Shoegaze, which was largely a British genre at first, dates back to the late '80s and really started to cement itself as a genre around the same time grunge and alternative rock were exploding in the US. Update (June 2021): More and more great heavy shoegaze keeps coming out we've upped this list to 30. The list includes songs by the genre's flagship bands such as Hum and their likeminded peers Failure and Shiner, and it also looks back further to some of the songs that helped sew the seeds for their music, and it looks forward to the more recent bands who took this sound and turned it into something more prominent than ever. Inspired by how much we love that new record, we've put together a list of 28 essential songs from the crossover between shoegaze and heavier genres of music like punk, metal, post-hardcore, and grunge. At this point, it has become clear that this type of heavy shoegaze is more than an approach shared by a few likeminded bands it's a subgenre of its own, and in our review of Inlet, we said Inlet is "the album that this distinct subgenre needed."
Not only does it close a very long gap between Hum albums, it also follows the prominent 2010s trend of bands blending shoegaze with punk and/or metal, a trend that was largely inspired by the music Hum released two decades ago. In June 2020, Hum surprise-released their first album in 22 years, Inlet.
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