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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Sturmgeist
Group · Norway · Norway · formed 2002
band
Timeline
1 events◆ Formed 1
2000s
Biography
English biography199 words · 7 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1378068285
Biography
Sturmgeist is an experimental black/thrash metal band formed by Cornelius Jakhelln in 2002.
Beginnings
In 2002, Cornelius Jakhelln began working on Sturmgeist ("Stormspirit" in German), an experimental mix of black/thrash metal with English, Norwegian, and German lyrics about Germanic folklore, war, Goethe's poetry. On 24 January 2005, Sturmgeist released their first album, Meister Mephisto, on Season Of Mist.
Tour
To support the album, musicians such as Asgeir Mickelson of Borknagar and Spiral Architect joined Jakhelln for a small European tour. The band played six shows in France, Belgium, England and Scotland, supporting black metal band Carpathian Forest.
Über
Starting in October, Sturmgeist began recording Über, their follow-up to Meister Mephisto in Børge Finstad's Top Room studios. The band featured tour guitarist John "Panzer" Jacobsen as an official member, and drummer Anti Christian of Tsjuder, Grimfist and The Cumshots. Season Of Mist released the album on 16 October 2006 in Europe, and on October 17 in North America.
Current line-up
Cornelius Jakhelln (Solefald) - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards/synthesizers, sampling
Live session musicians on the 2005 tour
Panzer - guitar
Henrik Strømme aka Sturmrik Wilde - guitar
Asgeir Mickelson (Borknagar, Spiral Architect, Ihsahn, ex-Vintersorg, Scariot) - drums
Releases
Meister Mephisto (2005), on Season of Mist
Über (2006), on Season of Mist
Manifesto Futurista (2009)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 24 | 53.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Sturmgeist head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 24 | 53.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sturmgeist_live1.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q653022genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q653022seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgeistbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgeist
Why this artist is in the database
- List of thrash metal bands — rank #31
Sturmgeist | 2002 | Norway | |
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q653022 · MusicBrainz: 8e16b5db-6f6e-48af-92bd-e8b8e58d6bde
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