What is Black Metal?
From Wiki:
"Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure.
During the 1980s, certain thrash metal bands established a prototype for black metal. This so-called First Wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost.[1] A Second Wave emerged in the early 1990s, which consisted primarily of Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal and Emperor. This scene developed the black metal style into a distinct genre.
Black metal has been met with considerable hostility from mainstream culture, mainly due to the misanthropic and anti-Christian ideology of many artists. Additionally, some musicians have been associated with church burnings, murder and/or National Socialism. For these reasons and others, black metal is often viewed as an underground form of music."
How does the band Emperor fit into black metal?
From Wiki:
"The Second Wave of black metal emerged in the early 1990s and was largely centred on the Norwegian black metal scene. During 1990–1994 a number of Norwegian artists began performing and releasing black metal music; this included Mayhem, Burzum, Immortal, Darkthrone, Satyricon, Enslaved, Emperor , Thorns, Ildjarn, Gorgoroth, Ulver and Carpathian Forest. Some of these artists would be responsible for a rash of criminal controversy, including church burnings and murder. To this extent, members and fans of the black metal scene claimed responsibility for over 50 arsons directed at Christian churches in Norway from 1992 to 1996. Musically, these artists developed the style of their 1980s precursors as a distinct genre that was separate from thrash metal. Philosophically, an aggressive anti-Christian sentiment became a must for any artists to be finalized as "black metal". Ihsahn of Emperor believes that this trend may have developed simply from "an opposition to society, a confrontation to all the normal stuff."[11] A dark, misanthropic mentality was complemented visually with the use of corpsepaint, which was also most prevalent during this period as a statement to separate black metal artists from other rock bands of the era.[5]"
Emperor, "I Am The Black Wizards"
"Mightiest am I, but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine. For the
black hills consists of black souls, souls that already have 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 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 were 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."
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