Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk came out and it marked the beginning of the end of Emperor's career. Discuss.

I always thought Reverence was the beginning of the end; it just wasn't as thoughtful and layered in meaning.

HAILS!

You spelled "IX Equilibrium" wrong.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you. Or possibly misunderestimating you.

Also "relevance", not "career".

Anthems was a step down but still good enough to be one of their "good" albums.

...I was in 6th grade and getting boners at Icecats games

bennyhillifier

DYA took the bait.

Your face took the bait. AND BY BAIT I MEAN A LOAD FROM A GUY.

BOOM

MY EYES

excuse me i am looking for Straight Bait IX?

Straight Bait IX Equilibricum

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

ZIRCON IS FAR BETTER THAN EMPEROR WILL EVER BE!!!!!!!!!!

YOU CAN ALL SUCK ON MY HUGE DICK!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of straight bait...

I was either pooping on my bedroom rug or pooping on someone else's.

I was buying this album with money I made from my full time job. You damn nowadays black metal kids with your boners and feces parties.

Spence was born...

each album was a change and took me a while to get used to... but all their albums are great.

Beat me to it.

If I remember correctly I got a copy of Anthems and Nile "Catacombs of Nephren Ka" for Christmas because only mom-bought metal is real. Loved this record so much that I bought the Nightside Eclipse shirt from the Rockabilia catalog. I stopped listening to everything past the first couple of tracks after I picked up Nightside and realized it was way better.

XI Equilibrium got maybe 1 or 2 full plays from me, and then hibernated at the bottom of a lazerline CD rack until I sold it for rent money upon moving out of my parents house 6 years later.

If I'm not mistaken, I remember this album being the best selling black metal album in the US until dimmu got big. I remember buying Anthems back in the day and not liking it because of the wall of sound. It took me a good few years to get into it.

Please just edit the title and turn this into a "Trumpet Part From Alsvartr Fuckin DISAPPREESH Thread"

Coolest intro until the trumpets show up. Fuck off Herbie Hancock Samoth

NO I HAVE A HUGE PENIS!!!!!!!

NEVER EVER ROUSE THE IRE OF KING THUNDERSTOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ZIRCON IS THE GREATEST BAND EVER!!!!!!!!

WAT

Oh yes, I forgot. For All Tid is my favorite power metal album.

Reissuing this next mo th at Dwyerfest, along with Icon E logo flexfits

got this album in 98 from Record Town and it changed my life. I used to listen to it on repeat while playing Rollercoaster Tycoon. I don't compare each album to the others, they are all unique and stellar in their own ways, yes including IX Equilibrium and Prometheus.

also, long live the trumpets. I set up my old computer from high school so that anytime you opened the start menu that played haha.

SEAX WILL BE DESTROYED!!!!!!!!

HEL CANNOT OUTDO ZIRCON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

AND I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL FOR OPPOSING ME!!!!!!!

Faggots rejoice.

It was Wrath of Tyrant when Emperor go downhill
RIP black metal hero
World wide will not forget you

Every download is an arrow in the heart of the homosexual bastard Arab-Jew Christ!

Jag sa kroppen har legat här i många år. Ingen märkte.

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS

Whatever, "Annika." Cool K-HAND track however.

MORE LIKE CURSE YOU ALL WREN AM I RITE

Korean pop music is called K-pop.

Is K-Hand what you get from that massage place next to the hotel in Kenmore Square?

In india they would never Utter a Khand...LOL see what i did there??