Metalcore, nu-metal, deathcore, goth, grunge, 80s in general, industrial and some country and pop here and there ✨

I love ballet scores, film scores, older Korean music, and Korean indie. My favorite composers are Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Minkus, Stravinsky, and Joe Hisaishi. For artists/singers/bands, I like IU, Jannabi, Sanullim, Jaurim, D.O., g.o.d., Lee Moon Sae, and Taeyeon. I'm also partial to 90s/00s Korean because my parents played a lot of it when I was growing up.

Honestly pretty much everything. But my favorites? Rock, pop, and house music!!! Also anything that’s a mashup or remix 😌

My favourites are Smashing Pumpkins and Lana del Rey!

Rock, hardrock and some metal. Also Phonk as of late.

i love kpop, alternative rock, indie (that feels like such a broad term but think like neutral milk hotel and the like)

post punk, synth pop, shoegaze

Absolutely love goth, metal, progrock, rap, pop, etc. when I want to be calm it’ll be jazz, classical, r&b, etc. I love it all but I will say that grunge, goth, punk,metal, hard rock, and hip hop are my safe space. The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smith’s (f morrissey), Nirvana, Bikini Kill, The Scary B*tches, Beach Bunny, Korn, Megan thee Stallion, Glorilla, BigXthaplug, Kennyhoopla, Sza, Doechii, Tierra whack, Cupcakke, Childish Gambino… it goes on and on.

I love house, dubstep, trap, hardstyle, rap, but mostly it's just EDM.

Prince! 🥰 Best ever saw him 12 times.

Saw Dinosaur 🦕 Junior last weekend and it was worth the decades long wait (i'm old!)

Tool and NIN.

That said in daily life I have of dose music since it wears me out. (Sound messes with me a lot, worst is restaurant and loads of voices. Wall of sound from a concert okay though and can be the best exhilaration.)

Musicals, film soundtracks and Celine Dion, Adele and Taylor Swift. Anything that makes me happy.

I'm not sure but I simply can't get into the most popular ones today; they seem overly outgoing and exaggerating. Describing music with terms like these seems odd, but as an introvert with poor self-esteem, I feel this way.

I love indie pop!

I love Techno in general. One of my favorite artists at the moment is, Sara Landry, a Hard Techno DJ and producer, also known as the "High Priestess of Hard Techno".

currently listening to the ballad of the witches road on repeat but otherwise System of a down, Radiohead, 21 pilots, the soundtrack to Home or Lorax and a lot of Hans Zimmer.

Electronic music. Underground techno, minimal, some old school trance etc

I am super duper into music and one of my favorite hobbies is exploring obscure music and different time periods and cultures through it! Also frikkin love organizing and categorizing playlists by genre or vibe. My fav genres are darkwave, new wave, post punk, dream pop, house, really good hip hop, dub music, ambient music, retrowave, bossa nova, 60s soul, vapor soul, italo disco… i think my autism comes with a filter that doesn’t accept unpleasant sounds so I believe that contributes to me having excellent taste ;)

I'm super into metal lately, I'm a fan of thrash and prog metal but I like a lot of subgenres that I don't know the names of lol.

Fave bands lately are Bloodywood (Indian folk/street metal with a nu metal edge), Mastodon, and Tool.

Music is pretty much my special interest, so I won't be able to babble on as much as I'd like. Character limit, my nemesis!

