Genres of Rock Music

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Across
  1. 2. A fusion genre of jazz that combines elements from funk, R&B, psychedelia, art, and mainly rock. It is characterized as jazz with electric keyboards, loud guitars, basses and other percussion.
  2. 4. An emotional and dark offshoot of punk that has impact on depression, crisis and black culture influenced from post-hardcore and alternative rock. The music tells stories about life crisis, confessions, misbehaviour, and broken hearts from negative romance. Its culture is very negative, disturbing and compassionate, kids wear black clothing, eyeliner and black side swept bangs.
  3. 10. A loosely-defined style of rock referring to pushing sounds out of boundaries, unique techniques, free improvisations, which are closely related to noise, avantgarde jazz, minimal, and futurism.
  4. 11. A unique style of rock that originated in the late 60s in the UK, it has major influences from classical, baroque, psychedelia, jazz and folk, characterized by performance arts and techniques for lounges.
  5. 12. A popular radio format of rock that's dedicated to play 60s, 70s and 80s blues rock, country rock, hard rock, folk rock, psychedelic rock and pop rock.
  6. 13. A religious style of rock that refers to its vocals about religion, belief, faith and christianity.
Down
  1. 1. A trippy style of rock that originated in the 60s, characterized by psychedelic influences and culture like hippies, associated with hallucinogenic drugs.
  2. 3. It is dance-oriented rock music with major influences from disco, pop rock, soul, EDM, arena rock and post-punk. It usually refers to its moods for lounges and nightclubs rather than at concerts.
  3. 5. A progressive style of rock which is characterized with flamboyant clothing, makeup, spikes and crazy hair. Associated from hard rock, sci-fi, bubblegum pop, psychedelia and pop rock.
  4. 6. A loud, fast and aggressive style of rock that originated in the mid 70s in the UK, it is characterized by aggressive vocals, power chording guitars, onomatopoeic and intense drumming. It is associated with anti-establishment, anarchy and spike fashion.
  5. 7. A heavier, grittier and distorted style of rock that is characterized by intense drumming, aggressive vocals and distorted guitars.
  6. 8. A musical category that is associated with the independent music scene and commercial popular music since the late 70s.
  7. 9. A heavy category of rock that originated in the mid 60s characterized by more aggressive vocals like yelling and exaggerating, intense drums, strong basses, distorted guitar effects and onomatopoeic riffs. Forshadowed successful forms like glam rock, punk and metal.
  8. 14. Associated with early 60s beach culture from California, characterized by guitars with intense reverb, evoking sounds of crashing waves, with fast drumming and basses laid-back with the summertimes.