Rock Genres

Rock music is one of the broadest descriptions of music around. Completely different bands, such as Greenday and Mayhem, both get put under the “rock” banner, but these to bands couldn’t be more different. The “Rock Banner” is made up of many different types of music, and each one has its own different styles and techniques.

The first type of rock music is now known as classic rock. Classic rock is what most people think of rock ’n’ roll. This genre is very blues based, and lots of songs feature the traditional 12 bar blues pattern, but unlike the blues, classic rock tends to be more focused around the key of G major, and the solos usually are more riff based, than the slow melodic blues style. Also vocals play a much bigger role in classic rock, than it did in the blues. Classic rock is very much an evolution of the blues. Some classic rock bands to try are; Led Zeppelin, ACDC, and Guns ‘n’ Roses.

Now days we have what is usually known as modern rock. Similar to classic rock in many ways, such as its blues origin, modern rock is an evolution of classic rock for the modern age. Unlike classic rock, it usually is more riff based, and sticks firmly in E minor pentatonic. Some modern rock bands to try are; Velvet Revolver, and the Darkness.

If rock music is the most generalised genre of music, metal music is the second. Metal music has evolved into many many different types of music over the years, more quickly than other genres. What originally started as metal is now known as classic metal. This was started by a band called Black Sabbath as “music to scare people”. Classic metal these days is pretty tame compared to what we have now, but then music like it was unheard off. Featuring heavy riffs, guitar solos, and unpleasant song lyrics, metal carved two groups for its self, those who love it, those who hate it. Some classic metal bands to try; Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.

One of the most popular sub-genres of metal is trash metal. This took metals riffs and solos, and sped them up. The musicians were “trashing” their instruments, which is how it got its name. Thrash metal uses mainly 5 chords, aka power chords, and solos are usually in the pentatonic scale. The drums are usually very fast, and this was the first genre of music to use a “double pedal”, which allows a drummer to use his bass drum pedal at twice the speed. Some thrash metal bands to try; Megadeth, Metallica, Venom, and Motorhead (although some may argue these guys are classic metal, the ace of spades album is most defiantly thrash metal.)

Staying on the theme of speed, we can have a look at the punk revolution. By the 70s, music was getting very complex, with only the best musicians being able to make it (whether this is good or bad is up to you too decide), but punk changed all this. Punk featured very simple chords patterns, using power chords, simple but fast drumming, and a big stuff you to everyone. Most punk bands were rubbish, they knew it, and said so what? When punk hit its height it was a revolution, practically killing off the old prog rock bands. This punk is usually referred to as “old skool” punk. Some punk bands to try; The Sex Pistols, Bad Religion, and The Ramones.

During the 80s, punk has died down, and metal took over again, bringing the fast, complex thrash metal, and the classic rock inspired hair metal. This music is music for stadiums, big and bold. Featuring simple verses, usually with just a simple power chord progression, epic choruses, solos so long and epic that people could be brought to tears by them alone, and outfits and hair so mind bogglingly silly, hair metal fitted in with the new romantic style of the 80s. Unfortunately all the hair metal bands sunk into obscurity for reasons I shall explain next, so the only bands you’ll be able to listen to are Bon Jovi, as the others are very hard to come across. “Living on a Prayer” is the perfect example of hair metal.

Music had very much got its talent back by the 80s, with punk dieing down and hair metal rising, a new revolution was due, and it came with a man named Kurt Cobain, a certain riff, and my favourite album of all time.

The 90s was the birth of grunge. Inspired by punk acts, like The Melvins, grunge came from Seattle in America and it became a world wide hit, led by the band Nirvana. Grunge is like punk, but it is usually a lot darker, features pop melodies, but blends them with cutting heavily distorted guitars, and very heavy drumming. The album Nevermind by Nirvana completely changed music at the time. So many bands formed simply because of this album, and grunge became the big thing, but the guitarist/singer/songwriter of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, was what grunge was all about, and after his tragic suicide in 1994, grunge died with him. Some grunge bands to try; Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Bush.

