Want to Know About What Bands Rocked the 90s? Bang Your Head to These!

Ever since the invention of the genre, rock music has always embodied rebellion and youthful energy. There are few other styles of music that are bolder, more militant and more energetic than rock music. And everyone from Elvis Presley's pelvis to Bob Dylan's poetry has changed the world in its own way. The nineties has also had its share of rocking rebels. From the aggressive advent of rap-rock and nu metal to the brash, unwashed and unapologetic style of grunge, the 90s was a rocking battleground and these were some of its most powerful warriors.

- Limp Bizkit: You can love them for their energy or hate them for accusations of selling out but undoubtedly Limp Bizkit became a household name in the late 90s. With the hits 'Nookie', 'Break Stuff', and 'Rollin'', Limp Bizkit ruled the charts with an iron fist. And admit it, you wore your red cap backwards for a few months, didn't you?

- Matchbox 20: The landscape of rock was never the same after the hit single 'Push'. Rob Thomas and his crew of rowdy rockers named after a nagging habit have been releasing smash hits for more than a decade now. Their combination of soulful songwriting and catchy alternative rock tunes have propelled them to the top and have helped them to stay there.

- Rage Against The Machine: If you thought that loud music was all about decadence and over the top sexual behavior, you haven't listened to Rage Against The Machine. Their lyrical output matches the aggressive delivery of their frontman, Zack de la Rocha. Politics, militancy, protest and leftist sympathies fill the song sheets of this band. This group embodied the rage and righteous anger of an entire generation milked by dirty capitalism and corrupt bureaucracies.

These are just a few of the bands that ruled loud and proud in the 90s. If you want to know the others who made the list, especially the one band that topped the list, go to: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-90s-rock-bands/

Music History - Industrial Rock - Origins, Influential Bands and Equipment

Industrial rock arose at end of the 1970s as a number of rock and post-punk bands started to use synthesizers to add an industrial feel to their guitar-based music. The genre draws influences from a number of sources, including noise music and electro-industrial as well as post-punk and traditional rock music. It is often mistaken for industrial metal, which is a separate industrial genre that did not develop until nearly a decade later.

Early industrial rock was made by a number of bands, including groups such as Killing Joke, SPK, Einst?rzende Neubauten, Die Krupps and Test Dept. The work of these bands would later have an impact on the development of the genre and industrial music as a whole. Certain releases by influential industrial metal bands like as Nine Inch Nails can also be taken as examples of industrial rock. Other popular bands that have contributed to the genre in one way or another include Gary Numan, KMFDM, Celldweller and Gravity Kills. The American band Filter has also had considerable commercial success.

Since the genre draws heavily on influences from rock and post-punk as well as the world of electronic music, industrial rock bands often use a mixture of both acoustic and electronic music gear. Some of the most widely-used pieces of music equipment used in the genre are Digidesign Pro Tools, Apple Logic, the Sherman Filterbank, the Kurzweil K2000 and Clavia Nord Lead. The genre features frequent use of effects processors and industrial production techniques to distort recorded guitar riffs and acoustic drums in ways not usually found in other rock music genres.

Similar to industrial metal, industrial rock experienced its peak of commercial success in the 1990s, especially in North America. Since then, popular interest in the genre has faded considerably.

Taylor is a contributor at Alternative-Electronics.com, the most comprehensive resource online for the music equipment used in alternative electronic music, where you can also read more about industrial rock bands.