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- .CASTING answers the question "What would it sound like if Donuts-era J Dilla made vaporwave?"
- 100 Gecs is Dot Dot Curve and Farrah Abraham meets Ween and Mr. Bungle.
- 38 Special is Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Foreigner.
- 7Chariot (formerly Clairity) sounds like Kate Bush meets Miley Cyrus meets Sia.
- Abiotic was Necrophagist meets Carnifex.
- Aborted is old Carcass meets new Carcass meets Suffocation.
- Accept is Motörhead meets Saxon.
- Acid Bath boils down to Black Sabbath meets Alice in Chains meets a heroin overdose.
- Video on Trial
once described Adam Lambert as "what would happen if Madonna grew a penis and had sex with Lady Gaga."
- Adrenaline Mob is Hellyeah meets Symphony X.
- Aerosmith is The Rolling Stones meets Led Zeppelin.
- Afterbirth is Mortal Decay meets Internal Bleeding meets Voivod meets Drive Like Jehu meets Nomeansno.
- Agent Steel started off as Judas Priest meets Voivod until their breakup in 1987. From their 1999 reunion onward, they've become Pantera meets Voivod.
- AKB48 is what happens when more or less 48 Japanese schoolgirls become Idol Singers.
- In turn, BABYMETAL is what happens when three Idol Singers try to combine both J-Pop and Heavy Metal.
- Akercocke are Belphegor meets Porcupine Tree and Nevermore.
- Alabama is Lynyrd Skynyrd meets The Oak Ridge Boys meets Eagles.
- Alcest is Slowdive mixed with Burzum.
- Alice Francis is Beyoncé meets Caravan Palace.
- Alice in Chains is Nirvana meets Type O Negative.
- Alternatively , Alice in Chains is Black Sabbath meets Melvins with a dash of Pantera
- MTV2 VJ Ian Scott described them as Classic Rock meets Heavy Metal.
- Alestorm is Running Wild meets Dropkick Murphys.
- Alternatively, they're Running Wild meets Korpiklaani.
- Alt-J is Velvet Underground meets Radiohead meets Björk.
- Alterbeast is Necrophagist meets The Black Dahlia Murder meets Conducting from the Grave.
- Alter Bridge is Creed meets Led Zeppelin, Metallica and Deftones.
- Amebix is Discharge meets Venom meets Motörhead with a dash of Killing Joke.
- Amaranthe is Blood Stain Child meets After Forever.
- Amon Amarth is Manowar meets At the Gates.
- Amorphis is Skyclad meets Iron Maiden meets Pink Floyd meets Led Zeppelin.
- Anaal Nathrakh is Marduk meets Pig Destroyer meets Fear Factory.
- Anal Cunt is Napalm Death meets The Mentors.
- Later Anathema is Steven Wilson meets '80s Mike Oldfield.
- Alternatively, Steven Wilson meets Coldplay.
- Or Steven Wilson meets U2.
- A Fine Day to Exit and A Natural Disaster were Radiohead meets Muse, with a dash of Pink Floyd thrown in.
- An Cafe is Oasis meets L'arc-en-Ciel.
- The German EBM group And One sounds like a cross between Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk.
- Angels and Agony are Clan of Xymox meets VNV Nation.
- Angels & Airwaves was (by Tom Delonge's own admission) envisioned as a combination of U2 and Pink Floyd. They combine U2's soaring, arena-rock sound with Pink Floyd's lush soundscapes and outer-space motifs.
- Angra is Freedom Call meets Kate Bush.
- Animal Collective is The Beach Boys (post-1964) meets Aphex Twin and a whole lotta drug.
- Early Anthrax (1984-1990) is Agent Orange meets Metallica meets comic books and Stephen King novels with the image of 70's surf culture. John Bush era Anthrax (1992-2004) is Pearl Jam meets Metallica. Current Anthrax (2011-present) is old Anthrax meets John Bush Anthrax meets Slayer.
- Aphex Twin is Nine Inch Nails meets Merzbow.
- Archspire is Spawn of Possession meets Brain Drill with a vocalist inspired by Tech N9ne.
- Armin Van Buuren is Johann Sebastian Bach meets Jean-Michel Jarre.
- Asia is Yes meets Reo Speedwagon.
- Assemblage 23 is Depeche Mode meets VNV Nation.
- Astral Doors is Dio meets Stratovarius.
- Atheist is Possessed meets Watchtower meets Mahavishnu Orchestra meets War.
- Audioslave is Rage Against the Machine meets Soundgarden (literally since it had Tom Morello and Chris Cornell collaborating).
- Aurora is Björk meets The Cranberries meets Enya.
- Austra is Kate Bush meets The Knife.
- Princess Century, Maya Postepski's Solo Side Project, is Giorgio Moroder meets The Future Sound Of London.
- Autopsy is early Death meets early Trouble.
- Avantasia is Edguy meets Meat Loaf meets Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Avatarium is Pentagram meets Deep Purple meets Heart.
- Axel Rudi Pell is Yngwie Malmsteen meets Helloween meets Crush40
- AWOLNATION is Arctic Monkeys meets The Rolling Stones meets Moby.
- The plot of Ayreon's album The Human Equation is The Wall meets Inside Out.
- Ayria is Lady Gaga meets Emilie Autumn.
- Babe Ruth (the British Progressive Rock/Heavy Metal band from The '70s) was Jefferson Airplane meets Led Zeppelin on the set of a Spaghetti Western.
- In the documentary film Punk: Attitude, Darryl Jenifer of the Bad Brains describes his band as a combination of The Ramones, Sex Pistols, and Dead Boys.
- Early Bathory was Hellhammer meets Discharge, while later Bathory was early Bathory meets Manowar meets Folk Music.
- Battles could be described as "Radiohead meet Frank Zappa."
- Battle Beast is Judas Priest meets Roxette.
- Beartooth is A Day to Remember meets Of Mice & Men meets Descendents.
- Beatallica is, well, The Beatles meets Metallica.
- The Beatles started out as Little Richard meets The Beach Boys (though it should be noted that the latter formed after The Beatles did). Later, they became The Beach Boys meets Frank Zappa.
- Alternately, early Beatles can be described as Buddy Holly meets Chuck Berry, with vocal arrangements by The Everly Brothers.
- The Beach Boys started out as The Four Freshmen meets Chuck Berry in a SoCal surf shop. Later became The Four Freshmen meets The Beatles in a Wall of Sound recording studio.
- Benighted is Cryptopsy + Dying Fetus + Suicide Silence. Their earliest material is more Goatwhore meets Bloodbath.
- Between the Buried and Me is Opeth Meets Mike Patton and tool or Converge Meets tool depending on the album.
- In Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, the Requiem Mass meets the poems of Wilfred Owen.
- Big Data is Gary Numan meets LCD Soundsystem.
- Billy Talent is Alexisonfire meets Rise Against meets Coheed and Cambria.
- The Birthday Massacre is 80's Synth-Pop meets Nine Inch Nails.
- Black Breath is Dismember meets Integrity.
- The Black Dahlia Murder is what happens when At the Gates and Hypocrisy meet Suffocation and Hate Eternal.
- Early Black Flag is The Clash meets The Stooges. Later on, they became The Stooges meets Black Sabbath.
- Black Midi are an interesting case in that their sound pulls from so many sources that they almost become a kind of Rorschach test where every listener has their own personal take on what set of influences encapsulates the band. A few different interpretations...
- Motörhead meets Scott Walker.
- The Butthole Surfers meets Rush.
- Slint meets Hella meets Polvo.
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
- Fugazi meets Talking Heads meets Drive Like Jehu meets Duster.
- Discipline-era King Crimson meets Sonic Youth meets This Heat.
- Lightning Bolt meets Van Der Graaf Generator.
- The Mars Volta meets Talk Talk.
- Primus meets Can.
- Black Sabbath are Blue Cheer meets The Who Live at Leeds.
- And later, Motörhead are Blue Cheer meets a fistful of amphetamines and a side dose of Sex Pistols.
- Blackmore's Night is Steeleye Span meets Rainbow meets Dolly Parton.
- Blood Stain Child is Cascada meets Children of Bodom.
- Early Blind Guardian is Helloween meets Judas Priest, later Blind Guardian is Gamma Ray meets Queen with a bit of Jethro Tull.
- Bloc Party is Blur meets The Cure, and later, Manic Street Preachers meets Depeche Mode.
- Blood Incantation is Timeghoul meets Stargazer meets Morpheus Descends.
- Blur are The Kinks meets The Beatles meets The Jam meets David Bowie meets XTC.
- Blut aus Nord is Summoning meets Godflesh, with Ultima Thulée and the Memoria Vetusta albums being Summoning meets Dissection.
- A good way to sum up Bob Dylan is Woody Guthrie meets Jack Kerouac.
- Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was described by one reviewer as N.W.A. meets John Moschitta, Jr., meets Boyz II Men.
- Bonnie Pink could be called Utada Hikaru meets Colbie Caillat, with a pinch of Steely Dan and Adele.note
- Bookakee was Cephalic Carnage meets Archspire meets GWAR.
- Borgore is Skrillex meets 2 Live Crew.
- Brand of Sacrifice is Oceano meets Beneath The Massacre meets The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza meets Slipknot.
- Brave Combo were so named when people told them how brave they were to play Jimi Hendrix tunes as polkas.
- The Break-Up is The Fitness meets Siouxsie and the Banshees.
- Jon Stewart, during the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors, said of Bruce Springsteen; "I believe that Bob Dylan and James Brown had a baby."
- His debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. was very blatantly "Van Morrison meets Bob Dylan in a Jersey Shore dive bar."
- Brocas Helm is Black Sabbath meets Manowar
- BROCKHAMPTON is One Direction meets OFWGKTA meets N.E.R.D.
- Brokencyde is Daft Punk meets Lil Jon meets Bullet for My Valentine meets nails on a chalkboard.
- The Byrds are The Beatles meets Bob Dylan meets Pete Seeger.
- Can: Funkadelic meets post-Barrett, pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd, with Japanese Jim Morrison on lead vocals.
- Cage the Elephant is The White Stripes meets The Pixies meets Dire Straits.
- Canadian hardcore band Cancer Bats are Down meets Hatebreed.
- Candiria is Deadguy meets Mahavishnu Orchestra meets New York hip-hop.
- Candlemass is Black Sabbath meets Opera.
- Cannibal Corpse is Slayer meets Death.
- Chris Barnes-era Cannibal Corpse is Autopsy meets Deicide.
- Caravan Palace is just about every major swing artist of the 1930s meets The Shamen.
- Carcass's grindcore albums are Napalm Death meets Morbid Angel meets a medical handbook. Their melodic death metal albums are Iron Maiden meets Death
- Carpoolparty is essentially what would happen if That Poppy decided to go into Vaporwave.
- Celldweller is Linkin Park meets Throbbing Gristle.
- Cheap Trick is The Cars meets The Ramones meets Journey.
- The Chain Gang of 1974 is Tears for Fears meets Coldplay.
- Chance the Rapper is Lil Wayne meets Common.
- Cher Lloyd is Nicki Minaj (rapping) and Avril Lavigne (punk-rock image) incarnated.
- Chevelle is tool plus Nirvana with a dash of Radiohead.
- Childish Gambino is Kid Cudi meets Drake with a dash of Kanye West and Andre 3000 for good measure.
- Children of Bodom is Dark Tranquillity meets Stratovarius.
- Chimaira can best be described as the child of Fear Factory, Killswitch Engage, and Morbid Angel.
- Chromeo is basically Zapp meets The System with a dusting of Daft Punk.
- CHVRCHES is Depeche Mode meets Cocteau Twins and Prince.
- Coheed and Cambria is Yes meets blink-182.
- Cimorelli is The Jackson 5 (family of singers) meets the Carpenters (siblings doing music) meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (six girls) as a Girl Group.
- Color Theory is A Ha meets Owl City and/or The Postal Service.
- Combichrist is best described as Ministry and Killing Joke meets Fear Factory.
- Counting Crows is 10,000 Maniacs meets Van Morrison.
- Korean metal band Crash is Metallica meets Lamb of God meets Korn.
- Crowbar is Black Sabbath meets later Black Flag meets Pantera.
- Cryonic Temple is Gamma Ray meets Hammerfall.
- Crush 40 is Scorpions meets Ron Wasserman meets whatever other band they want depending on the song (I.E. Nine Inch Nails in "I Am... All of Me").
- Cryoshell is Evanescence meets Red. And their song "Creeping in my Soul" is basically "In the End" meets "Bring Me to Life".
- Montreal Technical Death Metal band Cryptopsy are Suffocation meets Morbid Angel.
- The Cult are AC/DC meets The Doors.
- Cynic is Atheist meets Voivod.
- Cytotoxin is Benighted meets Beneath the Massacre meets STALKER.
- Dan Bern is Bob Dylan meets early Beck in terms of songwriting.
- The solo album by Dan Swano of Edge of Sanity was self described as "Rush playing Death Metal in the 70s."
- Danzig is The Misfits meets Alice Cooper.
- The Darbies are Greta Van Fleet meets Ratt.
- The Darkness is Queen meets Def Leppard with a bit of Cheap Trick.
- The middle period of the career of Black Metal act Darkthrone is essentially Celtic Frost meets Burzum.
- Dark Moor is Rhapsody of Fire meets Nightwish
- Dark Tranquillity is Dream Theater meets Carcass.
- Their early material can be described as Death meets Kreator.
- Their recent musical output is Death Metal meets Baroque pop.
- Another accurate description for their recent material can be considered Death meets Iron Maiden meets Depeche Mode
- Daryl Hall & John Oates are The Righteous Brothers meets Steely Dan.
- Daughters' early material is The Locust if they were fronted by Birthday Party-era Nick Cave. You Won't Get What You Want adds some Killing Joke and Nine Inch Nails into the mix.
- Dead By April is Backstreet Boys meets modern In Flames.
- Dead Kennedys is Sex Pistols meets The Clash meets The Doors.
- Deadlock is Lacuna Coil meets Soilwork meets Rammstein meets djent.
- Rap act Dead Prez was considered a amalgamation of N.W.A. and Public Enemy.
- Deafheaven are Alcest meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
- Early Death was Kreator meets Celtic Frost. Later Death was early Death meets Atheist.
- Death Grips are Hardcore Hip Hop meets Industrial meets Cyberpunk meets Hardcore Punk.
- Deathspell Omega is Blut aus Nord meets Gorguts.
- The Dear Hunter is The Mars Volta meets Panic! at the Disco with an early 1900s theme.
- Deep Purple - Pink Floyd meets AC/DC.
- Odd example, considering by how much Deep Purple predates AC/DC.
- They started off as The Animals meets Cream.
- Defeated Sanity is Disgorge meets Atheist and Watchtower.
- Deftones is Meshuggah meets My Bloody Valentine and Hum.
- Deicide is Slayer meets Sodom meets Death.
- Delphic is New Order meets The Chemical Brothers.
- Demons And Wizards is literally Iced Earth meets Blind Guardian.
