Dimmu Borgir:
In Sorte Diaboli
(Apr 24: USA, Apr 27: GER, Apr 30: Euro)
DIMMU BORGIR have finalized the track listing for their new album, "In Sorte Diaboli", due in North America on April 24 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD will arrive in Europe on April 30 (April 27 in Germany).
"In Sorte Diaboli" was recorded and mixed at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with producers Fredrik Nordström and Patrik J. Sten. A limited-edition digipack version of the CD will include the bonus cut "The Ancestral Fever" along with a bonus DVD containing the video for the album's opening track, "The Serpentine Offering", shot by director Patric Ullaeus of Sweden's Revolver Film Company.
TRACKLISTING of "In Sorte Diaboli"
Track
Song
Sample
1
The Serpenitine Offering
2
The Chosen Legacy
3
The Conspiracy Unfolds
4
The Ancestral Fever (bonus track)
5
The Sacrilegious Scorn
6
The Fallen Arise
7
The Sinister Awakening
8
The Fundamental Alienation
9
The Invaluable Darkness
10
The Foreshadowing Furnace
Bonus DVD content:
* Video Clip "The Serpentine Offering" (04:42)
* Making of the album with DIMMU BORGIR (studio report) (17:25)
* Making of "The Serpentine Offering" video with DIMMU BORGIR (21:52)
* Photo gallery
* Media player
Standard Version (Europe) - Jewelcase including 32 page-booklet
Track
Song
Sample
1
The Serpenitine Offering
2
The Chosen Legacy
3
The Conspiracy Unfolds
4
The Sacrilegious Scorn
5
The Fallen Arise
6
The Sinister Awakening
7
The Fundamental Alienation
8
The Invaluable Darkness
9
The Foreshadowing Furnace
+ Media Player (incl. video clip "The Serpentine Offering")
DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz previously told Revolver magazine that the songwriting and recording process for the group's long-anticipated follow-up to 2003's "Death Cult Armageddon" involved none of the intensive pre-production of their last two discs, no demos, and no gallinvanting around with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. "It's definitely going to sound way more epic and bigger than we thought, because Mustis [keyboards] has also contributed with his keyboard ideas," said Silenoz. "I have to admit that some of the keyboard things on 'Death Cult Armageddon' sound better on the demo version than [their symphony versions] on the album. I probably shouldn't say that, but it's true."
This will be DIMMU's first "concept album," a story set in always-epic Medieval Europe that also serves as a treatise on the modern-day political and social abuses of organized religion. "There's this dude that works as a priest's assistant, and after a while he just discovers that he has nothing to do with Christianity," said Silenoz of the storyline, which he conceived in full before even a note of music was composed. "He just sort of has this awakening and realizes that he has different abilities and different powers and is leaning more to the dark side."
DIMMU BORGIR's current recording lineup is as follows:
