What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?


I know totally blasphemy question here on Audiogon. But you like what you like, right? Anyway, I know most metal music is totally compressed and recorded horrible (aka Metallica) however there is a new age of metal bands out there that are starting to change that (Opeth started with Blackwater Park). So what speakers out there can take the pounding of a double bass drum kit hitting at full throttle and give the roar of metal guitar justice. There has to be a set up that would make Glen Tipton turn his head and say hell ya!
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I am lucky enough to have loudspeakers that Van Halen RUSH Dio Metalica Tesla Judas Priest etc all played through live. I repurposed these horns into modern loudspeakers so when I listen to metal it's just as it should be heard. Through horns that the artists actually used in concert.

I was cranking out Albert King w/ Stevie Ray Vaughan "IN SESSION" today at party volumes on my Klipsch Forte powered by a 40 watt tube amp and getting down with it.

I've got a pair of ATC 110s and it's hard to imagine anything better for loud, amplified music.  They can play very loudly without distorting.  I doubt anything can compete with their combination of high volume, low distortion, and excellent in-room behavior. 

I also think they make a tradeoff that other companies should make.  They don't use the port to lower the -3 db bass frequency.  They let the bass roll off slowly starting at a higher frequency.  It means they don't excite room nodes as badly as a typical ported, -3db at 30 hz speaker.  It doesn't make for good marketing but practically speaking, it's better if you want top quality bass and don't want to mess with equalization.  I think it actually increases dynamics, the punch is great, and if you want more bass get a sub to fill in anything you want.