{"id":20826,"date":"2019-10-10T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=20826"},"modified":"2024-08-27T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:03:46","slug":"happy-birthday-ihsahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/happy-birthday-ihsahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Ihsahn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/al_case\/48561860056\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Emperor\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48561860056_f0550ed73c_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"974\" alt=\"Emperor\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t follow the music scene very closely in the 1990s. I went to few shows and didn&#8217;t like much of the new music I was hearing on the radio. Also, I was busy with a new career and family. However, I do remember that one night, while searching for something different in the 90s music world, I stumbled upon an internet radio station out of the UK that was playing Emperor. That may have been the first time I heard true, black metal. &#8220;I Am the Black Wizards&#8221; became one of the few black metal songs that I listened to regularly before becoming much more devoted to the genre in the past 10-15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Finally seeing Emperor live this past summer at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/brutal-assault-festival\/>Brutal Assault<\/a> was very special. There was one moment, a few hours before they hit the stage, where I was sitting on a leather couch, in the fortress where Brutal Assault is held, and the members of <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/destruction>Destruction<\/a> were conducting an interview 10 feet in front of me, Ihsahn was signing autographs 20 feet in the other direction, and Au-Dessus was playing the Octagon stage just 100 feet away. Also, the creator of the Emperor logo, <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/christophe-szpajdel\/>Christophe Szpajdel<\/a>, was giving tours of his art nearby. I thought I was dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t follow the music scene very closely in the 1990s. I went to few shows and didn&#8217;t like much of the new music I was hearing on the radio. Also, I was busy with a new career and family. However, I do remember that one night, while searching for something different in the 90s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[845,814,413,836,134,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20826"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30003,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions\/30003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}