Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a frigid January when Prog calls Ihsahn. Outside, our hometown of London is enduring a particularly harsh winter, with ...

Ihsahn is now a full decade into his solo career with his sixth full length effort, Arktis, arriving this Friday (April 8). With the songs "Mass Darkness" and "Pressure" serving as the first taste of ...

Ihsahn is one of the most influential musicians to emerge from the Norwegian black metal scene of the early ’90s. His best-known band, Emperor, were among the first to introduce keyboards to the style ...

When it came to his beginnings as a metal musician, it was Twisted Sister’s “I Wanna Rock” that really got Ihsahn excited. “Not much to it,” Ihsahn says about the track’s basic chord structure, “but ...

When ex-Emperor frontman Ihsahn determined that 'After,' the final volume of his 'A' trilogy, should sound bleak, barren and lifeless, he started thinking about what instruments -- aside from the ...

Ihsahn is still planning on doing more Ihsahn. "It kind of came to a very natural conclusion — in the sense that by the last… I eventually started writing more and more of the material, and by the ...

We’ve all seen the movie before: legacy band decides to come out of retirement or a long hiatus with a comeback record for the ages, only for it to end up rarely hitting as hard as the original stuff.

Emperor broke up in 2001 and released their final album Prometheus – The Discipline of Fire & Demise that same year. The band has since reunited for shows, but any time the prospect of new material ...

He might be a member of one of black metal’s most influential bands, but Ihsahn is not here to be categorised. Sitting in a side room at his label’s London offices, he looks smart and groomed in ...

The first time Ihsahn met Kerrang!, things could have gone better. The then-17-year-old Norwegian and his band Emperor were in the UK for a short run of shows, having already made a name for ...