Zach216

I'm a pretty laid back and easy going person... Powerful music brings out other sides of my personality and I feel I'm inclined enough to understand music of various extremes. My taste continues to grow and expand (naturally) which is very exciting but my roots derive almost completely in 90s music and a lot of the metal around that time. Growing up Pantera was my favorite band (I've listened to them my entire life) and I was also named after Zakk Wylde... (though I don't spell it like that lol)

I enjoy traveling the country to go see my most favorite artists which has led to me developing real friendships with a lot of them. I hope to work in the music business in some capacity but I'm not sure how just yet. I love music (understatement) and listen to it primarily in my Bose headphones, which makes the whole experience much more intense as well as way more enjoyable. I would call Mike Patton and Paula Cole my greatest 'influences', as well the most innovative musicians I've ever heard. (as far as artists from my lifetime)

The whole "they don't make music like they used to back in the day" argument is really absurd in my opinion, there are AMAZING artists out there, it's just all a matter of if you're clever enough to find them.


"To me, records were no longer just about the songs anymore, but about the sound. Headphones opened up a world of sonic colors, a palette of nuances and details that went far beyond the chords and melody, the lyrics, or a particular singer's voice.... Headphones also made the music more personal for me; it was suddenly coming from inside my head, not out there in the world" - Daniel Levitin


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"If everybody loves your band right off the bat there is something wrong. You're not breaking the mold. You're just being easily digestible." - Nick Hexum


"...music is organized sound, but the organization has to involve some element of the unexpected or it is emotionally flat and robotic." - Daniel Levitin

"Another area of interest common to INTPs, where Sensing has a strong influence, is Music. INTPs are usually fascinated by music and may have deep and wide-ranging tastes. Indeed, each of their three main functions (Thinking, Intuition, Sensing) plays a role in the enjoyment of music, and indeed music is a key interest for bringing out the feeling shadow of the INTP. Sensing itself brings a fascination for mood and atmosphere in music as well as for a strong sense of personal nostalgia. INTPs are therefore often keen on melancolic minor-key music in which an introspective and/or esoteric mood is conveyed. Equally, INTPs enjoy hearing music that they heard and enjoyed when younger (provided they can still appreciate it now) and yearn for the sense of nostalgia that it yields. INTPs are also drawn to complexly structured music, thanks to their Thinking core. An appreciation of modern classical music, as well as perhaps contemporary jazz, is therefore common with them. Such music types are usually too complex to be understood after a single hearing, which hence provides excellent material for analysis, exciting the INTP no end. Once the basic developmental structure of the music has been assessed, Intuition provides the impetus to derive a general meaning of the piece. What does the composer wish to convey, for example? Why was that particular development chosen? Indeed, the Ne is usually hard at work during listening sessions, trying to grasp the meanings behind the often fascinating combinations of sound-world evocations, structural developments and nostalgic impressions." - Paul James