Metal Milestones: Emperor "In The Nightside Eclipse"

[@tarkus1056]

This is the first black metal album I listened from front to back. Those keys and that chord progression in Cosmic Keys To My Creations & Time confused and amazed me so much at the time. Like how could music be grim and menacing yet so beautiful and grand at the same time? This album is what woke my new found hunger for extreme metal. I'm more of an Anthems kind of guy, but I enjoy all of their work. Ihsahn is such a peculiar songwriter, so underrated. And totally agree on the use of keyboards, how sometimes they sound even more menacing and twisted than the guitars yet they blend perfectly. (Empty comes to mind).

[@cocon8287]

This was my first black metal album as well :').

[@thismachinekillsmusic2]

Man I missed these metal milestones. This is indeed a VERY important BM record and in a way it's kinda underrated in the understanding of it's importance. Great vid and excited to hear about hat favorite album hah

[@mykectown]

Yeah I slacked A LOT on doing these. But I'm gonna try to get back into it. And yeah it's a bit underrated these days cuz newjacks just love to be negative towards "old folks music". So silly. Haha!

[@snowindafunboots4369]

all the youtube chnls put it in the best20❤❤👍👍. anyway generally BM is underrated.

[@richardmetalfan94]

One of the first albums that got me into black metal. Love it.

[@jacklynland3109]

I love this album and Emperor. I only started listening to black metal in 2005 in high school with yahoo music and MySpace and Sirius satellite radio. I heard Ian Christe play this album. It was amazing to me. I also started to find metal cds at Hot Topic and places where you could buy cds like Hastings and FYE started to carry metal cds. One album that I particularly loved as soon as I bought it was Darkthrone’s Goatlord. That album with the cover of a head of a goat fascinated me.

[@edd.lombardo]

*Emperor a cult band* 🤘🏻💀

[@JacobHTMHF]

Just picked this up on vinyl. Perfect timing with this upload

[@snowindafunboots4369]

👍👍

[@alexpinet3503]

Joey Bonzo I’m finally gonna be picking it up soon myself. Been meaning to for 15 years, but it’s just one of those ones that never came up in the wild and it’s always been so expensive online. Amazon’s got it $40, so fuck it. Getting it.

[@JacobHTMHF]

@@alexpinet3503 I had the same reasons for not picking it up. But they had it at my local Bullmoose for $30 so I had to cop it

[@twistedtrucker1540]

Inno A Satana!! One of my favorite Black Metal songs

[@WillJL20]

Don’t even like metal that much but this album is really something otherworldly. Amazing stuff

[@nordriket]

The most evil sounding music I had listened to in 1995 was Bon Jovi. I didnt discover Emperor - In the nightside eclipse until 2002. Absolute masterpiece and I listen to this daily. I still get inspired by this atmosphere. My favorite track is The Majesty of The Nightsky.

[@niklas2378]

you have my thumbs up... very few people have this level of understanding when it comes to the bands i love... the fact that your black and still express this level of love and understanding just makes me admire you even more. thank you!!! i bought this album on vinyl when it was released and it is still one of my favourites

[@ravantgarde1899]

niklas2378 Hey man! I am sure that you meant this comment in a nice way, but you bringing up his race is not really a cool thing to do. It’s almost like saying, “You’re not a typical Black person”. Again I’m sure you were trying to actually compliment him, but just trying to educate :) Have a good day! Let me know if I can help explain things better

[@samcoker2458]

A fantastic entry point into black metal for me and many others. Glad to see you're continuing this series.

[@letstalkmetal]

Finally remembered to dig back and find this video after you mentioned it when we streamed with Marty. Great discussion of this album! 'Nightside' was one of the first Norwegian black metal albums I bought in late '95 or early '96. It has such a grandeur to it while retaining a real darkened soul, a combination that relatively few BM bands ever managed to nail down.

[@varunramadhyani2184]

It was super cool to hear someone's take on this album that was actually present when this album was dropped 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾. It gives a perspective on the legacy of this album that I think a lot of people (not everyone!) my age don't realize. I only heard this album 5 years ago, but I still remember the night. Such a gorgeous album that highlights the beauty that black metal can have, along with its ferocity 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾. Awesome summation of a blizzard-cold classic Myke!!!

[@chris.hartliss]

Real shit!

[@danlord7717]

Classic in every sense of the word. Great video, Myke

[@aaronrose7090]

Love listening to this album in the winter it goes well with the atmosphere

[@chriss3674]

Such a dope album. Thanks for doing this one, Myke!

[@Animetion293]

Man I just came across your channel the other day. No idea how I hadn't come across you before. Great stuff, man. Love how knowledgeable you are.

