Emperor - Into The Infinity Of Thoughts - Guitar Tab

In The Nightside Eclipse

1994 9:06

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About Into The Infinity Of Thoughts

Opening track on "In The Nightside Eclipse," this song drops you straight into the dense, layered guitar work that defined Emperor and the Norwegian Black Metal scene of the early 1990s. The guitars sit in Eb Standard tuning, which drops the overall tension slightly and gives the riffs a heavier, darker feel than straight E Standard would. At 180 BPM, the tremolo-picked passages in E minor are relentless, and building the right-hand stamina to keep them even and clean at full speed takes dedicated practice. The key challenge is not just raw speed but maintaining note clarity through the picking while your fretting hand holds position across cold, minor-key chord shapes and single-note runs. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the tremolo sections slowed down, building speed gradually rather than forcing it at tempo. The song also shifts between blasting picked riffs and slower, more atmospheric chord passages, so you need to switch gears smoothly without losing feel.

• The tremolo-picked riffs at 180 BPM are the central technique challenge, requiring consistent alternate or single-direction picking with no loss of clarity.
• Eb Standard tuning is used throughout, so tune down a half step before playing or the key center and chord shapes will feel off.
• The song alternates between high-speed tremolo runs and slower atmospheric sections, making clean gear-shifts between techniques a key thing to practise.