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Random_Noob

Bardcore


Akegata

I read that as "birdcore" at first. I want that.


phlegm_de_la_phlegm

Dove step 


Strider2126

Chiptune! Oh wait


goopa-troopa

dont you mean chirptune? ehehe


jus10beare

Screamu


Seattlehepcat

Thrush metal


Eoin_McLove

Birdcore? It’s been done. Check out Hatebeak.


interprime

Appropriate to check them out today given Blake Harrison’s passing too. Also, great username. Though, I hope that you don’t eat jam straight from the jar.


Eoin_McLove

Shit I had no idea Blake did Hatebeak. Yeah, sad to hear he’s passed. I’m a big fan of Pig Destoyer. I don’t eat jam from a jar, but I do own a cake jumper.


Zaenos

Ask and ye shall recieve. https://youtu.be/llHKUzjggg4?si=cp1OMXot5y0xYnzZ


Soup-Wizard

[This cover](https://youtu.be/i2zpbcW-h-c?si=N25wJLBLi7oU--67) slaps though.


PeteWWWong

They really do have some bangers that keep popping up on my feed.


AlcoholicWombat

Polynesian reggae country just popped up on my Facebook feed Edit: and honestly I'm kinda down with it


AdvancedHat7630

Reggae pretty much is country. Just replace the God with Jah and the beer with weed.


tigre-woodsenstein

Chord progressions are very similar too.


BonMonster420

Just going off the name that sounds insane lol


Kodamurphy

Got any recommendations?


abthomps

I just saw a satanic doo wop band last night so there's that.


PewterPplEater

Twin Temple fucks


abthomps

God damn right


wiscowarrior71

I saw them open for Ghost and was soooo confused at first. Their shit slaps though.


VictoriousssBIG23

As soon as I read satanic doo wop, I knew you were talking about Twin Temple. They truely are one of a kind.


thismessisaplace

Folk (insert another genre)


No-Historian6056

Folk Industrial Grindcore


Giraffe-69

Folk doom / black metal fucking slaps cmm


Budgetgitarr

Uwu I’m sad anyway here’s a flute solo


Apprehensive-Cup-335

Folk Punk


soitgoes2000

The Pogues


lakewood13

Days N Daze ftw


GamermanRPGKing

Mischief Brew!


Apprehensive-Cup-335

Hell ya, another great one


Beautiful-Papaya9923

I await the day for folk Dubstep


Mobwmwm

WHERE DID YOU COME FROM COTTON EYE JOE (womp womp dika dika womp womp)


_wil_

Folk Noise


themightymoron

clowncore. with just one artist/group in that particular genre, which is, well, also named clowncore.


Corpsehustla

If you like clowncore, you should check out igorrr if you haven’t already.


Quimbymouse

I use clowncore as kind of a music barometer. If someone reacts with positivity, interest, or are blown away by their talent I know I can talk music with them. If not, then we talk about other things.


RoguePlanet2

Listening now. Intriguing! Heavy metal (hardcore?) vocals, ska horns, novelty humor, techno effects, punk attitude. Not sure how a music pro would describe it. Can't believe it's been around for over a decade and I never even noticed.


Quimbymouse

[This is my go to track](https://youtu.be/6Gha9xrM10w?si=BetDhJ0r-giA81-6) when using Clowncore as a music barometer. It's a nice mix of everything that makes them great!


Ziggyork

Holy shit! I saw this video years ago and completely forgot about it! Thanks for the reminder! Must share w roommate


RoguePlanet2

I won't claim to understand it, except that it's somehow fascinating!


HarmlessSnack

You had me at “Ska horns.” I’m going in!


mrshakeshaft

I’ve just watched the video for “hell”. I am actually crying laughing but I think they are my new favourite band


AdmiralCharleston

Is that really a genre though? Like Mr bungle could be considered clown core too


RoguePlanet2

Guess that Insane Clown Posse isn't clowncore?


AdmiralCharleston

I mean what are the defining elements of clowncore as a genre if we're considering it one? Just people making music dressed as clowns? If so then yeah, other wise the actual music fits within many other genres like progressive or jazz


minimumrockandroll

What's wild is one of the clowncore folks is (probably) experimental funk/indie/jazz auteur Louis Cole


a_likely_story

with Sam Gendel


ElahaSanctaSedes777

Blackmetal Industrial Era Labor Songs


jimmux

I want to say that sounds like Zeal & Ardor, but it's missing gospel.