- Demon Hunter is As I Lay Dying, Skillet, and Slipknot thrown in a blender.
- Despised Icon is Devourment meets Cryptopsy meets Hatebreed.
- Dethklok is Dark Tranquillity meets Cannibal Corpse meets Spinal Tap.
- DevilDriver is Coal Chamber meets At the Gates and Lamb of God.
- Alternatively, Fear Factory meets The Black Dahlia Murder and Chimaira.
- Devo is Kraftwerk meets The Residents in a Ohio costume shop.
- Diablo Swing Orchestra is The Andrews Sisters meets Mr. Bungle and Nightwish.
- DIIV is The Cure meets My Bloody Valentine.
- The Dillinger Escape Plan is Converge meets The Who (Rockers Smash Guitars) and early X Japan (Dramatic Shattering, shock elements and even more instrument abuse).
- Early Dimmu Borgir was Bathory meets Enslaved. Newer Dimmu Borgir can be described as Emperor meets Therion meets Mercyful Fate.
- Ronnie James Dio is more or less Black Sabbath meets Rainbow.
- His voice might be described as Freddy Mercury meets Roger Chapman.
- Dir en grey is Faith No More, Converge, Cannibal Corpse, Sunn O))), Deftones, Opeth, etc... meets Visual Kei.
- Discharge is Motörhead meets The Clash.
- Disciple is Def Leppard meets Rage Against the Machine meets Soundgarden meets Jesus.
- Disforia is Blind Guardian meets Rush.
- Dismember is Autopsy meets Iron Maiden.
- Dissection is Bathory meets King Diamond meets Iron Maiden meets Thin Lizzy.
- Dolly Parton began her career as Loretta Lynn meets Jayne Mansfield, but that changed after people became aware of her Hidden Depths.
- Mike O'Donnell & Junior Campbell are Vince DiCola meets British children's television programmes.
- Dong Bang Shin Ki is Arashi meets Korean Pop Music.
- DragonForce is Stratovarius meets Megadeth and Melt-Banana.
- Drake is Lil Wayne meets Kanye West (in fact Lil Wayne was the one who gave him a record deal).
- Dreamtale is Sonata Arctica meets Savatage.
- Dream Theater is Yes (progressive) meets Metallica (metal).
- Dripping was Devourment meets Deadguy.
- Dschinghis Khan is kind of ABBA (Europop) meets Village People (Weird outfits).
- Dying Fetus is Suffocation meets Napalm Death meets Yngwie Malmsteen meets Agnostic Front meets N.W.A..
- Dynatron is Kavinsky meets Jean-Michel Jarre.
- Edge of Attack is Domina Noctis meets Ozzy Osbourne.
- Edguy is Hammerfall meets Bon Jovi.
- Electric Light Orchestra is The Beatles meets Classical Music.
- Electric Wizard is Sleep meets Pentagram.
- Electric Youth is College meets The Corrs.
- Elvenking is Sonata Arctica meets My Chemical Romance meets Skyclad.
- Emeli Sande is the lovechild of John Lennon and Leona Lewis.
- Emilie Autumn's music is Victorian-era Classical Music meets industrial.
- Or Abney Park meets Kate Bush.
- Enslaved is Bathory meets Pink Floyd.
- Enter Shikari is Mr. Bungle meets The Prodigy meets Rage Against the Machine.
- Epica is Kamelot meets Nightwish, with the addition of death growls and classical elements.
- Your Favorite Martian was Gorillaz meets MC Chris.
- Erock's Meets Metal series is specifically based on this, taking songs from different media and making metal covers of them.
- Especia is what you get when you mix Japanese idol music with '80s Japanese funk/R&B, and then throw in some vaporwave flavoring.
- Evanescence is Lacuna Coil meets Björk meets Linkin Park meets Elegant Gothic Lolita.
- Evereve is Type O Negative meets KMFDM.
- Excision is Merzbow meets Skrillex.
- The Evillious Chronicles can best be described as The Bible meets the latter half of Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- meets Rule of Scary meets Vocaloid. With cute animals.
- Eyehategod is The Melvins meets Black Flag meets Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- Faderhead is Nine Inch Nails meets Combichrist.
- Faith Assembly is Depeche Mode meets Enigma.
- Faith No More is simply Mike Patton meets a whole list of rock and metal bands from The '90s.
- Fall of Efrafa are Agalloch meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor after reading Watership Down and a whole bunch of Richard Dawkins.
- The Fall of Troy is At the Drive-In meets The Mars Volta (a strange example since the core of both bands was Cedrix Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez).
- Fallujah is Obscura meets Deftones meets S U R V I V E.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Dethklok meets every electronic music type and fed lots of drugs.
- Fear Factory is Pantera meets Killing Joke meets Swans.
- Their early material can be described as Napalm Death meets Obituary with industrial overtones.
- FEMM could best be described as Lady Gaga meets Daft Punk meets Britney Spears in her heyday.
- Finntroll is traditional Norwegian black metal meets polka music. From Finland. Really.
- Or they're Korpiklaani meets Immortal.
- Fireflight is Evanescence meets Journey meets Sandi Patty.
- First Fragment is Spawn of Possession meets Atheist meets Helstar.
- Fit For An Autopsy is Gojira meets Ion Dissonance.
- Five Star is The Jets meets Control era Janet Jackson.
- Fleet Foxes is The Beach Boys meets Woody Guthrie.
- Fleshgod Apocalypse is Origin meets Dimmu Borgir.
- Flight of the Conchords are Tenacious D meets Simon & Garfunkel.
- Flogging Molly is Social Distortion meets The Dubliners.
- Florence + the Machine: Ginger Spice meets Siouxsie and the Banshees. (Ironic since Flo Welch's favourite Spice Girl was Posh.)
- Fontaines DC is Joy Division meets The Pogues.
- Foxboro Hot Tubs is Green Day meets The Kinks.
- Foxy Shazam, from their second album forward, have been Queen meets The Smashing Pumpkins. Lead singer Eric Nally's voice is best described as Freddie Mercury meets Rivers Cuomo.
- Fuck Buttons are Aphex Twin or Autechre meets Sunn O))).
- Galneryus is X Japan meets Stratovarius meets DragonForce.
- Gamma Ray is Jag Panzer meets Iron Maiden with light cues from Helloween and Judas Priest.
- The Gaslight Anthem is Bruce Springsteen meets The Clash.
- The Gazette is Pitch Shifter meets Deftones meets Visual Kei. Nowadays they've even added Rammstein, Type O Negative and early Dir en grey elements into their sound.
- Gazpacho are a-ha meets Radiohead meets Porcupine Tree.
- George Clinton is James Brown meets Frank Zappa.
- Ghost is Blue Öyster Cult meets Candlemass meets Nightwish
- Ghostemane is Bathory meets XXXTentacion and Three 6 Mafia.
- Gin Blossoms is Bruce Springsteen meets The Pixies.
- Glassjaw is Quicksand meets Faith No More.
- The Glitch Mob is Aphex Twin meets Daft Punk.
- Godflesh is Swans + Killing Joke + Ministry.
- God Is An Astronaut's early music was post-rock meets techno/downtempo. Their newer stuff is closer to straight-up post-rock but still with an electronic influence.
- Godsmack is Alice in Chains meets Disturbed, Creed, and Metallica.
- Gojira is Soulfly meets tool meets a whole pod of Space Whales.
- Gorillaz is Blur meets The Archies
- Gorgoroth is Marduk meets Darkthrone.
- Grabyourface is Nine Inch Nails meets Lana Del Rey meets Christine & The Queens.
- Grandaddy is Pavement meets ElectricLightOrchestra.
