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| 4.0 excellent | demon of surveillance | June 20th 12 |
While this album isn't as great as Ihsahn's previous effort "After," he has still crafted a unique and diverse album with "Eremita." The overall style is extreme progressive metal, yet the black metal and jazz elements seen in his previous works are still present. If you enjoy Ihsahn's prior solo work then you should definitely give this a listen.
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| 3.1 good | Erwann S. EMERITUS | December 16th 24 |
Proggy, epic, and hell of a ride meme: this is good prog metal with some cool sax leads here and there, but that's about it.
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| 3.5 great | Trey STAFF | January 13th 23 |
If After showed Ihsahn finally finding his own sound and not relying on the past and blatant influence-worship, then this is him fine-tuning that sound. It’s probably his least aggressive album, but there are still plenty of high speed sections and black metal vocals but they’re mixed with a much larger prog influence as well as more clean vocals and even some sax.
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| 3.0 good | EasterInTheBatcave | August 15th 16 |
Eremita features a cerebral, measured vibe and good songwriting ("The Grave," "Recollection"). It's solid all the way through-- the performances are strong (Ihsahn is as capable a singer as he is a black metal screamer), and it never drags. Prog metal fans will enjoy.
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| 3.5 great | FLRTE | February 9th 13 |
Just ok until the last 3 tracks, all 3 are awesome and got me into this one. Then I ended up enjoying most of this album.
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| 2.5 average | lifter | September 10th 12 |
Personally, I found this album boring, not fresh at all, and inferior to Ihsahn's other three solo albums (to say nothing of his work in Emperor).
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| 3.5 great | tom6 | July 1st 12 |
Though appropriately atmospheric and well-arranged, Eremita tries to exploit a creative formula that Ihsahn mostly tapped out with After - its bold compositions are unable to reach quite the same unconventional cohesion as its predecessor's. It would seem that Ihsahn's sound could use a new spice, much like the sax worked for After. But that's not to say this album lacks highlighs: the convoluted "The Eagle and the Snake" is one of his greatest achievements to date.
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| 5.0 classic | phichens | June 19th 12 |
Easily the best Ihsahn yet, its consistent and just grabs you by the hairy ones, imagine Mars Volta, black metal and Opeth had a jazzy baby.... awesome!!
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| 0.0 | zaruyache | June 18th 12 |
This leaked. Get it and tell me how it sounds.
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| 4.0 excellent | Gorey13 | August 19th 24 |
| 3.5 great | KManoc1 | February 21st 24 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | February 14th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Verdr | November 25th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | nelrock | December 16th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | JoneHK | December 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | eirinn | October 1st 21 |
| 3.5 great | xlev | August 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Spag | December 9th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | November 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | perkeleh | November 25th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | max13x | October 1st 20 |
| 3.5 great | SuzyC | February 22nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Elros | September 5th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | gk1979 | August 16th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aranox | May 27th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Gbhill | April 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | meditant | February 23rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Nisraak | November 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Loveloth | September 23rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | August 14th 18 |
| 3.0 good | NoXoR | May 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryan P STAFF | February 19th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | hsb | December 23rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | RAGG | December 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | solrage | August 20th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Redlar | July 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | YeeHaw | July 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | stesta | April 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | THED00M | March 19th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Brandon | December 30th 16 |
| 3.0 good | ICDD | December 7th 16 |
| 3.5 great | mRA | April 11th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | heck | April 10th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | TeeDeeM | April 9th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Bierlag | November 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hypnone | October 12th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | elch21 | August 28th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | L0G05 | May 31st 15 |
| 3.5 great | Pels0 | May 30th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | iao | February 26th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Peeps9 | January 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kruppe | January 2nd 15 |
| 3.0 good | Titan | October 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Adam | July 22nd 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Atrus | March 29th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Nud | February 5th 14 |
| 2.5 average | cjacob6 | December 19th 13 |
| 2.5 average | voodman | November 19th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Solaire | November 14th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eremita | November 14th 13 |
| 3.5 great | oskrr1 | October 24th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Hati | September 10th 13 |
| 3.5 great | craven | August 19th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ahhhhhh | August 1st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Snipy | June 27th 13 |
| 3.5 great | tg103 | April 10th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Tale | January 16th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | MikeC26 | December 12th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | kx8 | December 8th 12 |
| 3.5 great | N2B3J | November 9th 12 |
| 3.5 great | snewso | October 26th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | sj666 | October 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | vkristi | October 23rd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Majkl | August 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lani | August 5th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | dabudas | August 1st 12 |
| 2.5 average | alsid | July 29th 12 |
| 3.0 good | smeaf | July 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wafflez | July 18th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | SgtPepper EMERITUS | July 1st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Awake88 | June 27th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Meuric | June 26th 12 |
| 3.5 great | gervin | June 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Etrius | June 24th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | Edlund | June 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | GhostK | June 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Niels | June 19th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Rail | June 19th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Manic_ | June 18th 12 |
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