The track also shows all of Emperor's strong points that make them the black metal kings that they are, which are the unforgiving, brutal guitar riffs, keyboard and symphonic backdrop melody, brilliant black metal screeching, haunting clean vocals, and punishing blast beats.
The song's only weak point is it's noticeable poor drum production quality, but that aside, the song has some powerful guitar work and blistering black metal vocals and beautiful symphonic melody that show why In The Nightside Eclipse is considered a classic. The song has a very epic feel and some of the best arranges orchestration from any Emperor song. The song is easily Emperor's unholy anthem. The song flow and instrumentation arrangements are amazing, being both fast and hard yet slow, dark and haunting.
Probably the greatest Emperor song ever made. The live track of Thus Spake The Nightspirit from the band's live album Emperial Live Ceremony shows that the band is even more amazing live. The music's atmosphere on this live track is perfect, and the musicianship flawless. The orchestration is also a lot easier to hear on this song then it is on any of the normal recordings of Emperor songs.
The vocal arrangements on the song is brilliant, with Ihsahn doing a lot of his beautiful operatic singing. The song also has one of the best atmospheric breakdowns off of any of the Emperor tracks on the album. The song the ascends into some amazing melodic black metal riffs and blast beat grooves, making the song a perfect tribute to symphonic black metal and one of the most epic songs previously unreleased by Emperor.
The Mercyful Fate cover song, Gypsy is done perfectly as Ihsahn imitates the infamous King Diamond's haunting fawcetta singing. Although the song is one of the shortest tracks Emperor has ever done, they still managed to pull off an epic feeling track with great guitar work.
Thus the band aside from the vocals basically made the Mercyful Fate song one of their own. I Am is probably the most industrial sounding track that could still be considered black metal.
The haunting intro alone would capture any listener for it's creepy beats and ambiance. What makes the song so great is how different and original it sounds, sounding more or less like a remix sound off of Isis's Oceanic: Remixes And Reinterpretations.
Another interesting thing about the track is the fact it sounds like Emperor took on a Mike Patton influence for the song. The Ulver remix of Sworn is also a twisted song of pure chaos, only much faster. The production is something to be said for, but the intense fury of turntables mixed in with the fury of the blast beats and scratchy guitar work makes the perfect sound of what I call pure and utter mayhem.
The last really noticeable track is The Longing Spirit from the rare mini album Reverence. The track is another perfect example of symphonic orchestration and black metal atmospheres that influence bands like Dimmu Borgir and Old Man's Child. The song has some amazing vocal work and guitar work as well.
It's tradition in any circle of music to put out a collection of an artist's choice material out for the masses directly following the band's demise.
Most only give the "big" points of the band's career, others give the lesser-known moments, and some collections are just altogether weird. Firstly, I think this collection was released entirely too soon after Emperor's initial break-up.
More time should have been given to let some of the shock die down, and also to put together a better compilation. I get the hint that this collection is Candlelight's dirty little way of raping Emperor's corpse, especially with the wealth of useless material on Disc 2, and what seems like a lack of making any effort to make "Scattered Ashes" a true monument to the band. Ex: No lyrics, no liner notes, etc. If Emperor wouldn't have regrouped, But thank God they did.
Releasing a compilation of the band's career only 2 years after their swansong album was definitely a bad call. On the upside though, this is a great starting point for newbies to the band. There's a significant wealth from all of the band's stages, all the way from the original "Wrath of the Tyrant" demo to the band's last album, Prometheus. Disc 1 highlights all of the band's major releases, especially "Anthems Where the fuck are "Warriors of Modern Death" and "Sworn"?!
It seems like the tracks from "In the Nightside Eclipse" also underwent some re-mixing; the guitars seem clearer, the drums louder, and the vocals mixed more towards the front of the mix. The same can be said of the tracks from "Anthems Unfortunately, Disc 2 is one of the big downfalls of this collection, due to the lack of entertaining and worthwhile listening material.
The band's take on the Mayhem classic "Funeral Fog" is quite interesting, and the unreleased tracks from the "As the Shadows Rise" EP, re-recorded from the "Wrath of the Tyrant," are pretty goddamn mean as well. Otherwise, Disc 2 is useless, featuring countless unreleased tracks, cover songs, and a quasi-industrial remix of "Sworn" by Ulver. The other thing that takes away from this collection is the lack of band history. No liner notes are given, no lyrics Quite a letdown, don't you think?
