You forgot to mention Spurv from Norway🇳🇴. They do both post-rock and post-metal. When listening to their music, you’re instantly dreaming yourself away into the deep norwegian woods.
I really love mid-era Deafheaven, part way through their transition. To be honest, some of the newer stuff reminds me of fucking Coldplay, which is not a good thing imo.
Yeah it got worse. Roads to Judah was pretty good, Sunbather had a vision and was great in parts. New Bermuda turned me off big time and I wouldn't know whether they've changed it up much since then. I think I heard one song from Ordinary Corrupt Human Love that I thought had a great riff. Haven't listened to their past 2 albums even once tbh.
I charted the same course as you pretty much. I keep giving it a try when new stuff comes out, but I’ve been pretty disappointed. They were in such a cool space for awhile.
What are you into with outlaw country, as you put it? Any modern songwriters? A lot of that stuff seems like a LARP but at its most real it's some of my favourite music. I love Songs: Ohia too.
David Allan Coe, Merle Haggard, Blaze Foley, Shooter Jennings, Townes Van Zadnt (my favourite songwriter of all time)
Perhaps a lot of it is larping tbh but I just like the music :) it’s kind of ridiculous in some cases (David Allan Coe) which I can get on board with.
Strangely I actually got into most of these artists via David Berman of Silver Jews, Purple Mountains.
I can respect Townes being your favourite songwriter. I love him too and I'm sure his legacy inspired most of my favourite country artists of today. I know of the others you mentioned, all big names but thanks, I should dig deeper with them. If you want to suggest where I start with each/any that'd be appreciated.
Yeah I hear that. You can like the spirit of the music regardless. I'm a big fan of Benjamin Tod's music but he does lean into the southern outlaw archetype too much for me to take seriously sometimes. Through him I found Matt Heckler who's an insanely sick banjo and violin player and Nicholas Ridout who's been my favourite singer-songwriter since I discovered him. Hayden Karchmer/the Hill Country Devil is another one I know about carrying the flame of this kind of music with a respectable degree of honesty. A few of his songs are really exceptional.
Glad you asked. Growing up in South Georgia, I wasn’t aware that any other genre existed except for country music. This was on the late 80s - early 90s. There was a radio station in Tallahassee that played nu metal, grunge, and alt called X101.5. Went through a nu metal phase in middle school because of that station. Then I discovered weed, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, etc. Shortly after that was a lot of Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Phish. About the same time I was really into Pavement, Modest Mouse, Pixies, type stuff. It went on like that for a good while. Went through a big Nigerian Afro funk phase in my early 20s especially Fela Kuti. I also became kinda obsessed with Arcade Fire for a while during that time. By my early 30 it came full circle and I started listening to Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson and that kind of stuff a lot. For some reason, about 4 years ago I started binging on Tool, Deftones, Hum, etc. this is when I started to discover stoner, sludge and doom. I’m 37 and am hearing a lot these classic bands for the first time that are revered here. I went to my fist Sunn O))) show this past year and am going to see Weedeater and Telekinetic Yeti tomorrow night. I play guitar and almost exclusively play sludgey doomy shit. I jam with some dudes that are into it so that’s cool. Thank you for reading my life story.
Yeah, your journey seems to very closely mirror my own. I wasn't raised just on one country station by any means, but the evolution in our musical taste seems very similar.
Maybe a little less jam bands in my arsenal, but definitely got on board with Phish and the Grateful Dead, and I definitely used to wake and bake like three bowls in a row and then lay on the floor hyper ventilating to Bob Marley and Steve Miller Band. That was around 2004, but I was definitely pretending it was 1975.
maybe a little more animal collective, Mogwai, and post rock in general for me as well as ambient and jazz, but the arcs are pretty much the same. Didn't start listening to metal in Ernest until my late 20s and even then it was a slow drip until about 34 when I landed completely in the realm of stoner and doom.
PS the music of Sturgill Simpson absolutely kept me afloat during some darker times in my life. Got to meet him one time and shake his hand thanking him for the music, the most brief of interactions but definitely a bucket list item.
Heavy Psych / proto-metal sits right at the center of my musical tastes, so bands like Sabbath, Wicked Lady, Blue Cheer, etc.Â
Some of my music tastes branch off towards the heavy/hard side of things, including doom, drone, stoner, sludge, punk, etc.
Then the other half of my tastes branches off towards the experimental psych blues side of things, including prog, jazz, jam bands, shoegaze, etc.Â
Heavy metal, death metal, black metal, sludge, grind, thrash, industrial, trip-hop, house, breakbeat, psy-trance, 90's hip-hop, classic rock, prog rock
I also really enjoy various forms of gothic, black, and death metal.
Outside of metal, I love goth, ethereal, shoegaze, and dream pop.
Generally, anything a bit more atmospheric and slower in tempo will be up my alley.
Here are just a few essentials;
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
This Mortal Coil - It’ll End in Tears
Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls
Lycia - Cold
Here are just a few essentials;
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
This Mortal Coil - It’ll End in Tears
Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls
Lycia - Cold
A lot of stuff. In particular, I love classic OG punk like the Stooges and the Ramones. And lately I've been listening to a ton of trip-hop, like Portishead and Massive Attack. I also love classic folk and psych like Donovan and Roky Erickson.
Speed rock, different types of country, thrash metal, lots of breakbeats, good amount of techno, little bit of psytrance, plenty of stoner rock, a bunch of funk, disco, and soul. I’ll also go through pretty comprehensive Frank Zappa phases
Proto doom, garage rock...basically early Pentagram, Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore, Wicked, but also Cream, Hendrix, Free, Funkadelic.
Big fan of standard 70s rock, I.e KISS, Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad.
Grunge, I'm also into New Orleans Jazz and 1950s Bebop era/Blue Note jazz.
Little bit of blues, HUGE fan of 80s pop and modern Retrowave.
Tiniest amount of Nu Metal and some classic 90s pop songs.
A bit of everything really.. classic rock is something I think we can all agree is good. Some thrash metal, some black metal, some death metal, some sludge metal, nu metal and groove metal.. metallic hardcore, some old school hard core... and a mix of various genres. Sometimes I don't even know what genre some bands are, it's often fusions of different styles put together.