The 90s was also the period where metal evolved the most though. While everyone else was moshing to the grunge sounds of nirvana, the few metal heads waited for their next big thing, and this came with Pantera. This band was very influential, and it inspired one of the most commercially successful genres of metal music, Nu-Metal.

Nu-Metal took metal, but ripped out the solos, and drop tuned their guitars. There are two different types of Nu-Metal, the KoRn camp and the Linkin Park camp. The KoRn camp drop tuned their guitars, which gives a deeper, heavier sound, and made the drums even louder and heavier than ever. Despite all this though, they added almost poppy melodies. Led by the band KoRn, this type of music has died out these days, with KoRn being the only band still going (but all their albums after 1997 have been below average). The other type of Nu-Metal takes a very pop approach to it. Its almost like pop-metal. Mixing metal riffs, epic choruses, pop melodies, and hip-hop influences, bands such as Linkin Park carved out a market for themselves with children under 13. Some Nu-Metal bands to try; KoRn, Linkin Park and Good Charlotte.

The 90s also gave birth to the most extreme type of music in my opinion, death and black metal. This genre originated from Norway, and takes influences from thrash metal bands, particularly Venom. The guitars and bass are usually drop tuned, to give a darker sound, and the drums almost always use a double pedal and a lot of snare. The vocals are usually screams all throughout, and the songs are about Satan worshipping, rape, murder, anti-Christian themes, and other nice topics like that! Although for some of these bands it is a joke, but for many it is not. Some black/death metal bands to try; Mayhem, Rotting Christ and Behemoth.

These days a new music genre has evolved, emotional music, or Emo for short. Heavily hated by most people who aren’t Emo (unjustly) Emo is the fastest genre of music to get so hated. I happen to quite like Emo though. Emo is usually sad, and the lyrics are depressing. The music is in a minor key, and features broken chords quite heavily. The vocals are usually in a slight whiney voice, with lots of harmonising, and usually a very strong vocal hook in the chorus. Some Emo bands to try; Thrice, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and Funeral For A Friend.

From Emo came metal/emocore. This takes elements of both Emo and thrash metal, and blends them together. The vocals are a mix of the death metal growl, and the Emo whiney style, and usually bands of this genre have two singers to compensate this. The music is very fast, usually relying on double pedal, and not stopping with it till the song ends. The riffs are usually a very fast, harmonising affair using two guitars. The guitar solos are very thrash metal, but with elements of hair metal in there, such as tapping, and epic feel. Some metal/emocore bands to try; Trivium, Killswitch Engage, and Mahcinehead.

Today a lot of the popular music scene is Indie rock. Indie rock is so called because the bands used to be very unpopular, and had to go on small independent labels, but these days the term means nothing, as most “Indie” bands are on major label deals. Indie rock usually features simple chord progressions, and clean guitar sounds. Some Indie bands focus on one melody, and work through that (Arcade Fire) but others use many different melodies at the same time, with a bass line to fit them together (Bloc Party). Like nearly all other types of music, power chords are used, and the lyrics are usually about real life. Some Indie bands to try; Bloc Party, The Subways, Arcade Fire, The Kooks, and Babyshambles.

Over time rock music has changed from just classic rock, to all the many genres we have now, and in this essay I have only covered the main ones, but my favourite thing about rock music is the diversity that it offers in styles and sounds of the music I choose, and although I enjoy other genres, like jazz, urban and classical, rock music remains my favourite.

Comments

[steinmann]

1st nice article

[steinmann]

it seems like you have some problem with death metal.....

[0josh0]

meh this was my english own writing essay and i go to a catholic school...figure it out :P

[Malakian=God]

Fucking class. Although Im really into rock you told me some things I didnt know. Cheers.

[zeta5]

that cleared some stuff up, thanx.

[kjohnson08]

0josh0 wrote:

meh this was my english own writing essay and i go to a catholic school...figure it out :P

haha, i did something that has to to with music just about this long to. it was about dark side of the moon and the wizard of oz. i got a C on it cuz my grammar sucks.

[metabolic666]

nice article

[fridge_raider]

Man, that was pretty poor.....

