>>127008796
Metal holds no regard for timbral expression, development, cohesion, or dynamics - while every other genre I listed does. There is literally almost nothing good about this popslop genre besides providing negative catharsis. You really think repetitive phrases (so called "riffs") tossed into an incoherent mixmatch is comparable to any classical piece?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIQwc-RxK8I

Prog rock at least experiments with other instruments and allows for many times greater dynamics.

>>127008861
>I just like melody a lot more than brute force heaviness most of the time
Then listen to classical instead, and trad/speed/power don't even have great melodic work, the best melodic works in metal are in black metal or neoclassical metal, easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2hoXaJB05s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtjOe5e9VFA