List of trance genres
A list of trance music subgenres and derivations. Several crossover with other major forms of electronic music.
Subgenres
| Subgenre | Alternate names | Origin | Description |
| Dark psytrance | Dark psy, dark psychedelic trance, dark trance, darkpsy, alien psy, black trance, cyberdelic psytrance, horror psy, horror trance, killer psytrance, psycore | Germany and Russia | Does not use vocals, though sampling is common, with speech and other kind of samples usually being taken from different kind of movies, or occasionally from other tracks. Sometimes sampling elements form other genres of music is done as a mockery of the original tracks. |
| Full-on | Full on, fullon, full-on psychedelic trance, full-on psytrance, full-on trance, Israeli full-on | Israel | Genre draws its main influences from more radio-friendly genres such as nitzhonot and Eurodance, futuristic melodies, occasional electric guitar performances and usage of vocals. |
| Progressive psytrance | Progpsy, prog-psytrance, psygressive, psyprog, psy-prog | Germany, Norway, Denmark and Sweden | Genre combines the elements of minimal sounding progressive electronic music and complex developments of psychedelic music. Its heritage can be traced back to the developments of minimal techno, tech, and minimal house. |
| Psychedelic breakbeat | Psybreaks, psychedelic breaks, psy tech-funk | Goa, Israel, Spain, France, and United Kingdom | A mixture of psychedelic trance and breakbeat. |
| Suomisaundi | Freeform psytrance, spugedelic trance, suomi psytrance, suomi-saundi, suomisoundi, suomistyge, Finnish psy | Finland | A style of freeform psychedelic trance, that originated in Finland around the mid-1990s. |
| Zenonesque | Dark progressive psy, dark progressive psytrance, psygressive, zenonsque | Germany | A style of psytrance which is any psytrance that has characteristics of Zenon Records signature sound. It is often deep, dark ambient sounding with a lower tempo. It can include elements of techno. |