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I came up with a bunch of music genres and will share them here. Remember that if a list says “and/or”, all of them are optional. It is just the list of what is allowed for the genre.

A music genre called Church Metal or Hymn Metal which mixes heavy or symphonic metal with the style of church hymns, typically featuring a choir and church organ along with electric guitar and/or electric bass. May use distortion or overdrive on the organ and typically does for the guitar.

A music genre called Metallic Swing. It uses vocal styles similar to heavy metal and death metal but is in swing time and uses a mix of swing instruments and metal instruments while often also using distortion or overdrive on the swing instruments. Can also be Metallic Electro-Swing which is similar to Metallic Swing but uses the instruments from Electro-Swing instead of Swing and may use tuning or digital effects on the vocals or instruments.

A music genre called Soda Can which mixes Metal and Soda Pop. It makes use of distortion and overdrive and uses metal vocal styles (if there are vocals at all) but it also makes use of synths and electronic instruments similar to Soda Pop and is usually in 4/4 time. It is upbeat and energetic. Usually not in minor key. Has simple and repetitive choruses. 100-150 BPM. Uses bright guitars but usually with distortion or overdrive. Uses bright detuned keyboards.

A music genre called Soda Space Metal which combines the style of Celestial Soda Pop by Ray Lynch with Metal. It uses a combination of New Age Space Music, Ambient, Neo-Classical, and Electronic Music but with metal vocals (if any), light guitars, distortion on all instruments, and overdrive on the guitar and bass as well as other stringed instruments. It typically has bright instrumentals.

A music genre called Surf Metal which is a mix of Surf Rock and Heavy Metal. It is similar to Surf Rock but it has heavier vocals and distortion on the guitar.

A genre called Dreamy which is played in Lydian and uses xylophones, vibraphones, celestas, light drum kits, tinkerbells, bright pianos, music boxes, glockenspiel, ocarina, hang/hand pan, rain drum, balafon, dao mao bo, piccolo, pan pipes, calung, chime, chimes bar, crystal, Cristal Baschet, euphone, claves, crotales, verrophone, array mbira, crystallophone, glasses (wetting your finger and moving it around the lip of the glass), glass harmonica, glass harp, güira, hammered dulcimer, handchimes, hydraulophone, kouxian, marimba, musical saw, pixiphone, zeusaphone tesla coils, ranat ek, ringing rocks, saron, song bells, sounding stone, udu, lyre, koto, fayageum, clean electric guitar (with lots of reverb and delay), 12-string electric guitar, harp guitar, electric fretless bass, piccolo bass, upright bass played with a bow, alto flute, bass flute, tin whistle, Native American Flute, Fujara, Duduk, Gusli, Bandura, and/or xylorimba. It typically has light and surreal melodies and vocals (if there are any) that are dreamlike. It has no distortion or overdrive.

A music genre called Existential which is in Locrian. It uses ondes martenot, plasmaphone, eerie synths, static, supersaws, supersquares, whistling, pyrophone, quintephone, tremolo strings, waterphone, thunder sheet, wind machine/aeoliphone, suspended cymbal with e-bow or bow, brake drum with bow, singing bowls (played slowly), granular synthesis, tape hiss, warbling effects, bitcrushing, mic feedback, drone bass, whispering, reverse whispering, heartbeats, breathing, chanting, distant choir, feedback guitar patch with heavy distortion and overdrive, guitar amplifier feedback, Behringer FD300 Ultra Feedback/Distortion, electric guitar phone feedback, speaker feedback, piano bowing, cutting piano strings (not recommended for expensive pianos), and clock ticking. It uses eerie and/or discordant/dissonant melodies that are intended to cause dread in the listener. Often doesn't follow AB song structure.

A music genre called Overtune where autotune on the vocals is turned up to the max and all of the instrumentals are vocoded. Typically uses electronic instruments and synths. Is upbeat and typically written in major.

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