- Grandson is Metro Boomin meets Rage Against the Machine.
- Green Carnation is Genesis + Iron Maiden + Candlemass.
- The Australian pop singer Giulietta has been said to be "Lady Gaga meets Cyndi Lauper", though nowadays she's more Rihanna meets Nicki Minaj.
- Green Day is The Clash meets The Cars.
- Greta Van Fleet is Led Zeppelin meets The Strokes.
- Grimes is Björk meets Lights.
- or Aphex Twin meets Japanese Pop Music (but mostly in English) meets 8 and 16-bit era Game Music.
- Progressive Metal band Haji's Kitchen is tool meets Alice in Chains meets Pantera. Their latest album adds Tesserac T to the mix.
- Hacktivist is Meshuggah meets Rage Against the Machine meets Korn, with some flavorings of Jay-Z.
- Hatebreed is Earth Crisis meets Biohazard.
- The Haunted is At the Gates meets Rage Against the Machine.
- Have A Nice Life is Joy Division meets My Bloody Valentine.
- Hawkwind are basically "Pink Floyd meets MC5".
- HEALTH are Sonic Youth meets Death From Above 1979. As of Death Magic, they've also added in some Depeche Mode and Skinny Puppy to the mix. SLAVES OF FEAR adds a sprinkling of Marilyn Manson as well.
- Heart is Led Zeppelin meets Jefferson Airplane.
- Heavenly is Theocracy meets Gamma Ray.
- Helix is literally Assemblage 23(producer Tom Shear) meets Day Twelve(vocalist Mari Kattman).
- Hellhammer was Venom meets Motörhead. In turn, Hellhammer's Spiritual Successor Celtic Frost was Hellhammer meets Metallica. In turn, Celtic Frost's Spiritual Successor Triptykon is Celtic Frost meets My Dying Bride.
- Helloween is Racer X meets Rainbow.
- Hideki Naganuma is something like Fatboy Slim meets J-Pop.
- His Name Is Alive is This Mortal Coil meets The Beach Boys.
- Hollywood Undead is Rage Against the Machine (rap-rock) meets Slipknot (nu metal under masks), under the influence of strong depressants.
- Holy Ghost! is New Order meets Chromeo.
- House of Heroes is Weezer meets Guided By Voices meets R.E.M. meets Jesus.
- Hubert Kah is Modern Talking meets the Pet Shop Boys.
- The Human League's original lineup were Kraftwerk meets Tubeway Army, while their "Mk. II" incarnation are Depeche Mode meets ABC.
- Early Hypocrisy was Dismember meets Morbid Angel; later Hypocrisy is Dismember meets At the Gates meets Nocturnus.
- Iced Earth is Iron Maiden meets Metallica.
- Early Ill Nino is Sepultura meets Linkin Park. Later Ill Nino is Pantera meets Santana.
- In Solitude was Mercyful Fate meets The Cure.
- In This Moment is Lady Gaga meets Korn.
- Illusion Suite is Kamelot meets The Dear Hunter.
- In Flames began essentially as Ceremonial Oath with a dash of Iron Maiden. Now it's more like Korn meets Linkin Park meets Iron Maiden.
- Infant Annihilator is Origin and Brain Drill meet Suicide Silence and a whole lot of Pedophile Priests.
- Ingested is Cryptopsy meets Despised Icon meets Pathology.
- Insomnium is Hypocrisy meets Ensiferum meets My Dying Bride.
- Interface is Depeche Mode meets Welcome to Earth-era Apoptygma Berzerk. In turn, Coldkill is literally Interface meets FGFC820.
- Internal Bleeding was, per Word of God, intended to be Suffocation meets Black Sabbath and Obituary.
- Into Eternity can be described as Judas Priest meets 3 Inches of Blood with a hint of Children of Bodom.
- ionnalee, Jonna Lee's Solo Side Project, is Björk meets CHVRCHES meets The Knife.
- Iris is Edge of Dawn meets Midnight Resistance(both them and Iris were originally signed to A Different Drum).
- Iron Maiden is 70's progressive rock (Kansas, Rush, Jethro Tull etc.) meets Judas Priest.
- Much more Thin Lizzy than Judas Priest early on.
- Issues is N Sync meets Limp Bizkit meets Killswitch Engage.
- Iwrestledabearonce is The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza meets Mr. Bungle on a drug overdose.
- Imagination Movers is The Wiggles meets a G-rated rendition of "manly" culture.
- iVardensphere is Juno Reactor meets Noisex.
- Ian Anderson is the sixth and seventh Doctors crossed with Rincewind the Magician.
- Musically, he's like Frank Zappa, Van Morrison, and Tom Waits had a baby.
- Jag Panzer are Manilla Road meets Accept.
- Gerard Joling is Burt Bacharach meets George Michael.
- Judas Priest started out as Black Sabbath meets Lucifer's Friend meets Budgie. Later, they became Black Sabbath meets Scorpions.
- British band Jungle is essentially Earth, Wind & Fire meets Odyssey-era Jamiroquai.
- K-Ci & Jo Jo is what you get when Peter Cetera and Sam Cooke decide to become a duo.
- French electrofunk/synthwave duo Jupiter are Daft Punk meets Sally Shapiro.
- Kamelot is Stratovarius meets Symphony X.
- Kamikabe is Origin meets Ringworm.
- Kanon Wakeshima is Emilie Autumn meets Japanese Pop Music. With cellos.
- Kalmah is Dark Tranquillity meets Gojira meets the swamps of Finland.
- Kataklysm is Deeds of Flesh meets Amon Amarth, with a dash of Cryptopsy on their first two albums.
- Katatonia started out as Dissection meets My Dying Bride. Later, they became Opeth meets Alice in Chains.
- Kate Bush is Nico meets Pink Floyd.
- Katrina And The Waves (1985's "Walking On Sunshine") was the Cowsills meet the Pretenders.
- Kendrick Lamar is basically Tupac Shakur meets Nas meets Andre 3000.
- Kero Kero Bonito is kinda like Halcali meets London inside a Nintendo 64 soundcard.
- King Crimson are Pink Floyd plus The Beatles meets Metallica.
- King Diamond and Mercyful Fate are Judas Priest meets Alice Cooper with lyrics by Stephen King.
- Gene Simmons said that he originally wanted KISS to be a "Heavy Metal Beatles."
- In their early years they sort of came off as Grand Funk Railroad meets Ziggy Stardust.
- Kidneythieves is Linkin Park meets Nine Inch Nails meets Radiohead meets Korn... With a female vocalist.
- Klaus Nomi was David Bowie meets Kraftwerk meets Luciano Pavarotti.
- Knife Party is Pendulum meets House Music meets Harsh Noise.
- Korn is Pantera meets Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Mr. Bungle.
- Now it's more like Faith No More meets Fear Factory meets Skrillex.
- Korpiklaani is Sky Clad meets Iron Maiden.
- Kraftwerk = The Beatles + Jean-Michel Jarre.
- Kvelertak is Motörhead meets Mayhem. Now with 100% more Word Salad Lyrics.
- Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is Katy Perry meets Gwen Stefani meets Japanese Pop Music.
- Her music is Synth-Pop meets Sensory Abuse.
- Kyle Craft is Bob Dylan meets David Bowie meets Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- The Labrynth may be described as Cylab meets Front 242 meets Project Pitchfork.
- Lady Gaga could be described as Fergie meets Gwen Stefani meets Madonna meets Shazza meets Emilie Autumn meets Marilyn Manson. Add some Postmodernism and Synth-Pop too...
- Lady Sovereign could be described as "Miley Cyrus and Eminem had a baby, with anti-aging drugs."
