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Samoth

Samoth co-founded Emperor with Ihsahn as a teenager, playing guitar and sometimes drums, and later formed the death metal band Zyklon. He was one of the early Norwegian black metal scene convicted of church arson, and later ran the label Nocturnal Art Productions.

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Sound & mood

Style
  • Black metal
  • Death metal
Mood
  • Ferocious
  • Cold
  • Majestic

Blackness

88/100

Pitch black

Craziness

52/100

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

In our articles

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