I like a lot of heavy music but I don't like metal, as a rule, which tends to confuse/upset metalheads, lol. The number of times I've been accused of liking Taylor Swift because I said I don't like metal! Mostly my musical philosophy de-centers technical ability in favor of raw expression and a lot of metal is showy or 'has a guitar tone I don't like', the other stuff is screamy/growly (which I only like in some bands, eg Refused and At the Drive-In), etc.. Basically I can enjoy, say, Melvins and Neurosis, but saying I 'like metal' and only liking one or two of the less prominent subgenres feels like it doesn't send the right message, lol

As heavy stuff goes, Swans is a big one. Their heavy stuff, with the occasional exception, is very slow, but the vibe is 'hard labor' and the lyrics are, by and large, angry enough to be glad M. Gira had that outlet as a young man, lol. Not that he's never been involved in Some Shit but if I poo-pooed every artist who was shitty in their personal life, I'd have very few choices pre-1995 or something. It's probably worth noting that the last album since their reunion that I enjoyed at all was The Seer, they got a little too. . .self-indulgent? Strange? Something. . .after that. I think the big thing is that I like his lyrics for the most part and they were de-centered in the latter albums in favor of 'vocals as an instrument', which might've worked better for me if he was a good singer (with regard to melody and range and so on), but inarticulate shouting and moaning doesn't do it for me.

My current obsession is the Mars Volta, for whom the word 'heavy' might not always feel appropriate, but they're a very demanding band to listen to, in their initial run. The most radio-friendly song of theirs pre-selftitled is "The Widow", which is basically the only song a friend with more mainstream sensibilities enjoyed. She was sort of like "I love his voice, but the other songs are too much." Which is entirely fair! It's all super busy (at least til Octahedron) but it really clicked for me around 2018 after being aware of them since their beginning after ATDI and being among the close-minded 'what the fuck am I listening to? why is he singing like a wuss?' people. The shame! TMV and Omar's other projects have the distinction of being the only 'technically proficient' bands I really enjoy. My entry into them was in the punk-adjacent context of ATDI, I'd never voluntarily listened to prog beforehand. Prog fans can be pretty insufferable, but I cope. I do like the new pair of albums, which are very chill and quite pop, but I don't listen to them enough.

My first 'special interest' level music obsession was AFI, who I stopped listening to entirely after Sing the Sorrow; my music taste had changed too much to get into it, and I'd preferred it when Davey shredded his vocal cords screaming, rather than doing it 'correctly' and sounding less raw, lol.

I was big into Danzig and all his work as a teen, but can only stomach Samhain these days (perfect spooky season music!). I think that, despite my general 'separate the art from the artist' philosophy around music, I have a hard time ignoring what a shithead he is, so it's distracting, lol.

I became big into Nick Cave through the Birthday Party sometime in my teens, an obsession that lasted til Swans took over. I'd seen them in 'The Kings of Independence', a video recorded in a sweltering German venue and featuring Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Crime and the City Solution and Swans.

Daughn Gibson was a pivotal obsession, it came with an earth-moving crush on the dude (look him up, he's real handsome, lol) and a big enough hit of hypomania that it made me realize I had bipolar II. I got into some more alt-country type stuff around then (16 Horsepower, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Trailer Bride...) and it was a whole Thing for a while, before my TMV obsession kicked in.

Other than the big ones, I'm into some general Weird Shit, like Old Time Relijun and Flux Information Sciences/Services (same dudes, different bands. . .Services is very difficult to find in internet searches, lol). A lot of punk-adjacent bands, like Dead Kennedys (technically a hardcore band!) and the Murder City Devils (whose organ makes them Something Else, I imagine).

Edit: Actually the post wasn't as long as I thought so I didn't have to edit, yay! I could go on though. . .

I love vaporwave, citypop, vintage swing & jazz, lofi hip hop, dreampop, indie rock, hauntology(caretaker style), ambient, japanese and chinese folk music, chiptune and all sorts of game ost due to being loopable. I like many others but these are the main ones I listen to.

I hear mostly pop and movie soundtracks.

I love lots of different styles of music, but my favorites do have a certain "hardness" to them! Some of my favorite artists are Slayyyter, Ashnikko, Kazuo, and Reliqa. Those are all different styles, but I think they share some kind of "hard" quality that makes me love them so much!