- She could also be considered as an English Distaff Counterpart to Eminem.
- Another description could be an unholy merger of Kesha and Eminem. In a good way.
- Lamb of God can be described as Pantera and Obituary with an occasional side of Crowbar.
- Merge Barbra Streisand and Christina Aguilera and you get the sort of music Lea Michele makes.
- Led Zeppelin, in mixing heavy rock with Folk Music influences, specifically used The Yardbirds meets The Incredible String Band as their starting point.
- Legion of the Damned is Morbid Angel meets Sodom and Slayer.
- Lemaitre are Royksopp meets deadmau5.
- Lich King is Exodus meets Anthrax meets Manowar.
- Limp Bizkit is Rage Against the Machine meets Korn.
- Linkin Park was Limp Bizkit and Deftones meets Ministry. From their third album onwards, they're more like Muse meets Skinny Puppy.
- Lizzy Borden is Queensrÿche meets Alice Cooper.
- The Lonely Island is Tenacious D meet The Beastie Boys
- Lost Society is Anthrax meets Motörhead meets Pantera meets Kiss.
- M83 is Daft Punk meets My Bloody Valentine.
- Machine Head is Vulgar Display of Power meets Beneath The Remains meets Master of Puppets.
- Manowar is Judas Priest meets Motörhead meets Black Sabbath meets Queen meets a massive fucking boatload of ham.
- 90s band Man Or Astroman has been described as the Ventures meet Devo.
- Manilla Road is Rainbow meets Motörhead.
- Maria Cross is Phil Anselmo meets Seth Putnam meets Dani Filth meets Chris Barnes meets Kyo meets Harsh Noise.
- Marilyn Manson: Todd in the Shadows described him as "What happens when you rip off Alice Cooper but you forget to have any fun, David Bowie without the soul and Nine Inch Nails without the angst".
- Marina & the Diamonds is Kate Bush meets R.E.M..
- Marsheaux sounds like Eurythmics meets Gary Numan meets Ladytron.
- Maximum the Hormone is something like Faith No More meets Meshuggah meets Andrew W.K. meets BABYMETAL.
- Maxwell is often described as Marvin Gaye meets Sade.
- Mayhem is early Bathory meets early Sodom. On Grand Declaration of War, they shifted to old Mayhem meets Ministry.
- Meghan Trainor is Adele meets Katy Perry with a dash of Tracy Turnblad for good measure.
- Her Thank You era is Britney Spears (pre-2007 only) meets Becky G.
- Melanie Martinez is Marina & the Diamonds meets some nursery rhymes meets Alessia Cara.
- Melt-Banana is Anal Cunt meets J-pop.
- Merzbow is Throbbing Gristle meets Swans meets Japan.
- Meshuggah is Atheist meets Pantera meets Nevermore meets apocalyptic science fiction.
- Metallica has gone through many changes throughout each albums.
- Their first three albums and Death Magnetic are essentially Diamond Head meets Discharge. They've described their early sound as Diamond Head meets Motörhead.
- ...And Justice For All is their first three albums meet Dream Theater
- ''Metallica'' is Diamond Head meets AC/DC
- Load and ''ReLoad'' are Diamond Head meets Radiohead
- St. Anger is a trash can-sounding snare meets horrible-sounding production.
- Lulu is literally Metallica meets Lou Reed.
- Microchip League is Front 242 meets early KMFDM.
- Midnight Star is closer to being Zapp meets Earth Wind and Fire meets Atlantic Starr.
- A Billboard review of Miguel ("Adorn") describes him as Babyface meets R. Kelly. Or alternatively Babyface meets The Weeknd.
- MGK (Machine Gun Kelly) is Tech N9ne meets Eminem.
- Mindless Self Indulgence can be described as the modern-sounding punk-pop of Fall Out Boy with the comedic machismo of Electric Six and the overarching Genre Roulette one would associate with Primus.
- Ministry is Skinny Puppy meets Megadeth and Slayer.
- The Misfits are The Ramones meets B-movie cheese.
- Missy Higgins is Alanis Morissette meets Kate Bush.
- Moe and ghosts sounds like a mix of Cibo Matto, Wyclef Jean, and Busta Rhymes, with a dash of Ol' Dirty Bastard.
- Early Morbid Angel is Death meets Hell Awaits-era Slayer. Later Morbid Angel is early Morbid Angel meets Ceremony meets Cryptopsy.
- Mortician is Impetigo meets Necrophagia.
- Mother's Finest was described by some fans as Led Zeppelin meets Ike and Tina.
- Motionless In White is Marilyn Manson meets Breaking Benjamin.
- Mr. Bungle is Faith No More meets Captain Beefheart.
- Mr. Scruff is Fatboy Slim meets Groove Armada.
- Mumford & Sons is The Violent Femmes meets Noah And The Whale.
- Muse is Queen meets Science Fiction: particularly Orwell. Or Progressive Rock meets Electronic Music. Or Queen meets Radiohead with a bit of Rush and Dream Theater thrown in for good measure.
- My Dying Bride is Black Sabbath meets Death meets Joy Division
- Nanowar of Steel is Manowar meets "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- Napalm Death is Discharge meets Swans meets Possessed.
- Neck Deep is blink-182 meets Millencolin
- Nellie McKay is Norah Jones meets Doris Day meets Randy Newman.
- Nero is Skream and Skrillex meet Nevermore.
- Neurosis is Godflesh meets Crowbar meets tool.
- The New Division is New Order meets Depeche Mode meets The Magnetic Fields.
- Nevermore is Iced Earth meets Pantera meets Megadeth meets Atheist.
- New York Dolls is The Stooges meets The Rolling Stones.
- Nicki Minaj is 50% Lady Gaga (glammed-out dress style) and 50% Lil' Kim (female rapper).
- Ninja Sex Party is They Might Be Giants meets Steel Panther meets Billy Idol. Their spinoff band Starbomb is Ninja Sex Party meets Eminem.
- Nightwish's "Meadows Of Heaven" song is like Gospel music + choir vocals (especially towards the end) mixed with Epic Rocking.
- The band itself is Opera meets Power Metal.
- Or maybe Savatage meets Lacuna Coil.
- Nile is Suffocation meets Morbid Angel meets Egyptian Mythology.
- NINA is Björk(or Kate Bush) meets Erasure(she opened for them on their 2011 tour) meets Nena(both her and NINA are German).
- Nirvana has been self-described as The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath. Or, as Jon Stewart once described them, "It was like The Beatles had swallowed Black Flag".
- Nitro has been said to be Mötley Crüe plus King Diamond.
- The Northern Kings is Me First and the Gimme Gimmes meets Sonata Arctica and Nightwish.
- Nothing But Noise is Front 242 meets Tangerine Dream.
- Nothing More is Queensrÿche and Coheed and Cambria meet Linkin Park and Drowning Pool.
- Novembers Doom were described by frontman Paul Kuhr as Grave meets Celtic Frost meets The Doors.
- Nuclear Assault is Anthrax meets DRI.
- Oasis: Liam Gallagher's vocal style has been described as a cross between John Lennon and Johnny Rotten.
- Oathean is Behemoth meets Chthonic meets Korean folk music.
- Obituary is Celtic Frost meets Death.
- Oceans of Slumber is Anathema meets Borknagar meets Edge of Sanity meets Mastodon.
- Of Mice and Men are Attack Attack! minus electronic music plus djent.
- The Offspring is Agent Orange meets Green Day.
- Olive was Dido meets Enya meets Everything but the Girl.
- Ollie Wride is Phil Collins meets Sting.
