My Angel is a 1991 EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Arcturus

Arcturus (band)

Arcturus is an avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1987. They named it Arcturus , after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus.-Biography:The band has released four official full-length albums...

. Arcturus's first work published on an actual record label, My Angel represents a halfway point between band leader Steinar Sverd Johnsen

Steinar Sverd Johnsen

Steinar Sverd Johnsen is a Norwegian keyboardist and composer, born 1972. Sverd last played keyboards and synthesizers in Arcturus and was also the main composer for the band. He formed the band with Jan Axel Blomberg of Mayhem in 1987, originally under the moniker Mortem...

's original project Mortem, a death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band, and Arcturus's later symphonic black metal

Symphonic black metal

Symphonic black metal is a black metal subgenre that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The genre is known for its symphonic and orchestral elements and is centralized in Europe.-Characteristics:...

 and avant-garde metal albums. Although symphonic metal

Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...

  and black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 elements are evident throughout the EP, the overall style is still gloomy, down-tempo death/doom metal. Mortem's vocalist Marius Vold supplies vocals for My Angel. Although the songs are simplistic compared to Arcturus' later works, pieces of Arcturus' modern style have begun to take form. Along with four other Norwegian bands this EP was later repackaged as the True Kings of Norway

True Kings of Norway

-Notes:*Tracks 1 - 2 from Emperor's As the Shadows Rise*Track 3 is an Emperor song previously unreleased*Tracks 4 - 6 from Immortal's Immortal EP*Tracks 7 - 9 from Dimmu Borgir's Inn I Evighetens Mørke...

compilation in 2000 by Spikefarm Records

Credits

• Marius Vold - Vocals, bass
• Steinar Sverd Johnsen
  Steinar Sverd Johnsen
  Steinar Sverd Johnsen is a Norwegian keyboardist and composer, born 1972. Sverd last played keyboards and synthesizers in Arcturus and was also the main composer for the band. He formed the band with Jan Axel Blomberg of Mayhem in 1987, originally under the moniker Mortem...
  
   - Keyboards, guitars
• Hellhammer
  Jan Axel Blomberg
  Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning heavy metal drummer. He is most well known for his drumming with the band Mayhem, with which he began his career...
  
  - Drums