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I was named after the vocalist of this band! My dad is a huge Emperor/Ihsahn fan so much so that I am legally named Ihsahn, I honestly feel extremely honored. With that being said you should listen to Ihsahn’s solo albums too, his solo career in my opinion is fantastic, a bit different than Emperor but damn good regardless!
"Curse you all men, whose coil is strong, I recognize the sparrows heart, Beneath the theater of misery." These words scar my soul. Ihsahn is the Emperor!!!
Ok, that's actually kinda sick
Ihsahn is one of my favorite people but man I hope you are in Europe.
...In the Nightside Eclipse hands down one of the greatest albums ever made.
Stars Die yeah bro hard
And Anthems is great too!
Undoubtedly...supreme black metal
Hail Emperor
Remember when “In The Nightside Eclipse” first came out. I listened to that album to death. Such an awesome release - and the anticipation after that mini album/split album with Enslaved (which was also awesome, but a bit more primitive). Good times! Or should I say Evil times...
i prefer Anthems to the welkin at dusk
It is crazy to think that Emperor were only teenagers when they wrote this song.
oldboy81 You'd be surprised to find out that a lot of great bands start out as teenagers! Emperor, Blut aus Nord, Downfall of Nur.
why?
@@TheSlayer3628 don't forget Dissection, the first two records were written when most of them still were teens.
@@TheSlayer3628 Bathory
Death Angel
EMPEROR.
You reached the top :)
I AM THEEEEM!!!
Bathory - A Fine Day To Die
Whatever song from Blood Fire Death is good to be on this channel analysed.... wel, ok,l not "Odens Ride Over Nordland" because there are just horses....
Antonio R C Yeah :D
No, "enter the eternal fire"
Plz not a fine day to die for the first bathory song, let them do Shores in flames
Bathory - To Enter Your Mountain, would be a good choice too.
One important thing to consider is that this song was written by a bunch of 16/17 years old teenagers who read a lot of Tolkien, it's understandale that the song doesen't have modern Behemoth depth when it comes to the lyrics.
Vin seems bummed out that his Bible knowledge was not used much here. But Sori instantly get it, this song is pure black metal atmosphere.
I think they were even younger than that 14-15 when Emperor started if I remember correctly.
This song reminds me of the Dragonlance Books by Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis. The Protagonist would be Fistandantilus and Raistlin one of the Black Wizards.
+1 for the dragonlance reference. It is funny how steeped in fantasy imagery the early Emperor stuff was.
They where 14 and 16 respectively when they started Thou Shalt Suffer. 2-3 years later they changed the name to Emperor and switched to playing black metal
Emperor sure beats the pants of behemoth. Nothing theyve done comes close to in the nightside eclipse and anthems to the welken at dusk.
This is not just Black Metal, it is, in not just my not so humble opinion, THE quintessential black metal track. Imagine writing this epic, symphonic score when you’re at the tender age of just 17. Ihsahn is a genius of the magnitude of guys like Mozart or Beethoven, but with a darkness to his soul that he unleashes and shares with us through his music. This particular track is the only song which lyrics were written by once member Mortiis, who later went on to form his own theatrical eponymous band. To me the lyrics and the title, with the seemingly apparent misspelling, speak of obscurity, mysticism and the occult, all central themes to the genre.
I love this song a lot but i really laughed a lot with this comparison between Ihsahn and Mozart/Beethoven, you black metal freaks are totally crazy
Mortiis wrote the 2 best lyrics... Black Wizards and Cosmic Keys
Emperor... from the Norwegian Black Metal wave in the 90s 🖤🖤 there's black metal, and then there's Norwegian black metal... (cold and grim 🤘🤘 just like our winters, which is a huge inspirational part of Norwegian Black Metal along with our nature. Vast woods and high mountains)
Seems we find similar stuff on TH-cam. :P
VampyrMygg, Haha! Great minds and so on? :P
Dark medieval times from satyricon... That s the album that comes to my mind when u mention norwegian winter and nature and mountains
😃
HugoRolo that is one album that pops into my head aswell, along with Immortals killer track "blashyrk - mighty ravendark".. oh, and "a blaze in the Northern sky" and "under a funeral moon" by Darkthrone (damn, that was done in 92/93.. I suddenly feel REALLY old..)
brandon hodder indeed is! Another really groovy tune (and a personal favorite) is Old Man's Child - "Phantom of Mortem Tales". (It's not quite Born of the Flickering material, but damn it's groovy as hell)
Emperor "Inno a Satana".
