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* Black Metal -
* Blues-Rock - Although all rock and roll is strongly influenced by (and in fact an outgrowth of) blues, blues-rock is a term that came about to describe artists whose compositions were structurally based solidly in blues but used rock instrumentation and rhythms. Examples: B.B. King, George Thorogood, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Beck, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Gary Moore
* Classic Rock - With rock and roll expanding into a number of sub-genres as early as the late 60's, the term classic rock was created to describe rock groups of the 60's, 70's, and even some 80's. It generally refers to the more popular and mainstream artists
* Death Metal - A more modern subgenre of heavy metal, death metal features a very extreme sound and style employing fast dissonant guitars usually playing in diminished scales, gutteral vocals, disjointed rhythms, and blast beat drumming. Examples: Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus
* Doom Metal - Another sub-genre of heavy metal, doom uses slower tempos and large distorted chords on downtuned guitars to create a dissonant, dark atmospheric tone, combined with simple, chant-like melodies or sustained screamed vocals. Rhythms are rather straight-forward, signaling an unending march towards oblivion. Examples: Allogoch, Opeth, Eyehategod, Exhorder, Crowbar
* Screamo -
* Ska - Examples: Mighty Mighty Bosstones
* Soft Rock - Examples: Rod Stewart, Bruno Mars, Billy Joel
* Thrash Metal - While Hair Metal took a pop-direction in the 80's, Thrash Metal took an underground direction, with less focus on catchy vocal hooks or even recognizable chorus sections. Thrash focused on speed, screamed vocals (sometimes even without pitch), and unsettling lyrical topics such as nuclear war and black magic. Guitar riffs were fast and often focused on chugging open string palm mutes. Examples: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus, Pantera