― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
OK. Lemme step back from that a bit.
1. I have yet to hear the new Today is the Day album that has yet to be released on Relapse.
2. The Mastadon album is giving the Immortal record a rather serious run for its money, as is Electric Wizard's "Let Us Prey," a meta album title so good it's flat out amazing it's taken humans until the 21ST CENTURY to name a metal album that. (Electric Wizard are really ,really good at this naming metal albums thing. "Come My Fanatics" and "Dopethrone" are also great, great album names.)
3. But I digress; nothing in points 1 or 2 has anything to do with black metal. Immortal is a well known black metal act. Their early records, such as "Battles in the North" and "Blizzard Beasts" are as genre-defining as Emperor, in my opinion. The new one "Sons..." is just fantastic. When it's one, you will feel like Hannibal leading elephants or something.
4. Emperor is indeed an excellent band. But the Nazi thing...one of the fellows in the now-defunt Emperor named his new band Zyklon, which is just fucking rude.
― Joe Gross, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I don't think this is really accurate - as a metaphor for what? General misanthropy? The entire genre of NSBM certainly isn't metaphorical. Also, why pick the German word for "cyclone"? In order to reference Zyklon B, I think, pretty clearly.
― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i grew up just outside of tampa florida, and spent my formative years during the peak and wane of the death metal phenomenon. the brass mug, ace's records, the asylum in st pete ... all staples, all good times. then came black metal, which i love but don't have the exact same connection to due to mainly nostalgic reasons.
the first black metal record i heard was In the Nightside Eclipse, and i've never liked it. the thing is, i really, really like black metal, and i have for years. geez, i dunno. that was probably 1995 or something? so 13 years later i still like black metal, and i STILL don't like Emperor.
am i missing something?!
― Cameron Octigan, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
really digging the latest reissue/remaster of Nightside. much better than the one from 1999.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 July 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
http://concert.arte.tv/fr/emperor-au-hellfest
― StanM, Sunday, 6 July 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
I've now received that 20th Anniversary Edition thing, I should do a 4-way listening test between these two versions and my original and the 1999 remaster (I need to dig those up from the basement). But at first listen the Alternate Mix doesn't actually sound that different - not in the way that for example the remastered/remixed "Individual Thought Patterns" does.
― Siegbran, Monday, 7 July 2014 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Am i right in thinking Prometheus is a heinous underrated album thst gets, um, eclipsed by the first two records?
Anyway. In terms of atmosphere I have to say Emperor really are my favourite BM band
― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Friday, 20 September 2024 09:45 (four hours ago) link