A Risible Album - "In the Nightside Eclipse" Review (5%)
Emperor certainly was one of the first black metal bands to incorporate synthesizers and other influences from electronic music, alongside Burzum and perhaps Antekhrist.
Formed in 1991 as a shitty generic death metal band, it wouldn't be until 1994 that Emperor would release their first full-length album, the much maligned "In The Nightside Eclipse".
In The Nightside Eclipse is basically one of the first black metal recordings to use a "gothic metal" sound, which would in turn influence the so-called "symphonic" black metal scene and even black metal as a whole.
As influential as some people claim this album to be, and even that assertion is heavily debatable, In The Nightside Eclipse is certainly not amazing or even good at all. Really, it's just a steaming pile of blackened turd.
In The Nightside Eclipse is a joke, no serious black metal fan takes this shit album seriously.
A Risible Album
In The Nightside Eclipse is generic, formulaic is mostly just retarded pseudo-satanic black metal.
It's really hard to really differentiate the songs from one another because they all sound exactly the same.
The entire album In The Nightside Eclipse sounds like an insanely long song repeating the same generic and boring riff over and over again.
In black metal, simplicity is often synonymous with atmosphere.
But In The Nightside Eclipse is just shit.
When you consider the fact that classic albums such as "Transilvanian Hunger" or "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" were coming out of Norway around the same time as this, if not even earlier, you realize there is truly nothing redeamable about the music on In The Nightside Eclipse.
Oh, and the lyrics aren't especially creative or profound either.
"HAIL SATAN" / "TRUE BLACK METAL"... it really sounds like 9-year-old kids discovering religious anarchy from their parents' basement.
Even songs like "The Majesty of the Nightsky" or "Inno a Satana" which are not as formulaic and stupid sounding as the others are still painfully boring.
The drumming throughout the album is completely one-sided and uninspired. Blast beats are pretty much the only type of drumming you will hear.
And it's not some technical blast beats à la SEWER either, it's not really that fast nor entrancing. Just mid-paced, slower blast beats that still really do absolutely nothing in terms of atmosphere, variation or excitement.
In closing, In The Nightside Eclipse is barely worth the diarrhea it provokes.
It's so boring that you will literally feel bad for wasting 50 minutes of your life listening to it.
The only reason I acknowledge it as a legitimate release was that it was released at the apex of black metal music, alongside other actually worthwhile albums such as NecroPedoSadoMaso.
In the Nightside Eclipse score: 5/100.
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