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Emperor
Emperor is a name that has ruled the world of Metal music for a long period of time. This symphonic black metal band is famous for its extreme symphonic metal that has captivated the music buffs in the last decade thanks to bands popularity.
This Norwegian band was formed in 1991 by Ihsahn and Samoth. The two young men first met at a rock music seminar. They first played together under various names like Dark Device, Xerasia and Embryonic.
The group then formed a band Thou Shalt Suffer and soon Emperor was formed with the two of them along with a new bass player Mortiis. Their demo entitled Wrath of the Tyrant gained popularity in the underground music scene and got the attention of the label Candlelight.
With Samoth, Ihsahn and Faust on rhythm guitar, vocals and lead guitars and drums respectively, the band was signed by the first black metal label, Deathlike Silence Productions.
The band did not release any album till 1993 because of their controversial assignments one of those lead Faust to a criminal offense.
The emerged again on the scene in the summer of 1993, when they toured with famous British group Cradle of Filth. Emperor also started working on their next album Nightside Eclipse that was released in 1994.
The album became an instant hit and earned the band widespread acclaim and a large fan base. The album with its epic, evolving song structures, ambient keyboard sounds, and raspy, spewed vocals was a real black metal record that has taken that genre to further heights.
Trym and Alver joined Emperor at the end of 1996 on drums and bass respectively and the band recorded Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, an album that became all-time blockbuster and was regarded as the 'album of the year' in many popular metal magazines around the world, including UK Terrorizer and US Metal Maniacs.
The album featured much more progressive sound than their earlier output and was more of a commercial effort that made them popular among masses.
The Bassist Alver soon left the band and the reaming three recorded their third album IX Equilibrium. This also continued their winning streak and the band toured Europe and the United States to give their fans a taste of hard core mettle.
Till then, the band had been accepted as the leading force of metal music. It was around 2000 when Samoth and Trym started to descend more towards death metal, while Ihsahn directed his musical exploration towards the more artistic and progressive side of extreme metal.
The band members decided to disband in 2001, but before that they give their one final taste of their music with an extremely rocking album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise.
Although the band is no longer together, yet they make appearances in different concerts on public demand. The band has also released DVD collections of their work. In the past few years, the band has performed in many important concerts and festivals.
The best of these performances include a surprise three-song show in Oslo in 2005, a series of full concerts in California, New York City, and Europe in 2006, sellout performances in Inferno festival, Wacken Open Air, under-18 Motstoy-festival and London's Astoria venue along with a series of one-off shows in the United States and two festival gigs in France and Finland in 2007.
The Emperors of metal music are gearing up once again to cast their magic all over again with new line up of concerts. Catch them at their latest concert and experience their dark, loud yet oh-so-irresistible music.
