# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steinar-sverd-johnsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:03:37.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steinar-sverd-johnsen"
name: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
slug: "steinar-sverd-johnsen"
description: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen is a Norwegian keyboardist and composer. Sverd plays keyboards and synthesizers in Arcturus and was also the main composer for the band. He formed the band with Marius Vold (Mortem, Stigma Diabolicum of Thorns, and Jan Axel Blomberg of Mayhem in 1987, originally under the moniker Mortem. The band split up in April 2007, but reformed in 2011."
tagline: "Norwegian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arcturus_2005_-_Sverd_%26_Moren.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1972-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.348813333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/427829"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverd"
    title: "Sverd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen"
    title: "Steinar Sverd Johnsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6c5a856b-55cf-4797-a1ec-879490cf9efe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3315014"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump