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I'm sure that none of us listen only to power metal...
What other music do you listen to??

For example, I like epic metal very much, or I like classical music, too...
I hate discomusic and a lot of commercial latin songs and bands(for example Aventura)...

-Heavy/power metal bands like Helloween, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Manowar, Rainbow etc etc...
-Folkish death (I know it's not "death", but who cares) metal like Finntroll, Ensiferum, Moonsorrow etc...
-Very few keyboard using power metal bands, like Stratovarius and Rhapsody

I mainly listen to heavy/prog too, sometimes I find the "heavy-double-bass" metal like HammerFall or some Rhapsody boring. I also listen to older rock (Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Led Zeppelin...) and some other band like Dead Can Dance who are unclassifiable, if you want to know whait it souns like, you have no other way than listening to it (and I recommend you to do so, it's an awesome band). I also begas listening to some jazz not so long ago by borrowing my mom's cds, and some things are great too (if you have the occasion to listen to The Real Quietstorm album by James Carter, yu surely won't be disapointed). I also (please don't throw tomatoes at me) listen to some rap. There ARE some french bands that make thinks i like quite much. I also listen to some punk stuff.

For what I dislike : I can't stand 99.99% of the US rap, it's just pointless and also techno music is really not my thing (except some tunes by Scooter, especially The Logical Song (Supertramp-cover) that I like very much, don't ask me why.

Ant that's all, about classical music, I listen to Vivaldi and Bach sometimes but I'm not very much into it.

I don't do country music. Other than that i feel i'm representative of pretty much every genre out there.

I rarely listen to power/melodic metal at the moment, as most of it seems to be rather meaningless for me and i start feeling annoyed by some aspects of the music. And just on a sidenote, there came so many bands which all sounded the same over the last years that i really lost interest in listening.

I still listen to some classic metal like Sabbath or Maiden or Running Wild, as long as it doesnt get too cheesy...

Nowadays i´m mainly listening to Death/Black Metal bands, mainly european style, but also some US death... then we have the not so small folk metal section which seems to be quite interesting, i mainly bought cds of such bands in the last time...

Something that keeps me almost always interested is more progressive stuff like DT and Ayreon...

As for non metal music:
I like some 70s Hard and ProgRock, like Led Zeppelin, Yes and so on and i sometimes enjoy listening to blues, folk and classical music.. well, yes...


For my favourite bands atm i would say: Emperor, Opeth, Ayreon, Mithotyn, Vintersorg, Ensiferum, Finntroll and Falkenbach...

I like almost all kind of metal or rock if it's good.
It could be trash/speed metal, death metal, progressive metal/rock, hard rock, grindcore and, yes, almost everything - of course also power metal.
If music has beautiful melodies or great riffs then it's usually good... if it's metal/rock.

mmm ok almost every kind of metal or rock...not commercial ....except some thing that call my atention...but just for culture cause as musician its good to know a lot of things but mm I like the weird metal bands...like fintroll do you know them? its black metal with folk (polkka) and things like that ...and also some balads, its good to make a girl happy with a song she can appreciate

I listen to many melodic-power band like strato and many epic symphonyc bands and some black/ Death metal band to. and I love viking metal that rocks

I'm listening to EBM/industrial/synthpop stuff (Hocico, VNV Nation, Wumpscut, Apoptygma Berzerk etc), industrial metal, folk metal, some grindcore (started to like it app. a year ago, funny music ), various folk music (mainly celtic and balkan) ...

besides metal melodic i listen a lot to metal prg neoclasic like Artension or Delta... also, but less i listen to metal symphonic, specialy symphony x

besides metal melodic i listen a lot to metal prg neoclasic like Artension or Delta... also, but less i listen to metal symphonic, specialy symphony x

oh and i want to say i just can't stand the pop music, and reggaeton i hate it with all my heart

I'll listen to pretty much anything metal and then ska. gotta love the ska.

Well, I listen symphonic, power, gothic metal mainly, some hard rock, trash metal, some slow metal from UK, and my personal favorite: NEW AGE, I love artist like Enya, Era, Enigma....(weird, they all start by E )

I wish I could listen to some folk or industrial...but I have not idea of good bands, singers.....America....

