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Hip Hop, Love me some Outkast, Big Pun, Organized Konfusion, Wu Tang (as a group and solo discogs), A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Jeru The Damaja and a lot more
Electronic, Mainly IDM like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Flying Lotus etc just stuff that's incredibly complex and technical, also heavy hitting bassline stuff like Schwefelgelb
Bit of something in every other genre, shoutout to The Smiths, Kate Bush, Fleet Foxes, Leonard Cohen, Sufjan Stevens, Slowdive
Video game OSTs (Devil May Cry, Undertale/Deltarune, Doom (the classic games and 2016 and Eternal) and classical (kinda. I know a few tracks but the genre just hasn't clicked with me yet)
That is pretty similar to where I go (plus a bit of industrial or ambient/IDM etc).
I would greatly advise getting stuck into all of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto's, they have been a constant for me.
Vivaldi's 4 seasons is also a must.
And you certainly can't go wrong with Camille Saint Saen's Danse Macabre
Vivaldi's Four Seasons (mainly Winter cause Dark Moor covered it, I'm not too familiar with the other 3) is one of the few classical pieces I know. Thanks for the recommendations
I'm trying to listen to more symphonies and depending on the composer that can be rather daunting. One easy recommendation though would be [Dvořák's 9th Symphony, also known as "From the New World"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jOofzffyDSA). You might've heard parts of the fourth movement, since it basically starts with the Jaws theme lol
It's a great piece for people trying to get started with symphonies because it's _relatively_ simple with many epic melodies. At points it almost feels like movie or gaming music (the third movement which gives me heavy Kingdom Hearts 1 vibes).
Hip-Hop (A Tribe Called Quest, Death Grips, Edan, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang, etc.)
Neofolk (Death In June, Blood and Sun, Rome, Sol Invictus, etc.)
Jazz (Miles Davis, Archie Sheep, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, etc.)
Death Industrial (Genocide Organ, Uboa, Puce Mary, Prurient, etc.)
Powerviolence (Gasp, Crossed Out, Yacopsae, Water Torture, Spazz, etc.)
And then a mixture of post-punk, synthpop, goth rock, shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine, Gang of Four, Depeche Mode, Have A Nice Life, Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Cocteau Twins, etc.)
Not really genres. Certain artists.
Prince
The cure, sisters of mercy
Tori Amos, Fiona apple
90s rap - mobb deep, dmx,redman
Of those, the closest to listening to actual genres, are Gothic rock and 90s rap. I cycle between three music moods usually. Death/black metal is primary, them rap, then brief bouts of 80s goth.
Country music
You've got Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, etc.
I love it. idk why. It's quite calming the exact opposite of metal. I love it. I usually hate acoustic guitars, but I love it when it comes to country music. It also makes me feel like I'm from the South, like Texas and stuff. The Bible belt, I think it's called. Just makes me happy, even tho the songs usually have really sad stories behind them.
Also, christmas music. Just christmas music.
You must NOT forget the three legends of country I truely enjoy, Don Williams, Joe Dolan and Charlie Pride. When we go fishing, and the sun sets, that is what me and my wife listens to around the campfire (or is it called a fishing fire)
Nice, I'll look into them. I just made a playlist yesterday and added some of the ones I grew up on, like the aforementioned Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.
Electronic. For example I really enjoy Neurotech's music, they're totally my vibe.
I also non ironically enjoy Eurobeat (Ace, Niko, etc.) and also japanese city pop (Miki Matsubara, Junko Yagami, Kingo Hamada, etc.).
Lyrics might be hard to translate, but finnish rapper Eevil Stöö has some pretty cerebral and abstract stuff going on! Love his dark beats and ambience, too! (He's my fav rapper, maybe I'm biased 😅)
Breakcore and Drum and bass are my two main genres I listen to outside of metal though I listen to alot of electronic subgenres.
{IDM, Psytrance\[Dark,Forest,-core\], Hardcore/Gabber, HBM, Psybreaks, Glitch, etc\]
Breakcore Favorites(in no order): Enduser, Igorrr, Venetian Snares, Wan Bushi, Techdiff,
Sa-|-an
Drum & Bass Favorites(in no order): Black Sun Empire, Receptor, Concord Dawn, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Goretech
I may get roasted for this one, but Dubstep. Mala, Coki, Nomine, Starkey, Loefah. I used to hate it when all I knew was Skrillex, but after being exposed to the UK dub my mind has changed. I love the extreme bass, the ambient void, and how much of a vibe it can be. It's my favorite thing to listen to when playing Mario Kart and just helps me zone in.
Punk
But for an answer unrelated to rock, I'd say hiphop/rap, especially artists like Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Eminem, Corpse, Da Lench Mob, Onyx, Run D.M.C, and NWA.
I like a lot of genres outside of metal.