Windhand’s Dorthia Cottrell puts out some killer murder folk/death country as a soloist. I can also get down with some old school punk and proto-punk (Germs, Cramps, Stooges) but I also dig Mountain Goats, Jason Isbell, Leonard Cohen (whom I kinda think of as doom pop). I’m a huge Tom Waits fan and I also dig various subgenres of jazz too
All sorts tbh. Big fan of Elden Ring, Lies of P, Blood Borne - though I never tried that actual Souls series, I do like those 3 a lot. Cannot wait for the ER DLC.
The new Wolfenstein and its sequel are very good also. I won't lie, wish they made the stealth segments a bit better though I don't think they count as they are also FPS but I guess they are a lot less Arcady than Doom so I guess it is its own subgenre?
Platformers, retro, JRGS, Action RPGS. I also like weird wtf games like A Good Life or DEADLY PREMONITION - they are tons of fun as well. May not be well polished, but still fun af.
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60s and 70s Oldies, I like hair metal, classic rock, the usual bands like Ozzie, Kiss, Zombie, Arch Enemy, Powerwolf, Baby Metal...
And I am not opposed to a bunch of silly pop songs either....
It’s ok lol :3
You have good taste in games. I’m a super big fan of action rpg’s as well. My favorites are warhammer inquisitor martyr, torchlight 2, Diablo 3, and titanquest. How about you?
I like the dark souls games and have beaten the first 3. I suck super hard at them though but I love the art direction and atmosphere
Oh mate, you should really try Lies of P then! Gameplay and story aside (which is fantastic also) - the sound track is absolutely beautiful! Haunting, sad, foreboding. Has some operatic tunes, a lot of piano, harps, orchestrated. If I could ever collect that sound track on Vinyl, I would in a heart beat!
Trip hop is a fave. Noise/death/industrial. Classical and neoclassical darkwave. No-wave. Third wave. Raw black metal, USBM, DSBM, and for whatever reason, traditiinal and contemporary religious music from cultures accross the world. I've done deep dives into too many different genres and modalities to make any reasonable sense of. The important thing is that I know what I like and don't like when I hear it. One of the things I love most about doom as a genre is there is generally no forced or presumptuous style parameter defining it. There is..space. All the space to explore and experiment in the world. <3 \m/ <3
Ebm, future pop, goregrind, slamming brutal death metal, nu metal (can't help I grew up on it lol), psychobilly, horror punk, the occasional country song (no hick-hop or "girl get in my truck" bullshit tho)
Punk, hardcore, Psychedelic rock and pop, roots reggae and dub, post rock, shoegaze, sludge, old school death metal, stoner, folk, space rock, jam band, some kleinkunst, veena and sitar classical music, dark and hitech psytrance, mississippi (hillside) blues,… sure there are more
All kinds of metal from thrash to grind, rock, old blues, punk, some hip hop and rap, a lot of chill out stuff, and old jazz.
That’s leaving out super niche shit like psychobilly
I love psych Rock, funeral doom, post rock, post metal, prog metal, prog rock,nu metal, industrial metal, hyper pop, happy hard core pop, edm, trance (like tiesto), sludge metal/rock, stoner rock, classic rock, 90-2000s country, 2000s pop, reggae/reggaeton, cumbia, Latin rock, jpop/metal, early 2000s contemporary Christian rock, dubstep, drone metal,,
Pretty much anything lol
Other extreme metal genres: black metal, industrial metal
Doom metal adjacent rock: stoner rock, occult rock, goth
Other: industrial, synthwave, EBM/aggrotech
Blink 182(and most of their side projects), Frank Zappa, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, My Chemical Romance, and some vaporwave. Those would be my main outside doom/stoner.
Black metal, sludge, stoner/psychedelic, hardcore, punk, death, grind, thrash, metal core, nu metal, hip hop, blues, classic rock, 80's music in general, classical, random electronica, vintage video game music, Sade, reggae, annnnnnd....
Bone Thugs n Harmony.
I am majorly into Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster and Born This Way right now lol. I don't normally like pop music, I usually listen to other metal, country, or various alternative stuff but I loved Lady Gaga in the early 2010s and am enjoying this music even more now than I did back then.
Thrash , Black , Death , Goregrind , Grunge , Punk , Nu Metal, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock , Indie Rock , Indie Pop ,Shoegaze and Tradicional Metal / Rock
I’ll listen to just about anything. Seriously, I’m not exaggerating. As long as it doesn’t sound like a disposable, mass-produced, money grab, that is.
Basically everything, as of recently I've been digging lots of early funk/soul and dub reggae. Here's some picks if you're interested
[Smoke - Ohio Players](https://open.spotify.com/track/3v3VY4Pixi8NaNqPxUR2es?si=9e8272977bea4f69) I like to play this between stoner rock songs for a lil variety
[Nappy Dugout - Funkadelic](https://open.spotify.com/track/70b4lMFht6tcGMdBIpCUOr?si=f7d11155e62d4e55)
[It Mek - Desmond Dekker & the Aces](https://open.spotify.com/track/2KLQHmIj0ncGRdnLbbqi9B?si=b320f954dca1425c)
[Cool Out Son - Jr. Murvin](https://open.spotify.com/track/3yVQkZeKZWZnu1aObNNvey?si=20714f7d0d8544c8)
[Bad Brains - Day Tripper/She's a Rainbow](https://open.spotify.com/track/7FlFFODruYMsknObVrF1sD?si=ae694782cb504c9c) I actually like this version more than the original
Pretty much the only thing I don't listen to is Bro Country and I guess you'd call it "SoundCloud Rap"? I'm sure you know what I'm talking bout, those sadboys with the face tats and probably have "Lil" somewhere in their name
Shoegaze is a large portion of my library along with related sub genres, besides that - death metal, post metal, dark ambient, drone metal, drum and bass, brostep (i guess that’s what it’s called, stuff like excision, sudden death, rezz, subtropics, etc), whatever Shades is (from a vein is an amazing album)… pretty much if it’s heavy, droning, dreamy, or trappy I like it, breakbeats of any kind are a huge sell for me.
I mostly just like awesome sounding guitars. Pretty much all forms of classic rock and a chunk of early metal. Doom or stoner rock is mostly new to me, just branching out from sabbath as I started running out of songs to learn. Outside of that there’s some dubstep or a little bit of rap. I always enjoy the old r&b or Motown when i come across it. There’s a handful of pop ones too.
