Music is in mixolydian or dorian

youtube.com/watch?v=Q6JBsOzOFaQ
try this, I suppose

This is big question.
Locrian itself cant really be a modal center unless it has no harmonic motion. This is because the diminished 5th destabilizes one of the primary harmonics in the harmonic series, one that our ears use to sense a key or tonal center. As a result the only thing in locrian you can have a is a drone or i° playing the entire song, the only band I could see doing this is probably someone like swans, gy!be, or nin.
However the locrian scale degree chord is very beautiful and stands out in pop music but in jazz is very common and has a striking feel of tensions.
Basically the way for something to sound at rest is for it to not be 'away' and locrian is one of the most 'away' tonal centers you could have.
Also locrian doesnt simply not sound good, dissonance doesnt make something bad, music often isnt that simple.

Would it be fitting for styles that are inherently harsh, like djent?

You're a fucking retard

For sure. Some genres of medal do employ a locrian sound to express harshness. You can pickup on it when a song sounds as harmonically unstable as it possibly can.

>tangible
The entirety of music is intangible you brainlet supreme. Stop trying to justify your lack of theory knowledge by telling yourself it 'doesnt matter'.

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>They don't actually mean anything real or tangible.
they do though, it's literally which intervals the song consists of?

is slowdive's sing locrian?

No, modes are meaningless. It's all the same scale. It's all just "style" it's pointless.

No idiot. Something like a chord or scale is tangible. It's very definite and it has a purpose.
Modes of the same scale are completely pointless distinctions.

>style
>pointless
You do realize this is music we are talking about here.

Also modes are even more powerful than style to evoke a sound, they set the foundation harmonic background for everything else that builds.

If modes are truly meaningless, go an create a song in Ionian, and then another equally good song in Locrian. I'm interested to listen to the supposedly equal Locrian song.

>All the same scale
Just intonation would like to have a word with you.

mixolydian is the best mode. sounds all indian and shit

this is aeolian i think? sounds awesome, specially the solo
youtube.com/watch?v=zknlwXuGJUg

>Lydian
Transcendence
>Major
Happiness
>Mixolydian
Excitement
>Dorian
Bittersweetness
>Minor
Melancholy
>Phrygian
Wickedness
>Locrian
Insanity

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nvm i think it's just minor?

rip psychedelia if you wanna throw out mixo

I feel like this is over generalizing. For example, most flamenco is in phrygian, but I wouldn't say that it sounds wicked. And I've always thought that the major scale can sound melancholy, especially if you use a lot of major 7 chords. It's all about how you use the modes I guess

It actually can work...
youtube.com/watch?v=kZXeH268Pkk

A major 7 chord can be any chord, it's what chords surround it which create the emotion of how that sounds. It's like flavor in cooking.