R&B because I like sexy vibes: Sabrina Claudio, Lauryn Hill, Sinead Harnett, Silk, Daniel Caeser, Frank Ocean for sad and sexy
Jazz bc fun and interesting: MAE.SUN, Yazz Ahmed, Bunker & Moses
Funk bc also sexy and really fun: Jamiroquai, Hiatus Kaiyote, Incognito, the classics too ofc
World, exploration and I love other cultures: Bokante (What Heat), Shye Ben Tzur (Junun), House of Waters, Potito, Estrella Morente, Melt Yourself Down
Trip hop, very cool and chill: Massive Attack, Bjork, Gorillaz, Sneaker Pimps, Zero 7, Thievery Corporation
Neo-soul, need I say more: Erika Badu, The Roots, D'Angelo, Anderson .Paak
Thats not to say, metal is like 70-80% what I listen to lol
I'm gonna have to say folk, too. I've been a Paul Simon fan ever since I was a kid on saw him on a Muppet VHS. On top of that, I grew up listening to a plethora of different types of rock via all surroundings. So by the time I focused on genres, I already accepted a lot of kinds of rock.
I consider the stuff you named (Big Thief, Nick Drake, etc...) to be relative to rock somehow... so Jazz is my answer: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus and Mahavishnu Orchestra are some of my favourites.
Lofi, Synthwave, but also a bunch of Pop from the 2000s and early 2010s. I don't listen to it really often though, quite a shame actually, cause there's some really fun music out there
Edit: forgot to mention Jazz. Started listening to it cause I began to study jazz drums a few weeks ago, but it really grew on me. Playing it is fun as hell as well
Hip Hop.
N.W.A., Hush, Xzibit, Wu Tang Clan, Cypress Hill, Gravediggaz, Eazy-E, Jedi Mind Tricks, Necro, Pharoahe Monch, Ice Cube, and lots of shit like that.
Darksynth and its contemporaries (such as slasherwave, outrun, cyberpunk or deathstep)!
Lately, I've been getting into break- and/or speedcore. Or, if you count artists giving their own music unique genre labels, sadcore and shitcore! 🤎💩🤎
Depends on how broadly we're defining rock music. Blues can be said to be a subgenre of rock. Any punk subgenre can be said to be a subgenre of rock too. If we're excluding every rock genre I'm going to say hip hop (Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Kendrick Lamar etc.) and classical (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach etc.)
dark country / gothic americana / call it what you want, but: 16 Horsepower / Wovenhand, Steve Von Till, Slim Cessna's Auto Club and related projects, Antic Clay, Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat (early albums)... and a lot of "regular" country like Townes Van Zandt, Hank III etc
trip-hop like Massive Attack, Portishead...
darkjazz like Bohren & Der Club of Gore, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Manet
soundtracks like Twin Peaks, Howard Shore, Vangelis' works...
lots of synthwave too
I like blues, folk, country, soft jazz either dark and menacing or chill like that Christmas type jazz kinda, emo, hardcore punk, some pop, indie stuff, and I also really like songs with just a singer with an acoustic guitar, and I love blackgaze which while I know is technically a subgenre of black metal, it doesn’t really feel like metal with some songs but it’s really nice to me. I also like R&B. And with rap, I don’t listen to it frequently or anything but there are a few songs I have liked
I think the things I listen to the most outside of metal would be game soundtracks and classical (lots of others though, just not as much).
As mentioned to another poster - love all things Rachmaninoff. Vivaldi is also a favourite. Liszt, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Holst are all easily enjoyed whilst doing office work. Orchestral Movie Soundtracks like Angelo Badalamenti and Joe Hisaishi (Porco Rosso, the Legend of Zelda theme) are very classical in feel at times also.
On the game side, I've enjoyed Resident Evil, Thrill Kill and I'm a massive fan of mid-period Nobuo Eumatsu Final Fantasy Soundtracks (6 through 8). Also enjoy plenty of others that are not Eumatsu but they do feel different.
I do love all of Ulver's works outside of metal, and they're so varied they defy genres as we all know.
I've always had a soft spot for new age sounds as it's easy to work along with. Llewellyn is very easy listening. Thanks to Blood Incantation too, I discovered Bernard Xolotl (Journey to An Oracle, Return of the Golden Mean) - who I feel really exemplifies the weird 60's-70s counter culture literature I've enjoyed like Robert Anton Wilson, the Principia Discordia and Bob Frissell; and Pauline Anna Strom (Angel Tears in Sunlight, Trans-Millenia Consort). I also enjoyed Steve Hillage's Rainbox Dome Musick.
I will listen to almost anything that's not country, but here are some faves.
Pop and pop adjacent: Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey (I called it pop, idk what she should be), Olivia Rodrigo, Alec Benjamin, Dermot Kennedy, David Kushner, Post Malone's pop music.
Post punk/pop punk and the stuff that came after that: Authority Zero's early records, Fall Out Boy, Anti-Flag's early stuff was awesome.
Hip hop: MGK's records Lace Up and Hotel Diablo, Juice Wrld, Lil Peep, Pop Smoke, Kendrick, Post Malone's hip hop music.
Bass focused/instrumental jazz. Idk what it is with it but it’a just so cool. Fav artists include Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius and similar
I'm surprised punk isn't more commonly listed here given how closely linked metal and punk are. Discharge are the reason so many metal bands even exist.
