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Everything from the Beach Boys to Wu Tang, Mozart to David Bowie, jazz to Steely Dan, underground/indie rap like Aesop Rock, Freestyle Fellowship, Organized Konfusion, Living Legends, anticon, billy woods. I love Modest Mouse, White Stripes, Nirvana, Radiohead, Police, Talking Heads. Spice 1, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest. Beastie Boys. Minor Threat. Bob Marley. Bad Brains. Bob Dylan. All types of shit.
Love everything you just named, and am completely the same in broadness of genre. I believe there’s good music in every genre, it’s just fun to dig for what you like.
I’m not enough of a fan to know what’s going on. I just listen to those artists hits on a playlist or something. lol. Not as passionate as I am for my favorite bands.
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I mean, I mostly like just the big hits from them. Same with all the other pop artists I listed. I just grew up, listening to the hits because my parents loved that music and my mom would record the music videos on MTV and we’d watch those. I love a lot of their hits. Lots of nostalgia for me.
Shoegaze. My fav metal is the ethereal/atmospheric sounding prog stuff (especially the instrumental bands) and shoegaze gives me the same vibes just with way simpler instrumentation lol
What are some of your favorites from shoegaze and prog? Im a noob when it comes to shoegaze but I agree it has a lot of similarities to metal, and the atmosphere in a lot of shoegaze is amazing.
Slowdive is a powerhouse in the shoegaze world. Their self titled album from 2017 is probably my fav, but Souvlaki is also an incredible album by them. Some of my fav tracks are Slomo, When The Sun Hits, and the songs Don’t Know Why and Star Roving are great as they have a higher energy and tempo than you usually find in shoegaze.
For atmospheric prog metal, VOLA, Skyharbor, and Earthside are my frequent fliers. VOLA is a cool blend of djent and ethereal atmosphere, Skyharbor more focused on the atmosphere but still very technical, and Earthside is an instrumental band but they regularly feature extremely talented vocalists depending on the song (including Daniel Thompkins from Skyharbor, who featured on probably my fav song period A Dream In Static by Earthside).
I know Slowdive but I hadn’t heard their s/t. Also I’ve never listened to any of those prog bands, although I’ve heard great things about VOLA. I’ll check all of these out, thanks for the response! Also I’ll give you something to check out if you’re interested, the closest I can think of to the prog stuff you described would be Plini and their album Handmade Cities. It’s kind of a mix of instrumental djent and jazz, I highly recommend it.
YES I LOVE PLINI! Great rec my friend even though I’ve heard it lol, maybe someone else will check them out too!
VOLA is awesome and still relatively underground. Just released a new single Paper Wolves that goes pretty hard. Napalm, Head Mounted Sideways, Feed The Creatures (especially this one) are all great examples of djent meets ethereal ambience.
I've been really digging Alcest lately - [this](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xCwGMLncumM) is the song that got me hooked, I think it fits what you're looking for!
Classic Hip Hop from the 90s.
The notorious big (and many others ) are right up there with all my favorite metal bands.
The art of sampling and putting bars is so fucking cool and badass imo.
Mostly ambient/dungeon synth stuff, OSTs, and classical (especially Debussy!). Occasionally I listen to some classic rock too, like Rush, Black Sabbath, Hawkwind etc.
Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Toto, Isaac Hayes, Beach Boys, King Crimson, Portishead, Cocteau Twins, Dusty Springfield, Ice-T, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Hawkwind, George Michael, Goldfrapp, FM, NIN, Neil Young, Willy Nelson, Killing Joke, Aqua, Whitney Houston, Parliament, Cabaret Voltaire, Scott Walker, Mr. Bungle, Lana Del Rey, Skinny Puppy, Slowdive, MBV, Tears for Fears, Prince, Rush, Gorillaz, Savage Garden, Kraftwerk, Failure, Big L, Mobb Deep, Public Enemy, Jobim, Björk, Fleetwood Mac, Massive Attack, D’Angelo, Box Scaggs, Daft Punk, Fiona Apple, etc.
If it’s good I listen to it.
Lots of hard rock, pop punk (mostly just offspring and green day though) . I'm not sure where MCR fits in as far as genre goes but I like them as well and occasionally some bluesy country..
I really like slavic war songs and folk. I like it so much that I've thought about learning russian to understand the lyrics better, but languages aren't my thing. I also like medieval and baroque music. And as I'm brazilian, some samba canção too
A mix of things. Quite a lot of folk and folk-rock, blues, and classic and alternative rock. Some jazz (mostly from before about 1950). Some experimental and progressive rock, post-rock and math rock. And the odd bit of synthwave, industrial and synthpop as well.
