Interview By Alison Booth
Last month, Senior Manager Alison Booth presented a Halloween special on her weekly Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem radio show. One of the special guests featured was DIMMU BORGIR‘s Silenoz.
As well as discussing Halloween celebrations in Norway and what Silenoz gets up to, they also had a chat about what’s happening with the highly anticipated forthcoming DIMMU BORGIR album. The full chat can be heard on the audio player below and you can read what Silenoz said about the new album below. The full Halloween show can be heard on Mixcloud at this location.
“Everything is pretty much set to go and we’re still in the final stages of getting everything artwork-wise ready, photos, videos, stuff like that. So, things are taking a bit of a time – I guess after seven years, a little bit more waiting doesn’t hurt too much hopefully.
Yeah we feel we’re sitting on the best album we could possibly do at this time and personally I definitely think it’s our best album to date. Obviously that’s something that everybody says, but if I didn’t believe that we would do our best album, there wouldn’t really be any point doing a new one.
So yeah I’m really excited about it and I know that quite a few fans will be positively surprised. And yeah, we can’t wait to get this stuff off the ground and get going.”
When asked for an idea of when the album will be released, Silenoz revealed:
“Well I would say when we spoke last time I said something about around this time (laughs) or November 2017. But now, I think it’s gonna be the first half of 2018, the way it looks now. We’re lucky that Forces Of The Northern Night was something of a layover, I guess you can call it. We’re really happy about the response to that – there’s been great feedback all over, so we’re really happy about that too.”
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It’s taken them this long and months in between of silence, only teasing a random picture here and there to show us of this alleged “progress” they’ve made with this album that the fans have been waiting for, in this case, for years.
Releasing Forces of the Northern Night, in my opinion, was a means to get some more funding to complete the album. I mean, everyone has already seen the concert time and time again for years to the point that the official album wasn’t really a big deal at all. I have the official album but I never got any excitement after hearing it from start to finish. It was just what I already have seen repeatedly.
The new album had an late summer/early winter ETA, and this, as I told many people would happen, has been pushed back. Big shock there…
With months of silence between random teases of pictures of a studio with captions like, “Making great progress on the new album”, reading the comments on their FB page indicate the fans are becoming restless and going to other bands for their music fix, ready to drop Dimmu Borgir entirely. The repeated vinyl re-re-re-releases aren’t doing anyone any favors either, as everyone that wanted the albums on vinyl probably already got them.
If they want to get the fans hyped, they’re doing a pretty lame job at doing so. KEEP US INFORMED! Why keep silent about it for so long? We’ve nearly give up on them.