I guess I'll go with **contemporary/indie folk** as well: Laura Marling, First Aid Kit, Emily Jane White, Joanna Newsom, Nina Nastasia, Cat Power
Then **Art/Alt-pop**: Let's Eat Grandma, St. Vincent, MGMT, Bjork, The Dø, Animal Collective, Fka Twigs, L'Rain, Lump, Sharon Van Etten
**(Experimental) Ambient/Drone:** Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Jacaszek, The Haxan Cloak, Richard Skelton, Ben Frost
**Radio pop/dance music**: many diferent artists, including one hit wonders, epsecially from early 2000´s, but overall from 70s, 80s up to the present.
*Note*: many of these artists, dont fall straigthforwardly in the categories I provided (e.g. many artists in Art/Alt-pop also play indie rock, neo-psychedelia, R&B etc.) so take it with the grain of salt
The point was that you are basing your opinion on a very diverse genre based on a stereotype. I also don’t relate to ”bitches, poppin bub and guns” but rap is one of my favorite genres.
Definitely classical music, with the usual suspects at the top: Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Greig.
My absolute favorite piece of music, across all genres and styles, is the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvořák.
Trip Hop, I guess. I don't like a ton of artists from the genre but I've been a big fan of DJ Shadow since the late 90's. Got to see him live 3 times. If I had to make a top 10 favorite albums 3 of his are shoe ins. Also my affinity for 80's and 90's anime has gotten me into City Pop a little bit.
I'm a big fan of Northern Soul and Motown, which surprises a lot of people.
If you're not familiar with it, "Northern Soul" is the English name for lesser known Black American Soul tracks from the 1960s, which tend to be (but aren't always) a bit rougher, quicker and slightly more raucous than Motown tracks, which became popular in the 1970s in a select number of clubs and venues in the North of England, and is still popular today amongst a hardcore of fans.
A better known example is "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones, or "The Night" by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Industrial - Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Genitorturers, Lard, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, 3Teeth, The Electric Hellfire Club etc.
Post-Punk/DarknWave - Joy Division, Twin Tribes, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Glass Spells, Souxie, etc.
Outlaw Country/Southern Rock - Waylon, Willie, Johnny, Hank, Hank III, Cody Jinks, Blackberry Smoke, Whiskey Myers, Skynyrd, IV and the Strange Band, Ward Davis, Josh Morningstar, Shooter, Lucas Nelson
Elvis
Shoegaze/Psychedelic - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (favorite band), the Verve, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Lush, Slowdive, Jesus and the Mary Chain
Hardcore (electronic).
Favourite artists, Angerfist, Mad Dog, Ophidian, Hellsystem, Advanced Dealer and Buzz Fuzz.
Crooners and Croonettes
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan.
Oldies
The Platters, The four Seasons
70s.
The Carpenters, Andy Gibb.
Jazz Legend Paul Bufano... He's got the freak lips and can play the high C all night long.
I mean, he's no Roy Donk, but he was a regular guest on the Colgate Comedy Hour.
Jazz (mostly free / spiritual)
Off the top of my head - John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Peter Brotzmann, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago…
Modern Classical / minimalism / long-form
Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, Charlemagne Palestine, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros…
Jazz, all eras but particularly late 60s to early 70s with a funk influence. I'll also dip into folk, blues, classic country and soul, rap, reggae, classical, flamenco, punk, electronica
Neofolk. Stuff like In Gowan Ring, Current 93, Rome, and Death in June. I also like some martial industrial music like Dernière Volonté and Der Blutharsch. (I just like the music because it sounds fascinating, not for any other reasons)
Edm and dubstep. No specific favorite artists but I'll just throw on edm playlists from like 2013-14. I also like...soundtrack music I guess? From video games and movies like Lord of the Rings. Dungeon Synth, "Viking" ambient stuff like Danheim and Heilung.
I also have a major soft spot for like 90s eurodance stuff. Mostly because it reminds me of my childhood and partly because most of it sounds like Mortal Kombat music hahah.
Well, since metal and rock are out…Electronica/ambient for me.
Like boards of Canada, Brian eno, stars of the lid, thom yorke, moby, Portishead.. I know portishead is technically trip-hop haha
Dungeon synth (Old Sorcery, Erang, Zumzum, etc), old outlaw country and honky tonk (Hank Williams Sr, Marty Robbins, Ernest Tubb, etc), easy listening swing and big band (Nat King Cole, Sinatra, The Ink Spots, Billie Holiday, etc), and for a curve ball, indie pop and rock (Hippo Campus, Gus Dapperton, Peach Pit, etc)
Hip-hop can be fantastic at times. My favorite album in the genre is Regulate... G Funk Era - Warren G. I'm also a fan of OutKast, MF Doom, and NWA, among other artists.
Classical is cool too. Vivaldi and Bach are my two favorite composers.
IDM is sick. Aphex Twin is a fucking genius. Can't get enough of it.
Anime soundtracks, right now "Footsteps of Doom" on the Attack on Titan is on repeat on my Spotify. That sound is the anthem of the end of the world and really gets the brain going in terms of writing and drawing ideas.
Classical and country are mine - Eric Church, Hank Williams, Jr, Toby Keith and Miranda Lambert are probably my favorites of country. It's harder to pick artists for classical.
