SlaytanicGonzo
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This would be a perfect album if only the vocals were mixed louder
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Zombie94
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23.07.2011 - 02:50Rating: 9
Written by SlaytanicGonzo on 10.01.2011 at 04:47
This would be a perfect album if only the vocals were mixed louder
I don't know why but I actually like the shitty production. Adds to the atmosphere and classic black metal sound imo.
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SlaytanicGonzo
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Written by Zombie94 on 23.07.2011 at 02:50
Written by SlaytanicGonzo on 10.01.2011 at 04:47
This would be a perfect album if only the vocals were mixed louder
I don't know why but I actually like the shitty production. Adds to the atmosphere and classic black metal sound imo.
Usually, I would agree. Albums like Transilvanian Hunger and Burzum benefit A LOT from their shitty production. But on this type of Black Metal, I would prefer a BIT cleaner production. My opinion at least.
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Written by SlaytanicGonzo on 23.07.2011 at 10:07
Written by Zombie94 on 23.07.2011 at 02:50
Written by SlaytanicGonzo on 10.01.2011 at 04:47
This would be a perfect album if only the vocals were mixed louder
I don't know why but I actually like the shitty production. Adds to the atmosphere and classic black metal sound imo.
Usually, I would agree. Albums like Transilvanian Hunger and Burzum benefit A LOT from their shitty production. But on this type of Black Metal, I would prefer a BIT cleaner production. My opinion at least.
Come on, the production here is very good in black metal standards.
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M C Vice ex-polydactyl
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11.10.2011 - 11:41Rating: 7
I agree about the vocals. You can't really hear them a lot of the time.
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Oaken Hipster
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27.11.2011 - 02:07Rating: 9
Masterpiece, and one of the finest black metal albums to exist.
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In that case, man is only air as well.
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This is the album that got me into black metal! A true masterpiece!
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CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium
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30.10.2012 - 00:52Rating: 8
Classic, one of the first black metal albums I ever heard and it never gets old.
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Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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Epic of epicness.
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Erik M.
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21.01.2013 - 18:16Rating: 9
Simply amazing album. One of the best (symphonic) black metal albums ever.
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squidrick420
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02.02.2013 - 05:57Rating: 9
It has been a while since i gave this a good listen, however I am doing so right now (on my kick ass new cd player) and i forgot how good this album is!! Its like sweet and sour chicken, sour where you want it with some sweet symphonic sauce on top.
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Himedal
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04.01.2014 - 23:45Rating: 9
I'm all fucked up.
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What goes by is life to be taken
The doom calls upon the forsaken
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Boxcar Willy yr a kook
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10.08.2014 - 19:12Rating: 9
I was reading interviews with Deafheaven today at work and George cites a huge vocal influence from this album, and I can definitely hear it.
I love this release, it's atmosphere is just room filling and te mix is just perfect, low drums, low vocals, and high synth.
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Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck ElitePosts: 40071 |
Written by Boxcar Willy on 10.08.2014 at 19:12
I was reading interviews with Deafheaven today at work and George cites a huge vocal influence from this album, and I can definitely hear it.
I love this release, it's atmosphere is just room filling and te mix is just perfect, low drums, low vocals, and high synth.
Just such a shame Deafheaven is so incredibly mundane average compared to Emperor.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
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Boxcar Willy yr a kook
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10.08.2014 - 19:26Rating: 9
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.08.2014 at 19:18
Just such a shame Deafheaven is so incredibly mundane average compared to Emperor.
Like always, agree to disagree. I think both are great.
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15.09.2014 - 19:39Rating: 10
Strangely enough I've only ever listened to odd Emperor songs and not actual albums all the way through, but now that I have, I can see how consistent and fluent the band's debut really is, without trying to sound too much of an overjoyed black metal fan. There's plenty of classics here: "Into the Infinity of Thoughts", "Inno A Satana", "Beyond the great vast forest" among others, and although I have yet to listen to the rest of Emperor's discography, this one is undoubtedly career-defining.
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NocturnalStalker Metal Addict
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21.09.2014 - 08:57Rating: 9
I'm pretty much fed up with listening to symphonic black metal nowadays, but I still enjoy this album a lot. Its majesty does not wither with time.
