Emperor – In the POLLside Eclipse

This album hits an ideal for having really similar sounding tracks without being too similar.

I slighty prefer Anthems because it was more transcendent for me.

Into the Infinity of Thoughts is in my top black metal songs, it never ceases to amaze me. It is so fluid, I love the constant ascending and descending, it is fast, angular, and then you have those solemn moments as if passing in a clearing. Awesome stuff. Many of their other songs play with the same elements, but none are so.. easy. Cosmic Keys and Black Wizards as well obv.
The first Emperor song I heard was The Acclamation of Bonds. A little too complex for its own good, but the same cascading idea and mix of freezing-hot qualities. I suppose we're doing Anthems next.

I suppose we're doing Anthems next.

Sure, I wouldn't mind revisiting it despite (or because of) my reservations.

too much braggadocio on this one imo

Dunno. Even the Emperor acknowledges that he would be nothing without his wizards:

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 AM THE RULER AND HAS BEEN FOR ETERNITIES LONG

Wrath of teh Tyrant's millionth reissue coming out on vinyl soon.

I used to hate that one but I've grown to appreciate it as their true 'necro' release. not the one i'm gonna spin the most but it's fun to hear them in that raw state.

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my vinyl of this just came in. picture disc.

coming down off of an MDMA high to this