[janecoffin27]

The article suffered from over-generalization, too much opinion, and the biggest mistake, putting death and black metal together. They're different, if you didn't know. I wonder why you'd submit your English essay to a guitar site, but it wasn't that bad. 6.0

[wonderboy47]

I'm pretty sure Good Charlotte isn't nu metal.

Not that bad for an English essay, but not really worth posting on a guitar site.

[LightningMind]

Good Charlotte - nu metal? Way to start a fire a man! This will stir everyone up. Nice work. I would've liked to see Pearl Jam & Alice In Chains under 'grunge' not bush. ALso you left out a whole other genre - 'radio crap'. This is where most of the crap the radio plays falls under.

[catempire]

Not too bad I guess. Only worth a 5. The classic rock -> g major thing was way too generalised. Your grunge description wasn't good. It sounded a lot like a Nirvana/Post-grunge explanation. Soundgarden and Alice in Chains for example (2 of the 4 biggest grunge bands) don't fit your pop-style melodies (and Pearl Jam aren't don't really fit that well either come to think of it). Bush is more a post-grunge band than one of the real ones.

[that_weird_dude]

Nice article but what about all the mindless punk stuff (post-punk, pop-rock, ska, pop-punk).

[cuponoodles]

wow... you say punk died down in the 80s.. WHAT ABOUT 80'S HARDCORE??? black flag, the end, cruci****s, gang green.. etc. and you forgot genres such as grindcore, industrial, ska, oi, etc, all of which could be considered rock. and if you're going to talk about 'rock n roll' you really need to mention blues, folk, gospel, country, and classical. and almost every other grunge band (such as love battery, cat butt, chemistry set, swallow, the fluid, etc) was a gazillion times better than the very overrated nirvana and the whiny kurt cobain

[Mr. Clean]

Guns 'N Roses is definately not Classic Rock (it's Hair Metal), and Good Charlotte is Pop Punk, but w/e

[paintITblack39]

what about alternative rock???

[tamargoguitar]

alternative rock is missing... and im sure velvet revolver are not modern rock, they are more like alternative

[Fat-Man]

What the hell happened to alternative?????

[batiosilver08]

What the hell man?!
Black Sabbath etc is not Classical Metal! its the only real metal
WE NEED TO BRNG BACK GOOD MUSIC

[Fat-Man]

your damn skippy!

[ZaM ZaM RoCkeRz]

Hmmmm... Quite a nice column to read here... Anyway, each individual have their own opinions and views about something... Well 0josh0, it is somehow accurate if you were to cross-refer with the real facts... It is quite okay coz you tried to spread the meaning of 'ROCK'... There's so much ROCK genres and we, the die-hard fans, ourselves should make the judgment... In any any case, it was a good one

PS: To those who critcised this column, my advice to ya is to write your own column about your own favourite ROCK genre...

3 words for all : ROCK NEVER DIE

[jesscah]

Nice article,
but you missed out on a bunch of genres.
How about a part 2?? =)

[dimebag7]

killswitch engage isnt emocare that fool

[Frusciante-guy]

how can he say pantera didnt do sloos. and there not nu fukin metal

[dimebag7]

These guy has no idea what hes talking about, he has his head so far up his ass hes, talking shit.

[the.iron.maiden]

got about half right. personally i dont give a **** if he left out alternative. ill tell you what it falls under. if you cant find Maiden or Queen on the radio, you have two ALTERNATIVES: turn the radio off or listen to greenday. the latter is paralleled to hell in my mind.

[Chairoi]

[b]Frusciante-guy[
/b] wrote:

how can he say pantera didnt do sloos. and there not nu fukin metal

Nu metal is like system... some might argue... and how dare you say trivium is emo/thrash... ITS METAL! I't has nothing to do with whiney lyrics -.-

[Chairoi]

It*^

[Opal Decept]

Missed out britpop. That could come under Indie though. Well done!

[xmurderoticax]

Actually, metalcore shouldn't even be remotely mixed with emo. Trivium is more metal and Machinehead is more nu-metal/grundge. emocore or screamo bands are more along the lines of poison the well or eighteen visions. Metalcore is more along the lines of As I Lay Dying and Haste the Day.

