Emperor
There are multiple artists with this name:
1) Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991, regarded as highly influential by critics and emerging black metal bands. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth (guitar) and Ihsahn (guitar, vocals). Emperor has sold over 500,000 albums worldwide over the course of their career as of 2003.
In their youth, Ihsahn and Samoth met at a rock music seminar. Read Full BioThere are multiple artists with this name:
1) Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991, regarded as highly influential by critics and emerging black metal bands. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth (guitar) and Ihsahn (guitar, vocals). Emperor has sold over 500,000 albums worldwide over the course of their career as of 2003.
In their youth, Ihsahn and Samoth met at a rock music seminar. The two young men began playing together under various names; first Dark Device, then Xerasia, then Embryonic. The group soon evolved into the now well-known band Thou Shalt Suffer. Soon, however, Samoth began to write music outside of Thou Shalt Suffer, and together with Ihsahn and a new bass player called Mortiis (later of his own eponymous band Mortiis), Emperor was formed. After a short while together, the band released a demo entitled Wrath of the Tyrant. It quickly gained popularity in the underground and attracted the attention of the then-start-up label Candlelight. Soon afterwards, a record contract was signed, Samoth moved to rhythm guitar, Ihsahn continued the vocal duties and lead guitars, and Faust was recruited as a drummer. The band was signed to the infamous first black metal label, Deathlike Silence Productions, and planned to release their next album soon, though the band never managed to release any material while signed to DSP.
Emperor was one of the bands somewhat involved in the church burnings during the mid 1990s. Samoth was jailed 16 months for taking part in church burnings with Varg Vikernes (Burzum), along with other members of the Norwegian black metal scene. Drummer Faust was jailed for church burning and for the stabbing and murder of a homosexual man in 1992 (he was never suspected for it until 2 years later when he was arrested in 1994).
The group disbanded in 2001 because they felt they had lived up to everything they wanted to with Emperor. They have received "legendary" status, toured worldwide, have a large catalog of releases, and they didn't want to be known as another group that "never knows when to quit making music". The band reunited to play at Scream Magazine's anniversary festival and to headline the 2006 editions of Norway's Inferno Festival and Germany's Wacken Open Air. In an interview with UK Magazine Terrorizer, Ihsahn hinted at the possibility of another Emperor album, but stated that Emperor is now a side project.
A Tablature Book based on their Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath compilation album, containing thirteen Emperor tracks from their back catalogue, transcribed by Ihsahn with a foreword also by him, was released October 31 2007 via Candlelight Records. Emperor's albums were also re-issued in a special box version with a bonus poster on Aug. 21, 2007.
Samoth announced on October 23, 2007 that Emperor had begun preparing a second official DVD release. On December 8, 2008 it was revealed that this release will be called Live Inferno and come in the form of a double-disc live album and a live DVD, taken from their appearances at Inferno and Wacken metal festivals during their brief reunion. It was released on April 16, 2009 in Europe and April 21 in North America.
2) Emperor, real name Conor Corrigan is a drum 'n' bass and dubstep DJ from Halifax, UK. Emperor, having proved himself with some heavyweight releases on Critical, Symmetry, Inspected, Neodigital, Ammunition and some exquisite Dubstep gems on the Caliber label all in 2011. Emperor teamed-up with Mefjus, and unleashed their unstoppable "Hello World EP" which sky-rocketed them to the heights of the Drum & Bass scene, with the acclaimed 'Void Main Void' and 'Disrupted'.
1) Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991, regarded as highly influential by critics and emerging black metal bands. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth (guitar) and Ihsahn (guitar, vocals). Emperor has sold over 500,000 albums worldwide over the course of their career as of 2003.
In their youth, Ihsahn and Samoth met at a rock music seminar. Read Full BioThere are multiple artists with this name:
1) Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991, regarded as highly influential by critics and emerging black metal bands. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth (guitar) and Ihsahn (guitar, vocals). Emperor has sold over 500,000 albums worldwide over the course of their career as of 2003.
