Question by original spaz: hey i just wanna have examples of the different types of rock music?
i have majority of the sub catagories of it but i just want some examples (this is so i can explain bands to people i know cause i’m terrible at it (i’ll say for example its like a popish alteritive indie rock kinda like matt and kim when i was emplaining a song by neon trees so i just want this for reference) please use well known bands though 🙂
Acid punk
Acid rock
Action rock
Afro-punk
Alternative metal
Alternative rock
Anatolian rock
Arena rock
Artcore
Art rock
Avant-garde metal
Avant-rock
Avant-progressive rock
Baroque pop
Beat
Bisrock
Black metal
Blackened death metal
Blues-rock
Brazilian rock
British Invasion
Britpop
Bubblegum pop
Boogaloo
C86
Canterbury sound
Cello rock
Celtic metal
Celtic punk
Celtic rock
Chicano rock
Chimp rock
Christcore
Christian rock
Christian metal
Classic rock
Classic metal
Cock rock
Coldwave (France)
Coldwave (USA)
Comedy rock
Compressive Rock
Country rock
Cowpunk
Cuddlecore
Dance-punk
Dance-rock
Dark cabaret
Dark metal
Darkwave
Deathcore
Deathgrind
Death metal
Death rock
Detroit rock
Doom metal
Dream Pop
Electro Punk
Electronic rock
Emo
Experimental rock
Fastcore
Folkcore
Folk-rock
Folk metal
Freakbeat
Funkcore
Funk rock
Funk metal
Gamecore
Garage rock
German rock
Ghetto Rock
Glam metal
Glam rock
Goregrind
Gothabilly
Gothic metal
Gothic rock
Grindcore
Groove metal
Group Sounds
Grunge
Grunge metal
Hatecore
Hard rock
Hardcore punk
Heartland rock
Heavy metal
Horror punk
Indie pop
Indie rock
Industrial rock
Industrial metal
Instrumental rock
Iranian rock
Japanese rock
J-ska
Jam rock
Jangle pop
Kaizerrock
Krautrock
Latin rock
Lovers rock
Manila sound
Mathcore
Math rock
Melodic black metal
Melodic death metal
Metalcore
Mod
Moshcore
Mesh
Neo-classical metal
Neo-folk
Neo-prog
Neo-psychedelia
New wave
NWOBHM
Noise pop
Noise rock
No wave
Nu metal
Oi!
Ostrock
Pagan rock
Piano rock
Pinoy rock
Pop rock
Porn rock
Post punk
Post-hardcore
Post-grunge
Post-metal
Post-rock
Power pop
Power metal
Power violence
Progressive metal
Progressive rock
Psychedelic rock
Psych-Folk
Psychobilly
Punk rock
Punkabilly
Punta rock
Queercore
Riot grrrl
Rockabilly
Rock en Español
Rock in Opposition (RIO)
Rock Opera
Rockoson
Rocksteady
Raga rock
Rapcore
Reggae rock
Russian rock
Sadcore
Samba-rock
Screamo
Shoegazing
Shock rock
Shred metal
Ska punk
Skate punk
Skate rock
Sleaze rock
Sludge metal
Soft rock
Soul rock
Southern rock
Space rock
Spazzcore
Speed metal
Speedrock
Stoner metal
Stoner rock
Sunshine pop
Surf rock
Swamp rock
Symphonic metal
Symphonic rock
Synth rock
Thrash metal
Thrashcore
Trash rock
Trip rock
Twee pop
Viking metal
Wagnerian rock
Wizard rock
Yacht rock
Zeuhl
hahaha sorry if i missed stuff i just copied it from a sight i found that said it had all the different type i honestly don’t blame you guys for being to lazy (thats why i did it on here so i didn’t have to do it myself lol)
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I think you just covered every genre!
Jesus…
you have an A$sload of genre’s here… sub-genres…
think you could find one for this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJs_V2rFoc
id love to help you, but i just dont wanna go through all those genres lol
I’m waay too lazy to actually help you. Go to lastfm and look up the different genres that are tagged.
http://www.last.fm/home
ill try i know lots of genres but not that many so ill try and help wikipedia is also a good site to find bands ill list 1 or more
acid rock- the doors, jefferson airplane
alt metal – korn, breaking benjamin, nine inch nails
alt rock- metric, coldplay, r.e.m.
well theres alot others but ill list my top 10 bands of my favorite genres
Metalcore Bands
1 as i lay dying
2 all that remains
3 killswitch engage
4 the autumn offering
5 august burns red
6 still remains
7 bullet for my valentine
8 the devil wears prada
9 it dies today
10 unearth
metal core is my faverit genre mix of hardcore punk and extreme metal
GL
alternative metal: cassie by flyleaf
alternative rock: points of authority by linkin park
punk rock: desolation row by my chemical romance
japanese rock (j-rock): no boy no cry by stance punks
heavy metal: psychosocial by slipknot, dead memories also by slipknot
all of the other ones are either new to me or i don’t know of any songs in that subcategory
never heard of some of these like Yacht rock and Zeuhl.
you missed, nvm, was going to say the post stuff. ha you have rapcore but no rap rock and rap metal(lol) you also missed White metal as opposed to Black metal. but i cant find anything you really are missing besides those.
oh you wanted examples srry
nu metal – Linkin Park, POD
Symphonic Metal – Nightwish, Within Temptation
Piano Rock – The Fray
Post Rock – Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai
Post-Hardcore – Underoath, Emery,
How about Pretty Metal’s LOSING SCARLET