There are some glaring problems that will keep this album from making it to the realm of great live albums, but as far as live black metal goes, this is truly something special. Ihsahn, Samoth and Trym lead the audience through eight songs that span the gamut of their albums. The set list is decent, but with only eight tracks, it would have been difficult to get a complete Emperor concert. I personally would have liked to have heard more tracks from the Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk album, but alas, no. What really makes this album stand worlds ahead of the competition is the sound quality.
Every song is heard in perfect clarity.
You can hear the crowd, all of the instruments, and the vocals with out all of the muffled crap that is featured in other live black metal efforts. When all is said and done this is a decent live album. It gives a good idea of what a concert with Emperor would be like and the studio material makes a good transition to the live stage. The album did end up being a little short, and committed a big pet peeve of mine with live albums by fading out at the end of each track. This still is the best live black metal album I have heard, but when stacked up against the rest of the music world it becomes just a decent live album.