The Present (2000's)

What is rock? Well that is one difficult question to answer if you go and look at the rock today and the rock from the past. That is why I have decided to take a look into where this genre originated and see how it has developed into what it is today.

The Present
(2000's)

Strictly seen out of a popular perspective since the decade is not over and the genres are still continuing, the Nineties had left over its Punk-rockers and Psychedelic movements for the new century. Here you see Punk’s ancestors guiding punk to be as strong and fast as ever but also birthing an emotional and depressing group of bands now titled as Emo. Along with this, Heavy Metal’s children had become heavier and utilized guttural screams and growls to the genre’s vocals and earned the new innovation to the genre the title of the New Wave of American Metal. The aspects of these genres quickly combined within a year or two and made a hybrid that has been called Screamo and (having stolen the previous title for the New Wave of Punk) Hardcore. But along with all this the music has become vastly intricate and complicated involving aspects of Shred-Metal that had birthed in the Nineties along with the other sub-genres of Heavy Metal.
Along with this you see an aspect that had become out of Psychedelic and Folk Rock in the Alternative Indy scene. More and more bands are becoming regressive looking back and taking aspects of rocks roots and in a way, progressing rock music further. They have taken a “natural” stance that could be related back to the Psychedelic movements that were in the Sixties. Here you see rock being a blend of world music, but still have the same edge and attitude that created rock.