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Today, there are so many music genre's and sub-genre's out there that it can be very confusing when looking for a certain type of music. While this list will definitely not cover everything, it may enlighten some people to different types of music that they have never heard.
Ambient
Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates many elements of a number of different styles. This includes jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. Along with ambient, they are several sub-genres that go with it. Some of these include nature inspired, which is often composed from samples and recordings of naturally occurring sounds; Dark Ambient which holds a very dark and "Gothic" feel; space music which is complex ambient music that lacks conventional rhythm, melodic, or vocal components; Political ambient , and more.
A few ambient artists/music would include:
(organic ambient): Robert Rich, Steve Roach, and more. (Nature inspired ambient): Biosphere's Substrata, Alio Die's Meiyju, and Chris Watson's Weather Report, and more. (dark ambient): Abandoned toys, Beherit (last two albums only), Black Tape for a Blue Girl , Current 93, Nox Arcana, and more. (ambient industrial): Coil, CTI, Lustmord, Susumu Yokota, and more. (Space music): Brian Eno, Michael Hedges, Michael Stearns, Deepspace, Tangerine Dream, and more. (Isolationist ambient): Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer, etc.
Celtic
Celtic music is a term that's globally used by the music industry to describe a broad grouping of musical genres. These genre's have evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Northern Europe. Although there is no real body of music which can be accurately described as Celtic, the term has stuck and is widely used by many artists and bands. Often, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland. The music of Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Brittany, Northumbria, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias and Northeastern Portugal are also a part of Celtic music. Along with that, there are also modern adaptions of Celtic music, which include Celtic Rock, Celtic Fusion, Celtic Folk-punk, and more. Some examples of modern Celtic are: Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention in England, Planxty, Clannad, and Moya Brennan.
Electronic Body Music
Electronic Body Music, more often referred to as EBM, is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music. EBM first emerged in the early-to-mid 1980s, and had a broad range of influences. EBM is often characterized by hard and often sparse danceable electronic beats, clear undistorted vocals, shouts or growls with reverberation and echo effects, and repetitive sequencer lines. The term EBM was coined by the Belgian band Front 242 in 1984 to describe the music of their EP "No Comment".
Some bands that could be considered as EBM:
Imperative Reaction, Assemblage 23, Covenant, Front 242, Wumpscut, VNV Nation, and Velvet Acid Christ.
Gothic Rock
Gothic Rock is a musical sub-genre of rock, which was originated during the late 1970s. Originally, bands from this genre were known as positive-punk and had strong ties to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk styles. However, by the early 1980's this genre was separately defined as it's own movement. Gothic Rock is often referred to as "goth rock" or sometimes even "goth". Often times Gothic Rock deals with dark themes and intellectual movements such as Gothic horror, Romanticism, existential philosophy, and nihilism.
Notable Gothic rock bands include:
Alien Sex Fiend, And Also the Trees, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Clan of Xymox, Faith and the Muse, London after Midnight, Tears for the Dying, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, and Fields of the Nephilim.
Metal
Heavy metal (more often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. While Metal, in general is often known, there are several sub genres of metal I'd like to briefly go over.
Thrash Metal: Thrash metal came about in the 1980's, and began in the United States, with the leading scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sound developed by thrash metal wands what much faster and more aggressive than that of the original metal bands and their glam metal successors. Some bands associated with thrash metal are: Bathory, Dark Angel, Megadeath, Kreator, Slayer, The Haunted, Testament, and Sepultura.
Death Metal: Death metal, like thrash, took the speed and aggression of the music, but in many cases, fused it with lyrics preoccupied with Z-grade slasher movie violence and Satanism. The vocals in Death Metal typically involve guttural "death grunts," high-pitched screaming, and other uncommon techniques. Complimenting the deep, aggressive vocal style are downtuned, highly distorted guitars and extremely fast percussion, often with rapid double bass drumming, blast beats, and syncopation. Along with Death Metal, there is also melodic-death metal, which was typified by Swedish bands such as In Flames and Dark Tranquility, Finland's Children of Bodom, and Norther.