[xmurderoticax]

You also forgot some genres like powermetal i.e. dragonforce, you completely missed hardcore (which has a bunch of different sub genre's as well), industrial, rapmetal (yeck, gotta include everything), and ska.

[Punk Rocker]

A bit of generalizing and GC isnt nu metal but aside from that i really liked it. 8/10

[nothingface187]

xmurderoticax wrote:

Machinehead is more nu-metal/grundge.

I thought Machine Head was Metalcore, I read that somewhere, especially with their lastest album, Through the Ashes of Empire. And some of the best Metalcore out there.

*spam checked*

[At_The_Gates39]

Metal/Hardcore isn't a bunch of satan-worshipping, anti-christian, rape loving bands...you are really taking sides on this one dude. Trivium, Killswitch Engage, and Machinehead are definatly not "emocore" what the hell is emocore anyway. Good Charlotte isn't nu-metal either...they should be under Pop-Punk or something..anyway they suck so it doesn't matter i guess.

[zebrahead234]

nice, but a little vague ant times, w/ a band or two in the wrong place. nothing major

I know that Pantera heavily INFLUENCED Nu metal, i rele donmt like them being grouped w/ thoise bands

[DonnyM]

Your definition of emo is wrong. What you have described is pop punk, but MTV told the world it was emo and everyone believed because MTV is gospel. There's a good column here on what emo really is.

[ANGUS/JIMI_ROCK]

Pretty good, but if someone were to get down and get realy specific and write an article about ALL the genres of rock, it'd be about a thousand pages. Webster should write a rock genre dictionary

[A-Thousand-Lies]

Average at best. And Machine Head ... emocore? You gotta be kidding.

[rockergurl09]

you generalized too much. if it were truly to be in detail, it would probably (in book form) be 1 foot WIDE! Also, last time my ears were nearly fried by good charlotte, they were pop punk. And you missed more than a few genres.

[rockergurl09]

also, not all heavy metal bands are satanists. just plain dark, no religion involved.

Ugh, this is so wrong.

Your explanations and definitions are completely out to lunch, along with your band examples.

Some glaring errors are: Good Charlotte is not "Nu-Metal", Machine Head is not "emocore", and Thrice is not "emo". Check their purevolume or myspace pages for their real genres.

First off, "emocore" is not a genre. "Emo" is short for emotional hardcore, therefore "emocore" is redundant.

^See folks, that's how you post a negative comment without it being considered spam. This article most definitely sucks, but I didn't just type that. I gave examples and reasoning.

[buckethead101]

Nu-Metal took metal, but ripped out the solos, and drop tuned their guitars. There are two different types of Nu-Metal, the KoRn camp and the Linkin Park camp. The KoRn camp drop tuned their guitars, which gives a deeper, heavier sound, and made the drums even louder and heavier than ever. Despite all this though, they added almost poppy melodies. Led by the band KoRn, this type of music has died out these days, with KoRn being the only band still going (but all their albums after 1997 have been below average). The other type of Nu-Metal takes a very pop approach to it. Its almost like pop-metal. Mixing metal riffs, epic choruses, pop melodies, and hip-hop influences, bands such as Linkin Park carved out a market for themselves with children under 13. Some Nu-Metal bands to try; KoRn, Linkin Park and Good Charlotte.

good charlotte nu-metal???? you're kidding right.

[tinoynk]

I don't think that Classic Rock can really be called a definitive genre. For example, Yes and Led Zeppelin are both considered classic rock. However, Yes falls under the sub-genre of progressive rock while Led Zeppelin falls under the sub-genre of blues rock/hard rock. Also, I personally dislike the label of "classic" rock, as it implies that such music is now more of a novelty than a living breathing genre.

[broken_leg]

you got the nu-metal thing very wrong - linkin park?? good charlotte?? they barely qualify as remotely metal.

