenstler ft. Obernauer - Die Welt Brennt

[@otodus2802]

S - Rawstyle, Xtra Raw, Uptempo A - Early Gabber, Terror, Industrial Hardcore B - Early Hardstyle, Classic Hardstyle, Millennium Hardcore, Modern Hardcore, Frenchcore, Speedcore C - Hard Trance, Hardtekk, Hardtechno D - Euphoric

[@Lunix_Hardcore]

12:13 "Before Uptempo took over the scene, every DJ had their own individual sound" bro just casually roasted every Uptempo producer 💀

[@raoulgonzales]

bro spittin facts

[@jacobpeters8823]

It's about making something new. I love doing some uptempo but you can add a melody. Unfortunately tiktok generation has killed attention spans. Gone are the days of break downs and story telling

[@findlay1arches]

Early hs is an s for me. Great concept for a video

[@elucidator1277]

Great video. My only suggestion would be that it would have been nice to see a small list of notable artists (on screen) within each genre, so that newcomers could have more precise reference points. Besides that, this was excellent and informative.

[@Mindprinter]

Also cool video idea. An introduction to Harder Styles and tutorial

[@Mortafreak53]

du verdienst noch viel mehr follower deine videos sind echt der hammer 😄

[@hard.coreeverywhere]

" on steroids just like the crowd " ahahah good one my dude

[@Mindprinter]

It's true mate. Sikkunt

[@Shade-Spark]

Wished I could do the tier list directly! Well: S: Industrial Doomcore "2010's Spoon-Raw" Millennium (actually 2007 - 2013, I started in 2010 and I can't tell early bangers from early 2000's) Happy mainstyle hardcore (Korsakoff, my favorite mainstream hardcore producer steadily and never disappointing since she made stuff basically + Re-Style and new Rapture people, although it's Korsakoff that carries it in S, otherwise it gets a bit repetitive, like euphoric hardstyle in the 2010's too! Post-millenium (Tha Playah, Nosferatu, Occasional neophyte, Sho--nan, Falchion, 6th, Hellsystem, Gridkiller, RoughSketch, Matsui K, Kortarow, Kanoryo, Militack - Basically I follow Neophyre records, State of Anarchy, Border Town, Gemeinshaft and Login. Today the best millniuem often comes from Gemeinshaft, I'm so glad japan kept the vibe and mixed it with their musical culture and some of these gothic and orchestral elements) Speedcore (if we talk what I listen to, to me the scene has 90% of D, although I get the vibe and emotional attachment to this super cheap and stuck-in-90's sound design, 2% of A and 8% of S that I dug somehow. Of all music, Jensen/Human End is my favorite artist, two ranks above S with no one inbetween.) J-"Style-blend" (basically Kobaryo and Laur alone, not Camellia so much. Also Gram with the symmphonic-psy core that is pretty unique on his style.) Micron's unique "chillcore". The vibe man, absolutely unique! UK hardcore Cubic Nomad's style (he called it "Industrial Technoid", would fit pre-transition [KRTM] and modern Tripped too in another style, which I use(d) to dig a lot too, but two very different ways to make it, and modern Tripped would get a solid B tier.) Digital Hardcore-Terror-Speedcore, especially terror (so yeah, Coakira's style, but they produce too much and too cheap, the bangers tho!) A: Classic hardstyle and 2010's hardstyle (nostalgia I lived and didn't live) Slowcore. Crossbreed (not UKish since S) Skullstep and early Darkstep (Early CV, Coman Dante, 3RDKND, Hidden etc...) Flashcore Rawphoric (Mist was S tier, Thera and some mainstream stuff rocks too, today my No 1 hardstyle Producers are Chapter V) Metal and symphonic influences in whatever (Inbleed, Iridium, Kanoryo, Laur, Kobaryo, Ozigiri) Modern frenchcore (Peacock, Sefa) Downtempo (the vibe so, I wasn't there and it can get a bit boring, but damn he hit something!) Hardtrance (ok... I never listened, but I'll use this to say Thera and Embrionyc are based as hardstyle and hardcore producers influenced by trance and hard trance!) New techno-rave (I don't listen, but it's good !) Uptempo-strial (e-Dub, old Tripped) B: 2010's upcoming euphoric (Cyber, Theo Gobensen: pure softboy zoomer cheese that only Adrenalize got really mainstream consistently that I know of. It was a small subculture within hardstyle different from what people call euphoric. Got bored of it but yeah, that was adorable, to contrast with the opposite brand of autistic stuff I adored, from Dark Descent lol.) X-tra Raw and today's Spoontech (I went from hater to admitting that X-tra Raw was good, and went to listen to some of it through Spoontech fidelity even past the Hardstyle-Mafia-Infiruim-Vazard-Vyral golden Era... so yeah, I admit I love a lot of it but it's "just-pretty-nice".) Darkstep Oldschool/French Frenchcore (Audiogenic, Radium) Terror (the subculture and vibe is A tho, I'm trying to disten to more of Stinger, Dissoactive and Redogre tho) Breakcore and Mashcore, OG breakcore and all weeb stuff from the 2010's, Annoying Ringtone, Odaxelagnia etc... Myosuke's "Harshcore" uptempo, probably the best take on the original genre. C: Early anything (I wasn't there, some stuff gets cult some I get, some I guess you had to have lived this). Post-uptempo and mainstream-uptempo/post-uptempo (Broken Minds for example. post-means past The Dark Horror absence of "kickless-kicks" and mashed kicks, or it's usage around 150 BPMs.) Extratone for the sake of it (can be better if it's a sound-design element, otherwise I do get Cryptokid's stuff for example, but well, doesn't really do it for me. When Jensen kicks over a thousand as part of his grandiose atmospheres... that's beyond music itself!) D: Raw (hated it since day 1, when I was a no-fun-allowed autistic dork with no step back at all.. then I started to like some "less technical/melodic/intellectual" things, including the next brands of raw a little bit, rawstrial kinda and all, but raw itself never cut it, but OG Zatox track, through now would be rawphoric.... and also I love Heady's Doomed! Uptempo (didn't know about early uptempo, to me it's gone from awful to "I get it, I get why, let's not be dicks and let people bang their head empty to the rawest shit, but not for me". Not counting Japanese producers rehashing what the west do into the style blend, Kobaryo and Laur's uptempo is high A tier, but it's 3 "post" levels ahead tho^^) Shranz (never followed the scene but I never heard a single melody in, I'd like your guy I think! The vibe is awesome for like 1 minute and 30 seconds... then gimme another industrial variation please, my ADHD can only bear so much!) Tek/Tribe (Tried for 3 months, not for me) Neuro (same, been into it for 6 months before bored, still a soft-spot for halftime too, but it's no more "hard"... Audeka's "Engine Block" tho... yeah I saw their youtube come-back announcement and I'm really hyped if it goes the hard way!)

