What music genre do you listen to other than metal?

[Big D]

I can find something worth listening to in pretty much any genre you care to name - except boybands, RnB and free-jazz.

But for preference, outside metal I listen to:
AOR , Prog, Hard Rock, 70s Rock and Anime soundtracks.

 

[La_Mort_De_Moi]

I listen to anything from techno to emo. It all depends on what mood I'm in. But my favorite bands(non-metal) are Coheed & Cambria and The Smashing Pumpkins.

 

[Life Sucks]

I know a lot of people that don't.

Yeah. I don't listen to those bands either. The only non metal I listen to is some hardcore, and one or two punk bands that I happen to like.

 

[KryptoN]

I think 80% of the music I listen to is metal, but I also like:

Psy/hard-trance
Classical
Ambient
Darkwave
Hard rock & rock

 

[Cythraul]

Classical (lately I've been listening to more modern stuff like Ligeti)
neoclassical (Elend, Dead Can Dance)
ambient (raison d'etre, Tangerine Dream)
world music (flamenco, I also enjoy traditional Asian music)

and when I feel like taking a much needed break from good taste, I listen to a lot of happy hardcore/trance.

 

[Valtiel]

Prog Rock, Classical, Orchestra, Opera, Jazz, Traditional/Cultural Folk Musics - Irish, Japanese, chineses, ect...

But make no mistake I am a metal head, it is me bread and butter...

 

[Etaoin]

"...FUNK of the old school kind"
old Stevie Wonder? War? yeeesssssss...

 

[obcrhot]

I listen to anime music, some spanish punk, and funk

 

[Blood Runs Purple]

Personally, I don't discriminate when it comes to music and listen to a variety of non metal stuff from...

Indie-Eisely, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Big Black...
Hardcore-Bane, Shai Hulud, old Poison the Well, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front...
Metalcore/Grind-Between the Buried and Me (though calling them that is a great injustice), Zao, Athena in Hades, Into the Moat...
Post-Hardcore-Hopesfall, Antioch Arrow, Angel Hair...
Pop-The Smiths, Bella and Sebastian, Tori Amos...
Early Post-Punk-Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds...
Punk-The Clash (need I say more), Crucifix, Minor Threat...
New Wave-Japan, The Cure, New Order, Eurythmics...
Dance-Lords of Acid, Ian Van Dahl, Collide...
JPop-Shazna...
Some Rap-A Tribe Called Quest, Atmospere...
Drum & Bass-Reid Speed...
Classic Rock-The Doors, CCR...
Early Grunge-The Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Soul Asylum...
Emo/Scremo-Funeral for a Friend, Megans Room, Refused, Grade...
Ska-The Skatellits, Reel Big Fish, Folly...
Reggae-Bob Marley and the Wailers, Steel Pulse...
Funk-Earth Wind and Fire, The Red Hot Chili Peppers...
Blues-Muddy Waters, Tom Waits...
Doowop-The Penguins...
Song Writers-Pat Benitar, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Cyndi Lauper...

...As just a few examples. I know many more and this is just a short list so don't any elitists take it to heart.

 

[NeverIsForever]

PUNK ROCK!!!

(Hardcore, streetpunk, and Oi! None of that pop-punk/emo shit. Emo is for whiny teenage guys...)

Some of my favorite (non-metal, obviously) bands are A Global Threat, Cheap Sex, Leftover Crack, F-Minus, The Exploited, Virus, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, The Descendents, Minor Threat, etc.

 

[Wicked Child]

Classic rock and old school punk. But metal is nu,ber one. Yes, you COULD say i'm a bit closed minded, but i just say i know what i like.

 

[arc_avalo]

I listen to a lot of alternative rock, all kinds of techno, and even, on rare occasion, some rap. I absolutely adore music from the Matrix movies, too. Some of my favorites are "Navaras" and "Masters of the Universe" by Juno Reactor, and "Mona Lisa/Overdrive" by Juno Reactor and Don Davis.

 

[Metalhead6six6]

I listen to all but rap

I like Nu-Metal, Country, Rock, all of it.

 

[Stand-Ablaze]

I work in a nightclub and get to hear a lot of house and club music. Lately I've been listening to a lot of house, but I've also been listening to a lot of punk. Stiff Little Fingers, Refused, and Crass mainly.

 

[Splinter]

Ive been getting kinda tired of death and black metal. Its gotten really repetitive(spl?). Lately Ive been listening to some punk metal, alternative rock/metal, and some more mainstream stuff. I just wanted a little more emotion in the songs. some bands would be:
Submersed
Underoath
My Chemical Romance
Three Days Grace
Linkin Park
Skillet(their new album Collide is AWSOME, definitly check it out!)
Godsmack
even some Greenday

 

[Under The Oak]

I will tolerate almost anything besides rap and hip-hop. Hell, I'd rather listen to hours of polka music than that trash.

 

[infoterror]

Classical and Baroque, Romanticist

 

[Phoenix5]

you can stop listening to metal, as for me thats what i enjoy



Long Live the Black Emperor

 

[WarHammer]

Huge into all forms of progressive music, prog metal too, but that's irrelevant to the thread. Also love celtic folk, like anything from the Braveheart soundtrack. Also love a female singer named Mary Fahl. Her cd the Other Side of Time blows me away. Very atmospheric, sometimes folk-ish soft stuff. Not rock at all.

 

[n0thing]

These are almost metal, but Grindcore, Mallcore, Metalcore is good.