EMPEROR frontman Ihsahn (real name: Vegard Sverre Tveitan) played a brand new song, “My Heart Is Of The North“, from his forthcoming solo album during his set at this year’s edition of the Heavy Montreal festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Ihsahn told Eternal Terror in June about his forthcoming solo CD: “I would say in 95 percent of cases, [when I am working on a new album] it’s all fresh [ideas that I end up using]. This time, it’s a bit diferent. There are a few themes from my upcoming album that were, not leftovers, but things that I wrote in the period when I did [2013’s] ‘Das Seelenbrechen‘, but that did not fit into that album, but that I, in my mind, [thought] ‘This wil fit better in the next one.’ Because the previous album was such a, kind of, different type of album.”

Released in October 2013, “Das Seelenbrechen” was described in a press release as “a bold and adventurous recording that is a musical contrast to the progressive shades and saxophone augmentations of the EMPEROR vocalist/guitarist’s previous two albums (2009’s ‘After‘ and 2011’s ‘Eremita‘).”

In 2014, EMPEROR celebrated the 20th anniversary of its “In The Nightside Eclipse” album by making a number of festival appearances.

(via Blabbermouth)