"Opus a Satana" would be more appealing to Sori, I think ("Opus..." is the pure orchestral instrumental version of "Inno...").
this song is a must "Almighty Lord of the night, Master of Beasts.........."
Inno a Satana is SOOOOOOOO good!
the pinnacle of black metal to me, and still my favorite Emperor song
I came to recommend the same song, it would be great.
Keep in mind that the guys in Emperor were around 15/16 years old when they recorded this album. Pure brilliance to write these songs at such a young age.
The most pure black metal song you've done so far!
LOLcifer They did Watain....tho.....let's not forget that Emperor are Symphonic Black Metal lol
I love Watain, and I don't think they're any more or less "black metal" than Emperor, but I was listening to Emperor years before Watain stepped onto the scene. That's all I meant by that. Closer to the roots.
MindGamingMantis black metal (symphonic or otherwise.)
ACTUALLY this is not black metal. this is melodic crimson noir hardcore metal... actually it sounds like shit. who the fuck even enjoys listening to this?
That would be Ulver - Hymn I
This song litterally changed my life the first time I heard it. You cannot find a bigger fan of this band than myself in the world (you can see all my Emperors/Ihsahn covers on my channel).
The music these guys released is just a gift to this world and will never be surpassed.
Ihsahn is just a genius, he already was at 16-17 when he wrote this song, which is now one of (if not THE) the anthems of Black Metal, and he invented a whole new style with the introduction of keyboards into black metal.....
In The Nightside Eclipse is pure gold, but for me Anthems tot he Welkin at Dusk (the next album) is just the best album in music history.
ACTUALLY!!
This is black metal.
SgtNerdrage and good black metal at that. Well, not merely good, but great
and Vin...yes, Sori kind of interpreted correctly about how those Black Metal bands wanted to create, that sense of loneliness, abbandon, evilish envyronment, misanthropy, negative....even if you do not understand the lyrics, that is the image to impress by these bands...even not using the devil, satan, baphometh, etc....but just being negative and evil.
Mightiest am I
But I am not alone in this cosmos of mine
For the black hills consist of black souls
Souls that are already died one thousand deaths
Behind the stone walls of centuries they breed their black art
Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold
Far up in the mountains
Where the rain fall not far
Yet the sun cannot reach
The wizards, my servants
Summon the souls of macrocosm
No age will escape my wrath
I travel through time and I return to the future
I gather wisdom now lost
I visit again the eternally ancient caves
Before a mighty emperor thereupon came
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles, guarded
By the old demons, even unknown to me
Once destroyed their souls are being summoned
To my timeless prison of hate
It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
That were destroyed in my future
How many wizards that serve with me with evil, I know not
My empire has no limits
From the never ending mountains black
To the bottomless lakes
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long
I am them
From the never ending mountains black
To the bottomless lakes
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long
My wizards are many, but their essence is mine
Forever they are in the hills in their stone homes of grief
Because I am the spirit of their existence
I am them
I am them
I am them.
I had a chance to see Ihsahn (front man of Emperor) in Sydney a couple months ago. He was phenomenal. He’s matured a lot (musically wise) since the last Emperor album “Prometheus” in 2001ish. His solo stuff is amazing. Progressive and atmospheric. He did a couple Emperor songs to keep the originals happy 😉. Emperor is pure Norwegian black metal.
Another thing to note is that Ihsahn was only about 16 when he wrote this album. Mind blowing for someone so young.
I agree, i think Insahn is better than Emperor, richer, musically speaking.
Mortiis wrote this song...
@@robschrijvers7216 lyrics yes, music was written by Samoth and Inshan.
Please react to Satyricon-Mother North. Love the vids, keep it up!
Robert Medina
Or black crow on a tombstone or K.I.N.G. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
king is soooooooooo bad
Mother North Uncut version lol
Brian Sousa yeeeeah!
Mother North is so good, the entire album is classic
Thus Spake the Nightspirit and Curse You All Men! are great ones!
Navi - thus spake the nightspirit, one of the greatest songs in history.
