DIMMU DRAMA
Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 11:30am by Axl Rosenberg
So in case ya didn’t hear, Dimmu Borgir fired their bassist/clean vocalist, ICS Vortex, and their keyboard player, Mustis, over the weekend. Well, I guess technically the band “parted ways” with those members, but by all accounts, it wasn’t a break-up reached by mutual decision.
To wit: Mustis briefly changed his MySpace status to “betrayed” before revealing this little nugget of information:
“My departure was not entirely of my own accord and while I had felt this change was something imminent for my future, my time had been spent addressing the fact that many songs written by me had not been registered properly under my name in their credits… My inquiries and investigation into the issues which I wished to resolve and move on from would in the end find me being fired from the group. No discussions about it, just ‘goodbye’ (via text message).”
Firings by text message? Grievances aired via MySpace mood? Is Dimmu Borgir a fucking black metal band, or the goddamned motherfucking Babysitter’s Club? I know that the Hot Topic crowd has been the band’s bread and butter lately, but that doesn’t mean that they have to start behaving like pre-menstrual girls.
I tried to reach the band for comment on all of this nonsense, but apparently Shagrath was too busy braiding Silenoz’s hair to respond.
-AR
Bunch of CRAP!!!
Mustis talks like Toki Wartooth. “I can’ts take anymore piano lessons!!!”
Oh, and fuck all the haters!!
Mustis talks like Toki Wartooth. “I can’ts take anymore piano lessons!!!”
Greatest. thing. ever.
They probably put their makeup on wrong – that’s worthy of a text message firing
Aside from “Progenies of the Great Apocalypse,” this band hasn’t done shit since “Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia.” Fuck them and their primadonna ways.
+1
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! “A fucking black metal band or the goddamned motherfucking Babysitter’s Club”…hilarious,Axl
looks like the second dude from the front is doing work on a fleshlight behind that dudes head
looks like he’s doing a “header”.
http://header.urbanup.com/1037999
Much more grim and frostbitten than a fleshlight…
ur firedz, lolol
Maybe Vortex will go back and reform Arcturus. Doubtful, but I can hope!
I haven’t found Borgir’s stuff interesting since EDT. Maybe it’s the beginning of the end for Dimmu?
Also, firings via texting and myspace aren’t very black metal.
ya its more an ozzy thing
I bet it was a grim and frostbitten text message
HAHAHAHAHA!
Vortex should either do another Arcturus album or rejoin Borknagar, who haven’t done anything great since he left (Empiricism was okay, but come on, an acoustic album? Jesus Christ…)
I don’t know. I prefer Vintersorg’s voice over Vortex’s.
Wow. First this band gets rid of Hellhammer, now Vortex AND Mustis are gone. Given that ISD was the disappointment that it was, I can’t help but fear that whatever they do next is going to suck in ways that it was previously thought that only Waking the Cadaver can. And who the fuck fires via text message?
This band has always sucked. Hopefully they break up
Sooo they fired the only parts of their music that have kept their CD’s since EDT from being complete garbage.
Glad I saw these guys before they decided to fuck up the band.
actually mustis and vortex weren’t in EDT. but i agree, that was an epic fuck up on their part.
Damn, you are hot.
Concurred
ummmmmm how old are you? please tell me you’re not like 30. ’cause i’m only 17.
I’m 23. I go to the University of Florida. I’m (a little) too old for you, I think.
fuck Dimmu, Voretex made youre band…whatever ill still listen to their new shit, if its good…
Dimmu Borgir hasn’t done anything interesting since
Holy fuck Mr. Rosenberg. That was a humdinger piece of metal journalism right there.
“Firings by text message? Grievances aired via MySpace mood? Is Dimmu Borgir a fucking black metal band, or the goddamned motherfucking Babysitter’s Club?”
Axl Rosenberg
It doesn’t get any blacker or more br00tal than MySpace.
I enjoyed The Babysitters Club movie.
Metal.
Are you kidding me? The books were waaaay better.
Tough to argue with that, I thought they made the transition to the big screen seamlessly though
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Although I will concede it is much easier to masterbate to the movie.
That just means you don’t have an overly active imagination.
Although I happen to be a more cerebral masturbater i.e. the books were better for me, I totally agree on the seemless transition to the big screen.
i didn’t even know they made a movie. since when?
Girl please…that MADE my summer of ‘95
oh. i was only like 3 then…
Never mind, I don’t think I should have made that previous comment about you…
actually, my sister just informed me that i have watched it…. but i don’t remember.
There’s a MOVIE!?
http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/2009/08/babysitters-club-metal.html
Get enlightened people.
Agreed, and Larissa Oleynik totally stole the spotlight in that movie…
I thought Stacy Linn Ramsower’s performance was a highlight of the film, she played the role of Mallory to the hilt. A gifted actress and a memorable dramatic experience.
zak graff was in the TV show or the movie or something…
True Norwegian Text Messaging.
These two need to call Nick Barker and form a new band called Puritanical.
We use wiener in this house.
LIke the whole thing?
Nah, he prefers to play a little game called “Just The Tip”.
Hahaha!
Dimmu Borgir sucks, Mustis should consider himself lucky, he should go try out for a real band.
Getting fired by text message?
What a pussy move on their part.
Mustis, Vortex & Nick Barker should form a band together.