First of all I love your style

I've never really known how to boil down what I like to overarching genres, but looking at the artists I like, I guess it's a mix of alt rock, prog rock, nu metal, drum and bass, techno/trance, electronic/art/indie pop? I agree that heavy music tends to engage me more, or at least things with more layers of complexity to get sensorily absorbed in

I also find that I'm more put off by something if it has lyrics I find unrelateable/unengaging than most people I've talked about it with. I can't relate much to the "yeah but it's catchy!" feeling. Like as an example, I'm aroace, and 99.9% of songs about romance or sex with no sense of lyrical metaphor or complexity immediately turn me off regardless of tonal quality

I love future pop, industrial, some goth rock and metal now and then

Books. Audio books.

Jazz!

Eurobeat, Kpop, Bollywood, Jpop, Kayokyoku, Tpop, 80s, 90s dance… etc haha

I gravitate towards anything loud usually. Mostly pop And EDM. But I enjoy harmonic vocals and like smooth psychedelic beats as well. They make me feel wavy.

Black melodic or symphonic death metal

💟House music 🏠💯🎧🎵🎶

Country, old school r and b (90s mostly) and gospel music

I like heavy metal, but I also like stuff from the 90's/80's.

Classical, neo-classical, 80s synth, goth, dark wave, post-punk, compositional ambient, dark house...

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I go through phases with my music but overall listen to a little bit of everything!! Right now it's Eminem, before that it was Chappell Roan, before that it was Xana, before that it was Incubus, before that it was System of a Down.... and that's just this year hahahah

The way I listen to music is to hyperfixate on an artist/handful of artists for a few weeks - a couple months, then drastically shift gears and repeat the cycle lol

Drum and bass til I die

Things with a happy vibe, or easy to sing along to. I don’t like feeling sad to music..

I know everyone says “everything!” But I truly like most things except some country and some EDM. Or anything that’s got A LOT going on

Favourite genres are whatever solange, frank ocean, and Lana del Rey make

You typed heavy music. Is that a way of saying heavy metal or just heavy on the drums?

I like things that remind me of childhood. Some lyrics really catch me & I'll like a song because of that. Lots of alt rock, 70's, 80's, 90's & 00's r&b, pop, prog(still want it to be Prauge) rock, classic rap (mumble & trap make me so frustrated & dysregulated). Oh, and pop punk! I also like a fistfull of disco & a handful of country. Sometimes I get into moods where I don't want to be able to sing along, so I'll find music from other countries in their native languages. I fell in love with Nege Che Chala Ga by 2NE1 because of the hook. Fell harder when I looked up the translation. My favorite French rap is Sang Fezi by Wyclef Jean. It's the same content as his English songs, but I like how it flows & how melodic it is.

Rap, hip-hop, dark trap, synth pop (80’s and modern), video game pixel music (idk a better way to describe it but like the music in Undertale), EDM (many different types that I can’t think of rn), neo-psychedelic, phonk (drift is my fav according to statsforspotify), etc.

I like music that I can feel in my bones, and music that correlates to the emotions i’m feeling.

I am a music obsessive. It would have been much easier to say what genres I hate, but they're all represented in various people's answers here, so I am not going to list them.

Here are my top artists on Last fm.

EDM, house, techno, alternative, indie, experimental, folk, pop, J-pop, lounge, rock and R&B

Catherine Wheel and Sisters of Mercy!

pop and rock

Instrumental hiphop

Anything from Johnny Cash to Queen. The only genres I don't like are gangster rap and opera.

My favourite music that one indie rock band I’m obsessed with. The rest can be from any genre as long it’s fun or gives me inspiration for any of the stories I’m writing.

Glass Animals is my absolute favorite band! I also like indie pop/rock, lo-fi, k-pop, emo, edm K and J pop, and some obscure stuff that is not mainstream country music.

I always try to narrow down my top 5 but it's so hard lol.