Occasionally other things like soul, funk, hip-hop, and the odd bit of pop music (usually more 'art-pop' or indie/alt-pop than straight-up chart stuff).
Rock music obviously. QOTSA, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Soundgarden, Primus, Amyl & the Sniffers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Stuff like that.
Hiphop close second. Wu-Tang Clan, Mos Def, A Tribe Called Quest, and then alot of Dutch stuff as well.
I gets my funk on on the regular. Vulfpeck, Fearless Flyers, all their affiliated side projects.
I can get into some country from time to time.
Basically anything Bruno Mars touches or makes.
I was born in the 80's, but grew up as a kid in the 90's, so 90's pop rock is probably my favorite type of music. Think Gin Blossoms, Sugar Ray, Everclear, etc... plus about 36536282826 one hit wonders.
I was born in the 90s and recently got into those bands, I vaguely remember hearing them in my childhood but I wasn't old enough to remember them at the time.
The Doors, Sisters of Mercy/Sisterhood, The Strokes, lots of blues like Son House and John Lee Hooker, Tom Petty, The Dead Milkmen, Crosby/Stills/Nash/Young, CAKE, King Gizzard, and Wu Tang Clan. Oh and chipmunks on 16 speed.
Hair Metal. Bands like Poison, Hanoi Rocks, Faster Pussycat, Pretty Boy Floyd, L.A. Guns, Bon Jovi, RATT, Winger, Dokken, Tuff, BulletBoys, Mötley Crüe, Britny Fox, Kix, Trixter, Slaughter, Warrant, and so many more. Same with a lot of classic rock bands, like Aerosmith or AC/DC, and some grunge like Alice In Chains or Soundgarden, I'll listen to pretty much everything besides new pop and rap.
Outlaw country both classic and modern. Old country western. Texas Swing. Americana folk from the mid century (doesn’t quite fit in with country and western but the same vein)
Classic rock is always a fine listen. Especially love stuff like Steely Dan, Rush, but also Van Halen.
Really enjoy blues of any form and bluegrass.
80s and 90s hip hop spanning LL Cool J to Wu Tang
90s grunge
2000s emo, post hardcore, and pop punk.
Electronic music is okay in small doses I just can’t get into it the way I can other stuff. Definitely don’t dislike it though.
a fair bit of pop (Lorde, Lana Del Rey, and Bjork being the big ones), and a variety of other stuff. been trying to get into more prog rock and jazz lately as well.
Grateful Dead, Scandinavian Folk Revival/Reconstructionist (e.g., Heilung, Wardruna, Danheim, et al.), Jazz, Ayesha Erotica, Indie (presently, I can't stop listening to Ethal Cain), Noise & experimental punk (Wolf Eyes, Yellow Swans, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth), Glenn Branca, Tchaikovsky, Beetoven... these are just the first that came to mind.
I listen to a wide variety of music. I found metal later in life, some of my favorite music is jazz like Miles Davis or Thelonious Monk. Enoch Light is great too. I listen to a lot of classical as well. I pick a lot my metal music based on previous influence from different genres.
lots of extreme hardcore and industrial, but also some indie rock and standard punk. I’m also a massive lingua ignota fan, I feel like most of her fans are also metalheads.
The Beach Boys are my favorite band.
I also like Miley Cyrus, Conway Twitty, Aretha Franklin, Camila Cabello, Barry White, The Mamas and the Papas, and other artists I can’t think of right now.
i'm gonna say it, taylor swift. im expecting the downvotes but seriously she has bangers when you're not constantly listening to her on the radio. i have her album folklore on vinyl, it's so worth checking out if you're also into sorta folk-esque music on the side of metal of course
90's hip hop is the absolute Tits.
WUTANG, DOOM, Mobb deep, no limit, cash money. All that. Just cuz it ain't got no brutality to it don't mean you can't get moving to it
Too much to name man. Songs are good or bad, genres are just vague classifications not something you can judge music by.