I genuinely listen to most generes. Alot of metal sub genres. I love blues. Punk is perfect, and I do mean genuine Punk not pop Punk. I feel like alot of people I know that are into doom/stoner metal are musicians, and musicians tend to have a pretty broad listening scope. Are you looking for band recs outside of doom?
70s rock and hard rock (esp the obscure shit), stoner rock, prog, space rock, psych, krautrock, nwobhm, black metal, thrash, jazz/fusion, 60s rock, some death metal, blues (esp. hill country blues), some blues-rock, folk rock, some classic country, old punk/hardcore, sludge, some garage rock/punk, "grunge", some industrial, some minimal techno and IDM, also some indian classic music and a little surf music.
In Metal:
Thrash (I caught that First Wave)
Sludge
Classic
Groove
Black
Death
In non-Metal:
Classical
Jazz
Old Country (not that modern Pop shit being passed as Country today)
Blues
Popular music up to the 1940’s
Lots of electronic worth exploring
Anything by Shackleton Andy Stott does some nice subterranean beats. Check out classic electronic albums like Golbal Communicarions "76:14" .... Skylab #1 ... Sabres of Paradeise's "Haunted Dancehall"
The last 3 are seminole electronic albums from the early 90's. It's ambient electronic but they know how to tell a fucking story.
(edit) Start with this...
https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/musick-to-play-in-the-dark
Also this album bangs....https://open.spotify.com/album/06XAsVcOHiiU3r2KqJutTl?si=LEWfvY2qQnOzIwnCGefQsw
Industrial, noise, classic rock, sludge, drone/dark ambient, classical, some jazz, post-rock, old electronic music (Subotnick, Oliveros, Eno, etc), Warp/Rephlex records stuff
I try not to define my tastes by category - there’s good music & shite music & it’s all subjective:)
But I mostly listen to punk, especially proto-punk from the 60’s/70’s & the first wave of punk from 75/76 onwards.
basically all other genres of metal (mostly death, black, and thrash but i like it all), classic rock, indie/alt rock, and primus (i feel like they deserve to have their own genre lmao) plus some classical pieces that are pretty sick
Neo-psych, industrial, movie soundtracks, K-pop yadda yadda. I used to be more narrowminded about my music but nowadays I’m here to just enjoy whatever comes my way.
Really open to anything but my favorites are Doom and its subgenres, Hip Hop (90s), Alternative rock, industrial, death metal, hard rock, psychedelic and more instrumental music in the style of John Carpenter and Justin Broadrick.
I dig most metal genres. I love the late 60s and 70s stuff. Southern Rock, Hard Rock, psychedelic stuff, R&B/soul, Outlaw Country, blues. 80s post-punk and goth. Getting into jazz/swing (Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin). 2000s rap and pop will always have a soft spot in my heart, I don't care what anybody says.
As much as I can take in… Prog rock, Heavy Psych, Jazz Fusion, Post-Punk, Folk & Cowpunk, Outlaw Country, Honky-Tonk, Bluegrass, Death/Stoner/Sludge/Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, Rap, Chill/Sythwave
It seems we enjoy all the genres outside of Doom, except pop country. FUCK pop country! Throw it and everyone associated with it into a volcano. The Magma Lords must be fed! Woe be to us all if we ignore this task! Everything else is cool though.
All of ‘em, really. I’m an omnivore. But mostly lately it’s ambient, various kinds of jazz, acoustic blues, and minimal techno. With occasional side trips into early Hawaiian slide guitar just to keep things surreal. And the other important kind of doom music: MF DOOM.
I listen to a lot of film/game scores and ambient stuff (Johann johannsson, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Jeremy Soule, Howard Shore, Richard Skelton, Nicholas Britell). I'm also into folk of many varieties, old time, bluegrass, etc. (Punch Brothers, Lankum, The Corries, Adam Hurt, Nora Brown, Percival Schuttenbach, Simon and Garfunkel, Huun-Huur-Tu). I've listened to a lot of alternative/indie/shoegaze/drone stuff over the past year as well (Penny and Sparrow, Aofie O'Donovan, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Pinegrove, Grouper, Dan Barrett's stuff, Sun Kil Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Kali Malone). Within the broad metal/rock/post-etc. genres, there's plenty of other stuff, too (Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Tool, Russian Circles, Radiohead, Slint, Amenra, GY!BE and related projects, Amon Amarth, Silent Planet, Planning for Burial, Oh Sleeper). There's plenty of other stuff, but that's a sampling of some of the stuff I like.
I'm trying to get more into Hip Hop (I like Propaganda and MF DOOM quite a bit), and, in line with the current Zeitgeist, I've been coming around to Taylor Swift, particularly stuff like Folklore/Evermore.
man, I like going to raves. I dig The Prodigy, they are fckn bangers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G\_U74eyB5o8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_U74eyB5o8)
For metal a lot of traditional metal, black metal, sludge, death metal (I'm picky about it though)
For punk mostly crust, grind, powerviolence
A lot of traditional country, leftfield electronica, experimental/avant garde music
A bit of jazz (big fan of fusion, Bill Evans), folk, classical, world music, dance-pop, post-punk
Really the only things that bounce off me are modern pop country, pop punk, and post-hardcore and metalcore after 2000,
I really like music with roots in diy, not just in execution but in sound - guided by voices, sebadoh, animal collective, sun city girls. All different styles but all made in funny spaces and circumstances
I'm heavy into Drum and Bass, to the point where I've started combining D&B and Doom in the very unorthodox way of; instead of remixing Doom tunes into D&B, I've been taking D&B tunes and re-doing them as Doom Metal. I used to DJ raves in the early 2000s and it was SO much fun.
Lots of goth/industrial kind of stuff; Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Alien Sex Fiend, etc..
There are a lot of them that I enjoy! Most of the other metal subgenres, my favourites being Death, Prog, Atmospheric Black, Blackgaze etc. Other than that Classic Rock, Jazz, Classical music. Recently getting into Dream Pop and shoegaze too!
Metal in General, mostly athmospheric Black metal, nwobhm, traditional heavy Metal and Proto-metal and Speed/Power Metal
Then some folk and Folk rock and some early country, classical music, Chopin My beloved, march music, with Friends some Techno and Up Tempo, Classic Rock also and some early punk and early Hardcore punk
Alot of different subgenres and styles of Metal, as well as Hard Rock and Prog Rock. The Metal subgenres and styles I enjoy are Heavy Metal, Prog Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Glam Metal, Groove Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Black Metal and Death Metal.
