The Locrian mode is one of the most sonically challenging sounds in music. And, though built on the major scale, this mode sounds totally removed from its parent scale's bright, happy vibes.

The seven main categories of mode have been part of musical notation since the middle ages. So, the list goes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. Some of them are major ...

The system of modes worked for every note of the scale... until you got to B. This scale was called the Locrian mode, and it was the only one where the fifth degree of the scale is not a perfect fifth ...

Early hard rock and metal was based heavily on the Aeolian mode. The Locrian mode is the least common of the modes, as its root chord is the discordant m7b5. However, it is used occasionally in heavy ...