IHSAHN The Pain Is Mine The Decomposer Lounge Music Reactions

[@DeagleLas]

Ihsahn is married to the sister of Leprous' singer and keyboardist Einar Solberg. Ihsahn is well known for his band Emperor, where most of the instruments where played by himself. That's why he needed a live band, and he took Leprous original lineup with him for a while. There is where Leprous was born, in a kind of way. Ihsahn solo albums are more eclectic, where lots of styles and different genres are mixed, opposed to his work in Emperor. Great choice, awwright! I'm still here!

[@isfet5149]

What! No he isn't. He was the main songwriter for Emperor, and vocals but Samoth was there the whole way, and Faust, then Trym. Bass was not very set in stone. But Ihsahn did not play most instruments in Emperor.

[@DeagleLas]

@@isfet5149 My bad! I'm more into the Leprous side of the story and I took it for granted. Thanks for the correction!

[@SuperBreadhead]

Strong King Diamond vibes in this song.

[@mtlman906]

The whole album. Its my favorite Ihsahn album

[@Kaos1989]

Please do more Ihsahn reactions and his influential symphonic black metal band Emperor.

[@h.p.dominocus]

This song and "With Strength I burn" are my absolute favorite pieces of music written by Ihsahn. I also love the song from this album that Garm sang lead vocals on. I think it's called "Homecoming".

[@jasonadams2]

Ihsahn is absolute royalty in the black metal pantheon for his work in Emperor. His solo stuff is much more exploratory, but I love it and every album is a unique experience.

[@ScottGreenMusic]

Holy crap, an Ihsahn reaction? Yes! One of my favorite musicians. My suggestions: Alchemist, Departure, Celestial Violence, Until I Too Dissolve, and Wake. His previous band Emperor's last album, Prometheus, is closer to this than his other solo stuff.

[@warofages13]

Alchemist is so good

[@ScottGreenMusic]

@@warofages13 it sure is.

[@attheshores4829]

i feel like he should do a deep dive on the Album After , imo ihsahns best work

[@brennang9]

I would love an Ihsahn reaction from their album "After"

[@rickyfoley4294]

Ihsahn is always classical yet progressive. But he pulls it off.

[@alphaenemyplus8376]

Ah, hell yes. Ihsahn is one of my favorites! Borders on musical genius if not just the real deal. His progression as an artist is so spectacular.

[@2m0ng032]

Well said!

[@XanAbyss]

Ihsahn is one of my absolute favorite musicians and biggest influences. I'm finally seeing his band (Emperor) for the first time this month, fulfilling a dream nearly two decades in the making. I haven't seen an Emperor reaction video on here yet, are you familiar with them? They were one of the pioneers of second wave, or 'trve norwegian' black metal. Definitely the most musically proficient/impressive of their peers in the black circle.

[@THEEArmoredSaint]

I'm a fan. Of both Geebz and this artist. My son, born 7-25-2017, is named Elijah Ihsahn.

[@carolynm.7530]

Very cool name.🤘

[@Jester1411]

ihsahn is indeed unique!

[@ianmcpeck424]

The vocalist/guitarist's stage name (professional name) pronounced E-Séan (E Shawn). Also, he is Norwegian. Not much of a Black Metal fan, but I absolutely love Ihsahn's solo stuff. Amazing. The song that got me into his stuff was Arcana Imperii off his latest studio album Àmr. Super fun instrumentation and a very unique amazing voice.

[@FngrsRpicks2]

Yeah, i love black metal and have been an emperor fan as soon as i heard them. His solo stuff is so insane especially after the first 2 solo outings. Undercurrent is my favorite. The way the sax comes in......man

[@isfet5149]

I thought it was iss Hahn e Shawn isn't right.

[@ianmcpeck424]

@@FngrsRpicks2 hard to say what my favorite song is but Undercurrent is so damn good! I think angL might be my favorite album from him. Hard to say though...

[@kl7360]

@@isfet5149 It's more like "ish-ahn". There's definitely a "sh" in the middle, you can look up videos of him saying it.

[@Elmonator]

For a second I thought "did I really already comment on this?" :D

[@adamhenton6221]

He's BACK!!

[@KeyOfGeebz]

And away we gooooooooooooooooo :)

[@red.5475]

Ihsahn is a truly gifted musician and composer.

[@ianmcpeck424]

I hope more people get into his stuff through this!

