Artists Choice
Rock Genres
- Classic Rock
- Death Metal
- Garage Rock
- Glam Rock
- Guitar Rock
- Hard Rock
- Heavy Metal
- Heavy Rock
- Mod
- Power Metal
- Progressive
- Psychedelic
- Punk
- Rock
- Soft Rock
- Southern Rock
- Surf Punk
- Thrash Metal
Music Genres
- Alternative
- Blues
- Childrens Music
- Classical
- Country
- Dance
- Electronic
- Folk
- Hip-Hop/Rap
- Jazz
- Latin
- Pop
- R&B/Soul
- Rock
- Soundtrack
- Vocal
- World
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Rock Music - Rock to Metal
- Classic Rock
- Classic Rock is a term devised by radio stations to cater for the demand for the "Classic" rock bands. Many heavy weights from the rock world could be classified as Classic Rock - bands like The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush and Queen.
- Death Metal
- Death Metal is a sub-set of Heavy Metal but is generally more brutal, intense and often has wild tempo changes. Growling vocals and macabre themes are the order of the day here.
- Garage
- Garage Rock is a term used to describe a Garage Band. A band that literaly rehearsed in their garage. Amateur but fuelled with passion, thumping drums and full of energy.
- Glam
- Glam Rock is a 1970's invention made possible by artists such as David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), T.Rex, Queen and Roxy Music. Think makeup, sexual ambiguity, glitter and high-heels.
- Guitar Rock
- Guitar driven music
- Hard Rock
- Hard Rock is the music of Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Van Halen, The Who, Thin Lizzy, Guns and Roses, Led Zeppelin, The Stooges, MC5 and Def Leopard. Hard driving, no-nonsense rock n roll.
- Heavy Metal
- Music for head-bangers, distortion and volume are king. Bands like Black Sabbath, The Who, Led Zeppelin; 80's bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, UFO and the new generation of bands like Metallica.
- Heavy Rock
- Another term for Hard Rock, distorted and loud like Zep. Sabbath, AC/DC and the Who.
- Mod
- Mod is largely a UK movement mixing smart fashion with rock, Black American R&B, Soul, Ska and Bluebeat. In the 60's bands like The Small Faces, The Kinks, Spencer Davis Group and The Who. The Who's 1979 film Quadrophenia helped push a new wave of Mod bands like The Jam and Two Tone acts like The Specials, The Beat and Madness in the late seventies and early eighties.
- Power Metal
- Clean vocals, with science fiction themes and an epic sound. Bands such as Accept, Europe and bands like Iron Maiden and Priest inspired this power metal genre.
- Progressive
- Progessive Rock music often features long compositions and is often linked with bands like King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, E,L & P, Rush and even Zappa and Deep Purple.
- Psychedelic
- Inspired by an attempt to recreate the experience of taking drugs such as cannabis, mescaline and in particular LSD. Trippy, spaced out and using reverb and phased effects. Think Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Syd Barrett, Steve Hillage, Gong, XTC and The Kula Shaker.
- Punk
- An anti-establishment music scene fronted by bands like The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Dammed, The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, Television, Blondie and The Talking Heads.
- Rock
- The all encompassing Rock genre can cover many forms of rock music from The Beatles to Dire Straits, Zeppelin to The Who, The Rolling Stones to the Yardbirds.
- Soft Rock
- Bread, The Carpenters, Neil Diamond and even Barbra Streisand could be described as soft rock.
- Southern Rock
- Southern rock could be associated with bands like Lynryd Skynrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Band, Alabama and of course The Allman Brothers.
- Surf Punk
- Surf's up and made possible by Duane Eddy, The Ventures, The Surfaris and the legendary Dick Dale. Surf Punk takes this further with aggressive beats and distorted guitar with bags of reverb. Surf Punk is the music of bands like The Amino Acids.
- Thrash Metal
- Thrash metal is speed metal with a punk atittude. Bands like Megadeath, Venom and Overkill era Motorhead could be described as Thrash Metal.