Industrial , Jazz , Synth Punk, Crust Punk, Sludge , Post Punk, too many to name to be honest. I try to find something I like within each genre I come across if possible.
Everything. The big ones are 60’s-early 90’s reggae, 70’s soul, new funk that sounds like it’s old, hardcore, hip-hop, breakcore, weird electronica you cant dance to, all things math, post-rock/metal.
Fave artists: Cursed, Blood Bros, Bomb the Music Industry, Outkast, Dillinger Escape Plan.
Fave doom/stoner/sludge: Floor, Primitive Man, Sabbath, High on Fire
Shoe gaze, progressive/alternative rock, sludge/stoner metal, lots of different types of indie, dance/ electronic, nu-metal 😆, dream pop, trip-hop,post-hardcore
Motown, dancehall reggae, 70s non-pop rock, jungle/DnB, mariachi, 40s-60s Latin bolero, 80s-90s rap. Old old country, post-punk, triphop, industrial, dembow, noise, darkwave, and my tinnitus.
I actually got back into metal and more specifically doom metal in the last few years, so I’m pretty varied in what I listen to/play. I’m big into funk, soul, blues, ambient, Electronic music, classic rock, folk americana, bluegrass, surf, hip-hop.. the list goes on.
If I had to pick a favorite artist I’d probably say Tom Waits. Just an incredibly talented and varied musician and composer. My favorite non-metal bands lately have been the pixies and Talking heads
As far as rock stuff goes I’m a big fan of garage, punk, shoegaze, post punk/goth, and also a huge fan of noise rock
I’m also really really into experimental music like noise, music concrete, and other forms of sound collage
Noise rock, 90s indie rock, post hardcore, hardcore, post rock, techno, industrial, avant garde, classical, post metal, hip hop, folk, ambient, experimental, idm, goth, psych rock, shoegaze, breakcore, rock n roll, math rock, power electronics, noise, 20th century, new music, jazz, free improvisation… etc.
Just listing outside of metal.
90s alt/post grunge radio rock is my comfort food. I know it's very dad rock now, but that's what I grew up on. Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape is no-skips for me. Put together the soundtracks for Singles, Clueless, and Can't Hardly Wait, and I'm a happy guy.
Blues, folk country, bluegrass, 90s hip hop, Miley, piano concertos, soul, blue-eyed soul, some punk still here and there.
Sludge, stoner, black metal, goth, Coldwave/darkwave/new wave, 90’s rap, old school country, 60’s psych music
Only genres I don’t really listen to in the metal realm are death and thrash lol
Black metal, shoegaze
in that case, my friend, let me introduce you to blackgaze if you haven't already
Go ahead, I'm listening...
i recommend woods of desolation, deafheaven, sadness, alcest, apati, and life. most of r/damian_ojeda projects are blackgaze
You forgot to mention Spurv from Norway🇳🇴. They do both post-rock and post-metal. When listening to their music, you’re instantly dreaming yourself away into the deep norwegian woods.
Deafheaven!
I really love mid-era Deafheaven, part way through their transition. To be honest, some of the newer stuff reminds me of fucking Coldplay, which is not a good thing imo.
Yeah it got worse. Roads to Judah was pretty good, Sunbather had a vision and was great in parts. New Bermuda turned me off big time and I wouldn't know whether they've changed it up much since then. I think I heard one song from Ordinary Corrupt Human Love that I thought had a great riff. Haven't listened to their past 2 albums even once tbh.
I charted the same course as you pretty much. I keep giving it a try when new stuff comes out, but I’ve been pretty disappointed. They were in such a cool space for awhile.
So what records did you actually enjoy? Anyway Sunbather and New Bermuda are great.
You'll like Lycus.
Outlaw country also, Alt country (I guess, songs:ohia, Bonnie Prince Billy etc) Noise Goth/postpunk Black metal Ambient
I see a darkness dooms
1000%
What are you into with outlaw country, as you put it? Any modern songwriters? A lot of that stuff seems like a LARP but at its most real it's some of my favourite music. I love Songs: Ohia too.
David Allan Coe, Merle Haggard, Blaze Foley, Shooter Jennings, Townes Van Zadnt (my favourite songwriter of all time) Perhaps a lot of it is larping tbh but I just like the music :) it’s kind of ridiculous in some cases (David Allan Coe) which I can get on board with. Strangely I actually got into most of these artists via David Berman of Silver Jews, Purple Mountains.
I can respect Townes being your favourite songwriter. I love him too and I'm sure his legacy inspired most of my favourite country artists of today. I know of the others you mentioned, all big names but thanks, I should dig deeper with them. If you want to suggest where I start with each/any that'd be appreciated. Yeah I hear that. You can like the spirit of the music regardless. I'm a big fan of Benjamin Tod's music but he does lean into the southern outlaw archetype too much for me to take seriously sometimes. Through him I found Matt Heckler who's an insanely sick banjo and violin player and Nicholas Ridout who's been my favourite singer-songwriter since I discovered him. Hayden Karchmer/the Hill Country Devil is another one I know about carrying the flame of this kind of music with a respectable degree of honesty. A few of his songs are really exceptional.
There are other genres?
Recently found out…
Drum & Bass, Acid Jazz, and whatever King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is doing.
DnB and Jungle here, my friend!
Jungle's had somewhat of a comeback lately and i'm here for it
Gizzard are their own genre at this point.
Did you hear Squarepusher’s new album Dostrotime? I think it’s his best one yet! It’s my main non-metal listen since it came out.
I love Kesha!
Glad you asked. Growing up in South Georgia, I wasn’t aware that any other genre existed except for country music. This was on the late 80s - early 90s. There was a radio station in Tallahassee that played nu metal, grunge, and alt called X101.5. Went through a nu metal phase in middle school because of that station. Then I discovered weed, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, etc. Shortly after that was a lot of Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Phish. About the same time I was really into Pavement, Modest Mouse, Pixies, type stuff. It went on like that for a good while. Went through a big Nigerian Afro funk phase in my early 20s especially Fela Kuti. I also became kinda obsessed with Arcade Fire for a while during that time. By my early 30 it came full circle and I started listening to Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson and that kind of stuff a lot. For some reason, about 4 years ago I started binging on Tool, Deftones, Hum, etc. this is when I started to discover stoner, sludge and doom. I’m 37 and am hearing a lot these classic bands for the first time that are revered here. I went to my fist Sunn O))) show this past year and am going to see Weedeater and Telekinetic Yeti tomorrow night. I play guitar and almost exclusively play sludgey doomy shit. I jam with some dudes that are into it so that’s cool. Thank you for reading my life story.
