List of funk rock bands

The following is a list of funk rock bands. This list includes bands which have directly played within the funk rock genre, as well as bands which have played within its subgenre, funk metal. It also includes bands described as punk funk (synonymous with funk rock), as well as metal funk, thrash funk or funkcore (synonymous with funk metal).

Artists

• 24-7 Spyz^[1][2]
• 311^[3][4][5]
• 3rdeyegirl^[6][7][8]
• Bootsauce^[9]
• Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats^[10][11]
• Clutch^[12][13]
• Dan Reed Network^[14][15]
• Death Angel^[16]
• Deli Creeps^[17][18]
• Electric Boys^[16][19][20]
• Extreme^[21][22][23]
• Faith No More^[2][16][24]
• Fishbone^[25][26][27]
• Follow for Now^[2][28][29]
• Funkadelic^[30][31]
• Gang of Four^[32]
• Guano Apes^[33]
• Incubus^[34][35][36]
• Infectious Grooves^[2][37][38]
• INXS^[39][40][41]
• Jane's Addiction^[42][43][44]
• Jimmie's Chicken Shack^[45]
• Korn^[46][47][48]
• L.A.P.D.^[49][50][51]
• Living Colour^[52][53][54]
• Lucy Brown^[55]
• Maroon 5^[56][57][58]
• Mind Funk^[16][59][60]
• Mordred^[16][61][62]
• Mother's Finest^[2][63][64]
• Mr. Bungle^[2][24][65]
• Parliament^[66]
• Pilgrims^[67]
• Praxis^[68][69]
• Primus^[2][16][70]
• Psychefunkapus^[16]
• Psychostick^[2]
• Pylon^[71]
• Rage Against the Machine^[72][73][74]
• Red Hot Chili Peppers^[2][25][66]
• Rollins Band^[75]
• Royal Crescent Mob^[76][77][78]
• Scatterbrain^[2]
• Sly and the Family Stone^[79]
• Snot^[80][81][82]
• Spymob^[83][84][85]
• Sugar Ray^[86][87]
• Super Junky Monkey^[88][89]
• Supergroove^[90][91]
• Talking Heads^[66][92]
• Ugly Kid Joe^[93]
• Urban Dance Squad^[2][94][95]
• Wild Cherry^[96][97]

See also

• Funk rock
• Funk metal
• List of funk musicians

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