Black Metal: Black metal first emerged in Europe in the early and mid 1980s, led by Hellhammer (switzerland), Celtic Frost, and Sweden's Bathory. By the late 1980's, more black metal bands came about, primarily scandinavian, such as Mayhem, Burzum, and Emperor. While Black metal varies considerably in style and production, most bands emphasize shrieked and growled vocals, along with highly distorted guitars, and a dark atmosphere. Satanic themes are common in black metal, though many bands have taken inspiration from ancient paganism, promoting a return to pre-Christian values.
Power and Progressive Metal: Power metal, first established around the late 1980's by germany's "Helloween", focuses on upbeat and epic melodies and themes. Power Metal is often combined with power riffs, melodic approach, and high pitched "clean" singing. Some notable Power Metal bands are Sweden's HammerFall, England's DragonForce, Florida's Kamelot, and Italy's Rhapsody of Fire.
Doom, Gothic and Symphonic Metal: Doom metal emerged in the mid-1980's, with bands such as Californias Saint Vitus, Maryland's The obsessed, Chicago's Trouble, and Sweden's Candlemass. The doom metal movement rejected other metal styles emphasis on speed, slowing it's music to a crawl. Doom emphasizes melody, melancholy tempos, and a sepulchral mood relative to many other varieties of metal. Gothic Metal, on the other hand..is a bit different, and is commonly characterized lyrically by either one of two distinct characteristics: dual vocalists (growls and female vocals) or a single vocalist with a low, operatic tone. Instrumentation is heavily based on the use of modern keyboards and distorted guitars with varying tempos and rather complex compositions. Some well knows Gothic Metal bands are Theatre of Tragedy, Tristania, Type O Negative, and Therion. Gothic metal in turn spawned a symphonic metal movement including Australia's Virgin Black, Liechtenstein's WeltenBrand, Finland's Nightwish, and the Netherlands' Within Temptation.
Indie Rock
Indie Rock (Independent Rock), is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. Indie rock often emphasis on rock instrumentation (electric guitars, bass guitar, live drums, and vocals) to more abstract (and debatable) rockist constructions of authenticity. It is however not uncommon to see a variety of instruments that are rarely used in other rock genres, such as the violin and the piano. Most indie artists are unsigned or signed to independent record labels.
Industrial
The term "Industrial music" was first used in the mid 1970's, and is a term used for several different styles of electronic and experimental music. The first artists of industrial music experimented with different degrees of noise, production techniques, and controversial topics. Some industrial bands are: KMFDM, Skinny puppy, and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. More mainstream acts have used industrial influences in their music such as Nine Inch Nails and Godhead.
Neo-Classical (Darkwave)
Neoclassical is a subgenre of darkwave music, which was inspired by early classical music. Neoclassical combines many unique sound samples, such as orhestra samples, flutes, pizzicato, and bell ringing. Sythesizers and accoustic intruments are also used, along with the use of opera like vocals. Many bands like Dead Can Dance and The Nursery laid the foundation down for this genre.
Noteable Neo-Classical Bands:
Ataraxia, Autumn Tears, Daargard, Dead Can Dance, In the Nursery, Love is Colder than Death, Ophelia's Dream, and Stoa.
Neo-Folk
Neofolk is essentially an experimental form of folk inspired music. Neofolk can range from being solely acoustic folk music, to a blend of acoustic folk with pianos, strings and other elements of industrial and experimental music. This genre encompasses a wide assortment of themes including traditional music, heathenry, romanticism, and occultism.
Noteable Neo-Folk Bands/Artists:
Current 93, Darkwood, Death in June, Empyrium, Harvest Rain, :Of The Wand and The Moon:, Sol Invictus, and Sonne Hagal.
Shoegaze
Shoegaze is a genre of alternative rock that emerged from the UK in the late 1980s. The shoegazing sound features extensive use of guitar effects, and distinguishable vocal melody's that blend into the creative noise of the guitars. The vocals in shoegaze act more like an instrument, than traditional singing. Although many say that shoegaze had died in the early 90's, it has recently become more and more popular, and seems to be making a come-back.
Some Shoegaze bands/artists include:
Autumn's Grey Solace, Claire Voyant, Cranes, Lush, My Blood Valentine, Mira, and The Warlocks.
Trip-Hop
Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap), is a term coined by music journalist Andy Pemberton in the UK magazine Mixmag. Trip-Hop is often characterized by a reliance on breakbeats and a sample-heavy, often moody sound. Some examples of Trip-hop are, Archive, Esthero, Goldfrap - Felt Mountain, Massive Attack, Portishead, Ruby, Sneaker Pimps, and Stereophonics.