Navi - Curse You All Men.
With Strength I Burn also
Two excellent ones! I also really like In the Wordless Chamber.
sepultura - desperate cry
Joey Noyes haha yeah bro just the whole arise
Yes please.
Or Inner Self
yeah man. sepultura were so bad ass man. their live concert in donington in '94 i think it is, is just pure fuckin adrenaline man. i get so pumped watching it. maybe one day vin will surprise us and react to old sepultura.
YES
ACTUALLY...
Emperor is an amazing black metal band 🤘
definitely did not expect this...well done guys, you surprised me...and yeah, black metal supposed to be like that,low budget, lo-fi recording, its all about the atmosphere,poetry, grimmness and theatricality...of course, there are varieties,but its core was meant to be that
the core of black metal is low production, raw, atmospheric. Though I think some bands like Burzum took that to ridiculous extremes. Mayhem has a more low fi sound than Emperor even.
all the classic albums from those bands were recorded in the Grieghallen studio by Eirik Hundvin, not a coincidence.
You've just listened to one of the greatest pieces of art this genre has to offer, good stuff. Do more Emperor in the future, honestly their whole discography is awesome, you should check out their songs "Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times", "Into the Infinity of Thoughts" or "Thus Spake the Nightspirit".
bathory would be sick, and freezing moon, by mayhem but make sure its dead's vocals
J Proffitt rip :(
There’s better Bathory tracks, but “Woman of Dark Desires” is catchy as shit. So, that’s my recommendation.
Oh yeah, make sure it's dead, and not Attila, the guy who's actually unique, no make it the generic vocalist that everyone dickrides
Acid Fuzz Atilla is outstanding and unique vocalist, Esoteric Warfare is a masterpiece, but I still prefer Freezing Moon with Dead :P
Recording quality of the Dead version will tear them to shreds though. :D
Would have been so much better if it was the live version. But this will do.
Emperor is just a fantastic black metal band.
This is the best way to get acquainted and develop an understanding for black metal. You start with the classics. Dissection, this, Burzum, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Immortal, Taake, Satyricon, etc preferably tbe earlier material as that is usually the most representative of the black metal sound and atmosphere
Emperor is considered the creators of Symphonic/Melodic Black Metal, Burzum added keyboards to Black Metal before Emperor but it was Emperor that took it to another level, and can really be considered ahead of its time, specially inside the Black Metal scene of that time (Burzum, Mayhem, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Dimmu Borgir on their first two albuns and many other bands).
Burzum was amazing at creating atmosphere
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Penso che mi abbia perdonato
Basta che non mi arrestino il 25
Dove suonami i miei fratelli stasera
PRAISE EMPEROR! HAIL IHSAHN! Side note: Devin Townsend and Ihsahn (singer of Emperor) have done collaborations!
Bill Orthae song titled please...... I know of the one with Michel from opeth but.. Devin?
Jason Kramer same I'm like "uh what? When??"
Jason Kramer Devin townsend project - juular, from the album deconstruction, i think every song of that album have a guest, the song stand have akerfeldt as guest
Haxprocess off to spotify! Thanks
Jason Kramer The song Introspection from Ihsahn's album "Eremita" has Devin on vocals too 😎
ACTUALLLLYYYY.... Carmen was the first one to post a Sori Secret shirt. Just wanted to get the record straight. Don't want Carmen's Daughter breaking my leg like she did that board 😲 lol. Thanks for the shout out guys much love and keep rocking \m/
Chris Culp. Hahhaa! Thanks Chris.
No problem just had to make sure you got the credit because you were number 1. Number 2 isn't that bad ☺
I have to agree, the live versions from their live dvds are insane and watching Ihsahn play guitar and sing at the same time is mindblowing. Such an amazing live band and hope at some point they reunite again to where I can attend.
