Rock music was decaying in the late 80's. The rock scene was suffering from a repetetive
pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren't relating to the
listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock
was left in during the early nineties. But little did anyone know what was in store for rock in the
90's. What was about to come would redefine the meaning of rock forever.
In the early 90's a band called Nirvana had made it's debut into the mainstream. This band
had bred the first genre of the 90's, "Grunge". After the fall of Grunge a new genre had to take
place. So once again the music industry was in need of something new. And so dawned the era of
Alternative Punk, the second genre. Leading the scene were Green Day and Offspring. The punk
scene brought on a whole new vibe of raw energy and anarchy. When the punk scene started to
die down, a new breed of rock was surfacing to the mainstream. The Metal/Hardcore was the
final genre of rock in the 90's. It consisted of bands such as KoRn, Limp Bizkit, and Rob Zombie.
This genre was the hardest of the genres and could definantly cause the hugest mosh pit.
The first genre of rock was called Grunge. It was named this simpley because of it's lack
of interest in fashion and the growling barked out vocals. It couldn't have came at a better time
then it did. The later 80's were emerging and there was no sign of something new. That is untill a
three piece band called Nirvana (spiritual place of peace) from Seattle led by guitarrist/vocalist
Kurt Cobain landed their first album tittled "Bleach" in 1989. This album errupted into the
underground music scene like fire, which had top notch record labels knocking on their door. It
wasn't untill their sophmore album (Nevermind) that they achieved extreme ...