Spiritual Black Dimensions
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| Studio album by Dimmu Borgir | ||
| Released | March 17, 1999 | |
| Recorded | August-October 1998 at Abyss Studio | |
| Genre | Symphonic Black Metal | |
| Length | 49:14 | |
| Label | Nuclear Blast Records | |
| Producer(s) | Dimmu Borgir and Peter Tagtgren | |
| Dimmu Borgir chronology | ||
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| Godless Savage Garden (1998) |
Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999) |
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001) |
Spiritual Black Dimensions is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir. It was released in 1999 by Nuclear Blast Records. A deluxe edition was released in 2004 with bonus material.
This was Dimmu Borgir's first foray into speed-laden black metal, and since much of their old material was slower and more doomy in approach, reviews of this album are mixed, giving it a serious love-hate relationship; many lauded the new direction Dimmu Borgir started going into and that it showed the band can expand their musical reach, while others criticized it for lack of originality (many of their contemporaries, such as Marduk and Dark Funeral, have a fast-as-hell approach to Black Metal) and having the keyboards, which were a prominent instrument in past recordings, buried in the mix below the guitars. This was also the first album to display the many talents of new keyboardist Mustis and the clean vocals of ICS Vortex (who would later join the band full-time).
Much of the darker, faster direction could be attributed to guitarist Astennu, as the album Mirrored Hate Painting from his project Carpe Tenebrum, recorded before he joined Dimmu Borgir, show-cased the faster black metal style Dimmu Borgir would display on this album.
[edit] Track listing
- "Reptile" – 5:17
- "Behind the Curtains of Night - Phantasmagoria" – 3:18
- "Dreamside Dominions" – 5:13
- "United in Unhallowed Grace" – 4:21
- "The Promised Future Aeons" – 6:51
- "The Blazing Monoliths of Defiance" – 4:37
- "The Insight & the Catharsis" – 7:16
- "Grotesquery Conceiled (With Measureless Magic)" – 5:10
- "Arcane Lifeforce Mysteria" – 7:03
- "Masses for the New Messiah" (Bonus Track) – 5:13
[edit] Personnel
- Shagrath - Vocals
- Erkekjetter Silenoz - Guitar
- Astennu - Lead Guitar
- Nagash - Bass
- Tjodalv - Drums
- Mustis - Synthesizers & Piano
- Simen Hestnæs - Additional Clean Vocals
- Peter Tagtgren - Producing
| Dimmu Borgir |
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| Shagrath | Silenoz | Mustis | ICS Vortex | Galder | Jan Axel Blomberg |
| Discography |
| Studio Albums: For All Tid (1994) | Stormblåst (1996) | Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997) | Godless Savage Garden (1998) | Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999) | Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001) | Death Cult Armageddon (2003) | Stormblåst MMV (2005) | In Sorte Diaboli (2007) |
| EPs: Inn I Evighetens Mørke (1994) | Devil's Path (1996) | Alive in Torment (2001) | Vredesbyrd (2004) |
