What do you think is the most interesting/weird music genre?

Psytrance. It's quite popular around the world, but to me it appears to be very polarizing. In the US/Can it seems to get a lot more hate.

There are a multitude of subgenres that range from 80 to 230 BPM, some of which could be their own genre. Some subgenres can only be described as alien music. Some are highly technical and others are more mainstream-friendly with easy melodies and lyrics. In this regard I can only compare it to the world of Metal.

One of the more interesting aspects is the repetitive yet non-repeating nature of it, which you can hear in long progressive sets. Basically, there are no two bars of music that are identical, there's always at least some sound effect present in one and not the other. There is also a lot of sound design that goes into it, tons of creativity.

The creativity is often visually reflected in the beautiful visual effects at festivals. Here is one example from a fairly well known visual artist TAS (YouTube).

It has a fascinating history, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The first hippies who arrived in Goa, India (a former Portuguese colony)[5] in the mid-1960s were drawn there for many reasons, including the beaches, the low cost of living, the friendly locals, the Indian religious and spiritual practices and the readily available Indian cannabis, which until the mid-1970s was legal.[6] During the 1970s the first Goa DJs were generally playing psychedelic rock bands such as the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and The Doors. In 1979 the beginnings of electronic dance music could occasionally be heard in Goa in the form of tracks by artists such as Kraftwerk but it was not until 1983 that DJs Laurent and Fred Disko, closely followed by Goa Gil, began switching the Goa style over to electro-industrial/EBM which was now flooding out of Europe from artists such as Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb as well as Eurobeat.[7][8]

This isn't exactly answering your questions, but I don't really feel like genres are more or less interesting than others so much as what specific artists are doing in genres can be interesting. Animal Collective for example is probably the most interesting band I can think of, just the way they've expanded on their own sound over the years getting very experimental and weird at times, often to the point of going "too far". Which I still tend to enjoy as it's nice to sort of hear the limits of sound to have a feel for where they are. Death Grips is also very interesting, it feels like a more interesting progression of like Limp Bizkit style rap/rock and industrial rock. I think Father John Misty's Chloe and the Next 20th Century or Arctic Monkey's Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino both gave a interesting modern flair to the... Idk "washed up lounge singer"/crooner genre.

A buddy of mine introduced me to GWAR and also the whole psychobilly genre. Both were completely, totally foreign to me. The very idea that such things existed opened up a whole other realm of knowledge. Not my cup of tea but interesting nonetheless.

The first one that comes to my head is Viking Metal

Don't forget Pirate Metal, spearheaded by the band Alestorm. Every song is loaded with ridiculous pirate references and memes, and they even have a song Back Through Time in which they sing about sailing their pirate ship into the past to kick some viking ass, proving that Pirate Metal is the superior genre.

I think viking metal is at its strangest when mixed with gospel for a Christmas song about ikea. That's just metal's way of saying 'I love you' - tracking down every obscure folk style on the planet and merging with it to consume its power. That's how you go from Huun-Huur-Tu to The Hu in less than a decade. Any genre can meld with any other, and that's where the new ones come from, but metal in particular seems to be on a mission to facilitate this process like nothing that has ever come before.

I'm still waiting on steamfunk. Think blue-man group on victorian-era instrumentation mixed with Stomp and emulating George Clinton. It must happen eventually. As for other strange genres... I don't even know where to begin, there's no shortage. If I'm going to pick just one for sheer wtf-how-does-this-even-exist craziness, though, lolicore gets my vote. Some honorable mentions...

• bardcore
• dungeon synth
• ambient techno chant
• pirate hiphop
• nerdcore
• chap hop
• dark jazz
• experimental jazz
• return to oz / dark cabaret
• djinn carnival
• tech metal

Prog is the ocean into which the river of every genre flows eventually. I think if you really want to get into strange modes of music, you'll need to leave radio-friendly behind. Take Choirs Of The Eye for a spin. I'd call it what happens if you dissolve black metal in dark jazz.

I recently came across hauntwave through Swedish artist Aux Animaux that has piqued my interest. Mainly because I love the name of the genre!