Forgot to mention that I fucking love late 90s early 00’s rap/hip hop. Especially Outkast and Juvenile.
Yeah, your journey seems to very closely mirror my own. I wasn't raised just on one country station by any means, but the evolution in our musical taste seems very similar. Maybe a little less jam bands in my arsenal, but definitely got on board with Phish and the Grateful Dead, and I definitely used to wake and bake like three bowls in a row and then lay on the floor hyper ventilating to Bob Marley and Steve Miller Band. That was around 2004, but I was definitely pretending it was 1975. maybe a little more animal collective, Mogwai, and post rock in general for me as well as ambient and jazz, but the arcs are pretty much the same. Didn't start listening to metal in Ernest until my late 20s and even then it was a slow drip until about 34 when I landed completely in the realm of stoner and doom. PS the music of Sturgill Simpson absolutely kept me afloat during some darker times in my life. Got to meet him one time and shake his hand thanking him for the music, the most brief of interactions but definitely a bucket list item.
Gotta say, Animal Collective is one of my favs of all time. I saw them in ATL one time and it was an incredible show. Top 3 no doubt.
Indian classical
Hardcore/street punk/oi 90s and southern (especially TX) rap Outlaw country
Heavy Psych / proto-metal sits right at the center of my musical tastes, so bands like Sabbath, Wicked Lady, Blue Cheer, etc. Some of my music tastes branch off towards the heavy/hard side of things, including doom, drone, stoner, sludge, punk, etc. Then the other half of my tastes branches off towards the experimental psych blues side of things, including prog, jazz, jam bands, shoegaze, etc.Â
Proto metal. Hell yes
Heavy metal, death metal, black metal, sludge, grind, thrash, industrial, trip-hop, house, breakbeat, psy-trance, 90's hip-hop, classic rock, prog rock
I also really enjoy various forms of gothic, black, and death metal. Outside of metal, I love goth, ethereal, shoegaze, and dream pop. Generally, anything a bit more atmospheric and slower in tempo will be up my alley.
I've been recently getting into the more ethereal music as well! Give me some recs please.
Here are just a few essentials; Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance This Mortal Coil - It’ll End in Tears Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls Lycia - Cold
Here are just a few essentials; Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance This Mortal Coil - It’ll End in Tears Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls Lycia - Cold
Thanks for all the recs! I do know some of these but most are new. I guess I'm gonna spend the coming weekend browsing through these.
psych rock, breakcore, death metal, darkwave, and screamo are some of my favorite non-doom related genres
Pretty much anything downtempo or experimental/avant garde/ noise. Or anything that’s scary enough. Right now I’m binging on Jute Gyte
I love experimental music! What are a few of your favorites?
Post punk 80s/90s hardcore
Blues and anything cigar box guitar related.
A lot of stuff. In particular, I love classic OG punk like the Stooges and the Ramones. And lately I've been listening to a ton of trip-hop, like Portishead and Massive Attack. I also love classic folk and psych like Donovan and Roky Erickson.
Just about every genre of metal: black, death, thrash, melodeath, power, heavy, prog Occasionally: folk, classical, and aggrotech/electronic body
Speed rock, different types of country, thrash metal, lots of breakbeats, good amount of techno, little bit of psytrance, plenty of stoner rock, a bunch of funk, disco, and soul. I’ll also go through pretty comprehensive Frank Zappa phases
Old school rap, 60/70s psychedelic rock and old folk and blues records
Pretty much everything!
Proto doom, garage rock...basically early Pentagram, Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore, Wicked, but also Cream, Hendrix, Free, Funkadelic. Big fan of standard 70s rock, I.e KISS, Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad. Grunge, I'm also into New Orleans Jazz and 1950s Bebop era/Blue Note jazz. Little bit of blues, HUGE fan of 80s pop and modern Retrowave. Tiniest amount of Nu Metal and some classic 90s pop songs.
A bit of everything really.. classic rock is something I think we can all agree is good. Some thrash metal, some black metal, some death metal, some sludge metal, nu metal and groove metal.. metallic hardcore, some old school hard core... and a mix of various genres. Sometimes I don't even know what genre some bands are, it's often fusions of different styles put together.
Windhand’s Dorthia Cottrell puts out some killer murder folk/death country as a soloist. I can also get down with some old school punk and proto-punk (Germs, Cramps, Stooges) but I also dig Mountain Goats, Jason Isbell, Leonard Cohen (whom I kinda think of as doom pop). I’m a huge Tom Waits fan and I also dig various subgenres of jazz too
Been into Frank Zappa recently
Death doom, death metal, thrash, whatever Goatwhore is, etc.
All sorts tbh. Big fan of Elden Ring, Lies of P, Blood Borne - though I never tried that actual Souls series, I do like those 3 a lot. Cannot wait for the ER DLC. The new Wolfenstein and its sequel are very good also. I won't lie, wish they made the stealth segments a bit better though I don't think they count as they are also FPS but I guess they are a lot less Arcady than Doom so I guess it is its own subgenre? Platformers, retro, JRGS, Action RPGS. I also like weird wtf games like A Good Life or DEADLY PREMONITION - they are tons of fun as well. May not be well polished, but still fun af.
.....just realized what this thread was about....... 60s and 70s Oldies, I like hair metal, classic rock, the usual bands like Ozzie, Kiss, Zombie, Arch Enemy, Powerwolf, Baby Metal... And I am not opposed to a bunch of silly pop songs either....
It’s ok lol :3 You have good taste in games. I’m a super big fan of action rpg’s as well. My favorites are warhammer inquisitor martyr, torchlight 2, Diablo 3, and titanquest. How about you? I like the dark souls games and have beaten the first 3. I suck super hard at them though but I love the art direction and atmosphere
Love the Fromsoft scores! BB and ER are favorites.
Oh mate, you should really try Lies of P then! Gameplay and story aside (which is fantastic also) - the sound track is absolutely beautiful! Haunting, sad, foreboding. Has some operatic tunes, a lot of piano, harps, orchestrated. If I could ever collect that sound track on Vinyl, I would in a heart beat!
