Thanks a lot for the recommendations! Lots of interesting things here, and I’ll be diving in very soon.

Mohamed Shawky goes by ‘chusss’ on YouTube. here’s one I like: m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-x0x41dsfM

Yeah, I’ve heard of Nightwish. Not my favorite, but last time I went looking I was trying to find pieces closer to Epica’s Omega album… and not even Epics older work was what I was looking for…