Dimmu Borgir work on your music not your image

[Alteredmindeath]

Quit trying to be the KISS of black metal and learn some music skills. I'm tired of hearing the musicianship decline each album, and its getting lazier.

 

[Personified Hatred]

I personally have always appreciated Dimmu Borgir.

 

[CF87]

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

At this point in the game pretty much any metal enthusiast knows what they're going to get going into a Dimmu album. So unless you have some outside obligations why even go there in the first place if you know how their style tickles you?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

This gets me every time.

 

[immo]

Joke aside, For All Tid is fucking awesome

 

[General Zaroff]

This gets me every time.

He looks so happy.

 

[theoden236]

I'm tired of hearing the musicianship decline each album, and its getting lazier.

it's just amazing how wrong it sounds without vortex doing the cleans on that mid section.

 

[tommythedudedervan]

It's a little heart wrenching honestly. I think a lot of bands need to forget about image for a minute and focus on the music though...

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

The choir is a cool concept, but is definitely not a suitable replacement for Vortex. Just think of the tens of thousands of dollars they dropped on that performance.

 

[isberg]

Dimmu fiering Vortex is a loss yeah. Tho i do think dimmu is doing the right tactics to stay alive. Making changes makes them provide something new to each album. I cant say i personally is the biggest dimmu fan but i do recognise the quality of music they make. I get bored listening to the last 2 dimmu albums and hope they make a new more interresting turn on the next album.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Losing Mustis hurt them also. That guy had some good musical ideas and I have not heard a great record by them since he left.

 

[CF87]

The choir is a cool concept, but is definitely not a suitable replacement for Vortex. Just think of the tens of thousands of dollars they dropped on that performance.

Instead of focusing on playing and writing good music they have overblown cheesy keyboards and hire orchestra's. So they can appear to make intelligent classical inspired music for naive metal listeners who know nothing. Seriously lame fucking band. Not to mention stereotypical within the genre.

 

[A1a23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdEVT0NqLWk
it's just amazing how wrong it sounds without vortex doing the cleans on that mid section.

Fucking performing with choirs now? Looks like they are trying to be Therion.

 

[November5th]

They have forgotten how to write good riffs, and good songs.Now they sound like a soundtrack to a Hollywood movie,with some metal guys as the backup band.On the Puritanical album they had a good balance with cool riffs and good songs.The keys and orchestral moments added atmosphere and an epic quality to the music,but now it has been way over done.Get back to playing some metal guys.

 

[slipnuts]

i agree..
you can pretty much skip anything after there first 3 albums.

 

[theoden236]

The choir is a cool concept, but is definitely not a suitable replacement for Vortex. Just think of the tens of thousands of dollars they dropped on that performance.

and by how poorly they sounded, it sounds like it was money wasted. seriously, maybe it's just me, but it sounds like they're just not into it. not to mention, some of singers don't appear to be contributing, or even keeping up, with the parts.

 

[sevag00]

I doubt they're not interested in making music. They would've just split up.