Rise of the Imperial Hordes

Rise of the Imperial Hordes is the first studio album by black metal band Krieg. It was recorded in October & November 1997 at Vortex Sound Studio. Blood Fire Death re-issued the album in 2001 with a Havohej cover, "Enlightened Ones", as bonus track. Zerstorungs Produktionen re-issued it in 2005; this re-issue was limited to 999 copies.

Rise of the Imperial Hordes
Studio album by Krieg
Released	1998
Recorded	October–November 1997
Studio	Vortex Sound Studio
Genre	Black metal
Length	36:43
Label	Blood Fire Death
Producer	Jim Forbes & Krieg
Krieg chronology
Rise of the Imperial Hordes (1998) Destruction Ritual (2002)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Arrival"	1:14
2.	"Alarum"	3:23
3.	"The Great Black Death"	3:04
4.	"As Humanity Fades"	3:20
5.	"My Weeping Soul (Part 2)"	2:24
6.	"Coronation"	3:37
7.	"End of Time"	4:33
8.	"Calamity from the Skies"	3:00
9.	"Reunion of the Ancients"	1:47
10.	"Path of Soth"	5:07
11.	"The Ascension"	2:24
12.	"Enlightened Ones" (Havohej cover)	2:50

Note

• The original track listing only includes the first eleven songs. The twelfth song appears as bonus track in the Blood Fire Death re-issue.

Personnel

• Lord Imperial – guitar, vocals, keyboards on track 5
• Lord Soth – bass, guitars, vocals, keyboards on track 9
• Ted Tringo – keyboards
• Teloc Koraxo – drums