me either. I started laughing at the owls "hoo hoo-ing" in the intro and thought "this band were so much better 4 years ago, the goth influence strikes again". they wanted to be 90's Bathory, but they were 90's Queensryche. pompous, overblown, irrelevant hot air. couldnt get "Under A Funeral Moon" on fast enough. @biketrailexplorer
This is how Emperor's albums are like... One single riff just pops in your head even though you haven't listened to it in weeks or months. Then you just have to put the record playing to hear the riff, but then you can't stop listening and you have to listen through the whole album.
+Doom Dope ...or those times when you unfortunately listen some nu metal or others shitty music, then you have to run home and listen this whole album trying to clear your mind and get back your senses in good and fine music. Btw; Emperor performs sophisticated Black Metal art only.
for me it would b the instrumental version of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas or Transilvanian Hunger. *i actually have The Black• Priest of Satan. good album too, not what i want but it's what i have atm.
I borrowed this CD from the local community library many years ago, because I thought the title and cover looked interesting. It was my first time ever hearing black metal. The first CD I ever bought was AQUA ffs!! This was a pivotal moment in my life. I could not believe my ears and the emotions it evoked the goose bumps and the imagery this album conjures. It was a baptism by fire into the world of extreme music. I will always be grateful for the many wonderful doors it opened the experiences, live shows and lifelong friendships. Such a treasure of an album.!!
@@scottvelez3154 It was!! The Media section was crazy. I would go there everyday in the summer holidays and pick out albums that I thought looked interesting. Shout out to Rotherham Local Library.
It's interesting to me that you mention the images it conjures because since I was a child music has always made me "see" things, and it's hard to explain to people. But for example, I made an instrumental electronic song(idk what genre it falls under) but the song to me belongs at the end of a movie as the credits start to role. And it's ideal for like a thriller/drama type film. I think this is a part of the reason music videos became a thing. Because some people feel/see things from music.
No shame in buying Aqua or whatever as a kid. I used to blast Rhythm of the Night as a toddler and loved it. Kids enjoy kids music and whatever else. Parents making their children listen to their Cannibal Corpse albums to make them "metal heads" is what is actually wrong in this world. Also great library, I've known about Black Metal even as a kid through my sister for a lot of people its just a random strike of luck.
late 90s for sure! both Death and Black changed to better! larger audience better studio productions and finally breakthrough with larger festivals! I love the Ablaze magazine from germany back then. discovered so many great bands, also PAgan metal or Viking metal and some others!
@@Sergio-nb4hj I was replying to a since deleted comment, not to OP. Commentor said something along the lines of, 'Nobody knows who your friends are' in reference to RH 😂
The transition from Alsvatar to Ye Entrancemperium is just so great. And then the brutality and relentless speed crashes into you, with Ihsahn screaming over it all. This whole album is the pinnacle of black metal in my opinion. Very well written with so many different sounds coming into the picture. The guitar tone, the keyboards, the layers of music are brilliant.
YEAH!!! EVERYDAY, MORE AND MORE GREAT METAL BANDS ARE GETTING WELL PROMOTED BY SHARING THEIR OWN WORKS, INSTEAD OF HIDING THE MATERIAL... BY THE WAY, ON THESE DAYS THE MASTERS OF NOKTURNAL MORTUM ARE UPLOADING ALL OF THEIR ALBUMS TOO, SO DON'T MISS THEM, MY FRIEND!!!
Having experienced their shenanigans I second this. There are some rotten individuals in their ranks that don't deserve a job nor to touch anyone's music as they're bitter that they have none of their own.
This album changed my perception of how music could be made when it came out, completely pivotal in my musical vocabulary...I miss that feeling when things sounded truly new.
You said it better, yeah..at the time it did something magical with the way I percieved metal at least..at that I age I already had basic+ formal musical instruction but the idioms were very difficult to parse at first coming from other metal/rock subgenres, I was stuck for weeks or months with several songs of this album trying to actually penetrate the wall of sound as it is very capriciously densely mixed.. to this day, some passages like the one at 11:12 are still baffling, and still sometimes I can listen to something I haven't heard in the years listening..
I’m 41 own and have owned thousands of albums and while it’s not often, even in black metal I find something new once or twice a year. You’re just not listening to enough music if that’s the case.
