• a perfect circle
• afghan whigs
• alice in chains
• auf der maur
• faith no more
• fantômas
• garbage
• helmet
• hole
• incubus
• kyuss
• l7
• los natas
• melvins
• mr. bungle
• nirvana
• primus
• puscifer
• queens of the stone age
• screaming trees
• smashing punpkins

• 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

• agnes obel
• angel olsen
• anna von hausswolff
• eivør pálsdóttir
• esben and the witch
• iamamiwhoami
• ionnalee
• kate bush
• lana del rey
• lykke li
• pj harvey
• soap&skin
• st. vincent
• susanne sundfør
• tori amos
• weyes blood
• zella day
• zola jesus

dream pop; showgaze

• autumn's grey solace

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

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

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

• cat stevens
• fairport convention
• galley beggar
• june tabor
• maddy prior
• pentangle
• shirley collins
• silly sisters
• steeleye span
• the byrds
• 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

• amigo the devil
• chelsea wolfe
• darkher
• 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
• steve von till
• the civil wars
• the dead south
• the handsome family
• those poor bastards

• 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
• cadaveria
• darkwell
• dismal euphony
• draconian
• evoken
• flowing tears
• haggard
• hammers of misfortune
• in the woods...
• katatonia
• lacuna coil
• lake of tears
• lumsk

• 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
• mercyful fate
• napalm death
• ratos de porão
• rivers of nihil
• soilwork

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

krautrock

• kraftwerk
• neu!
• tangerine dream

retrowave

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

• buena vista social club
• carla bruni
• ibeyi
• saint levant
• stromae
• yamê