Music Genres with the Best Images on TheTopTens

The Top Ten
1 Neoclassical Metal

The guy/gal who designed the cover was a genius. I saw some other posters too. But I though Beethoven should be the mentor here. After all this genre was inspired by classical.

Approved by Beethoven: "Keep Calm and Neoclassical"! Pure genius.

Haha! Can't stop laugh at that!

2 Symphonic Metal
3 Classical
4 Hard Rock 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.

I honestly think this image would fit metal better because of the skeleton and these flames. But I don't mind this image for hard rock.

Who doesn't love seeing a flaming Skeleton playing a Electric guitar

5 Progressive Rock Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

*sigh* When you ran out of ideas to make an image...

6 Heavy Metal 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

Heavy Metal was added for another image. Update: the correct image is back...but can change again.

7 Traditional Heavy Metal
8 Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
9 Death Metal

Cute lil skulls, haha

10 Power Metal
The Contenders
11 Jazz
12 Rock 'n' Roll Rock music is a music genre that was created in the 1940s. The genre was popular during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Rock bands generally consists of a guitar player, a drummer, bass player and singer. There are many rock subgenres - such as heavy metal, alternative, hard rock, grunge, and more. Notable rock bands and music artists include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Van Halen, Foo Fighters,... read more
13 Electronic
14 Alternative Rock Alternative rock is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music.
15 Soul Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz.
16 Thrash Metal 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

Red font color, black background, a sharp font at that as well. With my favorite color combination, this picture just screams AWESOME :).

17 Industrial Metal
18 Punk Rock 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.
19 Folk Metal Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s.
20 Gothic Metal
21 Dubstep
22 Groove Metal

Haha that is awesome.

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