EMPEROR In The Nightside Eclipse (1994) CD

There are black metal albums and then there is In The Nightside Eclipse. Released in 1994 on Candlelight Records, Emperor's debut full-length didn't just define a genre, it set a bar that most bands are still running toward thirty years later.

Recorded during the most chaotic and genuinely dangerous period in Norwegian black metal history, with Ihsahn, Samoth, and Faust operating in the eye of a very real storm, this album somehow managed to be symphonic and savage at once. The keyboards weren't a compromise, they were armour. Tracks like I Am the Black Wizards and Inno a Satana established Emperor as something apart from their contemporaries, more theatrical, more literate, more willing to let the cold Norwegian dark actually breathe. If you're building a metal collection and this isn't in it, start here.

Full length album on CD. Recorded and released 1994. Country of origin: Norway. Genre: Black Metal.

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