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In Sorte Diaboli
In Sorte Diaboli cover
Studio album by Dimmu Borgir
Released April 24, 2007 (North America)
April 27, 2007 (Europe)
Recorded October-December 2006 at Studio Fredman
Genre Symphonic black metal
Length 42:50
Label Nuclear Blast Records
Producer(s) Fredrik Nordström, Patrik J. Sten, and Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir chronology
Stormblåst MMV
(2005) In Sorte Diaboli
(2007)
In Sorte Diaboli ("By the choosing of Satan" in English) is the seventh studio album by Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir, and is a concept album. A site on the Nuclear Blast website was created for In Sorte Diaboli, in which a new promotional photo can be seen and an audio sample can be heard.
Contents
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* 1 Concept
* 2 Track listing
* 3 Special editions
* 4 Leak
* 5 Chart and sales performance
* 6 "The Serpentine Offering" single
* 7 Personnel
* 8 References
* 9 External links
[edit] Concept
In Sorte Diaboli is the band's first concept album, with a story located in medieval Europe. It is about a priest who begins to doubt his faith, and then ends up taking the place of the Antichrist. "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," Silenoz says. "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." The conclusion of the story in the booklet imply that the story of In Sorte Diaboli is not yet finished, possibly hinting that Dimmu Borgir's next studio album will continue this concept.
[edit] Track listing
1. "The Serpentine Offering" – 5:09
2. "The Chosen Legacy" – 4:17
3. "The Conspiracy Unfolds" – 5:24
4. "The Ancestral Fever" (European Bonus Track) – 5:51
5. "The Sacrilegious Scorn" – 3:58
6. "The Fallen Arises" – 2:59
7. "The Heretic Hammer" (North American Bonus Track) – 4:37
8. "The Sinister Awakening" – 5:09
9. "The Fundamental Alienation" – 5:17
10. "The Invaluable Darkness" – 4:44
11. "The Foreshadowing Furnace" – 5:49
12. "Black Metal" (Venom cover) (Japanese Bonus Track)
[edit] Special editions
* The album was specially released in a limited edition digipak that contains a bonus DVD, 32-page booklet, and mirrored lyrics. The European limited digipak and the mail order leather-bound book editions come with a plastic mirror with which one can properly read the lyrics. The North American limited edition does not contain this mirror. The DVD contains the video clip for "The Serpentine Offering", two short "making of" documentaries for both the album and the video, a photogallery, and a media player.
o The limited-edition European digipak features the bonus track "The Ancestral Fever" as the fourth track.[1]
o The limited-edition North American digipak features the bonus track "The Heretic Hammer" as the sixth track.
o The limited-edition Japanese digipak features the bonus track "Black Metal", a cover of the classic Venom track, as the tenth track.
* A very limited exclusive mail order edition, which features a leather booklet, was also released. This version also contains the two bonus tracks from the North American and European digipak versions.
* The vinyl edition is a gatefold LP packaged with a bonus 7".[2]
* The artwork is censored by a slipcase in North America.
[edit] Leak
On March 6, 2007, In Sorte Diaboli leaked onto the internet and is currently circulating on several peer-to-peer networks and on the popular videosharing site YouTube (Nuclear Blast later removed the songs from the site). Since press worldwide were supplied with individual download accounts for the music on the Nuclear Blast website instead of regular promotional CDs, the source of the leak was rapidly found. The journalist who was found responsible, Luca Pessina, is a writer for the Metalitalia webzine and also news editor for the Italian version of Metal Hammer, and will have to face legal procedures from Nuclear Blast. The leaked files contained Pessina's personal watermark.[1]
[edit] Chart and sales performance
In the United States, the album debuted at number 43 on the Billboard 200, selling about 14,000 copies in its first week.[3]. In their native Norway, the album peaked at Number One, the first time a black metal band has ever done that anywhere in the world. It also marks the first time a Norwegian act has cracked the Billboard 200 since A-Ha.[2].
[edit] "The Serpentine Offering" single
Main article: The Serpentine Offering
The video for the single "The Serpentine Offering" was directed by Patric Ullaeus.
At the beginning of the music video following lines appear:
What you believe to be true is false
What you thought right, wrong
The music video begins with Christian crusaders raiding a village and murdering the inhabitants. A priests assistant is shown visibly disillusioned by this act of violence. The crusaders find a woman hiding in the barn and set it on fire to incinerate her, and the assistant leaves to renounce his faith in the forest, where he joins a group of militant pagans. At the end of the video they are shown defeating the Christian crusaders in battle.
In the end of the music video this lines appear:
The battle will never end
In Sorte Diaboli - Antichristus Spiritualis
