Rise of the Imperial Hordes

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Rise of the Imperial Hordes
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Studio album by
Released1998
RecordedOctober–November 1997
StudioVortex Sound Studio
Genre Black metal
Length36:43
Label Blood Fire Death
Producer Jim Forbes & Krieg
Krieg chronology
Rise of the Imperial Hordes
(1998)
Destruction Ritual
(2002)

Rise of the Imperial Hordes is the first studio album by black metal band Krieg. It was recorded in October & November 1997 at Vortex Sound Studio. Blood Fire Death re-issued the album in 2001 with a Havohej cover, "Enlightened Ones", as bonus track. Zerstorungs Produktionen re-issued it in 2005; this re-issue was limited to 999 copies.

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.

Krieg (band) American black metal band

Krieg is a black metal band originally from Somers Point, New Jersey in the United States of America.

<i>Blood Fire Death</i> 1988 studio album by Bathory

Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released on 8 October 1988, through Music for Nations sublabel, Under One Flag. The album, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal. According to the book Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult by Dayal Patterson, Blood Fire Death began a second trilogy, an era Quorthon described as the "pre-Christian Swedish Viking Era".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Arrival"1:14
2."Alarum"3:23
3."The Great Black Death"3:04
4."As Humanity Fades"3:20
5."My Weeping Soul (Part 2)"2:24
6."Coronation"3:37
7."End of Time"4:33
8."Calamity from the Skies"3:00
9."Reunion of the Ancients"1:47
10."Path of Soth"5:07
11."The Ascension"2:24
12."Enlightened Ones" (Havohej cover)2:50

Note

Personnel

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