I used to listen to and go see nothing but technical prog when I was like 15, but kinda fell out of it. Dream Theater was my fav. I still listen to a lot of bands with progressive elements but generally gravitate towards more extreme metal? I swear that once you're on the path of being a metal fan you end up in the metal dumpster eventually.

Anyway, these guys are really cool:

+1, it's working far better for me now as well. Images are loading now. They're still a little slow, but at least they're loading!

I've been having the same issue for about a month. Images are extremely slow to load (if they load at all) and the rest of the site itself isn't much faster.
Same browser and location as OP.