in my opinion- well theres a lot less emphasis on the traditional and locational forms of rock nowadays as oppose to say the 60s (bluegrass, southern rock, rockabilly, folk rock etc) and now everybody is trying to find new terms to describe new sub-movements of the recent indie phase- noise-rock, art-rock, post-rock etc. indie itself is now a mainstream antithesis of what it originally stood for- independance FROM the mainstream while punk has just branched out into all kinds of sub-genres, any band with an attitude could be tagged with the punk monica now. errrr, now its all about the guitar led pop-bands chart wise and a big electro influence is prevalent within the rock industry.
metal wise- well what do you want a list of all the sub-genres? just type into google.
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