List of funk rock and funk metal bands
Appearance
This list includes bands which have directly played within the funk rock genre, as well as bands which have played within its subgenre, funk metal. It also includes bands described as metal funk, thrash funk or funkcore (synonymous with funk metal), as well as bands described as punk-funk (synonymous with both genres).[1]
Artists
[edit]- 24-7 Spyz[2][3]
- 311[4][5][6]
- 3rdeyegirl[7][8][9]
- Bang Tango[10]
- Bloodhound Gang[11]
- Bootsauce[12]
- Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats[13][14]
- Cement[15]
- Clutch[16]
- Dan Reed Network[17][18]
- Deli Creeps[19][20]
- Electric Boys[21][22][23]
- Extreme[24][25][26]
- Faith No More[3][21][27]
- Fishbone[28][29][30]
- Follow for Now[3][31][32]
- Funkadelic[33][34]
- Gang of Four[35]
- Guano Apes[36]
- Hot Action Cop
- Incubus[37][38][39]
- Infectious Grooves[3][40][41]
- INXS[42][43][44]
- Jane's Addiction[45][46][47]
- Jimmie's Chicken Shack[48]
- Korn[49][50][51]
- L.A.P.D.[52][53][54]
- Living Colour[55][56][57]
- Lucy Brown[58]
- Maroon 5[59][60][61]
- Mind Funk[21][62][63]
- Mordred[21][64]
- Mother's Finest[3][65][66]
- Mr. Bungle[3][27][67]
- Parliament[68]
- Pilgrims[69]
- Praxis[70][71]
- Primus[3][21][72]
- Psychefunkapus[21]
- Psychostick[3]
- Pylon[73]
- Rage Against the Machine[74][75][76]
- The Rasmus[77] (early)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers[3][28][68]
- Rollins Band[78]
- Royal Crescent Mob[79][80][81]
- Scatterbrain[3]
- Sly and the Family Stone[82]
- Snot[83][84][85]
- Spymob[86][87][88]
- Sugar Ray[89][90]
- Super Junky Monkey[91][92]
- Supergroove[93][94]
- Talking Heads[68][95]
- The Time[96]
- Ugly Kid Joe[97]
- Urban Dance Squad[3][98][99]
- Wild Cherry[100][101]
See also
[edit]References
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Mikey Doling, guitarist of revered funk metal band Snot
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the funk metal that characterized their lone studio album with Strait.
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Originally a funk metal band (believe it or not), they released their first album, "Lemonade and Brownies," in 1995.
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