I’m not really surprised how this whole thing went down. DB is a corporation and a business foremost, a band second. I’m not looking forward to The Silenoz/Shagrath/Galder Experience however.
If Mustis was fired because of credits/intellectual property rights and such – it feels like Silenoz and Shaggy are pulling off a royal KISS move here.
Kings of the Pathetic, Media-Whorish Creation
oh no son black metal drama, oh no they didn’t!!!!
:.( this sucks! they were going to record with the bestest orchestra ever for their next album- the london philharmonic orchestra. they probably won’t do that now that mustis is gone.
i cried when i saw this on blabbermouth last night. mustis was my favorite and vortex was friggin’ awesome. i guess they’ve been going down hill the past few years anyway. in sorte diaboli was slightly pitiful. it just wasn’t epic at all.
TEKST MESSAGE IST KRIEG
I fuckin’ lol’d
I did too.
+2
kings of the carnival text message firing!!!!
They finally realised how much their band sucks and ran away ?
Ruthless Reviews did a great review for “In Sorte Diaboli” way back when…
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/940/dimmu-borgir-in-sorte-diaboli/
“This Silenozian atrocity is beyond rationalization”
haha – I enjoyed reading that!
“lol u guyz aren’t trv cvlt anymore, lol bye”
Actual text from Shagrath.
3 Predictions for the next Dimmu Borgir album:
1) It’ll have a 3-word title.
2) It’ll have a biomechanical/naked chick motif on the cover.
3) It’ll suck hard.
Rinse and Repeat x 3
BOOBS
Come on Axl, the text messaging wasn’t even around when the Babysitter’s club was.
Why is everyone complaining that he was fired by text messages? I mean, everyone knows that is trve and kvlt to break up through text messages.
Well, hopefully this means we will hear more from Lamented Souls!
lol, Demon Burger
This band is beyond awful. Vortex was the only redeeming factor. Now he can go back and get his ass working on more Borknagar material. Maybe even a reunited Arcturus? That’d be amazing.
agreed vortex’s bass lines vocals and the fantastic “keyboard” player were only good thing bout this band havent put out anything good since stormblast
I don’t really like ziltoid’s “every band sucks” attitude, but that’s JUST what I was thinking!!! Arcturus reunion +1!!!!!!!!! I mean, there’s a huge chance of that happening now.
i’m surprised he wasn’t fired via Facebook, or Myspace. or DM could’ve done it the way Ozzy did Zakk. or did like that gay movie ”rock star” with marky mark having Mustis and Vortex come into band practice and surprisingly see someone else playing bass and the keyboard and having Shagrath come to them and say “uh…well we’ve been talking, you guys, and uh….” what a crazy year
“start behaving like pre-menstrual girls” – what’s the change there?
May ICS Vortex keep rolling. I agree with Ziltoid, he can now go help out Borknagar.
They should have just fired shaggers and become Old Man’s Child full time. Then maybe I’d be able to see OMC live.
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant was dimmus best album imo but they have some good never songs too, I really liked Vortex vocals, and wacken 2007 they were totally awesome.
Wow, well in light of this and Gorgoroths little legal drama, aparently even the evilness of black metal is still nothing compared to the evilness of litigation.
Come on… is there anything more evil in this universe than lawyers? I think not.
I was going to say cockroaches…but I don’t want to defame them.
Yeah come to think of it, Satan does do his dirty work as a lawyer in “The Devils Advocate”
That movie was definitely on to something!
….and there were boobs.
Dethklok already called this with Dimmu Burger. They should get on that.
i see hellhammer doing what any other former of mayhem would do…try and take over the band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, I’m in league with the rest of the MS community, the two best parts of Dimmu just got the axe. Come on Arcturus reunion!!! Daddy wants an Arcturus reunion!!!!!
I’m actually anticipating the new Dimmu album now, in that sick nature, “I watch car races for the crashes” sort of way.
i havent cared about this band since I was 13..not very nostalgic for this one..
Such a shame… :’-(
I saw Dimmu live at the Blackest of the Black tour and really enjoyed them.
I am having a hard time giving a shit about this… but Vortex did his best work on Borknagar’s “Quintessence”, (one of my favorite albums). I prefer him to Vintersorg anyway. And his work with Arcturus was cool too.
But whatever Dimmu have been sucking lately anyway. Hopefully they’ll just break up completely.
Maybe in some far off crazy universe Garm from Ulver will decide to make metal again(not that I don’t highly enjoy Ulver’s later work either) and team up with Vortex. Badassery.
can’t believe they’d fire vortex. easily one of the most powerful voices in metal. they’ve lost themselves the most interesting member that band had going for them.
well put
This is a shame. His clean vocals were probably the best part of their music.
I will say this: from my personal perspective, the way they fired their bassist and keyboardist (both important factors in the band by the way) was unprofessional. Texting a band member and/or myspace messaging to another band member is not the way to go when it comes to having to let someone go.
By the same token: they should not have gotten fired period. If they were investigating some issues regarding their names not being listed on the credits of song writing then they should have found a solution to it. Credit should be given to everyone involved in song writing regardless of anything.
With that being said: it sounds like Shagrath had something to do with not properly registering the songs with the writers names on it. If you think about it: there was an investigation, assuming Shagrath found out about it and knew what it was about, and then miraculously both the bassist and the keyboardist got fired from the band. If you put two and two together, it makes sense.
I may love the bands music, but as a fan I’m very disappointed on how this came to be.