Ambient
Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates many elements of a number of different styles. This includes jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. Along with ambient, they are several sub-genres that go with it. Some of these include nature inspired, which is often composed from samples and recordings of naturally occurring sounds; Dark Ambient which holds a very dark and "Gothic" feel; space music which is complex ambient music that lacks conventional rhythm, melodic, or vocal components; Political ambient , and more.
A few ambient artists/music would include:
(organic ambient): Robert Rich, Steve Roach, and more. (Nature inspired ambient): Biosphere's Substrata, Alio Die's Meiyju, and Chris Watson's Weather Report, and more. (dark ambient): Abandoned toys, Beherit (last two albums only), Black Tape for a Blue Girl , Current 93, Nox Arcana, and more. (ambient industrial): Coil, CTI, Lustmord, Susumu Yokota, and more. (Space music): Brian Eno, Michael Hedges, Michael Stearns, Deepspace, Tangerine Dream, and more. (Isolationist ambient): Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer, etc.
Celtic
Celtic music is a term that's globally used by the music industry to describe a broad grouping of musical genres. These genre's have evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Northern Europe. Although there is no real body of music which can be accurately described as Celtic, the term has stuck and is widely used by many artists and bands. Often, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland. The music of Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Brittany, Northumbria, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias and Northeastern Portugal are also a part of Celtic music. Along with that, there are also modern adaptions of Celtic music, which include Celtic Rock, Celtic Fusion, Celtic Folk-punk, and more. Some examples of modern Celtic are: Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention in England, Planxty, Clannad, and Moya Brennan.
Electronic Body Music
Electronic Body Music, more often referred to as EBM, is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music. EBM first emerged in the early-to-mid 1980s, and had a broad range of influences. EBM is often characterized by hard and often sparse danceable electronic beats, clear undistorted vocals, shouts or growls with reverberation and echo effects, and repetitive sequencer lines. The term EBM was coined by the Belgian band Front 242 in 1984 to describe the music of their EP "No Comment".
Some bands that could be considered as EBM:
Imperative Reaction, Assemblage 23, Covenant, Front 242, Wumpscut, VNV Nation, and Velvet Acid Christ.
Gothic Rock
Gothic Rock is a musical sub-genre of rock, which was originated during the late 1970s. Originally, bands from this genre were known as positive-punk and had strong ties to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk styles. However, by the early 1980's this genre was separately defined as it's own movement. Gothic Rock is often referred to as "goth rock" or sometimes even "goth". Often times Gothic Rock deals with dark themes and intellectual movements such as Gothic horror, Romanticism, existential philosophy, and nihilism.
Notable Gothic rock bands include:
Alien Sex Fiend, And Also the Trees, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Clan of Xymox, Faith and the Muse, London after Midnight, Tears for the Dying, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, and Fields of the Nephilim.
Metal
Heavy metal (more often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. While Metal, in general is often known, there are several sub genres of metal I'd like to briefly go over.
Thrash Metal: Thrash metal came about in the 1980's, and began in the United States, with the leading scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sound developed by thrash metal wands what much faster and more aggressive than that of the original metal bands and their glam metal successors. Some bands associated with thrash metal are: Bathory, Dark Angel, Megadeath, Kreator, Slayer, The Haunted, Testament, and Sepultura.
Death Metal: Death metal, like thrash, took the speed and aggression of the music, but in many cases, fused it with lyrics preoccupied with Z-grade slasher movie violence and Satanism. The vocals in Death Metal typically involve guttural "death grunts," high-pitched screaming, and other uncommon techniques. Complimenting the deep, aggressive vocal style are downtuned, highly distorted guitars and extremely fast percussion, often with rapid double bass drumming, blast beats, and syncopation. Along with Death Metal, there is also melodic-death metal, which was typified by Swedish bands such as In Flames and Dark Tranquility, Finland's Children of Bodom, and Norther.
Black Metal: Black metal first emerged in Europe in the early and mid 1980s, led by Hellhammer (switzerland), Celtic Frost, and Sweden's Bathory. By the late 1980's, more black metal bands came about, primarily scandinavian, such as Mayhem, Burzum, and Emperor. While Black metal varies considerably in style and production, most bands emphasize shrieked and growled vocals, along with highly distorted guitars, and a dark atmosphere. Satanic themes are common in black metal, though many bands have taken inspiration from ancient paganism, promoting a return to pre-Christian values.
