This is the data repository for the article:
Czedik-Eysenberg I., Wieczorek O., Flexer A., & Reuter C.: Charting the Universe of Metal Music Lyrics and Analyzing Their Relation to Perceived Audio Hardness. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. 2024;7(1), 129–143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.182
The repository consists of three data files, all containing artist, track and MBID information (MusicBrainz recording ID). In case MBID information is not available the respective Youtube ID is provided.
metal-lda_dataset_analysis.xslx ... sample of 503 songs used to investigate the connection between audio and text features as explained in section 3.3 of the article
metal-lda_dataset_study1.xslx ... sample of 62 songs used in the listening test "study 1" as explained in section 3.2 of the article
metal-lda_dataset_study2.xslx ... sample of 150 songs used in the listening test "study 2" as explained in section 3.2 of the article