In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor's long awaited full length album were a long time waiting for.
After numerous times have been delayed it finally came, more then a year
after it's first release date. But it was worth waiting for. It’s one of
the biggest and best B.M. releases of all time. Personally I think it's
missing some of the primitivity and roughness that their debut had, but
instead the songs have become more complexed with more keyboards (which
sounds great). The only thing I'm a little disappointed at is the mixing
of
the album. The vocals is very hard to hear and the keyboards is to
dominating, too bad on a other then that almost perfect album. This album
has to be named one of the best ever.
Rated 
Reverence MCD
Fast hellish B.M. wit hlots of keyboards. It's not quite what I had
expected after "Nightside..." but several years have passed and the band
have moved forward. The music nowadays is much more complexed and mature.
The first song is a taste of the forthcoming album in a different version,
then it followed by a new version of an old '92 song and the third track
is a keyboard instrumental version of "Inno a Satana" called "Opus a
Satana". But the colest thing is that there are almost 80Mb worth of
CD-ROM here in the form of the complete video to "The Loss and Curse of
Reverence" (the first song) It very well done with the same sound quality
as the normal CD and it lasts for 6:10. It's featured in several versions
so you can play it regardless of having a PC or a Mac.
Rated
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
An absolutely great intro and a fabolous opening song. It's all fast,
complexed, brutal and majestetic. The vocals are high and screamy as
usual, but there are also plenty of additional normal deep voacls aswell.
I don't think that this is as perfect as "In the Nightside Eclipse" was.
It's too complexed, just like Immortals "Blizzard Beasts" are. The mixing
isn't perfect either, the vocals are to hard to hear in my opinion. Still,
this is a very good release, with several superb riffs acompanied by
brilliant keyboard work. I suppose that all of you who like this great
band before will like this as much as I do. I guess that it might grow
into a 5 after a while. Oh yeah, it has a great cover that fits perfectly
on the CD-wall
Rated
Emperor/Enslaved Split
Emperor/Hordanes Land
This is Emperor's debut and it is a debut full of promises. The music is
very fast raw black metal accompanied with synths which gives a new good
sound. This is definitely a very good direction and it proved to be that
also when the Full length album came (above). The other band on this
release is Enslaved. Now Enslaved plays Viking Metal and is a fairly good
band from time to time but the songs on this album (3 of
them) are just too long so they might get a bit boring. The songs are
more evil and primitive then later work and they use some interesting
keyboards and even piano on the last track. In total this album is worth
the money mostly because of Emperor's great part of it.
Rated 
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