Apr 12, 2016 Metal: Death Metal 27969 bands Black Metal 20593 bands Thrash Metal 18890 bands Heavy Metal 12125 bands Melodic Death Metal 7039 bands Power Metal 5636 bands Progressive Metal 5438 bands Doom Metal 5126 bands Grindcore 3106 bands Gothic Metal 2832 bands Brutal Death Metal 2317 bands Groove 2410 bands Metalcore 2294 bands Speed Metal 1552 bands Hard Rock 1445 bands Symphonic Metal 1176 bands Traditional Heavy Metal 1045 bands Folk Metal 1099 bands Stoner 1173 bands Sludge 1223 bands Crossover 990 bands Technical 987 bands Ambient 952 bands Industrial 849 bands Atmospheric 791 bands Pagan 651 bands Raw 601 bands Experimental 522 bands Deathcore 570 bands Epic 371 bands NSBM 306 bands Viking Metal 323 bands NWOBHM 305 bands Funeral 324 bands Punk 369 bands Grind 3402 bands Shred 286 bands Avant-Garde 268 bands Goregrind 266 bands Post-Thrash 242 bands Southern Rock 211 bands Drone Metal 206 bands Neoclassical 214 bands Depressive 235 bands Crust 208 bands Noise 161 bands Death 'n' Roll 98 bands Alternative 103 bands Psychedelic 107 bands Electronic 89 bands RAC 66 bands Jazz 64 bands Fusion 53 bands Medieval 46 bands Darkwave 36 bands Post-Hardcore 52 bands Classical 74 bands Mallcore 33 bands Celtic 30 bands Grunge 32 bands Post-Rock 52 bands Post-Black 32 bands Neofolk 21 bands Middle-Eastern 19 bands AOR 17 bands Electro 99 bands 70s 7 bands Post-Metal 22 bands Nu-Metal 6 bands Flamenco 5 bands Opera 20 bands Psychobilly 4 bands Shoegaze 21 bands A-Cappella 1 bands Humppa 1 bands Electro: Ambient Ambient dub Ambient industrial Dark ambient Drone Breakbeat Acid breaks Baltimore club Big beat Broken beat Florida breaks Nu-funk Miami bass Jersey club Nu skool breaks Disco Afro / Cosmic disco Disco polo Euro disco Italo disco Space disco Downtempo Acid jazz Chill-out Ethnic electronica New age Trip hop Drum and bass Darkstep Drill and bass Drumstep Funkstep Hardstep Jump-up Liquid funk Neurofunk Sambass Techstep Dub Electro Freestyle Musique électroacoustique Musique acousmatique Musique concrète Trap Drill Rock électronique Indie dance Indietronica Cold wave Dance-punk Dark wave Electroclash Electronicore Synthpunk Heavenly voices Krautrock Minimal wave New rave Nu-gaze Space rock Synthpop Electronica École de Berlin Chillwave Dubtronica Folktronica Funktronica Laptronica Livetronica Synthwave Vaporwave Techno hardcore/Gabber 4-beat Breakbeat hardcore Happy gabber Breakcore Digital hardcore Darkcore Happy hardcore Makina Speedcore UK hardcore Hardstyle Dubstyle Jumpstyle Lento violento Hi-NRG Eurobeat Eurodance Bubblegum dance Italo dance House music Acid house Ambient house Balearic beat Chicago house Deep house Future house Diva house/Handbag house Electro house Big room Complextro Fidget house Moombahton Moombahcore Electro swing French touch Funky house Garage house Ghetto house Ghettotech Hardbag Hard house Hard NRG Nu-NRG Hip-house Italo house Nu jazz Kwaito Latin house Microhouse/Minimal house New beat Nu-disco Outsider house House progressive Rara tech Tech house Tribal house Tropical House Witch house/Drag Musique industrielle Aggrotech Grindcore Electro-industrial Dark electro Electronic body music Futurepop Metal industriel Rock industriel Japanoise Neue Deutsche Härte Power electronics Death industrial Power noise IDM Glitch Glitch Hop Wonky Jungle Darkcore Raggacore Post-disco Boogie Synthpop Dance-pop Dance-punk Techno Acid techno Techno de Détroit Dub techno Freetekno Techno minimale Nortec Tecno-brega Techdombe Trance Acid trance Balearic trance Dream trance Trance Goa Hard trance Nitzhonot Trance psychédélique Suomisaundi Trance progressive Tech trance Uplifting trance Trance vocale UK garage 2-step garage Dubstep Brostep Breakstep Future garage Grime Grindie Speed garage Bassline/4x4 garage UK funky Musique de jeu vidéo Chiptune Bitpop Game Boy music Nintendocore Skweee (Just some lists I found to illustrate my point) I always wondered why they did that
Apr 12, 2016 Hip-hop definitely is suspect of this as well, it's just on a much smaller scale. You cant just throw Raury and Young Dolph in the same category. Eventually, as rap and hip-hop grows, I bet there will be just as many subgenres. There are now, it's just not as prevalent. Rock/metal and electronic music also have wayyyyy more artists than any other genre I'd say (definitely arguable), and it makes it easier to find a certain sound. For example, listening to an artist listed in "symphonic death metal" is going to differ entirely from someone trying to find a musical group that is "flamenco". It is f---ing ridiculous though.