[@Mindprinter]

Wow! Such a long comment and so many other genres! Thanks for participating. Interesting, that you rank Raw as D tier. I also do not like the early raw like Gunz for Hire that much. It wasn't hard imo. It's just the border for harder stuff, came with Radical Redemption and Minus Militia

[@Shade-Spark]

@@Mindprinter Imo early 2013-14 raw was really really really bad yeah, at the moment I tried to judge and had no choice to hear the few times I listened to some "normal raw" accientally these years, it seemed to me it did evolve a bit, but it was always uninteresting. I remember I always loved Crypsis and Chain Reaction tho, B-Front was also theorically good never never really listened. I don't like RR at all, never ever did, nor MM really, Adaro alone and G4H stood a bit above tho, still meh. Besides I find hardstyle screeches absolutely uninteresting, scrreching at all means auto-skip 95% of the time in hardcore too in fact, only Tha Playah manages to make it sound good for me, so this explains that. so the raw I like was often defined simply by "is there something else than edgy lyrics and screech anticlimax?", at least until 2015 I feel like 19/20 tracks or so didn't make the cut, then I became less of a but-thurt purist and learned to chill a bit, but I had left hardstyle but Myst, Thera and Spoontech so. I kept getting the Phuture Noize stuff for a year or two, top of the hype, I really really wanted to find it awesome like everyone but I had to admit to myself that I found it "mildly-not-uninteresting compared to the rest", if I felt like going back to hardstyle one of those days, I'd favor Da Tweekaz and NC anyday. Some notable classic-raw stuff I liked were: Answers (the original, nor remix), Het Land Van (super melodic, cheating a bit), Doomed, The Record Breaking and Seven, 2010-12 Crypsis.