Power and Progressive Metal: Power metal, first established around the late 1980's by germany's "Helloween", focuses on upbeat and epic melodies and themes. Power Metal is often combined with power riffs, melodic approach, and high pitched "clean" singing. Some notable Power Metal bands are Sweden's HammerFall, England's DragonForce, Florida's Kamelot, and Italy's Rhapsody of Fire.
Doom, Gothic and Symphonic Metal: Doom metal emerged in the mid-1980's, with bands such as Californias Saint Vitus, Maryland's The obsessed, Chicago's Trouble, and Sweden's Candlemass. The doom metal movement rejected other metal styles emphasis on speed, slowing it's music to a crawl. Doom emphasizes melody, melancholy tempos, and a sepulchral mood relative to many other varieties of metal. Gothic Metal, on the other hand..is a bit different, and is commonly characterized lyrically by either one of two distinct characteristics: dual vocalists (growls and female vocals) or a single vocalist with a low, operatic tone. Instrumentation is heavily based on the use of modern keyboards and distorted guitars with varying tempos and rather complex compositions. Some well knows Gothic Metal bands are Theatre of Tragedy, Tristania, Type O Negative, and Therion. Gothic metal in turn spawned a symphonic metal movement including Australia's Virgin Black, Liechtenstein's WeltenBrand, Finland's Nightwish, and the Netherlands' Within Temptation.
Indie Rock
Indie Rock (Independent Rock), is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. Indie rock often emphasis on rock instrumentation (electric guitars, bass guitar, live drums, and vocals) to more abstract (and debatable) rockist constructions of authenticity. It is however not uncommon to see a variety of instruments that are rarely used in other rock genres, such as the violin and the piano. Most indie artists are unsigned or signed to independent record labels.
Industrial
The term "Industrial music" was first used in the mid 1970's, and is a term used for several different styles of electronic and experimental music. The first artists of industrial music experimented with different degrees of noise, production techniques, and controversial topics. Some industrial bands are: KMFDM, Skinny puppy, and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. More mainstream acts have used industrial influences in their music such as Nine Inch Nails and Godhead.
Neo-Classical (Darkwave)
Neoclassical is a subgenre of darkwave music, which was inspired by early classical music. Neoclassical combines many unique sound samples, such as orhestra samples, flutes, pizzicato, and bell ringing. Sythesizers and accoustic intruments are also used, along with the use of opera like vocals. Many bands like Dead Can Dance and The Nursery laid the foundation down for this genre.
Noteable Neo-Classical Bands:
Ataraxia, Autumn Tears, Daargard, Dead Can Dance, In the Nursery, Love is Colder than Death, Ophelia's Dream, and Stoa.
Neo-Folk
Neofolk is essentially an experimental form of folk inspired music. Neofolk can range from being solely acoustic folk music, to a blend of acoustic folk with pianos, strings and other elements of industrial and experimental music. This genre encompasses a wide assortment of themes including traditional music, heathenry, romanticism, and occultism.
Noteable Neo-Folk Bands/Artists:
Current 93, Darkwood, Death in June, Empyrium, Harvest Rain, :Of The Wand and The Moon:, Sol Invictus, and Sonne Hagal.
Shoegaze
Shoegaze is a genre of alternative rock that emerged from the UK in the late 1980s. The shoegazing sound features extensive use of guitar effects, and distinguishable vocal melody's that blend into the creative noise of the guitars. The vocals in shoegaze act more like an instrument, than traditional singing. Although many say that shoegaze had died in the early 90's, it has recently become more and more popular, and seems to be making a come-back.
Some Shoegaze bands/artists include:
Autumn's Grey Solace, Claire Voyant, Cranes, Lush, My Blood Valentine, Mira, and The Warlocks.
Trip-Hop
Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap), is a term coined by music journalist Andy Pemberton in the UK magazine Mixmag. Trip-Hop is often characterized by a reliance on breakbeats and a sample-heavy, often moody sound. Some examples of Trip-hop are, Archive, Esthero, Goldfrap - Felt Mountain, Massive Attack, Portishead, Ruby, Sneaker Pimps, and Stereophonics.
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