I was born in 1996. My interest in videogames at a young age exposed me to a small part of the world of music. I found YouTube in its very early stages and came across some bands such as:

Breaking Benjamin, Saliva, Korn, Escape the Fate, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Eminem, Disturbed, Flyleaf, 30 Seconds to Mars, Three Days Grace, Skillet, Foo Fighters, Billy Talent, Papa Roach, Nightwish, Rise Against, Nickelback, Three Doors Down, just the typical laundry list of somewhat generic entry level stuff for someone born around that time. I mostly listened to VGM, Rock and a small sliver of Rap/Hip-Hop.

My interest in videogames began to subside while my interest in music remained and started to develop. I got into stuff like:

Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Nirvana, Heart, The Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Pearl Jam, Muse, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Tenacious D, AFI, Iron Maiden, Weezer, Slayer, Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Jimi Hendrix, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, The Turtles, Kansas, The Doors, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steve Miller Band, The Strokes, Akira Yamaoka, Koji Kondo, The Offspring, Lostprophets, Less Than Jake, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Grant Kirkhope, System of a Down, Busdriver, Atmosphere, Gorillaz, Zebrahead, CKY, Motorhead, Oasis, The White Stripes, Black Sabbath, Snow Patrol, Cream, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Chevelle, Anberlin, Staind, Eagles, Kiss, Nazareth, Tool, Wolfmother, ZZ Top, Pantera, Megadeth, Motley Crue, Simon & Garfunkel, The Animals, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Journey, Sex Pistols, Rancid, The Distillers, Goldfinger, Powerman 5000, I was still in the entry level zone but I had more variety at this point.

Somewhere along the line I took up a big interest in nu-metal and metalcore. I listened to stuff like:

Bring Me the Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Otep, The Agonist, Arch Enemy, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, Between the Buried and Me, Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, Killswitch Engage, Cannibal Corpse, The Devil Wears Prada, Memphis May Fire, Trivium, Bullet for My Valentine, Blessthefall, Avenged Sevenfold, Solstafir, Atreyu, A Day To Remember, Red, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Nine Inch Nails, Opeth, Marilyn Manson, Miss May I, Crown the Empire, We Came as Romans, Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, Cattle Decapitation, Fireflight, Woe Is Me, Five Finger Death Punch, In This Moment, Dead by April, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Hollywood Undead, Children of Bodom, Eths, In Flames, Behemoth, Ensiferum, A Perfect Circle, Dethklok, Thy Art Is Murder, Molotov Solution, Make Them Suffer, iwrestledabearonce, The Crimson Armada, probably the lowest point in my entire musical journey.

While in this phase of mostly dreadful metalcore I discovered a band called Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I listened to a song called East Hastings and I realized I wanted more. I looked up what kind of music it was and my real journey began around there:

I started with researching into post-rock. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, This Will Destroy You, Sigur Ros, A Silver Mt. Zion, M83, If These Trees Could Talk, and after that I joined last.fm and many other sites and started dabbling in all sorts of genres and listening to new stuff all over the board. St. Vincent, Fink, Cage the Elephant, Modest Mouse, Venetian Snares, Wye Oak, Sharon Van Etten, Lana Del Rey, Angel Olsen, Portishead, Radiohead, Bright Eyes, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Ben Howard, Lily Allen, The Neighbourhood, Akron/Family, Regina Spektor, Bat for Lashes, Grizzly Bear, Cold War Kids, Foster the People, Imagine Dragons, I started exploring some indie, pop and my soon to be favorite genre, folk.

Joy Division, The Cure, Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters, The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Antlers, Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, Deafheaven, Grouper, American Football, Do Make Say Think, Blueneck, Crystal Castles, Melody's Echo Chamber, Beach Fossils, Philip Glass, Arvo Part, The Tallest Man On Earth, Florence + the Machine, Swans, Death Grips, Have a Nice Life, Giles Corey, Massive Attack, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Mamas & the Papas, Jose Gonzalez, Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum, I was exploring further into more genres and starting to leave the entry level. Got into stuff like post-punk, ambient, lo-fi, dream pop, electronic, triphop and modern classical.

I really failed to keep this succinct in any shape or form:

Aphex Twin, Thanksgiving, Woods, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, Animal Collective, Little Wings, Current 93, Max Richter, Joanna Newsom, Julie Doiron/Eric's Trip, Carissa's Wierd, Codeine, Eels, The Dodos, Mirah, Jandek, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Okay, Julee Cruise, Beat Happening, The Mountain Goats, Slint, Boards of Canada, Talk Talk, Beirut, Agalloch, Leyland Kirby, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Coil, Leonard Cohen, Baths, Simon Finn, The Body, Matt Elliott, Smog, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Daniel Johnston, Natural Snow Buildings, Escape the Day, Dustin O'Halloran, Nick Drake, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Kath Bloom, Angels of Light, The Skygreen Leopards, Angus & Julia Stone, Slowdive, Sun City Girls, The Flaming Lips, Run the Jewels, Billy Woods, The Angelic Process, Dirty Three, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Bowerbirds, Majical Cloudz, Peter and the Wolf, Townes Van Zandt, The Fiery Furnaces, Antony & the Johnsons, Linda Perhacs, Vashti Bunyan, This Mortal Coil, Nick Cave, William Basinski, Tim Hecker, Captain Beefheart, Primus, Disco Inferno, LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Burzum, Ulver, Stars of the Lid, Exuma, Jackson C. Frank, Yo La Tengo, Tom Waits, Duster, DJ Shadow, Unwound, mum, The Hotelier, Titus Andronicus, Candy Claws, Old Time Relijun, Igorrr, Fugazi, Goldfrapp, Howlin' Wolf, Loscil, Comus, The Haxan Cloak, Scout Niblett, Blut aus Nord, The Legendary Pink Dots, Faust, Mazzy Star, Throbbing Gristle, Talking Heads, Angelo Badalamenti, Rome, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Death In June, Psychic TV, The Knife, Tiny Vipers, Mariee Sioux, Big Blood, Elliott Smith, Karl Blau, Kemialliset Ystavat, Bjork, The Residents, Paavoharju, Julia Holter, Jandek, Erik Satie, Brian Eno, Nico, Kate Bush, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Nurse With Wound, Soap&Skin, Teen Suicide, Low, Breathe Owl Breathe, Au Revoir Simone, The Blow, Jarboe, Foetus, Whitehouse, Pharmakon, Scott Walker, Ben Frost, LSD and the Search for God, Wire, etc.

My favorite genres at the moment are neofolk, slowcore, freak folk, ambient and anything lo-fi or experimental. My favorite band/artist of all time is Phil Elverum (The Microphones/Mount Eerie).

DONE.