- One Direction can be seen as Backstreet Boys (boy band) meets Justin Bieber (popular with the same generation of teenage girls).
- Onesidezero is tool meets Breaking Benjamin
- Opeth is Genesis meets Entombed meets Death meets Judas Priest.
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are Kraftwerk meets Merseybeat.
- Origin is Deicide meets Napalm Death meets Yngwie Malmsteen
- Overcast was Leeway meets Crowbar.
- Ozzy Osbourne is Satan meets Count Dracula meets Robert Plant.
- His solo work is Black Sabbath meets Thin Lizzy.
- A Pale Horse Named Death is Type O Negative meets Alice in Chains.
- Panic! at the Disco could be described as Fall Out Boy meets The Killers or The Beatles, depending on the album.
- Pantera is what happens when a certain Texas Hair Metal band meets the Big Four of Thrash, drops the glam look, and takes a Darker and Edgier turn.
- Parov Stelar is Django Reinhardt meets Skrillex.
- Pathfinder is Nightwish meets Stratovarius.
- Periphery is Meshuggah meets Deftones and Porcupine Tree.
- Persuader is Blind Guardian meets Metallica.
- Perturbator is Kavinsky meets Project Pitchfork, with a siding of Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie.
- Phantogram is Eurythmics meets J Dilla with a sprinkling of Moby and Portishead on top.
- Depending on the song, Pogo is Todd Edwards meets either Nujabes or Owl City.
- Portugal. The Man is Cream meets Franz Ferdinand meets Cage the Elephant.
- Possessed is Slayer meets Celtic Frost meets Venom.
- Porcupine Tree is Pink Floyd meets Rush meets Metallica.
- Power Glove is Giorgio Moroder meets Vangelis meets Brad Fiedel meets John Carpenter.
- Power Quest is Freedom Call meets Thin Lizzy.
- Alternatively, they are DragonForce meets Journey
- Powerwolf is Sabaton meets Lordi.
- Pretty Maids is Mötley Crüe meets Iron Maiden
- The Pretty Reckless is Heart meets Halestorm
- Pride and Fall is Angels and Agony (or Edge of Dawn) meets Colony 5.
- Primus is Rush meets The Residents.
- Los Prisioneros is Garage Rock meets Punk meets Reggae meets New Wave Music meets Synth-Pop meets Rockabilly.
- Protest the Hero is The Dillinger Escape Plan meets Billy Talent with a dash of King Crimson.
- The Protomen is Queen meets Iron Maiden meets Journey meets Bonnie Tyler. Plus Mega Man as a lyrical theme. The most 80s band out there.
- Psychostick is Bloodhound Gang meets Hatebreed and/or Five Finger Death Punch.
- Pyrrhon is Gorguts meets Dysrhythmia meets early The Dillinger Escape Plan.
- The Qemists are Pendulum meets The Prodigy meets Noisia.
- Quarashi is Rage Against the Machine meets the Beastie Boys.
- Early Queen was Led Zeppelin meets David Bowie.
- Queensrÿche is Iron Maiden meets Pink Floyd.
- Radiohead is essentially The Pixies meets R.E.M. meets Aphex Twin plus Pink Floyd.
- Rage Against the Machine is Eminem meets Faith No More.
- Alternatively, they are Public Enemy meets Converge.
- Raging Silence is Edge of Dawn meets Hans Zimmer meets Laibach meets Skrillex.
- The Rain Within is Bella Morte (being a Solo Side Project of said band) meets Depeche Mode meets Erasure.
- Rammstein is Ministry meets Laibach.
- The Ramones are The Beach Boys (pre-1965) meets the New York Dolls.
- Early Rainbow is Deep Purple meets Black Sabbath. Their material without Ronnie James Dio is Deep Purple meets Def Leppard.
- Red is Chevelle meets Kamelot with a dash of Deftones.
- The Regrettes is Bikini Kill meets The Ronettes. Lead vocalist Lydia Night is Kathleen Hanna meets Ronnie Spector with a bit of Matthew Shultz mixed in too.
- Replacire is Martyr meets Decapitated meets tool.
- Republica is EMF meets Fleetwood Mac.
- Revocation is early The Faceless meets Demolition Hammer with a siding of Megadeth.
- Rhapsody of Fire is Stratovarius meets Ludwig van Beethoven meets an original storyline consisting of nine albums and an EP.
- Rich Girl is when Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland decide to call up Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls to form a super group.
- Rings Of Saturn is Arsonists Get All The Girls meets Viraemia... IN SPACE!! Alternatively, it's Internal Suffering meets Chelsea Grin.
- Rise Against is The Offspring meets My Chemical Romance.
- Rodriguez = Bob Dylan + José Feliciano.
- Robert Plant + Guy Gardner = Axl Rose.
- Roxi Drive is Dana Jean Phoenix meets The Go-Go's meets mid-80s Madonna.
- The Ruins Of Beverast is Nagelfar meets Skepticism.
- Running Wild is Judas Priest meets Accept in the age of Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
- Rush is Led Zeppelin meets Styx meets Yes.
- The Rutles are The Beatles meets Spinal Tap via Monty Python.
- Sacramentum is Marduk meets Dark Tranquillity.
- Sabaton is Manowar meets Racer X playing Horrible History Metal.
- Saint Motel is The Strokes meets Stevie Wonder.
- Saraya is Hardline meets Heart.
- Savatage is Queen meets Guns N' Roses.
- Scarlxrd is Deftones meet Migos and Dizzee Rascal.
- Scar Symmetry can be described as Soilwork meets Meshuggah.
- The later works of Ukrainian black metal outfit Semargl can be described as Amaranthe meets Black Metal.
- Brazilian Goth Metal band Semblant is Arch-Enemy meets Lacuna Coil
- Early Sepultura is Slayer meets Sodom; later Sepultura is Pantera meets Fear Factory meets traditional Brazilian music.
- Stryper can be described as The Bible engages in a gay orgy with KISS and Metallica while Devo films the whole thing.
- Septycal Gorge is Defeated Sanity meets Hour of Penance.
- Sequester is Sonata Arctica meets Pearl Jam.
- Seremedy is Escape the Fate meets Versailles and Soilwork.
- Shawn Mendes is JesseMcCartney (both are Disney Channel-friendly Teen Idol Pretty Boy, similar in magnitude of following in their respective times) meets John Mayer (somber, heartfelt music with acoustic guitar).
- Sheryl Crow is Bonnie Raitt meets Rickie Lee Jones.
- Shinedown is Soundgarden meets 3 Doors Down with a dash of Linkin Park.
- SHINee is Dong Bang Shin Ki meets Oshare Kei.
- Shining (Sweden) is Burzum meets Opeth.
- Shotty Horroh is Liam Gallagher meets Skepta.
- Sigh is Emperor meets Faith No More meets King Diamond.
- Signs of the Swarm is Abominable Putridity meets Oceano.
- SikTH is The Dillinger Escape Plan meets Korn meets Converge.
- Silencer is Burzum meets an insane asylum.
- To be more descriptive, Burzum meets Bethlehem.
- Simon & Garfunkel were The Everly Brothers meet Bob Dylan.
- Sine City is A Ha meets The Frozen Autumn meets Wolfsheim. Or Kraftwerk meets Apoptygma Berzerk meets The Cruxshadows.
- Sixx AM is Mötley Crüe meets Three Days Grace meets Masterplan.
- Six Feet Under is Obituary meets Morbid Angel meets Bolt Thrower.
- Skrillex is Skream meets Aphex Twin or Deadmau5 meets Merzbow, depending on the song.
- Skindred is mid-career Sepultura + Reggae or Bad Brains meets Soulfly, System of a Down and Candiria.
