After Nightside Eclipse dropped, Emperor was all but dead. With Samoth being sentenced to sixteen months for his role in the church burnings along with Varg Vikernes, and Faust being sentenced to fourteen years for murdering a homosexual man, the whole band's career came to a halt then and there, which would have definitely resulted in one of the shortest lived successes in all of metal. But after Samoth's release and them getting a new drummer in Trym, they get back in the studio and pump out ... read more

Oikawa333

Why is this so underrated
The loss and curse of reverence is one of emperors best songs ever, it has such an ear candy appeal to me. Ik this came out at a weird time with two of the bedmates being shipped off to prison, I still think it’s strong couple of songs.

3mo

IBellaV

IN LONGING SPIRIT IS THE BIGGEST FUCKING BLUE BALLS TRACK I'VE EVER HEARD

This EP came out only really to prepare people for the release of Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, with the first track here being one of the more loved songs to come from that album, I loved Anthems and I love The Loss and Curse of Reverence, it's a really good track and it really carries this EP. Opus A Satana is a pretty cool Dungeon Synth remix of Inno A Satana from In the Nightside Eclipse, it's a fun ... read more

4mo

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