You might try a couple of these artists/bands to see if they have something you're looking for:
Matthew Good and Michael McDermott for the poetry and drama in the lyrics, very smooth vocal performances, an incredible range of material from political to existential to sexual to introspective.
Dream Theater for the dramatic, sweeping orchestration, composition and complexity of their music. Anathema as well for some of that, but mainly for their incredibly bipolar mood swings. One moment they're ethereal and haunting, the next doom metal apocalypse.
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> > Yeah, but TDE sounds virtually nothing like any of these
> > new bands, none of whom are really Steinman knock-offs,
> > anyway. I find the similarities to be exaggerated by the
> > same lazy, cookie-cutter media that has been writing the
> > same Meat Loaf reviews for 25 years.
> >
> Agreed. I heard what was on Arcade Fire's myspace and
> while some of it sounds OK and maybe a little Steinman
> influence it ain't that much. I have been looking for that
> "Steinman sound" from other bands for a good 20 years and
> nobody has ever, ever come close to duplicating it even as
> an influence or homage. Not even Meat Loaf could pull off
> a faux Jim sound on (fake) Bat 3 with a big-name producer
> I thought (wrongly) might come close.
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