Wagnerian rock

Wagnerian rock is a musical genre created by Jim Steinman due to his love for the music of Richard Wagner and Phil Spector. The genre is a merger — almost a musical hybrid — of twentieth century Rock & Roll and nineteenth century Opera reminiscent of Wagner's and of Spector's "Wall of Sound", including a major distinctive touch of Steinman's own musical skills. The genre can be argued to be a sub-form of Rock opera. Apart from Jim Steinman, the music of many other rock artists have been called Wagnerian. The word is sometimes used rather ambiguously in rock writing, referring to such things as bombast, teutonic style or fantasy lyrics. The word has been used to describe music by such diverse artists as American heavy metal group Manowar, Slovenian industrial music group Laibach and German electronic music artist Klaus Schulze.

See also

• Anthem rock
• Bad for Good
• Fire Inc.
• Holly Sherwood
• Meat Loaf
• Bonnie Tyler
• Bat out of Hell
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra
• Pandora's Box