Emperor (2) – Prometheus - The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

Excellent pressing, super-clean. Smooth sound, as one would expect from the half-speed master. On this album it works great!

Overall noisy pressing. It never ends throughout both sides. Ultrasonic cleaned with Audiodesk Gläss. Before each listening it gets brushed with an Ursa Major.
Nope. It won‘t go away.
A pity.

Superb pressing. Even with this album's dense mix, everything is layered nicely with plenty of dynamic range and detail. There's also no inner groove distortion at all, despite being 52 minutes on a single LP.

Like other people with many of the Emperor half-speed remasters, mine looked scratched but fortunately it didn't impact the sound at all. I gave it a good clean and it played great – an awesome sounding record! Just maybe give it a clean first and get some nicer inner sleeves.

Excellent in every way, my favorite album of all times, listen to this one especially for more than decade, and still got lost in it. Have all the previous releases on vinyl. Was looking for all the sounds, that are lost in it, but this one made them come out. Digging it all the time, tried to catch them, knew, there are somewhere hidden - and boom - this remasterer has released them on us, the drums, the guitars, bass, vocals - everything. If you love this album you got to get this one by any means necessary. It´s a duty to get it, the price for this masterpiece is a joke. Take my word, haven´t listen to any album more than this and I am telling you - this one is perfect. The rest albums of this release the same, but Prometheus, because of the layers of sounds is significant.

Unfortunately, my copy is covered with circular scratches on both sides. As a result the record sounded very poor with a lot of background noise. Although the labeling was correct. Got it refunded, fortunately. So please check!

My copy has the same label on both sides: the tracklist is from A1 to A4 on both labels, but the press is correctly diversified between side A and B. Anyone else here with same misprint? Great sound stage, voice and all instruments have the good position and relevance.

This album is almost 52 minutes long, with an extremely dense production. Squeezing 26 minutes per side onto 1 LP noticeably impacts the sound in a negative way. I know Back on Black still has a bad reputation, mainly from some of their earlier releases being genuinely terrible quality. But their 2013 grey 2xLP of this album sounds much better than this single LP. The music can breathe and has an extra "heft" to it on my system.

I know Back on Black gets a lot of stick, but this pressing sounds a lot better than the first press / latest reissue. Spreading it out across 4 sides works wonders here - the single LP versions sound compressed as hell.

The vinyl looks gorgeous with beautiful center labels. The sound quality is awesome, and the layout is nice if you like this album get this you won't be disappointed. \m/