Apr 12, 2016 Not at all, in rap there's rap and then there's one subgenre called trap. I'm not talking about the differences of sound in one genre, but the fact that fans of some genres give everything a name
Apr 12, 2016 Because in rock they need all of those sub genres or whatever. Just labeling a band as a rock band is idiotic. Pretty much every genre is different than the other and it's obvious when you listen to it. The only genres that sound the same are grindcore, death metal, black metal s--- like that are pretty much the same when it comes to sound just different when it comes to lyrics and content. Rap is pretty much just rap like someone else said.
Apr 13, 2016 You also have alternative rap, gangsta rap, drill music, vaporwave rap, and so on and so forth.
Apr 13, 2016 Drill music definitely is. G Herbo, Chief Keef, Lil Bibby, Lil Durk etc etc. Chicago has the biggest drill scene.
Apr 13, 2016 There are tons of subgenres -- maybe not as many as metal because rap hasn't been around as long but off the top of my head alt rap jazz rap trap g funk trill trip hop cloud rap bounce gangsta rap drill crunk hyphy horrorcore grime
Apr 13, 2016 From wikipedia: Alternative hip hop Avant-garde hip hop Breakbeat1 Britcore Boom bap Chap hop6 Chopped and screwed Chopper Christian hip hop Contemporary R&B Conscious hip hop Country-rap Crunk Crunkcore4 Cloud rap Drill Emotional Rap Electro hop1 Experimental hip hop Freestyle rap G-funk Gangsta rap Ghetto house1 Ghettotech1 Glitch hop1 Grime1 Hardcore hip hop Hip hop soul3 Hip house1 Horrorcore Hyphy Industrial hip hop Instrumental hip hop Jazz rap Jersey club Low Bap Lyrical hip hop Mafioso rap Mobb Nerdcore hip hop Noise rap New jack swing Political hip hop Pop-rap1 Porno rap Ragga hip hop5 Rap opera Rap rave Rap rock Rapcore4 Rap metal Snap music Modern Club Hip Hop Stronda music Trap Trip hop1 4 Turntablism Underground hip hop Urban Pasifika5
Apr 13, 2016 Forgot about snap aka what many consider to be ringtone rap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_music
Apr 13, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_rap "The genre did made a bit of a comeback in YG's 2014 song named "Do It To Ya" featuring TeeFlii from his album, My Krazy Life, produced by DJ Mustard.[2] DJ Mustard also has the production credit of some of the other more recent dirty rap songs, too, including a single called "24 Hours" by TeeFlii." YG tha gawd nobodybeatthepussyuplikeme
Apr 13, 2016 You kidding? All of Chicago blew up off drill. Gangsta rap is still huge from Vince Staples to YG. Lean and Bones got some vapor wave elements to their raps and they got cult followings.
Apr 13, 2016 Rap just needs time to evolve and flesh out the niches, that's why I don't mind when guys like Travis sound like future for a song or two or things like that because in most other genres it's normal for an artist to be "like x but with (insert modifier)" and I think we're gonna continue to see artists borrow other elements (even major innovatos like future sometimes copy the Gucci or migos flows) and incorporate them into their own spin on the style.
Apr 13, 2016 Hmm yeah maybe I was completely wrong with this thread. Still feel like the only really big important genres today are rap, trap and some gangsta/drill while in metal there are prolly 20 important subgenres
