History GenreMashup / Music

** ''Music/HybridTheory'' and ''Music/{{Meteora}}'' mixed together NuMetal, rap, and rock. The latter had heavier use of electronica.

** ''Living Things'' could be described as "ElectronicMusic meets RapRock", being a combination of the previous four albums made to create something completely new.

* The music of the Japanese band Music/DirEnGrey has covered just about every sub-genre of HeavyMetal, with the exception of ''maybe'' PowerMetal.

** FolkMetal is usually a combinatin of Death/Black/Power Metal with whatever the band members' local/ethnic folk music traditions are. It has spawned two sub-genres -- CelticMetal, which is FolkMetal incorporating [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_music Celtic revival]] styles; and OrientalMetal, which is FolkMetal based on Middle-Eastern musical traditions.

* AvantGardeMetal thrives on this trope. Bands either combine lots of genres, or combine a few genres and have a really odd way of putting it all together. And now, this isn't limited to musical genres, as non-music genres are also are used, particularly in more novetly bands. They also often abruptly switch between styles.

* Avant-Garde Metal thrives on this trope. Bands either combine lots of genres, or combine a few genres and have a really odd way of putting it all together. They also often abruptly switch between styles.

* Although commonly associated with ProgressiveRock, influential Canadian band Music/{{Rush}} has seen considerable variation in their sound. Starting out as a straightforward Hard Rock/early Heavy-Metal band, they evolved through Prog Rock and Synth Rock, while incorporating elements of Jazz, Reggae, Pop, and even Rap; before returning to their hard rock roots, including releasing an album of classic Rock covers.

* Nearly every Music/{{Beck}} album contains some flavor of this, to the point where you could say that mixing and matching musical genres ''is'' his genre.

* Music/{{Beck}} has done rap, jazz, pop, rock, hip-hop, blues, country, tropicalia, techno, experimental, indie, alternative, folk, anti-folk, dance, funk... Beck has really done a lot.

* Music/{{Blondie}} started out a reggae-influenced punk band, added synthesizers and pop hooks and moved into new wave, and in the process incorporated elements of funk and rap.

* Music/{{Blondie}}: Starting off in the PunkRock and GarageRock movement but their discography gradually covered pop, hard rock, new wave disco, rap reggae, calypso, motown and electronica. Most critics either call them a punk band with pop tendencies or a pop band with punk tendencies, but the band would admit that they don't belong to any classification. They not only brought a lot of variety to pop music, but they also challenged punk's ethos of being anti-disco and helped to create new wave in the process.

* {{Britpop}} band Supergrass was originally described as the Buzzcocks, the Jam, Madness, the Kinks, Small Faces, Elton John, David Bowie, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones thrown into a blender.

* Singer-songwriter Michael Gira's second (and current[[note]]Reformed with a new line-up in early 2010[[/note]]) band Music/{{Swans}}. Each album essentially has its own genre distinction, the most inexplicable being their first (1982's ''Filth'') and "last" (1997's ''Soundtracks For The Blind''). The latter, in particular, has no sense of genre distinction whatsoever and is best described as a 150-minute sonic MindScrew. To many, proof that TrueArtIsIncomprehensible; [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome proof that Michael Gira is God]]. Whichever.

** {{Industrial}} music itself combines the instrumentation of SynthPop with the MindScrew elements of PsychedelicRock and the "screw you" attitude of PunkRock; it was also influenced by [[EverythingIsAnInstrument Musique Concréte]], [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible avant-garde classical]] and [[SensoryAbuse extreme performance]] [[SurrealHorror art]]. Over time, DarkWave and {{Trance}} began to influence the genre as well.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Wave No Wave]] is PunkRock mixed with {{Jazz}}, {{Funk}}, [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible avant-garde classical,]] and SensoryAbuse.

* Soul Coughing were (and still are) so hopelessly ''sui generis'' that they had to invent a genre name for themselves -- "deep slacker jazz". It's very jazz-inspired (especially evident on Ruby Vroom), but there are rock songs, and indie/pop rock is often injected into the mix.

* If you happen to be listening to a band who can go through funk, pop, jazz, soul, swing, alt rock and death metal in the same song and think "Business is usual" you're probably listening to something by Music/MikePatton (Music/FaithNoMore, Fantomas, Music/MrBungle).
* A Day To Remember from pop punk to death metal with post-hardcore and metalcore in between... well it's something.
* The '90s underground band ''Switchblade Symphony'' mixed hip-hop with wailing goth.
** One review described ''Switchblade Symphony'' as "Gothadelic Trip-Hop."