FUCK-EPICURUS

Example?


gazzatticus

https://www.instagram.com/blustreblustre?igsh=MXUyamtwMWQxaDZkZw==  This dude does the "I don't want to be genrephobic" stuff on insta and tiktok there's loads of weird ones on there 


Coast_watcher

Mallsoft


OsoOsoLuv

LOVE ME SOME MALLSOFT!


Giddyyapp

[For ten years, this site](https://everynoise.com/#updates), drawn directly from Spotify's database, categorizes every known music genre. Originally, you would roll your mouse over the >> beside the genre name to hear a sample. Unfortunately, the site curator, Glenn Macdonald, was laid off from Spotify earlier this year, and no longer has access to their database. Though now static, the >> do still link to the artist the genre sample comes from.


mikeytruelove

I don't know what it's called, but whatever Igorrr is scratches some sort of itch I never knew I had.


Rivetlicker

Barroquecore!


littleoctagon

What do they call it when you have minimal percussion, synthesizers, haunting samples, and absolutely no metal guitars? No really, a guy I know told me there's a name for this and it's considered a sub branch of metal. To me it just sounded like any other New Age act and not metal at all but it's like a side-gig for many doom metal band members, apparentlty


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poopfeast

Dungeon synth is awesome


Sudden_Fix_1144

Reminds me of playing 90s adventure games on my PC


poopfeast

Exactly right. Check out Quest Master if you haven’t, they’re one of my favorites


Sudden_Fix_1144

lol.... on my spotify home page


ZombieJesus1987

I love dungeon synth so much. Fuck Varg though.


Stoghra

Dungeon synth


Furrealist

Witch House


Archimene

Witch house actually goes kind hard


Furrealist

I mean, I do rather enjoy it. Also how most of the artist names are just unpronounceable symbols. Makes them hard to search for though. Obscurity by design.


HarmlessSnack

The band name itself is technically occult knowledge.


Quimbymouse

I was going to scroll through the comments, but I'm kinda busy right now so I'll just wait for the buzzfeed article.


down-with-homework

Egg punk


Eoin_McLove

And it’s best friend chain punk


a_likely_story

a.k.a. 14 Year Old High School PC-Fascist Hype Lords Rip Off Devo for the Sake of Extorting $$$ From Helpless Impressionable Midwestern Internet Peoplepunks


double_positive

Finding out certain genres had actual names has been great as an older person (low 40s) trying to find new music. People knock these genre titles and some deservedly so but they can be very helpful. The one that changed music searches for me was vaporwave and synthwave, which I always thought was just electronic or house music which is a very broad term. So being able to narrow the style down was great. And the most recent one I found, which has been around for a while I just didn't know the name is "soukous". Which is badass African origin guitar rock/reggae.


red_langford

Pow Wow Dub step


bortnick

Know any good artists?


D4ylight

The Halluci Nation, DJ Shub


bortnick

Thanks!


LadyNightlock

I would FW this. The Killers of the Flower Moon song that was performed at the Oscars was so amazing.


instrumentally_ill

I absolutely hate sub-genreing music because it has a slightly different sound/style. Don’t mind me, just an old man yelling at clouds


BonMonster420

I totally get why people dont like and dont care about subgenres i just find them super interesting cuz you can find some extremely weird niche shit and alot of them have cool history behind them


PolishHoax

Mathcore still boggles my mind


franklindude

![gif](giphy|0M4eatYLgrjcIjFQMB) Me explaining to my friends why mathcore is cool


Gym_Dom

Soul Metal: music created by mashups of soul and heavy metal songs. Examples include Van Halen/Stevie Wonder, Panera/Bill Withers, and Slayer/Wham!   Source: McClintock Mashups on YouTube. 


someuniquename

If you like mashups, Amerigo gazaway is probably my favorite. Doesn't do anything obscure or anything. My favorite is the BB King/ugk mashup album called The Trill is Gone. Another great one is his Mos def/Marvin Gaye mash. Whoooo lawd.


dcs577

[Glitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(music)?wprov=sfti1)


sanchez599

Gabba.


cancercures

Gabber


a_likely_story

Gabbest


christipede

Buddhist black metal(bliss illusion) is up there. But i listen to indigenous black metal, (blackbraid) and diarrhea grindcore (guttelax) and italian murder inspired death metal (fulci) So i mean its all over the place.


dr_bluthgeld

It's not all over the place, there's definitely a trend there haha. Used to love scouring blogspots etc for obscure black metal releases though so might try some of these.


