BisRock is a subgenre of

Pinoy rock Pinoy rock, or Filipino rock, is the brand of rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipino people, Filipinos. It has become as diverse as the rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more s ...

, propagated by the

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rock music industry in the

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. The term, which is in the blended form, comes from the Cebuano words ''Bisaya'', referring the

Visayan languages The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog and the Bikol languages, all of which are part of the Central Philippine languages. Mo ...

, and "rock", for

rock music Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdo ...

. The term was coined by Cebuano writer Januar E. Yap in 2002 and was first applied to

Missing Filemon Missing Filemon is a Filipino rock band from Cebu. The band was founded in 2002. They won a FAMAS Award for Best Theme Song for the 2007 film ''Confessional (film), Confessional''. Discography Albums * ''Missing Filemon'' (2003) * ''Sine Sine'' ...

's first album. Earning wide reception among the young in the Visayas and Mindanao, Bisrock is a fairly recent cultural phenomenon. The style started around the 1980s, when Cebu's rock scene was beginning to be labeled as "Bisrock". During this time, a group of musicians from the

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coined the local music scene as Bisrock in support of patriotism for the Cebuano music scene. However, this genre is debatable as Bisrock seems to be popular only in Cebu. As it is, the movement died down around 2009, as even Missing Filemon themselves distanced itself from the term "Bisrock".

Notable BisRock bands

Cebuano rock bands popularizing songs written in the Cebuano language include: * 1017 * Gedz Band * Abscond * Abyss, The * Agipo * Assembly Language * Aggressive Audio * BTU (Beyond The Unknown) * Cordless * Enchi * Emping * Fervent * Indephums * Junior Kilat * Kabobo * Kanteen * Kazoku * Makadawa * Mantequilla *

* Pavel Camoro * Phylum * Scrambled Eggs * Smooth Friction * The Ambassadors * The Agadiers * TimeSlot * WetSlipperz * Zero Info

References

External links

The Bisrock Observer

Bisrock RulesHanduraw Jamroom

Combolata - Proudly Bisaya Musicians and Listeners

BisRock.Org - BisRock Events, Lyrics and Bands
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Notable BisRock bands

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