I've always, since my childhood, loved all kinds of metal and hard rock. My introductions to it were Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Manowar, Moonspell and Stratovarious. My favorite genres are "regular" heavy metal, trash, speed, power, and death, and there are so many bands/artists that I like. It's hard to say what exactly about them makes me like them, but one thing I really like how the bands and artists usually have a lot of imagination with their songs and album covers. Especially with album covers it's funny how metal and rock albums have often great and imaginative artworks as covers, while other music genres usually have just a simple photgraph or something, like an extreme close up of the artist's face.