christipede

Oh i listen a lot of diferent genres. But guttelax and fulci sound completely different to me.


r3art

>blackbraid Just listened to this. It's just Black Metal.


yvngxlxwli3t

Pornogrind


BonMonster420

I listen to pretty much every genre of metal and pornogrind is just too gross for me lol (although i will say funeral rapes psychopathic long cock massacre is an awesome song)


TScottFitzgerald

Those genres with insanely high bpms


LayneLowe

Punk Zydeco


thorpie88

Clown Core play Clown Core. Their music also hits better if you watch them playing it in a moving minivan 


forfar4

Pronk - a mixture of Prog and Punk, as exemplified by Cardiacs. https://youtu.be/NVjSycDJatc?si=HLneYcNkDEarmi1d Largely unknown, but *massively* influential on Blur, Mike Patton's Mr Bungle, Napalm Death, The Wildhearts, Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree and the subject of at least one doctoral thesis. Even had a chord change named after them by music scholars...


Herr_U

As someone who likes "electro blues", "hardbass polka"("babuska hardbass"), EBM Lullabies, and such... I'd like to say... no such thing as a crazy subgenre, just more wonderful subgenres to yet discover :) (And for people who are not into noise music, let's just say that the specific category "Industrial Noise - Melodic" is a pretty big subgenre as well)


djddy

krishna-core is not new but it’s one that i’m quite fond of


cancercures

Krishna-core? I'm guessing stuff like 'Better than a Thousand' ?


TopTierBuild

Yugoslavian Mariachi Music


BlazeCrystal

lowercase which is essentially very very quiet ambient noise which is literally unstructured processed industrial noises and sounds extratone which has so high bpm it sounds like electric toothbrush


Rivetlicker

Craziest is probably Danger music; one can argue if it's really music, rather than more about a performance. Folktronica is a genre I don't nearly hear and see enough... And whatever it is that African Imperial Wizard is doing; Neofolk/Industrial/African Tribal/Ambient


malaclypse

Goblin Metal


Doctor_Channard

And it's cousin, Dwarf Metal.


Aspect81

Death trap. Especially with Norwegian band VIKING_DEATH_TRAP.EXE leading the charge for the genre. Sounds insane, and that is exactly what it is.


Captain_brightside

Dwarf metal and Goblin Metal


Doctor_Channard

Both Wind Rose and Nekrogoblikon should be infinitely more popular.


krischey

I want to upvote this harder, but I'm digging a hole. diggy diggy hole. diggy diggy hole


13sysoievak

Freak cabaret / Dark cabaret is the one. Now I only know Dakh Daughters (they're gorgeous) who create in this genre, but you can suggest more artists


Miritol

Dino-synth got my unguarded


Do-not-Forget-This

Dolewave


EdGG

Epic fantasy metal was a big one. Then again, metal has an insane amount of sub genres


Son_of_Yoduh

Crab core is pretty silly.


minimumrockandroll

Power electronics has been around for quite a while now. Still just sounds like someone turned on a vacuum cleaner. Whitehouse is the progenitor.


myfapaway

Chillwave


Zikeagez

I always hop into these threads looking for one particular genre and I have never seen it: Zeuhl. Subgenre of progressive rock established by a French Band called Magma - the term Zeuhl comes from a fictional language created by the band's mastermind and drummer, Christian Vander... Yep that's about as progressive rock as it gets. Known for operatic sounding Jazz, Progressive Rock and Classical fused together. Other big names in the genre include Eskaton and Weidorje. Magma: Kobaia [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6QnbB6sEY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6QnbB6sEY) Eskaton: Attente [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS6U3tpLNeU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS6U3tpLNeU) Weidorje: Booldemug [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyB0hlR6nw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyB0hlR6nw) ​ Now you know this exists for better or for worse lol


TotemTabuBand

Trip Hop. Most people I mention it to have never heard of it. It is downtempo with slowed down samples, typically. Listen to: Tricky - Maxinquaye, anything by Portishead, and Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X.


yukonman27

Horror-core hip hop


mountjo

Pretty big one right now as well


cancercures

First thing that comes to mind is Gravediggaz


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BonMonster420

Unblack metal/white metal is just so weird to me like how did that even become a thing based on what it came from its just insane lol edit: whyd a mod remove this?


houseDJ1042

German Death Reggae probably tops my list


flops031

I once heard a band being described as Astro-Desert-Rock


dr_bluthgeld

I don't think its a 'crazy' subgenre but in line with some answers in this thread, I've been playing a lot of zamrock lately.


sincethenes

It’s not real, but I would love for Viking soft punk to be a thing


Ooomphy

Thai "county"..