The thing with a lot of Black Metal bands, especially older stuff and bands from the Norwegian Black Metal scene, is the atmosphere portrayed in the music. Sori was right on target with how she described where the music took her. It's meant to be dark, cold, hypnotic and like a roller coaster. It can be very repetitive, but you never really notice it because the vocals add that element of unease to the experience. Some bands use the cheapest equipment they can on purpose to get the right atmosphere. Varg, from Burzum and MAYHEM, specifically asked for a cheap headset mic (in the 90's, so you can imagine how that sounded) to record his albums while in prison. I'm really glad you checked this band out because if someone had said "Well, ACTUALLY, this isn't trve Black Metal" then you would know they don't know shit about the genre, or Black Metal in general. \m/
Do a couple more black metal bands Burzum, Darkthrone, Mayhem, do some death metal Morbid Angel Deicide
oh boy If you thought emperors production was bad your gonna hate BURZUM
...and DarkThrone early recordings
Reclusive Sloth agreed that emperors demons are very underwater and low to,but filosofem is very grating to the ear for the unaccustomed,as is transyvillian hunger by darkthrone they would despise that album
Antonio R C tin can recording haha,great stuff though
we dont call it "lo-fi" or "bad" production, we call it trve kvlt
Oh man, if you guys think that is bad, check out Ildjarn. If I recall correctly, the dude recorded everything he ever put out on the same tape recorder. If that's not trve I don't know what is.
Cradle's first album was A Principle Of Evil Made Flesh in 1994 bro. (ACTUALLY!!!!) Has some very cool musical interludes; Iscariot, One Final Graven Kiss and In Secret Love We Drown.
Yeah, but this song was first recorded 1992, when Cradle were still on the Death Metal meathook.
Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon....
Bro i recon in my kingdom cold
I hear yah - I'm partial to SOND or ATHW - but since we are doing ild skool BM - there is nothing finer than Call of the Wintermoon and its amazing video...
Blashyrkh - Mighty Ravendark
That music video 😂😂😂
EMPEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR there it is. True Black Metal.
BTW not all black metal is satanic, there's a lot of non religious fictional demonism, witchcraft, ritualistic, spiritual and black magic stuff, sometimes intertwined with satanism, sometimes not. You need to try out some Immortal, like "At the Heart of Winter"(an iconic classic from the 90's) or "Where Mountains Rise"(brand new awesome song from their album that came out last week).
Welcome to the trve kvlt.
Don't forget all the norse pagan bands
Awesome!!! now something else epic like this! Satyricon - Mother north
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Inno a satana should be next, Emperor are amazing. Specifically the live version from 2006.
secretaprentice11 live 2006 was awesome! Trym drumming and all. That entire show was a master piece!
Who can listen to this masterpiece without having goosebumps?!...Just Awesome. \m/
The Loss And Curse Of Reverance should be the next Emperor song your list :P
agree
Well that was even more unexpected than Dissection yesterday.... what's next, some "recent" Black Metal like Mgla? More 90's Black metal? As for Emperor, I'm actually not the biggest fan, but I appreciate the music. Kinda like Sori I guess.
Hearing Sori talk about the music "in the back" reminding her of Mountains and precipices and cool things, really just makes me want to see her react to Agalloch even more... that's what I love about that band, I feel like i'm in the middle of a forest with snow and shit, every time. So yeah, requesting that again.
For a totally random band mention, I got reminded of Saor, a one man atmospheric folk\black metal from the UK, using lots of Bagpipes and also Fiddles or tin whistles to give a Scottish theme to the music. If you want some music to you about "mountains and other cool shit", check out something like "Saor - The Declaration", off-video. I'm not gonna bother requesting that, it's a small band, i'll stick to Agalloch until it happens, haha.
Agalloch, heck yes!
Bathory - One Road To Asa Bay
You guys should just do Burzum filosofem already
I actually love the first version because the bad production makes it sound like they are in a storm.
Emperor is one of my favorite bands, and this is one of my favorite Emperor songs. Good choice.
But Vin, you hate pornography so aren't you now in the same hate prison as the people hating things?
Theatre Of Tragedy - And When He Falleth
Ben Webb I think he doesn't hate it it's self but what it does statistically to the people who participate in it. I think he is off but what ever
Ben Webb love the earlier theater of tragedy. Just sucks what happened to them in the late 90s and into the 2000s. I can't stand their stuff after they went all industrial goth whatever
+1 for ToT ! Love(d) that band, not many know them!
Yes, it's bad to hate even the bad and shitty things.