And yes, I do have some Techno, Trance and Dance in my PC, u know, sometimes I have please everybody in parties....

@Dark Angel: How In the hell u know Aventura?

Enigma fuckin rule!

I also like Delirium, and then I like to list to Vangelis

I like a lot to gothic metal, some black metal...

I like girl's rock bands too.. i'm listening lately a lot to Garbage.

Hindi music it's pretty good too.

a lot of j-music, mostly anime soundtracks, with a lot of j-pop and j-rock.

and also some pop, madonna mostly

Well other than Stratovarius I very much like Sonata Arctica and Symphony X. Helloween is pretty OK too.

King Crimson (anyone?) is pretty cool and to my liking.
I also like old-school jazz like em 1920's Jazz, not the new smooth jazz stuff. I don't really get too progressive generally, with a few exceptions. I hate rap, pop, and punk. I dislike country too.

Classical music is great. I am very much into Bach and Hayden. I don't like piano stuff much, and don't like big symphony mahler stuff, but I really like bach.

So progressive + heavy metal + power metal + old school jazz + Bach/Classical = Fifth.

I think this topic's already been made, but I won't flame you for that .

Let's see,

I like Progressive Rock, like Kansas and Boston.

Jazz music, especially from the Cowboy Bebop anime series.

and...whatever genre Josh Groban is in...that man can sing

Mmm.....

I think it´s like....

-PowerMetal
-HeavyMetal(specially 80´s)
-Neo-classical
-ProgressiveMetal
-ElectroDark
-House(something like techno)

Perhaps i listen something more, but now im too drunk to remember.....

1.- Swedish Death Metal (At the gates, Dark Tranquillity, Arch Enemy, The Haunted, etc...)

2.- Progresive/ProgMetal (Rush, Symphony X, etc)

3.- Guitar Heroes stuff (Jason Becker, Cacophony, Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, Michael Romeo)

4.- Melodic Metal (Sonata Arctica mainly and many others)

5.- Heavy Metal (need to say which bands?)

6.- Brutal Death (Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus)

7.- Trash (Sepultura, Slayer, Megadeth, Pantera)

8.- Lots of pop (specially t.A.t.U., and Madonna)

and many other guys such as U2, Glam Rock like SKID ROW, Frank Sinatra, the Beattles, etc, etc.
I can tell you that i like many things, i'm 23 and still have lots of things to listen

Twilightsymphony wrote:I rarely listen to power/melodic metal at the moment, as most of it seems to be rather meaningless for me and i start feeling annoyed by some aspects of the music. And just on a sidenote, there came so many bands which all sounded the same over the last years that i really lost interest in listening.

I still listen to some classic metal like Sabbath or Maiden or Running Wild, as long as it doesnt get too cheesy...

Nowadays i´m mainly listening to Death/Black Metal bands, mainly european style, but also some US death... then we have the not so small folk metal section which seems to be quite interesting, i mainly bought cds of such bands in the last time...

Something that keeps me almost always interested is more progressive stuff like DT and Ayreon...

As for non metal music:
I like some 70s Hard and ProgRock, like Led Zeppelin, Yes and so on and i sometimes enjoy listening to blues, folk and classical music.. well, yes...


For my favourite bands atm i would say: Emperor, Opeth, Ayreon, Mithotyn, Vintersorg, Ensiferum, Finntroll and Falkenbach...

How could i forget Mr. VINTERSORG!!!! he f*cking rules!!!! also Borknagar with him on vocals or even Vortex...you gotta listen to Quintescence (Specially a song called Colossus)

ciruelo wrote:besides metal melodic i listen a lot to metal prg neoclasic like Artension or Delta...

Where did you get a Delta CD??? I want one!

I listen to

-Some very classical bands : Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Helloween, ACDC, Megadeth
-Some heavy/speed/power/call-it-what-you-want-metal : Stratovarius, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian ( Thomen!) Edguy...
-Some Death metal : Deicide, Vader, Testament
-A little bit of prog : Symphony X, Dream Theater (that i discovered not a long time ago), Adagio

Also brazilians stuff like Angra, Shaaman or Sepultura, a little bit of Iced Earth which is a very good band (and then Demons & Wizards). And other bands like Slayer, Grip Inc.