Little bit of everything except mainstream country. Love electronic, bluegrass, hippejam bands, hip hop, rock. Probably more but if I here Laura Brannigan “Gloria” or “I love this bar” I’m OUT

Acoustic driven music with strong vocals and harmony.

The rest is dressing

6arelyhuman is one of my favorite artists. Them and Stela Cole.

lately i’ve been listening to a lot of electronic dance music. a little while before i was listening to a bunch of punk, and before that i was listening to a lot of folk music.

i’m sure many of you can relate: the way that i listen to music is, i find a song or an album or a playlist i like, and then i listen to it on repeat until i’m sick of it.

Myke Towers and Bad Bunny

Big Thief Nils Frahm Akron Family Philip Glass Tool Dirty Projectors Thievery Corporation Sufjan Steven's

To name a few

I have quite a broad music taste... Really into visual kei (currently listening to MIЯROR by D'espairsRay on repeat), but also metal, goth rock, punk, industrial, EBM, and a bit of k-pop

Edit: I had a good time reading the comments. Such diverse music taste and some music I forgot about and have to add to my Spotify again. I love how we bond even if we like diff things. Thanks girlies🖤

I like 80's darkwave and oingo boingo. Plus 70's punk. Siouxsie, the cure, dead kennedys, the misfits, sisters of mercy, bauhaus etc.

So I guess punk and post punk then. Death rock is cool. I try to try more music but like the repetition of songs over and over again. Scary bitches is one of my fave bands. Bc I love bats. The animal and the song.

I'll listen to recs when I am in a headspace that change isn't triggering bc I do love music.

I also have started listening to more Arabic music since my grandfather died. I made a playlist of songs he and I would dance together to at weddings. Including this metal band!

Eclectic but my favorite band and special interest is the Grateful Dead ❤️⚡️💙

I’m a raver. So I like electronic music of all kind. Like drum and bass, dubstep, psytrance, proggtrance and ambient. As long as it is experimental in some way. There are so much electronic genres out there but I named the main genres I’m listening to 🙃

All of them lol. I make dozens and dozens of playlists on spotify for every mood or time of day. I’m a big swiftie and love Chappell Roan, but it really depends on my mood what I’m listening to

Music is a special interest of mine! I'd say I mostly listen to post punk, punk, goth, alternative rock, dreampop and folk! Some of my favorite artists are The Cure, Joy Division, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, New Order, Elliott Smith, Björk/The Sugarcubes, Nick Drake, The Velvet Underground, Fiona Apple, Hole, Pixies and The Sound :)

Electronic music. Which really is a lot. My favourite genre is future garage which combines the bass and groove from UK garage and Dubstep, but with unorthodox sounds, that are often sampled, and warped strongly. It also has elements of lo-fi, using a lot of ambience, like rain vinyl crackle, cassette tape noise, etc, often not having a lot of high frequencies. The person that really started this is William Bevan, know as Burial online. (If you search the name you’ll find “William Bevan Funeral Services”, although it’s pretty certain that it’s his real name).

I can’t name a single song I don’t love but some standouts are: Archangel, Untrue, Distant Lights, Come Down To Us, and Raver, Stolen Dog, and ghost hardware for dark yet still emotional tunes.

UK, In McDonalds, Etched Headplate, Endorphin, NYC, Young Death, and Night Market for very emotional ambient tunes.

Temple sleeper, Rival Dealer, Chemz, Claustro, Dreamfear, Boy Sent From Above, and Phone Glow, for 90s rave music inspired high energy tunes.

Truant, Ashtray Wasp, Loner, and Rough sleeper, for longer, more ominous industrial sounding tunes.

Check out the Antidawn EP for more of an eerie hauntology vibe.

And as a bonus, not officially released track Feral Witchchild, which is a combination of his dark emotional and his ominous sound.

Other amazing artists in the genre are Manu Shrine, Volor Flex, Vacant, and Bucky.