[@jogbo1]

My favs of Ihsahn are: Celestial Violence, Frozen lakes on mars (or the whole "After" album), The paranoid, Samr etc. And also Ihsahn's presence in the Devin's song "Juular", Leprous "Contaminate me" etc.

[@saulgoodman1390]

Absolutely love Ihsahn!! I saw him live and was astounded how good a musician he is! I'd go so far as to say he's a virtuoso... AND he does vocals over his ultra complex guitar parts!!! It's insane!

[@dampersand]

You should use this as a stepping stone to revisit Leprous, who used to tour as Ihsahn's backing band.

[@hashira9166]

Ihsahn is amazing! One of my favorite albums growing up was Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk! Definitely worth checking out!

[@GutterBallet]

I’ve never been exposed to Ihsahn until now. I’d thought I’ve heard of just about everyone but somehow I missed this guy. Boy have I been missing out. This is killer! He reminds me so much of the singer Midnight from Crimson Glory (RIP John McDonald). So eclectic and doing things that have not been done before. Great stuff.

[@Psycorde]

The mix is really unusual for me, made me think of theater as well, how it would sound if I was sitting in front of the stage where the performance was unfolding. It's really cool.

[@fdmmoens]

Such a coincidence since after always listening to his newer solo stuff I've been really into this album last couple of weeks. Glad to see you've picked the masterpiece at the end of the album. Funny how you're talking about the producer, songwriter, the band etc.. Not knowing those are all 1 person (except drums).

[@GalegHelross]

Love Ihsahn!

[@Weeping_Somnambulist]

Thanks Geebz for getting to this one. I've popped a couple other requests for Ihsahn in there too, if you do another one you should most definitely do ON THE SHORES that's one I was popping into the comments on every single one of your reactions for months before I joined your Patreon 🤣 that one has a sax player on it, and he owns the FUCK out of that track, definitely one you want to check out. No other reactions to it on YT so you'd be breaking some new ground. I think you'll be blown away by it. Thanks again brother, appreciate everything you do! AWWWWWWWWWWRIGHT 👊🤙🤘

[@guitar_noodle]

It’s been quite a few years since I listened to this album. Thanks for rejuvenating my enthusiasm for the album and reminding how much I love this song but also the entire record. Still my fav Ihsahn solo album.

[@toprak3479]

Same. Feels like this one is the most neoclassical and also the most blackened one.

[@TwallThePk]

Now you gotta do I am the black wizards by emperor baby!!

[@johangericke1492]

Great song, give my thanks to whoever suggested it.

[@MrBeerszerker]

wow, looking great geebz! i'm glad the rehab is seemingly proceeding swimmingly. thanks for this one. i have only heard of IHSAHN in passing, but never actually been exposed to any material. sweeping and beautiful!

[@V3xxe]

Oh man, I remember when this album came out. I forgot how absolutely mind blowing ly awesome it is. I need to go back and listen. His later solo albums get crazy, I love After and Das Seelenbrechen.

[@abednarz]

YEES Ihsahn is one of my all time favourite artists and this song is one of my fav of his solo pieces

[@tornoutlaw]

Ihsahn is the only artist I have a LP Boxset of. The Mars Volta would have been another one, but I got too many of the albums already to pay those fantasy prices on discogs!

[@Gorgabesch]

Going more down this path, I would love for you to give the group Arcturus a listen. The Chaos Path off of La Masquerade Infernale could be fun. Maybe Kinetic or Star - Crossed off of The Sham Mirrors?

[@XanAbyss]

Yes! Also Borknagar, especially on the last 3 or 4 albums

[@Kelly.sapphire]

Get to see him live in June when he comes for Progpower 2022!

[@Akolyx]

I only listened to Wake and Arcana Imperii, but now I really want to dig into Ihsahn's work deeper. That was an amazing and absolutely unique experience. Definitely reminds of theater, but also of opera, I would say. Edit: that's called 'Musical theatre' in English. A combination of theater and opera, essentially. Keep up the good work!

[@christopherblowers443]

Why did I sleep on this band.

[@dodgrblu]

Yeah take it nice and steady with the shoulder. Joints need time and the shoulder is complex and and relatively fragile. Good to see the progress

[@paramourcat]

Ihsahn is always great. Recently he put out a cool vinyl collection of all of his releases, and since I had gotten into vinyl slightly before that obviously I needed to have all his records even though I already have them all on CD haha I'll have to put that one on tomorrow!

