heres the first video/release from his solo album what do you guys think? the leads int he beggining and stuff sound alot like emperors last album. its pretty good, once it hits the clean part though im not quite sure what i think

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bl...ewsitemID=50126

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Well i like the song... but i think is too melodic at the half... but it sounds very "prometheus" and i like that album so i'll get this if i can

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Man. I'm liking this
someone put up a myspace page for it too, more songs.
www.myspace.com/ihsahnband
Yeah, from all I heard, Emperor is the only black metal band I really like, and Prometheus would be my favorite album by them, and he wrote it all so yeah, I'm liking it.

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i liked it

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personally, i think he needs to cut that king diamond singing style out, and nay on the clean guitar. also, the keyboards should be less and guitar should be more.

but, at least he isnt bald anymore.

That was good. The only thing I can complain about would be those high pitched screams in two parts.

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YEs, that screams are very anoying for me too, "the source of icon E" from emperor's IX Equilibrium is too much for me... but guitars on that song are awesome!

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Emperor was better

have u heard "an elegy of icaros" on emperial live ceremony?
god dammit, ishan, get some fuckin testicles.

? he sings low on that song

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and he doesnt sound anything like king diamond

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"i am the challenger of ___________"" -listen again

That song was boring.

If you missed those high pitched gay screams, then your life is a gay high pitched scream.

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gravity,moron,dont you know anything about basic mythology



and he sings high because icaros challenged gravity by flying closer to the sun, melting his wings that were held together by wax

dont immediately write shit off , think about it for a while

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HAH...HAHAHA..AHAH. That is the best worst attempt of owning someone i've ever seen.

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^ couldnt agree more.

and transient, you said "he sings low in that song," and in response, i posted the lyrics. stop trying so hard at being an asshole because you embarrass nobody but yourself

go fuck yourself

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You don't look any smarter than he may look. You mentioned a totally different song. Hahaha, oh man.

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not to defend him but he did say



then sam asked



and he quoted an elegy

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Hmm, I skipped past that post. But it doesn't matter, he's had too many blunts to notice.

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i am victorious for i know my emperor.


*headbangs to inno a satana*

youre victorious about nothing moron, you failed to see the true meaning of ihsahns high vocals

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This stuff is pretty sucky IMO.

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erm has Ihsahn himself said thats the reason?

Else its all just artistic interpretations.

I could say tom araya screams at the intro to angel of death, all high pitched, to characterise and flesh out the angelic qualities of said bringer of death, but we all know its because he wanted to.

Its all artistic interpretation, i deal with it alot, and trust me, you can obscure anything out of anything.

BUT If hes said it in liner notes then there you go!

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no he didnt say it the liner notes, yes its just me reading into it, and yes i came up with that just to prove moe blunts wrong but im a believer and sticking with it


this coming from the guy who says vigna's solos on unholy cult are all tapped to sound like sheep

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Gotta see how this sinks in.

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ImBored has an excellent point.

and rather than a rebutal, transient has commited yet another ad homienem. great input man

As far as I can tell, and it's hard to see the words through all the gay so I'm just piecing this together from what little I can make out, the argument was not about why there are high vocals on An Elegy of Icarus, but about whether there are high vocals. It went a little like this:

1. People are complaining about Ihsahn screaming and this moe cunt points out the screams on An Elegy of Icarus.
2. Transient says that he sings low on that song.
3. Moe quotes the specific lyric he means and leaves a blank where presumably the real high-pitched stuff is.
4. Transient makes an irrelevant argument regarding what was in the blank and why Ihsahn put a high-pitched scream there, thereby tacitly conceding that there is, in fact, a high-pitched vocal on An Elegy of Icarus.
5. A bunch of irrelevant bitching about the posts making up points 2-4 takes place.
6. We stop talking about Ihsahn's solo project to make room for this bitching.

Like I said, it was difficult to make out, but I think that's what happened. So I propose we do the following: Either get involved in a genuine argument that might teach us something or get back on topic. The way it's gone thus far makes me doubt the possibility of the former, so I'd recommend the latter option.

