Funk metal is a type of music that incorporates hard-driving heavy metal guitar riffs and the pounding bass rhythms characteristic of funk. The style emerged from Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, pioneered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The number of performers multiplied in the later part of the decade as the sound reached its commercial peak with bands like Fishbone.

• 24-7 Spyz
• Big Chief
• Catfish
• Codename
• Chronic Future
• Dink
• Faith No More
• F.F.F.
• Fishbone
• Guano Apes
• Heads Up!
• I Mother Earth
• Incubus
• Infectious Grooves
• Jane's Addiction
• Jimmie's Chicken Shack
• Les Claypool's Flying Frogs Brigade
• Living Colour
• Madball
• Mr. Bungle
• M.V.P.
• New Kingdom
• Orance 9mm
• Porno for Pyros
• Primus
• Rage Against the Machine
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Sausage
• Senser
• Shootyz Groove
• Skunk Anansie
• Smokin' Suckaz wit' Logic
• Snot
• Sublime
• Such A Surge
• Sugar Ray
• Urban Dance Squad
• Zebrahead

See also: nu metal, rapcore