I was a musical atheist or whatever I might call it for most of the time, meaning I didn't listen to anything. But some months ago, a friend sent me a youtube link to a metal video, and it made me realize that metal is NOT the noise as that the stereotype describes it, it is pure genius. With 17, it's probably a bit late to convert to a music direction, but better than not at all, right? And to be honest, I already could not imagine my life without listening to metal everyday anymore, even though I'm not into it that long yet. I don't really have a favorite subgenre yet (only a slight tendence to melodic death metal), decisions like that can't be made that fast.