[Ghost Dog]

Hmm... ok... well this kinda sucks, no offense pls. First, you generalise way too much... you make mistakes a lot, like putting Guns'n'Roses in classical rock... it's hard rock all day long. Oh and by the way... the double-bass drum pedal appeared with Judas Priest, i.e. the drum intro from Painkiller... i mean nobody alive or dead could do that without a double-bass drum u know. That's about it, nothing new in this article, sorry to say.

[SP_NIRVANA]

Yeah I hope I forget everything I just read. It's all shit.

[Caustic]

I don't like to speak bad about people writing articles... but this guy needs to do his homework. Badly.

[the glue man]

Ska is not rock.

[eruption is me]

good charlotte is horrible and they not nu metal

[pagan_bloodlust]

for starters venom are the founding band of the genre of black metal and you should of put 70's punk before THRASH metal because thats how it was created mixing the black sabbath school with the ramones school, secondly death started with slayers 1986 album raining blood and black metal started in 1983 with venoms s/t debut there was a second wave of death and black in the 90's but it all started in the 80's thirdly gnr is hair metal or glam rock and lastly judas priest used double kick before the thrash bands

[pagan_bloodlust]

also your description of black and death metal was only about black. Death is a variation of thrash using a more complex and often slower song structure and you forgot all those other typres of rock like stoner rock psychadelic rock prog rock and the likes

[avenged_lover06]

this guy needs to do some background before he says stuff
1) good charlotte arnt nu-metal (they are pop-punk)
2) thrice arnt emo (they are post hardcore)

[hemi-san]

your origins are all wrong. what about elvis and chuck barryman? remember the king. and u completely for got pink floyd!

[TurnToDespair]

since when has good charlotte been nu-metal???

[Anarion614]

i dont care for genres and classifications, but from what ive heard thrice really isnt emo...

[fake_username]

What is up with this Good charlotte isn't nu metal and black metal and death metal aren't the same genre and you left out the psychadelic and not all heavy metalists are satanists. I'm just kidding, I didn't even read the article I just took a piece of every one else's argument.

[nirvana_62]

this isn't very good ...at all

[whitey314]

u hav 2 change trivium from metalcore now seein the new cd is very very thrash metal

[gyzer_8970]

Do I have permission to puke?

[interpol1988]

hey no dont listen to this bull**** thrice is not emo.....its hardcore... they dont dress all gay nor pointlessly complain

[TheAugustSun.]

Uh....Learn about each genre before you do this again. Mainly the Emo thing. You fu**ed that up majorly. Emo does not mean emotional music. It(emo/emocore) was a term given to Rites of Spring because they were emotional on stage. AND NOT ALL "EMO" lyrics are sad. Learn about it first dip.

[pie_man_25]

Some metal/emocore bands to try; Trivium, Killswitch Engage, and Mahcinehead.

waht the ****!!! trivium and machinehead are not emo!!!
and thrshing instruments did NOT start with ****ing thrash, (the first was Pete townshend of the who, a classic rock band).and also, linkin park is NOT metal, you should seriously look more into your genres man.

[jesusgonewrong]

Death metal didn't originate in Norway, it was Florida If I'm not mistaken.

[jesusgonewrong]

for starters venom are the founding band of the genre of black metal

They weren't The founding band, as they copied various Norweigan bands at the time (I lost the magazine that told me that, I'll post again if I can find it).

[jesusgonewrong]

*Third and final post I swear*

To quote "Jurgen" of metal hammer:
Bullet belts: Taken from Bergens carnival of Offal.

Furious thunder of guitars: Taken from Finse's Cleft Nun.

Use of satanic imagery: taken from Stavanger's Paganz with attitude.

[GTR:LEGENDS]

Some of it is wrong but i guess you have a different point of view.
Trivium is nowhere near emo.
But i would disagree and agree with you on different points. You forgot things like POWER METAL. Metal in itself has a vast amount of genres. Maybe ill have to make a rock genre post of my own

[anti-rap]

batiosilver08 wrote:

What the hell man?!
Black Sabbath etc is not Classical Metal! its the only real metal
WE NEED TO BRNG BACK GOOD MUSIC

definatly

[refused06]

wow..thnx man

[oyvind]

This is so wrong.... Rock'n'roll are the likes of Beatles, Chuck Berry and those similar, RnR is what came before classic rock!

