Emperor, from Notodden, defined symphonic black metal with In the Nightside Eclipse (1994), pairing the genre's intensity with a cosmic, majestic grandeur drawn from European romanticism.

In the machine it links Music to the symphonic and romantic territories. The image is Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), the romantic-sublime figure the music's grandeur descends from. Reference entry, not a release. Reference.