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Ihsahn

Ihsahn co-founded Emperor as a teenager and helped invent symphonic black metal. Since 2006 he has made solo albums that pull in classical, industrial and progressive ideas. He is one of extreme metal's great composers.

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Sound & mood

Style
  • Symphonic black metal
  • Progressive metal
Mood
  • Majestic
  • Cerebral
  • Cold

Blackness

80/100

Pitch black

Craziness

56/100

Restless

Editorial ratings, not measured data. Blackness is how dark, heavy and bleak the music feels; Craziness is how unhinged, chaotic and experimental it gets. Both are our critics’ call on a 0–100 scale. How we score them

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