Dimmu Borgirin Shagrath tulevasta albumista: ”Se on yhdistelmä kaikkea”

Norjalainen black metal -legenda Dimmu Borgir valmistelee parhaillaan tulevaa albumiaan julkaistavaksi ennen vuoden 2017 loppua Nuclear Blast Recordsin kautta. Yhtye on työstänyt albumiaan jo reilun kolmen vuoden ajan joten lienee sanomattakin selvää, että bändin fanit ovat uudesta materiaalista innoissaan. Yhtyeen laulaja Shagrath on antanut hiljattain Antihero -nimiselle verkkolehdelle haastattelun, jossa on kertonut yhtyeen tulevan albumin suuntauksesta. Shagrath on haastattelussa todennut tulevan albumin olevan varsin progressiivinen ja musiikillisesti nojautuvan ”For All Tid” sekä ”Enthrone Darkness Triumphant” -albumeiden tyylisten kitarariffien varaan. Shagrath kertoi levystä seuraavaa:

”I can’t go really into details, but what I can say about it is that we have used now three years to make a new album. It’s just finished right now, actually, so the plan is that it will be out during fall. These days we do the preparation in connection with that release. If I can say something about the album, it will be that we are very proud of it, it sounds great, it’s very atmospheric, and it also includes a lot of the elements which DIMMU BORGIR are known for, so I think the fans will not be disappointed. It also includes a lot of themes and riff ideas that you can link back to ’93. So, it’s like a combination of different themes throughout the history of DIMMU BORGIR. It also has a lot of symphonic elements and we are using a big choir on this new record, and it’s also darker, more atmospheric, more primitive, more black metal. Yeah, a mixture of different things, basically.

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It´s a mixture of everything, but in DIMMU BORGIR you can expect the unexpected. That’s how we like to, when we do something we want to, there is no limits for where we can take it, in which direction, and that’s how we want it to be, it needs to be. It’s progressive also, the new album, but it also includes a lot of atmosphere, as I said. Elements from like the riff atmospheres from ’Enthrone Darkness Triumphant’ [1997] album and the ’For All Tid’ [1995], the debut record, and all that stuff. So, it’s a good combination of it all, but at the same time, it’s also progressive, and that’s very important for us as artists to stretch the limits and try out new stuff. We are a band, we have never been afraid of going into new directions and as an artist, it’s also important to not try to repeat yourself too much, because then it would be boring. But we are not a band like AC/DC, where you buy an album and you know what to expect. But DIMMU BORGIR are quite different, even though I’m a fan of AC/DC.”