If you didn't understand the title of this post, it's because you're a moron. Emperor's first demo, which was later released in the same poorly-produced-but-poorly-produced-in-a-way-to-make-it-scary quality, was entitled "Wrath of the Tyrant". However, that work is not the focus of this post. Their debut real album "In The Nightside Eclipse" is akin to "Dark Medieval Times" (scroll down) in that it contains a cold, evil atmosphere, starting directly from the first song which has a weird intro. In fact, if you like one, you'll like the other, but you won't like them because none of my friends like black metal and they are the only ones who will read this. "Into the Infinity of Thoughts," much like "Walk the Path of Sorrow," starts off the album with a fast, harsh, violent feeling. Ihsahn's vocals are in more of a typical black metal vein than Satyr's, whose contained more use of the actual vocal chords, but the keyboard and tremolo-picked guitars maintain the frozen atmosphere of the album. Whereas in "Dark Medieval Times" the keyboard held all of the chord structure and the guitars were mixed in a way that manifested them as nothing more than noise, "In The Nightside Eclipse" makes both of these instruments distinguishable. A sample of "The Majesty of the Night Sky" can be found here.
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