good solid state amp for metal?

tube amps kill, although for metal a tube pre and soldis tate poweramp is fine sicne msot metal sicne the mid 80s has been about preamp gain and punchy, clean power amp, so maybea rack with tube prea and SS pwoer is ebtter than msot affordable all tube ehads if your powerampis something fast but warm like an H&H or Matrix....

in itnegrated solid state amps for metal you cna't go far wrong with the odler randall SS heads. Dime used 'em. The 90s Marshall Valvestate line is a perrenial favorite among ultra heavy guys. They claim to have a tubepreamp but I think msot of the models don't actually have a tube anywhere in tehre. I forget now. I also encourage everyone to try quilter amps andprepare to be blown away by the best solid state guitar amps for distorted tones I've ever ehard. Might nto have enough gain for some metal styles, although I find that unless metalheads are doing really extreme styles they probably THINK they need more gain then they do. Kerry King of all people is just boosting a stock JCM800 with a pedal... anyway. I'm saying old? Randall, Marshall Valvestate... new? Quilter. Those amps can do anything. Those Orange SS amps sound rpetty decent but in a folgers challenge the Quilter sounds better every time... and all the mdoels are more versatile with less knobs needed.