Music

Dubstep/Drumstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music originating in London ( late 1990s) developing from a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, broken beat, and Dnb. The music generally features syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies. Usually includes a melodic build to a "drop" of distorted bass lines, melodic chord progressions, or dissonant breakdowns. The word "Drumstep" refers to a combination of dubstep elements with DnB to form a whole new beat and tempo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9PJqt-Bd0

Djent and Experimental/Progressive/Fusion

A style of heavy metal music that developed as a spinoff of traditional progressive metal. The word "djent" is an onomatopoeia for the distinctive high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound most notably employed by bands like Meshuggah and Sikth. It also incorporates drawn out "drone" sounds or progressive guiltar leads over the palm muting rhythms. Many djent bands also substitute slower soloing for the "drone" riffing in more mainstream Djent bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yieKHp_j9VE

Melodic Drum and Bass

Emerging in England during the early 1990s, DnB or "Drum and Bass" is characterized by rapid breakbeats (typically between 150–180 beats per minute) and heavy bass/sub-bass lines. The "bass line" and lighter melodies are usually created with sampled sources or synthesizers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGy2_EXqAnU

Folk Metal, Pirate Metal, Samurai Metal

Yes, this actually exists. "Folk metal" (Including but not limited to "Samurai Metal", "Pirate Metal", "Pagan Metal", "Celt Metal", and occasionally "Viking Metal") is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterized by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMu1E3K-KjA

Hard Trance

Trance is a genre of electronic music that developed in Germany (early 1990s) characterized by strong, hard kicks, fully resonant basses, repeating melodic phrases, and a musical form that distinctly builds up and down throughout a track. At a tempo of 130-180 beats per minute (BPM), a typical song begins with a progressive beat (a beat which becomes an increasingly more complex beat throughout the song), leads to a "build up" beat, and then to a "hook" or "theme".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qErUMB4FAXU

Video Game Theme Remixes

Some of the best video game theme music remixed into various amalgamations of Dubstep, Trance, DnB and Techno styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYWjcFJfke8

Trance Metal / Trancecore

Genre mashing done right. Trance Metal is a mixed Genre of Melodic Death Metal and Metalcore (Or Post-Hardcore) with Trance music incorporated in it. It is NOT an EDM genre, it is usually classified as a Post-Hardcore subgenre (Enter Shikari) or "Metal" subgenre (Dark Tranquility), although minimal influence may be present. Trance Metal bands are usually heavily guitar riff influenced bands (like most melodeath bands) with little breakdowns grooves or none at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voz0iS-SCu0

Electronic Rock/Metal

It's what it sounds like, different electronic genres mixed with either metal or post-hardcore. Electronicore (also known as synthcore or simply electronic hardcore) describes a stylistic fusion of post-hardcore and electronic music, specifically electronica. Notable artists of this genre have originated from England, Sweden, and Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEVLPugTqzM

Classic Metalcore

Metalcore is a broad fusion genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is an amalgam of the names of the two genres, distinguished by its emphasis on "breakdowns", which are slow, intense passages that are conducive to moshing. Some of examples i've included here also tend to incorporate complex melodic riffing over their breakdowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT4U71h4LGg

Melodic Metal

A genre of metal combining some elements of death metal (like heavy riffing) with elements of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and Power Metal (more classical riffing). Melodic Death Metal or "Melodeath", in short, is basically an amalgamation of #7 and #14 on this list. The style originated and developed in Sweden and the United Kingdom during the early and mid-1990s. Some bands strictly use death-growls, but many other melodic metal bands still include clean vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqmnJTRZcgo

Glitch, Electro, and Electro House

Electro house is a hard form of house music. Electro house is characterized by a prominent bassline and/or kick drum and a tempo.
Can be a very commercial-sounding genre so I tried to include some variety. Electro artists can also sometimes include elements of a genre called "Glitch". Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the late 1990s, described as a genre that adheres to an "aesthetic of failure" characterized by the deliberate use of audio malfunctioning, abused audio recording, or analog distortion.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOL0lb5TMJI

Instrumental Happycore/Nightcore

Debatably a derivative of trance, hardcore, and hard dance, typified by a very fast tempo (usually around 160–180 BPM), coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics (But not really in the case of this list). Its characteristically 4/4 beat "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of hardcore, which tend to be "darker". This classification is kind of a grey area as the songs here might be more in line with trance (due to the weakness of the kick drum and slightly slower tempo), but I'm open to suggestions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BafD2bE3vus

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