Rock music genres

Death 'n' roll (portmanteau of death metal and rock 'n' roll) is the subgenre of death metal music that incorporates hard rock-inspired elements to the overall sound.

The Palm Desert Scene is a group of related bands and musicians from Palm Desert, California.

Nagoya kei (名古屋系) is an early subgenre of visual kei, developed in the early-1990s music scene of Nagoya, Japan.

Electric folk is the name given to the form of folk rock pioneered in England from the late 1960s, and most significant in the 1970s, which then was taken up and developed in the surrounding Celtic cultures of Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man, to produce Celtic rock and its derivatives.

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African-American musical styles such as gospel, jazz, and rhythm and blues, with country.

Visual kei (Japanese: ヴィジュアル系 Hepburn: Vijuaru Kei, lit. "Visual Style" or "Visual System") is a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of varying levels of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics, similar to Western glam rock.

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres.

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a style of music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

Zeuhl (pronounced [tsɔɪl] or [d͡zøːl]) means celestial in Kobaïan, the constructed language created by Christian Vander of the band Magma.

Shock rock is an umbrella term for artists who combine rock music or metal with highly theatrical live performances emphasizing shock value.

Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rock and roll, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues.

The term freakbeat was coined in the 1980s by the music journalist Phil Smee to retroactively describe the music of certain harder-driving British rock bands, often those with a mod following ,during the Swinging London period of the mid to late 1960s.

Raga rock is rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of instrumentation, such as the sitar and tabla.

Punk blues (or blues punk) is a fusion genre of punk rock and blues.

Pub rock is a rock music genre that was developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.

Viking rock (Vikingarock in Swedish) is a rock music genre that takes much of its themes from 19th-century Viking romanticism, mixing it with elements of rockabilly, Oi! or street punk, and folk music.

Instrumental rock is a type of rock music which emphasizes musical instruments, and which features very little or no singing.

Bubblegum pop (also known as bubblegum music or simply bubblegum) is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, that may be produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers and often using unknown singers.

Armenian rock describes a wide variety of forms of rock music made in Armenia or by artists of Armenian descent.

The California Sound refers to a popular music aesthetic engendered by American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the 1960s.

Heavy metal guitar (or simply metal guitar) is the use of highly-amplified electric guitar in heavy metal.

Piano rock is a style of rock music which features the piano, typically replacing guitar as the lead instrument, as opposed to the majority of rock subgenres.

Electronic rock, also commonly referred to as synthrock, electrorock, techno-rock or digital rock, is rock music generated with electronic instruments.

Yacht rock (earlier known as the West Coast Sound or adult-oriented rock) is a strain of soft rock music that peaked in popularity between the 1970s and 1980s.

Group Sounds (G.S.) is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music.

Avant-prog (short for avant-garde progressive rock) is a style that appeared in the late 1970s as the extension of two separate prog rock sub-styles: Rock in Opposition (RIO) and the Canterbury scene.

Punta rock or Belizean punta is a form of the traditional punta rhythm of the Garifuna people of Honduras, Belize, and Guatemala.

Swamp pop is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas.

Prison rock (Chinese: 囚歌; pinyin: qiú gē (Mandarin), cau4 go1 (Cantonese)) is music that came after the Northwest Wind trend in mainland China.

The nueva ola (Spanish for new wave) was a loosely affiliated group of musicians, mainly in Spanish-speaking South America, who played and introduced rock 'n roll and other American and European music of the 1950s and 1960s to their countries.

Sufi rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical sufi music traditions.

Wong shadow was a genre of Thai pop music current in the early 1960s.

Lounge rock is a style of music that is a fusion of folk, 1950s/1960s rock and Jazz.

Rock music of West Bengal was originated in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Wagnerian rock is a musical term originally coined by writer and producer Jim Steinman (to describe Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums) referring to the merger of twentieth century rock and roll and nineteenth-century opera reminiscent of Richard Wagner and of Spector's Wall of Sound.

Rock and Roll Revival was a back-to-basics musical trend of the late 1960s and early 1970s, in a sort-of backlash against the heavier and psychedelic rock sounds then in vogue.

Nederbeat (also: Nederbiet) was the Dutch rock boom of mid-1960s influenced by British beat groups, led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and, much like British freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock.

Boogie rock is a music genre which came out of the hard heavy blues rock of the late 1960s.

The San Francisco Sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s.