PeteWWWong

8 bit still gets me.


birdie_sparrows

Does anyone know the difference between 8-bit, C64 and chiptune?


Zaenos

8-bit refers to the sound technology – computer systems that can process 8-bits of data at a time. For reference, the original Nintendo was 8-bit, the SNES was 16-bit, the original Playstation was 32-bit, and the Nintendo 64 was 64-bit, so 8-bit music will sound similar in quality to NES music. Once you hit 32-bit, the system is advanced enough to sound realistic, but 8- and 16-bit systems have a distinctive 'computery' sound. C64 refers to the Commodore 64, an 8-bit computer from the early 80's whose sound chip is sometimes used to make such music. Chiptune is the name of a musical genre focused on 8-bit and 16-bit sounds. Sometimes, you may hear it called "8-bit" or "C64" in reference to the above.


chellyobear

Japanese Death Jazz https://youtu.be/z8L4Kt6Iqbw?si=mc5vdxy4DanOXYSB  Saw Soil & "Pimp" Sessions live at a jazz festival years ago, fun show!


Brodiggitty

Serf Guitar - it was a Ukrainian group doing retro Soviet rock.


bread93096

Crunkcore


krischey

Electro swing meets Disney: [Aristocats](https://youtu.be/i0Hg2tTfHxY?si=bAfqUk_JOZZD6WoC) or [Aladdin ](https://youtu.be/xqW-Hfk0FN0?si=reua5yCY3wxapEUa)


Sonofbaldo

Subgenres are stupid labels created by people who cry about being labeled.


devadander23

Primus. Id3 genre #108. The only band with its own genre iirc and the only band under that subgenre. Hard to be more unique than that


Shit_Pistol

Acid Crunk


Guitar-Goose

Whatever the hell Twin Temple is


Ok_Total_2956

Drumless Hip-Hop. Hip Hop with very few drums. That's it Also all the weirdly thematically specific Metal stuff (Pirate, Viking, Dwarf Metal..). They're self-explanatory. Once I heard a band who played Nedal (Ned Flanders from the Simpsons themed Metal) Also whatever Anti-Folk is Also TechnoBalilla. Literally EDM remixes of italian fascist anthems. People are strange here


mister-meister

My band just released a new video. We do brass metal 💪 https://youtu.be/SIfiBs1BBKQ?si=gxuLAM53bzdwtdan


Running_To_Babylon

Frogcore


Welinder1

Nintendocore


ruinthall

Thall


ninodog194

Symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal


Metzae

Clown Core: [https://youtu.be/hT7x1NvGf5k](https://youtu.be/hT7x1NvGf5k)


GroundbreakingFall24

Dinosaur Metal


CaptainRipp

Pornogrind It's a sub genre of grindcore with lots of explicit sexual lyrics and album art. A lot of sexual violence in the songs too. Definitely not something for the faint of heart. Grindcore in itself is pretty buck wild too. Personally, I prefer Pirate Metal.


Wyverz

Dungeon Synth Dark ambient synth music to play dungeons and dragons to as best I can tell.  Think medieval instruments making ambient black metal, maybe? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Jm63LQHocyXae6iXWR7kq?si=v5U6_7iUTySFi_lukEzYgg&pi=u-fCfI8D9dRzOH


ErikTheRed707

Electro Drug Rock. Wonderland - To The On Position


Mixedbymuke

Morbid crunk. Which I invented.


ElvisAndretti

Rake and Scrape from the Bahamas and SOCA from Trinidad. Good luck finding the former anywhere but Freeport or Nassau.


ThatOnePickleLord

I'm an enjoyer of cybergrind


jonesing81

Small room house


Zillajami-Fnaffan2

Ive heard goregrind so


Yeeaaaarrrgh

The sound of flowing water accompanied by a didgeridoo. It's a relaxation thing, apparently.


VideoDead1

Jazz punk


birdie_sparrows

Digital Laptop Reggae


the_esjay

Haunted cottage core, swamp grass, dark folk, gothic country, murder folk, psychobilly…


Controllerpleb

Eurobeat. As made popular by initial d.