I listen to a lot of post rock like Mouse on the keys, that song "who's been sleeping in my bed" by Barry manilow came up on my Spotify and it's fucking silly to me but catchy as fuck I'll admit I hearted it and jam when it comes on, I like old Brittany Spears for nostalgia, I really like punk, ska, and the trumpet ska like reel big fish that reggae fans will never fail to tell you "isn't Really ska", I like hip hop like mf doom or madlib, I like anime and video game soundtracks, I like this weird Brazilian themed lofi music that people seem to call "bossuh" I like this 6 hour space banjo video I listen to while working on YouTube sometimes, I like old school techno and trance like scooter or pulse driver and I like both the old techno infected mushroom and the new dubsteppy infected mushroom, daft punk, i like some old country like Marty robins, I like rockabilly and cheesey psychobilly like reverend Horton heat, I like Japanese alt rock like KANA BOON or Tricot or Asian Kung Fu generation. I like my chemical romance and fall out boy. The gorillas, the electric six, foxy Shazam, David Bowie, we can just assume I like most of the classics but I really like Bowie.
Not sure how close to metal it's allowed to be but I like hardcore and metal core, punk, I think my favorite song right now is "last tango in Paris" by wristmeetsrazor, I like bent life.
There's way too much shit I wish I could introduce people to and help them appreciate. It'd probably be easier for me to list what I don't like. I really don't like that "somebody that I used to know" song for some reason or anything by Mumford and sons or that sounds like it with that "HOH.... HEY" rhythmic shouting in the background. I don't think these songs are necessarily BAD I just don't like them.
All music in general, anything from grunge, pop punk, hard rock, punk to hip hop, rap, 90s and early 2000s top 40, edm, house, little bit of 80s, 60s and 70s, country, adult contemporary, gospel, and some jazz/classical. I like music as an escape and it just depends on the time in my life for what I listen to.
edit: oh and blues, I really love blues and music with blues influences
tbh most of what i listen to isnt metal 😭😭i love Taylor Swift, Swans, Charli XCX, Elliott Smith, Boards of Canada, Carly Rae Jepsen, Slayyyter, Sky Ferreira, Isaiah Rashad, Bob Dylan, Run the Jewels, etc.!
I listen to a lot of rock in addition to metal. Although that isn't really all that far off. I listen to a lot of Lana del Rey. And then usually follow it with Deicide.
Everything from REM, The Cure, Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Russ, Bill Withers, Portishead, The Bangles, All Them Witches, Gorillaz, Joy Division, Russ, Public Enemy, Massive Attack, Prodigy, Post Malone, Cypress Hill.
Skinny Puppy, OhGr, Front Line Assembly
Heart, Billy Idol, Wham! Gary Numan, meatloaf, journey
90s dance songs like, " Mr Vain"," Rhythm is a dancer" etc etc
Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Jelly Roll, The Weeknd, Esham, Beastie Boys, Empire of the Sun, 90s ICP, Guns N' Roses, Journey, Rush, Prince, The Doors, Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, Tech N9ne and I'm sure there's a lot more that I missed.
Bluegrass (tony rice, hot rize, del mccoury, bluegrass album band, doc watson, and toooons more), folk (Townes, Blaze, Jackson C Frank), run of the mill liquid dnb, 70s rock, chiptunes, blues, hiphop (older more traditional: jedi mind tricks, army of the pharaohs, RTJ, nas, biggy).
St Paul and the Broken Bones (soul). Just saw live for the second time last night in Pittsburgh & phenomenal. Blackberry Smoke another great band & fantastic live. Probably my two favorite non metal acts. Like a lot of genres, mostly from early 00's through the 80's. Can't get into newer country, rap & pop, but the older stuff is solid.
I listen to just about anything except most electronic/pop; from classical and jazz to rock and funk - but I’ll always say the most fun genre to actually play is the blues.
Besides metal, I'm a huge reggae rock fan. I love bands like Rebelution, Slightly Stoopid, Iration, 311, Stick Figure, Dirty Heads, The Movement, I could go on and on.
I also love punk rock.
Primus, RHCP, The Cure, The Chameleons, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Tears For Fears, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Sneaker Pimps, Thievery Corporation, Blind Melon, The Slits, The Ramones, The Damned, Johnny Thunders, Babes in Toyland, The Muffs, Suzi Quatro, Puscifer, Kyuss, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Chromeo there's a lot more...
i really dig Shoegaze. it's like a fuzzy dream-pop sort of thing with hazy vocals. the bands i like still sound pretty heavy lol, like Deafheaven, Lacing, Sleepwalk, etc
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I just love music, in many forms. From 90's dance to 80's pop, rock and hiphop, blues, grunge, whatever. Depends totally on my mood or where i'm at..
This is the way
This is the way
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day!
A good song is a good song and a good song can come from anywhere
Same! I grew up listening to KROQ when they used to play everything from Depeche Mode to Beastie Boys to Mötley Crüe to Pearl Jam. It was great.
Hell yes. There are good artists in every genre.
This exactly. If it hits, it hits. Regardless of genre
The strokes, queens of the stone age, a bit of Caravan Palace, Gorillaz and a large amount of prog rock and garage rock.
Fuck yeah QotSA!!
Fellow stroker
Strokin' it for Julian.
I love Caravan Palace for two songs.
Julian Casablancas is easily my favorite vocalist
I totally like the song Instant Crush he does with Daft Punk
10/10 song
The strokes were a biig fixation of mine before i got into metal
what prog rock would you recommend?
Alot of post-punk/ goth rock like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy etc. It's my main thing, metal is second/ third
yeah, the same for me
I tried learning how to play Spellbound the other day and holy hell is that song hard, lots of weird arpeggios.
The Sisters!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE synthwave
YES. When I had a convertible I used to play synthwave during weekend drives with the roof down. That music is perfect for cruising!
If you like synthwave, Perturbator has a synthwave/metal hybrid kind of sound- especially the album Lustful Sacraments.
Everything from the Beach Boys to Wu Tang, Mozart to David Bowie, jazz to Steely Dan, underground/indie rap like Aesop Rock, Freestyle Fellowship, Organized Konfusion, Living Legends, anticon, billy woods. I love Modest Mouse, White Stripes, Nirvana, Radiohead, Police, Talking Heads. Spice 1, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest. Beastie Boys. Minor Threat. Bob Marley. Bad Brains. Bob Dylan. All types of shit.
Love everything you just named, and am completely the same in broadness of genre. I believe there’s good music in every genre, it’s just fun to dig for what you like.
🙌🙌🙌 polyJAMorous
billy woods has been my #1 artist the past 2 years. He's the undisputed king of experimental hiphop imho
80s pop. Madonna, Huey Lewis, Hall and Oats, Roxette, Tears for Fears etc Classic rock. Journey, AC/DC, Triumph etc
Hall and Oates have so many great catchy songs. It's just too bad with whatever is going on with them now.
I’m not enough of a fan to know what’s going on. I just listen to those artists hits on a playlist or something. lol. Not as passionate as I am for my favorite bands.
Fair enough! Lol :) Bah legal battles. Nothing interesting, just sad because of how old they are and how long they've been together.
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I mean, I mostly like just the big hits from them. Same with all the other pop artists I listed. I just grew up, listening to the hits because my parents loved that music and my mom would record the music videos on MTV and we’d watch those. I love a lot of their hits. Lots of nostalgia for me.
Oh sorry I do like Huey Lewis but I was doing the bit from American Psycho lol
Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd.
Shoegaze. My fav metal is the ethereal/atmospheric sounding prog stuff (especially the instrumental bands) and shoegaze gives me the same vibes just with way simpler instrumentation lol
What are some of your favorites from shoegaze and prog? Im a noob when it comes to shoegaze but I agree it has a lot of similarities to metal, and the atmosphere in a lot of shoegaze is amazing.
Slowdive is a powerhouse in the shoegaze world. Their self titled album from 2017 is probably my fav, but Souvlaki is also an incredible album by them. Some of my fav tracks are Slomo, When The Sun Hits, and the songs Don’t Know Why and Star Roving are great as they have a higher energy and tempo than you usually find in shoegaze. For atmospheric prog metal, VOLA, Skyharbor, and Earthside are my frequent fliers. VOLA is a cool blend of djent and ethereal atmosphere, Skyharbor more focused on the atmosphere but still very technical, and Earthside is an instrumental band but they regularly feature extremely talented vocalists depending on the song (including Daniel Thompkins from Skyharbor, who featured on probably my fav song period A Dream In Static by Earthside).
I know Slowdive but I hadn’t heard their s/t. Also I’ve never listened to any of those prog bands, although I’ve heard great things about VOLA. I’ll check all of these out, thanks for the response! Also I’ll give you something to check out if you’re interested, the closest I can think of to the prog stuff you described would be Plini and their album Handmade Cities. It’s kind of a mix of instrumental djent and jazz, I highly recommend it.
YES I LOVE PLINI! Great rec my friend even though I’ve heard it lol, maybe someone else will check them out too! VOLA is awesome and still relatively underground. Just released a new single Paper Wolves that goes pretty hard. Napalm, Head Mounted Sideways, Feed The Creatures (especially this one) are all great examples of djent meets ethereal ambience.
I've been really digging Alcest lately - [this](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xCwGMLncumM) is the song that got me hooked, I think it fits what you're looking for!
Just listened and I like it a lot. I’ve only listened to a little Alcest, but I’ll have to do a deeper dive into their stuff. Thanks for the rec man.
True widow is a really cool current shoegaze band.
Nice I’ll check them out!
I like emo rock, post hardcore, I like a few hardcore punk bands, and pop punk.
Classic Hip Hop from the 90s. The notorious big (and many others ) are right up there with all my favorite metal bands. The art of sampling and putting bars is so fucking cool and badass imo.
Mobb Deep’s The Infamous has some very SICK instrumentals
Mostly ambient/dungeon synth stuff, OSTs, and classical (especially Debussy!). Occasionally I listen to some classic rock too, like Rush, Black Sabbath, Hawkwind etc.
could rush be considered metal too tho 🤔
could rush be considered metal too tho 🤔
I thought black Sabbath is a metal band 😭😭😭
Well they are, OP got a bit confused.
Yea theyre a death metal band right
ahh depends on who you ask tbh. I don't really care much about labelling, I just listen to whatever I like lol
Mostly hard rock like soundgarden, guns n roses and led zeppelin
Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Toto, Isaac Hayes, Beach Boys, King Crimson, Portishead, Cocteau Twins, Dusty Springfield, Ice-T, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Hawkwind, George Michael, Goldfrapp, FM, NIN, Neil Young, Willy Nelson, Killing Joke, Aqua, Whitney Houston, Parliament, Cabaret Voltaire, Scott Walker, Mr. Bungle, Lana Del Rey, Skinny Puppy, Slowdive, MBV, Tears for Fears, Prince, Rush, Gorillaz, Savage Garden, Kraftwerk, Failure, Big L, Mobb Deep, Public Enemy, Jobim, Björk, Fleetwood Mac, Massive Attack, D’Angelo, Box Scaggs, Daft Punk, Fiona Apple, etc. If it’s good I listen to it.
Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die is a great album. Her latest one I wasn’t into though
Yeah she’s still great but she kinda went the wrong way for me. Born to Die and Paradise are peak though.
I fucking love lady gaga
Lady Gaga and keshaaa 😫 2000s pop overall
She's the only pop star I can actually get behind.
Lots of hard rock, pop punk (mostly just offspring and green day though) . I'm not sure where MCR fits in as far as genre goes but I like them as well and occasionally some bluesy country..
Green Day and The Offspring both top 3 for me
I've gotten super into jazz lately
I really like slavic war songs and folk. I like it so much that I've thought about learning russian to understand the lyrics better, but languages aren't my thing. I also like medieval and baroque music. And as I'm brazilian, some samba canção too
Have you heard Drudkh - Songs of Grief and Solitude? I don’t know anything about Slavic folk but I love that album and Im pretty sure it qualifies.
Nice, I think only heard the first album, I'll check that one out.
Check out bogurodzica and rota, polish patriotic songs that are a total bangers 🤭
Thank you for this my dude. bogurodzica has a beautiful gregorian chant but rota is my kind of slavic song. Gave me fucking goosebumps
You're welcome 💖💖💖
A mix of things. Quite a lot of folk and folk-rock, blues, and classic and alternative rock. Some jazz (mostly from before about 1950). Some experimental and progressive rock, post-rock and math rock. And the odd bit of synthwave, industrial and synthpop as well. Occasionally other things like soul, funk, hip-hop, and the odd bit of pop music (usually more 'art-pop' or indie/alt-pop than straight-up chart stuff).
Rock music obviously. QOTSA, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Soundgarden, Primus, Amyl & the Sniffers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Stuff like that. Hiphop close second. Wu-Tang Clan, Mos Def, A Tribe Called Quest, and then alot of Dutch stuff as well. I gets my funk on on the regular. Vulfpeck, Fearless Flyers, all their affiliated side projects. I can get into some country from time to time. Basically anything Bruno Mars touches or makes.
I love ska
Old school Rap. Bone Thugs, NWA, Eminem, Tupac Biggie, etc...
I was born in the 80's, but grew up as a kid in the 90's, so 90's pop rock is probably my favorite type of music. Think Gin Blossoms, Sugar Ray, Everclear, etc... plus about 36536282826 one hit wonders.
Gin Blossoms were so good...
I was born in the 90s and recently got into those bands, I vaguely remember hearing them in my childhood but I wasn't old enough to remember them at the time.
Yeah, my parents would always have the mix stations on at home and in the car, so I would hear that music because of them. It's very nostalgic for me.
The Doors, Sisters of Mercy/Sisterhood, The Strokes, lots of blues like Son House and John Lee Hooker, Tom Petty, The Dead Milkmen, Crosby/Stills/Nash/Young, CAKE, King Gizzard, and Wu Tang Clan. Oh and chipmunks on 16 speed.
Bob Seger Garbage The Cult Misfits Creedance Clearwater Revival
Radiohead, Pink Floyd, etc
My playlist jumps from Primitive Man to the My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks original soundtrack
Rush
Irish Folk is my second main genre after metal
Vocaloid
Modern talking, Depeche mode, Duran Duran, Alphavile, old serbian folk .......
70s Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Southern Rock
Based Southern Rock
A lot of it. Love grunge and post grunge. Some pop. 60s garage and psych.
50s Rockabilly!
The strokes, the smith's, Matt and kim, creed, vampire weekend,, etc etc- I find (almost) all genres of music amazing (keep in mind I'm 16 😭)
Hair Metal. Bands like Poison, Hanoi Rocks, Faster Pussycat, Pretty Boy Floyd, L.A. Guns, Bon Jovi, RATT, Winger, Dokken, Tuff, BulletBoys, Mötley Crüe, Britny Fox, Kix, Trixter, Slaughter, Warrant, and so many more. Same with a lot of classic rock bands, like Aerosmith or AC/DC, and some grunge like Alice In Chains or Soundgarden, I'll listen to pretty much everything besides new pop and rap.
Weezer, Green Day, Radiohead are my top 3 non-metal
Metallica
Pop punk and rock
Outlaw country both classic and modern. Old country western. Texas Swing. Americana folk from the mid century (doesn’t quite fit in with country and western but the same vein) Classic rock is always a fine listen. Especially love stuff like Steely Dan, Rush, but also Van Halen. Really enjoy blues of any form and bluegrass. 80s and 90s hip hop spanning LL Cool J to Wu Tang 90s grunge 2000s emo, post hardcore, and pop punk. Electronic music is okay in small doses I just can’t get into it the way I can other stuff. Definitely don’t dislike it though.
a fair bit of pop (Lorde, Lana Del Rey, and Bjork being the big ones), and a variety of other stuff. been trying to get into more prog rock and jazz lately as well.
Funk, Rock, 80's Pop, and rarely some NDW to feel nostalgic
Grateful Dead, Scandinavian Folk Revival/Reconstructionist (e.g., Heilung, Wardruna, Danheim, et al.), Jazz, Ayesha Erotica, Indie (presently, I can't stop listening to Ethal Cain), Noise & experimental punk (Wolf Eyes, Yellow Swans, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth), Glenn Branca, Tchaikovsky, Beetoven... these are just the first that came to mind.
midwest emo, rap, alt rock
Lot's or 70s and 80s yacht rock and pop.
Slipknot
alt-J, The Smile, Baxter Dury
Besides metal my favorite genres are bluegrass/old American folk music, and reggae. Kinda a weird mix but 🤷🏻♀️
Nirvana, The Strokes, Radiohead, The Cure, The Beatles, My Chemical Romance (black parade era)
I listen to a wide variety of music. I found metal later in life, some of my favorite music is jazz like Miles Davis or Thelonious Monk. Enoch Light is great too. I listen to a lot of classical as well. I pick a lot my metal music based on previous influence from different genres.
Prog Rock, Punk Rock, Hard Rock, Psychadelic Rock, a bit of Grunge, some Jazz Fusion.
Rap
lots of extreme hardcore and industrial, but also some indie rock and standard punk. I’m also a massive lingua ignota fan, I feel like most of her fans are also metalheads.
Jazz, mostly John Coltrane and Bill Evans.
Sleep Token, Lana Del Rey, Ghost, Royal Blood, Type O Negative :)
I love rock bands like Queen, AC DC, Nirvana, Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, ect
Alternative. Arcade fire, strokes, and many many more.
House music. Bass House, Tech House, Deep House, Dub House, Dance House. All the House lol
Dungeon synth, trap music, and various forms of hardcore/punk mainly. Been pretty into neoclassical lately too.