Alsvartr (The Oath) 00:00 Ye Entrancemperium 04:21 Thus Spake the Nightspirit 09:36 Ensorcelled by Khaos 14:05 The Loss and Curse of Reverence 20:46 The Acclamation of Bonds 26:54 With Strength I Burn 32:49 The Wanderer 41:02 In Longing Spirit 44:00 Opus a Satana 49:56 The Loss and Curse of Reverence - Live 54:14
There was a dude standing next to me @ Tuska.. 2007? Anyways, staring at me and my emotional state, involving tears and goosebumps. Not a word, guess he was a bit less emotionally sensitive type, a good actor or something like that. Great gig!
Bet You like "The Wanderer", too? It expresses the feeling of being the lone wolf perfecty. Again, has no comparison, speaking of the few of purely instrumental black metal pieces. Excluding black ambient and other music that's based of being instrumental of course.
Crushing but yet soothing and charming. Emperor's sound is very much like a dark folklore tale - it's lure in with beautiful stories but it slap you with grotesque details and violent scenes.
This is not only about black metal, it's about an idea of composition, writing and storytelling that keeps you enchanted listening from the beginning to the end. Hail Emperor!
I heard some of the tracks from this album before it was released. They played a concert in Helsinki in the Spring '97 and the album came out next week. One of the best black metal albums of all time.
Alsvartr ( The Oath ) is the best intro or opening song on a black metal album ever, the album is as good as the debut album of the band, Rob Halford, the legendary vocalist of Judas Priest put this album in his list of the 10 best albums of all times, it was the only black metal album in his list, this album is ferocious!!!!!! thanks to Ihsahn and Emperor for some of the best black metal albums in history, Ihsahn also released some great albums in his solo career, thanks Candlelight Records for sharing.
Emperor's discography, including the initial EP and demos, manages to all sound like the same band (with a possible exception of Prometheus, since it's largely the Ihsahn show and demonstrates a taste of where Ihsahn wanted to go musically in his solo career) without stagnation and having every album sound basically the same. The early stuff was pretty primitive and necro, Nightside was atmospheric and cold, Anthems was a huge step up in composing and speed and sounds like a whirlwind, IX Equilibrium simplifies Anthems a bit and incorporates some classic black metal with some death metal palm-muting, and Prometheus was basically a modern-day heavy distorted classical composition with the cleanest production values. Anthems is the best.
Already bought on coloured vinyl with poster. This is the peak album by Emperor. This material still have the same power and intelligence since i was on basic school and heard it for 1st time. Now I am 41 and its like old wine, better and better.
This whole album feels like drinking a good pure black coffee for me. Just like the coffee, I didn't really like it during my first try and I dont really get it on why people praised it so much. But after tried it again and again over time, it then simply became my favourite, as my senses began to "mature", to the extend that I felt like I needed to have its complete dose daily and enjoyed every bit of it.
It's an opera, a dream in a nightmare which switches back and forth. It's divine. When it gets going, you can't and don't want to get off. It's sublime, genius. It makes life matter; the whole album.
Very grateful that I was able to experience this album in its entirety at Bloodstock 2018. Unforgettable truly. Whilst I wish I could have also caught their full performance of Nightside Eclipse, I am happy I got to hear gems live such as I Am The Black Wizards. Without a doubt, one of the most gifted bands in the genre.
@@makingglitches1856 DIMMU BURGUER IS SHIT NOWADAYS... BUT LISTEN TO THEIR OLD ALBUMS AND THEY ARE HISTORIC TOO... OBVIOUSLY, EMPEROR IS AT ANOTHER LEVEL AND THERE COULDN'T BE A COMPARISON🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
One of my All-Time-Favourites! Since the last 22 years the album has not lost anything of its magic! With "Storm of the light's bane" one of the real classic hits!!!! I am one with thee, I am the EMPEROR!!!
May this night carry my will, And may these old mountains forever remember this night, May the forest whisper my name, And may the storm bring these words to the end of all worlds
Le meilleur album de black métal !!! La synthèse ultime de tout... Cet album incarne et respire l'esprit black de la plus belle des manières... gigantesque et inaccessible !!!
I always wonder what Bach, Vivaldi, or Paganini would think if they heard this... or what they would be able to create today with modern electric instruments/effects.
