I, for one, got a good laugh at some of these. I actually thought you wanted us to list a band for each. Do you really? lol

I think it would take me forever, because merriamwebster.com makes my computer lag sometimes, so I wouldn’t be able to look up all 500,000,000 of these genres
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Alternative rock - Smashing pumpkins
Avant-garde metal - Sigh
Avant-progressive rock
Black metal - Emperor
Blackened death metal - Behemoth
Christian metal - Becoming the Archetype
Crossover thrash - Municipal Waste
Deathcore - Job for a cowboy
Deathgrind - impaled
Death metal - Nile
Doom metal - Candlemass
Folk metal - Ensiferum
Glam metal - Dokken
Goregrind - carcass
Gothic metal - Tristiana / Draconion
Gothic rock - Within temptation
Grindcore - Carcass
Groove metal - Pantera
Grunge - Alice in chains?? (kinda metal though)
Hard rock - GnR
Heavy metal - Megadeth
Industrial metal - Fear Factory
Mathcore - Dillinger escape plan
Melodic black metal - Dissection
Melodic death metal - Edge of Sanity
Neo-classical metal - Cacaphony
Nu metal - System of a down
Power metal - Blind Guardian
Progressive metal - Symphony X
Sludge metal - Down
Speed metal - Early Blind Guardian
Symphonic metal - Nightwish
Thrash metal - Dark Angel
Viking metal - Enslaved

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You forgot a couple though..

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Well, I DO have a Few Days to Kill and Yes, Riki - These are Legitimate Genres.

Since I don’t listen to ALL of them - I will have to go to "Shiksapedia" for some Answers.

I JUST WANT TO ANSWER THIS, SO I CAN TELL MY GRANDCHILDREN - LOL

Riki - Don’t You DARE Close-out this Post, before I’m finished.

..Or I shall have Your PAWS for EarMuffs !! LOL

EDIT –

For Bands That I REALLY DO Listen to - I will put an Asterisk

The others I just copied, but maybe they will be of use to someone else.

