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Album Of The Day: Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (Candlelight Records – 1997)

Emperor’s Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk is both a great gateway into the diabolical world of black metal and one of the genre’s daunting high watermarks. The furious, symphonic maelstrom the band unleash on this 1996 album is still something to behold. The combination of the Norwegians tremendous aggression and their formidable musical chops results in a record that gives an impression of imperious arrogance and almost ceremonial self-importance. Grandiose classics like The Loss And Curse Of Reverence and Ye Entrancemperium all more than live up to the album cover’s promise of “sophisticated black metal art” and Thus Spake The Nightspirit is right up there as one of my very favourite black metal tracks of all time.

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Opeth – The Twilight Is My Robe

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“You are the embodiment of pure freedom”

The lengthy, linear songs, relentless changes and a lack of repetition make Opeth’s debut album Orchid a tough nut to crack but it’s well worth the effort. Here’s one of the album’s best and most accessible tracks, The Twilight Is My Robe. It’s brilliant questing stuff that gallops across rolling Maidenesque hills, ventures through bleak forests of gothic doom and rests its weary head in a dingly dell of acoustic enchantment. It’s astonishing to think this band hadn’t been in a proper studio before they recorded this. It’s audacious, ambitious stuff from an adventurous band that was clearly going places.