Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
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| Studio album by Dimmu Borgir | ||||
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Publication |
1997 |
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January 1997 |
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| Label (s) | Nuclear Blast , Morbid Noizz Productions | |||
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CD, LP, audio cassette , digipak |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
56:38 |
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Dimmu Borgir and Peter Tägtgren |
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Enthrone Darkness Triumphant is the third studio album by the Norwegian metal band Dimmu Borgir and their first album with English-language lyrics. It was released in 1997 through Nuclear Blast .
Emergence
The album was recorded in January 1997 at Abyss Studio , whose owner Peter Tägtgren was responsible for the mixing. It was mastered in the cutting room in Solna and produced by the band itself.
Track list
- Mourning Palace - 5:13
- Spellbound (By the Devil) - 4:08
- In Death's Embrace - 5:42
- Relinquishment of Spirit and Flesh - 5:32
- The Night Masquerade - 4:25
- Tormentor of Christian Souls - 5:39
- Entrance - 4:47
- Master of Disharmony - 4:15
- Prudence's case - 5:56
- A Succubus in Rapture - 5:59
- Raabjørn Speiler Draugheimen's Skodde - 5:02
Music genre
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant contains less Doom Metal influences than its predecessor Stormblåst , but was described by Pedro Azevedo of Chronicles of Chaos as a "very dark and doomy piece of symphonic, melodic Black Metal ". In contrast to the EP Devil's Path , the album contains keyboards again and is closer to Stormblåst , but faster and stronger. Peter Tagtgren gave the band a "powerful and polished" sound.
Reviews
Azevedo stated that this was one of his favorite black metal albums. He also praised the “very dark and successful” digipak design. He would have preferred, however, if the band had tried to "combine their epic sound with a more epic length," as the average length of the songs is around 5 minutes. In an article by Metal Hammer on the occasion of the German-language edition of Lords of Chaos , Enthrone Darkness was triumphant as one of “13 important albums that have been released since Black Metal's breakthrough into the mainstream in 1996 and the balancing act between modernity and tradition embody "and labeled" the mainstream breakthrough yet controversial ". The album was "[o] ft copied", but "never achieved". According to Erik Thomas of Last Rites , the band's first two albums were not yet at the height of Cradle of Filth , Arcturus , Emperor and Borknagar , but that has changed with Enthrone Darkness Triumphant . The album is their unmatched climax. Jason Anderson of AllMusic described Enthrone Darkness Triumphant as one of the most important Scandinavian metal releases and Dimmu Borgir's "undisputed masterpiece". The album's success is probably based on the change to Nuclear Blast and the decision to write the lyrics in English. The decision to record with Peter Tägegren was also not a bad one; he created the "most devastating" sound of her career. He recommended fans of Dimmu Borgir and Black Metal in general to get a copy at the earliest opportunity. However, the predecessor Stormblåst is the last work of the band still accepted as a contribution to Black Metal in the scene.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Pedro Azevedo: Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant , July 14, 1997, accessed January 1, 2013.
- ↑ Petra Schurer, Gunnar Sauermann: Black pearls . In: Metal Hammer , January 2003, p. 39.
- ↑ Erik Thomas: Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (Reloaded) , September 2008, accessed January 1, 2013.
- ↑ Jason Anderson: Enthrone Darkness Triumphant - Dimmu Borgir , accessed January 1, 2013.
- ↑ DIMMU BORGIR ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 1, 2013.