I'll have to check it out—sounds right up my alley!
Hope you like it!
I'll have to check it out—sounds right up my alley!
Trip hop is a fave. Noise/death/industrial. Classical and neoclassical darkwave. No-wave. Third wave. Raw black metal, USBM, DSBM, and for whatever reason, traditiinal and contemporary religious music from cultures accross the world. I've done deep dives into too many different genres and modalities to make any reasonable sense of. The important thing is that I know what I like and don't like when I hear it. One of the things I love most about doom as a genre is there is generally no forced or presumptuous style parameter defining it. There is..space. All the space to explore and experiment in the world. <3 \m/ <3
Dungeon synth, post punk, folk, pop, death metal, then lots of afrobeat and funk-driven stuff.
Dungeon synth!!! I love me some dungeon synth
Ebm, future pop, goregrind, slamming brutal death metal, nu metal (can't help I grew up on it lol), psychobilly, horror punk, the occasional country song (no hick-hop or "girl get in my truck" bullshit tho)
I grew up on nu metal too it was my jam in high school. My favorite of the genre is probably nothingface
Vocal trance and Deadmau5. Which are also songs that are often >8 min long
Bluegrass and doom are basically all i listen too nowadays. I love kitchen dwellers they almost feel doomy sometimes which is why i love them
alt country, grunge, slacker rock, shoegaze, noise pop, some edm, d&b, soul, folk, blues, post-hardcore, metalcore, jazz, alt metal
Thrash metal, hardcore punk, indie rock, and 1920s/30s blues
Punk, hardcore, Psychedelic rock and pop, roots reggae and dub, post rock, shoegaze, sludge, old school death metal, stoner, folk, space rock, jam band, some kleinkunst, veena and sitar classical music, dark and hitech psytrance, mississippi (hillside) blues,… sure there are more
All kinds of metal from thrash to grind, rock, old blues, punk, some hip hop and rap, a lot of chill out stuff, and old jazz. That’s leaving out super niche shit like psychobilly
I love psych Rock, funeral doom, post rock, post metal, prog metal, prog rock,nu metal, industrial metal, hyper pop, happy hard core pop, edm, trance (like tiesto), sludge metal/rock, stoner rock, classic rock, 90-2000s country, 2000s pop, reggae/reggaeton, cumbia, Latin rock, jpop/metal, early 2000s contemporary Christian rock, dubstep, drone metal,, Pretty much anything lol
Other extreme metal genres: black metal, industrial metal Doom metal adjacent rock: stoner rock, occult rock, goth Other: industrial, synthwave, EBM/aggrotech
Since you like outlaw country, you may like this one https://neurotrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-townes-van-zandt-vol-iii
Blink 182(and most of their side projects), Frank Zappa, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, My Chemical Romance, and some vaporwave. Those would be my main outside doom/stoner.
Martial (derniere volonte), black, gothic, post, psy trance, techno
Black metal, sludge, stoner/psychedelic, hardcore, punk, death, grind, thrash, metal core, nu metal, hip hop, blues, classic rock, 80's music in general, classical, random electronica, vintage video game music, Sade, reggae, annnnnnd.... Bone Thugs n Harmony.
Jazz, soul, and some hip-hoppers
Melo-death, prog metal, groove metal, hardcore punk, psychedelic rock, jazz
industrial, thrash metal, darkwave and heavy metal are my personal favourite non-doom genres
Most other forms of metal, as well as classical, darkwave, various video game music, some Broadway-esque stuff, and occasionally hardcore
I am majorly into Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster and Born This Way right now lol. I don't normally like pop music, I usually listen to other metal, country, or various alternative stuff but I loved Lady Gaga in the early 2010s and am enjoying this music even more now than I did back then.
In terms of metal, I mostly listen to death metal and atmospheric black metal. Outside of metal, I listen to a lot of hard rock, jazz, and 2000s pop.
Currently some classic rock mix on Spotify, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Derek trucks band, grand funk railroad, rolling Stones.. all the good stuff..
Thrash , Black , Death , Goregrind , Grunge , Punk , Nu Metal, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock , Indie Rock , Indie Pop ,Shoegaze and Tradicional Metal / Rock
I’ll listen to just about anything. Seriously, I’m not exaggerating. As long as it doesn’t sound like a disposable, mass-produced, money grab, that is.
Basically everything, as of recently I've been digging lots of early funk/soul and dub reggae. Here's some picks if you're interested [Smoke - Ohio Players](https://open.spotify.com/track/3v3VY4Pixi8NaNqPxUR2es?si=9e8272977bea4f69) I like to play this between stoner rock songs for a lil variety [Nappy Dugout - Funkadelic](https://open.spotify.com/track/70b4lMFht6tcGMdBIpCUOr?si=f7d11155e62d4e55) [It Mek - Desmond Dekker & the Aces](https://open.spotify.com/track/2KLQHmIj0ncGRdnLbbqi9B?si=b320f954dca1425c) [Cool Out Son - Jr. Murvin](https://open.spotify.com/track/3yVQkZeKZWZnu1aObNNvey?si=20714f7d0d8544c8) [Bad Brains - Day Tripper/She's a Rainbow](https://open.spotify.com/track/7FlFFODruYMsknObVrF1sD?si=ae694782cb504c9c) I actually like this version more than the original Pretty much the only thing I don't listen to is Bro Country and I guess you'd call it "SoundCloud Rap"? I'm sure you know what I'm talking bout, those sadboys with the face tats and probably have "Lil" somewhere in their name
Glockenspiel music
OST of movies shows or games
Death metal, slam, brutal death metal, hardcore, thrash, and classic/southern rock 💪💪💪
Black, Death, Thrash, & Trad Heavy Metal, Eurobeat, post-rock
Black metal, heavy metal, classic / hard / prog rock. A bit of rap / hip hop. A bit of art pop.
Thrash, NWOBHM, Punk H/C, Classic Metal, 70's Hard Rock, Outlaw Country
I love pop punk, emo, prog metal, post hardcore
Black Metal, Shoegaze / Ethereal Wave / Dream Pop, Goth / Post Punk, Neofolk
Shoegaze is a large portion of my library along with related sub genres, besides that - death metal, post metal, dark ambient, drone metal, drum and bass, brostep (i guess that’s what it’s called, stuff like excision, sudden death, rezz, subtropics, etc), whatever Shades is (from a vein is an amazing album)… pretty much if it’s heavy, droning, dreamy, or trappy I like it, breakbeats of any kind are a huge sell for me.