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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Zap Guest
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Listening to this for the first time in... Well, a while. Still one of my favorite black metal albums, and I don't think any other Emperor album comes close. My second favorite is probably Prometheus, but that's a completely separate thing.
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Bad English Tage Westerlund
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13.06.2016 - 19:36Rating: 9
A young men whit strong message and idea , they put all in chaotic music what never have head before and find super uber song title names and wrote awesome lyrics what nobody have heard before, make poetical side of bm , all can sing about st. ann, but where us art? nowhere, this is why this is essential album, its 100% generic but 100% totally different
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Not sure why but this seems to be my most revisited classic black metal album these days. Definitely didn't used to consider it in the same regard as Transylvanian Hunger, DMDS, Blood Fire Death etc. but this continues to feel fresher in my head. I think there's something quite wall of soundish about it; the instruments blend together into a really nice conglomerate mass which I find consistently satisfying. Shame Emperor abandoned this sound after this.
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Written by [user id=4365] on 10.09.2016 at 21:39
Not sure why but this seems to be my most revisited classic black metal album these days.
Because it's amazing?
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Written by Zap on 11.09.2016 at 12:19
Because it's amazing?
That could definitely be one of the contributing factors.
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BetulaObscura
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Written by SlaytanicGonzo on 10.01.2011 at 04:47
This would be a perfect album if only the vocals were mixed louder
It was recorded in Grieg Hall in Bergen with strong echo/reverb. That is why vocals sound "distant" and not that loud (comparing with other instruments).
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Maasai Mara
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02.01.2019 - 23:51Rating: 4
Only deserves a 4 because it formed a template for Dimmu Borgir to release Abrahadabra and Eonian. Otherwise this belongs alongside Master of Puppets as the most overrated albums. Emperor is the weakest band from the 2nd wave of Norwegian Black Metal, even weaker than Gorgoroth whom most accuse of being 2nd rate and predictable.
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DeathMetal
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13.12.2019 - 12:18Rating: 8
Written by SlaytanicGonzo on 10.01.2011 at 04:47
This would be a perfect album if only the vocals were mixed louder
I fully agree here. Other than the vocals it's a great album.
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BetulaObscura
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Written by Maasai Mara on 02.01.2019 at 23:51
Only deserves a 4 because it formed a template for Dimmu Borgir to release Abrahadabra and Eonian. Otherwise this belongs alongside Master of Puppets as the most overrated albums. Emperor is the weakest band from the 2nd wave of Norwegian Black Metal, even weaker than Gorgoroth whom most accuse of being 2nd rate and predictable.
If you want to criticise this album (or any other) you should clearly point why you don't like it; what was your reason for it; what could be musically/lyrically approved on the album; what could be done/recorded another way etc. Writing that "this [album] is weak" is just adolescence trolling!
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Maasai Mara
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08.04.2020 - 22:12Rating: 4
Written by BetulaObscura on 25.03.2020 at 09:09
If you want to criticise this album (or any other) you should clearly point why you don't like it; what was your reason for it; what could be musically/lyrically approved on the album; what could be done/recorded another way etc. Writing that "this [album] is weak" is just adolescence trolling!
After wasting my damn precious time listening to and reviewing Emperor's Sophomore album i simply lack the energy to type anything about this piece of junk.. Emperor sucks and that's it.
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Decent album. Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk stomps all over it.
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Cynic Metalhead Paisa Vich Nasha
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Written by Maasai Mara on 08.04.2020 at 22:12
Written by BetulaObscura on 25.03.2020 at 09:09
If you want to criticise this album (or any other) you should clearly point why you don't like it; what was your reason for it; what could be musically/lyrically approved on the album; what could be done/recorded another way etc. Writing that "this [album] is weak" is just adolescence trolling!
Emperor sucks and that's it.
You're violating rules of posting,
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TSRodriguez
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12.06.2020 - 13:09Rating: 10
Immense, and grand. Epic and incommensurable. Pick the one with the bonus tracks, they rock. The cover from King Diamond, Gipsy, is probably the 3 most awesomely charged minutes I've heard in a long time. The best songs are well known, Into the Infinity of Thoughts, Inno a Satana, and I'm the Black Wizards.
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