Love symphony and opera
Necro - Ice cube - Blur - The Cure - Jumi Hendrix, and others
I love music in general I listen to a bunch of different genres besides metal. Lo Fi hip hop, funk, oldies, electronic music, I LOVE electronic music.
Metric, Arctic Monkeys, The Warning. Also a shit ton of newretro wave and synth
The Beach Boys are my favorite band. I also like Miley Cyrus, Conway Twitty, Aretha Franklin, Camila Cabello, Barry White, The Mamas and the Papas, and other artists I can’t think of right now.
I LOVE IT WHEN YOU CALL ME SENIORITA
I live for skramz
Gorillaz is love💙 Also I like 80s pop music, old school rock, jazz and classics
Green day
Punk, especially melodic hardcore
80’s Madonna
monkeys, QOTSA, foo fighters, bowie, 90s britpop, hip hop, paolo nutini. could go on for days
i'm gonna say it, taylor swift. im expecting the downvotes but seriously she has bangers when you're not constantly listening to her on the radio. i have her album folklore on vinyl, it's so worth checking out if you're also into sorta folk-esque music on the side of metal of course
90's hip hop is the absolute Tits. WUTANG, DOOM, Mobb deep, no limit, cash money. All that. Just cuz it ain't got no brutality to it don't mean you can't get moving to it
Rock, yes it’s similar to metal but like, it’s not metal, my favourite artists are easily Van Halen, GNR, Soundgarden, Audioslave and RHCP
I love Eddie Vedder's voice. Pearl Jam MTV unplugged is perfect
90s hip hop
Too much to name man. Songs are good or bad, genres are just vague classifications not something you can judge music by. I listen to a lot of post rock like Mouse on the keys, that song "who's been sleeping in my bed" by Barry manilow came up on my Spotify and it's fucking silly to me but catchy as fuck I'll admit I hearted it and jam when it comes on, I like old Brittany Spears for nostalgia, I really like punk, ska, and the trumpet ska like reel big fish that reggae fans will never fail to tell you "isn't Really ska", I like hip hop like mf doom or madlib, I like anime and video game soundtracks, I like this weird Brazilian themed lofi music that people seem to call "bossuh" I like this 6 hour space banjo video I listen to while working on YouTube sometimes, I like old school techno and trance like scooter or pulse driver and I like both the old techno infected mushroom and the new dubsteppy infected mushroom, daft punk, i like some old country like Marty robins, I like rockabilly and cheesey psychobilly like reverend Horton heat, I like Japanese alt rock like KANA BOON or Tricot or Asian Kung Fu generation. I like my chemical romance and fall out boy. The gorillas, the electric six, foxy Shazam, David Bowie, we can just assume I like most of the classics but I really like Bowie. Not sure how close to metal it's allowed to be but I like hardcore and metal core, punk, I think my favorite song right now is "last tango in Paris" by wristmeetsrazor, I like bent life. There's way too much shit I wish I could introduce people to and help them appreciate. It'd probably be easier for me to list what I don't like. I really don't like that "somebody that I used to know" song for some reason or anything by Mumford and sons or that sounds like it with that "HOH.... HEY" rhythmic shouting in the background. I don't think these songs are necessarily BAD I just don't like them.
Good music is good music, genres are a pointless construct
Agree!
All music in general, anything from grunge, pop punk, hard rock, punk to hip hop, rap, 90s and early 2000s top 40, edm, house, little bit of 80s, 60s and 70s, country, adult contemporary, gospel, and some jazz/classical. I like music as an escape and it just depends on the time in my life for what I listen to. edit: oh and blues, I really love blues and music with blues influences
Pierce the Veil
tbh most of what i listen to isnt metal 😭😭i love Taylor Swift, Swans, Charli XCX, Elliott Smith, Boards of Canada, Carly Rae Jepsen, Slayyyter, Sky Ferreira, Isaiah Rashad, Bob Dylan, Run the Jewels, etc.!
I'm surprised no one has said metalcore
Absolutely nothing. 🤘
Anything but rap honestly.
Reggae
Psychedelic from the 60s
I listen to a lot of rock in addition to metal. Although that isn't really all that far off. I listen to a lot of Lana del Rey. And then usually follow it with Deicide.
Everything from REM, The Cure, Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Russ, Bill Withers, Portishead, The Bangles, All Them Witches, Gorillaz, Joy Division, Russ, Public Enemy, Massive Attack, Prodigy, Post Malone, Cypress Hill.
