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  Hard rock

  Hard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, pianos, and other keyboards. Hard rock...
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  Progressive rock

  Progressive rock (also, prog or prog rock) is a subgenre of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." Progressive rock bands pushed "rock's technical and compositional boundaries" by...
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  Piano rock

  Piano rock, sometimes referred to as piano pop, is a term for a style of rock music that is based around the piano, and sometimes around piano-related instruments, such as the Fender Rhodes, the Wurlitzer electric piano, and keyboard-based synthesizers, rather than the guitar as is the case with...
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  Post-rock

  Post-rock is a genre of rock music characterized by the use of musical instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using rhythms, harmonies, melodies, timbre, and chord progressions that are not usually found in rock tradition. It is the use of "rock instrumentation" for non-rock purposes....

• Alternative metal

  Alternative metal is a genre of heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs; typically, these riffs have a pronounced experimental edge, including unconventional lyrics, odd time signatures, more syncopation...

• Math rock

  Math rock is a rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1980s. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies, and dissonant chords. Math rock shares its place of origin...

• Garage rock

  Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the early 1970s, some rock critics retroactively labelled it as punk rock....

• Neo-progressive rock

  Neo-progressive rock (or often shortened to neo-prog, not to be confused with the significantly more modern New prog) is a sub-genre of progressive rock, developed in the UK and popular in the 1980s, although it lives on today In the book "The Progressive Rock Files", author Jerry Lucky dedicates...

• Space rock

  Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British 1970s progressive rock and psychedelic, bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by synthesizers, experimental guitar work and...

• Paisley Underground

  Paisley Underground is an early genre of alternative rock, based primarily in Los Angeles, California, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s. The term "Paisley Underground" is generally referenced to a joke ascribed to Michael Quercio of the band The Three O'Clock. The term was most likely...