• a perfect circle
• faith no more
• incubus
• kittie
• korn
• puscifer
• slipknot
• tool

• axiom of choice
• azam ali
• brian eno
• enigma
• enya
• era
• kitaro
• loreena mckennitt
• mike oldfield
• niyaz
• secret garden
• stellamara
• vangelis
• vas

• aghast manor
• daemonia nymphe
• dargaard
• dark sanctuary
• elend
• empyrium
• faith and the muse
• faun
• hagalaz runedance
• heilung
• irfan
• lamia vox
• mediaeval babes
• of the wand and the moon
• omnia
• ranarim
• sangre de muerdago
• stoa
• tenhi
• the moon and the nightspirit
• trobar de morte

• anna von hausswolff
• auf der maur
• carly simon
• carole king
• eivør pálsdóttir
• esben and the witch
• feist
• garbage
• iamamiwhoami
• ionnalee
• joanna newson
• kate bush
• lana del rey
• laura marling
• lykke li
• nico
• phoebe bridgers
• pj harvey
• placebo
• röyksopp
• sharon van etten

baroque

• antonio vivaldi
• george frideric handel
• johann sebastian bach

classical

• henry purcell
• joseph haydn
• ludwig van beethoven
• wolfgang amadeus mozart

neoclassicism

• igor stravinsky

romantic

• antonín dvořák
• camille saint-säens
• chopin
• debussy
• edvard grieg
• franz liszt

original mid-1960s garage bands (primarily active from 1964–68)

• the guess who
• the kinks
• the velvet underground
• the yardbirds

later period protopunk and garage-influenced bands (1967 to 1979)

• david bowie
• iggy & the stooges
• mc5
• new york dolls
• patti smith
• ramones
• roxy music
• television
• the clash
• the cramps
• the damned
• the kinks

• alice in chains
• hole
• l7
• nirvana
• screaming trees
• smashing punpkins
• soundgarden
• stone temple pilots

• cat stevens
• fairport convention
• galley beggar
• june tabor
• maddy prior
• pentangle
• shirley collins
• silly sisters
• steeleye span
• the byrds
• the mamas & the papas
• tim hart & maddy prior
• tony arthur

celtic folk - brythonic, galician, irish, scottish

• alan stivell
• altan
• anúna
• capercaillie
• cherish the ladies
• clannad
• clannadonia
• danú
• de dannan
• dervish
• gaelic storm
• julie fowlis
• luar na lubre
• lúnasa
• máire brennan
• mary black
• milladoiro
• solas
• t with the maggies

alt-country, gothic americana, southern gothic

• agnes obel
• amigo the devil
• angel olsen
• chelsea wolfe
• darkher
• delta rae
• emma ruth rundle
• ethel cain
• gåte
• harvestman
• king dude
• marissa nadler
• me and that man
• mirel wagner
• rykarda parasol
• scott kelly
• scott kelly and the road home
• sharon van etten
• steve von till

• aara
• agalloch
• alcest
• alda
• ambeon
• amesoeurs
• an autumn for crippled children
• aquilus
• auðn
• black math horseman
• blackbraid
• book of sand
• caladan brood
• cult of luna
• dawn ray'd
• deafheaven
• der weg einer freiheit
• echtra
• falls of rauros
• fauna
• fen

• 5ive
• acid bath
• alunah
• avatarium
• baroness
• bathsheba
• battle of mice
• black cobra
• black moth
• black pyramid
• black sabbath
• black tusk
• blood ceremony
• bongzilla
• boris
• burial chamber trio
• candlemass
• castle
• cathedral
• coven
• crowbar

• aesma daeva
• after forever
• aghast
• ambeon
• amorphis
• anathema
• autumn
• autumn tears
• borknagar
• cadaveria
• darkwell
• dismal euphony
• draconian
• evoken
• flowing tears
• haggard
• hammers of misfortune
• in the woods...
• katatonia
• lacuna coil
• lake of tears

• ablaze my sorrow
• at the gates
• bathory
• benediction
• blood incantation
• bloodbath
• brujeria
• celtic frost
• children of bodom
• corrosion of comformity
• entombed
• eternal tears of sorrow
• gojira
• holy moses
• king diamond
• kreator
• lamb of god
• mercyful fate
• napalm death
• probot
• ratos de porão

• kraftwerk
• neu!
• tangerine dream

aggrotech, ebm, industrial

• amduscia
• apoptygma berzerk
• dulce liquido
• einstürzende neubauten
• front 242
• funker vogt
• godflesh
• hocico
• icon of coil
• ministry
• nine inch nails
• nitzer ebb
• skinny puppy
• vnv nation

retrowave

• carpenter brut
• dan terminus
• dance with the dead
• perturbator

• bauhaus
• christian death
• cocteau twins
• dead can dance
• diary of dreams
• estampie
• faith and the muse
• forndom
• him
• joy division
• killing joke
• lebanon hanover
• lycia
• mephisto walz
• miranda sex garden
• molchat doma
• nick cave and the bad seeds
• qntal
• rosetta stone
• she past away
• siouxsie and the banshees

• bad bunny
• britney spears
• buena vista social club
• carla bruni
• chappell roan
• charli xcx
• dua lipa
• ibeyi
• lady gaga
• madonna
• rosalía
• saint levant
• sarah mclachlan
• stromae
• the weeknd
• yamê

• chet baker
• dizzy gillespie
• ella fitzgerald
• herbie hancock
• john coltrane
• louis armstrong
• miles davis
• oscar peterson

• a-ha
• blondie
• depeche mode
• duran duran
• glaare
• lexxe
• madeline goldsteina
• new order
• srsq
• talking heads
• tears for fears