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post-grunge

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Description

Post-grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock music that emerged in the mid-1990s as a reaction to the popularity of grunge music. Post-grunge incorporates elements of grunge, such as distorted guitars and heavy, emotional lyrics, but often has a more polished sound and less overtly angst-filled lyrics. Post-grunge bands often focus on radio-friendly melodies and catchy hooks, and are characterized by a more mainstream sound than their grunge predecessors. Some of the most well-known post-grunge bands include Creed, Nickelback, and Three Days Grace.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
41		1994	Deep Blue Something	Home	rock alternative rock pop	acoustic rock # 93
23		1994-12-06	Bush	Sixteen Stone	alternative grunge rock	grunge # 78
31		1995-03-27	Silverchair	Frogstomp	grunge rock	grunge # 60
80		1995-09-05	Seven Mary Three	American Standard	post-grunge
30		1996	Better Than Ezra	Rhino Hi-Five: Better Than Ezra	acoustic rock adult contemporary college rock pop punk post-grunge	adult contemporary # 86 acoustic rock # 89 college rock # 95
20		1996	Local H	Best Of Local H – The Island Years	post-grunge
40		1996-02-27	Dishwalla	Counting Blue Cars	alternative post-grunge
88		1996-04-16	Local H	As Good As Dead	alternative rock post-grunge
36		1996-08-13	Failure	Fantastic Planet	alternative rock	space rock # 7 space rock revival # 16
58		1996-09	Nickelback	Curb	post-grunge
22		1996-10-01	Matchbox Twenty	Yourself or Someone Like You	alternative rock rock
8		1996-10-23	Sponge	Hits and B Sides, Vol. 2
42		1996-11-19	Bush	Razorblade Suitcase (Remastered)	grunge post-grunge
32		1997-02-25	Marcy Playground	Marcy Playground	alternative alternative rock
75		1997-05-10	Foo Fighters	The Colour and the Shape		alternative rock # 50
91		1997-06-24	Creed	My Own Prison
47		1998-09-01	Nickelback	The State
18		1999-02-23	Oleander	February Son	grunge rock alternative rock post-grunge
86		1999-07-24	Creed	Human Clay
55		1999-10-26	Bush	The Science of Things	alternative rock rock
83		1999-11-01	Foo Fighters	There Is Nothing Left to Lose
9		1999-11-02	Marcy Playground	Shapeshifter	alternative rock post-grunge
64		2000-07-25	Finger Eleven	The Greyest of Blue Skies	post-grunge
66		2000-12-12	Our Lady Peace	Spiritual Machines	post-grunge
98		2001-01-19	Creed	Weathered		hard rock # 24
89		2001-03-06	Alien Ant Farm	Anthology	alternative rock rock	alternative rock # 29 alternative metal # 43
70		2001-05-16	Staind	Break the Cycle
33		2001-06-26	The Mayfield Four	Second Skin	hard rock post-grunge
99		2001-08-28	Puddle of Mudd	Come Clean	alternative rock rock post-grunge
44		2001-09-11	Nickelback	Silver Side Up		hard rock # 9
60		2001-09-25	Abandoned Pools	Humanistic	alternative rock post-grunge
46		2002-01-01	Breaking Benjamin	Saturate
59		2002-08-20	Seether	Disclaimer
71		2002-11-11	3 Doors Down	Away from the Sun
100		2003	Avril Lavigne	I’m a Mess (with YUNGBLUD)	alternative alternative rock post-grunge rock
43		2003-02-25	Switchfoot	The Beautiful Letdown	alternative rock
39		2003-05-27	Smile Empty Soul	Smile Empty Soul	post-grunge
56		2003-09-22	Nickelback	The Long Road
6		2003-11-10	3 Doors Down	Another 700 Miles	rock post-grunge
53		2003-11-24	Puddle of Mudd	Life On Display	alternative rock post-grunge
94		2004	Hoobastank	The Reason (15th Anniversary Deluxe)	pop post-grunge
48		2004-03-17	The Vines	Winning Days	alternative rock australian	garage rock revival # 33 australian # 73
51		2004-05-11	Crossfade	Crossfade
87		2004-06-08	Seether	Disclaimer II
85		2004-09-28	Submersed	In Due Time	post-grunge
2		2004-10-05	Future Leaders of the World	LVL IV	alternative rock post-grunge rap metal	rap metal # 56
77		2004-11-30	The Exies	Head For The Door	alternative metal alternative rock nu metal post-grunge	alternative metal # 28
25		2005	Alien Ant Farm	Up In The Attic	post-grunge
72		2005-02-08	3 Doors Down	Seventeen Days	alternative rock rock
34		2005-05-11	Foo Fighters	Best of You	alternative rock rock post-grunge
69		2005-06-10	Foo Fighters	In Your Honor
29		2005-09-12	The Subways	With You	britpop garage rock post-grunge post-punk
14		2005-09-27	Smile Empty Soul	Anxiety	post-grunge