[@saintluciaofficial2019]

If you really want a treat, listen to his 3rd album After, he uses 8 string guitars and even has a sax player on it.

[@Tmpp88]

Ihsahn and his previous main band Emperor are pretty much the OG symphonic black metal band, they've influenced a ton of metal into a more sweeping, dark, melodic direction in general. Dimmu Borgir is probably the most well-known of Ihsahn/Emperor's contemporaries with a very similar musical style, but I'd like to throw out a much less known Finnish band called Shade Empire who still proudly carry that torch! You should check out their song Anti-Life Saviour or perhaps Slumbering Giant for some superb bombastic theater of the mind melodic metal!

[@isfet5149]

You should listen to Emperor. They are amazing!

[@Smilford]

Ihsahn is getting into the underground

[@yukoncorneliusjr8273]

I can’t believe he hasn’t done a single reaction for In Flames. 🤯

[@blackmetalassasin1]

Absolutely. I put some suggestions in another comment of mine for him. Whoracle, and The Jester Race. Hope to see some of those things as well. Classic metal from the late 90's - Early 2000's!!!

[@yukoncorneliusjr8273]

@@blackmetalassasin1 100% agree

[@NotRKelly.]

Thank you Geebz

[@Jerry_29]

PLEASE Geebs if you ever do another Ihsahn reaction, listen to Undercurrent. Great reaction btw!

[@voiddreams3143]

Ihsahn is a single guy from Norway and imo a master of his trade. Every album sounds totally different but still distinctive like Ihsahn. "After" is my favourite...got a lot of sax in it. Check it out.

[@Pabloalphaone]

Please do more Ihsahn! - Celestial Violence is a good pick

[@deal5245]

Please check out By And Down The River by A Perfect Circle from their last album!

[@Zaque-TV]

I would like to recommend any track off of Owane and Jack Gardner's recent collab album "chapter 1: Shredemption"

[@CTyler84]

I feel like Ihsahn is dipping his toe deep into the Devil Doll pool with this album.

[@OH-ev8ew]

Wow saw him live years ago and it was sick! Hope you can do song Coal by Crows-an-Wra one day, imho its such an underrated underground band with great musicianship and atmosphere!

[@musiclover01ization]

Great video. The song is fine. It's not the type of stuff I usually listen to.

[@Eros13adios]

In this particular album from Ihsahn "Adversary", When I got hold of this albums with the Lyrics Booklet, reading much of his lyrics work in each of his songs; It seems that Ihsahn is very knowledgeable in the Bible.He didn't needed to input bible verses, but anyone whom has read the bible could see the writing and/or stories from in it, that he adopted the shoes that applied to Satan/ Lucifer in the Bible ( Ihsahn took Satan's Shoes) and put himself in them..

[@iamgubbler95]

For any Ihsahn fans. Check out Ephel Duath and their album The Painter's Palette. Progressive/black metal with jazz elements.

[@Weeping_Somnambulist]

Damn, I had totally forgotten about this album. This was one of my favorites in the aughts, but I was spinning SO MUCH shit during that time, I've forgotten half of them. Thanks!

[@R1ckDeckard]

Ihsahn is the best musician and songwriter in the history of metal. Don't @ me 🤘

[@kurukq]

Ihsahn is great, don't get me wrong. But he's no Mikael Åkerfeldt :)

[@zsjb_]

@@kurukq Ihsahn >>>>

[@FngrsRpicks2]

Please listen to his song, Regen......sooooooooooo gud. Another operatic tone. Or Austere............or everything

[@Lordestroyer]

I was in my 20’s when the Norwegian black metal stuff hit and was never a fan, as I was totally immersed in the Stockholm Sweden death metal scene at the same time. Glad these guys came out of all that nonsense and are creating amazing music.

[@timespiralsaway]

So many great songs to pick from - personally I think somethings from After would be a great analysis. Perhaps Heavens Black Sea?

[@Irquiois]

After is an amazing album, but I have to say Heaven's Black Sea is one of my least favourite songs on it, hah! But it would be amazing to see Geebz take on Undercurrent, or Austere, or On the Shores, the way those songs incorporate instrumental prowess without sacrificing the atmosphere (like Austere hits the first organ solo in the first minute and the fretless bass solo later on). And the sax works like a charm, as a melancholic instrument communicating isolation.

