The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

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.

I think the first few Van Halen albums are heavy, especially the first one. Eddie was the king back then. Randy Rhoads with Ozzy were another shooting star back in the day.