Taking hardcore-leaning rhythms combined with psych-inflected lead playing, sludge and Brann Dailor's human octopus drumming, Mastodon were forging a new sound that would later find the band ...

The internet seems to think In The Nightside Eclipse came out on February 21, 1994, yet anyone who was there at the time will recall the agonising delays that pushed Emperor’s hotly anticipated debut ...

Emperor put out four massively influential black metal (and progressive metal) albums starting with their 1994 debut In the Nightside Eclipse and ending with their entirely Ihsahn-composed 2001 effort ...

Ihsahn is still planning on doing more Ihsahn. "It kind of came to a very natural conclusion — in the sense that by the last… I eventually started writing more and more of the material, and by the ...

I don’t know about you, but the year 2025 sounds like far-flung sci-fi bullshit to me. Still, that’s next year and it’s fast approaching, so new shows set for next year are popping up left and right.

Black metal icons Emperor have maintained unwavering image in their entire existence as a band, which includes maintaining radio silence on studio releases since 2001’s Prometheus – The Discipline of ...

Why have you made a double album of avant garde metal and orchestral music? “I like to experiment, find new angles to attack the album format. Sometimes it’s more basic, sometimes it’s more out there.

Before In The Nightside Eclipse, black metal – even Norwegian black metal – had presented many milestones. Thirteen years before its release, Venom belched their Welcome To Hell debut into the world, ...

Although it is Emperor's fourth overall release, 'In the Nightside Eclipse' is officially the band's first full-length album. This record covers the listener like cold, frost-covered blanket, inviting ...