Awesome review as always. Not a fan of this style of Black Metal myself but there is a band I do dig that some consider Black Metal. Please check out the band Samael from Switzerland. The albums Ceremony of Opposites and Passage are good starts. Some good tracks are Jupiterian Vibe, Baphomet's Throne, Liquid Soul Dimension, Moonskin, and Born Under Saturn
Infra Galaxia
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas / Illuminate Eliminate. Marduk - Dracul va domni din nou in Transilvania / Hearse. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var (full version) / Beholding The Daughters of the Firmament. Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the Great Apocalypse / Arcane Lifeforce Mysteria. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger / Skald Av Satans Sol.
The last words of the song is important. "I AM THEM"!!!
Yass Emperor is CLASSIC AND TRVE 🤘🤘
Not sure if this was mentioned before by anyone, but there are actually two recordings of "I am the black wizards", the first one was off their self-titled split ep with Entombed and it was very raw and unpolished. The second recording was from their first LP "In the nightside eclipse" and it's much more polished and has higher production quality with more emphasis on the keyboards.
you are surprising me with these black metal picks lately.. and I love it... once more... try Naglfar - I am Vengeance.. love your channel and what you guys are doing
OurProduction2 Naglfar: Bring Out Your Dead 👍
*I am Vengeance* would be a great pick. Musically speaking it's a full on hurricane and the lyrics are just beautiful, over the top nastiness :D
Bathory - Call from the grave
Bathory - A fine day to die
It's the first wave of BM. And they are considered as the greatest BM band
Now do Ihsahn's solo stuff - start with something like Undercurrent or Frozen Lakes on Mars. It's much more approachable, quite different and much more intricate than his initial work with Emperor was.
Vigridr +1 for Undercurrent
Yeah, you guys probably picked the demo version at first, where the sound quality is much more messy, but this was the album version, which is a bit more clearer and has keyboards in it to create more effective atmosphere! Mortiis wrote the lyrics in this song and you guys should react his solomaterial too! Is there some place where is possibile to leave song-suggestions to you? 🙂
Burzum - Ea Lord of the Depths
I Am the Black Wizards is about heritage. It's talks about being in a state where you are connected with nature/universe as if it and you were one - and at the same time, being connected with people from the past ("demons even unknown to me" / "I am them") who had the same experience.
Emperor is a Norwegian Black Metal band, a kind of sub-genre of the Black Metal subgenre; Emperor always borrowed a bit more of Celtic Frost's avant-garde influence in their sound and songwriting than many of their Norwegian contemporaries. The music behind the distortion really is some beautiful stuff, the band has recorded "neo-classical" versions of some of the songs where the music is much easier to hear. "I Am the Black Wizards" is the right title, and though the Norwegian author Mortiis' grammar can be a bit rough sometimes (I'll bet his English is almost certainly better than your Norwegian), the title in this case is deliberate: the narrator speaks from the perspective of the animating spirit and inspiration behind the night landscape and the magicians and other creatures that haunt it. Mortiis' song lyrics in this era were fantasy stories about haunted dreamscapes imagined by troubled, artistic creator escaping from the unimaginative confinement of the modern, industrialized world and the confinement of its bland, tightly-regimented society and government: the entire output of Mortiis' art is a rejection of the world that modern man has created for himself.
I think you nailed it.
It's the synthesis of black metal not a sub-genre it's the climax of black metal.
Why don't you guys review a "christian black metal" band: Antestor. It's not recognized as black metal, it's often called unblack metal or white metal, but it's actually a black metal-sounding (and, initially, looking) christian band.
Morbid Angel invocation of the continuous one
Mortiis hasn't written these kinds of lyrics for a long time. After he left Emperor he focused on his solo project making "dungeon music" which isn't black metal. Since Mortiis's "Smell of Rain", dubbed Era 2, Mortiis has been an industrial metal band.
Guys do a reaction on Deathspell Omega - Carnal Malefactor. You won't regret it!
Their reaction to the interlude will be.... interesting definitely.
Pretty much the reason why I picked it. However; I'm much more interested in their reaction to their lyrics.
Oh definitely. Lyrically Carnal Malefactor is pretty wild. I've been pushing for Sola Fide II as lyrically it isn't nearly as surreal as their other works though, and think it'd make a much better introduction to the band.
Have to agree with you there. It's a more condensed piece of work and easier to digest in one sitting.
They wouldnt be able to understand the interlude because its in Russian, haha.
