Specifically one who disliked The Hard Road: Restrung and Metal in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hard_Road:_Restrung

It's a great album, but the term was around long before it.

> It's a great album

Sure, leans a bit classical and not the least bit "wanky" (at least IMHO)

> but the term was around long before it.

Wanky? DJ? Classical? Term Of His Natural Life? .. Regardless of the specific etymological chronology you're thinking of, I feel there are non-wanky examples in the broad tent of "classical".