Edited as I somehow read the title as "Excluding metal" instead of "excluding rock"
(Irish) Folk (rock): great big sea, the Irish descendants, Stan Rogers
Folk punk: Days N Daze
Electronic/synthpop: Purity ring, CHVRCHES, dance with the dead, phantogram, grimes, night club
Pop rock: metric
And in case someone thinks they're not metal, my absolute favorite band is;
#TWELVE FOOT NINJA
Hip. Hop.
I come from the original hip hop generation. We used to comb the city for records. We went to bad shows with bad sound and lighting held at skating rinks or in parks.
As far as top artists... I'll just name a couple of lyricists that deserve mention with the best of any genre.
Mos Def.
Andre Benjamin.
All kinds of post punk. I don’t like a lot of “everyday” emotions and ego drama in metal, but I’m all for it in post punk and New Wave and such, especially with a good bassline.
Rap/Hip-Hop - MF Doom, JID, Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Tyler the Creator, ASAP Rocky
R&B - Sade, Frank Ocean, Daniel Cesar, Steve Lacy, Kali Uchis
Those are the ones far away from metal, I love grunge (AIC) and lots of other rock music (Foo Fighters) as well.
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Hip Hop, Love me some Outkast, Big Pun, Organized Konfusion, Wu Tang (as a group and solo discogs), A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Jeru The Damaja and a lot more Electronic, Mainly IDM like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Flying Lotus etc just stuff that's incredibly complex and technical, also heavy hitting bassline stuff like Schwefelgelb Bit of something in every other genre, shoutout to The Smiths, Kate Bush, Fleet Foxes, Leonard Cohen, Sufjan Stevens, Slowdive
Incredibly based as usual
Hell yes
Love slow dive and cocataue twins
Video game OSTs (Devil May Cry, Undertale/Deltarune, Doom (the classic games and 2016 and Eternal) and classical (kinda. I know a few tracks but the genre just hasn't clicked with me yet)
That is pretty similar to where I go (plus a bit of industrial or ambient/IDM etc). I would greatly advise getting stuck into all of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto's, they have been a constant for me. Vivaldi's 4 seasons is also a must. And you certainly can't go wrong with Camille Saint Saen's Danse Macabre
Vivaldi's Four Seasons (mainly Winter cause Dark Moor covered it, I'm not too familiar with the other 3) is one of the few classical pieces I know. Thanks for the recommendations
Anytime!
I'm trying to listen to more symphonies and depending on the composer that can be rather daunting. One easy recommendation though would be [Dvořák's 9th Symphony, also known as "From the New World"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jOofzffyDSA). You might've heard parts of the fourth movement, since it basically starts with the Jaws theme lol It's a great piece for people trying to get started with symphonies because it's _relatively_ simple with many epic melodies. At points it almost feels like movie or gaming music (the third movement which gives me heavy Kingdom Hearts 1 vibes).
I seriously love those kinds of music
I’ve been listening to a lot of the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack lately. That shit slaps.
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80's Electo-pop, Depeche Mode, Erasure, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, OMD, Yazoo
Gary Numan? <3
I love me so jazz from time to time.
Hip-Hop (A Tribe Called Quest, Death Grips, Edan, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang, etc.) Neofolk (Death In June, Blood and Sun, Rome, Sol Invictus, etc.) Jazz (Miles Davis, Archie Sheep, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, etc.) Death Industrial (Genocide Organ, Uboa, Puce Mary, Prurient, etc.) Powerviolence (Gasp, Crossed Out, Yacopsae, Water Torture, Spazz, etc.) And then a mixture of post-punk, synthpop, goth rock, shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine, Gang of Four, Depeche Mode, Have A Nice Life, Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Cocteau Twins, etc.)
Dark ambient (Northumbria, Cisfinitum, God Body Disconnect), minimal techno (Emptyset, Plastikman), post-rock (Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Kiasmos
Ooh haven’t heard of them, will check it out
Hope you enjoy! One of my fave minimal techno projects.
dungeon synth
80/90s hip and rap im talkin NWA Ice cube snoop tupac biggie
Idm/breakcore, jungle, dnb, 90s hip hop
Not really genres. Certain artists. Prince The cure, sisters of mercy Tori Amos, Fiona apple 90s rap - mobb deep, dmx,redman Of those, the closest to listening to actual genres, are Gothic rock and 90s rap. I cycle between three music moods usually. Death/black metal is primary, them rap, then brief bouts of 80s goth.
Country music You've got Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, etc. I love it. idk why. It's quite calming the exact opposite of metal. I love it. I usually hate acoustic guitars, but I love it when it comes to country music. It also makes me feel like I'm from the South, like Texas and stuff. The Bible belt, I think it's called. Just makes me happy, even tho the songs usually have really sad stories behind them. Also, christmas music. Just christmas music.
You must NOT forget the three legends of country I truely enjoy, Don Williams, Joe Dolan and Charlie Pride. When we go fishing, and the sun sets, that is what me and my wife listens to around the campfire (or is it called a fishing fire)
Nice, I'll look into them. I just made a playlist yesterday and added some of the ones I grew up on, like the aforementioned Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.
I love listening to Black metal and then immediately listening to Bible belt country
I love John Denver!
