In Sorte Diaboli

by Dimmu Borgir

In Sorte Diaboli cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 April 2007
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 48:39
  • Community rating: 2.87/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Billed as their first formal concept album, the Norwegian titans constructed a grand narrative following a priest who rejects his faith in medieval Europe. The incredibly polished, bombastic recording became the very first black metal album to ever reach number one on the official album charts in their native Norway.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, satanism, fantasy

Tracklist

  1. The Serpentine Offering (5:09)
  2. The Chosen Legacy (4:16)
  3. The Conspiracy Unfolds (5:24)
  4. The Ancestral Fever (5:51)
  5. The Sacrilegious Scorn (3:58)
  6. The Fallen Arises (2:59)
  7. The Sinister Awakening (5:09)
  8. The Fundamental Alienation (5:17)
  9. The Invaluable Darkness (4:44)
  10. The Foreshadowing Furnace (5:49)

Credits

  • Dimmu Borgir - primary artist, music by [invocation]
  • Joachim Luetke - artwork [paints & illuminations]
  • Vortex - bass [convulsions of doom], vocals [operetta]
  • Hellhammer - drums [armor of hate]
  • Erkekjetter Silenoz - guitar [dist obedience], lyrics by [script & texts of the diaboli]
  • Galder - guitar [wires of flagellation]
  • Mustis - keyboards [synthetic idolatry]
  • Shagrath - vocals [voice & conjuration]

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