Ihsahn to release second solo album in May!

Candlelight Records has announced a May 27, 2008 release date for angL, the highly anticipated sophomore album from former Emperor vocalist/guitarist and heavy metal legend Ihsahn. Featuring nine new original songs, the album features guest performances by drummer Asgeir Mickelson, and bassist Lars Koppang Norberg, both of the band Spiral Architect, and Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt.

With Emperor during the '90s, Ihsahn helped define the sound and sonic fury of black metal through albums like 1994's In the Nightside Eclipse and 1997's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, mixing elements of Norwegian folk music with a devastating metal assault. Despite the band's well-publicized trials and tribulations, Ihsahn and Emperor brought black metal into the new century with a handful of critically-acclaimed albums, culminating with 2001's Prometheus – the Discipline of Fire & Demise, after which the band called it quits.

Ihsahn launched his solo career with the release of the critically-acclaimed album The Adversary in 2006. Like that album, angL was recorded and mixed by Ihsahn at his Symphonique Studios in Notodden, Norway.