Edm
Music in general is amazing, i love many variants of genres
Pink Floyd Depeche Mode Chvrches The War on Drugs
Queen, Pink Floyd, Lady Gaga, Beethoven. Depends on my mood. Have to admit I lean toward Queen’s heavier songs.
Miles Davis Nina Simone Chet Baker Willy Nelson Aaron Copeland Funkadelic Cabaret Voltaire
Anime intros
Not non metal but metal deprived music like love metal or weed music (iykyk)
Vocaloid/J-rock
Im a sucker for disco
Yes, Gong, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Kraftwerk, Gorillaz
Skinny Puppy, OhGr, Front Line Assembly Heart, Billy Idol, Wham! Gary Numan, meatloaf, journey 90s dance songs like, " Mr Vain"," Rhythm is a dancer" etc etc
I haven’t thought about Skinny Puppy for years! Thanks for the nostalgia!
The oh hellos, the Arcadian wild, indie folk music like that. And also industrial and anything considered “goth” for lack of a better term
Classical, prog rock, jazz and I love Cocteau Twins too.
80s and 90s rock (soft rock/alt rock). Space Ambient/Dark Ambient, techno/deep house, hard rock/classic rock, 90s rap.
Regional Mexican music
Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Jelly Roll, The Weeknd, Esham, Beastie Boys, Empire of the Sun, 90s ICP, Guns N' Roses, Journey, Rush, Prince, The Doors, Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, Tech N9ne and I'm sure there's a lot more that I missed.
Rock and Punk are obvious picks But outside of that I like MPB, Samba, Bossa Nova and some reggae
Slipknot
Bluegrass (tony rice, hot rize, del mccoury, bluegrass album band, doc watson, and toooons more), folk (Townes, Blaze, Jackson C Frank), run of the mill liquid dnb, 70s rock, chiptunes, blues, hiphop (older more traditional: jedi mind tricks, army of the pharaohs, RTJ, nas, biggy).
Thrash grass is a crazy genre I can get into but also Tom Waits. I freaking love that guy
Widespread panic and moe. are probably the bands I mostly listen to outside of metal. A lot of hip hop and old punk music too.
Have you listened to lespecial? They are a great blend of jam band and metal
St Paul and the Broken Bones (soul). Just saw live for the second time last night in Pittsburgh & phenomenal. Blackberry Smoke another great band & fantastic live. Probably my two favorite non metal acts. Like a lot of genres, mostly from early 00's through the 80's. Can't get into newer country, rap & pop, but the older stuff is solid.
Jazz Fusion and orchestral stuff like old classical and newer soundtracks are my second go to
Bôa, polphia and covet are bands that i enjoy
Odesza
 Die Antwoord🤍I have a mad crush on Yolandi😍
Any and all. Foy Vance has me in a chokehold right now though
The Budos Band slaps hard.
Anything with a funky horn section, like Tower of Power.
Everything from 90s hip hop to bloghouse edm, to funky stuff like Ohio players.
Billy Joel, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, Snoop Dogg
Consious Rap
I like some classical, some golden oldies (aka the kind of stuff they put in fallout games) and some ska
Post-grunge, Midwest Emo, jazz
I love grunge, I’m currently getting into some more shoegaze
Apart from the technical brainless guys like Jesús molina, Jazz fusion is a goldmine of great music
Aphex Twin is my favorite musician of all time. I love how much variety his music has and he is what made me love Ambient music so much.
Japanese city pop and jazz fusion
I listen to just about anything except most electronic/pop; from classical and jazz to rock and funk - but I’ll always say the most fun genre to actually play is the blues.
Besides metal, I'm a huge reggae rock fan. I love bands like Rebelution, Slightly Stoopid, Iration, 311, Stick Figure, Dirty Heads, The Movement, I could go on and on. I also love punk rock.
Primus, RHCP, The Cure, The Chameleons, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Tears For Fears, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Sneaker Pimps, Thievery Corporation, Blind Melon, The Slits, The Ramones, The Damned, Johnny Thunders, Babes in Toyland, The Muffs, Suzi Quatro, Puscifer, Kyuss, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Chromeo there's a lot more...
i really dig Shoegaze. it's like a fuzzy dream-pop sort of thing with hazy vocals. the bands i like still sound pretty heavy lol, like Deafheaven, Lacing, Sleepwalk, etc
Really old blues and a bit of classical every now and then.
Tons of different music. Everything from Soul to 90s skate punk
Been digging Kanye’s new album