Albert King
Albert King, the left-handed blues guitarist and a direct influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton.
Bands
Enciclopèdia de bandes: història, formació i discografia, per estils.
Howlin’ Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf, one of the greats of Chicago blues, with an unmistakable deep voice and stage presence.
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters, the father of Chicago electric blues and a direct influence on 20th-century rock.
Russian Circles
Russian Circles, the Chicago instrumental trio, somewhere between post-metal and post-rock.
Rosetta
Rosetta, the American atmospheric post-metal band from Philadelphia.
Cult of Luna
Cult of Luna, the Swedish post-metal band, a reference of the genre with Somewhere Along the Highway.
Neurosis
Neurosis, the founding band of post-metal, a direct reference for Isis, Cult of Luna and Rosetta.
Isis
Isis, one of the founding bands of post-metal, a reference thanks to Oceanic and Panopticon.
Battles
Battles, the New York experimental math rock band formed by veterans of Don Caballero and Helmet.
Tera Melos
Tera Melos, the American experimental math rock band from Sacramento.
TTNG
TTNG (formerly This Town Needs Guns), the British melodic math rock band.
Hella
Hella, the Sacramento guitar-and-drums duo, a reference of the most extreme math rock.
Don Caballero
Don Caballero, one of the founding bands of American instrumental math rock.
Altar of Plagues
Altar of Plagues, the Irish atmospheric black metal band, disbanded in 2013.
Deafheaven
Deafheaven, the American band that brought atmospheric black metal to the indie audience with Sunbather.
Alcest
Alcest, Neige’s French project, a pioneer of blackgaze, a fusion of black metal and shoegaze.
Agalloch
Agalloch, the American atmospheric black metal and dark folk band, disbanded in 2016 and reunited in 2023.
Wolves in the Throne Room
Wolves in the Throne Room, the American atmospheric and environmentalist black metal band.
Eyehategod
Eyehategod, one of the founding bands of New Orleans sludge metal.
Acid Bath
Acid Bath, the Louisiana sludge metal band, a cult reference with Dax Riggs on vocals.
Yob
Yob, the American atmospheric doom metal band led by Mike Scheidt.
Pallbearer
Pallbearer, the American melodic doom metal band, a reference of the genre’s new generation.
Candlemass
Candlemass, the Swedish band that gave epic doom metal its name with Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.
Cathedral
Cathedral, the British doom metal band of Lee Dorrian (ex-Napalm Death), with an increasingly psychedelic sound.
Sleep
Sleep, the Californian stoner-doom band known for the extreme work Dopesmoker, a single hour-long track.
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard, one of the founding bands of modern doom metal, a reference thanks to Dopethrone.
Sithu Aye
Sithu Aye, a one-man instrumental progressive metal project by a Scottish musician of Burmese origin.
Mestis
Mestis, Javier Reyes’s (Animals as Leaders) instrumental progressive metal project with Latin American influences.
Intervals
Intervals, Aaron Marshall’s Canadian instrumental project, part of the djent progressive metal scene.
Vola
Vola, the Danish atmospheric progressive metal band, somewhere between djent and dark electronic pop.
Devin Townsend Project
Devin Townsend Project, the Canadian musician’s stable band between 2009 and 2018.
Native Construct
Native Construct, the American technical progressive metal band behind a single cult album, Quiet World.
Ne Obliviscaris
Ne Obliviscaris, the Australian extreme progressive metal band with the violin as its leading instrument.
Persefone
Persefone, the Andorran technical progressive metal band, a reference of the Catalan-speaking scene.
Dixie Dregs
Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse’s instrumental band, a fusion of country, jazz and progressive rock.
Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets, one of the benchmark American fusion and smooth jazz groups since the 1980s.
Wayne Krantz
Wayne Krantz, American jazz-fusion guitarist, a reference of modern harmonic improvisation.
Scott Henderson
Scott Henderson, fusion and blues guitarist, formerly of Tribal Tech and the Chick Corea Elektric Band.
Planet X
Planet X, the instrumental technical-fusion supergroup of Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati and Tony MacAlpine.
Jonas Hellborg Group
Jonas Hellborg Group, the Swedish bassist’s project, with Shawn Lane as its best-known collaborator.