In their youth, Ihsahn and Samoth met at a rock music seminar. The two young men began playing together under various names; first Dark Device, then Xerasia, then Embryonic. The group soon evolved into the now well-known band Thou Shalt Suffer. Soon, however, Samoth began to write music outside of Thou Shalt Suffer, and together with Ihsahn and a new bass player called Mortiis (later of his own eponymous band Mortiis), Emperor was formed. After a short while together, the band released a demo entitled Wrath of the Tyrant. It quickly gained popularity in the underground and attracted the attention of the then-start-up label Candlelight. Soon afterwards, a record contract was signed, Samoth moved to rhythm guitar, Ihsahn continued the vocal duties and lead guitars, and Faust was recruited as a drummer. The band was signed to the infamous first black metal label, Deathlike Silence Productions, and planned to release their next album soon, though the band never managed to release any material while signed to DSP.
Emperor was one of the bands somewhat involved in the church burnings during the mid 1990s. Samoth was jailed 16 months for taking part in church burnings with Varg Vikernes (Burzum), along with other members of the Norwegian black metal scene. Drummer Faust was jailed for church burning and for the stabbing and murder of a homosexual man in 1992 (he was never suspected for it until 2 years later when he was arrested in 1994).
The group disbanded in 2001 because they felt they had lived up to everything they wanted to with Emperor. They have received "legendary" status, toured worldwide, have a large catalog of releases, and they didn't want to be known as another group that "never knows when to quit making music". The band reunited to play at Scream Magazine's anniversary festival and to headline the 2006 editions of Norway's Inferno Festival and Germany's Wacken Open Air. In an interview with UK Magazine Terrorizer, Ihsahn hinted at the possibility of another Emperor album, but stated that Emperor is now a side project.
A Tablature Book based on their Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath compilation album, containing thirteen Emperor tracks from their back catalogue, transcribed by Ihsahn with a foreword also by him, was released October 31 2007 via Candlelight Records. Emperor's albums were also re-issued in a special box version with a bonus poster on Aug. 21, 2007.
Samoth announced on October 23, 2007 that Emperor had begun preparing a second official DVD release. On December 8, 2008 it was revealed that this release will be called Live Inferno and come in the form of a double-disc live album and a live DVD, taken from their appearances at Inferno and Wacken metal festivals during their brief reunion. It was released on April 16, 2009 in Europe and April 21 in North America.
2) Emperor, real name Conor Corrigan is a drum 'n' bass and dubstep DJ from Halifax, UK. Emperor, having proved himself with some heavyweight releases on Critical, Symmetry, Inspected, Neodigital, Ammunition and some exquisite Dubstep gems on the Caliber label all in 2011. Emperor teamed-up with Mefjus, and unleashed their unstoppable "Hello World EP" which sky-rocketed them to the heights of the Drum & Bass scene, with the acclaimed 'Void Main Void' and 'Disrupted'.
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I Am the Black Wizards
Emperor Lyrics
Mightiest am I, but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine. For the black hills
consist of black souls, souls that already died 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 though 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 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 bottom 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
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MW Sloid
I guess just being one black wizard isn't enough for some people
MrMaldoon
So good :)
𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖔𝕯
the nerves of some people 🤨
Alan Galinov
Maybe he had split personality?
Coriiander Drewitt
@Richard Godwin That would have made you a brown wizard - nearly.
Corpse
Bruh 2022
The Tyrant
I just thought that I would mention for those who misinterpret the title to be a grammatical error, that they are taking it out of context. It is a Mortiis lyric, taken from one of his poems. It depicts his existence as the emperor of his world, and the Black Wizards under his command were created by him, along with that world. He is the world, and he is the Black Wizards, as his desires are their desires. I actually have his book 'Secrets of My Kingdom' in front of me, and on page 28 it reads:
"My will is the Black Wizards' will also. All I create has my will in it."
"No age shall escape my wrath, the wrath of the true tyrant.
My wizards are many, but their essence is me.
I am the Black Wizards."
wade wilson
Wait, there's lyrics??
verne texon
Ah. So Lord of the rings.
JelloFluoride
He inspired my writing in many ways. \m/