About.com Heavy Metal Guide's Chad Bowar has issued an interview with former EMPEROR frontman IHSAHN. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: Your approach to making an album is pretty structured from what I’ve heard you say previously. Was that the case with a angL?

A: "Yes. I started that with The Adversary because it’s so easy when you have your own studio. Me and my wife have a production company, and we can basically do anything with the technology we have. Since I don’t have any bandmates, it’s important to have a good structure. I learned that doing The Adversary, deciding to write all the songs all with just two guitar tracks, programmed drums and a piano sound.

I followed the same recipe with this one. Even before I started writing riffs, I actually sketched up guidelines about what kind of album I wanted to make, trying to have a very big idea of what the overall album should be like. Of course you change things over time, but having a main objective was very important to me. I wanted a more focused album, not so spread to different subgenres. I also wanted each song to have a special personality that would set it apart from the others. I wanted a more modern, contemporary, hard hitting sound. For The Adversary I wanted a more sparse sound picture, inspired by more ‘70s metal. I also mixed that album in an analog studio with equipment from the ‘50s. ‘60s and ‘70s and didn’t overdub any guitars."

angL was released May 27th through Mnemosyne Productions/Candlelight Records in North America.

An e-card for the album is available at this location.

angL tracklisting: 'Misanthrope', 'Scarab', 'Unhealer' (featuring OPETH's Mikael Åkerfeldt), 'Emancipation', 'Malediction', 'Alchemist', 'Elevator', 'Threnody', 'Monolith'.