I like you two and how you obviously enjoy each other's company. And I enjoyed listening to you discuss a song I really love by a band I really love. I warmly recommend you to give their second album "Anthems to the welkin at dusk" a listen from start to end. Not necessarily react to it, just give it a real listen in your own time and I just hope you will - even if it's 5 years since this video.
Classic black metal.
16 years old folks. They made this Album. Immortal is another teenage legend
If you reacted to Bathory I would cry!
hello!!!
This is their first album. They were 18 years old.
It's a masterpiece. Something beautiful... best regards...
You guys should react to Agalloch-In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion. I think you would have fun disecting their lyrics and the music is just breathtaking. It's landscape in form of melody
Good vid! At the beginning I was kinda hating the lyrical breakdown, but at the end, I liked it overall.
You should try Mother North by Satyricon. It's a black metal classic (I enjoy other songs by them, but they're sung in Norwegian, so difficult to address, lyrically).
The Black Dahlia Murder- Nightbringers or Deathmask Divine.
GFLO0404 wack
EMPEROR - WITH STRENGTH I BURN!!! PLEASE! You have to listen to that song guys!!
My favorite. Finally!
this deserves a response video vin you and I are so much alike i am blown away
You should do some Ihsahn. He was the front man for emperor. His solo stuff is quite different though, he blends black metal with advant garde and other influences. I recommend Mass Darkness or The Pain is Stilll Mine.
Josh Grooves ^^^what THIS guy said^^^
Amr
It's intersting that so many of the old norwegian black metal bands became so experimental later in their career and makes great music like Ihsan, Ulver and Enslaved.
What do you mean "he was" he IS the frontman of Emperor! The band is still ACTIVE!
Svartsejd That may be the case but he IS much more active with his solo material.
bullet for my valentine - dead to the world, or
bullet for my valentine - Your Betrayal
Satyricon - Fuel for hatred
Surprised you guys picked this band up. Yes, quite a few of Emperor's songs have strong Satanic tones, often with a hint of traditional Norwegian mythos. One of my favourite melodic/orchestral black metal bands.
Forgot to mention last night due to severe tiredness, but you are absolutely right about other bands being inspired by Emperor (and Satyricon, Mayhem, Immortal, Darkthrone ++) from the Norwegian Black Metal wave.. many of them, like Cradle and Behemoth (Nergal have stated it several times) were hugely inspired and influenced by it. Also in other generes.. Nightwish? 100% formed by Toumas because of the 3rd and the Mortal (with the amazing Kari Rueslåtten).
Whoa !
VinAnd Sori Yeah, it had (and still do!) a HUGE impact on the metal scene all over the world. Really funny considering it's us.. tiny little Norway! But as I mentioned, the metal were/are heavily influenced and inspired by our nature landscape, our cold and harsh fall/winter.. which is very present in the sound. (reason why "Norwegian Black Metal" is kind of it's own genre)
Darkthrone were not inspired by Emperor. Darkthrone started before{pr at least around the same time as} Emperor. They were one of the first black metal bands to emerge in fact{if anything emperor were influenced by them- as were pretty much ALL black metal bands of the 2nd wave}; the first wave were bands like Bathory{the first}, Mayhem, and Darkthrone -in the first wave or early 2nd.
Even Trivium was influenced by Emperor :D I mean, musicians might not play black but influence does go beyond mimicking the sound :D
Will Baker I think you just read it wrong. I listed the bands that were part of the "Norwegian Black Metal wave" (or the 2nd black metal wave).. didn't say Darkthrone was inspired by Emperor, but that they are among the bands who inspired others. I may have worded myself badly, sorry if that's the case. But I grew up during those years and got into the extreme metal scene at the time. So know all the history around it :) but again.. might just be my wording! Norwegian after all so 2nd language isn't always spot on, hehe
If you read these lines together, they have more sense:
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles, guarded
By the old demons, even unknown to me.
How many wizards that serve me with evil, I know not.
My empires has no limits.
Emperor = legendary!!! You gotta do Thus Spake The Nightspirit \m/
This is the greatest Black Metal album of all time and while I personally prefer Majesty of the Night sky this is a phenomenal song. Further proof you guys are doing it better than anyone else out there.
Appreciate you my man !
David Murphy, it's the best !!!!when the Wind begins to Blow, love it!
