They had more talent than 95% of their contemporaries.

My favorite used to be “Anthems” for many many years but finally I concluded that nothing is not even close to the brilliance of “Nightside”

Take a shot everytime he says Eyesawn Chug a beer whenever he says autists

Ah, perfect example of "this is shit because i said so". No single line of argumentation. And, of course, everyone, who think differently, is kidding you.

Still have my ticket from the Emperor show I went to in VA in 99'.

The band that got me into Norwegian black metal

Who came here to hear him say BURTZUMMMM!!!

I can literally hear the neckbeard and cheetos radiating from this sad little man's voice

This truly has to be a troll. Cant get words or pronunciation correct. Prometheus is a Black Metal influenced prog metal album. Also Isahn's vocals on Icarus are just fine. Think people miss that he wanted to grow from black metal into something else.

I gotta be honest, I’ve tried listening to Emperor on more than a few occasions but I just can’t get into them. I can’t find one song of theirs that I can get used to listening to. Edit: After listening to them a little more, I'm starting to dig there stuff. Curse you All Men! is my favorite song of theirs.

Emperor too popular? Like no one even mentions emperor lol

All records from Emperor were Masterpieces.... Many dont like Prometheus but honestly which other bands released such a record in that time who came close in chaotic / complexity ? My favorite is Anthems

I would be lying if I said I've never shed a tear during with strength I burn. Absolutely amazing song.

Bathory was the first (to my knowledge) to use synth and choruses. Although Emperor did improve upon it.

'Enscrolled'? That's 'ensorcelled'

Wrath of the Tyrants is my favorite Emperor album, by far

In the Wordless Chamber, The Tongue of Fire, Empty! There is nothing generic about these riffs! Loved the video though! These retrospectives are the best! All of the bands that formed my musical tastes

In the Nightside Eclipse is one if favorite Emperor albums, matter of fact I have it as my backpatch on my Battle jacket

I like your outlook on black metal. "Hey this music is alright but i couldn't give a damn about all the drama that goes with it"

7:18 The masterpiece that got me into black metal, still one of my favorite albums.

YES. You made my friday. Please do one on Dissection to

Prometheus is the most sophisticated emperor album. It's not quite "emepror" and it's not quite "ihsahn" - it's the step inbetween, and it is the most complex black metal album ever written.

Nightside: 10/10 Dusk: 9/10 Equilibrium: 7/10 Prometheus: 10/10

Prom is a fucking classic. It was there final album and still a masterpeace to this day.

Legendary band, my favorite is still "In the Nightside Eclipse"

In the early 2ks I had patches shirts I had all the compact discs. I LOVE emperor and I can honestly say that I've never once in all these years listened to prometheus all the way through. But everything else start to end is solid Gold. Love this series thank you!

Nightside = my fav BM album, oh edit: first 2 on IX are really fucking great, trym's a beast

Perhaps the greatest band ever

I remember at the time hearing Prometheus and going, this is the sound of a band breaking up. ihsahn had put out a solo album and Samoth had done that solid Zyklon album. they were bad fuckin ass on the tour for that album tho

Ayyysan :P I actually pref Ihsahn's solo work over Emperor, and Emperor is awesome! Also, Ihsahn, Abbath and Fenriz are such cool dudes, each one has its own vibe and were never a part of the whole church burnings shenanigans, super interesting and fun to watch their interviews.

Legends

If only anthems had a cover as good as nightside, its literally my only complaint for the masterpiece.

If I recall it correctly, the reason Euronymous was credited in Ye Entranceemperium is that he came up with the name.

totally agree about the wrath of a tyrant. Love it. Agreed on your pick of tracks and the rawness of My empire's doom makes it even better than the remake. Classic great album, gets smashed in my car!

He played a song to mock them and it sounded like freaking fire LOL!

Never mentioned Loss and Curse of Reverence . Brvtal song

Also of note: Samael's "Ceremony of Opposites" was released a couple days before Nightside, though for reasons I'll never understand was never as influential as it should've been.

I like a lot of black metal--but Emperor is one of my favorites.....there early stuff is fucking legendary. It is all the things I listen to black metal for. That is just me, I listen to all kinds of music though....old school black metal will always be my favorite. Reminds me of the old days when I would buy a compilation album to discover new bands....good years.

What do you mean varg was “allegedly” involved in church burnings? It’s pretty much a confirmed fact that he did a lot of them.

My favorite thing regarding Emperor's Wrath demo is that it is essentially a debut album. It's got all the songs and length for a full length and is better than most of their contemporary's. I see it as their first album and Eclipse as their second. Not counting the 4 song EP.

Lol. Ok you made me laugh a few times.

I love elogy of icaros. Well... Atleast the idea of it.

just heard night side ...I thought u were joking when u said I can fall asleep to it. They added keyboards only footnote. The guitars do sound alot like mordern bm were the guitar players can't create original riffs so they just tremolo pick

yous should do a Rudimentary Peni retrospective ..nick blinko was crazy

I recently listened to Anthems for the first time in a long time recently, and while I loved it when it came out it just hasn't aged well to me. I can still get down to their part of the Enslaved split(which you seem to skip over here... it has better versions of Cosmic Keys and Black Wizards), but everything else just doesn't do it for me anymore. I saw them in 99, and it was awesome. Watching their nostalgia shows they have trotted out since they broke up has made me think they should have stayed dormant.