93		2005-09-27	Hinder	Extreme Behavior
78		2006-04-01	The Vines	Vision Valley	rock post-grunge
17		2006-07-28	Stone Sour	Come What(Ever) May [Special Edition]	alternative metal heavy metal post-grunge
37		2006-08-21	Flyleaf	Flyleaf (Re-Release)	alternative metal metal nu metal post-grunge
27		2006-10-09	Art of Dying	Art of Dying
7		2006-10-24	Smile Empty Soul	Vultures	post-grunge
63		2006-11-21	Our Lady Peace	A Decade	alternative rock grunge post-grunge
57		2006-12-26	Switchfoot	Oh! Gravity.	alternative rock post-grunge
62		2007-07-24	Puddle of Mudd	Famous
84		2007-09-18	Foo Fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
15		2008	Decyfer Down	Crash - EP	alternative rock christian rock	christian rock # 99
54		2008-06-23	Shinedown	The Sound of Madness		hard rock # 12
49		2008-07-12	The Vines	Melodia	australian post-grunge	australian # 48
95		2008-11-15	Nickelback	Dark Horse		hard rock # 54
28		2009-09-29	Breaking Benjamin	Dear Agony
35		2009-10-30	Foo Fighters	Greatest Hits
26		2009-11-25	Plan Three	Screaming Our Sins	alternative rock post-grunge
16		2009-12-08	Puddle of Mudd	Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate	post-grunge
50		2010-01-26	Stroke 9	Greatest Hits	post-grunge pop punk
81		2010-08-27	The Pretty Reckless	Light Me Up
61		2011-03-18	Art of Dying	Vices and Virtues	alternative rock post-grunge
11		2011-04-08	Foo Fighters	Wasting Light
45		2011-05-17	Seether	Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray	post-grunge
1		2011-06-23	Crossfade	We All Bleed	alternative metal progressive rock post-grunge
24		2011-07-19	Cold	Superfiction	post-grunge
4		2012	Hinder	Welcome To The Freakshow	alternative rock post-grunge
76		2012-03-06	The Pretty Reckless	Hit Me Like A Man EP	alternative rock post-grunge
68		2012-10-23	Basement	Colourmeinkindness	alternative rock grunge	alternative rock # 2 grunge # 59
12		2012-12-11	The Pretty Reckless	Kill Me	post-grunge
3		2013-04-30	Daylight	Jar	alternative alternative rock grunge post-grunge
19		2013-10-29	Seether	Seether: 2002-2013	alternative metal post-grunge
13		2014-04-27	Sponge	The Hits	post-grunge
67		2014-06-27	Seether	Isolate and Medicate	alternative rock post-grunge
73		2014-07-22	Jason Aldean	Burnin' It Down	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal world yacht rock	swedish death metal # 4 power electronics # 5 pagan metal # 6 drone metal # 7 gothic metal # 24 technical death metal # 25 doom metal # 38 deathcore # 48 groove metal # 48 plugg # 57 post-metal # 66 nsbm # 72 atmospheric black metal # 75 brutal death metal # 80 goregrind # 83 viking metal # 83 phonk # 85 symphonic black metal # 85 grindcore # 86 rac # 87 old school death metal # 90 blackened death metal # 90 depressive black metal # 91 avant-garde metal # 92 nwobhm # 92 gorenoise # 92 nightcore # 92 war metal # 92 yacht rock # 93 brutal deathcore # 93 world # 93 true norwegian black metal # 93 deathgrind # 94 harsh noise # 94 melodic black metal # 94 powerviolence # 95 harsh noise wall # 95 raw black metal # 95 blackened crust # 95 funeral doom metal # 95 death n roll # 96 pagan black metal # 96 death doom metal # 96 porngrind # 96 hatecore # 96 cybergrind # 96 russian black metal # 97 nerdcore # 97 norwegian black metal # 97 suicidal black metal # 97 finnish black metal # 97 slamming brutal death metal # 97 black death metal # 97 depressive suicidal black metal # 97 usbm # 97
97		2014-09-30	Three Days Grace	I Am Machine	alternative rock grunge post-grunge rock	grunge # 47
5		2014-11-14	Nickelback	No Fixed Address
38		2015-08-21	Pop Evil	Up	post-grunge
10		2017-05-12	Seether	Poison the Parish (Deluxe Edition)	post-grunge
74		2017-06-16	Nickelback	Feed The Machine	hard rock post-grunge rock