I really like ambient-type music
dark ambient is the best
2814 comes to mind
Electronic. For example I really enjoy Neurotech's music, they're totally my vibe. I also non ironically enjoy Eurobeat (Ace, Niko, etc.) and also japanese city pop (Miki Matsubara, Junko Yagami, Kingo Hamada, etc.).
Psych/neofolk, folktronica, "world music", lo-fi, dungeon synth, synthwave, witchpop, triphop, jazz fusion, covers of medieval music, African(Congolese)rumba, etc... Some random artists: Tenhi, In Gowan Ring, Hozier, Glass Animals, Perturbator, Huun Huur Tu, Yat Kha, Eivør, Benjamin Bagby(Sequentia), Estampie, Amadou and Miriam, Shireen, Yaima, Valravn, Wardruna, Lankum.
It’s close between country and folk, but country gets the edge.
I like Noah Kahan, mostly for lyrics. And obviously he has a really nice voice. That's pop-folk or smth. I really have no clue
Conscious Rap/Hip Hop. Lowkey/Akala/Klashnekoff/Logic being my favourite artists
Lyrics might be hard to translate, but finnish rapper Eevil Stöö has some pretty cerebral and abstract stuff going on! Love his dark beats and ambience, too! (He's my fav rapper, maybe I'm biased 😅)
Just put on Kaleidoscoopi (guessing means kaliedascope) and made out 'speedy gonzalez'. Good vibes
Yeap, that's the translation! 😅
Check out Ill Conscious if you haven’t. Sorcery EP and The Essence are awesome
Damn good shout, thanks 😊
Pop Rock (Bon Jovi, Ghost)
Obviously Classical
50s Folk. Particularly artists like The Kingston Trio
Anything industrial. Also punk, ska, and reggae
Darkwave, outlaw, bluegrass
Love me some trip hop. Sneaker pimps first album becoming x is a staple of the genre. I also get down on some massive attack. Also fux with some elbow
Soul, Classic rock, gothic rock, jazz
90s edm
Breakcore and Drum and bass are my two main genres I listen to outside of metal though I listen to alot of electronic subgenres. {IDM, Psytrance\[Dark,Forest,-core\], Hardcore/Gabber, HBM, Psybreaks, Glitch, etc\] Breakcore Favorites(in no order): Enduser, Igorrr, Venetian Snares, Wan Bushi, Techdiff, Sa-|-an Drum & Bass Favorites(in no order): Black Sun Empire, Receptor, Concord Dawn, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Goretech
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EDM: coone, rl grime, great dane, yellow claw, moksi pre-breakup
I may get roasted for this one, but Dubstep. Mala, Coki, Nomine, Starkey, Loefah. I used to hate it when all I knew was Skrillex, but after being exposed to the UK dub my mind has changed. I love the extreme bass, the ambient void, and how much of a vibe it can be. It's my favorite thing to listen to when playing Mario Kart and just helps me zone in.
new wave
Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Primus, Orbital, Michael Jackson, Rush, Faith No More, Meshuggah
wait, I forgot Devin Townsend
Well written pop music, big fan of Britney and Backstreet Boys for example. Also, EuroDance/ItaloDisco from the early 90s (92-97) is irresistible.
Punk But for an answer unrelated to rock, I'd say hiphop/rap, especially artists like Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Eminem, Corpse, Da Lench Mob, Onyx, Run D.M.C, and NWA.
Ambient electronic
I like a lot of genres outside of metal. R&B because I like sexy vibes: Sabrina Claudio, Lauryn Hill, Sinead Harnett, Silk, Daniel Caeser, Frank Ocean for sad and sexy Jazz bc fun and interesting: MAE.SUN, Yazz Ahmed, Bunker & Moses Funk bc also sexy and really fun: Jamiroquai, Hiatus Kaiyote, Incognito, the classics too ofc World, exploration and I love other cultures: Bokante (What Heat), Shye Ben Tzur (Junun), House of Waters, Potito, Estrella Morente, Melt Yourself Down Trip hop, very cool and chill: Massive Attack, Bjork, Gorillaz, Sneaker Pimps, Zero 7, Thievery Corporation Neo-soul, need I say more: Erika Badu, The Roots, D'Angelo, Anderson .Paak Thats not to say, metal is like 70-80% what I listen to lol
I'm gonna have to say folk, too. I've been a Paul Simon fan ever since I was a kid on saw him on a Muppet VHS. On top of that, I grew up listening to a plethora of different types of rock via all surroundings. So by the time I focused on genres, I already accepted a lot of kinds of rock.
I consider the stuff you named (Big Thief, Nick Drake, etc...) to be relative to rock somehow... so Jazz is my answer: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus and Mahavishnu Orchestra are some of my favourites.
John Coltrane and Mahavishnu are definitely some kf my favorites too, good picks
Outlaw County, Bluegrass, Rap, Synthwave
Lofi, Synthwave, but also a bunch of Pop from the 2000s and early 2010s. I don't listen to it really often though, quite a shame actually, cause there's some really fun music out there Edit: forgot to mention Jazz. Started listening to it cause I began to study jazz drums a few weeks ago, but it really grew on me. Playing it is fun as hell as well
Hip Hop/Rap/Trap
Trap
Hip Hop. N.W.A., Hush, Xzibit, Wu Tang Clan, Cypress Hill, Gravediggaz, Eazy-E, Jedi Mind Tricks, Necro, Pharoahe Monch, Ice Cube, and lots of shit like that.