- Skinny Puppy is Throbbing Gristle meets Kraftwerk.
- Skyclad is Judas Priest meets Steeleye Span.
- Slayer is Motörhead meets Metallica and Venom.
- Sleepy Brown has been described as a lechery-prone Curtis Mayfield and "I Want You"-era Marvin Gaye with the imagery of Hot Buttered Soul-era Isaac Hayes.
- Slipknot is Korn meets Acid Bath meets Morbid Angel.
- SMP is Nine Inch Nails meets the Beastie Boys.
- Social Distortion is Agent Orange meets Johnny Cash.
- Solar Fields is Jean-Michel Jarre meets Tangerine Dream meets Juno Reactor.
- Early Soulfly was Sepultura meets Santana. Now it's more like old Sepultura meets new Sepultura meets tribal percussion.
- Early Sonata Arctica is Helloween meets Yes. For Unia and Days of Grays, they were Lacuna Coil meets Asia, Stones Grow Her Name is Edguy meets Primus, and Pariah's Child and The Ninth Hour are old Sonata Arctica meets new Sonata Arctica.
- Soundgarden is Motörhead meets Black Sabbath meets Sonic Youth.
- Steam Powered Giraffe is Voltaire meets Bruce Springsteen meets Sam Cooke. Their backstories are Warehouse 13 meets Leviathan meets Jojos Bizarre Adventure as told by L. Frank Baum. Yeah...
- The Stooges are The Rolling Stones meets The Doors meets The Sonics meets Velvet Underground.
- "Stop Pause" is "Land Of 1,000 Dances" meets Southern Hip-Hop.
- Steel Panther is Poison meets The Lonely Island in a vaguely Spinal Tap-shaped package.
- Stratovarius is Helloween meets Scorpions.
- Strawberry Switchblade is Lady Gaga meets The Cure meets Cyndi Lauper.
- Styx have been described by critics as Queen without the fun and Yes without the proficiency.
- Suffocation is Death meets Terrorizer.
- Alternatively, Harmony Corruption-era Napalm Death meets Butchered at Birth-era Cannibal Corpse.
- Suicidal Tendencies is Minor Threat meets Music/Slayer meets Living Colour.
- Supercell is Nine Inch Nails meets Hatsune Miku meets Nico Nico Douga meets Pixiv.
- Supertramp is Rush meets Steely Dan.
- Swallow The Sun is Insomnium meets Theatre of Tragedy.
- Swans: Pink Floyd meets Throbbing Gristle.
- Symphony X is what you would get with Dream Theater playing Power Metal, particularly Rhapsody of Fire.
- System of a Down is Faith No More meets Middle Eastern music.
- Teenage Bottlerocket is NOFX meets Weezer meets Jim's Big Ego.
- Theocracy is Helloween meets Angra meets Jesus.
- They Might Be Giants are "Weird Al" Yankovic meets Mind Screw meets Word Salad Lyrics meets Crazy Awesome!
- They're more like Frank Zappa meets Elvis Costello meets David Bowie meets Christopher Titus.
- XTC meets The Residents would also work.
- Thin Lizzy is Jimi Hendrix meets Van Morrison.
- Threat Signal is the child of Fear Factory, Killswitch Engage, Meshuggah, and Linkin Park. note
- 3 Inches of Blood are something akin to Judas Priest meets HammerFall with harsh vocals.
- Or Slayer meets Iron Maiden.
- Throbbing Gristle is Kraftwerk meets Cromagnon meets Metal Machine Music.
- Tigers Jaw is Fleetwood Mac meets Brand New.
- Tom Petty was Buddy Holly meets The Byrds.
- tool are King Crimson meets Nine Inch Nails.
- Tourniquet is Slayer + Petra with a dash of Rush.
- The Toyes are Bob Marley meets the Barenaked Ladies.
- Trap Them is Entombed meets His Hero Is Gone meets Integrity.
- TRAX is L'arc-en-Ciel meets X Japan meets Korean Pop Music.
- Trivium are Metallica meet Killswitch Engage.
- Trouble is Black Sabbath meets Led Zeppelin.
- TR/ST is Erasure meets mind.in.a.box.
- Turisas have been described as "the bastard offspring of The Levellers and Manowar".
- Tyler, the Creator is early Eminem meets Lil Wayne meets MF Doom.
- Twelve Foot Ninja is Mr. Bungle and early Red Hot Chili Peppers meet Periphery.
- Twenty One Pilots is MGMT meets My Chemical Romance with a dash of Linkin Park and Brokencyde.
- Two Gallants is The Violent Femmes meets Bob Dylan.
- Ulcerate is Gorguts meets Deathspell Omega meets Neurosis.
- Unleashed is Bathory's lyrics meets Entombed's sound.
- Until BEN is Depeche Mode meets Radiohead.
- Upon a Burning Body is Despised Icon meets Ill Nino.
- Vamps is whan happens when Marilyn Manson meets Japan.
- Vandal Moon sound like either Clan of Xymox meets Gary Numan, or Depeche Mode meets The Sisters of Mercy.
- Veil of Maya is At the Gates meets djent.
- Vein is Deftones meets Hatebreed meets Converge.
- Vektor is Destruction meets Immortal meets Watchtower.
- Venetian Snares is Whitehouse meets Aphex Twin.
- Venom is Motörhead meets Black Sabbath.
- Versailles is Gackt meets DragonForce meets The Rose of Versailles.
- It's literally Lareine meets the Hizaki Grace Project.
- And Jupiter is basically 80% of the band meets Progressive Metal.
- Victoria Celestine is Lights meets CHVRCHES meets Country Taylor Swift.
- The Violent Femmes is Velvet Underground meets Woody Guthrie meets Bill Gaither.
- Virgin Steele is Manowar meets Savatage.
- Virus is Voivod meets Killing Joke meets King Crimson meets System of a Down meets Talking Heads.
- V is for Villains is Nine Inch Nails meets John Williams
- Visigoth is Music/Cathedral meets Music/Manowar.
- Vocaloid is Synthetic Voice Actor meets Auto-Tune.
- Voice of the Beehive is The Bangles meets Kirsty Mac Coll.
- Void Vision is Berlin meets Dead Can Dance meets Emilie Autumn meets Kraftwerk.
- Voivod is Motörhead meets Pink Floyd meets Celtic Frost.
- Volbeat is Elvis Presley meets Danzig.
- Wagakki Band is basically what happens to Slipknot if they were Visual Kei, played Japanese folk music, and had a kimono-wearing chick for a singer. Yeah, make of that if you will.
- Watchtower is Helstar meets Rush meets Weather Report.
- Weezer is Semisonic meets They Might Be Giants meets The Beatles.
- Or Buddy Holly meets The Cars meets Nirvana.
- When they started out, their vision statement was basically "A loud version of The Beach Boys".
- "Weird Al" Yankovic is Allan Sherman meets Devo meets just about every trend in popular music since 1979.
- The White Stripes are MC5 meets Elvis Costello meets Dead Kennedys.
- Wind Rose is Sabaton meets Elvenking.
- Winds of Plague is Bleeding Through meets Suffokate.
- Winger is White Lion meets Queensrÿche
- Wolfmother is AC/DC meets Black Sabbath meets Led Zeppelin.
- Wolves at the Gate is Underoath meets DragonForce meets The Bible.
- Xeno & Oaklander are Kraftwerk meets Cocteau Twins meets Daft Punk.
- X Japan is basically KISS meets Twisted Sister meets Metallica meets Dream Theater meets Yoshiki Hayashi.
- The band describes themselves as Radiohead meets Slayer meets Classical Music.
