The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

Rush - 2112

Queensryche - Road to Madness

Plini - Papelillo

Dream Theater - Caught in a web

Shadow Gallery - 1) Cliff hanger (Pts 1 and 2) and 2) Legacy

Queensryche - Prophecy

Megadeth - Holy wars - The Punishment due

All of Billy Idol's hits are very well engineered and sound very good on my system.

Sabbath and Maiden are a great place to start for metal. It all comes off those branches for me. Slayer sound great on an audiophile system.

@simonmoon 

I can see what you're saying...

Here's a breakdown of "the drapery falls" by a classical guy (that you may appreciate).

Personally, i myself am a violin player...who went plugged in for a few years because a couple of my buddies back in the days had a metal band. It is harder to insert oneself as a violin player into that scene, but, i tried for a few years. In my head though, i have a similar thought process to the gentleman in this video when i am breaking down tracks i run into.

Track breakdown

https://youtu.be/Iujfijfnej4?si=YFDkhkXWAEisLNrj

Track

Opeth - The Drapery Falls

https://youtu.be/YeTNkPXRrVY?si=QJeQPGIQ1kDs8ptH

Those attributes I love in music are (no particular order): very high levels of musicianship, complexity, deep and broad range of emotional and/or content conveyed, (usually) long form song structure, no need to have "catchy" melodies, no need for verse>chorus>bridge song structure. 

For me, the above attributes supersede any specific genre. Once the above attributes are met, I am almost genre "agnostic".  

The metal bands I like have most or all of the above attributes. 

Progressive metal - Haken, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, Wolverine, Opeth, Caligula's Horse, Lemur Voice, Suncaged, and others.