New Ihsahn song - 8 string content

Jind

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GuitarWold.com has a new Ihsahn song up from his new album coming out in 2010 mixed Jens Bogren.

"Frozen Lakes On Mars"

I love everything this man does - really looking forward to this album.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCKxk-iFK8&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
 
I'm really glad to hear that he retained the overall feel from the last 2 albums, I was a little worried about the whole 8-string thing lol. It seems like it solved most of the issues with everything sounding too thin, I can't wait to hear the rest.
 
Great song, great production, but he's helping me avoid the temptation to get an 8 string - it's really hard to make room for a bass with guitars this low, yet it feels like it's missing bass... which is pretty much the issue I've heard with anything done on an 8 string, however with Jens Bogren producing, given his skills, this means these kinds of issues are unavoidable to some extent.
 
Sounds pretty good,

but am i the only one who thinks this stuff is pretty poor compared to his work in Emperor???
sounds like it could have come from any scandinavian shred-kid, not the man who brought us Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk.

Well, Trym and Samoth contributed much too ;) Judging from the MetalKult video interview, they pretty much wrote all songs together, except for Prometheus, which Ihsahn did pretty much solo.

Here:

http://www.metalkult.com/videos/emperor-the-metalkult-interview/

http://www.metalkult.com/videos/exclusive-emperor-guitar-lesson/
 
Nonetheless the difference in quality and originality is quite a bit bigger than I had hoped :erk:. There's probably another audience for this stuff and fortunately we can still just listen to the old Emperor albums. Still I cannot help but feel let down by one of my teenage heroes :lol:.