It's probably not intentional but the lyrics remind me of a song sung from the perspective of the dark lord Sauron from The Lord of the Rings and the "Black Wizards" were the Nazgul, some of whom were sorcerers ("Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old"), and chief amongst the nine was called the "Witch-king of Angmar".
It definitely has more than a little Sauron-ness to it.
Was Lord of the Rings even a thing by the time this came out?
@@MindGamingMantis About 50 years prior... 1949. And based on ancient Norwegian mythology - as was 'the ring cycle'.
I have seen christians criticising black metal as an act of blasphemy but you people adore it in a way as it is art love you both
Windir - Journey to the End or Spirit lord. Or Arntor Ein windir would be cool
Anyone who says Emperor isn't black metal is gonna get laughed out of the comments section.
Thats what black metal is about.....beauty found in darkness
DAN OCONNELL Not all Black Metal, are we listening to the same genre???
Please expand on your assertion
DAN OCONNELL A lot of the second wave stuff is proped up on Satan and Paganistic worship, the crushing reality of nature, anguish from societal modernization, and brooding misanthropy.
I agree with you in saying that extreme music is a carthasis, but opening up wounds is it's purpose.
Godly Br0s what im saying is there is beauty in the music, but it surrounds dark imagery
Your comments on Atheism makes me hopeful we can all hold hands in peace and love. When a person releases his need for a God to justify being compassionate, I feel it becomes so much more powerful. Lets all love each other and enjoy amazing Black Metal.
Ok. Now that you've tackled Emperor, you absolutely HAVE to listen to BERGTATT (the whole album is a mere half hour long) by ULVER. It's black metal with a decidedly folk touch. And it's a concept album about a norwegian fairytale: a little girl gets lost in the woods and gets enticed by the fairies and trolls that haunt the forest. Bergtatt means "taken by the mountain".
The music on the album is very, very melodic, the singing is almost priestly (no kidding!) at times, and it has flutes, and piano,and classical guitar. I can guarantee you WILL like it. Seriously.
Oh, and they're decidedly not satanic.
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Burzum - Rundgang um die transzendentale säule der singularität
Please do ihsahn south winds. He's the lead of emperor if I'm correct.
Everything from ihsahn is pure gold :)
agreed
You are correct, yes. And that is an awesome track.
Emperor is not black metal... Is THE black metal.
Please do yourself a favor and check out Ihsahn's incredible solo stuff! He's such a great songwriter. "After" is one of my favourite albums of all time.
To face the Emperor one must not only face one, but ALL the black wizards.
Must be almost time for a week straight of behemoth...don't you think?
Blsir Mitchell
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Simon Harris Yes
Vin the other day you said " that anger is the reaction usually of weakness , most folks who are angry all the time are the weakest " or something , that's a profound statement my friend just thinking about it has been helping me in my issues thanks God bless you two, the Lord is slow to anger amen
Also - Porn isn't anything new - the Greeks (for example) were quite fond of lewd pottery and other forms of Risque art.
I thought your comments on Prison of Hate and touching on the essence of "if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you" - as you say, once you 'punch a Nazi', then how are you any different?
Keep up the good work
porn is shit, yes I watch it but I know it's degenerate shit
You know, the angel Michael split Satan in half with a sword....guess he was in a prison of hate.
Terrible logic. If you punch a Nazi you become a hero.
I am The Surf WIzards, great cover. Surf rock cover of this song. No lyrics, just surf.
As an aside, this was also somewhat intended with the production values. It is normal to have that "1" experience since most of the songs those days were recorded in the woods with four track and turned in at a fever pace. Early BM has that dirty woods feel, while later got a little more polish and whatnot, but then it lost the charm of four kids in the woods recording stuff.
Also, it is possible you might have gotten a few different versions of the song. There was one early in the day when they were young pups and one remastered a little. Also also, the live version was fantastic. If ever you want to revisit a song, it is this one live (at least for me).
Keep cranking out great content!
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty Brought The Orchids
Because I am the spirit of their existence, I am them. This is because the song's name is I am the Black Wizards, plural.
darkthrone transilvanian hunger
Emperors "In the Nightside Eclipse" is probably the most black metal album next to "A Blaze in the Northern Sky"
Bathory - Blood, Fire, Death