EMPEROR
Mortiis can’t wait to play the next bridge
BJØRN TORE MOEN
Ihsahn puts in another devilishly brilliant performance
NOTODDEN TEATER, NOTODDEN
Bla ck metal’s true v isionaries overcome an excess of visuals
ANY EMPEROR SHOW is guaranteed to bring a host of memories flooding back into an all-immersive present, but tonight’s livestream – dubbed, with a nod to past live and compilation albums, A Night Of Emperial Wrath – comes with a few added, welcome echoes. For a start, there’s an actual audience, albeit out of sight and clearly socially distanced from the well-mannered applause that greets each song, rather than a more fitting ecstatic critical mass.