[con job]

You need to write this with as little personal feeling towards genres as possible.

And LP have carved out a market for kids under 13? Please I've heard nu-metal bashing but that's just ridiculous

[Matty89]

WHAT?! Metalcore came from Emo?!

That's bull- Metalcore came from Hard core mixed with metal you retard. that's what it stands for: Metal & Hard core... METALCORE.

The first Metalcore band was Breakdown- hence the use of the term in the music... They were originally a Hard core band with metal influences. From this band, others such as Killswitch Engage, Atreyu (Old stuff) and As I Lay Dying were born.

So no, Metalcore was not derived from emo...

[Matty89]

I think the guy who wrote this is actually retarded... there are so many incorrect statements here... Jesus...

[Thom Yorke]

The Darkness are a band?????!!!!!

[cj_rose_42]

I think it was...amazing! Haha...everyone's criticizing it, so I thought I would help it out. It actually is helping me...I have to write a speech about why rock is better than rap, and it's helping me to give the basic idea without getting to into the details. And everyone, I do believe he wrote that he included the major genres, so quit complaining about him not including this genre or that one. Calm down and stop tearing his paper apart.

[rockinbassist17]

I Cant believe he didnt mention Lamb of God their the freakin' bomb

[woud]

you left out lots, and it is very incorrect, to my opinion
nice try, though

[Jokimoto]

Nu Metal, Death Metal, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Modern Rock, who ****ing cares? It's music, that's all. It's just ****ing music. When I tell someone I like SOAD and they say "Oh, well, you'd like so-and-so" they're usually wrong. Why? Because I'm not looking for another SOAD, I'm just listening to whatever until something grabs me. I couldn't give a shit less what label you throw on it. If it rocks, it's Rock.

[BennyStruggle]

GNR isnt classic rock try Hair Metal.
This article was riddled with typos, but good for a 13 year old I guess

[worst nightmare]

If the music grabs you then you listen to it. why do people get so picky when it comes to the tiny very very specifc category. why do we need so many! go with simple ones. if someone asks what kind of music do u like you say rock or classic rock or w/e Then say a BAND you like. the bands speak for themselves, the person can figure it out. I just think it gets ridiculious to the piont were they say grindcore, industrial, ska, oi and blah blah .
i guess everyone has their own opinion though

[ToolFan1]

Just out of curiousity, what would Tool fall under?
And Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, and Marilyn Manson?

[Jerm_bs]

Hey!! what happened to Pearl Jam in Grunge bands to try? toghether Nirvana it's the best!

[Jerm_bs]

And, come one, hardcore, glam, post-punk, Oi!, ska and so-on, you missed MANY genres and sub-genres there

[brandon_hickman]

batiosilver08 wrote:

What the hell man?!
Black Sabbath etc is not Classical Metal! its the only real metal
WE NEED TO BRNG BACK GOOD MUSIC

yep. thats EXACTLY what we need to do.


....not

[MarkCP]

I'm sorry...this sucked. Good Charlotte? Nu-Metal? They're one of the most hardcore emo bands out there, you got so many genres wrong it's not even f***ing funny, this was a terrible article.

[mcfreaki]

your definition of Death/Black metal: Wrong! it's rarely ever about devil worship; i mean take lamb of god for example: the lyrics "The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.
They'll hallow your name.
For your sacrifice."
is more of an ironic protest against war and extremism

[CurbstompBass]

mcfreaki wrote:

your definition of Death/Black metal: Wrong! it's rarely ever about devil worship; i mean take lamb of god for example: the lyrics "The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.
They'll hallow your name.
For your sacrifice."
is more of an ironic protest against war and extremism

Except that Lamb of God isn't death or black metal.

