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 contemporary music
 * Adult alternative
 * Afro-punk
 * Afro rock
 * Album-oriented rock
 * Alternative country
 * Alternative dance
 * Alternative hip hop
 * Alternative metal
 * Alternative rock
 * Americana music
 * Anarcho-punk
 * Anti folk
 * Anatolian rock
 * Arena rock
 * Art punk
 * Art rock
 * Avant-garde metal

B

 * Baroque pop
 * Baggy
 * Bandana thrash
 * Bay Area thrash metal
 * Beach music
 * Beat music
 * Bent edge
 * Bigbit
 * Biker metal
 * BisRock
 * Blackgaze
 * Blackened death metal
 * Black metal
 * Blues rock
 * Boogie rock
 * Brazilian thrash metal
 * British folk rock
 * Britpop
 * Britpop Revival
 * Bubblegum music

C

 * Canterbury sound
 * Cello rock
 * Chillwave
 * Celtic punk
 * Celtic metal
 * Celtic rock
 * Chicano rock
 * Chamber pop
 * Christian alternative rock
 * Christian hardcore
 * Christian metal
 * Christian punk
 * Christian rock
 * Classic alternative
 * Classic rock
 * Cock rock
 * Coldwave
 * College rock
 * Comedy rock
 * Country rock
 * Cowpunk
 * Crossover thrash
 * Crunkcore
 * Crust punk
 * Cybergrind

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
 * Dolewave
 * Doom metal
 * Dream pop
 * Drone metal
 * Dunedin sound
 * Dungeon synth

E

 * EBM
 * Electroclash
 * Electropunk
 * Electronicore
 * Electronic rock
 * Emo
 * Emo pop
 * Emo revival
 * Emo rap
 * Emoviolence
 * Ethereal wave
 * Experimental rock
 * Extreme metal

F

 * Flamenco rock
 * Florida death metal
 * Flower violence
 * Folk metal
 * Folk punk
 * Folk rock
 * 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
 * Gypsy punk

H

 * Hard rock
 * Hardcore punk
 * Heartland rock
 * Heavy hardcore
 * Heavy metal
 * Horror punk
 * Hyperpop

I

 * Indie folk
 * Indie pop
 * Indie rock
 * Indietronica
 * Indorock
 * Industrial metal
 * Industrial rock
 * Instrumental rock
 * Iranian alternative rock
 * Iranian rock
 * Italian occult psychedelia

J

 * Jazz fusion
 * Jangle pop
 * Jersey Shore sound

K

 * Kindie rock
 * Krautrock
 * Kawaii metal

L

 * Latin alternative
 * Latin metal
 * Latin rock
 * Lovers' rock

M

 * Madchester
 * Mainstream rock
 * Manila Sound
 * Mathcore
 * Math rock
 * Medieval folk rock
 * Medieval metal
 * Melodic death metal
 * Melodic hardcore
 * Melodic metalcore
 * Midwest emo
 * Minneapolis sound
 * Metalcore
 * Metalstep
 * Mod revival
 * Modern rock

N

 * Nardcore
 * National Socialist black metal
 * Neue Deutsche Härte
 * Neue Deutsche Todeskunst
 * Neue Deutsche Welle
 * Neoclassical dark wave
 * Neoclassical metal
 * Neon pop
 * Neo-prog
 * Neo-psychedelia
 * New rave
 * New wave
 * New wave of new wave
 * New Weird America
 * Nintendocore
 * Noise pop
 * Noise rock
 * No wave
 * Nu gaze
 * Nu metal
 * Nu metalcore

O

 * Occult rock
 * Oi!
 * Ostrock
 * Outlaw country

P

 * Pagan metal
 * Pagan rock
 * Paisley Underground
 * Peace punk
 * Pinoy rock
 * Pirate metal
 * Pop metal
 * Pop punk
 * Pop rock
 * Pornogrind
 * Post-Britpop
 * Post-grunge
 * Post-hardcore
 * Post-metal
 * Post-punk
 * Post-punk revival
 * Post-rock
 * Power ballad
 * Power pop
 * Power metal
 * Powerviolence
 * Progressive metal
 * Progressive metalcore
 * Progressive pop
 * Progressive rock
 * Progressive rock (radio format)
 * Progressive soul
 * Proto-prog
 * Proto-punk
 * Psychedelic folk
 * Psychedelic funk
 * Psychedelic pop
 * Psychedelic rock
 * Psychedelic soul
 * Psychobilly
 * Pub rock (Australia)
 * Pub rock (United Kingdom)
 * Punk blues
 * Punk jazz
 * Punk rap
 * Punk rock
 * Punk pathetique

Q

 * Queercore

R

 * Raga rock
 * Rapcore
 * Rap metal
 * Rap rock
 * Reggae rock
 * Red dirt
 * Riot grrrl
 * Rock Against Communism
 * Rock and roll
 * Rock kapak
 * Rocksteady
 * Rockabilly
 * Rock music
 * Rock in Opposition
 * Roots rock

S

 * Sadcore
 * Samba rock
 * Screamo
 * Shaman punk
 * Shoegaze
 * Shock rock
 * Ska punk
 * Skate punk
 * Skramz
 * Slacker rock
 * Slowcore
 * Sludge metal
 * Soft grunge
 * Soft rock
 * Southern rock
 * Space rock
 * Speed metal
 * Straight edge
 * Stoner rock
 * Street punk
 * Sufi rock
 * Sunshine pop
 * Surf music
 * Swamp pop
 * Swamp rock
 * Swedish death metal
 * Symphonic black metal
 * Symphonic metal
 * Synth-metal
 * Synth Pop
 * Synth-punk

T

 * Taqwacore
 * Technical death metal
 * Teutonic thrash metal
 * Thrashcore
 * Thrash metal
 * Time Lord rock
 * Trallpunk
 * Trap metal
 * Trønder rock
 * Tropicália
 * Tropical rock
 * Tulsa Sound
 * 2 Tone
 * Twee pop

U

 * UK 82
 * Unblack metal

V

 * VIA
 * Viking metal
 * Viking rock
 * Visual kei

W

 * Wagnerian rock
 * War metal
 * Wizard rock
 * Wonky pop
 * Worldbeat

Y

 * Yacht rock
 * Youth crew

Z

 * Zeuhl