Hi-End for Black Metal?

Gawdbless,
The link to YouTube is not a typical example of black metal.

Back in the days I was heavily into heavy metal (of all kinds - started with unning Wild and Metallica and Finished with Napalm Death, Deicide, Sepultura, Pantera etc) and now I´m rediscovering in some ways couple of them (e.g just bpught all newly released Metallica). Anyways, if you´re also into nordic folk metal, I have a reference to you - Estonian band Metsatöll. They have also released all albums on vinyl and it all sounds pretty well to my ears (it would qualify as Viking Metal in a way as well, even though Vikings were present only on Estonian islands and not mainland back in the days):

http://www.myspace.com/metsatoll
http://www.metsatoll.ee/en/index.html

Shadorne,
Black Metal is much more extreme than AC/DC. I guess you have to be a certain kind of guy to like this music.

YEah I realized I can't realy help you in your genre - BTO "Not Fragile" is about as far as I ever went - wimpy stuff I know.

FWIW - a good contrast to dark angry music is funk. Funk is happy music - try some and you may be surprised to find your feet tapping, although, it takes a while to sink in or catch the bug. Try some repetition of Maceo Parker Roots and Grooves Live for something exciting and interesting - without the anger.

Ironmine I also listen to some of those bands you like and I have found that revealing speakers, like Thiel are great for listneing into the depths of what are usually highly compressed recordings of that genre. Also, bass is usually relegated to the mid to upper bass levels, with the bass drum carrying most of the bottom and for that solid state amps that are quick work well. Having said that I recently listed to Lamb Of God with my tube system and I was pleased with the sound. All in all, a revealing system is what you want for metal, speed, hardcore, black and death.

I never realized that there was such a thing as "black metal", but sure enough, it appears to be a very well defined genre. I've heard some "Meshuggah" in my day , but even that does not qualify it seems (I think that is more "death metal"). Porcupine Tree, one of my more recent favs, they would be considered more progressive metal I think...they tend to operate in multiple gears from the highly melodic and psychodelic, aka early Floyd, to near death metal at times, particularly in their more recent work. I find the ultra metal stuff to be more effective and interesting when juxtaposed against more melodic themes within a single composition. I'm very much into the philosophy of ying and yang and like the prog metal groups like Porcupine Tree who know how to mix it up.

I would agree that revealing speakers like Thiel would probably work very well for metal in general.