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DIMMU BORGIR (NOR) "Spiritual Black Dimension" (1999) [NUCLEAR BLAST]
Dimmu Borgir is a band that likes to evolve itself and to ameliorate the technical skills of their sound and the last album "Spiritual black dimension" is another proof of this. Even though the sound of this work is opened to new frontiers (I know it's difficult to things about others innovations as they have already given a lots of these to the metal scene) as the employ of choirs and clean vocals borrowed from the ancestors Arcturus (in fact the vocalist is Simen Hestnæs ex-vocalist of this superb band) which surely the listeners will appreciate as they adds elegance and wideness to the songs. Anyway, Dimmu Borgir doesn't leave the peculiar elements which made their sound so famous as the considerable keyboards's employ (more and more in this work) to create "diabolical" atmospheres (anyway I still think they're not so useful as many bands are able to create obscure atmospheres without using them but everyone takes his own choice... ). So, after their MCD "Godless Savage Garden" that, to be honest, disappointed me, I really appreciate the new one that is really vigorous, making me trust again in this band. It's more violent (even if to me their music is not so obscure and "evil" now) due also the good recordings but I guess it's also the most meditated of their albums: one of the new albums I most appreciated. To end this review, as I'm really tired of all the hypocrite speeches in this too much populated metal "city", I want to add that everyone is free to tell his own opinion about their music but no ones can deny they're skilled musicians and no one can be sure they don't believe in what they play. To me they're of course more credible than the stupid and arrogant joke-band which define their sound "the true old black metal" ! To these ones I only say: if you don't like this sound you're free to not listen to and employ that time to learn how to play otherwise your words are only useless ones as you!
Reviewed by Lidia Buscaino