[@comm1098]

The greatest album of all-time! Love the video man! I 100% agree on the mainstream black metal section. I absolutely despise it when BM fans dismiss some classic BM albums just cause of their popularity.

[@HeavyArtTalk]

Awesome video man. I love hearing you talk facts and interweaving commentary and your personal experience with the record

[@mykectown]

I really gotta do these more! I'm gonna try!

[@Malkav65]

Came to this vid because of a Fantano tweet and was not disappointed. Subscribed!

[@Zerovibritannia60]

Awesome review Myke! This is definitely my favorite black metal album of all time no question. The riffs are just amazing all throughout and as you said the way Emperor played their instruments were a cut above the rest around this time. Beyond the Great Vast Forest is definitely my favorite track that riff is perfect imo. Thanks for reviewing this album now I have to give it a few more listens today.

[@Nicolasmondragon707]

Myke the Kid C Town back again!!

[@21stCenturyNabokov]

This album is a 10/10

[@kwuancolbert213]

Thanks for giving me an album in this genre to fully dive into within the Black Metal genre. I’ve been trying to look for more Black Metal bands to listen to. I just never knew where to begin. I’ve always had playlists that introduced me to bands, but I’ve always wanted one complete album to hear.

[@jacobalexander7192]

Very sick album, definitely my favorite cover art of all time. Great video dude

[@pibeley2014]

And yesterday was also my birthday, your thumbnail made me smile a little bit Myke :]

[@babula1965]

Great video about one of the greatest albums in the genre. I remember when I was in High school and first started listening to Emperor and opened up a whole new world for aggression and expression.

[@doodman3070]

Awesome! Always love to hear you talk about black metal!

[@lobstarooo]

Oh man I've been thinking of sending you questions about Emperor for a long time, this is just perfect. Great video! Love your description of the album too, and I can't wait to hear what you got on Anthems too :D

[@SatansRealm]

The best black metal album of all time. It will never be topped.

[@mtwice4586]

Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is my favorite black metal album of all time.

[@Animetion293]

And you're wearing a fucking Craft hoodie ohhhhhh man. Love them.

[@chris.hartliss]

Love this series! Your taste in metal and hip hop is fucking lit!

[@chazbones23]

You nailed it. Awesome review!!! \m/

[@ohmaurrfish]

This album and Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger changed my life! I had just started getting into Metal and I needed heavier, darker, and more extreme! My search would eventually lead me to Death Metal which would eventually lead me deeper into the abyss of Black Metal. 15 years later I still fuck with Black Metal but I still listen to this album on the regular as well. This album is incredible, riff after riff, and those keyboards! hell yeah! The keyboards made me feel like I was living in that album cover hahaha.

[@fogskiss3137]

I completely agree with you here. Things just weren't like they are now in the 90's and no band at that time had any records that sounded like this. This album is just so dense in that ice cold atmosphere, and the riffs are really well composed, as well as the songs. I remember the first time I heard cosmic keys and I was sincerely impressed. I think this and setherial - Nord are two of the greatest black metal albums when you're speaking on atmosphere, although I'd still have to say that my favorite riff and song composition would go to Sacramentum - far away from the sun, blut aus nords memoria vetusta albums and vinterlands album welcome my last chapter

[@DreamPurpleFloyd]

8:11 You hit the nail perfectly. It's refined but it still sounds dangerous.

[@alexpinet3503]

Killer video, dude. Subscribed immediately.

[@ozzyzak]

This is a really cool idea, Myke. I like it!

[@RoguePlanetSounds]

Love when you cover Black Metal! It's a genre I've slowly been getting into the last few years.

[@alexg1210]

Myke you are awesome.

[@Wabin22]

Some very wise words there man! Honestly, I've never found this one very interesting. Which is a shame, because it feels like I'm truly missing out, but everytime I put it on I just get disappointed :/

[@Cinemactik]

I remember getting this from a friend for Xmas a few years later, probably '96🎁Still a solid album to this day🔥

[@xpompompomx]

Great review! Immortal's At the heart of winter's 20th birthday is coming up next week ;)

[@brennanfralick6180]

I love the synthesizers on this album. I do think that burzum started this trend but in burzum's music it seams to blend with therest of the instrumentation in a really beautiful way. Emperor however almost uses the keys as a juxtaposition to the mind blowing speed and aggression they display on this album.

[@s-viv9232]

Emperor might be my favorite bm band. Such thoughtful song writing. I prefer their later albums myself, but this is definitely a beast for it's time. Classic.

