I love heavy metal music. Slayer is my favorite.
Nice! Me too. The genre of rock music was developed in the late 1960s and has been rocking hard ever since!
Definitely! Who started the whole rock and roll genre of music?
Gee, I don't know if it was one person only. It has it's roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock. Then then heavy distortion was added along with the extended solos. 
What other music genres do you like?
Acid rock
Acid rock is a loosely defined type of rock music that evolved out of the mid-1960s garage punk movement and helped launch the psychedelic subculture. The style is generally defined by heavy, distorted guitars, lyrics with drug references, and long improvised jams. Its distinctions from other genres can be tenuous, as much of the style overlaps with '60s punk, proto-metal, and early heavy, blues-based hard rock.
The term, which derives its name from lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD),
could be heard in mid-1960s songs, such as "Here, There and Everywhere" by the Beatles and "I Love My Dog" by Cat Stevens, both from 1966.
By 1968, hard rock had been established as a mainstream genre. From the end of the 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft and hard rock, with both emerging as major radio formats in the US. Late 1960s soft rock artists included the Bee Gees, whose song "I Started a Joke" was a