[@jcthomas3718]

Color me impressed. Ihsahn is one of those artists that I feel I am the only one who knows about haha. If you are digging it, he has a track called "Unhealer" from the next album angL which features Mikael from Opeth on Vocals...Great Track, great Artist! GREAT video by you! PS..Do more Opeth haha \m/

[@bobby_c07]

Emperor are one of the most well known black metal bands ever hah, a couple other people may have heard Ihsahn :P But yes, more Opeth!

[@billy2896]

Heya'!! If you want something really rich with layers and stuff to break down, please listen to "A Pitcher of Summer" by Kayo Dot, on their album "Choirs of the Eye". Kayo Dot is an advant-garde jazz-fusion black metal band, and they use some very strange harmonies and rhythms. I would love to see what knowledge you can impart from talking about it. :)

[@matthewgodding777]

Add the Norwegian Shining to that. Song Fisheye. Saxophone through a distortion pedal or some shit (I'm a drummer I don't know pedals in the way guitarists do). Off the album Blackjazz.

[@billy2896]

@@matthewgodding777 ooooohh.. im not familiar!!

[@matthewgodding777]

@@billy2896 Shining. Blackjazz. It's a crazy album. Saxophonist/vocalist is the dude who does sax for Ihsahn's albums. Don't bother with their later albums, they're not nearly as good.

[@billy2896]

@@matthewgodding777 okie :)!

[@djuengst2000]

Great track, It was a first time for me too. Was that kinda fugue like? I’m asking for a friend lol 😀

[@VIVISECTVID86]

Ihsahn also did backing vox for Devin Townsend on "Juular" Maybe you will go down the Black Metal hole now, it's filled with crazy talented musicians/composers.

[@matthewgodding777]

Ruins Of Beverast, Akhlys, Wormlust and Skáphe would be awesome. And Serpent Column. Although Deathspell Omega would be the only fair starting point on that mindfuck of a journey.

[@JoseEchoes378]

@@matthewgodding777 Akhlys - Somniloquy 👌

[@chillychese]

Would love to see some pink floyd anything from dark side of the moon, wish you were here, and animals.

[@donkeydarko77]

Not with the copyright striking

[@chillychese]

@@donkeydarko77 didn't even think about that, damn

[@donkeydarko77]

@@chillychese Yeah, that's why there aren't more Floyd reactions on YT. All get demonetized, and many get strikes. Some record labels don't play lol

[@chillychese]

@@donkeydarko77 you'd think they'd want more people listening to their music, oh well. Thanks for the info though

[@donkeydarko77]

@@chillychese Given the landscape of piracy, what they want is as much control over the music as possible. I don't work/create for free unless I CHOOSE to, and neither should they.

[@joeEnrique]

Hey you need to make a video of the band Sleep Token ok 👌🏽

[@bjhellstream]

You just have to listen to Ibaraki. Matt Heafy from Trivium and Ihsahn collaborating.

[@jeremymull6138]

Not sure why everything kept randomly shifting to the left speaker only. Never did that on the CD, to my memory...

[@Girt-]

Should check out God Knows by knocked loose, it came out not too long ago and is a great example of the direction modern metal is going, keep up the good work 👍

[@chrisrmathews90]

If you're interested in exploring more of Ihsahn's work check out on the shores, it also features an accomplished sax player whose name I can't pronounce.

[@RageToOverCome]

Please do Dimmu Borgir "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"

[@guitar_noodle]

Preferably the live version from “Forces of the northern night”

[@RageToOverCome]

@@guitar_noodle Been asking every video for over 7 months. I'll take whatever I can get him to react to.

[@groverXIII]

Ihsahn is great, but this reminds me just how much of a step forward the album that followed this, After, truly was. This isn't bad, but it feels kinda rough comparatively. It's definitely worth digging deeper into his discography, though.

[@toprak3479]

I've always found The Adversary to be the his best. I'm curious as to why people don't like it as much as the next albums (aside from the production which is a bit rough obviously)

[@tornoutlaw]

Angl followed this, After was his third solo output. After is very experimental, integrates the sax in a real interesting way!

[@mohammadkyani8114]

Please react to the song called "Undercurrent" from his 2010 album "After". It's a unique musical journey.