[@scotricksen]

Actually first heard this sometime last year, blew me the fuck away. Absolutely epic record

[@benng4376]

In The Nightside Eclipse was one of the first black metal albums I heard in the 90s along with Transylvanian Hunger, Cruelty And The Beast and Moonspell's Wolfheart. You're 100 percent right. Back then even death metal fans didn't understand the black metal sound and it was as far from mainstream as possible. My favorite Emperor album is still Anthems and I don't understand the lack of love it gets from younger black metal nerds.

[@sarcofaygo6218]

The following symohonic BM albums sound amazing if you listen in this order : 1) emperor - nightside 2) Marduk - Opus Nocturne 3) dimmu borgir - storm blast 1996 4) emperor - anthems to the welkins at dusk

[@hewhoshallnotbenamed8228]

Dude has a Craft long sleeve? He knows his stuff!

[@sarcofaygo6218]

Fuck yeah!!!

[@musicallymeditated4676]

Great Job MYKE!

[@TobiBaronski]

Not sure why but I started my BM journey off with the newer and weirder shit like DSO and was prolly one of those people you shit on at the end with respect to Emperor and all the other OGs like Mayhem lol but now I can’t stop listening to this, Welkin and DMDS.

[@noir4356]

It was my favorite for a long time. I still own the CD, for over 20 years, and the box totally scratched, inlays are barely readable...

[@jonnykhatru]

Wow I just listened to this yesterday after not listening to it for yeara

[@alexschuster1618]

Anthems is the album that got me into black metal. It's still one of my favorites of any genre.

[@chinstrappengin]

Cool! I’m gonna give it a listen

[@pelodelperro]

I prefer Anthems but this is the one that got me into those frozen realms. Great review!

[@kountgrishnachk1494]

Fuck yeah Emperor 🤘 Wrath of the Tyrant is my favorite release from them

[@thelanguagebar3959]

This album was groundbreaking for black metal. I don't think we would have this variety of black metal bands if not for this. And yes, it was my entry point into BM too.

[@fenriz218]

Ah, this reminds me of college days, when I was (rough)-housing with one of my best mates - who only had one major flaw: he was a Punk / Grindcore kid, who considered everything Black Metal the reincarnation of Hitler-in-persona (and who would regularly invite Seth Putnam from Anal Cunt over, so that this asshat could steal our booze, dope and everything else that came into the vicinity of his greedy fingers - at least until I knocked his lights out on Beacon Hill, but that's another story). Old codger's story cut short: it didn't take that mate all that long to get over his "Black Metal phobia" - not after making him listen to ItNE on a pretty constant basis. After that he was put on a steady diet of Mayhem, Darkthrone and all the other goodies in the collection... and the rest can be imagined... \m/ ... only felt slightly sorry for our third roommate, who was a unrepentant Phish-fan... :-)

[@MrBjnelson]

I really want to get this album as well as listen to more black metal albums. Though I listened to Celtric Frost's first 3 albums.

[@snowindafunboots4369]

GREAT AS IMPRESSIVE ALBUM. GREAT VIDRO TOO. ciao from Italy👍👍

[@jessebartz4847]

Oh yeah this is an incredible album.

[@williamhernandez5542]

I first heard some of these songs on the Emperor Live Album Imperial Ceremony I think was the title. And honestly I liked those versions better than the album versions...But yeah these songs are classics and if someone doesn't recognize that then that is their problem.

[@azathothsothoth2029]

How about Altars of Madness by Morbid Angel? That was the first and only record I currently have and it really stands out for me since I felt it was everything I search for in not only death metal but extreme metal overall. It's going to be its 30th Birthday btw.

[@imdartson3679]

If you haven't already you should check out Thou Shalt Suffer. Its a death metal project the members of Emperor did before Emperor. It also has Ihsahn's ridiculous keyboards on top. Highly recommended.

[@vikfromvaughan1686]

Never listened to a black metal album before, so I guess I’ll start here.

[@adr.marius5636]

enjoy!

[@jettrainbow]

What did you think of it?

[@vikfromvaughan1686]

Jett Rainbow I ended up enjoying it, took me a while to get used to the voice of whoever is singing. But I enjoyed the instrumentation right off the bat.

[@jettrainbow]

@@vikfromvaughan1686 Nice.

[@canijustplease]

Nice one mate. Fucken love this album. Surprised you made no mention that the album is inspired by lord or the rings. Also I was all about the blackened compilations. Found so many bands on those compilations that I still listen to today.

[@steinafl]

Ihsahn is from Notodden, the site of Norways biggest annual Blues Festival so he probably got it in at an early age. If blues is the music of the downtrodden, does that make black metal the music of the sunlight depraved?

