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Black metal's most prolific and infamous band return with their new beautifully blasphemous studio epic masterpiece! This set includes the band's first concept album with a story based around a priest's assistant in a church in medieval Europe. The result is an audible sacrilegious journey of a soul's decent to darkness that only the mighty Dimmu Borgir could accurately portray! The DVD includes a music video, making of the music video, studio report, photo gallery, and media player.

The long-running Norwegian black metal band work a strange kind of magic on this keyboard-heavy set, wrapping their dark evocations of the netherworld in swathes of synthesizers on tracks such as "The Fundamental Alienation" and "The Conspiracy Unfolds," and even achieving a kind of malevolent ambience on the bleakly majestic "Fallen Arises."
Dimmu Borgir's brand of symphonic black metal, industrial rock and near-classical melodic fare has been developing nicely since their beginning in the 1990s. The crew backing Shagrath's lead vocals -- killer guitar by Erkekjetter Silenoz and some wonderfully harmonic backing vocals that are near operatic, or at least influenced by Jon Anderson and Yes -- have become a brand in metal. With In Sorte Diaboli, the band has gone the route of Therion and numerous others in creating a concept album about a man who grows up in fear and ignorance and believes in the Christian church, and somehow, after studying for years as a monk, rejects everything and becomes a heretic who runs afoul of the church. In doing so, he understands his fate is at stake. Musically, Dimmu Borgir are unrelentingly brutal and harmonic all at once. Songs meld and blend into one another, becoming a nightmarish brood of shred and scrape dreamscapes. The transitions in tunes such as "The Conspiracy Unfolds" and "The Sacrilegious Scorn," the former with its intense blastbeats and ranging power riffs and the latter tune's classically themed melodic invention, are simply seductive as keyboard and snares and toms give way to powerful guitar and bass thrums. When the chorus enters, full of four-part harmony and key changes that open onto a vista of darkness, it's almost irresistible. One can't fault Dimmu Borgir for their position that manmade Christian religion is a form of control and has been from the beginning, though their own ignorance -- willful, no doubt -- is almost laughable. After all, if the only accounts of the dark spirit known as Satan are from the same ancient Hebrew narratives in Genesis, how is the worship of Satan supposedly closer to the animal instincts of human nature and different than another set of manmade beliefs with even less textual evidence? This is part of what's wrong with all of the these narratives that claim, at their basest, that Christianity is bad and full of bondage while Satanism is good and promises freedom to do what thou wilt. It simply inverts the paradigm, but it's the same paradigm. Therefore the lyrics here are cheesy, as is the narrative in the liner notes that precedes the music. Oh yeah: one needs a mirror to be able to read the lyrics. Luckily, they are high enough up in the mix to actually hear. Ultimately, how is this album different from the Who's Tommy? Musically yes, but lyrically it's consciously more venomous, the darkness that lurks within them both is similar, and both promise a kind of freedom, only Tommy's doesn't come with death by the Church. There's really great stuff here in the music, the production, in the sound effects. Too bad it all melts down when it comes to the concept, which is ho hum at best -- at least Slayer made a case against Christianity and war while choosing the devil. This all boils down to having to make a choice. The humanist perspective is the freedom not to make a choice at all. This all amounts to sermonizing and creating propaganda for the other side. It's still boring. Perhaps Dimmu Borgir should have spent more time listening to labelmates Therion's GothiCMJ (p.6) - "[T]his Norwegian band tempers those classical black metal elements with crisp production and epic, choral vocals."
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List Price $18.97 (You save $3.32)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Heavy Metal, Black Metal
Label Nuclear Blast
Orig Year 2007
All Time Sales Rank   7916  
CD Universe Part number 7398161
Catalog number 1877
Discs 1
Release Date Apr 24, 2007
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Recording Time 47 minutes
Additional Info Bonus DVD; Limited Edition; Digipak
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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.Serpentine Offering, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Chosen Legacy, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.Conspiracy Unfolds, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.Sacrilegious Scorn, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.Fallen Arises, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Heretic Hammer, The - (bonus track)
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Sinister Awakening, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.Fundamental Alienation, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.Invaluable Darkness, The
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample10.Foreshadowing Experience, The - (bonus track)

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5 stars album of the year
Excellent release that is a theme album about a young priest. If you are familar with Dimmu Borgir, this album will not dissapoint. Shagrath shreiks and the melodic Vortex has a bigger vocal role in this one than others. Will be a candidate for best metal album of the year.
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