Customer Reviews
2008-05-21
Mustis lays down a black metal whoopin....
A natural progression for the group.
More keys compared to previous efforts.
Maybe a little much keys for me.
A must have for diehards.
For those new to Dimmu, start with Puritanical.
2007-05-14
good album...
this album would have to be my third favorite dimmu album. its catchy and heavy. the lyrics and art work are superb. the keyboards take new creative heights on this album. my only beef is the production quality. its actually worse than EDT, which is weird because the quality usually gets better not worse. other than that, its a really good album.
2007-03-28
Good old school Dimmu...
This is actually my first purchase of an older Dimmu Borgir cd. This work didn't dissapoint me at all. First of all it was the first cd to have Vortex's vocals, which I'm a big fan of his vocals. Shagrath sounds very powerful as always. Tjodalv drumming sounds good. The guitar are very fast and strong. Nothing bad about the album.
2007-02-18
Right Up There With Puritanical....
If I had to name the best Dimmu Borgir with keyboards, I'd have to say it's a tie between this and PEM. The keyboard parts fit in the songs better on Puritanical, but the songs on this one are really great. They didn't use too many clean vocals on this one either. All the tracks on this are as chilling sounding as Emperor's IX Equalibrium, and that's a great symphonic metal album. Don't pass this one up.
2006-07-16
Much like Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, just more keyboards and some clean vocals here and there......
This is a very underrated album, coming off their best "Enthrone Darkness Triumphant", this always happens to bands, once they release their best album, the album that follows it usually gets underrated, and overlooked, it happened to Morbid Angel with Domination, it happened to Exodus with Pleasures of the Flesh, and so on, so this is more keyboard driven than ETD was, but it's the same direction, the production is top notch like ETD, so no worries there.
"Reptile" Is an excellent opener, one of the best on the album, this song has alot of keys, and some clean vocal parts, but it all fits in nicely, and is it's nice and heavy also.
"Behind The Curtains of Night - Phantasmagoria" Is just as strong as Reptile, featuring heavy riffs, a nice heavy groove, and the keys are great, and of course Shagraths vocals are killer.
"Dreamside Dominions" This reminds me alot of ETD, it's the most comparable, not much to say about it, just a killer song.
"United in Unhallowed Grace" Is heavy as hell, and nice keys again, very nicely done.
"The Promised Future Aeons" Starts with a symphonic sound, and works it's way into the song, another great song.
"The Blazing Monoliths of Defiance" Starts with heavy riffs, and then the guitars and drums and vocals come in, with the keys, very nicely done also.
"The Insight and the Catharsis" Not much to say, has some nice clean vocal parts as well, and nice keys, not much else to say about it, just another killer song.
The last 2 are killer also, theres just nothing much different about them from the rest of the songs to explain them, this album is very underrated, if you liked ETD, and don't mind a FEW clean vocal parts, and more keyboards, then check this out.
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