My favorite metal bands:

Dream Theater, Ayreon, MAIDEN!!, Blind Guardian, Queensryche, Symphony X, Fates Warning, Pain of Salvation, -Early- Metallica, Nightwish, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Luca Turilli

Other favorites:
Rush, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Transatlantic, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Yes, and Styx

We have a lot in common