In Aeternum

19 // she/her

[thewitchesempire]

Ihsahn and Tchort in 1993 UK tour

Same show probably??

[caligula19]

new photo of faust 1993

[maize-field-vampire]

Thou Shalt Suffer - 1991

[thewitchesempire]

Ihsahn from Emperor

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 15, 2025 - Basque people took to the streets of Bilbao to welcome the Palestinian national football team who arrived to play against the Basque national team. [video]

[the-old-mayhem]

What’s your favorite food?

Nazis on toast

[blsphmr]

[metalpages]

Ihsahn: We were in touch with other metal bands quite early. We went to meet up with Darkthrone and even sat in on rehearsals where they rehearsed for the [1996] Goatlord album that they originally planned to release after [1991’s] Soulside Journey. We had contact with the Old Funeral guys and some people who are now in Enslaved. The first time we got Ivar [Bjornson] from Enslaved drunk, he was twelve. Source: Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

[thewitchesempire]

Ihsahn and Samoth rehearsing with Arcturus in 1994 at Skippergata, Oslo.

Small update:

I have found another picture :)

[child0feden]

hehe :3

some scans of the magazine pages below the cut, i will try to scan some more pages from the magazines later on <3

sorry about the kind of bad positioning! my scanner is kind of small lol :)

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

thinking about perspiration. thinking about the first time i watched a godard movie.

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

[ancient-qveen]

Thou Shalt Suffer era Ihsahn and Samoth (c. 1991)

video and zine interview below

Formerly known as Embryonic and Xerasia, Thou Shalt Suffer was Vegard and Tomas' main band in 1990-1991.

Part of their show in Nottoden here

Tomas does a small interview in Peccatus Altar zine issue no. 1, 1992 (Vegard and Tomas in the photo)

And Bård Eithun reviews them a bit in his own zine Orcustus issue no. 2, 1992

(also photo #2 in the post is from Death Industry zine issue no. 3, 1992 but i cant fit anymore pics and its in lithuanian anyway)

[ancient-qveen]

EMPEROR live in Bradford (1993)

another gig that i dont have -and can't find- anymore photos of :( bård actually kept his shirt on for once lol. the concert footage is also quite dark unfortunately, but this clip is decent

[ancient-qveen]

concert reviews for EMPEROR's 1993 London gig

Quite clearly, Emperor are as much of a threat to society as a tooth-pick might be to an elephant's arse - Jason Arnopp, Kerrang! magazine

The sound tonight was simply pathetic, very thin and lifeless and there's not a hint of evilness about this band onstage - Russ Smith, Terrorizer magazine issue no. 1

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lol fr tho, they're not wrong but give my pookies them a break they were ~18/19 years old on their first real tour by themselves. and turns out 3/4 of the band was a threat to society 💀

here's a clip of that fucker yelling "satan fucking satan" and Ihsahn and Samoth just🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️

[ancient-qveen]

EMPEROR orgy promo pics (1993) pt. 2

pt. 1 here

these may be the last two but who knows bc i keep finding more. also faust on the right of the first pic lolol

[ancient-qveen]

Inside Ihsahn's Hytte (1994)

"the wastelands, the emptiness, the silence"

It's kind of a meditation because you open your mind to all the impulses you get from your surroundings. The sound from the waterfalls, the winds, the rains. The symbolic world of satanism. It is dark. The wastelands, the emptiness, the silence. It is dark forces. And also in this kind of old Norwegian woods, you also kind of feel the pagan past - Ihsahn, talking about his hytte retreats (source)

Hytte is a Norwegian cabin/cottage. This one is Ihsahn's family's hytte, which has clearly been decorated by Ihsahn. The pictures are from this interview.

In the first picture, you can see that iconic sword on the wall, that you can find in many of their promo pics. I'll have to make a separate post for that curse you mobile tumblr pic limit

^ Bonus pics featuring the hytte:

Ihsahn in 1993 (?)

Ihsahn and a girl samoth

Ihsahn with his guitar and keyboards