Альтернативный рок

hardcore punk, New Wave
Late 1970s, Early 1980s, United Kingdom and

Electric guitar – bass guitar – drums – sometimes keyboards

Limited before the success of grunge and Britpop in the 1990s. Widespread since then.

the 1980s and became wildly popular in the 1990s.
alternative music,
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also called

consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as

College rock – Dream pop – Post-grunge –
Math rock – Noise pop – Noise rock –
Paisley Underground – Post-Britpop –
Jangle pop - Post-rock – Shoegazing

Britpop

Grunge

Gothic rock

Indie pop

Indie rock

These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of

Punk rock

which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s

Also includes such genres as

1990, the sort of music to which it refers was

In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about.
College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the college radio circuit and the tastes of college students.
In the United Kingdom - dozens of very small DIY (do it yourself) record labels, charts based on small record stores called "Alternative Charts“.

The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980. The term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, it had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, rather than simply distribution status.

The use of the term alternative to describe rock music originated around the mid-1980s

The term alternative rock

At first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by "heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave" and "high-energy dance anthems".

middle of 90s. Such groups as Amatory, Jane Air, PsiHeya,

band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996.
John Cooper is the

Ken Steorts.
Then Trey McClurkin joined the band.
Steorts left the band

Then Trey McClurkin left Skillet, and Lori Peters joined the group.

After that Haaland left the band, and Ben Kasica got into Skillet.

In January 2008, Lori Peters retired from the band and Jen Ledger joined it.

John Cooper
Korey Cooper
Ben Kasica
Jen Ledger

Members’ movements

Nowadays there are 4 members in the band: