List of grunge bands

Notable grunge bands include: ^{[1] [2]}

United States

See also: List of American grunge bands

The "Big 4" of Grunge are typed in bold.

Seattle area

• 7 Year Bitch ^[3]
• Alice in Chains ^{[4] : 73}
• Blood Circus ^[5]
• Candlebox ^{[6] [7]}
• Foo Fighters ^{[8] [9]}
• The Gits ^[3]
• Green Apple Quick Step ^[10]
• Green River ^{[3] [4] : 16, 73  [11]}
• Gruntruck ^[12]
• Hammerbox ^[13]
• Love Battery ^[3]
• Mad Season ^[3]
• Malfunkshun ^[11]
• Melvins ^[3]
• Mother Love Bone ^{[3] [4] : 73}
• Mudhoney ^{[3] [4] : 16, 73}
• My Sister's Machine ^[14]
• Nirvana ^{[3] [4] : 73}
• Pearl Jam ^{[3] [4] : 73}
• The Presidents of the United States of America ^{[15] [16]}
• Screaming Trees ^{[3] [4] : 73}
• Seaweed (band) ^[17]
• Skin Yard ^[18]
• Soundgarden ^{[3] [4] : 16, 73}
• Sweet Water
• Tad ^{[4] : 73}
• Temple of the Dog ^{[3] [4] : 73}
• Willard ^[19]

Elsewhere in United States

• Babes In Toyland (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
• Dandelion (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ^[20]
• Dinosaur Jr. (Amherst, Massachusetts) ^[21]
• Dogstar (Los Angeles, California)
• The Fluid (Denver, Colorado)
• For Squirrels (Gainesville, Florida) ^[22]
• Gumball (New York City) ^[23]
• Hole (Los Angeles, California) ^{[2] : 73}
• L7 (Los Angeles, California) ^{[1] [2] : 73}
• Local H (Zion, Illinois)
• Paw (Lawrence, Kansas) ^[1]
• The Smashing Pumpkins (Chicago, Illinois) ^[1]
• Sponge (Detroit, Michigan) ^[24]
• Stone Temple Pilots (San Diego, California) ^{[1] [25]}
• Superheaven (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) ^{[26] [27]}
• Toadies (Fort Worth, Texas) ^{[28] [29] [30] [31]}
• Veruca Salt (Chicago, Illinois)
• Wool (Washington, D.C.; based out of Los Angeles, California) ^[32]

Australia

• Silverchair ^[33]
• Spiderbait ^[34]

Canada

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em| Eric's Trip [35] King Cobb Steelie [35] Our Lady Peace [36] The Wooden Stars [35] Rusty [37] Thrush Hermit [38] Sloan [39]

Germany

Alien Boys [40] [41]

United Kingdom

• Bush ^{[42] [43] [44]}
• Radiohead (early work) ^[45]
• Swervedriver ^[46]

France

Noir Désir [47]

Poland

Houk [48] Illusion [49] Kr'shna Brothers [50] O.N.A. [ citation needed ] Hey [ citation needed ]

Sweden

• Salt

See also

• List of post-grunge bands

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