Funk metal
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| Funk metal | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins: | Funk Rock, Hip hop, Punk, Heavy metal. |
| Cultural origins: | Mid-to-late 1980s, United States |
| Typical instruments: | Sampler - Bass guitar - Electric guitar - Drums - Keyboard - Turntables - Rapping - Vocals |
| Mainstream popularity: | Moderate in USA in late '80 thanks success by Faith No More and Red Hot Chili Peppers, continued in the 90's by Primus and Rage Against the Machine, now underground. |
| Derivative forms: | Nu metal |
| Subgenres | |
| Funk-Rock, Rap-rock | |
| Regional scenes | |
| California | |
| Other topics | |
| Hip hop music - History of hip hop music - Timeline of hip hop - Timeline of heavy metal | |
Funk metal is a type of music that incorporates hard-driving heavy metal guitar riffs, the pounding bass rhythms characteristic of funk, and sometimes, hip hop-style rhymes.
The style emerged in the mid-1980s pioneered by Jane's Addiction, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus, Faith No More, and Fishbone.
[edit] Notable funk metal bands
- 24-7 Spyz more rap-rock oriented
- The Alter Boys
- Bang Tango
- Big Chief [1]
- Bootsauce [2]
- Buckethead more avant-garde oriented
- Catfish [3]
- More recent Clutch [4]
- Codename
- Chronic Future [5]
- Dink [6]
- Dan Reed Network [7]
- Electric Boys
- Extreme - Hard Rock, with Funk influences.
- Faith No More [8]
- Farmakon
- F.F.F.
- Fishbone [9]
- The Five Second Rule
- Gargamel! (band)
- Guano Apes more nu-rock oriented
- Heads Up! (band)
- I Mother Earth [10]
- In-Cyde
- Incubus early works [11]
- In Delirium
- Infectious Grooves - Side project of Suicidal Tendencies' Mike Muir.
- Jane's Addiction more alternative rock oriented
- Jimmie's Chicken Shack [12]
- Le Shed
- Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
- Living Colour- Hard Rock band with lots of Funk, Jazz stuff.
- Mind Funk, band featuring Celtic Frost's former drumer. [13]
- Mind Heavy Mustard [14]
- Mr. Bungle [15]
- Mordred - A San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal band, that incorporated funk to their sound, one of the firsts in the 80's.[16]
- Mucky Pup - More harcore-thrash oriented in the beginning.
- M.V.P.
- New Kingdom [17]
- Nuclear Rabbit [18]
- O'funk'illo
- Orange 9mm [19]
- Phunk Junkeez [20]
- Primus [21]
- Re-Animator- A thrash metal band from England, that morphed to Funk Metal style.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers [22] the most famous rap-funk-rock-punk band
- Rage Against the Machine more rapcore oriented
- Senser [23]
- Shootyz Groove [24]
- Skunk Anansie early works and more ballads oriented
- Smokin' Suckaz wit Logic [25]
- Snot [26]
- Suicidal Tendencies (funk influences), more hardcore-thrash metal oriented
- Tugnut
- White Trash [27]
- Zebrahead more punk/pop oriented [28]
- Zygote