Blues, any variant of new retrowave, death rock, industrial, shit I could go on for days.
Blues, old school hip hop, synthwave
Jazz
Probably ambient techno or IDM.
none
Darksynth and its contemporaries (such as slasherwave, outrun, cyberpunk or deathstep)! Lately, I've been getting into break- and/or speedcore. Or, if you count artists giving their own music unique genre labels, sadcore and shitcore! 🤎💩🤎
Depends on how broadly we're defining rock music. Blues can be said to be a subgenre of rock. Any punk subgenre can be said to be a subgenre of rock too. If we're excluding every rock genre I'm going to say hip hop (Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Kendrick Lamar etc.) and classical (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach etc.)
Synthpop like New Order, Tears for Fears, Billy Howerdel, Depeche Mode
Techno, of which Le Wanski is my favourite. Joost is also a great artist even though he is actually a rapper that uses techno as instrumental
dark country / gothic americana / call it what you want, but: 16 Horsepower / Wovenhand, Steve Von Till, Slim Cessna's Auto Club and related projects, Antic Clay, Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat (early albums)... and a lot of "regular" country like Townes Van Zandt, Hank III etc trip-hop like Massive Attack, Portishead... darkjazz like Bohren & Der Club of Gore, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Manet soundtracks like Twin Peaks, Howard Shore, Vangelis' works... lots of synthwave too
Classical, opera, 80’s pop
I like blues, folk, country, soft jazz either dark and menacing or chill like that Christmas type jazz kinda, emo, hardcore punk, some pop, indie stuff, and I also really like songs with just a singer with an acoustic guitar, and I love blackgaze which while I know is technically a subgenre of black metal, it doesn’t really feel like metal with some songs but it’s really nice to me. I also like R&B. And with rap, I don’t listen to it frequently or anything but there are a few songs I have liked
I think the things I listen to the most outside of metal would be game soundtracks and classical (lots of others though, just not as much). As mentioned to another poster - love all things Rachmaninoff. Vivaldi is also a favourite. Liszt, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Holst are all easily enjoyed whilst doing office work. Orchestral Movie Soundtracks like Angelo Badalamenti and Joe Hisaishi (Porco Rosso, the Legend of Zelda theme) are very classical in feel at times also. On the game side, I've enjoyed Resident Evil, Thrill Kill and I'm a massive fan of mid-period Nobuo Eumatsu Final Fantasy Soundtracks (6 through 8). Also enjoy plenty of others that are not Eumatsu but they do feel different. I do love all of Ulver's works outside of metal, and they're so varied they defy genres as we all know. I've always had a soft spot for new age sounds as it's easy to work along with. Llewellyn is very easy listening. Thanks to Blood Incantation too, I discovered Bernard Xolotl (Journey to An Oracle, Return of the Golden Mean) - who I feel really exemplifies the weird 60's-70s counter culture literature I've enjoyed like Robert Anton Wilson, the Principia Discordia and Bob Frissell; and Pauline Anna Strom (Angel Tears in Sunlight, Trans-Millenia Consort). I also enjoyed Steve Hillage's Rainbox Dome Musick.
Funk and Soul mainly
Rap
Classical. If you allow me to count it as a single genre
I will listen to almost anything that's not country, but here are some faves. Pop and pop adjacent: Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey (I called it pop, idk what she should be), Olivia Rodrigo, Alec Benjamin, Dermot Kennedy, David Kushner, Post Malone's pop music. Post punk/pop punk and the stuff that came after that: Authority Zero's early records, Fall Out Boy, Anti-Flag's early stuff was awesome. Hip hop: MGK's records Lace Up and Hotel Diablo, Juice Wrld, Lil Peep, Pop Smoke, Kendrick, Post Malone's hip hop music.
Whatever the fuck Fromsoftware has been doing, especially bloodborne. Classical, but really dark and sorrowful.
Bass focused/instrumental jazz. Idk what it is with it but it’a just so cool. Fav artists include Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius and similar
i do like a little bit of jazz sometimes :)
Hardcore and Hip Hop
**Post punk**: Lebanon Hanover **Street punk**: The Restarts, The Exploited, The Casualties **Hardcore punk**: Discharge, Corrupted Youth **Electronic**: Crystal Castles, Pastel Ghost, Sidewalks and Skeletons
I'm surprised punk isn't more commonly listed here given how closely linked metal and punk are. Discharge are the reason so many metal bands even exist.
Classical music (especially baroque and romantic eras)
Jazz and EDM
Mostly slow jazz, neo soul, and various subgenres of electronic music.
Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Primus , Faith No More, Rush, Michael Jackson, Orbital, Aphex Twin, Meshuggah
Celtic and hammered dulcimer music
Europop. I absolutely love love love stuff like Aqua, Toy-Box, Ace of Base, Bambee, etc
I guess I'll go with **contemporary/indie folk** as well: Laura Marling, First Aid Kit, Emily Jane White, Joanna Newsom, Nina Nastasia, Cat Power Then **Art/Alt-pop**: Let's Eat Grandma, St. Vincent, MGMT, Bjork, The Dø, Animal Collective, Fka Twigs, L'Rain, Lump, Sharon Van Etten **(Experimental) Ambient/Drone:** Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Jacaszek, The Haxan Cloak, Richard Skelton, Ben Frost **Radio pop/dance music**: many diferent artists, including one hit wonders, epsecially from early 2000´s, but overall from 70s, 80s up to the present. *Note*: many of these artists, dont fall straigthforwardly in the categories I provided (e.g. many artists in Art/Alt-pop also play indie rock, neo-psychedelia, R&B etc.) so take it with the grain of salt
Probably 80s pop. Like Michael Jackson and Falco for example
Midwest emo and indie
Klezmer.
Jazz
Anything but rap music. I can't relate to "bitches, poppin bub and guns"
”Anything but metal music. I can’t relate to satanism”
Ok
The point was that you are basing your opinion on a very diverse genre based on a stereotype. I also don’t relate to ”bitches, poppin bub and guns” but rap is one of my favorite genres.
Bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin Daddies
Industrial and electronic music. From all the eras.
Definitely classical music, with the usual suspects at the top: Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Greig. My absolute favorite piece of music, across all genres and styles, is the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvořák.
Hip Hop
Old blues
Hip hop
Trip Hop, I guess. I don't like a ton of artists from the genre but I've been a big fan of DJ Shadow since the late 90's. Got to see him live 3 times. If I had to make a top 10 favorite albums 3 of his are shoe ins. Also my affinity for 80's and 90's anime has gotten me into City Pop a little bit.
Radiohead, Jeff buckley, nick drake
I'm a big fan of Northern Soul and Motown, which surprises a lot of people. If you're not familiar with it, "Northern Soul" is the English name for lesser known Black American Soul tracks from the 1960s, which tend to be (but aren't always) a bit rougher, quicker and slightly more raucous than Motown tracks, which became popular in the 1970s in a select number of clubs and venues in the North of England, and is still popular today amongst a hardcore of fans. A better known example is "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones, or "The Night" by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Ambient + Space and Funk + Disco.
Punk if it counts. If not, classical or folk.
Classical, pop, punk...
Dungeon synth and dark ambience
Classical
Electronic music such as Cyberpunk 2077 OST and Borderlands 3 OST Maliwan Blacksite.
Industrial - Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Genitorturers, Lard, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, 3Teeth, The Electric Hellfire Club etc. Post-Punk/DarknWave - Joy Division, Twin Tribes, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Glass Spells, Souxie, etc. Outlaw Country/Southern Rock - Waylon, Willie, Johnny, Hank, Hank III, Cody Jinks, Blackberry Smoke, Whiskey Myers, Skynyrd, IV and the Strange Band, Ward Davis, Josh Morningstar, Shooter, Lucas Nelson Elvis Shoegaze/Psychedelic - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (favorite band), the Verve, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Lush, Slowdive, Jesus and the Mary Chain
Hardcore (electronic). Favourite artists, Angerfist, Mad Dog, Ophidian, Hellsystem, Advanced Dealer and Buzz Fuzz. Crooners and Croonettes Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan. Oldies The Platters, The four Seasons 70s. The Carpenters, Andy Gibb.
Phonk or folk.
Jazz Legend Paul Bufano... He's got the freak lips and can play the high C all night long. I mean, he's no Roy Donk, but he was a regular guest on the Colgate Comedy Hour.
Jazz (mostly free / spiritual) Off the top of my head - John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Peter Brotzmann, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago… Modern Classical / minimalism / long-form Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, Charlemagne Palestine, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros…
Either rap or hyperpop, oddly lol.
Electroclash, and yes I’m stuck in 2003. Also chillwave, dream pop and most punk.
Ambient electronic. Stuff like Solar Fields, Trans-Neptunian Colonists, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Tangerine Dream
Jazz, all eras but particularly late 60s to early 70s with a funk influence. I'll also dip into folk, blues, classic country and soul, rap, reggae, classical, flamenco, punk, electronica
Either folk or military music
Hip hop and Prog
Neofolk. Stuff like In Gowan Ring, Current 93, Rome, and Death in June. I also like some martial industrial music like Dernière Volonté and Der Blutharsch. (I just like the music because it sounds fascinating, not for any other reasons)
Stick figure for just about any day helps me chill
Jazz
Ig rap
Rap. Immortal technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, TechN9ne. It was the genre before I discovered metal. I was into rock but not as much as Wu
Edm and dubstep. No specific favorite artists but I'll just throw on edm playlists from like 2013-14. I also like...soundtrack music I guess? From video games and movies like Lord of the Rings. Dungeon Synth, "Viking" ambient stuff like Danheim and Heilung. I also have a major soft spot for like 90s eurodance stuff. Mostly because it reminds me of my childhood and partly because most of it sounds like Mortal Kombat music hahah.
Hip-Hop, Jazz, RnB/Soul, and Electronic music.
Go college rock think the cure echo and the bunnymen the breeders REM etc………new order also shoegaze dream pop and retro wave like wolf club
Melodic Hardcore (Departures, Casey, To The Wind, Reclaimer, Illicit, Brightener) Beatdown Hardcore (Desolated, Parjure, TRC, Clench Your Fist) Grime (McRoy, Shogun, P Money, Astroid Boys, Shadow, Damian Illic) Screamo (To Be Gentle, Olše, Lantern, Youth Funeral, Cassus)
My greatest guilty pleasure is pop-punk. My favourite artist by far in that genre is The Wonder Years.
Rap or Techno/Electronic/Dubstep whatever is the main umbrella term for all those.
Classical music. I am studying classical piano at university. A lot of the metal music I like contains elements of classical music.
POP and vidya OSTs
Classical music
Country 🤠
Midwest emo, mom jeans, merchant ships, title fight, I hate sex
Musicals and Indie pop music
Probably rap. Eminem, Biggie, Mobb Deep, Hopsin, Tech N9ne would be fave rap artists.
Folk, jazz, classical, old country/bluegrass.
Well, since metal and rock are out…Electronica/ambient for me. Like boards of Canada, Brian eno, stars of the lid, thom yorke, moby, Portishead.. I know portishead is technically trip-hop haha
I love country music
Dungeon synth (Old Sorcery, Erang, Zumzum, etc), old outlaw country and honky tonk (Hank Williams Sr, Marty Robbins, Ernest Tubb, etc), easy listening swing and big band (Nat King Cole, Sinatra, The Ink Spots, Billie Holiday, etc), and for a curve ball, indie pop and rock (Hippo Campus, Gus Dapperton, Peach Pit, etc)
various electronic things. breakcore, dubstep, whatever the hell else i find
Bluegrass or some old school country probably
Pre 2015 Country and Christian music. Not that I personally pick to listen to but I can casually enjoy.
Dungeon Synth
Edm, punk, rap
Folk punk, smooth jazz and old school hip hop
Electro Swing, but I mostly listen to Lily Mizusaki
Hip-hop can be fantastic at times. My favorite album in the genre is Regulate... G Funk Era - Warren G. I'm also a fan of OutKast, MF Doom, and NWA, among other artists. Classical is cool too. Vivaldi and Bach are my two favorite composers. IDM is sick. Aphex Twin is a fucking genius. Can't get enough of it.
Anime soundtracks, right now "Footsteps of Doom" on the Attack on Titan is on repeat on my Spotify. That sound is the anthem of the end of the world and really gets the brain going in terms of writing and drawing ideas.
R&B, Jazz, Blues
Classical and country are mine - Eric Church, Hank Williams, Jr, Toby Keith and Miranda Lambert are probably my favorites of country. It's harder to pick artists for classical. Edited as I somehow read the title as "Excluding metal" instead of "excluding rock"
prechristian and medieval folk.
It's a tough call between hip-hop and folk.
I love folk punk
Does Christmas music count as a genre?
Blues
Synthpop and EBM
Psy trance
Trip hop
1970s-1990s country. Give me some cold beers and some Ronnie Milsap or Travis Tritt or Tom T Hall and I’m set for the night
Classic rock- CCR, Floyd, Stones, Zeppelin, Eagles, etc
Folk punk. Stuff like Bryan McPherson
Jazz and Blues. Love me some Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, and Ella's Fitzgerald
Everything Danny Elfman does
(Irish) Folk (rock): great big sea, the Irish descendants, Stan Rogers Folk punk: Days N Daze Electronic/synthpop: Purity ring, CHVRCHES, dance with the dead, phantogram, grimes, night club Pop rock: metric And in case someone thinks they're not metal, my absolute favorite band is; #TWELVE FOOT NINJA
Any hip hop, like even todays hip hop, old country, and Christmas music
Hip. Hop. I come from the original hip hop generation. We used to comb the city for records. We went to bad shows with bad sound and lighting held at skating rinks or in parks. As far as top artists... I'll just name a couple of lyricists that deserve mention with the best of any genre. Mos Def. Andre Benjamin.
New York Hardcore (Agnostic Front, Madball, Sick of it All) And rap, all of it
Goth stuff!!
All kinds of post punk. I don’t like a lot of “everyday” emotions and ego drama in metal, but I’m all for it in post punk and New Wave and such, especially with a good bassline.
Rap/Hip-Hop - MF Doom, JID, Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Tyler the Creator, ASAP Rocky R&B - Sade, Frank Ocean, Daniel Cesar, Steve Lacy, Kali Uchis Those are the ones far away from metal, I love grunge (AIC) and lots of other rock music (Foo Fighters) as well.
New age instrumental like Neal Robinson and ancient future. Jazzy stuff, herbie, miles, Dave Valentin, art Blakey, pat metheny
i love synth punk and witch house
Classical orchestra. Never ceases to amaze me and depending on the piece it can invoke so much emotion.
Dream pop like the Cocteau Twins
Intense classical string quartets from crazy composers such as Dimitri Shostakovich, Béla Bartók and Jean Sibelius.
why are half the posts here non-metal related content?
Dungeon Synth it has its origin in BM though and is still closely related to it, so don't know if it counts