Review: Melodramatic and overstyled Dimmu Borgir save their music through its essential rawness and punk heritage under the complexities of aesthetic. When the vocalist sings in a black metal style and does not try vocals he cannot accomplish his power is immense both rhythmically and tonally. Guitars are sawhorse consistency that breaks through simple tone patterns to provide a background ambience of fluid tone corridors for keyboards and vocals to traverse.

Tracklist: 1. Det nye riket 2. Under korpens vinger 3. Over bleknede blåner til dommedag 4. Stien 5. Glittertind 6. Fr all tid 7. Hunnerkongens sorgsvarte ferd over steppene 8. Raabjørn speiler draugheims skodde 9. Den gjemte sannhets herskar Length: 43:19

Built into this fusion is one of the oldest collaborations in rock music, between folk singsong and rhythmic speed in the style of amplified music from the industrial centers of humanity. The expressive rhythms are the interaction between strumming and the snare/bass heartbeat that blasts along behind the music's tonal avalanche. Vocals stagger the overall speed by holding rhythm or rejecting it, goading the surge or carefully denying it.

The positive side to the heavily emotional and over-expressed style of neo-opera that Dimmu Borgir offer is a compositional variation and thematic tension to each song, but the downside is that some of the judgement used to apply this principle results in staggeringly obvious musical exaggerations that will annoy the contemplative listener. The concept behind its power is the concept of atmosphere, whereby it launches into strobing riffs and alternating drumbeats very slowly while building mood with vocals and guitar melodies.

The result is a varied and increasing intensity, although one that maintains what power it has through absence of tension rather than conventionally articulated musical affinities. The execution of the parts, while strong, has to counterbalance overall compsition. If you can stand random chanted, or (poorly) clean sung vocals, often layered on melodramatic keyboards and swarmy rock-derivate riffing, and don't mind the overuse of sweeping keyboards, this can bring some positive vibe to your consciousness.

But far too often the effect is redundant, which is in the individual instantiations annoying but in the context of the song usually just areas greyed into into devastated, indistinguishable monotony. For this epic style I commend this band as innovators where they could find space, but not groundbreakers who invent territory from the ashes of uncomprehended others. http://www.dimmu-france.com/videos.html

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Godless Savage Garden (Nuclear Blast 1998)
On this EP of mostly rehashed material Dimmu Borgir merge raw versions of their older music with stripped down takes from their newer style, coming up with a handy method of ripping off black metal in sound without discovering any of the musicality it once had. Although all of us "true" underground heads are intheory going to rush out and buy the "raw" Dimmu Borgir, there is nothing contributed over their first two albums and no new innovation to correct their last disaster.

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vocals

Idar Burheim (Archaon)

guitars

André Kvebek (Tjalve)

guitars

Tor Risdal Stavenes (Seidemann)

bass

Kjetil Haraldstad (Frost)

drums (see also Gehenna, Gorgoroth, Keep Of Kalessin, Satyricon)

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Dimmu Borgir

   Dimmu Borgir to du¿y obszar znajduj¹cy siê na wschód od jeziora Myvatn na Islandii. To równie¿ jeden z najlepszych zespo³ów black metalowych w historii.
   Mo¿na ten zwrot przet³umaczyæ jako mroczna/mglista twierdza. Moim zdaniem jest to dobra nazwa dla zespo³u, graj¹cego naprawdê "mroczne" kawa³ki.
   Zespó³ Dimmu Borgir powsta³ w Norwegii, w zimie, na prze³omie 1992/1993 roku. Na pocz¹tku w jego sk³ad wchodzili: Silenoz (wokal / gitara), Shagrath (wokal / gitara), Tjodalv (bebny), Brynjard Tristan (bas) i Stian Aarstad (klawisze). Z koñcem 1994 pojawi³ siê pierwszy album tego zespo³u, zatytu³owany: "For All Tid". Zawiera³ on 10 utworów i by³ w owym czasie bezkonkurencyjny w swojej kategorii, a w lecie 1995 zespó³ wyda³ p³ytê, pt: "Stormblast". Oczekiwana z wielkim napiêciem okaza³a siê równie dobra, jak debiutancka p³yta Norwegów. W roku 1997, wraz z nowym basist¹ Nagash'em, Norwegowie nagrali "Enthrone Darkness Triumphant". By³ to œwietny album, z piekieln¹ atmosfer¹ i mro¿¹cym krew w ¿y³ach wokalem. Pozostanie on w pamiêci fanów tego zespo³u na zawsze (osobiœcie najbardziej z tej p³yty podoba mi siê utwór "Spellbound"),a w po³owie 1998 roku zespó³ wyda³ kolejny kr¹¿ek : "Godless Savage Garden". Znalaz³o siê na nim kilka "bonusów", takich jak np. wersja "Metalheart" zespo³u Accept i kilka utworów nagranych w POLSCE!!! Pod koniec tego samego roku ukaza³a siê nowa œwietna p³yta tej grupy: "Spiritual Black Dimensions". By³a oczywiœcie równie dobra jak pozosta³e. W 2000 roku wraz z nowym perkusist¹, Nickiem Barker'em, który zast¹pi³ miejsce Tjodalva, nagrano (wed³ug mnie) najlepsz¹ p³ytê Dimmu Borgir: "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia". Znajduj¹ siê tam takie kawa³ki, jak np. "Puritania", czy "Burn In Hell". W ubieg³ym, 2003 roku Dimmu Borgir wyda³ najnowsz¹ p³ytê: "Death Cult Armageddon". Zosta³a ona przyjêta tak samo dobrze jak inne. Rok póŸniej, w styczniu 2004 roku zespó³ opuœci³ perkusista Nick Baker, z którym nagrano dwie ostatnie p³yty.
   Wed³ug mnie Dimmu Borgir jest najlepszym zespo³em black metalowym w historii i mam nadziejê, ¿e wielu ludzi popiera moje zdanie w tej kwestii.

     by Semen