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All forms of energy will eventually turn into "heat". We feel heat as a measure of the energy being transferred into us from a fire or different heat source. This energy transfer is just atoms around us and in us exchanging energy - the speeds of the travelling atoms change during collisions.

Electrical circuits experience resistance. The energy lost in a "resistor" is heat.

Sound is propagation of particulate displacement - each particle in a chain is given some extra kinetic energy that, in turn, transfers this to the next particle in the chain (recoiling to the original position in the process). At each link in the chain, some energy is lost - you guessed it - as heat.

Light (and all other electromagnetic radiations) get absorbed and scatter by varying degrees in matter. The absorbed energy is inevitably transferred into heat.

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