Emperor - I Am the Black Wizards

Emperor - I Am the Black Wizards from the "Emperial Live Ceremony" DVD.
Lyrics:
Mightiest am I, but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine. For the
black hills consists of black souls, souls that already dies one
thousand deaths. Behind the stone walls of centuries they breed their
black art. Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold. Far up in
the mountains, where the rain fall not far, yet the sun cannot
reach. The wizards, my servants, summon the souls of macrocosm. No age
will escape my wrath. I travel through time and I return to the
future. I gather wisdom now lost. I visit again the eternally ancient
caves, before a mighty Emperor thereupon came. Watching the mortals
"discovering" my chronicles, guarded by the old demons, even unknown
to me. Once destroyed their souls are being summoned to my timeless
prison of hate. It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
that was destroyed in my future. How many wizards that serve me with
evil. I know not. My empires has no limits. From the never ending
mountains black, to the bottomless lakes. I am the ruler and has been
for eternity's long. My wizards are many, but their essence is
mine. Forever there are in the hills in their stone homes of
grief. Because I am the spirit of their existence. I am them.

[@santiroust1590]

One of the best songs of Black Metal

[@christiansanchez6537]

Santi Roust igree

[@guybormann4118]

🤘

[@ArtemTenkeliPianist]

🔥👍🤘

[@Hell_Inc]

facts

[@pllpsy665]

This guy was identifying as black decades ago...Emperor have always been ahead of their time.

[@grizzlymanverneteil4443]

Ha!

[@richardfrancisburton3867]

Normal. Is a band of the first wave. But not the first

[@disco1446]

Few pieces of music in history can give you goosebumps like this.

[@MattyPS]

This is the song which made me like black metal.

[@dominusbelial]

me too

[@nessall2243]

Me too

[@krueger231]

Emperor is possibly the best metal band of all time.

[@viking_sith_lord]

This is the band and this is the song my band •SECULARIS• covered 16 years ago. And today we return to see them again after 16 years at the House of Blues. Thank you guys for the brutal Norwegian black metal 🤘🏼

[@AsILayinRuin]

I want to all to really bang your heads on this one!!

[@seomerica-incubator]

This song makes me release bad emotions and at the end I feel great! Thank you Emperor for your music 🙌

[@Thesortvokter]

You'll understand it if you read the whole lyrics. He (the Emperor) consists of many wizards: "My wizards are many, but their essence is mine. Forever there are in the hills in their stone homes of grief. Because I am the spirit of their existence. I am them." - I am them as in I am the Black Wizards...

[@tingmann]

2023, still listening to it, still one of my favorites

[@the_bassiah]

You cannot beat this masterpiece of a song

[@samhainvzaekebdvarmorvktre5407]

I will say this song and Transylvania from mütiilation are the best riff black metal have ever done

[@heinrichtavaresdearagaodur4948]

You know this next song.... That still gives me goosebumps, despite this concert is a few years long

[@davidmurphy8364]

My favorite band of all time, they just have it all

[@user-tz9gz4ps1w]

I Am The Bald Wizards

[@GrimeReaperMan]

The goosebumps are unstoppable

[@RegurgitatedGuts117]

My wife, who loves pop and classical, heard this song and is now asking all about similar bands and has ignited interest in black metal for her

[@katilpatates290]

Enslaved first albüms.

[@prestobillyo2866]

One of the greatest black metal compositions 🤘

[@Anestorm_Of_The_Reaper]

in the original song his vocals are buried behind quitars,drums,bass...i don't know....at least thats how it feels to me when i heard this song for the first time from the cd a few years before....

[@gabrieltremblay3918]

genius lyric, the abstraction of such an entity power is so well described, to me what he describ is the mind of the strongest demon thats gone drunk with power and is almost lost

[@disco1446]

The master when he was still a young master.

[@DominusLuna]

One of the fucking best songs ever.

[@disco1446]

The guys a frigging genius. Only a handful of people in the history of metal, music even, can write like Ihsahn.

[@KevinHallSurfing]

Saw them May '23 and now 20 years later Ihsahn still sounds the same! This song was incredible live

[@hammettsatriani]

Better than the original.

[@MrJackrockerman]

Top notch band.. really good and precise at live show.. Ihsahn is total legend

[@Mitsuri20]

I love this song, black metal live forever

[@doomzakon]

Best Emperor song

[@user-ui7qu3vs8t]

やっぱ何年経っても、最高だわ。これ以上の曲は存在しない

[@reverendjimjones1043]

*I AM THEM*

[@patricioriquelme3485]

Esta es la mejor versión de esa canción, Hail Emperor!!!!