I listened to this first when I was 17, right when the album came out. I was so much punched badly with a shovel... that's how I felt after listening through this sonic maelstrom. 4-5-6-7 songs are simply phenomenal for me.
I had never heard of these guys before, but I bought this in a record shop, somewhere in Montreal a long time ago. That was back in 98. Been listening to Black Metal ever since.
This album was my initiation to the world of black metal music. I was 14 years old at the time, and I remember being completely absorbed and enthralled from start to finish. A fantastic discovery that served to introduce me to the genre, and I've been listening ever since.
For me the best Emperor album ever. I were in Tavastia Helsinki when this album came out. Band of my friends Enochian Crescent opened. Singer slit his wrist, and their gig had to cut down. Second or third accident for Mr. Kuru ;)
i bought this cd in 1997. a month after it came out, first listening - wall of sound (i wasn't prepared for such a dense sound, i thought it would be much clear - hey man, nobody had ever sounded like this, it was something new), second listening -wall of sound, third - hey there's some melody and different instruments, fourth listening - my favourite album of all fucking time !!!!! everytime i listen to this album, i discover something new. i'm e huge fan from 1995. just perfection. another wall of sound i experienced was Ulcerate "Everything is Fire", same thing - after fourth listening - couldn't fucking stop listening to it.
Tout simplement la plus grosse tuerie du black en particulier, et l'une des plus grandes oeuvres du metal en général. Niveau composition, interprétation, qualité et profondeur des textes, cet album est au niveau de l'olympe. Jamais égalé.
the instrumental version of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. very skilled &over looked musicians, the bias over production doesn't help people's perception of great. a lot of people don't seem to really understand the basic concept of the sound of early Black Metal & what helped the nature of the sound come to life.
My favorite Black Metal album till now has been Cruelty and the Beast. I'm familiar with most symphonic/melodic black metal bands and i even purchased IX Equilibrium when it was just released but i never explored Emperor more than that.. keep in mind the album is playing as im writing this and hearing all of this for the first time... Im at a loss for words...
Its phenomenal when you listen to this album with your in ears on... So many details in the songs and all of those little new things you find even if youre listening to it over and over again... Really great job, Ihsahn! Congratz on your anniversary
This was the first black metal album that really clicked with me when it came out. Everything I had heard before this was so badly recorded and produced, flat, and muffled sounding. I wanted to hear something HEAVY and finally here it was. Now looking back In the Nightside Eclipse is every bit as good but I hadn't heard that at the time I don't think.
I am a been a big black metal fan for some 22 years now, and I can't believe it took me so long to appreciate how good this album is. I always kind of digged it, but with time it keeps growing on me and I now see it's a masterpiece.
I bought this album around 1999 and oh boy did it take ages to open up... And slowly it grew on me, these days I can't imagine my black metal without Anthems. It took many many times listening to finally get into it. Absolute mastery of atmosphere.
Emperor is for me the pinnacle of Black Metal, the unsurpassed Gods of this art...They bring darkness and devastation yet briefly they show a glimpse of light only to bring you back in the depths of obscurity again...Masters
Fridtjof Bjarturson the loss and curse of reverence that riff in the mid section of the song just slays then the blast beats beats kick In still get goose bulbs til this day from it same with the riff off plague rages from Napalm Death very similar riff while the blast kicks in and all fuckin hell breaks lose love it Horns up brother
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I will never forget the feeling when I put this CD in the player for the first time in 1997
This stuff is something special.
So do I (since 1997 and then...)
me either. I started laughing at the owls "hoo hoo-ing" in the intro and thought "this band were so much better 4 years ago, the goth influence strikes again". they wanted to be 90's Bathory, but they were 90's Queensryche. pompous, overblown, irrelevant hot air. couldnt get "Under A Funeral Moon" on fast enough. @biketrailexplorer
I got really high, put on my walkman, and laid in my yard under a full moon and stars at 1AM for my first listen.
This is how Emperor's albums are like... One single riff just pops in your head even though you haven't listened to it in weeks or months. Then you just have to put the record playing to hear the riff, but then you can't stop listening and you have to listen through the whole album.
+Doom Dope Or when you're walking in around in public and do a whisper-scream of "DEPRAAAAAVED" and everybody thinks you're nuts.
DeSever thus spake the nightspiiriiiiiiit.......!
