You forgot "You realize that "heavy" and "good" aren't synonymous and start listening to whatever the hell you want, from Animals as Leaders to baroque consorts."

You go from "i love this genre" to "how the hell did I end up here"

Being given reign in blood when i was 10 was actually life changing

You forgot the “You got bored of Stillbirth’s 15th album so you went back to Nickleback and discovered they weren’t actually that bad” phase

You forgot to mention the BEANCORE phase, where every metalhead listens to the music created when Jesse Leach and Matt Tuck both hit the climax of their midlife crisis and decided to go experimental.

Honestly this is scarily accurate

Being exposed to Iron Maiden, Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood and ObZen all while I was 10 was quite the experience

How accurate, after 8 years of ascending the metal heaviness ladder, 2 years quitting to listen to folk music, country, jazz, blues, everything and anything, now I'm back at grunge and Metallica/Pantera as my 2 fave vibes from "when I was younger" 🤣

The Progressive and Power Metal Phase. I will never leave it!

Glad people recognize our amazing French bands

Dude, Shostokovich is fucking metal. Some of his pieces had straight up breakdowns. His String Quartet 8 Second Movement is fucking killer. And his Cello Sonata Second Movement is killer. And don't even get me started on Symphony 5. Man was a genius.

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

I''m 42 and was going to say I feel personally attacked...but this very accurate :D

I feel like I went through the country, jazz, classical, and Indian Konnokal phases throughout this last year, not even joking, it is EERIE how accurate this video is!!!

Love the addition of Electric Wizard

Very accurate. I'm still only at around the Pantera phase, don't really want to get much heavier than that.

Its amazing how in almost all ways of consuming art and content, this full circle effect always exists.

Despite my dad actually having loads of Black Sabbath records (and me listening to them as a kid) I never considered them particularly heavy. I simply thought they were a cool and really groovy rock band that sounded unlike any other.

"Intense black metal phase" so true, lasted 10 years in my case. And the last one is super accurate too, as I returned to Slipknot 15 years after being a supermad fan in my teenage years :D. also, instead of country/ blues, I have a new wave / synth pop / post punk (ongoing) phase.

Ahh, yes. It all comes back to Maiden. They're inescapable by virtue of being probably one of the best bands of all time.