Zeuhl - Magma * (Created Zeuhl) , Happy Family * (Japanese Zeuhl)
Wizard rock - Harry and the Potters
Wagnerian rock - King Crimson * ( look it up, Folks !! lol )
Viking metal - Bathory ( heard of them )
Twee pop ( subgenre of Indie ) – The Smiths *
Trip rock - Portishead ( heard of them )
Trash rock – ( Redirected to Thrash Metal )
Thrashcore - Vitamin X ( WTF ?? )
Thrash metal - Megadeth *
Synth pop – Ultravox *
Symphonic rock – Moody Blues *
Symphonic metal - Therion (You forgot SYMPHONIC – Black, Power, & Gothic – Metal LOL)
Swamp rock - Creedence Clearwater Revival *
Surf rock - Duane Eddy *
Surf music – The Beach Boys *
Sunshine pop - The Mamas and the Papas *
Street punk - Sham 69 * ( “Tell Us the Truth” is an Awesome Album, btw )
Stoner rock - Queens of the Stone Age ( heard of them )
Stoner metal - ( same Reference as Stoner Rock )
Speed metal – Anthrax *
Space rock – HAWKWIND *******
Southern rock – Lynerd Skynrd * (is that how you spell it ?? )
Soul rock – Hall & Oates *
Soft rock - Bee Gees *
Sludge metal - Melvins ( heard of them, supposedly, Flipper* & Black Flag* were Influences?)
Skate rock – ( referred to Skate Punk )
Skate punk - The Offspring * ( ?? LOL – Apparently music for SkateBoarders !! )
Ska punk - The Specials *
Shoegazing – Cocteu Twins *
Shock rock - The Tubes *
Screamo - Heroin ??
Samba-rock - Banda Black Rio ( okay ?? )
Sadcore - Chan Marshall ( The Queen of Sadcore {and I have no Clue who this is LOL} )
Russian rock - SILENCE KIT * (Math Rock — Category is TOO Broad, so it includes this band – Ha Ha
Rocksteady - The Techniques ( some Jamaican style ?? )
Rockoson - Vanito y La Lucha Almada ( Cuban Music… Ay, Caramba )
Rockabilly – Robert Gordon * ( was from the 1970’s, but HE WAS THE BEST !! )
Rock en Español – Bloque * – ( Spanish speaking Prog Band – does that count ?? )
Rock and roll – Carl Perkins *
Rock Against Communism – LMAO !! - Skrewdriver. ( never heard of ‘em )
RIKI – You’ve left out So Many !! What about –
RIO – (Rock-In-Opposition – A Prog Form) – Henry Cow ( Amazing Band )
Rock – ooohhh !! I can’t think of anyone is this Category !!
Riot Grrrl - Bikini Kill *
Rapcore – ( referred to Rap Rock ) – Faith No More *
Raga rock - Mahavishnu Orchestra ( any band with a South Asian influence (Sitar))
Punta rock – (I thought Punta meant… nevermind ) — Pen Cayetano ??
Punk rock – Buzzcocks *
Psychobilly - The Cramps * !! ( I HATE THIS BAND )
Psych-Folk - Current 93 * ( but they were Industrial, before Folk – all stuff is Excellent
( for MORE Psych-Folk – Check out “The Incredible String Band”* – Pioneers !! )
Psychedelic rock - Grateful Dead *
Protopunk – MC5 *, The Stooges *
Progressive rock – Genesis ( sub-genre = Symphonic Prog )
Progressive metal - PAIN OF SALVATION ( THE KINGS of Prog Metal !! bbbwwwaaaahhhhaaahhaaaah )
Power violence - Man Is the Bastard ( never heard of them )
Power pop – The Records *, XTC *, Elvis Costello *, Nick Lowe *, The Romantics *
Power metal – Symphony X * ( the only one I know LOL )
Post-rock - Public Image Ltd *
Post-punk revival - ( same as Post-Punk !! )
Post-punk – WIRE * ( “154” - The Most Important Album to end the 1970’s )
Post-metal - Melvins ( how can you have Post-Metal, when METAL is Still here ?? LOL )
Post-hardcore - Hüsker Dü *
Post-grunge - Bush *
Pornogrind ( refers back to Porn Rock )
Porn rock - Women of Sodom ( not heard of them )
Pop rock - Michael Jackson *
Pop punk - Green Day *
Pinoy rock - Buklod ( Phillipino Protest Music ) ??
Piano rock - Billy Joel *, Elton John *
Pagan rock - Godsmack *
Ostrock - Nina Hagen * !! Ahead of Her Time !!
Oi! - Cockney Rejects ( never heard of ‘em )
Nu metal - Disturbed *
Noisecore – ( referred to NoiseGrind ) — Sore Throat ??
Noise rock - Fugazi * ( actually covers a lot of Known bands who use dissonance )
Noise pop - The Jesus and Mary Chain
No wave - Lydia Lunch *, Sonic Youth * (the rest of the List was a bunch of ???)
Nintendocore – ( could NAWT find Anything )
New wave – Magazine* !!!
New prog - Coheed and Cambria ??
Neo-psychedelia
Neo-prog - Coheed and Cambria ?? ( Don’t “NEO” & “NEW” mean the same thing ??)
Neo-folk - Current 93 *
Neo-classical metal - Symphony X *
Nazi punk - The Exploited ( but only “Accused” of being Nazi Punk – LMAO !!)
Nardcore - California Redemption ??
Mod revival - The Jam *
Mod – The Who *
Metalcore - Avenged Sevenfold ( heard of them )
Melodic hardcore
Melodic death metal - Dark Tranquillity ( heard of them )
Hardcore punk - Bad Brains * !! ( Hello, Washington, DC !! REPRESENT !! )
Doom metal - Pagan Altar ??
Deathgrind - Cattle Decapitation – LMAO !!
Deathcore - As Blood Runs Black ??
Death metal - Celtic Frost *
Blackened death metal - Akercocke ??

2 Tone - The Specials*, Madness*, & The Selector*
( Were the First Popular Ska Bands to make it in the States.
The Name refers BOTH - To the name of the Label and that Ska Fashion included "Two-Tone" Checkerboard
- First Albums by all 3 of these Band, are the FINEST Examples of SKA, btw

I’m DONE !! LOL

I thought I could do it, but I Flew Too Close to the Sun <sigh>
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No ONE Should Be Complaining about this Post –

WE ALL GOT OUR 2 PTS, DIDN’T WE ?? LOL
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I KNOW MY MUFFIN !!
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