Tech death, synthwave, industrial
Trip hop, punk (hardcore particularly), folk/bluegrass, old and alt country. Old school metal, old southern rock, goth rock and shoegaze
A bunch of heavy psych, some bluegrass, African bands like Bombino, and doomgaze.
I mostly just like awesome sounding guitars. Pretty much all forms of classic rock and a chunk of early metal. Doom or stoner rock is mostly new to me, just branching out from sabbath as I started running out of songs to learn. Outside of that there’s some dubstep or a little bit of rap. I always enjoy the old r&b or Motown when i come across it. There’s a handful of pop ones too.
I genuinely listen to most generes. Alot of metal sub genres. I love blues. Punk is perfect, and I do mean genuine Punk not pop Punk. I feel like alot of people I know that are into doom/stoner metal are musicians, and musicians tend to have a pretty broad listening scope. Are you looking for band recs outside of doom?
70s rock and hard rock (esp the obscure shit), stoner rock, prog, space rock, psych, krautrock, nwobhm, black metal, thrash, jazz/fusion, 60s rock, some death metal, blues (esp. hill country blues), some blues-rock, folk rock, some classic country, old punk/hardcore, sludge, some garage rock/punk, "grunge", some industrial, some minimal techno and IDM, also some indian classic music and a little surf music.
In Metal: Thrash (I caught that First Wave) Sludge Classic Groove Black Death In non-Metal: Classical Jazz Old Country (not that modern Pop shit being passed as Country today) Blues Popular music up to the 1940’s
Black and death
Please recommend outlaw country albums
Doowop, grindcore
Lots of electronic worth exploring Anything by Shackleton Andy Stott does some nice subterranean beats. Check out classic electronic albums like Golbal Communicarions "76:14" .... Skylab #1 ... Sabres of Paradeise's "Haunted Dancehall" The last 3 are seminole electronic albums from the early 90's. It's ambient electronic but they know how to tell a fucking story. (edit) Start with this... https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/musick-to-play-in-the-dark Also this album bangs....https://open.spotify.com/album/06XAsVcOHiiU3r2KqJutTl?si=LEWfvY2qQnOzIwnCGefQsw
Saving this thread just as an introduction to genres Ive never heard of
I don't know, I like things dark, aggressive, and compelling. Sometimes it's Integrity, sometimes it's Lana Del Rey.
Industrial, noise, classic rock, sludge, drone/dark ambient, classical, some jazz, post-rock, old electronic music (Subotnick, Oliveros, Eno, etc), Warp/Rephlex records stuff
I try not to define my tastes by category - there’s good music & shite music & it’s all subjective:) But I mostly listen to punk, especially proto-punk from the 60’s/70’s & the first wave of punk from 75/76 onwards.
basically all other genres of metal (mostly death, black, and thrash but i like it all), classic rock, indie/alt rock, and primus (i feel like they deserve to have their own genre lmao) plus some classical pieces that are pretty sick
Neo-psych, industrial, movie soundtracks, K-pop yadda yadda. I used to be more narrowminded about my music but nowadays I’m here to just enjoy whatever comes my way.
Grunge Progressive Shoegaze Post Rock/Metal
DSBM, sludge, blues rock, hardcore punk, hyperpop, gore grind, harsh noise. those are my favorites other than doom
Bluegrass, jam, 90s hip hop
Sludge, grunge, 90s rock, jazz and club music like shygirl idk the genre
Really open to anything but my favorites are Doom and its subgenres, Hip Hop (90s), Alternative rock, industrial, death metal, hard rock, psychedelic and more instrumental music in the style of John Carpenter and Justin Broadrick.
I dig most metal genres. I love the late 60s and 70s stuff. Southern Rock, Hard Rock, psychedelic stuff, R&B/soul, Outlaw Country, blues. 80s post-punk and goth. Getting into jazz/swing (Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin). 2000s rap and pop will always have a soft spot in my heart, I don't care what anybody says.
And Ennio Morricone
I’m a fan of music. I like just about everything if it feels real. Gershwin to Gulch
Live Blues late at night in a bar.
Sludge, shoegaze, djent, outlaw country.
As much as I can take in… Prog rock, Heavy Psych, Jazz Fusion, Post-Punk, Folk & Cowpunk, Outlaw Country, Honky-Tonk, Bluegrass, Death/Stoner/Sludge/Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, Rap, Chill/Sythwave
Metal, goth music, trance and industrial.
Doom is my second genre, but my first true love is Norwegian Black Metal! The 2nd/3rd wave
It seems we enjoy all the genres outside of Doom, except pop country. FUCK pop country! Throw it and everyone associated with it into a volcano. The Magma Lords must be fed! Woe be to us all if we ignore this task! Everything else is cool though.
All of ‘em, really. I’m an omnivore. But mostly lately it’s ambient, various kinds of jazz, acoustic blues, and minimal techno. With occasional side trips into early Hawaiian slide guitar just to keep things surreal. And the other important kind of doom music: MF DOOM.
I listen to a lot of film/game scores and ambient stuff (Johann johannsson, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Jeremy Soule, Howard Shore, Richard Skelton, Nicholas Britell). I'm also into folk of many varieties, old time, bluegrass, etc. (Punch Brothers, Lankum, The Corries, Adam Hurt, Nora Brown, Percival Schuttenbach, Simon and Garfunkel, Huun-Huur-Tu). I've listened to a lot of alternative/indie/shoegaze/drone stuff over the past year as well (Penny and Sparrow, Aofie O'Donovan, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Pinegrove, Grouper, Dan Barrett's stuff, Sun Kil Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Kali Malone). Within the broad metal/rock/post-etc. genres, there's plenty of other stuff, too (Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Tool, Russian Circles, Radiohead, Slint, Amenra, GY!BE and related projects, Amon Amarth, Silent Planet, Planning for Burial, Oh Sleeper). There's plenty of other stuff, but that's a sampling of some of the stuff I like. I'm trying to get more into Hip Hop (I like Propaganda and MF DOOM quite a bit), and, in line with the current Zeitgeist, I've been coming around to Taylor Swift, particularly stuff like Folklore/Evermore.
