playlists by genres
Progressive metal playlist/ Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal, which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. Prog metal is guitar-driven and often features varying…
Nardcore bands playlist/ By combining the words “Oxnard” and “hardcore”, the name is a reference to the Oxnard, California hardcore punk scene. Brandon Cruz credits Dr. Know guitarist Ismael Hernandez as the originator of the term. This suburban community, sixty miles north…
Sludge metal playlist/ Sludge metal (also known as sludgecore, sludge doom or simply sludge) is an extreme style of music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk. It is typically harsh and abrasive, often featuring shouted vocals, heavily…
Crossover thrash playlist/ Crossover thrash (often abbreviated to crossover) is fusion genre of thrash metal and hardcore punk. The genre lies on a continuum between heavy metal and hardcore punk. Other genres on the same continuum, such as metalcore and grindcore, may…
southern rock playlist/ Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. Although the…
NWOBHM bands playlist/ The period 1979-1981 in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all…
NDH bands list and playlist/ Neue Deutsche Härte (German for “New German Hardness”, abbrev: NDH) is a subgenre of rock music that developed in Germany during the mid-1990s. Alluding to the style of Neue Deutsche Welle, the term was coined by the…
Southern metal playlist/ Southern metal can be described as a fusion of southern rock and heavy metal and general hard rock/heavy metal bands adding in southern rock elements. Is harder, faster, more ‘metal’ version of Southern Rock. Some contemporary acts also include…
Noise rock playlist/ Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) fuses rock to noise, usually with recognizable “rock” instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of atonality, improvisation, and white noise. One notable band of this genre is Sonic…
Groove metal playlist/ Groove metal (also known as post-thrash or neo-thrash) is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Music journalists and fans have used groove metal to describe Pantera, Exhorder and Machine Head. At its core, groove metal takes the intensity and…
Speed metal playlist/ Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from NWOBHM and hardcore punk roots. It is described by AllMusic as “extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding” music. “It is usually considered less…
Viking metal playlist/ Style of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a…
Drone metal playlist/ Drone metal or drone doom is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music. Typically, the electric guitar is performed with a large amount of…