[@Mindprinter]

@@Shade-Spark Crypsis was one of my favorites. Deneskamp Gespuis with Angerfist was also awesome. I've talked with Crypsis at Airforce festival. He said at the time, Hardcore became way faster. So he did slow Hardcore. Rawstyle in the framwork of Hardstyle was born.

[@invade4645]

Nice one!

[@marbulOfficial]

here before the premiere, big hype :o

[@Mindprinter]

Whazzup, stay tuned

[@stashhc5049]

Gute Arbeit 😁🤟🏼

[@thorstenbecker381]

Classic Hardstyle is my Favorite and Millenium Hardcore as well. I like the Uptempo from Wars Industry back in the mid-2010s. Bit i realy don't like Euphoric 'Hardstyle'. Good Video😀

[@Endymion429]

Enjoyed this video a lot man! Took me back to the good old days lol but for me Euphoric, Classic, Rawstyle and Millenium Hardcore are my S Tiers and basically the only ones I’ve listened to over the years, Euphoric being my all time favorite and most listened to by far! Millenium Hardcore was special though and I wish artists still produced it. I’m not into the whole uptempo, Terror and speedcore stuff not enough Melodies!

[@Mindprinter]

Feel u Oldschool nostalgia

[@Endymion429]

@@Mindprinter yup! I have always kept up and listened to the current stuff as well. started in 2008 when I was 16 it was Frontliners Expressionz and Headys Blame it on the Music that sparked my obsession with Hardstyle over the past 16 years. I did get on a Frenchcore kick for awhile when Sefa was huge around 2018 as well lol

[@Shade-Spark]

@@Endymion429 Today's millenium for ya, it's niche and 75% from japan but still standing strong! "Post-millenium (Tha Playah, Nosferatu, Occasional neophyte, Sho--nan, Falchion, 6th, Hellsystem, Gridkiller, RoughSketch, Matsui K, Kortarow, Kanoryo, Militack - Basically I follow Neophyre records, State of Anarchy, Border Town, Gemeinshaft and Login. Today the best millennium often comes from Gemeinshaft, I'm so glad japan kept the vibe and mixed it with their musical culture and some of these gothic and orchestral elements)" You'll find plenty of awesome stuff if you check Gemainshaft, and the hardcore releases of Login Records. Also since then I discovered Bloodfire and Unphased on small labels, that are really great.

[@rainbowflash5937]

Joined through Da Tweekaz (Euphoricstyle) in 2018. Was mostly a casual listener until 2020 where I slowly moved into Rawstyle and XtraRaw because of the Kicks. Only recently fell in love with Millennium Hardcore and early Hardstyle though a friends group who where much older and experienced the beginning days and I'm glad they introduced me to it cause I've really been missing out. Nowadays my main genre is a combination out of Raw and euphoric with heavy Kicks and switch ups but still super powerful melodies. I mostly agree with your list here.

[@bassterix7151]

I love this video, you provide a lot of background info for newcomers and I agree on pretty much everything you said here 🖤

[@Neotroxian]

Great video man! Do you think it would be possible to put this list on tiermaker with these exact subgenres? Me and my friends would like to do tier lists of our own too.

[@Mindprinter]

can do this mate, can do diz

[@Mindprinter]

Done mate Great idea! tiermaker.com/create/harder-styles-genres-top-tier-ranking-17127529

[@Neotroxian]

@@Mindprinter Thanks bro, I really appreciate it. I think you forgot rawstyle tho, it doesn't show up on the list

[@Mindprinter]

@@Neotroxian Fixed it!

[@PappaLezlie]

I am in the gabber scene for 30 years. In the 90's i loved the industrial strength records, the 2000's millennium hardcore was for me the darkest times, eith those trancy sounds. But now the uptempo is gave me back my belief in hardcore ❤ and as a dj my goal is to tramping out the soul from your body😊

[@dennismenting963]

Putting Early Gabber (Hardcore/Terror) into B-Tier and Extra Raw into S-Tier?! Let me go to the comments and put on my CAPS-LOCK.

