What I used to listen to: Power Metal (Blind Guardian, Sonata Arctica, Iced Earth, Helloween, Edguy, Gamma Ray, Dragonforce, etc.), NWOBHM (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest), Thrash (Metallica), Progressive Rock/Metal (Porcupine Tree, OSI, Dream Theater, Rush, Yes, etc.), Symphonic Metal (Therion, Symphony X, etc.), Classic Rock (Zeppelin, Floyd, etc.)
And my favorite metal genre: Melodic Death Metal (*Insomnium*, *Be'lakor*, *Kalmah*, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Mors Principium Est, Dark Tranquility, etc.)
What I listen to now: praise and worship. nothing too extreme. My goal is to use my knowledge of rock and metal to create realllly awesome praise and worship that would be acceptable to any Christian and would be able to be played in any church service. Kind of like taking the next step beyond what Hillsong United and bands like them have done.