Mainly metal (if you didn't get from my name :P) - As many metalheads know there are a ton of subgenres within the genre itself, yet I'm sort of all over the map on this front. If there's a consistent theme, I typically lean towards stuff that has either catchy riffs, epic, grandiose vibes, unique/experimental weirdness, and/or melodic stuff. Genre-wise that usually means: Melodic death metal, folk metal, gothic/classical metal, power metal, some early thrash (but mostly Metallica Megadeth when it comes to thrash). A bit of Nu and Metalcore though those were mostly phases that I somewhat got out of, but I do still enjoy me some SOAD, Disturbed, and Killswitch Engage, and All that Remains. I'm definitely into some harder and shall we say underground stuff but I'm usually repelled by straight up Death metal or Black metal (cannot bear that shrieking), especially if it's absent melody.
Other favorite metal bands include System of a Down, Black Sabbath, Sonata Arctica, Black Dahlia Murder, Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Rhapsody of Fire, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Nightwish, Epica, Babymetal, Amaranthe, Meshuggah, Turisas, Kamelot, Theatre of tragedy, Leaves Eyes, Wintersun, Ensiferum.
Hard rock and classic rock - Queen, Led Zeppelin (though more their harder stuff, not so much their weird experimental, acoustic, hippie-dippie stuff), Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Five Finger Death Punch, Trustcompany, a few others here and there.
You could say a bit of pop punk and alt rock - but again, those were really more phases that I've mostly drifted away from unless I occasionally rock a Blink 182 song to bask in my early teen nostalgia :P but there's the occasional indie/alt/pop rock track like Some Nights from Fun or SOB by Nathaniel Ratellff that I enjoy. As is the case with metal, I usually gravitate the more melodic or experimental track that sounds more unique.
Then I sort of have an entirely separate side that I listen to as more easygoing background music while working/writing, as I simply can't pay attention if I listen to most of the above while working. For this purpose, I usually enjoy melodic trance, synthwave, cyberpunk, dark wave, and occasionally some classical (but usually just film score like LOTR), video game music, etc.. Can't get enough of that more melodic, 80s sounding synthwave and retrowave at the moment.
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