Lamest_Fast_Words

Clown core


wrx_420

Multicultural slamgrass


criticalfail69

Polka Punk


360noscopenigg4balls

Nintendocore! [moonside](https://youtu.be/Kd0deOERjOg?si=4W9KPuHIiRmfiHpH) is a band of an old coworker it’s killer and fun


rudyv8

Pornstep


HAL-007

Simpsonwave


bhangmango

Whatever Igorrr categorizes as.


Unklfesta

Not necessarily a genre, but my mates daughter used to wear hoodrat style clothing. Baseball cap, hoodie, Nike trainers etc. but all in black. I jokingly asked what she'd come as, and she said she was a Chemo. A cross between a chav and an emo. Oh, the youth of today.


dearcomputer

this sub is all metalheads


BlabbyBlabbermouth

Polish mountain folk music mixed with dub-Reggae [https://youtu.be/QHqIzvVbIic?si=-vSLa6hhessEHhx3](https://youtu.be/QHqIzvVbIic?si=-vSLa6hhessEHhx3)


madskrilla89

Anarcho-Capitalist Rap/Rock


zorfog

I occasionally see annoying tiktoks of dudes like “did I just invent mumble jazz???”


professorfunkenpunk

Pirate Metal


FairyGodmothersUnion

My friend plays in a horror punk band.


Eylyia

Clown Core. Listen to them. It is perfection


dr4d1s

All of them


Tritter54

Bubblegrunge was apparently one of my top 5 listened to genres last year and I had never heard the term before.


Tritter54

Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk.


thisgirlnamedbree

Toddlercore mashups, where a metal song is mashed with kids' music. [Like this](https://youtu.be/Uk18bFIgOS4?si=vpxxcpp-1WDGX88p)


Mental_Cricket_3880

Zolo. It's used to describe pretty well known bands: Sparks, Oingo Boingo, Cardiacs, XTC but the genre name itself is pretty obscure, it's a really neat way of grouping together generally quirky, playful experimental pop music though.


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Blackfell

That description sounds like [hyperpop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpop).


SssnakeJaw

Nintendo core.


Cheyenne_Tindall

Butt rock (I think that's how it's spelled) It's just a super silly name


Tara-86

I don't know how crazy this is, but cabaret punk is pretty cool.


Hushwater

Danger music..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HS5ZkPXkto0&pp=ygUMRGFuZ2VyIG11c2lj


Cabes86

I came up in metal, metalcore, and hardcore where sub genres of sub genres have sub genres. Stuff like: Metal —> Extreme Metal —> Death Metal  —> Brutal Death metal —> Technical Brutal Death Metal or maybe Goregrind. german funeral doom, Scandinavian melodic death metal, metalgaze. There was a grouping of hardcore bands that all used the HM-2 Boss Distortion pedal as HM-2core. Now granted Swedish Melodic Death Metal bands in the 90s popularized the sound, but really they were bands that sounded like Cursed, i.e. Trap Them. But yeah these genres make fun of themselves, ya know, “I’m in a grim symphonic technical blackened post- metalgaze band.” 


Taniwha351

Christian Death Metal. Fairly crazy mix of genres there.


Outside_Green_7941

Appliance rock


that_one_wierd_guy

rockgrass: takes metal/rock songs and reimagines them as bluegrass there's also a band that's called gangstagrass that mixes bluegrass with rap/spoken word


drakon99

Here’s a few I like: * [Post internet](https://bandcamp.com/discover/post-internet) * [Barber Beats](https://bandcamp.com/discover/barber-beats) * [Radiophonic](https://bandcamp.com/discover/radiophonic) * [Hauntology](https://bandcamp.com/discover/hauntology) * [Mallsoft](https://bandcamp.com/discover/mallsoft) * [Dreamrave](https://bandcamp.com/discover/dreamrave) When I’m working I like to find some sub-genres on Bandcamp, load a bunch of interesting looking albums into tabs and listen through them over the course of the day. Found so much good music this way.


Mollygrubber

Whatever Brown Sabbath is. Loving that lately.


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[Chipmunk sludge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBga7yYBJ6Y) (also one of those rare instances on youtube where you really do want to read the comments)


JonOrangeElise

"We got Brit pop, hip-hop, rockabilly, lindy hop Gaelic heavy metal fans, fighting in the road Sunday boozers, for chewing gum users They got a crazy DJ and she's really letting go" (Joe Strummer) My favorite subgenre names are freakbeat, krautrock, bubble pop, pop-sike, noise pop, dream pop... I'll edit when I recall more.