You would think that a band's post-career chronology would shed light on inner aspects of the band; not so in this collection. If you're already a fan of the band and own even half of their discography, don't bother with this. Newbies, however, should at least give this a glance. Well what can I say? In this album there is compiled in what my opinion is one of the greatest legacy of metal.
Ihsahn and company created among their relatively short career one of the most complex and inspiring albums that the world have ever heard with Anthems leading the list.
But in my opinion the albums that they recorded are not only high quality music but a testimony of the power and imagination of these creative Norwegian minds that transcended the boundaries of music and unearth the secrets and essence of a metaphysic and misanthropic chaos. The track list will not please the taste of all the fans, but all the material that Emperor recorded show the virtuosity of the band along with thoughtful compositions, sophistication and attention to detail while conserving the ruthless sonorous storm.
So it must not be a problem even if your favorite one is not included. This album is great for a first approach to Emperor, but if you liked it is imperative that you get the other albums, because all the songs are strokes of a great picture, and their full potential and meaning musical, sentimental and intellectually can only be revealed in company of the rest.
The Emperor is dead, long live the Emperor! For those who do not want to go out and buy all their albums, or those who have never heard of the mighty Emperor, this compilation serves as an excellent introduction. It is also great for those who are already Emperor fans as it contains some rare tracks. The first CD is a "greatest hits" of sorts.
It contains classic Emperor songs from each album. The only problem I have with this disc and why I gave it a 99 instead of is that it is not in chronological order. There is a definite evolution to the band that you can hear from listening to their albums, but the tracklist on Scattered Ashes skips around a bit. The second CD contains the 'rare' tracks and covers. All the covers are incredible. However, the left off a cover they did of the Celtic Frost song "Massacra".
I say 'rare' in quotation marks because the tribute albums that these songs appeared on are readily available on eBay, and most of them were put as bonus tracks on re-releases. Also on this disc are 2 of the 3 tracks from the As the Shadows Rise 7" that has long been out of print. However, all 3 tracks are available on the True Kings of Norway split.
The last 2 tracks are from the Reverence EP which was included as bonus songs on the reissues of Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. So the only really rare track is the rehearsal track of "Moon Over Kara-Shehr" and maybe the remixes the Ulver one is available on some versions of IX Equilibrium. Username Password Login. Bands alphabetical country genre Labels alphabetical country Reviews R.
Privacy Policy. Buy from Songs Lineup Other versions Reviews Additional notes. Disc 1 1. Curse You All Men! The Tongue of Fire Show lyrics loading lyrics The Majesty of the Nightsky Show lyrics loading lyrics Wrath of the Tyrant Show lyrics loading lyrics The Loss and Curse of Reverence Show lyrics loading lyrics An Elegy of Icaros Show lyrics loading lyrics I Am the Black Wizards Show lyrics loading lyrics Thus Spake the Nightspirit live Show lyrics loading lyrics Ye Entrancemperium Show lyrics loading lyrics In the Wordless Chamber Show lyrics loading lyrics With Strength I Burn Show lyrics loading lyrics Emperor's swan song, 's fairly amazing Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise , is arguably their most technically and compositionally complex album.
Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath is the VH1-style special-length specimen those of you curious about Emperor should seek out: one disc of choice album cuts from throughout their career, another disc of rarities and covers. Everything great about the band is on display here, and if you're left wanting more, you can always head for the albums and EPs. His humble musings on the nature of things "My word is your defeat, and thou shalt not be able to hide anymore!
Say what you want about Emperor's wanky later days, they knew how to produce an album. Even better is Prometheus ' "The Tongue of Fire", which features one of the great, cyclical-depressive guitar riffs.
It's as if Faith No More decided grew a pair no, a real pair , hired a serious drummer and realized that, yes, you can fill up a metal song with synths and not get labeled alt-something. At this point, Emperor were still slightly "amateur" in their execution, but much closer to the darkness I would attribute to prototypical black metal. In truth, the feel of their early music isn't that far removed from straight thrash, but Isaahn's hawk-cry vocals and the band's ultra-compressed, top-heavy mix injected a claustrophobic, disturbing tenor to their stuff.
To me, "Wizards" is black metal. As usual, the first disc is for the press, and the rest is for the fans.
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