- And Yoshiki himself is Hans Zimmer meets Mike Portnoy, Dave Lombardo and Gene Hoglan.
- Also, hide is Elvis Presley meets Wes Borland meets Slash.
- X-O-Planet are The Frozen Autumn meets In Strict Confidence.
- Ron Wasserman is Judas Priest meets Saturday morning cartoons.
- Wesley Willis is Richard Pryor meets Bobcat Goldthwait with a Casio keyboard.
- XXXTentacion could be best described as Geto Boys meets Tupac Shakur meets GG Allin.
- Yazoo was Dusty Springfield meets The Human League.
- Yelawolf is Eminem meets Kid Rock.
- YOHIO is Hizaki meets Takanori Nishikawa meets Gackt.
- Youngblood Brass Band is a brass band meets Rap.
- Early on, Yousei Teikoku is Skinny Puppy meets Lacuna Coil. Nowadays it's more like Malice Mizer meets Evanescence
- Alternatively, Yui Itsuki meets Celldweller meets Rammstein. (It began as Yui's Gothic industrial music project)
- Yves Tumor is Prince and Portishead meet James Ferraro and Throbbing Gristle.
- Zanias is Dead Can Dance meets Diva Destruction.
- The band Zipthunk! was described in a review as "Like The Monkees getting fucked by The Pixies while Elvis Costello films the whole thing."
Genres
- Latin freestyle is Italo Disco meets Rock & Roll meets Synth-Pop meets every damn Latino genre meets the early songs of Kraftwerk in a Chipotle bathroom while post-Freedom of Choice Devo and Vaporwave watch from underneath the stall and take photographs.
- New Wave Music is Synth-Pop meets Punk Rock meets Italo Disco on acid.
- Baroque Pop is Rock & Roll meets Baroque Music
- Hip-Hop is Spoken Word meets Funk meets Sampling.
- Battle Rapping is Hip-Hop meets Comedy Roasts.
- Dubstep is New Wave Music, Italo Disco, Noise Rock, the soundtrack of LazyTown and Screamo Music having a head-on collision with each other while the early songs of Kraftwerk and Latin freestyle watch in shock and horror.
- Disco polo is Italo Disco meets traditional Polish drinking songs.
- Grindcore is best described as Hardcore Punk, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, and Noise Rock having a head-on collision with each other while Post-Punk and Industrial watch from the sidelines and take photographs.
- Acid Rock is Garage Rock meets Psychedelic Rock.
- Trance is Electronic Music made with the song structure and grandeur of Classical Music.
- Or Electronic Music meets Progressive Rock.
- Disco is Soul meets Funk meets PsychedelicRock meets Latin Rhythms.
- Folk punk bands are inevitably described as "The Pogues meets [whatever punk band seems most appropriate]". Given that The Pogues are the Ur-Example of the genre, this can seem a little redundant.
- Funk is Soul meets African Rhythms.
- Heavy Metal originally was Blues Rock meets Psychedelic Rock.
- Thrash Metal is Heavy Metal meets Hardcore Punk.
- Death Metal is Thrash Metal meets Black Metal.
- Black Metal is Thrash Metal meets New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
- Metalcore is Hardcore Punk meets Thrash Metal and Groove Metal, Melodic Metalcore is Metalcore meets Melodic Death Metal, Deathcore is Metalcore meets Death Metal and Grindcore, and Mathcore is Metalcore meets Progressive Metal and Noise Rock.
- New Wave of British Heavy Metal (or NWOBHM) was punk energy with Heavy Metal musicianship.
- In turn, Hardcore Punk is NWOBHM meets Punk Rock, and Melodic Death Metal is NWOBHM meets Death Metal.
- The psychobilly genre is basically 1950s rockabilly meets a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Rock & Roll can be described as Blues meets Country.
- This is essentially the entire point of 'mash-ups', where you take two songs and mesh them into one. The quality of these mash-ups, however, tends to vary.
- Vaporwave is 80s/90s muzak or Contemporary Pop music meets DJ Screw, ambient, Trap Music, or even the Earthbound OST. Or all of that meets cyberpunk.
- Future Funk is Disco/French/Filter House or occasionally Instrumental Hip Hop meets Vaporwave imagery. Basically, think Discovery-era Daft Punk listening to J-Pop while on a shopping spree in 1980s Shibuya.
- Liquid funk is Drum 'n' Bass meets Jazz.
- Electro House is House Music meets Techno.
- Harder Dubstep (sometimes called "Brostep") is Electronic Music mixed with the hardness and atmosphere of Rock and Metal music.
- Grime is Gangsta Rap meets UK garage, chiptune and jungle, with some reggae on the side.
- Power Metal is more or less Speed Metal meets Progressive Rock. Symphonic Metal in turn is Power Metal meets Classical Music and Gothic Metal.
- Progressive Rock is Rock & Roll meets Classical Music. And {{Jazz}. And Folk Music. And...
- Crossover Thrash is Thrash Metal meets Hardcore Punk. Even the name mentions the combination of genres.
- Djent is Metalcore meets Jazz
- Post-Punk is Punk Rock meets Krautrock.
- Americana is Country Music meets Folk Music.
- Reggae is Ska meets Funk.
- Dark Wave is Synth-Pop meets Goth Rock.
- Synthwave is Synth-Pop or New Wave Music meets Cyberpunk.
- In turn, Darksynth is Synthwave meets EBM.
- Eurodance is Disco meets House Music.
- Eurobeat is Italo Disco meets Happy Hardcore meets Japanese Pop Music.
- Electro Funk is Exactly What It Says on the Tin; Electro meets funk. Or alternatively, take a R&B/Funk band and replace the horn section with synthesizers.
Albums
- The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is Pet Sounds meets Freak Out
- Frank Zappa's Thing-Fish: Coonskin meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Eraserhead.
- Elvenking's The Scythe is The Black Parade meets The Emerald Sword Saga.
- Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is Abbey Road meets Tapestry.
- Iggy Pop described his debut album The Idiot as James Brown meets Kraftwerk.
- Love's Forever Changes is Pet Sounds meets The Velvet Underground & Nico.
- Queen's Hot Space onwards is Queen meets Michael Jackson.
- Their soundtrack for Flash Gordon is Queen meets Star Wars.
- Radiohead's OK Computer is Pet Sounds meets Billy Idol's Cyberpunk.
- Joni Mitchell's Hejira is Blue meets Court and Spark.
- Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom is Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks meets David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy meets Steely Dan's Aja.
- Weezer's Blue Album is Nevermind meets Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (with a little bit of Pet Sounds as a lyrical, rather than musical, influence as well).
- OGRE & Dallas Campbell's collaborative Concept Album All Hallows is Halloween (1978) meets Escape from New York.
- Lena Raine's artistic debut album Oneknowing is Cocteau Twins meets Hatsune Miku, with hints of the Silent Hill soundtracks.
Songs
- Frank Zappa's "Inca Roads": Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (particularly "The Eve of the War") meets Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
- Classical pianist Glenn Gould wrote that " 'Strawberry Fields Forever' suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band."
- Avantasia's Wastelands is My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade meets Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys
- Avantasia's Moonglow is Nightwish's Amaranth meets Mike Oldfield 's Moonlight Shadow.
- Queen's "'39" is Folk Music meets Science Fiction (or according to Word of God, sci-fi meets skiffle?).
- Elvis Costello's version of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding" is Nick Lowe's original meets Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run".
- The title track of Everdune's Legend of the Aces sounds like Michael Jackson's Thriller meets the Airwolf theme.
- Ollie Wride's "I'm A Believer" is A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran" meets "Run With Us" from The Raccoons.
