Appreciate Songwriters and Musician Talent In Most Subgenres Of Rock,Hard Rock and Metal.From Porcupine Tree to Shadow Gallery to Primal Fear to Megadeth to Bathory. Not A Big Fan Of Mainstream Commercialized Alternative/Grunge/Emo/Screamo or Core's
Preferred subgenres include Hard Rock - Melodic Rock - Progressive Rock - Progressive Metal - Symphonic Metal - Folk Metal - Gothic Metal - Power Metal - Classic Heavy Metal - Thrash Metal - Speed Metal - (some) Industrial Metal,Melodic Death Metal,Death Metal,Punk
Not a fan of grunge,emo,screamo,rap metal,doom metal,core's
Listen for instrumentation talent,songwriting abilities,melodies,hook lines,clever bridges,tasty or technical solo's,drummer creativity. Not a fan of cookie monster unintelligible vocals although sometimes ok if mixed with melodic styled vocals. Gruff but intelligible vocals like Kreator,Slayer,Motorhead,Exodus is fine.
Usually don't pay too much attention to actual lyrics unless they really stand out and are singalongable
Not a fan of grunge,emo,screamo,rap metal,doom metal,core's
Listen for instrumentation talent,songwriting abilities,melodies,hook lines,clever bridges,tasty or technical solo's,drummer creativity. Not a fan of cookie monster unintelligible vocals although sometimes ok if mixed with melodic styled vocals. Gruff but intelligible vocals like Kreator,Slayer,Motorhead,Exodus is fine.
Usually don't pay too much attention to actual lyrics unless they really stand out and are singalongable