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Emperor – The Tongue Of Fire
Biography
Notodden, Norway (1991 – 2001)
The band was formed around the core members Samoth (Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen) and Ihsahn (Vegard Sverre Tveitan) of the death metal band Thou Shalt Suffer and bass player Mortiis (Håvard Ellefsen) in Notodden, Norway, 1991.
They released their critically acclaimed and widely influential debut In the Nightside Eclipse in 1994 after being joined by drummer Faust and having replaced Mortiis with Tchort on bass.
Around the same time as the release of the debut, most of the band’s members are arrested on various accounts (drummer Faust for murder and arson, guitarist Samoth for arson and bassist Tchort for burglary).
Two years later, after Samoth’s parole, the band released what many consider to be their landmark achievement, Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk, having invited Enslaved’s Trym Torson (Kai Jonny Mosaker) to man the drums.
Emperor went on to release two more albums (IX Equilibrium in 1999 and Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire and Demise in 2001) before splitting up in 2001. A live album titled Emperial Live Ceremony was also released in 2000 as both video (VHS / DVD) and CD. And, in addition, a “best of” double CD titled Scattered Ashes: A Decade Of Emperial Wrath was released in 2003.
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VanitysFair
What's up with all these shitty electronic musicians sharing names with black metal bands? Mayhem is the other one that does.
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Alegiano
Also lmao at people falling for the obvious troll below.
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Alegiano
For the longest time I thought this was some crappy old trash band, so I never listened... until I accidentally stumbled over them on YouTube. Holy crap! This stuff owns so hard! @__@
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kum_harris
блядь, что это за новинка!!? о_О
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einzweit
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Keyblade_91
"DaedraLord no need to be upset, it's noone's but your fault that you listen to inferior music" Says the dude who listens to 3 Doors fucking Down
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FKyeah
i'm more than one black wizard
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Int3r
DaedraLord no need to be upset, it's noone's but your fault that you listen to inferior music
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DaedraLord
Dude i'm going to find you in real and feed your rotting flesh to the crows.
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Int3r
I wish there was a proper Emperor here. I mean D&B producer not some shitty metal band.
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Rosnay
they should make another album, one more fucking epic album, resurrect the Emperor!!
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ikd-sj
[thus spake the nightspirit] ABSOLUTELY ｄ(*｀･(エ)･´*)ｂ
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X-evier
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Snowheadtemple
"The fuck is wrong with you?" Hey now, I like Beherit and all but I get tired of listening to them really quickly.
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TheAmon
big sunglasses always cool band
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AS_Luemmel
nothing wrong, at the end of the day it's all a matter of personal taste... there are just classics I don't like... take Celtic Frost for example, I know people will stone me for this, but I also find them to be very boring, too... I understand all the influence they had and appreciate it, but I just don't like the music... same goes for Beherit... end of story.
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the_raytownian
"early Beherit (which I find rather boring to be true [...])" The fuck is wrong with you?
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subalval
Black Metal is maykl jekson. Emperor is facking niggers!
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ToxicGriever
v Dimmu Borgir would be a better candidate for that title.
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Thorgrimm6
Black metal Nightwish.
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