[thrasherboy]

Hey you people bashin him .... he is just telling you what he thinks . it is ok that you dont agree with him . settle down all yall

[thrasherboy]

Pink floyd is the 2 best band of all time acording to a study

[4Flippy]

good charlotte aint nu-metal!
plus Limp bIZkit wer the main popular nu-metal for years!
and where is other modern rock bands like muse,QOTSA,foo fighters e.t.c

[bazman13]

you know whats shit about genres, you cant just bash every band into one, what are tool? nothing sounds anything like them, how do you clasify that. pink floyd? are they classic rock? just calling them that puts them in the same boat and ccr. one place described my ska band as a mix of 'calispo, caribean mento, american jazz and rythem n blues'. we play 3rd wave pop-punk ska stuff. i think they threw every genre they could at us except ska

[eazy-c]

mcfreaki wrote:

your definition of Death/Black metal: Wrong! it's rarely ever about devil worship; i mean take lamb of god for example: the lyrics "The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.
They'll hallow your name.
For your sacrifice."
is more of an ironic protest against war and extremism

Ah yes...

Lamb of God, the greatest Death Metal band to walk the earth...

[sxe-monty]

I disliked this article.
Give the arthor some slack, you can't write an article like this and not hit all the points.\
And the author never brought hardcore up or many other types of music

[catman231]

Talk about being too general on the 'Indie'. Of the thousands of decent bands out there you decided to put in your final list both the Subways and the kooks. The kooks are basically pop, but even if you want to argue that they're indie, why would you put them on a list that gives 5 bands to describe Indie in its entirety. And what hurts me even more is that you left of the Arctic Monkeys. How could you,*sniff*

[payperview]

First off i would like to state that if you write an article and post it on the net you should be prepared for critisism. I'm not saying that useless flaming is acceptable but critisism should be appreciated.

Most things have been said already so i'll just stick to the one issue that caught my attention. The description of 80's metal is a bit unfair and too subjective, who gave you the right to label them silly? Writing articles like this should be objective as much as possible. Also some more 80's metal bands: Mötley Crüe, Poison, Hanoi Rocks. To name a few.

[Rocker Extreme]

I made a list of all the types of rock I could think of once, and I came up with way more than this (about 40 I think), but I problably wouldn't want to write that much either. It was pretty good, If I were your teacher, I'd have given it a B.

[thehallway]

I dont agree with the assumption that all classic rock is in G major. Where did u get that idea from? Classic rock musicians are the most talented out of all the genres you listed. In fact, all those genres were too generalised and you missed a few crucial ones.

[stratty matt]

How come modern rock sticks firmly in E minor pentatonic? Who told you that? E minor pentatonic isn't even a key, it's a scale.

[pooterfly]

im not gonna start criticizing
cause this thing is retarted

[LaurensVM]

You didn't mention R.E.M. They had a great influence on the rock history and you didn't mention them,... ?

[nkbrocker]

Yea I agree with a lot of wat u wrote in this article, my main problem is with the nu-metal section. i would say good charlotte is more like pop punk and nu-metal is still pretty out there like slipknot.
and wat about metal like lamb of god, as i lay dying.
and i think ur idea of metal/emocore is just called metalcore, like atreyu, bullet for my valentine etc.

[digoutyerarse]

mmmmm Good Charlotte is not nu-metal it should be put on shite rock or something and right on the emo rock but come on Guns & Roses classic rock it's like dunno almost metal? and u need to put on alternative and about the grunge u missed Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and u also forgot Britpop:the guitar driven songs and pop feeling vocals i think thats all

[Diamondrag]

This is a really good article keep the good work up m8!!

[kattaway96]

Im pretty sure that priest, and maiden were both using double bass long before "trash" metal.

[kattaway96]

There are plenty of hair metal bands that people could check out if they really wanted to see a bunch of talentless trannies. try Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Warrant. And just for the record, hair band solos were short and usually pretty crappy.

[kattaway96]

Why did you list sound garden, but not Pearl jam? Pearl Jam was not only better, but also more popular.

[kattaway96]

No one moshes to Nirvana, and Pantera had nothing to do with nu metal, it was started by Anthrax and Public Enemy.

[kattaway96]

Good Charlotte ain't any kind of metal

[pacsabbath25]

good except i think good charlotte should be under emo and machinehead shouldn't be under emocore

[pacsabbath25]

also pantera is groove metal not nu metal lol

[guitarson]

complete bullshit