#einar solberg

[sugoiney-weaver]

Ihsahn - Celestial Violence

Celestial Violence

Eternal wars unfold across the sky

Celestial violence

Feel the unrelenting pulse inside

[artemispt]

Einar’s tribute to support Danny ❤️

[catbarrage]

Einar Solberg (feat Ihsahn) | Splitting the Soul

[spiraliastatica]

❤️

[ponderingrandomthings]

Such an unexpected and good discovery.

The music is so unlike what one expects from Progressive Metal.

If I remember right, this album was referred to in a review of Pain of Salvation's 2020 album Panther. It contains so much keyboard sounds that make it so hard to fit it into all my past experience and expectation of Pain of Salvation albums.

So, this album is another great discovery today.

And I have been reluctant to explore this band because the name made me think it could possible be some doom/bleak themed band. Maybe they started off as that. (After all, Anathema started off as a Doom Metal band. BUT it also created an amazing mostly/often acoustic and introspective album titled Weather Systems.)

No, I'm not claiming I can use logic from one place and force-fit it in another place - and make claims about things.

And Pain of Salvation's album Panther is another point supporting the change in sound and 'so unexpected from them'.

But, digressions apart - please do listen to the album.

YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJrG0B3Pdm8&list=PLONVEQP6SwpGIJ2Ju3nrDkPsm1q0esUXI

Passionate singing in many/most songs and most songs do not fit in the usual expectations of prog-metal. (I am now only repeating myself...)

Ah, before I click Add to queue: The lyrics for this album are mostly from their singer, who developed a health condition and had a 1.5 year experience of struggling with depression. Lyrics weave off such introspection.

Song #1 (Below) is an amazing starting point... check the vocals at 1:20 for some idea. This is the very first song I heard from Leprous. Changed my (previously ignorant) opinion of the band.

Though no Net/AI gave an answer as to why they chose the name Leprous. The one nugget I got from AI chat/search was 'maybe it is intentional to contrast the band name with the music which is so experimental' (as in, unexpected).

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Musicians:

Einar Solberg / lead vocals, keyboards

Tor Oddmund Suhrke / guitars

Robin Ognedal / guitars

Simen Daniel Lindstad Børven / bass

Baard Kolstad / drums

[rainingmusic]

Leprous - I Lose Hope

[nytsoi]

Einar Solberg - 16

Leprous-ukkelin eka sooloproggis. Taiteellisia vapauksia uskalletaan, kuten pitääkin, ottaa. Herkistelyä, ambientia, poppia, rokkia, tyylittelyä, leikittelyä ja eritoten tunteita. Vaikea levy ottaa haltuun mutta ahkeran ja sitkeän pyörittelyn jälkeen juttu avautuu ja palkitsee. Jos vielä aiemmin ei ole käynyt selväksi miten taitava kultakurkku on kyseessä, nyt viimeistään homma on selviö. Tsekkaa Remember Me, A Beautiful Life, Home, Grotto, Splitting The Soul ja Over The Top.

Lätty julkaistu kesäkuun 2, 2023. Spotify.

[lesenfantssauvages666]

They went out for a date 🌈 (Einar and Tor)

[metalshockfinland]

EINAR SOLBERG Releases Special Performance Video for ‘Within My Fence’, "The Congregation Acoustic" Album Out February 16th

EINAR SOLBERG – frontman of Norwegian rock mavericks Leprous – released his debut solo album ‘16’ earlier this year. But back at the beginning of 2022, he took on an entirely different solo endeavour. For a special live streamed performance, he reinterpreted the Leprous album ‘The Congregation’ in full, just piano and voice. Now that performance will see an official audio release as ‘The…

[agentkaz]

love to hate you: a skwistok fanmix

FINALLY this fanmix i've had mostly done for a while is totally done!! sorry it's so synth-heavy. it WILL happen again.

it felt like it was missing something and then i was listening to caustic do a dj set and he played love to hate you and i was like how did i forget about love to hate you???

now that i finally finished this maybe i can do some other ships too. we'll see!

tracklist with youtube links under the cut!

The Murmurs - Smash

Erasure - Love To Hate You

The Psychedelic Furs - Shock

Bush - Swim

En Esch - The Sweetest Aggravation

Ashbury Heights - Hope

ThouShaltNot - The Projectionist

Kosheen - Catch

Adam Ant - Desperate But Not Serious

Beauty Queen Autopsy - Good, Giving, Game

Depeche Mode - Rush

Platform One - Control

Ihsahn - Celestial Violence (feat Einar Solberg)

Elegant Machinery - Move

Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch

The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?

Cosmicity - I Want You

Seabound - Hooked

Tobias Bernstrup - Only One

Mad At Gravity - Find The Words

Hypefactor - The Sweetest Soul

Neuroticfish - Depend On You

Story Of The Year - Until The Day I Die

Killing Joke - Euphoria

Perpetuous Dreamer - Dust.Wav (Armin Van Buuren's Rising Star Mix)

[shireain]

Got tagged by @withoutalice for the 10 songs that play first on a shuffle with my current playlist!

1. Cold World by Red

2. Fear Held Dear by Mushroomhead

3. Remember Me by Einar Solberg

4. Fire Inside by Casey Edwards and Victor Borba

5. Alea by Disillusion

6. Heathens by Port Noir

7. The Stormchaser by Caligula's Horse

8. Portrait by Unprocessed

9. Motherfunk by In Search of Sun

10. The Summoning by Sleep Token

All bangers (in my biased opinion) and I've been spamming The Stormchaser ever since it came out recently ❤️

And I tag uhh @rhewkath @matrim-cauthons-hat @utane @dataglitch @ueon @faelixir @mal-co-holic @icypolargirl78 @chibichibiwoofwoof

[artemispt]

Einar Solberg my beloved ❤️

[caffeinesam]

Okay but have harder words been ushered than "Stay and I will turn these unforgiving words into a star"?

[22ndcentury]

i was tagged by @sonic-counselor to list 5 songs i've been listening to lately (i'm @sanguinary-design). Thank you!

I tag @lalalaexistence, @heavymetallibrarian, @namelessrammgirl, @franwikema if you'd like to participate!