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OK, I didn't read TFA yet, but here's some anecdata for you:

I'm 50, and literally 15 minutes ago I'm on a conference call with some colleagues in Brasil, and while we were waiting for a pipeline to run, I started asking those guys about other Brazilian heavy metal bands (other than Sepultura) that I should listen to. They mentioned Sarcófago, and in the process of reading about Sarcófago on Wikipedia I discovered Ratos de Porão. So now I have two new bands to listen to as soon as I get a break where I'm not on a call.

I love discovering new music, both "new" in the sense of "just released" and in the "new to me" sense. For example, there are still plenty of old NWOBHM bands I have never listened to, and occasionally one will pop up and I'll discover them and just be thrilled to death.

Beyond that, I keep branching out into new genres. I grew up as mostly a metal-head (if you couldn't tell) but around 2000 or so I started listening to a lot of rap and hip-hop. Then I started getting into a lot of synthwave/retrowave/darkwave/horrosynth/etc. around 8-10 years ago. And I've picked up a little bit of interest in blues and jazz over the last year or two.

I dearly hope that for me, the answer to "when do I stop finding new music" is "when I am dead."

parent mindcrime 2 years ago

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