The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

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WoFat, “Analog Man”.

I am a pretty big fan of certain subgenres of metal.

But I don't like them specifically because they are metal bands, but because they appeal to the attributes that I love in the music I listen to. 

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.

Technical metal - Cynic, Spastic Ink, Tesseract, The Contortionist, Zero Hour, Anomaly, Atheist, Spiral Architect, Counter-World Experience, Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, and others.  

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.