In Conclusion

Throughout Rock's History there has been many creations, reinventions, revivals and will be. Rock has played a huge factor in society over the decades. It has defined each decade with its own sound and style. Rock will always go on through bands creating new sounds trying on new instruments and reliving old genre's and in commercial re-invetnion.

Alternative, Metal, Rap Rock and Nu Metal

• The genre's emerged in the mid 90's
• Brought us bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bloodhound Gang, White Zombie, Nine Inch Nails Jane's Addiction
• This music was still commercial though had a bit more originality to their sounds.
• Musically much of the music followed there previous influences singing about troubles, re using the common timing and chord patterns etc.
• Musically all these new age genre's were re-invented or based on prior musicians keeping there favourite music alive.

Indie Rock/Pop Punk

The genre derived from influences like the clash and the buzzcocks. Pop Punk used pop melodies though played at a punk type tempo. They used loud anthem like guitar distortion. The Californian based bands such as Greenday, Pennywise and Offspring made radio friendly punk though sort of on the edge. Indie had a differenty sound using clean pop and elements from pop punk and electronic music. major bands like the Arctic Monkeys, Spectrum, Red House Paintngs etc. are still going strong today with there varied sounds.

Post-Grunge

• After the decline of grunge bands started to make music that was less dark as their predecessors, being more commercially friendly
• Post Grunge became very diverse delving into many genre's such as heavy metal, pop etc
• Bands like Foo Fighters, Audioslave and Nickelback brought the genre into the 21st Century
• Rock began to get really mainstream leaving the anger and rebellion in the early 90's

Grunge Rock

• In the early 90's the music scene was over run by heavily produced pop rock and hair metal
• From this many bands, specially in Seattle, began to go anti- mainstream by creating more dirty and rebellious music.
• Grunge derived from heavy metal and hardcore punk.
• The guitar sounded more distorted and had a lot more feedback and fuzz
• They sang about darker content, depression, loneliness and dark humour
• Such bands like Green River, Sound Garden, the Melvins, Mudmoney and Skin Yard pushed the early forms of grunge.
• During this Nirvana shone through with its album Never mind took the cake
• Nirvana's music was more melodic though still holding the grunge values of anti-comercialism to heart
• Though with grunge's success it slowed down due to the death of Kurt Cobain, the problems Pearl Jam was having and the leaving of Alice in Chains Front Man.

New Wave Heavy Metal

• Heavy Metal struggled with punk revolution.
• Though new bands pushed the rebirth like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Van Halen
• The music was load fast with deadly execution of the vocals and the lead guitar.
• Guitar technique took a new leap with technicality of speed and runs.
• Rapid fire shredding was now common and the lyrical content was diverse from bible scriptures to the nightly destruction of the band
• this was especially relevant with bands such as Motley Crue, Twisted Sister and of course Guns N Roses
• Through the 80's Metal dispersed into many sub-genres
• New Darker metal was reflected in bands like Metallica, Megadeath and Slayer
• The death growl was prevalent in these bands to express the style.

Post Punk

• While New Wave represented the more commercial side post-punk describes the more artistic and emotional music
• The focus on dark emotions brought the sounds of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Joy Division etc.
• Some Post-Punk bands moved away from the dark emotion content like U2 who focused on political issues and religious themes.
• Though many bands are still going strong today the genre fell in the mid 80's