[@dodgrblu]

I've only listened to several Ihsahn songs, but each time it's been an interesting listen. This seems like a very early one, as the production quality is different and less refined as well as the style a bit too, more theatrical than anything else I've heard which has been newer

[@guitar_noodle]

Yes, it’s his first solo album under the name IHSAHN. Still my fav out of all his other albums.

[@blackmetalassasin1]

More familiar with his work with Emperor, since there early years and their work during the dark age of Norwegian black metal. The early years of black metal in Norway were responsible for numerous church burnings, multiple murders, and were heavily influenced by a high interest in satanism, and demon worship (not figuratively, quite literally). On top of that be careful if it's the shoulder that you injured. A couple of years ago I dislocated one of mine and tore a bunch of the soft tissue inside of the joint. It can be incredibly painful and can limit range of motion tremendously. It takes a lot of time for recovery but as soon as it feels like the inflamation starts to go away it's very important to slowly start doing light resistance exercises or light weight lifting but be very careful to maintain proper form. Although it is slow, as long as you do those things, it will fully recover and both your ROM and the strength of the joint will return with no prob. Someone had also mentioned In Flames in the comments. Their earlier albums like The Jester Race or Whoracle are both better known albums and both received multiple awards when they were released. They are definitely more progressive style metal but in my opinion definitely worth checking out. These albums were released closer to 99-01. Their more recent stuff is a little more formulaic but not necissisarily bad. Good luck on recovery!!!

[@MasaTheSlayer]

You should Check out Emperor( I have recommended it earlier), It's easily Ihsahns best work, and his solo material is not in anyway on same level, it's barely ok.

[@matthewgodding777]

I would disagree thoroughly. Emperor were fucking incredible up until IX, but Ihsahn's solo output is a different mood and can't be compared. Out of all the prog stuff released in the last 22 years it's the most genuine I think, like the prog elements aren't there just for the sake of being complicated. Emperor, Immortal, Dark Throne, Blasphemy. The true early 90s big 4 BM though.

[@MasaTheSlayer]

@@matthewgodding777 You can do so and that's just fine. Not a huge fan of IX, but everything before that is Ihsahns best work, best work so far and probably that is not going to change. Solo stuf is different yes and Im comparing it. Solo stuff is just meh, and every time I give change to it, it's just meh, would not buy records to my collection even if there would not be baggage of Emperor. It's just not cutting for me. For comparison Bruce Dickinson has done great on his solo stuff. It's different from Maiden, but still good and less meh. But that's music taste and so on. Peace :)

[@Chimponaut]

Hey, would be cool if you checked out Meshuggah - New Millenium Cyanide Christ. Old song from the 90s, might be fun to see how they sounded back then. Got a real nice video too if you feel like watching that.

[@josunobo]

You should listen to X Japan - Art of Life, it would be awesome 🤘🏻

[@pantheonofoak]

That would be something

[@JDTait]

Ihsahn before Emperor? really? o.k cool.

[@mvunit3]

After ;)

[@MrGreendayzed]

Patreon picks are more eclectic because it is one person's personal pick where with YT it is what the majority suggested. This sounds like a movie/tv soundtrack for the instrumentals. like i've said before about technic vs emotions this TO ME is towards the technical side, don't feel the emotions bleeding through.

[@fadedsun303]

Hey Geebz! I'm sure this will get lost in the void, but I highly recommend you check out the Japanese band Dir En Grey. A good song for you to decompose would be "Vinushka" off of the album Uroboros. Their singer is highly versatile. He's been called the Japanese Mike Patton before. Would love to see you exploring outside of Western metal/music. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoaso2aEfaiEaM0

[@The_Olive_Prince]

Isn`t that just for laughs(Ygh Yq Clan the legend of Myth) you`re goblin but you have something to mock about (Zeromore from Goblin Mock)

[@thedavescloop]

Hey Geebz. Unusual request here. Would you be interested in doing a lyrical reaction/analysis of That Funny Feeling by Bo Burnham from his Netflix special INSIDE? It can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZOyoqRnoNOJrtU Musically it is extremely straight forward. It's just an acoustic guitar and some chords with a light melody. But lyrically I think it's the heaviest song I have ever heard. Though the line "The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door," might not hit quite the same way for a guy who lives at the edge of the ocean. Ha.

[@denis_stojkovic]

🥱...meh (sorry ihsahn fans 😁) Have a good one Geebz 🤙

[@mtjm]

Terrible pick for first Ihsahn reaction 😰