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"Anthems To
The Welkin At Dusk" starts off with a five-minute long beautiful keyboard
intro but then the journey into the darkness begins with fast and furious
symphonic black metal of the rawer kind and with lots of energy and power. The
music on this album might not be as good as the production. It seems like most
Norwegian bands have above average producers for some reason. There are some
finer moment with top notch black metal art but there are also some tireing
passages on the record. Emperor is doubtless a talented band and they are
surely capable of producing material a slice bit better than this. The vocals
are mainly the traditional black metal screeching of the better kind but there
are also some pretty nice clean ones as well as spoken words here and there.
Apart from the lack of melody this is a powerful and energetic piece of music
art that should be appreciated by black metal fans for its pure, majestic and
raw sound. No matter what you think about Emperor this is one of the best
albums to come out of the Norwegian black metal scene. The album was recorded
in the memorial hall of Grieg between October & December anno 1996, mixed and
mastered between January & February anno 1997, engineered by Pytten & Jørgen,
produced by Ihsahn, Samoth & Pytten and finally mastered at Strype Audio by
Samoth, Ihsahn and Vargnatt.
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1. Alsvartr |
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(The Oath) 2. Ye Entrancemperium 3. Thus Spoke The |
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Nightspirit 4. Ensorcelled By Khaos 5. The Loss And Curse Of |
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Reverence 6. The Acclamation Of Bonds 7. With Strength I Burn |
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8. The Wanderer |
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