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Ihsahn
Biography
One of the leading figures (arguably the leading figure, at least from a musical perspective) in the history of Norwegian black metal, Ihsahn -- born Vegard Sverre Tveitan, in Notodden, Norway in 1975 -- was best known as the singer, guitarist, and lead composer of the legendary band, Emperor. That band, which would go on to earn Ihsahn and its members the highest of honors in the metal community, was born out of the demise of the group formation of an earlier project entitled Thou Shalt Suffer. That project was formed in 1991, after Ihsahn met Samoth (Tomas Haugen) at a music conference as teenagers. Thou Shalt Suffer managed to release a handful of demos before Samoth took leave of the group, and Ihsahn set the idea aside as a solo side project. Eventually, the two kindred spirits would work together again in the aforementioned Emperor, a band whose early line up included Ihsahn, Samoth, Faust (Bård Eithun), and Mortiis. With much of the black metal establishment in Norway (these were the days of Euronymous and a pre-murder and nationalist Varg Vierkenes) fully behind the work Emperor was doing, the band released the groundbreaking EP Emperor in 1993. Their critically acclaimed full length debut, In the Nightside Eclipse, was released in 1994, but the band's momentum was stalled by the jailing of Faust and Samoth in the wave of violence that was prevalent in Norwegian black metal at the time.
Selected Discography

Angl
2008
The Adversary
2006
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