Thus spoke the night spirit is the greatest emporer song of all time

True that! At least you know the great bands....

when you love blackmetal music when you love Emperor.. sure you will love all the albums they made...sure there will be favorite one and not favorite..it doesnt matter to me..i love Emperor until the end... inno a satana hail Emperor🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🖤🖤🖤

Wasnt varg both sentenced, and fullt admits to the church burnings tho?

Too popular? You’re not talking about Fleetwood Mac or Guns N’ Roses buddy

"Enscrolled..."

After the black metal bands, could you do Black Sabbath?

puck u elegy of icaros is one the best songs ever nice vid tho, really liked it

Great video love all these retrospectives would you ever consider doing a dissection one?

What's the theme song at start of your videos ?

Easily the best narrator on the network

These perspectives are hilarious and still informative. Morbid sense of humor that is right up my alley.

Your showing the cover to the emperor ep...not the demo.

I don't get why you put up Leviathan's logo when talking about their names before they settled with Emperor? Is that a jab at Jef Whitehead?

You should listen to Icaros on Wacken 2007, that's the way it should have been released.

Prometheus is extremely underrated IMO. *shrug*

when the fuck did varg say he didnt do it

These guys and Sacrementum are my favorite.

Sworn the best song for me

may ham!!!

AWSM BAND..

I never really figured out exactly when they came out and I was old enough and thought I was into black metal got smashed in the face w in the nightshade

U remind me of AVGN lol Good shit fam subbed

Why the massive shit on Prometheus?! It's one of my favourites. Bite me.

Pronounced "Fowst"...not "Fahst". Good video. Opeth.

Still had bathory on the intro😂💯🐐🔥

Thanks for this. I’m seeing them soon. Hopefully no Prometheus

best emperor song in my opinion is. well yeh.... 2nd best song in my opinion is the loss and curse of reverance, that fast stroked F chord is just amazing, hits me every time i listen to it

Nonus Aequelibrium is the title of the record. IX = 9 = nonus (Ordinal: nōnus). Aequilibrium = A level or horizontal position, equilibrium. (figuratively) A perfect equality, reciprocity.

Only 1 member of Mayhem was a commie and he's dead now. Hellhammer is quite the opposite.

this video did not age very well

it s funny how nobody addresses their previous bands like zyklon or zyklon-b.....as if that never happened lmao

This guy has the same struggle to get a breath in after every sentence just like count blagorath. I think they come from the same litter of goblins

Wrath of the Tyrant is not the ep you featured, the cover you feature is the self titled ep which has the first and better, imo, version of I am the Black Wizards. Though Wrath is fucking awesome. Anyway, still liked the video, cheers!

Archgoat retrospective?

8:55 what a Fucking amazing line😂😂😂😂

I never heard an Emperor release that I didn't like. edit: I never heard Prometheus.

Interesting analysis, but forgot few points about music itself. Emperor is sort of story how black metal evolved. In Nightside drum beats were power metal etc but not much blast beat, because teens in Norway didn't quite know how to play it, then when they got hold of it was nothing but blast beat. Same goes with guitar playing style, where all strings are played constantly was sort of invention of Euronymous, which Emperor utilized. Taking techniques to the limit and culmination point, there aren't much else to go, except start from the beginning, which 'old school' fans expect everything to be. I also add that because how guitars are composed in relation to keyboards, Emperor is very difficult to produce and mix, because there are so many notes and harmonic lines. Album version is very different from live, used to be at least.

Anthems to the Welkin at dusk is their best 👍🏻

Ngl most of the time I don’t know if you like Euronymous or you hate him lol 😂

Dont forget to do a watain retrospective

Anthems is more appealing to me. It was my first album and it also it more intresting to me. That's not a jab at Nightshade. Also I find "over rated" to be pointless. A band is not tied to how their fans talk about them. Your videos are entertaining in spite of differing opinions.

You should make a dissection video \m/

lol pearl jam vocals

At least we don't have to look at the frog-eyed, flat headed mommas boy during this one. . . But we still have to deal with his word puking and mispronouncing of simple names.

Great video, could you do a retrospective on Thy Serpent 🤘

Great Video you need more subs.

I love your videos but dont say "mallcore" again 😂

What's utterly hilarious is that most Black Metal bands pride themselves on sounding like shit, yet as far as their fans are concerned, it might as well be Mozart lol.

if they are that popular how come before 4 years ago in my 34 years of life listening to metal since i was around 5 or 6 (my parents are metalheads i got lucky) i never heard of emperor dude... all m y friends are metalheads. no one ever mentioned emperor lol mayhem and the others u mentioned ya , but neverr emperor i assumed they were not too popular. but hey i dont know every metalhead in the world lol .maybe canadians arent into the emperor as much. alot of tech deth in canada tbh

Stop shitting on Euronymous bro. He’s the Steve Jobs of black metal

Dude stop it with Dimmu Borgir ! Puritanical Euphoric misanthropia Is way better than all emperor albums mixed together

2:15 Wrath Of The Tyrant 7:18 In The Nightside Eclipse 10:56 Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk 14:25 IX Equilibrium 17:16 Prometheus - The Discipline Of Fire and Demise (Black Metal's 9/11)

An elegy of icaros is a fucking amazing song. Learn a few of the riffs on guitar, they are innovative as fuck!

Prometheus is unlistenable I’ve never made it all the way thru, I’m glad you agree too