Hi-End for Black Metal?

i will listen to a little black metal from time to time on my basement system ,ill listen to dimmu borgir,dissection,samael,emporer etc.

if im really in the mood for some metal i like to throw in some old school death metal like six feet under,deicide,cannibal corpse,obituary etc,i just have to be in the right mood for it

i must be getting older because i enjoy artists like lucinda williams,steve earle,hank 3,and emmmylou harris more so than most metal bands these days

mikeys

I like both early/proto Black Metal and audio equipment but I know I'm in the minority here. I like just a tiny bit of the more well known and newer BM bands but I really love stuff like Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, etc. There's a ton of great NWOBHM stuff you should check out to go back even a little further...Witchfynder General, etc.

Synthfreek, you've described my tastes exactly! I don't do much of the new stuff, but listen to the classics all the time. I managed to catch Celtic Frost on the Monotheist tour, just before the breakup. Absolutely stunning show and fantastic album - they were responsible for so much innovation in modern heavy music, the scene still hasn't absorbed all of it. Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate - all favorites as well. I am a real big fan of Destruction, Coroner and Bolt Thrower as well, in addition to many others. NWOBHM favorites: Praying Mantis, Samson, and anything Nicky Moore was in (from Tiger to Mammoth).

My system is also horn/tube: Klipsch La Scalas, Quicksilver Horn Monos, Cary SLP-2002, Rega Jupiter 2000, Michell Gyro SE/RB600/Goldring 1042, cabling mostly analysis plus + nordost. A balance of smoothness with enough detail and great dynamics - the combination works really well for metal.

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.

Mwilson,
It's good to know that there are people like you who use their hi-end equipment to play heavy music.

I am not into heavy metal only, it's only 50% of what I listen to. But I cannot really understand people who listen to, for example, jazz or blues only. It seems to me boring to always demand from music one type of emotion only. To me, music is like a rainbow and there are many colors (emotions) in it. I need them all - from anger and aggression to love and sadness. One or two colors do not satisfy me.

Most of all, I like complex, dark, symphonic, multi-layered, mysterious, emotionally inhomogeneous Black Metal. Bands like Lunar Aurora, Limbonic Art, Arckanum, Graveworm, etc. Right now I am listening to Watain. This music is like a fog, it comes out of your speakers, engulfs you. It's a touch of the Dark.

And what about Viking Metal? How is it possible not to appreciate the poetics of war, battle fury and nostalgia for ancient times? I cannot understand how you can be a man and not to respond to the message this Music brings...

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