I also listen to classical music : Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Verdi, Debussy

I love the oldies heavy/thrash metal bands and the oldschool sound, black, death, doom, gothic, viking metal, some prog, hard rock and dark ambient.

neonlightchild wrote: How could i forget Mr. VINTERSORG!!!! he f*cking rules!!!! also Borknagar with him on vocals or even Vortex...you gotta listen to Quintescence (Specially a song called Colossus)

Quintessence is good, my fav. is Empiricism though, as Vintersorg adds something special and really fits their atmosphere...

Yet, everything with Simen is good either

HvyMtlClickWitch wrote:

ciruelo wrote:besides metal melodic i listen a lot to metal prg neoclasic like Artension or Delta...

Where did you get a Delta CD??? I want one!

jaja if u are from chile it's not that dificult but if u aren't i think u can buy it by cdk.cl tought it's gonna be really but really expensive (at least for me )

if u want i can send u the songs by mail but it's not the same, i know

Sure, that would be fine! I don't have a huge amount of money to spend at the moment, so sending the songs to me would be perfect. As long as i get to hear more Delta i'll be happy!!

I listen to anything....metal//rock//rap (old skool only)//some dance//gospel/worship//soul/jazz anything goes for me

Hi!

I'm mostly into Power Metal now, but I can listen to any style of metal, depending on my mood.

I became a metalhead back in 1987, listening to glam and classic heavy metal and stayed like that for about 2 years until I found out Helloween! Between 1989 and 1993, I listened a lot of speed and thrash metal, and then (about 1995) I evolved into neoclassic, progressive and power metal, with bands such as Angra, Gamma Ray, Artension, Savatage, Malmsteen (I've been listening to him since 1988 though), Royal Hunt, and of course, Stratovarius! And then every other band that accomplish the "powerful and melodic with clean voice" requirements, into metal of course. Even if I tried, Death Metal never fit me (with some exceptionas as Carcass' Heartworks or early Therion's), I'm still not able to like the vocals, nor like Doom (except for some Anathema's songs) 'cause is too boring for me.

Besides metal, I can pleasly listen to hard rock, 80's rock bands like Journey, Boston, Bad Company, Queen, and so on. I also like folk music of any country as a cultural matter, and on Classical my favorite ones are Mozart, Vivaldi, Paganini and Bach. I respect Jazz a lot, but sadly it isn't the music for me, I can listen to it for 30 minutes and then I fall sleep, even if I accept its quality .

I hate "new metal", pop, rap, hip/hop and latin-techno-reagge-rap. For other styles I simple don't care, don't love, don't hate.

Rock On!

I'm listening different musics like classical (bach, dvorak, debussy and so on...), lyric, traditional music from different cultures with traditional instruments (tzigane, indian, brasilian, peruvian..), celtic, rock...

My favorite stays heavy metal with different styles, like power, speed, heavy, hard-rock, prog...
The first bands i've heard were Whitesnake, Dio, Warlock, Malmsteen, Europe, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Helloween..It was in 1986..
I've also heard some glam at this period..

Some of my other revelations i've discovered were Angra and Stratovarius.
And there of my favorites bands with some others, like Sentenced, Shaaman,Edguy, Manigance, Noctis-Shade...

I don't like rap, jazz, reaggee, techno, hip-hop...It's not my cup of tea.

I've already heard neo metal but i don't like it neither...
I listen to few death and black metal bands sometimes...I like Sirenia, Children Of Bodom, Arch Enemy, Tristania...And a little bit Dimmu Borgir..

Metal rules!

-All schools of death & black metal, with the exception of grindcore
-Oldschool Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Dio..)
-Hard Rock (AC/DC, Motörhead..)
-Reggae (Bob Marley, Soul Captain Band)
-Jazz (Old legends, or acid jazz)
-Classical (Mozart, Bach mainly..)
-Oldschool hiphop (A Tribe Called Quest etc.)
-(Deep) house & ambient
-Tenacious D (It is it's own subcategory. )
-Nu-metal.. okay, just kidding!

i listen to all music.. except: ska, rap, dance, house, latin, raggae, teen pop and relative sub-genres