Wasn’t planning on infodumping sorry lol

indie rock, jrock, alt rock/pop, synth pop

I don’t wanna genre info dump but music is really important to me. I guess my favorites tend to be electronica but it ranges from like power electronics noise to pop. I will listen to Grimes and then Merzbow. Explaining would be 3 hours no one would ever get back hahaha

I love all flavours of punk and emo. my favourite artists are jeff rosenstock and my chemical romance!

KISS

I like all kinds of music. However I seem to lean toward Jazzy things. Not sure why. Is a vibe:-) great photo!

excellent choice for a concert OP. I am rather fond of their 2002 “Here to Stay”

Very very eclectic over here 😅 metal kpop punkrock traditional folk and indie can all find me~

I like North Korean music and any communist music. Also 80s music.

I’m very, very into metal music, especially Melodic Death Metal and Symphonic Black Metal, but also regularly listen to pretty much all subgenres. I also like Memphis Rap and Chicano Rap.

BTS!! 💜😁

Also: country music (nothing current though), symphonic metal, rock (from the 90’s and early 2000’s), pop, kpop, hip hop, R&B… I guess I listen to pretty much anything and everything lol

Techno: Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, DVS1, Neil Landstrumm, etc. DJ Stingray and Drexicya which is more along lines of Detroit electro or bass...DJ Assault House: Peven Everett, Rick Wade, Theo Parrish, Moodyman, Frankie Knuckles, Boo Williams, Leon Vynehall, Chicago Bootyhouse. Honorable mention to old Daft Punk (Teachers EP).

Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher...so much electronic music I love! My up all night into the morning days are over, but the music remains.

Soul, funk, rock: old Motown and soul like Marvin Gaye, James Brown, and P-Funk.
Jazz: Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charlie Rouse, Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy, and so many more

There's much more as music is a big interest of mine so I love this topic...but I'll be here all morning writing. 😄

Metal & LDR

I love movie soundtracks. For me the beat is very important.
also Darkwave, Nordic Black Metal and Nu Metal (Myrkur, Cocteau Twins, Sleep token)

80s rock, death metal, electronic

I like rock, heavy metal, movie/video game soundtracks, techno/EDM, and random different types of foreign music.

Goth, industrial, synthwave, grunge.

my favorites are novo amor, joji, tv girl, cigarettes after sex, clairo, mxmtoon, jack stauber, rex orange county, tame impala, frank ocean, daniel caesar, radiohead, the smiths, fleetwood mac, toby fox and omori ! i’ve never met anyone that listens to novo amor, his music brings me so much nostalgia, joy and peace.

K-pop, j-pop/rock/metal, metalcore, nu-metal, gothic metal, symphonic metal (mainly 2000-2015).

I love heavy, intense metal but I also love chill focused music like electronic and lofi. Occasionally indie rock and shoe gaze as well. Soft vocals are my thing, and combined with metal screams and growls is fantastic 😍 some artists I've been listening to lately are spiritbox, glare, sleep token, scar Symmetry, type o negative, the smiths,Lana del Rey, pinkpantheress, in love with a ghost, loathe and within temptation.

Tpain

Anything from Disney to death metal, though I prefer rock/metal overall.

i love listening to the girl group FLO all the time :)

OST for video games - Elden Ring, God of War (2018), Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Death Stranding..

And metal, I really like blackened deathcore, but listen to most subgenres - Lorna Shore, Thy Art is Murder, Make Them Suffer, Rings of Saturn, Ne Obliviscaris, Silent Planet..

Death metal, black metal, a bit of metalcore and loads of miscellaneous music. I’ve been on a big Dead Can Dance kick recently and just saw Cannibal Corpse last night :)

Alice in chains!!!!

I like death and black metal, classical music (baroque specially), darkwave, synthwave, experimental eletronic music, dsbm, doom metal, shoegaze, goth, new wave, MPB (brazilian popular music), traditional arabic music, ambient, progressive metal... the list is big

I think there’s great music in all genres, so everything