RE: Testing 4th-Gen Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Audio Interface:

I've never actually listened to Guano Apes, but I have heard of them.
I didn't get to appreciate Limp Bizkit until after they had faded, but I get it now.
I've loved System Of A Down since they popped off on MTV, and then discovering their first album really blew my mind. They really don't even fit into a mold. They sort of lost me after Steal This Album, but I love everything prior.
I often like stuff that isn't "mainstream" I guess you could say, and the albums that a band puts out before they're really making money are often the best to me.
The way music gets recorded greatly affects how it sounds, and with metal I think it's particularly hard to capture the sound right. A lot of times it loses it's "edge" when it gets recorded. Converge's guitarist Kurt Ballou runs God City Studios, and he's a very sought-after engineer particularly for heavy/aggressive music.

I checked out both of those songs you sent. It's not bad, but it's definitely dance music.
I've never been one to dance. I understand why people love dancing, and I love watching them dance. In a live event where there is dancing and motion it's actually a part of what makes it amazing. The people dancing are having an even more visceral experience than those who are watching. I know I'm missing out, but it's just not something that comes natural to me.

I've done the circle pits and moshing, but nothing that requires sequence/coordination. I've been to raves and seen live psych/trance stuff as well. There's a big annual rave in Baltimore called Starscape that probably won't happen this year because of the whole incident at the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Fort Armistead is where the rave happens, and it overlooks the bridge. They have it all blocked off it's crawling with cops and feds.
Are you in the USA? Not tryna pry or anything, but I'm curious.
I'm from Maryland on the East-Coast.

As for electronic music I like a lot of it. I'm a big fan of The Chemical Brothers. Lots of European stuff too like KMFDM, Assemblage 23, VNV Nation. That's sort of industrial though. I really like non-dance stuff too like Aphex-Twin, Cex(he's from Maryland), Kid-606, Venetian Snares, Boards Of Canada. Duran Duran Duran. I love a lot of break-beat,breakcore, IDM etc.
I have a music collection of mp3's that I started over 20 years ago. It's approaching 30k songs, and usually I have entire albums/EPs.
People used to listen to entire records, and the album itself was a piece of work.
Today everyone has playlists and there's more of a song by song thing.
By having the music myself it lets me listen to a band's entire discography album by album. I rarely use Spotify or anything like that.

Most of the music I make these days is electronic. All of the music in my videos is my music.
It's not particularly music that you can dance to though, and I think of it more in terms of a film score or something that adds a vibe to something else. Most of it is unfinished like I might be able to figure out an intro to a song, and maybe months later I'll figure out the next section of it.
I still write stuff on guitar, but I don't record it that often.
When I write music I'm not really thinking of intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro.
It's more like an atmosphere, a texture or feeling. I'm usually not trying to add lyrics at any point.
Do you use a particular DAW? Like FL-Studo or Logic?