[@blastronaut7381]

They make it look effortless.

[@Dnekro69]

listen to this in many a moonlit graveyard back in the day

[@nikolss]

ALUCINANTE ! .

[@salvatorenastasi6475]

I don't particularly like black metal, really few things, but this is fucking awesome, how can he play guitar and sing like that at the same time. I also love that they don't have to dress up like silly clowns but look evil as fuck anyway. Top stuff!

[@GoDSenTDEth]

That was incredible

[@DominusLuna]

Oh my gosh. I love this song.

[@JoseHernandez-jx2eu]

La letra es el sueño que tenemos todas las almas black metaleras

[@Hero_of_Legend]

One thing I absolutely respect about Emporer, is that they do black metal proper justice, without all the goofy paint and spiked leather bullshit. Just music.

[@hareeshk99]

Fuck I know right!! That's what makes them so great. It's no bullshit

[@Hero_of_Legend]

Thanks. Who the fuck are you?

[@Hero_of_Legend]

Oh, I don't doubt it. I'll stick to just wearing shirts and jeans, no makeup, and listening to metal. Fuck the over the top bullshit.

[@Hero_of_Legend]

So...you're nobody. Got it. Also, they have done it. But here, we see them choosing not to. Something rare in the genre. They at least know they don't fucking need it.

[@hareeshk99]

Fangalatic They dropped the whole corpse paint thing even before they're first album

[@Dhalsim06]

Great video, very well shot. Would love to have been there.

[@vaxkors95]

Ihsahn looks like an evil Devin Townsend there...

[@woodenhoe]

Devin used to look evil in his skullet days

[@visionsoftheend4299]

Devil Hellsend?

[@AlexanderEfimtsev]

Приятная музыка из детства. отдуши поёт. почеловечески.

[@tylerzielinski5272]

I love heavy metal. Black metal is one of my least favorite sub genres of metal. This is one of my favorite metal songs. I think that tells you how epic this song is.

[@LuxPostNoctem]

Emperor is just on another level.

[@richardfrancisburton3867]

It was the same to me!! Beacuse of this song i entered more and more in black metal

[@HounmanBT]

​@richardfrancisburton3867 Please check out Negative Plane ASAP, starting with their most recent album, "The Pact". My favorite BM band, who I believe have in a way reinvented the genre, while staying completely true to the genre's roots.

[@dcardmatz]

awsome

[@user-bh9rc8xw4y]

GOAT

[@Mitsuri20]

TEMASOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

[@timothybrown6049]

Emperor, is The BADDEST,

[@preteritohieratico1068]

Legendarios !!

[@MrThrash3d]

0:46 best black metal riff !

[@arregi80]

Gods!!

[@CorpseIV]

2021 это лучшее что есть и по сей день

[@Gnarlow87]

black metal kicks ass, but mainly when ihsahn does it

[@everybodypomarancze9355]

why youtube is showing only my views of this? best fucking version of all

[@eetuv6075]

good original Emperor

[@JJ-ls6el]

All emperor is good emperor

[@Anthony5555454]

gotta love jackson guitars man

[@psychosocialdude8135]

μαυρη μεταλ για πάντα!

[@tomrifles3365]

I fucking love

[@frijol_digital]

A fuking classic!!!!

[@carlobattistelli7719]

Fucking perfect

[@DarkLord666SK]

Fucken energetic song!!! -l-

[@georgekorovytsky]

I got a jackson too! I Am... The EMPEROOOR! (haha, really, everything about them is pretty awesome - but in an intelligent way)

[@Aries.69]

They played this song with so fellz omg

[@TheTrueNarthumpulous]

Fucking metal!

[@NNN_613]

read the lyrics.

[@calatan0]

Honest to God I love this song to death.. it touches me Everytime and I don't even know the words. I don't want to know the words. I feel if I knew the words I would be less attracted to this song It would be jist like every other song I hear and I would no longer understand it's beauty. "I am the black wizards"

[@LuxPostNoctem]

Lyrics makes it just so much more epic.

[@96wtfomg]

Try to read them, makes it better

[@Drugaddict22]

Gotta love the my nigga the wizard.

[@uncooldispatch5438]

🙌🙌🙌😈😈😈👹👹👹👹

[@burzum56]

But no one can escape the wrath of the TYRANT!

[@RustlingJimmies69]

No age will escape my wrath.

[@parshimers]

to hear his voice now compared to how incredible it is here depresses me

[@Beanboy001]

ahhh those dweebs got to see the EMPEROR live in the glory days. so sad.