+Doom Dope ...or those times when you unfortunately listen some nu metal or others shitty music, then you have to run home and listen this whole album trying to clear your mind and get back your senses in good and fine music. Btw; Emperor performs sophisticated Black Metal art only.
+Doom Dope Well this is exactly what brought me here! And it had been probably years...
+DeSever or when driving your car... singing the words and everybody looks why your making such weird faces... magical moments ^^
One of the best black metal albums ever.
with in the nigthside
heriard jean luc
Indeed.
It has good quality for a black metal record
Suomi Finland PERKELE!!!
The best
If you're going to own only one black metal album, this is it! Untouchable album!
I agree 💯%
gehenna malice
hhow am I going to own it if it's untouchable!?!??
for me it would b the instrumental version of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas or Transilvanian Hunger.
*i actually have The Black• Priest of Satan. good album too, not what i want but it's what i have atm.
Rotting christ - thy mighty contract.. for me
"Ensorcelled by Khaos"... what a great song... my favorite off of this amazing album!
I borrowed this CD from the local community library many years ago, because I thought the title and cover looked interesting. It was my first time ever hearing black metal. The first CD I ever bought was AQUA ffs!! This was a pivotal moment in my life. I could not believe my ears and the emotions it evoked the goose bumps and the imagery this album conjures. It was a baptism by fire into the world of extreme music. I will always be grateful for the many wonderful doors it opened the experiences, live shows and lifelong friendships. Such a treasure of an album.!!
Nice prose!
The local library had Emperor CDs? Coolest library ever.
@@scottvelez3154 It was!! The Media section was crazy. I would go there everyday in the summer holidays and pick out albums that I thought looked interesting. Shout out to Rotherham Local Library.
It's interesting to me that you mention the images it conjures because since I was a child music has always made me "see" things, and it's hard to explain to people. But for example, I made an instrumental electronic song(idk what genre it falls under) but the song to me belongs at the end of a movie as the credits start to role. And it's ideal for like a thriller/drama type film. I think this is a part of the reason music videos became a thing. Because some people feel/see things from music.
No shame in buying Aqua or whatever as a kid. I used to blast Rhythm of the Night as a toddler and loved it. Kids enjoy kids music and whatever else. Parents making their children listen to their Cannibal Corpse albums to make them "metal heads" is what is actually wrong in this world. Also great library, I've known about Black Metal even as a kid through my sister for a lot of people its just a random strike of luck.
Damn, I haven't listened to this in at *least* a decade. It's even better than I remember. The 90s was a special time for extreme metal.
the best part of it, was the extreme metal music busted a lot of crappy "alternative" music of those years
same here!
Same!
90s have been THE time
late 90s for sure! both Death and Black changed to better! larger audience better studio productions and finally breakthrough with larger festivals! I love the Ablaze magazine from germany back then. discovered so many great bands, also PAgan metal or Viking metal and some others!
Rob Halford brought me here. It's one of his top 10 favorite Metal albums.
@@iborntobedrunk1077 LOL😹most of us know who RH is
@@artemisia-qq1lwYeah but do most people know his top 10 albums oat?
@@Sergio-nb4hj I was replying to a since deleted comment, not to OP. Commentor said something along the lines of, 'Nobody knows who your friends are' in reference to RH 😂
@@artemisia-qq1lw Lol what a dumbass
"Halford leiks blach mettal? II'd heard hie doesn't leik death mettal....bat blach mettal diddn't acr tov mie."
This is a great piece of work, not black metal, metal, just musically. So young and filled w energy and creativity.
Well said, Ludwig.
@@Neuroneos You know you made a really good album when Beethoven himself is praising it
Good to hear from you after the movies, specially considering how long dogs usually live
thank you beethoven, now i know i wasn't crazy in 12th grade. i was perfectly fine.
Agreed..Absolutely not "black metal"...
Black metal is often so beautiful.
This is one of the best examples of it.
check out ABIGOR ! LOVE THAT TOO! same as Judas Iscariot !! makes me drool !
True. Too many just listen to one song of Mayhem and judge by it...
"Ensorcelled by Khaos" is such a fucking masterpiece
One hell of a black metal onslaught
There's more grandeur in Alsvartr than most bands can fit on an entire album.
I agree, the intro is seriously underrated
1990s Ihsahn channels pure creativity.
The music really immerses you. It makes you feel you are truly seeing the true Emperor in all his glory.
this is life affirming in my eyes, black metal stereotypes have nothing over this.
