In Honour of Icon E - A Tribute to Emperor
In Honour of Icon E is a tribute album to Norwegian black metal band Emperor, released on June 25, 2012. Reception. The album received positive reviews from heavy metal outlets and received praises from the members of Emperor. "Metal.de" stated that, among "a whole flood of unnecessary and useless publications", "In Honour of Icon E" is "really essential", further stating that the mix of "lesser known Eastern Bloc bands and [...] bigger Scandinavian names seems a bit strange at first, but makes the sampler colorful". Chris Popp, writing for "musikreviews.de", concluded that  the album is "one of the better homage compilations", although mainly of interest to "die-hard Emperor fans". In a review for Metal Kaoz, Minos Dokopoulos called "In Honour of Icon E" "an excellent tribute album", while "heavymetal.dk" considered this tribute to be "one of the better ones", commenting that "the respective cover artists very often capture the atmosphere and compositional musical sublimity that Emperor's music was/is an expression of".