List of rock genres

This is a list of rock music genres consisting of subgenres of popular music that have roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, and which developed into a distinct identity as rock music in the 1960s, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom. By the late 1960s, a number of identifiable rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock influenced by the counter-cultural psychedelic scene. New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements; glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style; and the diverse and enduring major subgenre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other subgenres, including new wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement. From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres have since emerged as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history.

A

Acid rock
Active rock
Adult album alternative
Afro-punk
Afro rock
Album-oriented rock
Alternative country
Alternative dance
Alternative hip-hop
Alternative metal
Alternative pop
Alternative R&B
Alternative reggaeton
Alternative rock
Anarcho-punk
Anatolian rock
Anti-folk
Arena rock
Art punk
Art rock
Avant-funk
Avant-garde metal

B

Baroque pop
Baggy
Bakersfield sound
Bandana thrash
Bardcore
Beatdown hardcore
Beat music
Big-beat
Biker metal
Blackgaze
Blackened death metal
Black metal
Blog rock
Blues rock
Blue-eyed soul
Boogie rock
Brill Building pop
British folk rock
British Invasion
British rock and roll
Britpop
Bro-country
Brutal death metal
Bubblegrunge
Bubblegum pop

C

Canterbury sound
Cello rock
Celtic punk
Celtic metal
Celtic rock
Chamber pop
Chicano rock
Christian alternative rock
Christian death metal
Christian hardcore
Christian metal
Christian punk
Christian rock
Christian ska
Classic alternative
Classic rock
Cock rock
Coldwave
College rock
Comedy rock
Country rock
Cowpunk
Crank wave
Crunkcore
Crossover thrash
Crust punk

D

Dance-punk
Dance-rock
Dark cabaret
Darkwave
D-beat
Death 'n' roll
Deathcore
Death-doom
Deathgrind
Death metal
Deathrock
Desert blues
Digital hardcore
Djent
Doom metal
Dream pop
Drone metal
Dunedin sound
Dungeon synth

E

Egg punk
Electric blues
Electroclash
Electronicore
Electronic rock
Emo
Emo pop
Emo rap
Ethereal wave
Experimental rock
Extreme metal

F

Flamenco rock
Folk metal
Folk punk
Folk rock
Foxcore
Freakbeat
Funeral doom
Funk metal
Funk rock

G

Garage punk
Garage rock
Geek rock
Glam metal
Glam punk
Glam rock
Goregrind
Gothabilly
Gothic country
Gothic metal
Gothic rock
Grebo
Grindcore
Grindie
Groove metal
Group Sounds
Grunge
Grungegaze
Gypsy punk

H

Hard rock
Hardcore punk
Heartland rock
Heavy metal
Horror punk

I

Incelcore
Indie folk
Indie pop
Indie rock
Indorock
Industrial hip hop
Industrial metal
Industrial rock
Instrumental rock
Iranian alternative rock
Iranian rock
Italian beat
Italian occult psychedelia

J

Jangle pop
Jam rock
Jazzcore
Jazz fusion
Jazz metal
Jazz rock

K

Kawaii metal
Kindie rock
Könsrock
Kosmische Musik
Krautrock
Krishnacore

L

Landfill indie
Latin alternative
Latin metal
Latin rock
Latino punk
Lounge rock

M

Madchester
Mainstream rock
Mathcore
Math rock
Medieval folk rock
Medieval metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic hardcore
Melodic metalcore
Midwest emo
Minimal wave
Minneapolis sound
Metalcore
Mod revival
Modern rock
Motorik

N

Nagoya kei
Nazi punk
Nederbeat
Nederpop
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neoclassical dark wave
Neoclassical metal
Neo-prog
Neo-psychedelia
New musick
New rave
New wave
New wave of American heavy metal
New wave of British heavy metal
New wave of traditional heavy metal
New wave of classic rock
New York hardcore
Nintendocore
Noisecore
Noise pop
Noise rock
No wave
Nu gaze
Nu metal
Nu metalcore

O

Occult rock
Oi!
Outlaw country

P

Pagan metal
Pagan rock
Paisley Underground
Palm Desert Scene
Peace punk
Pirate metal
Pop metal
Pop punk
Pop rock
Pop screamo
Pornogrind
Positive hardcore
Post-Britpop
Post-grunge
Post-hardcore
Post-metal
Post-progressive
Post-punk
Post-punk revival
Post-rock
Power pop
Power metal
Powerviolence
Progressive country
Progressive folk
Progressive metal
Progressive metalcore
Progressive pop
Progressive rap
Progressive rock
Progressive soul
Proto-prog
Proto-punk
Psychedelic folk
Psychedelic funk
Psychedelic pop
Psychedelic rap
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic soul
Psychobilly
Pub rock (Australia)
Pub rock (United Kingdom)
Punk blues
Punk funk
Punk jazz
Punk rap
Punk rock
Punk pathetique
Punta rock

Q

Queercore

R

Raga rock
Rap metal
Rap rock
Reggae punk
Reggae rock
Red dirt
Riot grrrl
Risecore
Rock Against Communism
Rock and roll
Rock en español
Rockabilly
Rock in Opposition
Roots rock

S

Sass
Samba rock
Scottish Gaelic punk
Screamo
Shaman punk
Shoegaze
Shock rock
Ska punk
Skate punk
Slacker rock
Slowcore
Sludge metal
Soft grunge
Soft rock
Sophisti-pop
SoundCloud indie
Southern rock
Space rock
Speed metal
Stoner rock
Street punk
Sufi rock
Sunshine pop
Surf rock
Swamp rock
Symphonic black metal
Symphonic metal
Synth-pop

T

Taqwacore
Technical death metal
Thrashcore
Thrash metal
Time Lord rock
Tough guy hardcore
Trallpunk
Trap metal
Trip hop
Trønder rock
Tropicália
Tropical rock
Tulsa Sound
Twee pop
2 Tone

U

Unblack metal

V

Viking metal
Viking rock
Visual kei

W

Wagnerian rock
War metal
Washington, D.C., hardcore
Wizard rock
Wong shadow
Worldbeat

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