Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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Product Description
The dark metal act's 1997 album for the Nuclear Blast label.10 tracks total including 'Mourning Palace' and 'In Death's Embrace'.

Tracks:

Mourning Palace
Spellbound (By The Devil)
In Death's Embrace
Relinquishment Of Spirit And Flesh
The Night Masquerade
Tomentor Of Christian Souls
Entrance
Master Of Disharmony
Prudence's Fall
A Succubus In Repture
Hidden Track #11

Album Description

The dark metal act's 1997 album for the Nuclear Blast label.10 tracks total including 'Mourning Palace' and 'In Death's Embrace'.

Album Details

Norwegian metal masters release their third LP, in the classic 'Black Metal' tradition.

Customer Reviews:

perfect...........2007-05-14

when i bought this album, i was blown away. i had set aside two hours so i could listen to it two times straight through. every song is really awesome on it. and the production is amazing(its better than the next albums production. for some reason, the production quality is worse on that album). you can hear the instruments and the work together instead of run together. a perfect album. i recommend it for any fan of symphonic black metal.

Dimmu Borgir's Best Album .......2007-04-25

Considered to be one of Dimmu Borgir's best albums to date (if not THE best), as well as one of black metal's most memorable and popular releases ever, Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (EDT) has found semi-regular play in my stereo since I first purchased the album years ago in 1998. From the moment you hit the play button EDT is an utterly enjoyable listen from the haunting yet epic synth intro to 'Mourning Palace', to the blast beats and crushing brutality of 'Master of Disharmony', and finally to the mellow and supremely melodic 'A Succubus in Rapture'. This album is an impressive listen from beginning to end and is second to no other Dimmu Borgir release to date, unless of course you want to consider their second full-length release and masterpiece, Stormblåst (not the 2005 re-release which is interesting, but not as good as the original recording). I'd be hard pressed to pick my favorite of the two.

On this album Dimmu Borgir deliver a yummy black metal cookie drenched in synthesizer icing goodness. I guess if I had to be nitpicky and find something to complain about it's that the keyboards on this recording tend to slightly drown out the instruments. On the other hand the keyboards on this album are, for lack of a better word, AMAZING. Therefore, I can't really complain about the keyboards being so prominent. Take a listen to 'In Death's Embrace' and you'll know what I mean. A lot of bands today throw around the word "epic" but you don't know epic until you've heard 'In Death's Embrace' - not to mention the keyboard in the chorus of 'Mourning Palace'. You also get a lot of eerie, mysterious, sorrowful, and downright haunting keyboard interludes throughout the album. The production on EDT is top notch and crystal clear. All the instruments stand out aside from the bass guitar which tends to get drowned out, but not all the time. It could be that my sterero sucks.

Shragrath's vocals are really nothing all that spectacular and quite frankly he's never really stood apart from the crowd in my opinion. He's not bad, his style just doesn't stand out to me, like say Abbath from Immortal or Dani from Cradle of Filth. *ahem*. Now don't get me wrong here - I'm not saying Dani Filth's voice is better, I'm just saying it's interestingly (and annoyingly to some) different. But it's the music of Dimmu Borgir that makes them what they are. As for the drumming, guitars, and bass all I can say is all the elements of this band mesh well together and I'll leave it at that. Just stop reading and go buy this damn album if you haven't already. You'll love it.

Black Metal?.......2007-02-26

Enthroned Darkness Triumphant is Dimmu Borgir showing off their Wagnerian bombastic version of symphonic extreme metal in top form. The band sounds their most ferocious and inspired on this album, and songs like "Spellbound (By The Devil)" show their heavy-metal songwriting sensibilities. This band is blasted as being "not black metal" because they incorporate more traditional verse/chorus/verse elements, but this is where Dimmu Borgir truly shine, as with fellow Scandinavian terrors Immortal (and to a far, far, far lesser extent, Cradle Of Filth), that is to say, they excel at throwing a fresh coat of ice-cold blood and corpsepaint on rock & roll, rather than (re)creating the grim sonicscapes of real black metal bands.

Pop Black Metal.......2007-02-11

This is black metal for people who don't listen to black metal. In comparison to real black metal, this is like listening to RHCP or Green Day. Holds more depth than most music of today, but not nearly as much as other death metal. It's dangerously close to Cradle of Filth (crap).

