I listen to quite a hefty amount of very different genres, and it's common i go through phases where i'm heavily focused on one genre over the others. Being AuDHD, i might even get stuck listening to the same album or songs for months on repeat. The three genres i had the most notable phases with are metal, visual kei and kpop, each of those phases lasted for years and i sort of still switch in and out of them.



Currently i'm back to listening majority metal the past few years, and it was also my first genre i got into as a kid, though that is very common here in Finland as we are the metal capital of the world.



Below here i'll go over what i'm listening to in different genres and recommend some faves of mine that i think are worth checking out.





3 newest additions to my playlists



















Epic the Musical has been my most overbearing music obsession for nearly a year now! This might be the longest duration i've had the same songs on constant repeat, around 10-11 months ongoing. Tidal makes a playlist after each month to bundle together all your favorite songs of the month passed, and each one of mine has been 99% nothing but Epic songs. Can't wait to see what this years Tidal wrapped will look like xd

Shoutout to Luke Holt for putting his whole Zeussy into God Games cause that part at the end where he's pissed at Athena is pure heroin for my ears. I've clipped out just that little part to listen to it on repeat i'm not even kidding. Overall the casting they did was so good, no one's voice feels out of place imo.



I get so sad about Polites every time they reference to him in the songs after his death </3 Maybe Ody wouldn't have had to sacrifice everyone at the end had Polites lived to be there to diffuse the situation between Ody and Eurylochus. Anyway, love Ody and Penelope <3





Metal and Rock



Rock has been quite sidelined by metal at the moment for me so i won't have much of that here. I'm also not a stuck up purist/elitist so i do enjoy bands like Sleep Token and i'm not opposed to Nu Metal either. My only hard no tends to be for bands that make just gore inspired music where it's very specifically harm against women, or with bands that do majority growling/screaming and the singer just doesn't sound right i'm sorry but i'll skip those too.



I have far too many bands i enjoy so i'll just name a couple, the rest will be visible in my playlist (though be warned i use Tidal not Spotify). From the metal sphere i'm excitedly waiting for new stuff from Ov Sulfur, Synestia and Primal Tyrant.







Current favorite showcase:





Endless by Ov Sulfur (2026)

Deathcore/Black Metal/Melodic

10 songs



My favorite songs i recommend from this album: Seed, Vast Eternal, Wither and Evermore



I would personally say i enjoy the album as a whole, no songs go skipped on this one when i'm listening to it.





Other albums i enjoy:

Emo era staples:

Some bands i've had on heavy repeat:

Mandatory Finland section:



I won't lie, i definitely used to listen to a lot more Finnish bands when i was younger and then i sort of just... stopped? I don't even know why, i need to get back into them as i've also missed out on a lot of new bands.



The two classics in metal that you cannot go wrong with are Nightwish and Children of Bodom, i highly recommend both. Nightwish is heavy on the symphonic side of metal while Children of Bodom is death metal with melodic influences. Nightwish has gone through a few singers so their sound has changed, they started with an operatic singer and i still enjoy that era the most i would say.





From Finnish rock i used to listen to Happoradio and Uniklubi the most, i have no idea what their recent music has been but the old albums are still stellar imo. These songs below are still staples in my playlist.





J-Music



I got introduced to visual kei before any other genre regarding Japanese music, and through anime i got introduced to the j-rock band sphere. It is a big shame it's sort of hard to get Japanese music on apps like Spotify and Tidal, especially Tidal, so unfortunately my playlist is very incomplete and missing in cases a whole artist's discography. I also haven't much followed any new releases in J-Music for a long while.





V-Kei artists:





Versailles was my first V-Kei band and it also stayed my utmost favorite throughout. All of their albums have great songs in them so i cannot pick out a singular favorite.



I was a big fan of Hizaki specifically and Hizaki Grace Project is worth checking out if you like the vibe. I'll say V-Kei bands have so many phenomenal guitarists that are slept on internationally, it's a shame, along with how unique the V-Kei singing sound is.





Besides Versailles, these are some other V-Kei bands i enjoy (faves underlined): Buck-Tick, ViViD, the GazettE, Malice Mizer, MUCC, Dir en grey, An Cafe, DuelJewel, Panic Channel, Matenrou Opera, Jiluka



J-Rock artists:



I haven't dug into this side as much yet, mostly i know singular songs from different bands, but the ones i listened to full albums from are ACIDMAN, Back Number and Sakanamon.





ACIDMAN - Λ



Back Number - あとのまつり



SAKANAMON - ARIKANASHIKA



Anime music:

I haven't watched anime in many many moons, but from my avid anime watching younger years there are many songs i love. JJBA gets honorable mention from the amount of banger openings throughout the seasons.



Some good classics are the Vampire Knight, Junjou Romantica and Naruto opening songs plus every song from Uta no Prince-sama. Shoutout to everyone who survived old school yaoi phase as a teen, i hope we've all healed. Here's some anime tunes that have been stuck in my head recently:

Artists to check out:



K-Music



My kpop era was a very long one starting in 2012 and for years that was all that i listened to regiliously. Got introduced through Super Junior-M (their Chinese music side funnily enough) and Big Bang, then got sucked in so much into kpop that i would follow every new release from every group and artist on a website that tracked upcoming releases and gave info about artists that hadn't even debuted yet. Yes i also wrote fanfiction, my most popular one was about ToppDogg but i have since deleted my fanfic account off the face of the earth because no one needs to see that xd



I'll just showcase some groups i enjoy, there's so many that i'm not going to put up all of them, skim the playlist for more if you feel like it.



My playlist is quite big but it's also missing many songs from the past few years as i haven't been following kpop as much for a long while. I would probably be at 2k+ songs by now otherwise. There is also 90's kpop, trot, ballad, rap and rock artists.





Current favorites:

Boy groups:

Girl groups:

Rock/Pop Rock/Metalcore:

Rappers:

Soloists:

Vocalists:

My guilty pleasure secrets:

I unironically listen to The Rizzness by Taemin because i think it's a banger and i know every lyrics to Wet by Flowsik ft. Jessi



Western Music



Excluding everything already mentioned, the rest is going to be under here. Outside of finding new songs through mainly TikTok these days, i mostly just nostalgia listen all the old goodies so there isn't much on my playlist.



Some movie music will also be in there because why not.





Assorted picks from different eras and genres:

Specialized playlists: