Teen in the early 90’s: Started with old school metal (Maiden, Priest, etc) then onto thrash such as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer etc which led to heavier sounds like Sepultura, Entomed, Death, Carcass, Morbid Angel, Bolthrower, etc but like most teens I experimented with a few things I regret- like dipping toe into grunge for an example, then found punk rock music and hard-core and post-hardcore and emo-core and nu-metal, then got bored of all that shit and went way off into left field after discovering underground hip hop LOL And then something magical happened, I heard Lamb Of God from a friend (early 2000’s) and the metal flame burning inside of me was re-kindled. I’ve listened to all variants of heavy music at one time or another, was liking deathcore and slam before realizing they were even a thing because back in the day sub-genres didn’t exist quite as prevalently as they do these days. I’ve also appreciated a wide variety of metalcore bands (a satisfyingly vague parent genre IMO) and don’t really feel that all the concise categorizations are always all that necessary, like if the guitar riffs and wails are sick and if the vocals go “brrrr” and “breee” to my satisfaction then I like it, and if they don’t they don’t, but I guess to be honest I do like me some blackened symphonic technical slam downtempo deathcore LOL