Funk Metal

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Funk metal fuses heavy guitar riffs with funk groove bass and occasional hip-hop vocal styles, creating an alternative metal sound that thrived in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The genre never settled into a single template; instead it attracted diverse bands who blended metal and funk in different proportions, from funk groups adding metal elements to metal bands incorporating groove.

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About the Funk Metal genre

Funk metal emerged in the 1980s but reached its peak in the early 1990s, when bands like Faith No More, Primus, and Living Colour brought the style into wider recognition. The genre's strength came from its deliberate lack of uniformity. Rather than defining funk metal as bands playing both styles equally, the tag captured metal bands experimenting with funk concepts, funk bands exploring heavy metal, and everything in between. This flexibility allowed artists like Extreme, Electric Boys, and Infectious Grooves to explore their own versions of the fusion.

By the mid-1990s, funk metal's commercial moment had peaked. Most bands that formed during the genre's peak eventually moved toward nu metal or other styles as the new millennium approached, leaving funk metal as a relatively dormant subgenre. The style never generated a steady pipeline of new acts the way thrash metal or grunge did, which explains why collectors today encounter funk metal primarily through 1980s and 1990s releases rather than contemporary material.