Metaphor is a language style that is used to make a description with implicit meaning. the purpose of this study is to find out the metaphor types used in indonesian alternative-rock band’s songs. the sources of the data were lyrics of 50 songs taken from five indonesian alternative-rock bands. the research design used in this study was a qualitative research with document analysis as the technique of data collection. the findings showed there were 183 metaphor expressions found in indonesian alternative-rock band’s songs. those 183 metaphors are then categorized into the types of metaphor as proposed by lakoff and johnson (2003), and yaseen (2013), namely: cliché metaphor (35 expressions), standard metaphor (20 expressions), mixed metaphor (19 expressions), original metaphor (19 expressions), simple metaphor (17 expressions), implicit metaphor (14 expressions), complex metaphor (10 expressions), ontological metaphor (8 expressions), animating metaphor (7 expressions), active metaphor