The transition from Alsvatar to Ye Entrancemperium is just so great. And then the brutality and relentless speed crashes into you, with Ihsahn screaming over it all. This whole album is the pinnacle of black metal in my opinion. Very well written with so many different sounds coming into the picture. The guitar tone, the keyboards, the layers of music are brilliant.
I haven't heard a bad album by them yet.
With Strenght I Burn : the most powerful song of all time, best thing i've ever heard in my life !!!!!!!!!
Agreed
Totally agree!!!
Epic!!!
I second this opinion!
Great job Candlelight.
This is effective kind of promotion instead of hiding material.
YEAH!!! EVERYDAY, MORE AND MORE GREAT METAL BANDS ARE GETTING WELL PROMOTED BY SHARING THEIR OWN WORKS, INSTEAD OF HIDING THE MATERIAL... BY THE WAY, ON THESE DAYS THE MASTERS OF NOKTURNAL MORTUM ARE UPLOADING ALL OF THEIR ALBUMS TOO, SO DON'T MISS THEM, MY FRIEND!!!
Wolves In The Throne Room too have uploaded everything. Which I am happy that they reap the benefits instead of someone unassociated.
I already own the album but this would make me buy it
Emperor 🖤
Having experienced their shenanigans I second this. There are some rotten individuals in their ranks that don't deserve a job nor to touch anyone's music as they're bitter that they have none of their own.
So much soul in Emperor's music. Many black metal bands lack that.
It´s also their Magic. And yes Magic flows quite strong with Emperor, indeed!
Those bands are what we call...Lack Metal bands.
I adore black metal. There is nothing on earth that does the same things for me.
No kidding, I love all types of music, but black metal just soothes and inspires me.....most outsiders consider it noise, their loss....
+LIPresume except death metal (;
B.
Listen Uaral Band, is awesome!
Pilomaf Agreed!
"With Strength I Burn" is the best black metal song ever
In my opinion this is the best Emperor’s album ever
It’s a difficult choice though
@@moit_gabr either this or ITNE
Is the second one the best always will be in the nightside eclipse
Yes even better than the first one which is a phenomenal album. This album is more mental!!!
I prefer Nightside but only by a small margin. They're both masterpieces of the Norwegian black metal scene.
This album changed my perception of how music could be made when it came out, completely pivotal in my musical vocabulary...I miss that feeling when things sounded truly new.
I was going to leave a comment, but it would be the same as yours. This is indeed a very powerful album. Cheers!
Yep......Nicely said, dude!!
You said it better, yeah..at the time it did something magical with the way I percieved metal at least..at that I age I already had basic+ formal musical instruction but the idioms were very difficult to parse at first coming from other metal/rock subgenres, I was stuck for weeks or months with several songs of this album trying to actually penetrate the wall of sound as it is very capriciously densely mixed.. to this day, some passages like the one at 11:12 are still baffling, and still sometimes I can listen to something I haven't heard in the years listening..
I’m 41 own and have owned thousands of albums and while it’s not often, even in black metal I find something new once or twice a year. You’re just not listening to enough music if that’s the case.
Alsvartr (The Oath) 00:00
Ye Entrancemperium 04:21
Thus Spake the Nightspirit 09:36
Ensorcelled by Khaos 14:05
The Loss and Curse of Reverence 20:46
The Acclamation of Bonds 26:54
With Strength I Burn 32:49
The Wanderer 41:02
In Longing Spirit 44:00
Opus a Satana 49:56
The Loss and Curse of Reverence - Live 54:14
Beautiful.
❦
With Strength I Burn brings tears to my eyes. It is so magnificent. The more I listen to this the better it gets.
There was a dude standing next to me @ Tuska.. 2007? Anyways, staring at me and my emotional state, involving tears and goosebumps. Not a word, guess he was a bit less emotionally sensitive type, a good actor or something like that.
Great gig!
Bet You like "The Wanderer", too? It expresses the feeling of being the lone wolf perfecty. Again, has no comparison, speaking of the few of purely instrumental black metal pieces.
Excluding black ambient and other music that's based of being instrumental of course.
Naturally. The album is just exquisite from start to finish.
Their greatest album and one of the greatest metal albums, ever.
That intro track is incredible
Indeed and also the song following it. Not a dull moment.
