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I've got more passion for music than I do sports, and I love sports!

In summary, my three most-listened to genres would be rock, metal, and jazz, to be broad.

To get an idea of some of what I like, here are the last bunch of concerts I attended:

• Porcupine Tree
• Elton John
• Deicide
• Red Hot Chili Peppers

And so far scheduled for the rest of the year:

• The Mars Volta
• Ravi Coltrane
• Amon Amarth (with Carcass, Obituary, and Cattle Decapitation)

I love Mercyful Fate (and King Diamond)! I wish their tour was coming through closer to me (Toronto), but I did get to see King solo around eight years ago.

Pink Floyd

Frank Zappa

U2

Alice in Chains

Nirvana

STP

Merle Haggard

Alan Jackson

Johnny Cash

Willie Nelson

A couple people mentioned they haven't heard of many of the bands mentioned in this thread and I'm the opposite. I'd say I've heard of 90% or so (and even tried listening to most).  Exceptions include a lot of EP's list and some of the British stuff.

Having said that, my genre is primarily 90s rock and country, but I will listen to anything.  Until my hard drive crashed I had about 5 months of music (300 GBs) and could listen from January 1st until almost Memorial Day of no reapeat music.  Since I lost a lot of it and haven't ripped my CDs again (and I got rid of a lot) I only listen to radio now unless I get a hankering for specific artists.

Those artists include:

Warren Zevon, Soundgarden, Jackyl, Gram Parsons, Switchfoot, dc Talk, The Benjamin Gate, Jeremy Camp, Lifehouse, Garbage, Johnny Cash, Doja Cat, Maren Morris,  The Lost Trailers, Cake, DeGarmo & Key, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Kacey Musgraves, Neil Young, Apologetix, Tantric, Good Charlotte, Better Than Ezra... I could go on.  The last couple songs I've looked up on Youtube was from the artists Thumpasaurus, Wet Leg, and K-Flay.

I figured since I don't have Spotify, I'd link to my discogs page.  The CD's are mostly what my tastes are (minus a few of my mom's just for reference so I don't rebuy them for her, and Christmas).  The records and cassettes and 8 tracks were mostly handed down to me or bought cheap. https://www.discogs.com/user/jupiterhill

Megadeth / Lamb of God / Trivium / In Flames  -

I saw this as well. LOG was awesome and my wife really likes In Flames.

The two bands that came around that I didn't get the chance to see but wanted to were Gorillaz and The Hu  -

I saw The HU recently with Megadeth and Five Finger. It was a good show. Very unique band.

I tapped out on In Flames when Come Clarity was released. While Clayman helped get me into MDM, they started trying too hard to make their music appeal to the American "mainstream". Now, recently, they may have seen to found their way again. 

For any hard rockers here, did anyone else catch Papa Emeritus IV threw out the first pitch at a game in Chicago last night?
https://pitchfork.com/news/ghost-papa-emeritus-iv-throws-first-pitch-at-white-sox-game-watch/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_facebook&utm_brand=p4k&fbclid=IwAR2WoUqH7c4mzQGSJstMZQukTO49zCLf45FBUMZZSVWMcqVx14g4QpTFcEQ

I am hoping strongly that they make a trading card with him in uniform on it!  Makes me wish I was able to be there and try to get a ball signed by him.

The entire sequence so in line with the persona. "Problem" is that there was probably fewer people in the stands than the concert itself. 

Nice! Amon Amarth- Viking style! I haven't listened to them in years - brb queuing up a playlist for later! Do you like Bolt Thrower?

I'm hitting up Amon's Boston show in Nov. Right before Tahnksgiving of all things.

As for Bolt Thrower, it has been awhile since I've listened to them, but I've enjoyed a healthy portion of their stuff.