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Funk metal

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Funk metal (also known as thrash funk or punk-funk) is a subgenre of funk rock and alternative metal which infuses heavy metal music (often thrash metal) with elements of funk and punk rock. [1]

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Alien Ant Farm

Alien Ant Farm is an American rock band that formed in Riverside, California, United States, in 1996.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative metal

Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a rock music fusion genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Bang Tango

Bang Tango is an American hard rock band.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991.

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Bloodhound Gang

The Bloodhound Gang is an American rock band which began as a hip hop group but branched out into other genres, including punk rock, alternative hip hop, rapcore, funk metal and electronic rock, as their career progressed.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Epic (Faith No More song)

"Epic" is a song by the American rock band Faith No More.

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Extreme (band)

Extreme is an American rock band, currently headed by frontman Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.

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Faith No More

Faith No More (sometimes abbreviated as FNM) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Fishbone

Fishbone is an American band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, heavy rock, and soul.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funk rock

Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock.

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Glam metal

Glam metal (also known as hair metal and often used synonymously with pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal, which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock.

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Groove metal

Groove metal (also known as post-thrash or neo-thrash) is a subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Incubus (band)

Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California.

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Jimmie's Chicken Shack

Jimmie's Chicken Shack is an American alternative rock band from Annapolis, Maryland.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Korn

Korn (stylized as KoЯn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993.

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Les Claypool

Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, author and actor best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the band Primus.

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List of funk rock bands

The following is a list of funk rock bands.

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Living Colour

Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Mordred (band)

Mordred is an American funk metal/thrash metal band based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Mr. Bungle

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Mr. Bungle (album)

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Music of California

In the United States, California is commonly associated with the film, music, and arts industries; there are numerous world-famous Californian musicians.

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Nu metal

Nu metal (also known as nü-metal and) is a subgenre of that combines elements of with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial and grunge.

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Primer 55

Primer 55 is an American nu metal that is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Primus (band)

Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander.

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Prophets of Rage

Prophets of Rage is an American rap rock supergroup.

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Psychostick

Psychostick is an American comedy rock band from Tempe, Arizona, known for their silly image and usage of humor in their songs and lyrics.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Rap metal

Rap metal or heavy rap is a subgenre of rap rock and alternative metal music which combines hip hop with heavy metal.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Sailing the Seas of Cheese is the second studio album and major-label debut by Primus, released on May 14, 1991.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Smooth Criminal

"Smooth Criminal" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson from his seventh studio album Bad (1987).

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Snot (band)

Snot is an American metal band from Santa Barbara, California. Formed in 1995, the band released their only studio album Get Some with founding vocalist Lynn Strait in 1997 and disbanded after his death in 1998. In 2008, the lineup of guitarists Mike Doling and Sonny Mayo, bassist John Fahnestock and drummer Jamie Miller reunited. In 2009, a new band, Tons, was formed, with Brandon Espinoza as vocalist. As of February 2014, Snot has reformed again.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Sugar Ray

Sugar Ray is an American rock band from Newport Beach, California.

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Super Junky Monkey

Super Junky Monkey was an all female Japanese funk metal group.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers (album)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the debut studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 10, 1984 on EMI Records.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thrash metal

Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.

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Trey Spruance

Preston Lea "Trey" Spruance III (born August 14, 1969) is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle.

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Twelve Foot Ninja

Twelve Foot Ninja is a metal band from Melbourne, Victoria that released its debut album Silent Machine in 2012.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Zebrahead

Zebrahead is an American punk rock band from Orange County, California.

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311 (band)

311 (pronounced "three-eleven") is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_metal

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