Perfect.....
Alsvartr is easily one of Emperor's finest moments. Which is saying a lot for a band this great.
Intro written by Euronymous
@@BootboyJu Wrong, that is the opening riff of "Ye Entracemperium"
For me, the greatest album of metal history, full stop.
I agree.
Not a chance, Old Man's Child Born of the Flickering, AETERNUS ...and so the night became, Limbonic Art ... choose 5 , Samael Passage.............
dissection first 2 albums... the somberlain man!
Same. No one can say it's not because for some of us it is. To each their own.
Demasiado meloso
It was my favourite Black Metal when it came out and it still is. The Emperor is still sitting on his Throne.
The final part of Ye Entrancemperium still gives me goosebumbs after all these years....
TeppichPilot the spoken word part? Man that part is absolutely perfect
The beginning gets me too. Great song.
Crushing but yet soothing and charming. Emperor's sound is very much like a dark folklore tale - it's lure in with beautiful stories but it slap you with grotesque details and violent scenes.
nice definition
agree
This is not only about black metal, it's about an idea of composition, writing and storytelling that keeps you enchanted listening from the beginning to the end. Hail Emperor!
This album is an incredible achievement. Wow.
My 4 year old loves Ye Entrancemperium.. Not gonna question good fortune.
Listened to this for the first time yesterday. MINDBLOWING.
I remember that feeling from years ago. Enjoy it, and check out their earlier albums as well!
38:28 This. This is "THE moment" for me. 🖤
We spread our wings and fly away 🤘
Then absolute madness ensues.
I heard some of the tracks from this album before it was released. They played a concert in Helsinki in the Spring '97 and the album came out next week. One of the best black metal albums of all time.
Alsvartr ( The Oath ) is the best intro or opening song on a black metal album ever, the album is as good as the debut album of the band, Rob Halford, the legendary vocalist of Judas Priest put this album in his list of the 10 best albums of all times, it was the only black metal album in his list, this album is ferocious!!!!!! thanks to Ihsahn and Emperor for some of the best black metal albums in history, Ihsahn also released some great albums in his solo career, thanks Candlelight Records for sharing.
Emperor's discography, including the initial EP and demos, manages to all sound like the same band (with a possible exception of Prometheus, since it's largely the Ihsahn show and demonstrates a taste of where Ihsahn wanted to go musically in his solo career) without stagnation and having every album sound basically the same. The early stuff was pretty primitive and necro, Nightside was atmospheric and cold, Anthems was a huge step up in composing and speed and sounds like a whirlwind, IX Equilibrium simplifies Anthems a bit and incorporates some classic black metal with some death metal palm-muting, and Prometheus was basically a modern-day heavy distorted classical composition with the cleanest production values.
Anthems is the best.
I don’t always listen black metal, but when I do, I listen this album.
One of those albums that never grows old. I can listen to this on a weekly base still, it's THAT good! Hail to the mighty Emperor.
One of the best albums of extreme music, love it.
One of the greatest metal albums of all time! At least top 10.
Already bought on coloured vinyl with poster. This is the peak album by Emperor. This material still have the same power and intelligence since i was on basic school and heard it for 1st time. Now I am 41 and its like old wine, better and better.
The ending to Alsvartr (The Oath) right before the beginning to Ye Entrancemperium always gets me pumped and gives me goosebumps
This whole album feels like drinking a good pure black coffee for me.
Just like the coffee, I didn't really like it during my first try and I dont really get it on why people praised it so much. But after tried it again and again over time, it then simply became my favourite, as my senses began to "mature", to the extend that I felt like I needed to have its complete dose daily and enjoyed every bit of it.
Other bands got nothing on Ye Entrancemperium. It's simply the most epic black metal song in the world!
Anthems*
It's an opera, a dream in a nightmare which switches back and forth. It's divine. When it gets going, you can't and don't want to get off. It's sublime, genius. It makes life matter; the whole album.
Sacramentum - Far away from the sun
hail Euronymous. probably why they put his riff at the beginning to set the atmosphere properly.
Very grateful that I was able to experience this album in its entirety at Bloodstock 2018. Unforgettable truly. Whilst I wish I could have also caught their full performance of Nightside Eclipse, I am happy I got to hear gems live such as I Am The Black Wizards. Without a doubt, one of the most gifted bands in the genre.
