Pic of me is in my avatar.
1) Sam, just Sam, not short for Samuel
2) Country town in South Australia, moving soon
3) Joined the forum out of boredom around the same time as a few others, ended up sticking with it as it is a great resource for learning about/discussing one of my greatest passions.
4) Type O Negative
Be'lakor
Ne Obliviscaris
Virgin Black
Draconian
5) Type O Negative - October Rust
Metallica - Metallica
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Korn - Follow The Leader
The Korn and Metallica album basically got me into heavy music, the Type O one Doom, Reign in Blood heavier music and Opeth have been one of my constant favourite bands and have helped me to appreciate a lot of things a lot more in heavy music, that was my first Opeth album.
6) I play Brass, mostly listen to Doom, enjoy many types of metal, I would put Black, Death, Industrial and Thrash equal favourites after doom.