Top Ten Music Genres Considered New in the 1960s
Don't put surf rock, surf rock has elements from the late 1950s, so technically that were considered in the 1950s....
Hard Rock is a subgenre of rock music known for having heavier guitar riffs/solos. It originated around 1964-1965 with various Garage Rock bands.
Psychedelic Rock is a style of rock music in the late 1960s where it is incorporated, influenced or inspired by psychedelic culture which revolves around the perception of hallucinogenic drugs. It is incorporated with improvisation, electronic sound effects and extended solos.
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
Heavy Metal music is a sub-genre of rock music that originated in the late 1960s-70s, featuring more distorted and heavier instrumental work and darker lyrical themes. Heavy Metal broke into mainstream success with bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica.Other notable Heavy Metal bands include Judas Priest, Anthrax, Testament, System of a Down, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Avenged... read more
Re:"Heavy metal should not be here." actually there were some bands who are considered as metal bands and they are from 60s.
Not the pure heavy metal, only some proto metal songs
Heavy metal should not be here.
Anyone who put this to here, hard to read the description? Surf Rock has elements from the late 50s, so technically this isn't considered new in the 1960s...
Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Prog rock was created in the 60s from different genres like classical, jazz, blues etc.
Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock: electric guitar, electric bass, and drums, often with Hammond organ.
Thrash Metal is a Heavy Metal subgenre developed during the early 1980s and an early precursor of Extreme Metal. Thrash Metal features a faster and more aggressive guitar work than Traditional Metal with shredding and double-bass drums and can range from melodic singing to loud shouts.The English band, Venom is credited for laying the groundwork for Thrash Metal with their debut album "Welcome... read more
Blue Cheer were a thrash metal band
By the way, there isn't a genre called "blues metal". don't know why its even on here. but there is a genre called "heavy blues". but a lot of people don't count them as a proper genre. that was most probably a failed genre for creating heavy metal. and bands like these are Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer etc etc. It used old blues riffs and played with hard rock power chords. so it looks like heavy blues = hard rock+blues.
Steppenwolf are blues metal
What is blues metal?
Punk rock is a subgenre of rock music. It usually has rebellious lyrics and down stroked power chords played on guitars. Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, and Green Day (actually pop-punk, which is still punk in a way) are a few punk rock bands. The subgenre influenced thrash metal because of it's down stroked guitar playing and other factors.
As far as I know doom metal was originated by black sabbath in early 70s
Black Sabbath
Iron Butterfly were a progressive metal band
Not really, most people consider either Deep Purple's Highway Star or Queen's Sheer Heart Attack to be the first speed metal song. While some say that Sheer Heart Attack was more likely a punk rock style. But anyway, both of them were released in 70s.