Thorns vs. Emperor is a split album

Split album

A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...

 by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 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....

 bands Thorns

Thorns (band)

Thorns is a Norwegian black metal band that formed in 1989 and was part of the early Norwegian black metal scene. They made two highly influential demos in the early 1990s, Grymyrk and Trøndertun, but have only released one full-length album....

 and Emperor

Emperor (band)

Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...

. The album features a mixture of covers and originals, as well as re-recorded versions of older tracks.

It features the first recorded material from Thorns since the 1992 Trøndertun demo. Satyr

Sigurd Wongraven

Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...

 of Satyricon

Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

 provides vocals on all Thorns tracks.

Early pressings of Thorns vs. Emperor came with a bonus disc featuring both the Grymyrk and Trøndertun demos in full.

Track listing

1. Emperor: "Exördium" - 3:00
2. Thorns: "Ærie Descent" – 8:34
3. Emperor: "I Am" - 5:05
4. Emperor: "Ærie Descent" – 6:06
5. Emperor: "Thus March The Nightspirit" - 5:40
6. Thorns: "Melas Khole" - 6:31
7. Thorns: "The Discipline Of Earth" - 7:40
8. Thorns: "Cosmic Keys" - 6:12

Thorns

• All vocals for Thorns performed by Satyr.
• Engineered by S.W. Krupp and Claus Erikson.
• Produced by Thorns and Satyr Wongraven.
• Recorded with Cubase, mixed at Fagerborg Studio.

Emperor

• Ærie Descent was recorded and mixed at Akkerhaugen Lydstudio the spring/summer 1998.
• Engineered by Thorbjørn Akkerhaugen & The Emperors.
• "Exördium", "I Am" and "Thus March The Nightspirit" was recorded and mixed at Symphonique during the spring/summer 1998. Engineered by Ihsahn
  Ihsahn
  Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...
  
  . Produced by The Emperors.
• The organ used on Emperor's performance of "Ærie Descent" is a Chicago Cottage reed organ
  Reed organ
  A reed organ, also called a parlor organ, pump organ, cabinet organ, cottage organ, is an organ that generates its sounds using free metal reeds...
  
   from 1829 CE.