[@elon_bust]

They all became gigachads after this

[@user-tx9qf6wc2m]

転生してるから良い。

[@CorpseIV]

Привет из России! Где Emperor в 2019?

[@kaankkaraman]

is that ihsahn??

[@savber99]

evet knk

[@eon14873]

Of course 😆

[@Corrosive1]

@vaxkors95 Devil Townsend

[@abhirupmandal995]

Is that Tyrm or Faust drumming?

[@1106Winter]

Abhirup Mandal, Tyrm. Faust was behind bars, at this point.

[@zakur0hako]

Leo Gura?

[@diegopolobrito5158]

hola

[@orionviking8781]

+diego polo brito hola

[@cachapeo]

dale un hijo ps xDDDDDDDD

[@pirantotto]

oh se avete face....venite su "metal cult". ..... cerchiamo solo metallari VERI!

[@grahamwalsh8372]

no corpse paint?

[@reptilia9043]

graham walsh they used to use corpse paint before the debut

[@Beanboy001]

ok then?

[@ThePindar]

hltv shitty pole brought me here

[@user-tx9qf6wc2m]

ヨサクの顔。ヨサクの意識。

[@user-tx9qf6wc2m]

キャサリン妃長女

[@user-tx9qf6wc2m]

キャサリン妃は131歳

[@raed666n]

i got KV Dmustaine signature,,,and another adrian smith signature :-)

[@Miguelizk00l]

I Am The Tag Team Champions

[@user-tx9qf6wc2m]

大橋巨泉の直系なので莫大な借金。担保にされてる子孫。

[@alegrin1]

the singer looks like Billy from the smashing pumpkins, but sing like abbath ahahaha

[@Metemi]

Someone should tell them that wizard should not be pluralized lol

[@DominusLuna]

+Metemi For he is many, past, present and future...he is them. "I am them!"

[@Metemi]

Oh ok, I get it.

[@javiermedina5313]

is a legion of black wizards inside me

[@danielbriza1279]

No, it's because of the multiverse of alternative realities (which is connected to time travelling), so there is many versions of himself.

[@stefdiazdiaz7067]

@@DominusLuna also " because i am the spirit of their existence" and "their esence is mine"... i am them

[@user-tx9qf6wc2m]

赤のオーデェンスは、女は、キャサリン妃

[@RogerioSilva-cs5fb]

عصر ایران در این باره گفت 👿

[@johnnyzamaripa5293]

Dark fortress will give emperor a run for their money

[@RicardoManceraTorres]

...SONG OF THE DAY!!! EMPEROR - I AM THE BLACK WIZARDS (1993) Esta canción está considerada junto con su disco In the Nightside Eclipse, el comienzo del Death Metal Melódico, entiendo que es difícil poder "aguantar" para los oídos de muchos, sin embargo, si le dan una oportunidad podrán entender lo VIRTUOSOS Y CREATIVOS que pueden ser estas bNds 🤘🏿. Además me encanta poder imaginar las historias oscuras que relatan en ellas, en esta hace referencia a un cuento malvado de hadas sobre un hechicero todopoderoso que controla a los magos malignos que viven en las montañas. Y cómo ser supremo se jacta de lo bien que hace su malévolo trabajo. 🤘🏿MEGAROLON🤘🏿

[@earsbleed]

ajajaj en 1992 ya carcass había sacado el heartworks, existían grandes bandas de antaño como dark tranquility, at the gates, in flames y toda la movida sueca, es totalmente falso que sea el comienzo del death metal melodico, informate bien

[@RicardoManceraTorres]

@@earsbleed tienes toda la razón de que existían ya esas grandiosas bandas, sin embargo (y no nada más por que yo lo escribo aquí), EMPEROR con ese disco así es considerado, tu referencia al MARAVILLOSO Heartwork es incorrecta (aparte de que No SE ESCRIBE CON UNA "S" al final 😌) salió oficialmente en Octubre de 1993. 🤘🏿

[@carlesvila8224]

@@RicardoManceraTorres ITNE es un disco seminal de black metal, más concretamente el primer gran exponente del llamado black metal sinfónico. El death metal melódico es algo muy distinto

[@ryanskene1088]

I didn't know Varg replaced Isahn.

[@fightinboner]

what is the deal with the goddamn grammar on this song title.

[@grizzlymanverneteil4443]

Read the lyrics guy

[@stealthyjun]

The lyrics of this song are incredibly stupid.

[@eon14873]

They were 15 or 16 when they wrote them

[@historyworld3504]

SHIT!!!!!!!! not music! :P