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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
There are many people who abhor this record. I meself do not know what makes them dislike this record, it can be due to its technical and symphonic side.
Drummerinthe Park Because it doesn't stick to black metal of its day. Terrible production, flurries of notes with no real structure. Considering Vegard went to musoc college, it's no wonder he can seanlessly transition different parts of the song, beautiful symphonics and the abikity to actually sing. I happen to be a fan of Avant Garde Black Metal in which Emperor pioneered.
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.
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.
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 think this may be my favorite Black Metal album, but I haven't listened to a lot of black metal the past few years. It is an album nonetheless, that had a personal effect on me that I still love!
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.
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 !!!
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.
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 ;)
guys I am 33 this was one of many bands from metal to grindcore, black metal etc, point is this album just hit the spot in thy brain. soul, thy spirit. just a cool album to listen. I had hand surgery recently and just flushed, hydrocodone and Norco pills. all of them this album picked me up and just forgot about post pain.........!!!''
Done most of my life in prison due to heroin bud. This album and Mayhems De Mysterhiis Dom Satanas got me through many of dark spots. Got a little under a year out and clean off the shit. Hail Emeror!
Thats awsome im currently shifting into a higher realm from it aye and im just bit stoned and boozed.Its a cinimatic journeys .like a mind theatre playing in my head.totally inspiring makes me wanna explore new b.m guitar styles but I mustnt offend my soul like that I know I like it darker and colder b.m. final track is my favourite
All of Emperor's albums that I've heard are like a maelstrom of sound. They transcend to some otherworldly place. That's exactly what I'm looking for, something to transport me out of this sad reality that we call life.
check out dead can dance "within the realm of a dying sun", the third and the mortal "sorrow" or "tears laid in earth", pink floyd "the dark side of the moon", Arvo Pärt "te deum", Anathema "the silent enigma"... no black metal music for sure but great music to discover new landscapes...
This is very late but if you haven't already, I suggest giving Limbonic Art a try. Their first albums are pure gold in terms of creating/channeling otherwordly atmospheres.
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
First Emperor album I ever heard. Was into death metal before this. Thought the mix was too noisy, the vocals to far back in the mix....then it grew on me, like a delightful majestic cancer, if there is such a thing. The genius on this album is too great to ignore. If there's one weakness, it's Trym's drumming, which is out of time in several places. But that almost gives the album more character. Saw Emperor perform, with Peccatum, on the tour for IX Equilibrium. Ihsahn performing with his wife was something I will never forget. I nearly cried.
+breathingreflection where is the drumming out of time? There are some places where not only is the drumming in time, but it's really good, so it surprises me he would be out of time.
+breathingreflection I still can't tell whether Trym is out of time in certain places or just playing a really clever rhythm that I haven't picked up on yet.
In some of Tryms faster blasts - his cymbal hits are floating a little bit - but not what I'd call out of time - I actually like a small degree of fluidity in my drumming (think Flo Mounier on the first Cryptopsy release)
I love some of the newer bands. Asagraum, Selbst, Minenwerfer, a lot of the stuff that Debemur Morti puts out...but NO ONE has equaled this in terms of majesty, aggression, and progressiveness all at once. Granted, the "goals" I have written here are not the goals of others. But there's a reason this album is absolutely vital to anyone into black metal.
Well said, although I would argue that the Ruins of Beverast album "Rain Upon the Impure" and the Blut Aus Nord release "Memoria Vetusta II - Dialog with the Stars" meets your criteria!! All three of these albums have those great qualities, in my humble opinion!
I used to be a traditional hardcore christian and I remember myself listening to this album asking God to forgive me.I will never forget when I heard the loss and curse of reverence for the first time.I never felt such a weird ear orgasm in my entire life.Now I am an agnostic and I enjoy this album even more.
If god exists,firstly he wont be the puritanical judeochristian twat we learn about(or anyone from the other religions aswell) and secondly he ll definitely have proper taste and love black metal!
I'm Christian, and I still listen to all sorts of ridiculous shit like this, and I love it. Music inherently is music. Nothing bad about it, rather, it brings people together. In war, the enemy's first objective is to cut out the lines of communication and get everyone separated and completely on their own, fending for themselves with no supporting alliances. To be honest, when Christians say it's sinful to listen to music like this, they're supporting their enemy without knowing it, as they're aiding in the societal divide. If they actually read the book that they treat like a get out of jail free card, it would tell them to basically not be idiots and still live their lives as if they had no enemies, no societal affiliations, no "tribes" per se. BTW, I see God not as a silly sky fairy figure with a magic wand, but as a fundamental force that holds the particles in place and ensures cosmic consistency without deviation. Some peeps have even figured out that you can use the term "universe" in place of "God", and it still works. I'll stop there.
I am so happy that my longsleve t sshirt arrive by mail..from this album now iam going to wear it with pride,so society can see what i belive in real cosmic of our creation...
Absolute Classic Album. It's the pinnacle of taking complex musical composition, yet with very memorable song writing, and applying it to such an extreme genre music. Take the opening tracks. The Alsvartr (The Oath) starts off almost like in wonder before turning sinister and taking the listener to a dark atmospheric place. I get the vision of wandering in a pleasant forest but then straying too far to somewhere dangerous. This leads to a majestic interlude with fanfare. The ease of this opener abruptly leads into Ye Entrancemperium which sounds even more ferocious following this track. A masterpiece from 90s Black Metal.
Я увы, это открываю это только сейчас, в детстве больше хеви, треш метал , хард рок был почему то. Блэк впервые услышал 12 лет назад по-нормальному Варга Викернеса и Иммортал еще.
Emperor did to black/extreme metal in the 90's (and early 2000's) what Metallica did for heavy/thrash metal in the 80's. In the Nightside Eclipse, Anthems to The Welkin at Dusk, Ix Equilibrium and Prometheus are every bit as good as Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets and ...And Justice for All.
Ivo Maropo I agree entirely with you about Emperor. I feel that "In the Nightside Eclipse" especially changed the face of black metal, and gave birth to the sub-genre of symphonic black metal, which is more popular now than ever. However, Metallica is utterly horrid shit.
For the ones who keep the records, this is the shining, pinnacle masterpiece that’s not going to be surpassed in our lifetime, or in your lifetime. This is creativity, youth, chaos and aggression in one package that simply cannot be surpassed. Thanks Vegard, my life would not have been what it was without your influence. I tip my hat to you not just musically but spiritually as well.
To be honnest, it's mine too, along with In the nightside eclipse . When it comes to Symphonic Black Metal, there is no contest ( even though Moon in the Scorpio would be a great contender, no way it can defeat Emperor)
