Well about myself.
I am from germany, born in 92, and I started to listen to more or less heavy music when I was 16 (see favourite Album...). Since then I have expanded my horizon, but I still prefer melodic metal genres, like power metal, symphonic metal, pagan, melo-death, and so on, but also classic hard rock or some black and post black metal bands. Thrash metal, a lot of the NWoBHM bands or regular death metal is not for me. Also I tend to like late works more than early classics. For example I never understood why people like Helloween before The Time of the Oath or In Flames before Clayman.
My favourites right now are In Flames, Chthonic, Woods of Desolation, Nightwish, Samsas Traum, Paradise Lost, ASP, everything Slash ever played, Dream Theater, and I get a feeling that this is going to be long so I stop here.
I am not so much into collecting shirts as I usually like to whear everything I have, so I have just my everyday shirts. However, in 2016 I started gathering patches to sew on my vest, but as I write this I am still in the process of finishing my first one.