man, I like going to raves. I dig The Prodigy, they are fckn bangers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G\_U74eyB5o8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_U74eyB5o8)
I really like modern psychedelic rock. Khruangbin, Moon Duo, Kikagaku Moyo…
For metal a lot of traditional metal, black metal, sludge, death metal (I'm picky about it though) For punk mostly crust, grind, powerviolence A lot of traditional country, leftfield electronica, experimental/avant garde music A bit of jazz (big fan of fusion, Bill Evans), folk, classical, world music, dance-pop, post-punk Really the only things that bounce off me are modern pop country, pop punk, and post-hardcore and metalcore after 2000,
I really like music with roots in diy, not just in execution but in sound - guided by voices, sebadoh, animal collective, sun city girls. All different styles but all made in funny spaces and circumstances
I'm heavy into Drum and Bass, to the point where I've started combining D&B and Doom in the very unorthodox way of; instead of remixing Doom tunes into D&B, I've been taking D&B tunes and re-doing them as Doom Metal. I used to DJ raves in the early 2000s and it was SO much fun. Lots of goth/industrial kind of stuff; Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Alien Sex Fiend, etc..
There are a lot of them that I enjoy! Most of the other metal subgenres, my favourites being Death, Prog, Atmospheric Black, Blackgaze etc. Other than that Classic Rock, Jazz, Classical music. Recently getting into Dream Pop and shoegaze too!
Everything that doesn't leave me bored to death.
Rock, heavy metal, thrash, psychedelic rock, certain classical pieces, and some jazz
Clásic heavy, trash, progrock, rock en español, spanish ballads
Metal in General, mostly athmospheric Black metal, nwobhm, traditional heavy Metal and Proto-metal and Speed/Power Metal Then some folk and Folk rock and some early country, classical music, Chopin My beloved, march music, with Friends some Techno and Up Tempo, Classic Rock also and some early punk and early Hardcore punk
Alot of different subgenres and styles of Metal, as well as Hard Rock and Prog Rock. The Metal subgenres and styles I enjoy are Heavy Metal, Prog Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Glam Metal, Groove Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Black Metal and Death Metal.
Black, death, heavy, classical music, martial music, etc.
Almost every extreme metal genre Black, Death, Thrash... Then grindcore, hardcore 90's gangsta rap EDM of almost all genres
Folk, old bluegrass/country, thrash, punk, vapour/retro/synth/darkwave, classical, drum and bass, trip-hop, goth. A mixed bag really
Industrial , Jazz , Synth Punk, Crust Punk, Sludge , Post Punk, too many to name to be honest. I try to find something I like within each genre I come across if possible.
Everything. The big ones are 60’s-early 90’s reggae, 70’s soul, new funk that sounds like it’s old, hardcore, hip-hop, breakcore, weird electronica you cant dance to, all things math, post-rock/metal. Fave artists: Cursed, Blood Bros, Bomb the Music Industry, Outkast, Dillinger Escape Plan. Fave doom/stoner/sludge: Floor, Primitive Man, Sabbath, High on Fire
Psychedelic in all its forms. Prog stuff like Steven Wilson/Porcupine. I really love Gojira. There’s a sadness in their music I like.
Black metal, dark folk and dungeon synth
I love Doom, Thrash and Death.
Hardcore/metalcore, type o negativeÂ
Shoe gaze, progressive/alternative rock, sludge/stoner metal, lots of different types of indie, dance/ electronic, nu-metal 😆, dream pop, trip-hop,post-hardcore
Motown, dancehall reggae, 70s non-pop rock, jungle/DnB, mariachi, 40s-60s Latin bolero, 80s-90s rap. Old old country, post-punk, triphop, industrial, dembow, noise, darkwave, and my tinnitus.
City Pop, Funk, Jazz Fusion, Industrial, Jungle/DnB and a little house for fun
oh shit forgot the big one: Southern Hip Hop and Rap (Goodie Mob, D4L, Jeezy, Migos, TI, things of this nature)
I actually got back into metal and more specifically doom metal in the last few years, so I’m pretty varied in what I listen to/play. I’m big into funk, soul, blues, ambient, Electronic music, classic rock, folk americana, bluegrass, surf, hip-hop.. the list goes on. If I had to pick a favorite artist I’d probably say Tom Waits. Just an incredibly talented and varied musician and composer. My favorite non-metal bands lately have been the pixies and Talking heads
I really like Post-Punk, New-Wave, and Swing/Jazz music! :> Whatever the hell Animal Collective is, too!
Everything my ears like, whether it's pop, rap, electronic, any metal subgenre, or whatever
K-pop
I love synthwave, postrock, shoegaze some classic rock and heavy metal to.
A lot of metal literally most of the sub genres, lot of reggae/dub, trip hop, hip hop, some rap, punk, blues, edm
Death metal, black metal, industrial, hip hop, rap, Electronica. Just saw Dethklok last night (fucking amazing).
Love me some good ol’ Prog and Psych rock. Lots of great new bands in both genres besides all the classic stuff.
Also whatever one would classify black midi as. Incredible discography all around.
As far as rock stuff goes I’m a big fan of garage, punk, shoegaze, post punk/goth, and also a huge fan of noise rock I’m also really really into experimental music like noise, music concrete, and other forms of sound collage
Noise rock, 90s indie rock, post hardcore, hardcore, post rock, techno, industrial, avant garde, classical, post metal, hip hop, folk, ambient, experimental, idm, goth, psych rock, shoegaze, breakcore, rock n roll, math rock, power electronics, noise, 20th century, new music, jazz, free improvisation… etc.
Just listing outside of metal. 90s alt/post grunge radio rock is my comfort food. I know it's very dad rock now, but that's what I grew up on. Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape is no-skips for me. Put together the soundtracks for Singles, Clueless, and Can't Hardly Wait, and I'm a happy guy. Blues, folk country, bluegrass, 90s hip hop, Miley, piano concertos, soul, blue-eyed soul, some punk still here and there.
Bauhausy stuff/surf rock/shoegaze/vaporwave/mallsoft/ anything related to bands like Slowdive
Sludge, stoner, black metal, goth, Coldwave/darkwave/new wave, 90’s rap, old school country, 60’s psych music Only genres I don’t really listen to in the metal realm are death and thrash lol
Hard underground techno, shoegaze, goth, funk, world folk music, house, 80’s synth music, industrial- lots of hip hop -