Hi-End for Black Metal?

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.

There is some nicely recorded AC/DC stuff.

" I respect complexity, talent and musicianship of Yes, and I've been to their concert (with Rick Wakeman), but I could never connect emotionally to their music neither."

Yeah, Yes' lyrics are not the most accessible and easy to relate to in general, though their musicianship is outstanding. And you'll see very few chicks at a Yes concert these days.

"Gates of Delirium" from Relayer is one exception to this for me though, especially at the transition to the "Soon" final segment. That transition from musical chaos and tribal warfare mode to the spiritual calm after the storm in Jon Anderson's voice here is powerful enough to instinctively register with many apparently from what I have read of listener reaction to it. One of the "classic" and most instinctivly accessible moments in all of progressive rock IMHO, at least for guys.

Towards the more modern metal camp, Porcupine Tree and Stephen Wilson in particular is a group/artist that in particular knows how to regularly run the gamut from metal extremes to the soothing calm afterwards. That's much of what I like about PT.

I don't find perpetual ongoing anger and chaos to be appealing, personally, but that's just me. I love it though when an artist knows how to run the gamut though. Its a ying and yang, dark and light, kind of thing that just registers with me personally.