What a masterpiece of music…best black metal album ever.
Had to give it a listen after seeing your comment. Amazing!!! 🖤🤟🤟
🔥
it is. looking back they're one of the few bands i liked. especially when you view the shit that is dimmu borgir
Dimmu Borgir is indeed a generic mainstream BM band, but they do have some decent songs overall.
@@makingglitches1856 DIMMU BURGUER IS SHIT NOWADAYS... BUT LISTEN TO THEIR OLD ALBUMS AND THEY ARE HISTORIC TOO... OBVIOUSLY, EMPEROR IS AT ANOTHER LEVEL AND THERE COULDN'T BE A COMPARISON🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Wow I just got into this genre of music and am blown away by Emperors' style... it is so powerful
Youre in for a lot of surprises. Most of them are great
I bought this when it came out and I still think it's one of the greatest Metal albums ever written.
I agree. I need to get it for CD though. I have the vinyl version. Stunningly beautiful.
it is graceful.
metal head since 1983
One of my All-Time-Favourites! Since the last 22 years the album has not lost anything of its magic! With "Storm of the light's bane" one of the real classic hits!!!! I am one with thee, I am the EMPEROR!!!
Yea this has always been top 10 of any genre for me. Easy 10/10.
Back listening to this masterpiece.. very black and atmospheric album 😎 one of the best black metal album of all times
A fucking masterpiece of the kings of black metal, emperor rules!
May this night carry my will, And may these old mountains forever remember this night, May the forest whisper my name, And may the storm bring these words to the end of all worlds
Classic symphonic Norwegian Black Metal!!
Black metal's pinnacle!the transition between"The Oak/Ye Entrancemperium"...Powerful , Brutal and Gorgeous!
Masterpiece Black Metal album.
no better word for it bro
Still an incredible album after more than 20 years!
Nightspirit, spirit, spirit, embrace my soul...
Le meilleur album de black métal !!! La synthèse ultime de tout...
Cet album incarne et respire l'esprit black de la plus belle des manières... gigantesque et inaccessible !!!
I always wonder what Bach, Vivaldi, or Paganini would think if they heard this... or what they would be able to create today with modern electric instruments/effects.
One of, if not THE Greatest album of all time. Hail the Emperor!!!
For me, at least, this is a form of art that literally has no comparison.
This specific album, i mean.
Yes that is so true there is no other album like it
I listened to this first when I was 17, right when the album came out. I was so much punched badly with a shovel... that's how I felt after listening through this sonic maelstrom. 4-5-6-7 songs are simply phenomenal for me.
How have I never listened to this album? This is freaking awesomee!
Wish I was you, hearing it for the first time! But 20 years of this and it never gets old!
Listening for the first time in 2023
Listening for the first time in 2024@@sdlfkjsdlkfj
I had never heard of these guys before, but I bought this in a record shop, somewhere in Montreal a long time ago. That was back in 98. Been listening to Black Metal ever since.
This album was my initiation to the world of black metal music. I was 14 years old at the time, and I remember being completely absorbed and enthralled from start to finish. A fantastic discovery that served to introduce me to the genre, and I've been listening ever since.
That is like having your first sex with the most beautiful woman in the world, you were lucky!
I remember when this came out. It was like 20 years ahead of its time. At the time we thought it was too clean and polished lmao
So much talent poured into one record.
One of the bands that paved the way into black metal for me. Hail the emperor.With strength i burn legendary.
With Strength I burn is easily one of the best songs ever released
if I had to chose one, THE single best for me.
I have like 50 conteders for number two but only With Strength I burn for nr. 1.
It's... unparallelled.
For me the best Emperor album ever. I were in Tavastia Helsinki when this album came out. Band of my friends Enochian Crescent opened. Singer slit his wrist, and their gig had to cut down. Second or third accident for Mr. Kuru ;)
seeing them at WOA 2017, celebrating exactly this Album. that will be Epic
I'm praying that they will do a tour date here in Canada.