[@youthproblem671]

fucking masterpiece. forever in my top 5 black metal projects. d&d emperor > the matrix emperor

[@RigVertigo]

The first black metal album to make its way into my collection 🤘

[@nikolarekovic3546]

Everythng damn well said, I'd just have to mention Pytten the producer. He was the key figure in 90s norwegian scene.

[@Lucols4]

Although I have an immense respect for this band, I've never been able to get into their music that much. I should definitely give them another spin.

[@bigfat4172]

Hey Myke, wanna give you two underheard recommendations if you don't mind. One is a band called Miscarriage who just had an album release by Sentient Ruin called Imminent Horror. It's the most terrifying deathy noise doom Ive ever heard. Also a band called Endon. They're from japan and theyre like a powerviolence/power electronic group and to give you an idea of how intense the music is, a member of Full of Hell described how discovering Endon made them feel like posers.

[@Rosterized]

Heh this album came out 2 days before I was born =D

[@tenchikid80]

Hey Myke or anyone who can help me, I wanted to pick this record up and they have a "blue" reissue of Night side Eclipse. Does anyone know the key differences of that one and if it's worth getting or trying to hunt for another version.

[@eoncatalystalbums]

Silencer - "Death - Pierce Me"

[@wilaim8549]

Classic album, I agree with you that this album was way more influential than Anthems was, but i feel Anthems is a lot more refined and consistent. Both albums are bangers though regardless. Bought this with Sacramentum's Far Away From The Sun which is also an underrated gem, doesn't get enough love as it should compared to Dissection's SOTLB.

[@yungobama5391]

this album is great even tho i listened to it like 2 years ago because i got into black metal not that long ago

[@markwilson5856]

What do you think of Ihsahn's solo work?

[@mykectown]

I like some more than others. I'm not a huge prog fan.

[@ronitmankad1920]

Can anyone tell me how do I get into death/black metal? I primarily listen to hip-hop and want to expand my music palette. Suggest me some bands for death metal and black metal so I can get started into the genre. Thanks in advance XD

[@jettrainbow]

Bolt Thrower's "Those Once Loyal" has some kind of hip-hop moments in the drums occasionally. That's all I got.

[@Moth-ManRemasters]

Ronit Mankad I suggest you start with the band Death. They practically went through all the different types of death metal in the 90s. For black metal I guess you can go listen to Bathory.

[@jettrainbow]

@@Moth-ManRemasters Hard to argue with those picks!

[@jettrainbow]

Is that a fucking Craft hoodie?

[@blackmetalrocks1404]

In the nightside eclipse was good but I prefer anthems to the welkin at dusk a lot more which is their second album

[@ObsidianBlaze9]

Maybe a metal milestone for any Dissection album.

[@supak108]

FUCK YES

[@eliaskostolias151]

This was by far one of the most evil records to come out back in 1994. Anthems also. All the losers that call this mainstream black metal are too young to understand what actually happened during those years. Nothing existed like that, it was truly evil sounding : darkthrone mayhem immortal marduk cradle of filth emperor dissection dimmu borgir etc...(bathory celtic frost were just a couple of years before ) these bands took it to a whole new level

[@lednerg]

No bullshit, I swear. I don't know these people. You need to check out Cleric's album from December 2017 called Retrocausal. It's from people who brought you Mr Bungle It's seriously good. Please, you'll like it. It's not bullshit. I'm not profiting off of this. I wish it was on vinyl, but they can't do that right now.

[@lednerg]

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[@mykectown]

I heard it. And yeah it just sounds like a modern version of Mr Bungle's first album. It's cool but I doubt I'd return to it.

[@prizm2807]

Darkthrone, early Dimmu Borgir and only a few others is a few of the only black metal bands ill listen too. They atmosphere is great in black metal, the raw production usually matches the guitar tones in most cases. The distortion, the slow builds ups. The only thing I can't stand for the most part is overly recycled themes, subjects. Bands keeping the same topics 95% of the albums (Satan, i get it. Jesus molested there emotionally weak ass selves.) The singing after an extended time grates on me. I can only listen black metal an album at a time, same with Death metal.

[@Moth-ManRemasters]

Bryce Mewes if you want Darkthrone esque production you can go listen to Leviathan and The Ruins of Beverast

[@charlotte7855]

You seem to be the last person I would expect to enjoy black metal... What a pleasant surprise

[@mykectown]

Oh really? Why is that?

[@machinicassemblage]

burzum better lol

[@connie_d]

Best Emperor album ever They're old and boring now like me :(

[@connie_d]

I saw them in Bradford back in the day Before Inno A Satana Ihsahn was like "You can really bang your heads to this one"...not very necro

[@connie_d]

You're an attractive man btw