YouTube - Orange Tiny Terror Metal
You can make up your own mind, but even with Chappers playing it, it still would not be my first choice for metal, and it can't do clean at high volume. It's designed to do one thing well.
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I tend toward clean(ish) amps, and use pedals to get more dirt. Unless you're a full-on, 100% of the time drowned-in-distortion metalhead, that's the way to go IMO. You can add dirt to a clean amp, but you can't add clean to a dirty (i.e. ultra-high gain) amp.
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From what I'm finding out, this isn't always right. For instance metal amps have speakers that sit better with distortion. The Eminences in a Fender Hotrod Deluxe just won't suit that style as well as others. Also the 6L6's in Fenders also don't like distortion very much, even if it comes from pedals. I think there is a place for high-gain genre-specific amps, and that for metal-only that can mean solid state.
The Tiny Terror is a sweet amp, but not for metal, nor for 60's surf rock, IMHO. But what I do agree with is using pedals to get the sound, and as such you don't necessarily need valves. I have gotten fully authentic metal tones to die for out of practice amps with pedals.