90		2019-10-10	Sam Hunt	Kinfolks	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 2 pagan metal # 2 power electronics # 3 drone metal # 3 technical death metal # 6 heavy metal # 11 progressive metal # 16 nu metal # 24 thrash metal # 27 metal # 42 melodic death metal # 42 black metal # 50 death metal # 66 gothic metal # 72 groove metal # 72 plugg # 75 deathcore # 78 nsbm # 79 doom metal # 80 brutal death metal # 87 post-metal # 87 goregrind # 88 phonk # 89 rac # 90 old school death metal # 92 symphonic black metal # 92 atmospheric black metal # 93 viking metal # 94 gorenoise # 94 blackened death metal # 94 nightcore # 95 grindcore # 95 brutal deathcore # 96 true norwegian black metal # 96 harsh noise # 96 war metal # 96 deathgrind # 96 nwobhm # 97 raw black metal # 97 yacht rock # 97 harsh noise wall # 97 skinhead # 97 depressive black metal # 97 cybergrind # 98 powerviolence # 98 hatecore # 98 pagan black metal # 98 blackened crust # 98 avant-garde metal # 98 melodic black metal # 98 norwegian black metal # 99 russian black metal # 99 funeral doom metal # 99 suicidal black metal # 99 finnish black metal # 99 slamming brutal death metal # 99 porngrind # 99 black death metal # 99 depressive suicidal black metal # 99 death doom metal # 99 usbm # 99 death n roll # 99 nerdcore # 99
79		2020-02-11	Sponge	Rotting Pinata	post-grunge
52		2020-09-04	Hardy	A ROCK	bro-country country rock post-grunge rock	bro-country # 79 country rock # 80
65		2021-06-25	Pom Pom Squad	Death Of A Cheerleader	alternative alternative rock blues rock garage punk garage rock grunge indie rock pop punk pop rock post-grunge power pop	grunge # 4 garage rock # 21 power pop # 26 garage punk # 87
82		2022-06-23	Sam Hunt	Water Under The Bridge	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 3 black metal # 4 drone metal # 4 pagan metal # 4 power electronics # 4 death metal # 16 technical death metal # 21 gothic metal # 38 doom metal # 45 deathcore # 56 groove metal # 57 plugg # 64 post-metal # 72 nsbm # 73 atmospheric black metal # 79 brutal death metal # 83 goregrind # 84 viking metal # 85 symphonic black metal # 88 rac # 88 phonk # 88 grindcore # 90 blackened death metal # 91 old school death metal # 91 depressive black metal # 92 gorenoise # 93 nwobhm # 93 war metal # 93 true norwegian black metal # 94 brutal deathcore # 94 nightcore # 94 yacht rock # 94 deathgrind # 95 harsh noise # 95 avant-garde metal # 95 blackened crust # 96 harsh noise wall # 96 skinhead # 96 funeral doom metal # 96 raw black metal # 96 hatecore # 97 pagan black metal # 97 powerviolence # 97 cybergrind # 97 death n roll # 97 melodic black metal # 97 death doom metal # 97 norwegian black metal # 98 porngrind # 98 finnish black metal # 98 suicidal black metal # 98 slamming brutal death metal # 98 black death metal # 98 nerdcore # 98 russian black metal # 98 depressive suicidal black metal # 98 usbm # 98
21		2022-08-26	bleed	Somebody's Closer	alternative metal alternative rock hard rock nu metal post-grunge
92		2022-10-10	Hardy	the mockingbird & THE CROW	bro-country country rock post-grunge rock	country rock # 95 bro-country # 96
96		2023-03-10	Sam Hunt	Outskirts	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore country pop cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore neoclassical darkwave nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 1 pagan metal # 1 power electronics # 2 drone metal # 2 technical death metal # 3 metalcore # 20 progressive metal # 42 nu metal # 43 heavy metal # 52 thrash metal # 54 metal # 61 melodic death metal # 66 black metal # 72 nsbm # 80 plugg # 81 groove metal # 83 death metal # 83 deathcore # 85 country pop # 89 goregrind # 89 gothic metal # 90 brutal death metal # 90 doom metal # 92 rac # 92 post-metal # 93 old school death metal # 94 phonk # 94 gorenoise # 95 symphonic black metal # 95 nightcore # 96 deathgrind # 97 true norwegian black metal # 97 grindcore # 97 brutal deathcore # 97 harsh noise # 97 yacht rock # 98 raw black metal # 98 blackened death metal # 98 viking metal # 98 harsh noise wall # 98 skinhead # 98 war metal # 98 nwobhm # 99 pagan black metal # 99 hatecore # 99 cybergrind # 99 melodic black metal # 100 porngrind # 100 avant-garde metal # 100 death n roll # 100 norwegian black metal # 100 powerviolence # 100 atmospheric black metal # 100 russian black metal # 100 nerdcore # 100 depressive black metal # 100 funeral doom metal # 100 suicidal black metal # 100 finnish black metal # 100 slamming brutal death metal # 100 black death metal # 100 depressive suicidal black metal # 100 death doom metal # 100 usbm # 100 neoclassical darkwave # 100 blackened crust # 100

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• alternative rock
• grunge
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