Really can't wait. Bought the tickets! Going from Brazil just to see 'em live.
met some brazilian guys last year... Come over and enjoy the full festival.you`re welcome \m/
mark kevorkian
yes... serious. Athems to Welkin at dusk special show
Hell yes, like wise!...gonna be awesome.
i bought this cd in 1997. a month after it came out, first listening - wall of sound (i wasn't prepared for such a dense sound, i thought it would be much clear - hey man, nobody had ever sounded like this, it was something new), second listening -wall of sound, third - hey there's some melody and different instruments, fourth listening - my favourite album of all fucking time !!!!! everytime i listen to this album, i discover something new. i'm e huge fan from 1995. just perfection. another wall of sound i experienced was Ulcerate "Everything is Fire", same thing - after fourth listening - couldn't fucking stop listening to it.
this is how black metal works :) no easy listening
First time listening I’m old 55 but love what this and black
Metal stands for ... freedom
@@jeffyoung6257 Freedom!
Tout simplement la plus grosse tuerie du black en particulier, et l'une des plus grandes oeuvres du metal en général. Niveau composition, interprétation, qualité et profondeur des textes, cet album est au niveau de l'olympe. Jamais égalé.
Blood Fire Death
the instrumental version of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. very skilled &over looked musicians, the bias over production doesn't help people's perception of great. a lot of people don't seem to really understand the basic concept of the sound of early Black Metal & what helped the nature of the sound come to life.
Carlsberg, probably the best album ever recorded in metal. Emperor will never die.
Worth to be called EMPERER
Один из лучших альбомов, которые я слышал. А слышал немало.
I can listen to this album over and over and over and never get sick of it...
Greatest album ever. Forever. That ever has been.
My favorite Black Metal album till now has been Cruelty and the Beast. I'm familiar with most symphonic/melodic black metal bands and i even purchased IX Equilibrium when it was just released but i never explored Emperor more than that.. keep in mind the album is playing as im writing this and hearing all of this for the first time... Im at a loss for words...
True epic album. Has everything. Goosebumps every time i listen ...
Fancy... This is an amazing album, one of the best of Emperor. I love them and I can't wait to see them at Mexico Metal Fest!!!!!
It was my first Black Metal album I had in my life and it started the awesome journey in my life :)
Its phenomenal when you listen to this album with your in ears on... So many details in the songs and all of those little new things you find even if youre listening to it over and over again... Really great job, Ihsahn! Congratz on your anniversary
So many people judge THIS culture but these are not the ones to fear. All I see is true beauty and great people, great camera work!
This was the first black metal album that really clicked with me when it came out. Everything I had heard before this was so badly recorded and produced, flat, and muffled sounding. I wanted to hear something HEAVY and finally here it was. Now looking back In the Nightside Eclipse is every bit as good but I hadn't heard that at the time I don't think.
I am a been a big black metal fan for some 22 years now, and I can't believe it took me so long to appreciate how good this album is. I always kind of digged it, but with time it keeps growing on me and I now see it's a masterpiece.
A Masterpiece and one of the Best BM Albums of all Times! And Emperor is such a great Liveband! Looking forward to see them live again in August!
I bought this album around 1999 and oh boy did it take ages to open up... And slowly it grew on me, these days I can't imagine my black metal without Anthems. It took many many times listening to finally get into it. Absolute mastery of atmosphere.
Emperor is for me the pinnacle of Black Metal, the unsurpassed Gods of this art...They bring darkness and devastation yet briefly they show a glimpse of light only to bring you back in the depths of obscurity again...Masters
One can find satisfaction listening to this sober aswell..
#1 on my 'Top 10 Albums Ever Made' since 1997. No better album has been made before or since this masterpiece.
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio imo manages to be a tie
Our great influence. Necessary and eternal album.
The Acclamation of the Bonds is probably my favorite track on this album.
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Those X Files theme synths are amazing.
Fridtjof Bjarturson the loss and curse of reverence that riff in the mid section of the song just slays then the blast beats beats kick In still get goose bulbs til this day from it same with the riff off plague rages from Napalm Death very similar riff while the blast kicks in and all fuckin hell breaks lose love it Horns up brother
one of the best album intros in all of black metal
DAMN!! Almost forgot how incredibly jawdropping this album is!!! Been awhile since ive heard it
Saw these guys live yesterday night in Melbourne
They played this whole Album.
Damn THEY WERE PHENOMENAL! So Intense
Happy Birthday Anthems. 20 years of emperial perfection.
This album and immortal’s at the heart of winter are the best black metal albums
A dark beauty to behold. Just about anything that spawns from the Mighty Emperor is pure genius, Takk.