Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant

Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant, live at Inferno fest 2006 Rockefeller filmed by Zolrak

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Music

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• emperor
• ihsahn
• zyklon
• nocturnal
• art

[PresidentBagel]

Hard to believe that they recorded their first demo back when they were just a bunch of teenagers. Kids should be looking up to the guys in Emperor, not Soulja Boy.

Emperor; black metal's greatest band.

[samsprocket]

Emperor rules.

Prometheus, their final album is their peak of musicianship. The arrangments are very influenced by classical composers, clearly. In (almost) every riff, there are 3 or 4 seperate voices, overlapping each other. It takes someone with good knowlege of theory to do that.. not to mention a naturally talented guy (IHSAHN!!). Although this song is a classic Emperor song, which I LOVE. Prometheus will remain as my number 1 black metal album of all time.

[ExNihilMetal]

@gluntford

I'd say that the power of early Emperor is far more understated than that of the later stuff (possibly due to production?); the first two releases very much "suggest" a sense of power, rather than shoving it in your face. I suppose it depends on what you prefer, and how; if I want power shoved in my face, I'll listen to Immortal, Ross Bay crap, Beherit, etc. Emperor, for me, is epic/distant/soaring, rather than powerful/personal/flat. Landscape vs. portrait, almost.

[ExNihilMetal]

@gluntford

Prometheus was my first Emperor album; I bought it the year after it came out (aged 11/12), and listened to it for a good few years before deciding that Emperor's best material was the first two albums (which I'd picked up pretty quickly after hearing Prometheus).

Sure, Prometheus is powerful at times, but it's poorly structured - I wish he'd actually made a succession of albums (Nordland style) exploring those concepts in a less cursory fashion.

[gluntford]

@ExNihilMetal In any case, the interplay between the instruments was always a focus of Emperor's songwriting, right from the beginning.

[gluntford]

@ExNihilMetal To blow it off in the manner that you just did is moronic. I am incredibly glad that I found that album when I was a teenager. Now that I am older, I am aware of the context of great, foundational metal that you people stand upon when you judge music, and this album clashes awkwardly with your perspective. But as a young person nothing stopped me from the full appreciation of what it was - and it was a fucking POWERFUL album, and the power is what I love about Ihsahn.

[gluntford]

@ExNihilMetal just because Prometheus was like jazz - good point - doesn't mean it doesn't illustrate or enlighten!! Honestly man you think that was music for the sake of music? That was one man isolating himself completely from musical society and pouring all of his genius out at once, with his eyes set on so many grand concepts that he couldn't contain them all in a clean, approachable format - and he did it to honor and explore the central concept of the band, the Emperor.

[gluntford]

aw YEAH this is an AWESOME video!!!!!! FUK

[chinoniro666]

hail emperor 666

[islespatrick]

Greatest black metal band to exist. Period.

[gyl17]

@samsprocket Prometheus was more a preview to later Ihsahn solo records. In my opinion at least. To me that album was more progressive than black metal.

[jatan616]

@from18tillidie i believe it is supposed to mean something like inner strength, or the inner mechanics of a being.