As my name says, i listen mostly to 80s Thrash Metal like Metallica (83-89/90), Exodus, Kreator, Testament, Vio-Lence, Forbidden etc. and late 80s/early 90s Old-School Death Metal like Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Malevolent Creation, Monstrosity etc.
Some never music i listen to is powermetal bands like Dragonland, Hammerfall, Rhapsody etc and Melodic Death Metal bands like Norther (early) In Flames (92-2000), Kalmah, Mors Princioium Est etc.
Let me see, in somewhere in 2004 i started listening to AC/DC and Iron Maiden, because my cousin downloaded such music on my computer, and I wanted to be like him. In the summer 2005 i saw a guy at my school wearing a Hammerfall shirt, and I thought it looked cool and I asked what kind of band it was, so i checked them out. That's how I discovered the Epic genre that is powermetal (around this time some mates of me discovered Nu Metal like Slipknot, Disturbed and Korn, and tried to get me into it, but I've never liked it).
In the autumn months of 2007 i stumbled across a In Flames video on YouTube, and from there I discovered their older and muuuuch more epic songs, and from In Flames and Melodic Death Metal I slowly turned more to the real Death Metal and started listening to Thrash aswell - that's my story