Emperor (Official Thread)

[Riff Raff]

Genre - Black Metal
Formed - 1991

Final-line up
Ihsahn (Vegard Sverre Tveitan) - vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards (1991–2001, 2006, 2007)
Samoth (Tomas Haugen) - guitars, bass guitar, drums, vocals (1991–2001, 2006, 2007)
Trym Torson (Kai Johnny Mosaker) - drums (1996–2001, 2006, 2007)

Former members
Alver (Jonas Alver) - bass guitar (1995–1998)
Tchort (Terje Schei) - bass guitar (1993–1994)
Mortiis (Håvard Ellefsen) - bass guitar (1991–1992)
Faust (Bård Eithun) - drums (1992–1993)

Studio albums
In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)


Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997)

IX Equilibrium (1999)

Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise (2001)

Some songs I love.
Instrumental Opus A Satana


Into the Infinity of Thoughts


Of Blindness and Subsequent Seers


Thorns On My Grave


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Any fans of Emperor here? Surprised there was no thread for them actually. I just picked up the Anthems album and enjoyed all of it.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

I'm not a huge fan of Black Metal overall but there are a handful of bands (other then Black Thrash ) that I really like a lot. I'd have to say that Emperor is definitely at the top of the Black Metal mountain, IMO. I have all four of their CDs and really like the first three a hellva lot.

Nice thread Riff

 

[LOU/REALM]

Ah the mighty EMPEROR have their own thread....sounds a good idea RIFF !
One of those bands you wished you had seen "live".... sigh

 

[Riff Raff]

I'm not a huge fan of Black Metal overall but there are a handful of bands (other then Black Thrash ) that I really like a lot. I'd have to say that Emperor is definitely at the top of the Black Metal mountain, IMO. I have all four of their CDs and really like the first three a hellva lot.

Nice thread Riff

Cheers man. I will add I am way more a death metal fan judging my CD library but decided to dabble with some bands most consider Black Metal classics. And with Emperor I agree with them, nice mix of symphonic and traditional black metal.

Ah the mighty EMPEROR have their own thread....sounds a good idea RIFF !
One of those bands you wished you had seen "live".... sigh

I would have seen them live now days if I could.

 

[Malikarcanum]

Ihsahn is a Metal god. While I find myself playing his more experimental solo records more often nowadays, I still throw on Anthems & IX still get regular airplay.

 

[Riff Raff]

It is a hard pick for favourite of the 3 albums I got which is Nightside, Anthems and now Equilibrium. I might get the Promethus album to truly gauge which album is the best. All are phenomenal black metal albums.

 

[Pistol]

Ihsahn's recent solo album Eremita was superb ..not a huge fan of Emperor though.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Video for Empty

 

[2LITTLETIME]

Talented black metal
also watched a live immortal vid