Alright, I don't know where to start, so here we go, here's hoping my habit of writing extremely long exposition doesn't rear its ugly head.
When it comes to music, I don't have any preferred genre. I listen to all kinds of music, as long as it sounds good in my ear than I'm in. My preference also changes with the time (with the only constant being Ellie Goulding for reasons I don't understand, started listening to her around 2013-2014 and has been stuck ever since).
These days, I mainly listen to those slow EDM songs (I think they're called chillstep? Kindly correct me if I'm mistaken), eurobeat, "epic" music, and everything in between. Also, like 95% of my playlist has female vocals, so guess I'm subconsciously into that too.
However, there's a major exception though, the metal genre. I grew up in an environment that considered metal songs to be just "loud noise". It reached a point where my late grandma used the word "sepultura" to refer to anything loud.
Of course, I don't agree with that at all, that's just offensive. But that kind of sentiment sticks with you for a long time, so to say. I know there are beauty in the wide metal genre, but due to my predisposition, I never really listen to them. It's the only genre that I don't really have a favourite.
But a few weeks ago I accidentally came across Nightwish (on a meme video no less). I thought "hang on a sec, this is actually good!" and I've been listening to them for almost non-stop these last few days. I mean, heavenly good I swear. I don't even know what exact genre they're doing, but I really like it.
Why did it take me this long to finally discover them?
Alas, looks like I'm already too late to the party huh? Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Nightwish playlist I need to sing along loudly in my car. Both Ellie and Eurobeat would have to move over for now.