The album is excellent.

that wasnt irrelevant, it was an explanation of why he said gravittYYYYYYY in a high voice. we're talking about the high vocals of ihsahn, some of which are present on (and unwelcome?) his new solo stuff

sadly i have no such explanation for the high vocals on his solo stuff

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The shittiest argument in the history of arguing:









And then:



Which is irrelevant considering he was asking you if you'd heard a song that contained high pitched singing, which you later confirm does in fact contain high pitched singing despite initially claiming the contrary.

I was always told (and still am being told) to answer the question placed in front of me, not the question that I wanted to answer. You should go into politics, Sam.

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Hmm, this ain't bad, might have to get the album, it's just not Emperor though, I miss them, this just doesn't have the same epic, bombastic feel as Emperor.

Changing the subject and making it about a critical understanding of the work is a pretty good way to win an argument, John. I think we're being too harsh, as is guitar_demon. I mean, do we have to rain on everybody's parade?

Well, no. But we do on this one. It's not entirely irrelevant to say why you think Ihsahn sang high on a song when the discussion is about him singing high, but it is irrelevant to an argument as to whether or not he sang high on a particular song. In fact, because your original position was '? he sings low on that song,' the only thing you achieve by talking about why he sings high is to admit to being wrong in the most immature way: by changing the grounds of the argument to some on which you believe you can win, and pretending they were always that way. Do you see? This is, I think, around the fourth time this has been pointed out, and should be the last, as, if you haven't gotten it by now, I don't think repeating the argument will do anything.

How different is this from Emperor? I'd think that, Ihsahn being Emperor's primary songwriter, it would still have some of that bombast and so forth he was clearly interested in.

how different is this from wrath of the tyrant or in the nightside???? miles and miles. prometheus, although i did like it the first couple times, and IX Equilibrium, with the exclusion of "curse you all men," are not ishan's finest song writing endeavors. as pointed out at the forum of UG numerous times, the quality of lyrics has dropped and the music has become way less 'black metal.'

for those who crave the old emperor, i'd suggest limbonic art, Ildjarn and possibly some oculum inflame, rather than listening to this mediocrity in a pretty box.

I like the later Emperor, so compare it to that. Black metal can get fucked as far as I'm concerned.

alright this is pretty much later emperor stretched even further. no doubt there is talent, just not the same calibur as it used to be. just from that song, id say that cd is on par with Prometheus.

side note/question- Is this the first time you have heard ishan play a song without distorted guitars??? if not, what was the song?? haha the unplugged "ye entrancemperium"?

Cool. Thanks. Now I wish I had a chance to hear it.

Precicely why I liked it. Prometheus is the only Emperor album I REALLY like.

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really?? i'm sorry to hear that.

It's probobaly because I don't like much (or any that I can think of) black metal other then that.)

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well 'that' (prometheus) really isnt black metal, so there ya go

And there proves my dislike for black metal.

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haha im not reading all that shit. but i wouldnt want to have pst's ego wounded so IM WRONG AGAIN

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How does that have anything to do with PST's ego?

Sounds like the record that might have followed Prometheus. Its cool though.

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what about that stuff ihsahn did with the other band....it wasnt metal i dont think

was it ambient? anyone heard it? peccatum it was called

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why cant you? and to me it sounds a hell of alot like promethuos, so you should dig it pst

to whomever said the album ruled-have you heard the whole thing?

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yea peccatum, its more ambient type shat, i heard a few songs and i remember not liking it. they have some mp3's in their site

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yea, that shit sucked. wasnt it with his wife?? or something

yea is wife, i remember reading somewhere that she helped alot with the mixing for this album aswell

I don't have the internet and the ability to listen to music on the same computer when I'm in Chicago. At least this year.

And all my arguing clearly has to do with my ego. I argue with these people so I can feel smarter than them, not because they're wrong and annoying, causing all sorts of bullshit on the forum because their own egos get bruised in the course of unsuccessfully trying to be the King Shit of Reg City. I thought everyone knew this.