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. <tr><th align="left" valign="top">Derivative forms:</th><td valign="top">Nu metal</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="#BB0022" colspan=2 valign="top">Subgenres</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Funk-Rock, Rap-rock</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="#BB0022" colspan=2 valign="top">Regional scenes</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">California</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="#BB0022" colspan=2 valign="top">Other topics</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Hip hop music - History of hip hop music - Timeline of hip hop - Timeline of heavy metal</td></tr>

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

[edit] See also

Heavy metal
Black metal - Classic metal - Death metal - Doom metal - Folk metal - Glam metal - Gothic metal - Grindcore - Industrial metal - Neo-classical metal - Nu metal - Power metal - Progressive metal - Speed metal - Symphonic metal - Thrash metal
Regional scenes
Scandinavian death metal - New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Bay Area thrash metal
Other topics
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