What genres of music do you typically listen to?

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Music style I listen to changes overtime (currently I am listening to a lot of metal)

My favorite genres:
Symphonic Metal
Power Metal
Progressive Rock
Thrash Metal
Classic Rock
Southern Gothic/Dark Country

Curious what everyone else listens too.

Folk
Progressive Rock
Classic Rock
Punk
Indie
Jazz

Progressive Metal
Heavy Metal
Death Metal
Gothic Metal
Gothic Rock
Folk Metal
Neofolk
Atmospheric Black Metal
Post-Rock
Ethereal Wave
Synth-Pop

Boom-Bap (Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Necro, Jedi Mind Tricks, MF DOOM)
90s era Mid-Western hip-hop (Eminem, D12, ICP, Blaze Ya Dead Homie)
Crust Punk/Crustcore (His Hero Is Gone, From Ashes Rise)
Doom/Sludge/Drone (Sunn 0))), Earth, Bongzilla, Sleep, eyehategod)
Metalcore (stuff like Converge and early Poison The Well, as well as stuff like Racetraitor and Uphill Battle)
Powerviolence/Thrashcore/Grindcore (Insect Warfare, Spazz, Pig Destroyer)
Emo (Saetia, Orchid, Four Hundred Years)
Death Metal (Suffocation, Rotting, Deicide; some early melodic death metal too, like Carcass and At The Gates)
Black Metal (Witch Tomb, Weakling, Darkthrone, Burzum, early Mayhem, Profantica)

Pops, indie & subculture music from Japan and the world including J-pop, Shibuya-kei, idol, guitar pop, picopop, vocaloid, electro, chiptune, touhou, denpa, video game and anime OST's, post/math rock, alternative, punk, metal & jazz.

Have you heard Envy? They're a really atmospheric post-hardcore band from Japan, they've got a split with the US based band Thursday (who also fall into that genre), a few other splits and a few LPs.

I have now. Here's some té.

I have no idea what this is. Can you describe what kind of music it is, or what its most adjacent genre is?

Baroque
Bluegrass
Blues
Classical
Enya
Folk
Swing ("Big-Band")

I like all of these except "Dark Country", I'm not quite sure what that is. But maybe I would like it.

I like heavier music as well as really mello emotional music.

Select songs:
Blood on My Name - The Brothers Bright
Wicked Bones - Nick Nolan
Gravedigger - Blues Saraceno

Based on your description I'm not sure if you would like it, but listening to these three songs should give you an idea.

I listen to a huge variety. I’m a big fan of The Birthday Massacre, AFI, Botdf, The Pretty Reckless and Thirty Seconds to Mars.

I named a bunch of artists that are representative of the sound.

Boom-bap is a style of hip-hop, specifically the sound associated with (upper) East Coast artists from the 80s and 90s. So named because the drums typically sound like boom-bap-bu'boom-bap-boom-bap-boomboom-bap. Boom-bap style production was used by a wide range of artists, from 'gangsta' to 'conscious' to 'horrorcore' and beyond. Basically, those sorts of labels describe genres by lyrical content whereas terms like boom-bap or crunk describe genres by sound.

Edit: Apparently I forgot to mention thrash/thrashcore/crossover thrash/thrash metal as a genre I like, but I like Slayer, Municipal Waste, Exodus, Charles Bronson, Suicidal Tendencies, DRI, etc.

Also, I like whatever genre you'd throw Celtic Frost and Bolt Thrower into.

My main-stay either isn't much of a secret or something of an open secret, depending I suppose on whose trying to figure me out and how much music they're familiar with.

Subtle hint on the above if needed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxDphoxf4g

I guess some of my other top contenders other than that:

- Classic NYC hip hop as well as some of the mid 2000's and 2010's artists depending who and from where, I'm a sucker for Dilla'esque beats and mood.

- Trip hop - Massive Attack, Tricky, Archive, I want to include 4Hero in that as well, and a lot stuff that spans out from that.

- UK rnb and neosoul, probably most notably I listen to a lot of IAMDDB still and there are a few others I like to pop in regularly. Also I can't lie - The Mouse Outfit and Children of Zeus are huge talent and soul in my books.

- Classic 90's alternative, skater thrash, etc.. Back when I was a teen I was big on Suicidal Tendencies, Janes Addiction, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, some of that still sticks with me and I do still find myself going back through some of their stuff albeit not exactly the same stuff that grabbed me back then.

- Classic industrial, albeit I'm something of a one-band one-era guy, ie. it's almost always late 80's / early 90's Skinny Puppy.

I'd also add for the OP, I had a year or two, I think 7th or 8th grade where I was exploring a lot of Anthrax's stuff. I did like Persistence of Time, Among The Living, etc..

60’s top 40
60’s garage rock
Classic Rock
New wave/Synthpop
Post Punk
80-90s alternative rock