Not sure what I'd characterise Sunn 0))) as but...that

ETA: I actually don't enjoy listening to them day to day, just doesn't grab my attention in the way I like as it's very much drone, but in a way that I haven't seen otherwise. The live show on the other hand? Holy shit. Insane. Most intense gig I've ever experienced, just bone crushing sound. 10/10 would see them again

I find a lot of the -wave genres pretty interesting. Retrowave/vaporwave/synthwave has really blown up into a huge complex web of genres and subgenres, like slushwave of which my favorite artist is Desert Sand Feels Warm At Night. I enjoy the entire -wave scene

Others I just generally find weird/interesting:
Noise, power electronics, industrial

Or even avant-garde expressions of more normal genres (black metal, etc)

I wouldn't call it weird, but one of my more recent fascinations has been The HU - a Mongolian folk metal group. As excerpted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hu:

Incorporating traditional Mongolian instrumentation, including the morin khuur, the tovshuur, and throat singing, the band calls their style of music "hunnu rock" [...]

A good example of what they're on about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE

And my son's favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwr4SPK1_TY

It's a microgenre but I love Wattswave/Alan Watts chillstep/meaningwave/philstep. No idea if there any any distinctions between those genres or they're all names for the same thing.

The first song I heard was INZO - Overthinker and it just coincidentally happened right when I was starting to read some Stoic writings. They went well together in my mind. That lead me to Akira the Don who has made quite a bit of Wattswave. If it appeals to you at all, check out Wattswave II: How to be a Better Person

It's relaxing, the content of what Alan Watts is saying is always interesting (I often listen to his recorded lectures) and sometimes if I'm in a bad mood or just off somehow I can put it on, focus on the words and get feeling a bit better by thinking on some of those higher concepts because it distracts me.

Also, if you're a psychedelia enthusiast, it's required listening.

I have no idea what electronic genre you'd refer to TOBACCO as being a part of, but he is genuinely a genius weirdo. Between his solo stuff and Black Moth Super Rainbow, there is some definite originality in his music, though it's not the most accessible to normies for sure.

I dunno how much of a genre it is, but whatever this is is pretty wild. Aptly described as interdimensional folk music.

Rock in Opposition (aka RIO), "European, complex Avant-Prog from the 1970s, so named due to the artists' opposition to the music industry."

There are many zany examples but the one that takes the cake for me is Un peu de l'âme des bandits by Aqsak Maboul. What a maddening, thrilling album this is! Insanity, carnival, seraglio. These are the three words that ran through my head while listening. The music weaves itself from a dingy American dive to a gypsy fairgrounds in an English field to a Turkish harem. From all these far sundered places the music returns to the wild, claustrophobic experimentation of the studio. Utterly brilliant!

For more RIO, check my collection.

The electronic genre can be really interesting, as all these VSTs can create new and amazing tunes. I've listened to Chillstep 10 years ago or so. (Does anyone remember Black Mill?) Its funny to see how sometimes some experiments suddenly become a new genre which gets popular.

But often times it lacked heart for me. Obviously, it was created by a human - but there is something in analog instruments that stand out for me, and it can become a great mix when combined with electronic parts.

One example for me is
Northlane - 4D (DnB'ish MetalCore?)
https://youtu.be/A7AhNiyj_EQ

Or anything Pendulum.

Besides that, I really grew into math rock, also sometimes called emo jazz.

It's emotional, very technical, nostalgic, rough, magical and has a super friendly and helpful community. A lot of players share their tricks on Youtube videos.

My girlfriend doesn't like it very much, because the time signatures are odd and the instrumental range can vary a lot, so the sung voice sometimes sounds odd too.
It brought me back the joy of playing guitar as playing normal metal/rock songs got incredibly boring.

Some of my favorites are:

Baboon - This Town Needs Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1bt5dc2t0

Nurture Nurture - Heart and Panic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AYRXtJu9xw

American Football - Never Meant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NfnXdXpjL0

Delta Sleep - 'Lake Sprinkle Sprankle'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHLWGRJwA28

Toe - the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety (Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VCCkymXplE

Seafloor Cinema - Find Yourself (Guitar playthrough) (Found it super cool and had to learn the song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiPubE0HOBo

Covet - Lovespell
https://youtu.be/lou0Z9WB4j4

Tiny Moving Parts - Birdhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmD6BKcg0Oc

Granted, Tiny Moving Parts is more Punky/Poppy, but had similar origin.