Thanks for the compliment :)
I started out as pure metalhead, but when I got to work in an alternative recordstore, I got confronted with a lot of different music, so I expanded my horizons. I met people who were, for instance, as passionate about reggae as I was about thrash, so that got me searching for the ‘core’ of a lot of styles. Now I know that there is a ‘hardcore’ to almost all styles, and it is usually found in the underground of any style, before the commercial versions take over. Ambient or drum’n’bass or techno or afro can be just as hardcore as metal, it just takes time to learn the ‘language’ of each style to recognize it. But once you get there, it is so rewarding and satisfying to be able to connect and understand so many styles. It’s like food: I love pizza, but why limit myself to just eating pizza all my life? There is so much more to taste out there! ;)