Perfect example of symphonic black metal but..........2007-01-24

Unless you are full of teenage angst chances are the whole "look at how satanic we are" schtick will get pretty tiresome. If you can see beyond that, this is an excellent album which has a wider appeal then the less melodic brands of black metal, such as Mayhem. Not to say that style of black metal is bad, its just different.

But yeah, the vocals will make most people roll thier eyes. Personally, For All Tid and Stormblast are my two favorite Dimmu albums because the vocals are all extremely lo-fi and in norweigen.

Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (Deluxe Edition)

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Still No Stormblast
It Grew On Me

Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (Deluxe Edition)

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009ZPTR
Release Date: 2003-06-10

Tracks:

Mourning Palace
Spellbound
In Deaths Embrace
RelinQuishment Of Spirit And Flesh
The Night Masquerade
Tormentor Of Christian Souls
Entrance
Master Of Disharmony
Prudences Fall
A Succubus In Rapture
Raabjorn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde (Bonus Track)
(Enhanced Video)

Album Description

This limited deluxe edition of their breakthrough 1997 album includes the bonus track 'Raabjorn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde' and many enhanced goodies. Nuclear Blast. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Still No Stormblast.......2006-09-16

Dimmu Has 3 Discint Music Sounds
- For All Tid - Stormblast (The Old One) = Slower ture Black metal
- Enthrone Darkness Triphumphant = More Of A Symphonic Style
- Spiritual Black Deminsions - Current = An Eptone Syphnoic Style That Is Unqiue And Trust Me There Is A Reason It Is Unique (Newer Dimmu Has Long Instrumentals Before The Lyrics Which Sound Nothing Like This Album Or The 2 Before It), And Before I Bought This I Had Every Release But This One and I Herd People Saying It Was There Masterpeice..Sadly I Disagree. However It Isnt Bad. Sadly I Would Say That You Should Try and Find The Origional Version Not The Nuclear Deluxe Version (Because They Totally Rape The Album Artwork In It), Check Out Tips - Spellbpund (By The Devil), Tormentor Of Christan Souls (Look For The Lyrics Someplace And See Why Nucelar Didnt Put Them In The Book), And Master Of disharmony

It Grew On Me.......2004-10-06

This year I was going to see Dimmu Borgir on Ozzfest (and I did), and I already had their "Death Cult Armageddon" and "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" albums, but I rushed out to buy the rest so I would know what songs they would play at Ozzfest. Now I have every album of their's except "For All Tid" and their split EPs with Old Man's Child (of which I think there are two). Well, I didn't really need to buy EVERY Dimmu Borgir CD right away, because the only songs they played were off of "DCA", "PEM" and this. But I'm glad I bought the rest anyway.

So, now, five or six months later, I finally come around to reviewing this particular Dimmu album. Now, when I first heard it, it bored me. I know that a lot of people don't consider Dimmu's new stuff to be half as good as this, but I loved their new stuff (and still do), but I also knew their older stuff didn't sound the same, but I still wasn't sure just HOW it sounded. So I popped this in, listened to the first three tracks, and by track four, I was bored. I took the CD out and shelved it for a while. At first, the songs on black metal albums all sound alike to me and it takes me three or four listens to notice the difference, and reading along with the lyrics really helps me get into it. So, after a while being on my shelf, I decided to take this album down and give it another chance. I read the lyrics along with it, and then I noticed the catchy (yes, I know that's not an appropriate black metal trait) riff at the end of "Mourning Palace". Also, I appreciated the song a lot more after reading the lyrics along it. Shagrath's voice truly sounds hate-filled and mournful when he screechs the "Hear the cries from the Mourning Palace" bit.

So, I listened further. No tracks really stood out to me, though I did enjoy the listen. After a few more listens, I grew to appreciate the tracks "Mourning Palace", "In Death's Embrace", "Entrance" and "Raabjorn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde" the most. (*Only availble on this deluxe edition, the track being a re-release of "RSDS" from the "For All Tid" album. The track also appears on the "Godless Savage Garden EP.)

Now, let me make this clear. I don't care what you consider this: real black metal, poser black metal, I don't really give two s*its. To me, there are only two genres of music: good and bad. I consider this bad. Yes, I know the band's image, as well as the whole genre of black metal's image is ludicrous and laughable, not to mention completely unscary, but I don't care about image. It's the music that counts. Music is something that touches you and makes you think. Image is just something to look at. I wouldn't care if Dimmu dressed up like characters from Aladdin, and I also wouldn't care if they dressed up in normal, every day clothing. I would, however, care if I like their music or not.

So now that that's out of the way, I'll continute with my review. The keyboards on this album are pretty dominant; this Dimmu album probably has the most keyboards on it, second to "Stormblast" (I can't compare "For All Tid"). A lot of times, like on "Stormblast", the keyboards overpower the guitar and you can't really hear what the guitar is doing. I'd prefer this not be the case, but I really don't mind, at least I wouldn't if the keyboards didn't have that bizarre effect on them. On this album, the keyboards have an effect that I for a long time thought was a choir or something. It sound like a bunch of monks singing in unison for a mass. I didn't even realize it was keyboards until thinking about it, which was about three months after hearing this CD. That's right, I thought it was an actual choir doing background vocals over the riffs. I would prefer normal sounding keyboards, like on "Stormblast".

The guitar riffs, as I said before, aren't as audible as I'd like them to be due to the keyboards. But I'd say that only happens in 1/5 of the album. When you can hear what the guitars are doing, they either sound really good, or really shoddy. I know a lot of hardcore fans are gonna rip on me for this, but I prefer Galder over Astennu. There's a few solos on here, all good, but I think the shining guitar moment on here is the near-end riff of "Mourning Palace". It's just too damn catchy. The guitars aren't the best in metal, but they're certaintly better than what you'll hear on the new Linkin Park record.

The bass is standard rock / metal bass. You can't really pick out what it's doing, it just makes the music heavier and gives it more a thump. Being a bass player, I'd like to see more bands come out with better bass production, but hey, you can't have everything.

The drumming is also adequite, but again, I think the new guy's better (well, the new guy who was recently fired). Nicholas Barker owns Tjodalv. But anyway, the drums on this, like the bass, are standard metal. Lots of closed hi hat and double bass work. Tjodalv wasn't a bad drummer at all; his drum fills are plentiful and he changes up with the music a lot, which keeps it interesting.

The vocals on this are, well, black-metallish. However, on this recording, Shagrath's voice is a lot more harsh and raspy than on "PEM" and "DCA", where his voice is more sharp and clean, though not normal singing type clean. If you don't like this kind of vocal, you won't find anything to like here.

The lyrics on this album are generic as can be. The words "Satan", "Devil" and the number "666" is everywhere. Luckily Dimmu grew out of this for the most part with newer releases, and I don't really mind the name "Satan" or "666" every now and then, but "Tormentor of Christian Souls"? That's getting out of hand. When the lyrics aren't focusing on evil Satanic stuff, they're pretty interesting, and well written. You won't find standard, every day words on here, which is one thing I love about black metal. You're challenged to get the message, no matter how pseduo-Satanic that message is.

So, should a new Dimmu fan get this? No. You should start with "PEM" or "DCA" like I did, as they are much catchier and way more accessible. And if you're new to black metal, or any form of extreme music, don't give up after one listen. Try reading along with the lyrics, and listening to the songs a few times, and see if they don't grow on you.

Thanks for reading.

Also, the deluxe edition of this features the bonus track mentioned above, as well as enhanced stuff like a live video of "Entrance" and screen savers and so forth. I wouldn't spend a lot of money on it (I bought ir from this site used cheaper than what I could get the normal version for in stories). So if someone's trying to sell it to you for anything above twenty dollars, it isn't really worth it. The bonus stuff isn't that great. There's also a difference in the artwork. On this version, the art is silver and shiny, like the artwork on Slipknot's "Iowa" if you've ever seen it. Again, nothing worth big bucks.

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Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir
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Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

Mourning Palace
Spellbound (By The Devil)
In Death's Embrace
Relinquishment Of Spirit And Flesh
The Night Masquerade
Tormentor Of Christian Souls
Entrance
Master Of Disharmony
Prudence's Fall
A Succubus In Rapture
Raabjorn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde (Bonus)
(Enahnced Section) (Bonus)

Album Description

Deluxe edition of their breakthrough 1997 album includes the bonus track 'Raabjorn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde' and many enhanced goodies. Nuclear Blast. 2002.

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Dimmu Borgir
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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