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Re: Recommend some new bands. : Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:45 am

Tigerade wrote:

If you have a listen to a band called Kadavar (from Berlin) you will instantly hear the main sound been so-called "guitar driven".

I don't think its a new term but one of the many genres and sub genres that some writers use to categorise the differing sounds in rock and metal music.

Here are some of the main themes:-

Acid ,Alternative, Black, Blues, Breakcore, Celtic, Christian, Country, Crossover, Crunkcore, Crust punk, Dark metal, Deathcore, Doom Metal, Deathgrind, Electric, Emo, Experimental, Extreme, Folk metal, Funk, Glam, Gothic rock, Grindcore, Groove, Grunge, Hard, Indie, Industrial, Instrumental, Krautrock, Latin, Mathcore, Medieval, Melodic, Metalcore, Neo-classical, New Wave of American Heavy Metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Noise pop, Nu metal, Pagan, Pop punk, Post-metal, Post-rock, Power, Progressive, Psychedelic, Punk rock, Rap metal, Rock and roll, Rockabilly, Screamo, Shock rock, Ska, Skate, Sludge, Soft rock, Southern, Space, Speed, Stoner, Surf, Swamp, Symphonic, Technical, Teutonic, Thrash, Trad, Viking.

Typical reply from someone who is probably under thirty.
That's the problem with new music. It's not new. You could say the same for most media.
I'm sure there are some out there with original ideas. The sad thing is, few people get to hear them.