---
title: "Funk Metal"
type: "MusicGenre"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/funk-metal"
parent: "Alternative Metal"
bands: 42
era: "mid 1980s"
---

# Funk Metal

**Funk Metal** is a metal fusion genre, formative in the mid 1980s. TheMetalNet maps 42 bands and 172 albums under it.

Funk metal grafts funk’s slap-bass grooves and syncopation onto heavy metal riffing, sometimes with rapped or playful vocals, for a bouncy, rhythmic hybrid that thrived in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Californian acts like Faith No More and Primus and New York’s Living Colour drove it, prizing groove and eccentricity as much as heaviness. The bass is a lead instrument and the feel is loose and springy. It fed directly into the rise of nu metal.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Genre | Funk Metal |
| Level | Sub-genre |
| Parent genre | Alternative Metal |
| Formative era | mid 1980s |
| Fusion genre | Yes |
| Bands | 42 |
| Albums | 172 |
| Formation span | 1979 to 2020 |

## Bands

- [Red Hot Chili Peppers](https://themetalnet.com/band/red-hot-chili-peppers) (United States, 1983)
- [Incubus](https://themetalnet.com/band/incubus) (United States, 1991)
- [Primus](https://themetalnet.com/band/primus) (United States, 1984)
- [Extreme](https://themetalnet.com/band/extreme) (United States, 1985)
- [Zebrahead](https://themetalnet.com/band/zebrahead) (1996)
- [Living Colour](https://themetalnet.com/band/living-colour) (United States, 1983)
- [Sugar Ray](https://themetalnet.com/band/sugar-ray) (United States, 1986)
- [Infectious Grooves](https://themetalnet.com/band/infectious-grooves) (United States, 1990)
- [Electric Boys](https://themetalnet.com/band/electric-boys) (Sweden, 1988)
- [24‐7 Spyz](https://themetalnet.com/band/24-7-spyz) (United States, 1986)
- [Bang Tango](https://themetalnet.com/band/bang-tango) (United States, 1988)
- [O'funk'illo](https://themetalnet.com/band/o-funk-illo) (Spain, 1997)
- [Worthikids](https://themetalnet.com/band/worthikids) (1996)
- [Blenders](https://themetalnet.com/band/blenders) (Poland, 1991)
- [Dan Reed Network](https://themetalnet.com/band/dan-reed-network) (United States, 1984)
- [Mordred](https://themetalnet.com/band/mordred) (United States, 1986)
- [Super Junky Monkey](https://themetalnet.com/band/super-junky-monkey) (Japan, 1991)
- [J-Lobster](https://themetalnet.com/band/j-lobster) (1993)
- [Morris Day](https://themetalnet.com/band/morris-day) (United States)
- [Cool Cavemen](https://themetalnet.com/band/cool-cavemen) (France, 2004)
- [Sausage](https://themetalnet.com/band/sausage) (United States)
- [T. M. Stevens](https://themetalnet.com/band/t-m-stevens) (United States)
- [Flagman](https://themetalnet.com/band/flagman) (2015)
- [Voice of Baceprot](https://themetalnet.com/band/voice-of-baceprot) (Indonesia, 2014)
- [Smokin Suckaz Wit Logic](https://themetalnet.com/band/smokin-suckaz-wit-logic) (United States, 1990)
- [Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains](https://themetalnet.com/band/colonel-claypool-s-bucket-of-bernie-brains) (United States, 2002)
- [The 5th Plateau](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-5th-plateau) (2004)
- [WEAK13](https://themetalnet.com/band/weak13) (United Kingdom, 1999)
- [Lock Up](https://themetalnet.com/band/lock-up-05f1286d) (United States)
- [Las Ratas](https://themetalnet.com/band/las-ratas) (1995)
- [Eight Foot Manchild](https://themetalnet.com/band/eight-foot-manchild)
- [Redcore](https://themetalnet.com/band/redcore) (Canada)
- [Chris Nylstoch](https://themetalnet.com/band/chris-nylstoch) (1979)
- [Salmon](https://themetalnet.com/band/salmon) (United States)
- [Hill Bomb](https://themetalnet.com/band/hill-bomb) (2020)
- [La Bizca Mary](https://themetalnet.com/band/la-bizca-mary) (Uruguay, 1992)
- [Gaylord](https://themetalnet.com/band/gaylord) (United States)
- [Alek Fiuk](https://themetalnet.com/band/alek-fiuk) (Poland, 2010)
- [Confunksion](https://themetalnet.com/band/confunksion) (Spain, 2006)
- [The Mollusc Dimension](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-mollusc-dimension) (2016)
- [Nobody](https://themetalnet.com/band/nobody) (Chile, 2016)
- [Zero-day-wareZ](https://themetalnet.com/band/zero-day-warez)

## Where it is played

- [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 19 bands
- [Spain](https://themetalnet.com/country/es): 2 bands
- [Poland](https://themetalnet.com/country/pl): 2 bands
- [United Kingdom](https://themetalnet.com/country/gb): 1 bands
- [Indonesia](https://themetalnet.com/country/id): 1 bands
- [Japan](https://themetalnet.com/country/jp): 1 bands
- [Sweden](https://themetalnet.com/country/se): 1 bands
- [Canada](https://themetalnet.com/country/ca): 1 bands

## Bands formed by decade

| Decade | Bands formed |
| --- | --- |
| 1970s | 1 |
| 1980s | 10 |
| 1990s | 12 |
| 2000s | 4 |
| 2010s | 5 |
| 2020s | 1 |

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/funk-metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/funk-metal). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt