Funk metal is a type of music that incorporates hard-driving heavy metal guitar riffs, the pounding bass rhythms characteristic of funk, and sometimes, hip hop-style rhymes. The style emerged in the mid-1980s pioneered by Extreme in the mid-1980s, and later popularized by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Prince, Primus, and Faith No More.

Bands

24-7 Spyz
The Alter Boys
Big Chief
Bootsauce
Buckethead
Catfish
Codename
Chronic Future
Dink
Extreme
Faith No More
Farmakon
F.F.F.
Fishbone
Gargamel! (band)
Guano Apes
Heads Up! (band)
I Mother Earth
In-Cyde
Incubus
In Delirium
Infectious Grooves
Jane's Addiction
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Le Shed
Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
Living Colour
Mind Funk
Mind Heavy Mustard
Mr. Bungle
Mordred
Mucky Pup
M.V.P.
New Kingdom
Nuclear Rabbit
O'funk'illo
Orange 9mm
Phunk Junkeez
Primus
Prince
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rage Against The Machine
Senser
Shootyz Groove
Skunk Anansie
Smokin' Suckaz wit Logic
Snot
Suicidal Tendencies (funk influences on Lights...Camera...Revolution! and Art of Rebellion)
Tugnut
White Trash
Zebrahead
Zygote