Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli

NEW VINYL LP ON SONY 2015

180 GRAM VINYL.

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.

Tracklist

The Serpentine Offering     5:09
The Chosen Legacy     4:16
The Conspiracy Unfolds     5:23
The Sacrilegious Scorn     4:00
The Fallen Arises     2:59
The Heretic Hammer     4:37
The Sinister Awakening     5:09
The Fundamental Alienation     5:17
The Invaluable Darkness     4:44
The Foreshadowing Furnace     5:49