[@Mindprinter]

Die hards endless fight

[@adutchdude]

For me S tier : hardstyle classics Classics and Millennium Hardcore A tier :euphoric hardstyle early hardcore early hardstyle. B tier: Hardtrance Frenchcore Hard techno rawstyle. C tier: industrial hardcore Xtra raw Modern hardcore. F tier : uptempo because of the lovely piepkicks 😅

[@eLguL]

gabbers from the late 90's represent! ❤🎧

[@BrkfstPrncss]

ngl getting to meet partyraiser in person and talk to him is the reason i got into harder dance music as a whole and so glad i did this music is fire

[@lux7825]

Grindcore isn‘t a Speedcore-Subgenre but rather an extreme and fastpaced Metal/Punk genre. Cybergrind however is a fusion genre between grindcore and electronic music such as speedcore, check out The Berzerker (kinda sounds like ass, but still cool that something like this exists) Also I think you could have featured Happy Hardcore, Doomcore (yeah it‘s pretty niche but worth mentioning) & J-Core, since the japanese scene is really unique. But all in all great video idea. Liebe deine Videos ❤

[@Mindprinter]

I summarized some genres in their bigger bubbles and umbrella terms. Like happy hardcore was a big part of early gabber. And modern Happy Hardcore isn't that relevant in the dutch harder styles scene. Maybe in the USA and UK, and some underground events. So i don't mention it. The focus lies here on the main Harder Styles genres you can listen an common festivals. And added some like Speedcore or Hardtekk to make a point here

[@Shade-Spark]

He said he wouldn't go into details, but you should like my comment then :D

[@gabisrad]

Thank you I have always loved gabber, but I don’t know the genres very well!

[@Colossus823]

23:00 you might like Lord Lloigor - Ray of Darkness (both original and Gabba Front Berlin remix). Dr Peacock even featured the remix in his history of terror & speedcore set. So sad Lord Lloigor passed away so early, I really liked his melodic-type of speedcore. But yeah, speedcore isn't for many people, even among gabbers.

[@user-my1db2gn6y]

Hardtekk deserves a better spot than E tier for sure bro

[@PaStef37]

Great video man! So much energy, thank you! Would it be possible to get a track list? thx

[@Mindprinter]

okay mate usually I do this at 25k plays. But this time I wanna share these with you... Just give me a sec. I will tell you again when it's done by answering the comments

[@Mindprinter]

Tracklist now online in the pinned comment below the S - D Tier template!

[@PaStef37]

@@Mindprinter Thanks a lot man!

[@CrisRkR]

❤❤

[@Glubre]

Any way to have the tracklist ?

[@Mindprinter]

Will release it on usually 25K plays. After longer time, like 2 month unter 25k plays, i can give them anyway. Because the video won't receive that many plays. But I can give you some track IDs, if you ask. So which tracks you really liked?

[@Mindprinter]

Tracklist now online in the pinned comment below the S - D Tier template!

[@Glubre]

@@Mindprinter I liked all them 😂. Thanks 🙏🏼

[@jacobpeters8823]

Delete Changed the scene. What he wanted and what he did changed the scene fly high brother!

[@SkullZHardcore]

[@Colossus823]

Millenium hardcore is what attracted me. Rawstyle captivated me next. But neither xtra raw nor uptempo hardcore appeal to me, as it's just a pissing contest of who can be hardest. Both D tier to me.

[@Mindprinter]

Can understand your opinion. But Xtra also got very talented producers, pushing the boundaries of sounddesign. In Uptempo, they fckd it up in my opinion. With zaag and piep kicks.

[@lordtraxroy]

Dont forget kobaryo for doing great speedcore songs

[@Hodenkobold44]

These were some old examples for Uptempo, especially since Uptempo has changed a lot in the last years

[@Mindprinter]

The Uptempo i loved. Like mentioned in the video. I could split it into Early Uptempo and modern Uptempo. But like explained in the video. Uptempo almost died for me.

[@Jack_of_Blades_1980]

Old school gabber here, i still love the old school gabber scene ever since 1997... But my greatest concern is... I'm looking for new Nike Air BW's that don't cost 200+ euro's these days, my old BW's are dying slowly... 😭😭

[@puschkinproduction]

Pretty accurate tier list. But for my taste I would give Terror an A rank and a solid S for speedcore

[@Mindprinter]

Solid S for Speedcore hahaha So interesting how different a ranking could be

[@puschkinproduction]

@@Mindprinter that's for sure 😅

[@Mindprinter]

@@puschkinproduction Why Speedcore deserves an S Tier ranking in your opinion? Like I've said, Speedcore for me is just an example how extreme things get. It's not harder, just way to fast for hakken or dancing. It's like torture for body and mind. Is Speedcore like a fetish thing, like some people enjoying pain and torture?

[@puschkinproduction]

@Mindprinter like you mentioned, it's not really made for party and dancing, what is absolutely understandable. But there are great artists out there who master the balance between the rough and fast sound with beautiful melody. Especially organic instruments like violins, pianos and stuff like that are often used.its pretty challenging to mix such elements with the harshness and of course the high BpM. For me it's simply a art by itself, that's the reason I love it. But as you say, fortunately tastes are different. And I think it's great

[@dyslexictunes248]

all harder styles but none of the 10+ different hardteks is wild xD

[@Glubre]

What do you mean by hardtek ?

[@dyslexictunes248]

@@Glubre freeparty hardtekno, french origin, popular in uk, italy, spain, czech, france, austria

[@Glubre]

​​@@dyslexictunes248 ah like tribecore, acidtek, raggaetek, etc ? I thought hardtek was a genre (amongst all the ones I cited) that was encapsulated under the umbrella term "freetek" or just "tek"

[@dyslexictunes248]

​@@Glubre yes! it is, of course borders a very blurred, but i would still count them to the harder styles i have a dedicated mix to some of the subgenres on my soundcloud^^

[@Glubre]

@@dyslexictunes248 i'd be happy to listen to it ! Also, do you consider psytrance to be a part of these genres or not ?

[@industrialandi9517]

You forgot doomcore/darkcore kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqWYhINjmK6tnJI or kzbin.info/www/bejne/boaqZ3WsratqerM and also acidcore kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXixh5R8q81maK8 or kzbin.info/www/bejne/joiYhIeLrZh9iJo

[@Mindprinter]

I haven't forgotten it. It's a smaller part of Industrial Hardcore. I could have divided all genres in more detailed subgenres. Ending up with over 50 subgenres or whatever. So I decided to mention the most popular and common one. Also on my personal taste

[@Colossus823]

@Mindprinter Darkcore is separate from industrial hardcore. Although there is some overlap, both the sounds and the atmosphere of the two are totally different. Darkcore has less distorted/mechanical sounds and more horror-themed melodies. Darkcore is probably older than industrial hardcore, as some early hardcore tracks like Dr. Macabre - Danse Macabre can be considered the first darkcore.

[@Mindprinter]

@@Colossus823 There is a big overlap. But if you've watched the history of industrial, darkcore evolved from slower millennium hardcore. Also mixed with industrial. But yeah, this would deserve a video, digging very deep about every hardcore subgenre. Darkcore usually is not played at common festivals, and most Gabbers does not even know it. Especially the younger ones.

[@Colossus823]

@Mindprinter That isn't true. It evolved from early gabber simultaneously with millenium hardcore. The first darkcore tracks of Nosferatu, D'Spyre and Endymion were released in 1998. Danse Macabre was also released in 1998. Astral Demons by Marc Acardipana as Rave Creator & The Mover was released as far back as 1994 (wasn't called darkcore then). By 2002, there was the first compilation cd called Darkcore - The Freaky Shit To Poison Your Mind With by MOH. That cd also had the first industrial hardcore tracks like Armageddon Project - Blessed By Kaos. It was pretty fuzzy back then. Anyway, darkcore predates industrial hardcore as a separate genre and is practically as old as millenium hardcore. But you're correct: darkcore has become a nearly dead genre. Every major darkcore producer has left. Some, like The Outside Agency, became crossbreed. Others, like Endymion, became commercial. Maybe there are some remnants here and there. Darkcore is very much from late 90s to early 10s.

[@Mindprinter]

@@Colossus823 The borders are fluent. But could be true mate. I did not digged that much into darkcore. Know the vibe and it's parallels zu industrial. But anyway, this small subgenre isn't common and popular anymore. The vibe has changed to much more mainstream appealing tracks.