Emperor - Prometheus: Discipline of Fire & Demise
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Artist: EmperorEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Candlelight
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- EMPEROR PROMETHEUS - THE DISCIPLIONE OF FIRE & D
- The Eruption
- Depraved
- Empty
- The Prophet
- The Tongue Of Fire
- In The Wordless Chamber
- Grey
- He Who Sought The Fire
- Thorns On My Grave
Free Music Notes for Prometheus: Discipline of Fire & Demise
Free Music Review: Amazing. Just amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
I am left floored by this album, from the "There was nothing" at the beginning to the epic end of this majestic CD. And after the album ends, I don't move or anything, don't go and put in a new CD, I just stay where I am, speechless. And I can't listen to anything else, because this album is so great, I can't listen to anything else, even Anthems or Nightside eclipse. Nothing else compares.
First off, this album is the most cerebral music I've heard. It's cerebral, even for Emperor. And the riffs and such are technically stunning. This album, if you give it a chance, will leave you speechless, just like it left me speechless. Why, do I say, then, give it a chance? Well, even though the production is excellent, the main thing is that this is the densest metal I've ever laid my ears on. You won't remember most of it the first time you listen to it, but it will slowly absorb into you the more you listen to it. It has conflicting melodies, interweaving guitar lines, flurrying keyboards, and sometimes three or more completely different lines working together to make something excellent and stunning.
Another thing, nobody gives Ihsahn credit for his voice. It's not Vintersorg (of Borknagar, Vintersorg)'s voice, but hey, it's still above average. And his scream of "THORNS ON MY GRAVE!!!!" at the end of the last song sends chills down my spine.
Tempo changes, fast flurrying drums, slow 6/8 grooves, and unidentifiable drum patterns mark this album, with interesting beats flavoring sections right after the traditional black metal blastbeats have lost their impressiveness. The guitars interact with the drums in rather odd ways, choosing to play on only some of the hits, and the choice of which sub beat to play on makes for some genuinely unusual music.
With this album, Emperor traded "Dark" and "Bleak" to "Psychologically intense." While still being dark in areas, this album's signature is the unending tension that pulls at your soul. Keyboards creating dissonant melodies that human ears are not used to hearing, and guitars overlap in weird ways that tug at our minds, saying "This isn't supposed to be" but oddly enough, it works.
The album kicks off with Ihsahn speaking with some background thunder, then a keyboard intro begins, rather softly. It builds intensity, with increasing melodic tension, then the guitar goes "BAM." and comes in with crushing intensity. It builds in intensity again, then kicks into high gear and gets fast. Then it goes through odd, original, and downright bizarre permutations of the original melody, before cutting out and making way for "Depraved", where it starts out rather amelodic, with dissonant notes not resolving and building up tension, then heading into more melodic passages, going through slow 6/8 grooves before kicking into high gear, then dropping out all of a sudden and making way for the strikingly similar song after it, Empty, which has more melodicism and emotion, resolving the conflict created by the previous song. It continues into the rather subdued "The prophet" which has slow, pop-ish sections of Ihsahn singing, followed by demonic dissonance that only true satanists like Ihsahn can create. The rest of the album continues in this way, with drawn-out tension and short relief until you reach the last song, Thorns on my Grave, which has some incredibly fast drumming, and goes into a slow 4/4 groove, before cutting out and going in again at full speed, building in intensity with keyboards flurrying around with increasing dissonance, with the guitars hustling underneath and Ihsahn screaming at the top of his lungs: "NOW THAT I AM GONE, LAY THORNS ON MY GRAAAAAAVE!!!!!!" and the song abrubtly ends, along with the rest of the album, and you sit there motionless, not knowing what to do, except start all over again. Then you go through it, hoping you will remember more of it, so you can hum it in your head or something. I'm on my 6th or so listen and there's STILL new stuff in there for me. If you are only going to listen to this in your portable CD player in the breaktime (whatever it is) then you won't like that. You have to devote your entire attention to this, and listen to it several times before appreciating it's full impact. In fact, I think I might have to listen to this the whole way through about 20 times before I fully get it.
As far as favorite songs go, I don't have any, simply because this album is a concept album (about Emperor's career) and you really have to listen to the whole album to get the idea. It's like the whole album is a song, only with occasional breaks in it. So, my reccommendation is, buy this, and listen to it a lot. If you can't listen to it a heck of a lot, don't buy it. You will never appreciate it if you can't listen to it a giant portion of your time.
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