metalhead you say ?? I'm not one myself but I am a symphonic metal head - ish.
(nightwish, dark moor, rhapsody, epica to name a few bands).
Kajiura is... not metal :p but hey. if she tries it, then it will be really exciting. even though it's extremely unlikely haha
I listen to every metal genre. Nightwish, Epica, and Within Temptation are my favorite symphonic metal bands. Yuki's live music in the past was heavy on rock. godsibb in Yuki Kajiura LIVE 2008.07.31 is a pure headbanger, tbh. Her live music is more classical now as far as I've seen. I might be wrong though.
These are my top 25 albums of the years (listed in order of genres):
1. Temperance / Diamanti (Melodic Heavy Metal)
2. Beast in Black / Dark Connection (Melodic Heavy/Power Metal)
3. Bloodbound / Creatures of the Dark Realm (Heavy/Power Metal)
4. Headon / Génesis (Heavy/Power Metal)
5. Evergrey / Escape of the Phoenix (Progressive/Power Metal)
6. Warkings / Revolution (Power Metal)
7. ORDEN OGAN / Final Days (Power Metal)
8. Powerwolf / Call of the Wild (Power Metal)
9. Hämatom / Die Liebe ist Tot (Groove Metal)
10. Nanowar of Steel / Italian Folk Metal (Folk Metal)
11. Epica / Omega (Symphonic Metal)
12. Ad Infinitum / Chapter II: Legacy (Symphonic Metal)
13. Khirki / Κτηνωδία (Heavy/Stoner Metal/Rock)
14. Robots of the Ancient World / Mystic Goddess (Doom/Stoner Metal/Rock)
15. Soothsayer / Echoes of the Earth (Atmospheric Doom/Sludge Metal)
16. Kal-El / Dark Majesty (Doom/Stoner Metal)
17. Spaceslug / Memorial (Stoner/Doom Metal)
18. DVNE / Etemen Ænka (Progressive Sludge/Stoner Metal)
19. SUNNATA / Burning in Heaven, Melting on Earth (Stoner/Sludge Metal)
20. Seven Serpents / Damned to Existence (Stoner/Sludge Metal)
21. Domkraft / Seeds (Psychedelic Sludge Metal)
22. 1914 / Where Fear and Weapons Meet (Blackened Death/Doom Metal)
23. Hypocrisy / Worship (Melodic Death Metal)
24. Omega / Nebra (Black/Doom Metal/Dark Ambient)
25. Cân Bardd / Devoured by the Oak (Epic/Atmospheric Folk/Black Metal)