Cornelius Jakhelln
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Cornelius Jakhelln also known as Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian
vocalist, guitarist
, musician
, writer
and poet
.
but currently residing in Berlin
, Cornelius was 18 years old when he and Lars "Lazare" Nedland
formed the avant-garde metal band, Solefald
. Along with being a lead vocalist, guitarist, bassist and composer in the band, he also handles the vast majority of lyric writing for the band. Solefald
has since released one demo and seven full-length albums. In December 2005, the band was nominated for the Norwegian Alarm award for best metal
album for the album, Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1.
Cornelius' first time recording with a band other than Solefald
was in July 1999, when Cornelius performed guest vocals for the gothic metal
band Monumentum
for the songs "Black And Violet", a cover of the Italian band Death SS
, and "The Colour of Compassion". These recordings were released in 2004 on the Monumentum compilation album, Metastasi.
In 2003, Jakhelln began working on a new band. The name chosen was Sturmgeist
, and the band plays an experimental style of black
/thrash metal
with lyrics sung in English
, Norwegian
, and German
about Germanic mythology
, war, and recitations of Goethe poetry. On 24 January 2005, Sturmgeist released their first full-length, entitled Meister Mephisto
on the record label, Season Of Mist
. Since then, Sturmgeist has gone on a small Europe
an tour, and had recruited two more official members, John "Panzer" Jacobsen on guitar, and Christian "Anti Christian" Svendsen on drums, ending the band's time as a solo project. Sturmgeist's second full-length, entitled Über
, was released 16 October 2006 through Season of Mist
. His third album released under the Sturmgeist name was released in 2009, entitled Manifesto Futurista.
On 26 August 2005, Cornelius also announced on his official website that he would finally be recording an electronica
album in Sofia, Bulgaria that he had been planning for six years. He has described the project as a combination of electronica
, darkwave
, hip hop
, drum'n'bass
and black metal
.
The album, entitled My Only Drug Is Madness was released in 2007, under the band G.U.T, meaning Grace Under Torture. He got the phrase from a Thomas Mann
short story entitled Der Tod in Venedig.
-based literary review entitled Avant-poste, which was nominated for the French CNOUS annual award, as one out of ten cultural projects. He is also writing the libretto
for a contemporary opera
telling a story from the pagan
times of the North.
He has continued to have a successful career as an author and was quoted in an interview stating "Being a writer is my job. And my music is… It’s like a "Nebenjob", as you would say in Germany. A passion."
with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex
. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in philosophy and cognitive science from École des hautes études en sciences sociales
and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Oslo
.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
vocalist, guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
.
Musician
Born in OsloOslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
but currently residing in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Cornelius was 18 years old when he and Lars "Lazare" Nedland
Lars Nedland
Lars Are Nedland , known also as Lazare, from Kristiansand, Norway, is the vocalist, drummer and keyboardist for acclaimed avant-garde black metal band Solefald. He is also keyboardist for the progressive black metal act Borknagar...
formed the avant-garde metal band, Solefald
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...
. Along with being a lead vocalist, guitarist, bassist and composer in the band, he also handles the vast majority of lyric writing for the band. Solefald
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...
has since released one demo and seven full-length albums. In December 2005, the band was nominated for the Norwegian Alarm award for best metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
album for the album, Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1.
Cornelius' first time recording with a band other than Solefald
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...
was in July 1999, when Cornelius performed guest vocals for the gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
band Monumentum
Monumentum
Monumentum are an Italian gothic metal band formed in 1987 by Roberto Mammarella, founder of Obscure Plasma Records .-Biography:...
for the songs "Black And Violet", a cover of the Italian band Death SS
Death SS
Death SS is an Italian heavy metal band.-Biography:Death SS was formed in 1977 by Steve Sylvester. The band combined elements of horror and heavy metal to become a pioneer in horror metal and gothic metal, as well as doom metal and black metal. Death SS were one of the first...
, and "The Colour of Compassion". These recordings were released in 2004 on the Monumentum compilation album, Metastasi.
In 2003, Jakhelln began working on a new band. The name chosen was Sturmgeist
Sturmgeist
Sturmgeist is an experimental black/thrash metal formed by Cornelius Jakhelln in 2002.-Beginnings:In 2002, Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band. The name chosen was Sturmgeist . The music was an experimental mix of black/thrash metal with lyrics sung in English, Norwegian, and German...
, and the band plays an experimental style of black
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
/thrash metal
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
with lyrics sung in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
about Germanic mythology
Germanic mythology
Germanic mythology is a comprehensive term for myths associated with historical Germanic paganism, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, Continental Germanic mythology, and other versions of the mythologies of the Germanic peoples...
, war, and recitations of Goethe poetry. On 24 January 2005, Sturmgeist released their first full-length, entitled Meister Mephisto
Meister Mephisto
Meister Mephisto is the first full-length album by Norwegian experimental black/thrash band Sturmgeist, the, then solo, project of Cornelius Jakhelln. It was released on 24 January 2005. It is the 94th release by French record label, Season Of Mist...
on the record label, Season Of Mist
Season of Mist
Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...
. Since then, Sturmgeist has gone on a small Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an tour, and had recruited two more official members, John "Panzer" Jacobsen on guitar, and Christian "Anti Christian" Svendsen on drums, ending the band's time as a solo project. Sturmgeist's second full-length, entitled Über
Über (album)
Über is the second full-length album by Norwegian experimental black/thrash band Sturmgeist. The album was released on October 16, 2006 through Season Of Mist. This album introduced two new members to the band, John E...
, was released 16 October 2006 through Season of Mist
Season of Mist
Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...
. His third album released under the Sturmgeist name was released in 2009, entitled Manifesto Futurista.
On 26 August 2005, Cornelius also announced on his official website that he would finally be recording an electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
album in Sofia, Bulgaria that he had been planning for six years. He has described the project as a combination of electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
, darkwave
Darkwave
Dark Wave or darkwave is a music genre that began in the late 1970s, coinciding with the popularity of New Wave and post-punk. Building on those basic principles, dark wave added dark, introspective lyrics and an undertone of sorrow for some bands...
, hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
, drum'n'bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
and black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
.
The album, entitled My Only Drug Is Madness was released in 2007, under the band G.U.T, meaning Grace Under Torture. He got the phrase from a Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
short story entitled Der Tod in Venedig.
Writer
Aside from being a musician, Cornelius made his debut as a writer in 2001. He has had many writings published in newspapers and magazines and a tetralogy of poems entitled Quadra Natura for which he was deemed the winner of a national Scandinavian novel writing contest in 2007. The third volume of this four-book collection, entitled Fagernorn. Quadra Natura 0111 was released on 16 March 2006. He is also involved with a ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
-based literary review entitled Avant-poste, which was nominated for the French CNOUS annual award, as one out of ten cultural projects. He is also writing the libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
for a contemporary opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
telling a story from the pagan
Paganism
Paganism is a blanket term, typically used to refer to non-Abrahamic, indigenous polytheistic religious traditions....
times of the North.
He has continued to have a successful career as an author and was quoted in an interview stating "Being a writer is my job. And my music is… It’s like a "Nebenjob", as you would say in Germany. A passion."
Education
Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive scienceCognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in philosophy and cognitive science from École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Oslo
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...
.
With Solefald
- Jernlov (demo) (1996)
- The Linear ScaffoldThe Linear ScaffoldThe Linear Scaffold is the debut full-length album by the Norwegian Avant-garde Black metal band Solefald. It was released in 1997 on Avantgarde Records.-Track listing:#"Jernlov" #"Philosophical Revolt" #"Red View"...
(1997) - NeonismNeonism (album)Neonism is the second full length album by Norwegian Post-Black Metal band Solefald. It was released on December 7th, 1999 by Avantgarde Music.- Sound :...
(1999) - Pills Against The Ageless IllsPills Against The Ageless IllsPills against the Ageless Ills is the third full-length album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Solefald. It was released on September 19, 2001, their first album under the Century Media label...
(2001) - In Harmonia UniversaliIn Harmonia UniversaliIn Harmonia Universali is the fourth full-length album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Solefald, and their last under the Century Media label. It was released on March 24, 2003. The album featured lyrics sung in four languages, English, Norwegian, French, and German.At the time, this can be...
(2003) - Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 (2005)
- Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2 (2006)
- The Circular Drain (2008)
- Norrøn LivskunstNorrøn Livskunst- Concept :The press release for described the album as such:With "Norrøn livskunst", SOLEFALD looks to the early 1900-century Norway, when a young nation zealously engaged in exploring its cultural roots. Writers, painters and composers rediscovered Norse mythology, the Edda and the sagas. Houses...
(2010)
With Sturmgeist
- Meister MephistoMeister MephistoMeister Mephisto is the first full-length album by Norwegian experimental black/thrash band Sturmgeist, the, then solo, project of Cornelius Jakhelln. It was released on 24 January 2005. It is the 94th release by French record label, Season Of Mist...
(2005) - ÜberÜber (album)Über is the second full-length album by Norwegian experimental black/thrash band Sturmgeist. The album was released on October 16, 2006 through Season Of Mist. This album introduced two new members to the band, John E...
(2006) - Manifesto Futurista (2009)
As guest musician
- MonumentumMonumentumMonumentum are an Italian gothic metal band formed in 1987 by Roberto Mammarella, founder of Obscure Plasma Records .-Biography:...
: sang on the songs "Black And Violet" and "The Colour of Compassion" on the album, Metastasi.
Books Published
- Gebura Muse. Quadra Natura 0001 23 August 2001 at OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
editor AschehougAschehougH. Aschehoug & Co , commonly known as Aschehoug, is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway. -History:... - Yggdraliv. Quadra Natura 0011 19 May 2004 at OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
editor Tiden - Fagernorn. Quadra Natura 0111 15 March 2006 at OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
editor Tiden - Gudenes fall 2007
- Rikke gidder ikke! 2008 Cappelen DammCappelen DammCappelen Damm is a Norwegian publisher established in 2007. It is the result of the merger of J.W. Cappelens Forlag, founded in 1829, and N.W. Damm & Søn, founded in 1843. Cappelen Damm is owned by the Bonnier Group and Egmont....
- Galderhug. Quadra Natura 1111 2008 Cappelen DammCappelen DammCappelen Damm is a Norwegian publisher established in 2007. It is the result of the merger of J.W. Cappelens Forlag, founded in 1829, and N.W. Damm & Søn, founded in 1843. Cappelen Damm is owned by the Bonnier Group and Egmont....
- Vougesville 2009 Cappelen DammCappelen DammCappelen Damm is a Norwegian publisher established in 2007. It is the result of the merger of J.W. Cappelens Forlag, founded in 1829, and N.W. Damm & Søn, founded in 1843. Cappelen Damm is owned by the Bonnier Group and Egmont....
- Trisyn 2010 Samlaget
- Kosmopolis 2 November 2011 Samlaget