Tuesday, May 8, 2012

**** For All Tid by Dimmu Borgir – Conjuring of the Bleakest Emotions


When Dimmu Borgir put out this album, I can almost guarantee you that they had no fans in the USA.  Dimmu Borgir didn’t gain a following until Enthrone Darkness Triumphant.  This album is far more raw, and far better than Enthrone Darkness Triumphant.  To describe this album, it is definitely black metal, which I see as punk music, and when I mean punk I mean Misfits style punk, with symphonic tendencies.  I can’t say that I am a huge Dimmu Borgir fan, except for this album, which is a black metal standard.  There is something about For All Tid that is not only dark, raw, and classical, but also sexual, and I mean that in a masculine way.  The drums of For All Tid are not triggered.  The production is primitive in the way that black metal, as a genre started out, and in my opinion is meant to be.  The vocals on this album are some of the scariest shrieks, moans, and gurgles you will ever hear!  Some songs on For All Tid are 5 star, but the album is not consistent enough for me to give it that 5th star.

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