DIMMU BABYSITTIR DRAMA CONTINUES
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Recently sacked Dimmu Borgir bassist/clean vocalist Vortex has weighed in on the split between the band, himself, and keyboardist Mustis. And I’m sure it will shock none of you to learn that he’s siding with Mustis.
SMN News reports that Mr. Vortex (real name: Ian Carter Simen Tourbillion) has posted the following message on his MySpace pagee:
“My support goes to Mustis, the true creative force in Dimmu for the last ten years, and his rightful legal chase.”
That’s the problem with Vortex. He’s such a talker. Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap. Won’t shut the fuck up. Sheesh.
Anyways, to call Mustis “the true creative force in Dimmu” for the past decade is both a huge compliment to Mustis and a big cock slap to the remaining members of Dimmu. And, honestly, I’m not a big enough Dimmu fan to know how much truth there is to the statement – but as SMN points out, it does align with Mustis’ previous claim that he’s being screwed out of songwriting credits. And his keyboards have been a pretty distinctive part of Dimmu’s sound these past years.
Anyways, hopefully at some point one of the remaining Borgirians will respond, ’cause that’s when the real fun will begin. In the meantime, maybe Vortex can get started on some new Arcturus now? Please?
-AR
I think Arcturus may be gone for good. I think that their last album was their final one.
Mustis probably announced at Dimmu’s last band meeting: “I can’ts takes anymore piano lessons!!!!!!”
Sham Mirrors is the only decent Arcturus release.
Fuck you!!!!
I would somewhat agree. I can listen to all Arcturus’ albums, but Sham Mirrors is the only one I enjoy a bit.
I’d say Sham Mirrors is the most enjoyable, but Aspera Hiems Symfonia & La Masquerade Infernale are really good/great albums as well. AHS hasn’t aged very well, but I still love the hell out of “To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night”. LMI is a challenging listen, but well worth it when you’re up for the challenge. I didn’t really get into Sideshow Symphonies because Garm wasn’t the lead vocalist. I love his vocal work in Ulver.
+1 for Toki Wartooth reference.
Totally unrelated.
The Shadows Fall link on the left side isn’t working.
Who cares?
Arcturus is done, Steinar was the brains behind that band, so don’t go looking at Vortex.
Instead, hope for more Lamented Souls! Doom!
http://www.myspace.com/lamentedsouls
Also, I thought Vortex’s name is Simen Hestnaes.
DIMMU IS GADDDDDDDDDD DAYUMMMMMM OVA
Hopefully the rest of these clowns respond by breaking up.
Hellhammer, Mustis and Vortex should start a new band. If this year has taught us anything, it’s that there’s a 33% chance that it’ll rock (Tenet), a 33% chance that it’ll suck like few bands can (Arkaea), and a 1/3 chance that it’ll just fold (God Seed). So I’m all for them taking a shot at making a kickass new band.
Hahaha nice!
More grown men wearing makeup. I’m scared! Go join the fucking circus you clowns. You give serious metal a bad name.
ARCTURUS REUNION NOW!!!! I like Dimmu a lot and all, but this is far more exiting.
Poor simen :( I’m sure I’d hug him if he weren’t so goddamn tall
I though I’d never see Arcturus ever mentioned on this website (outside of me and a select few others) tbqh.
Still, I doubt that anything as good as LMI or The Sham Mirrors gets any play in the “mansion,” considering the fact that you keep saying that you enjoy iwrestledabearonce.
why cant they like both bands zilty?
That would rip a hole in the fabric of space-time and then we’d all grow peckers from our foreheads.
Well, when they have so much crap to write about, why the hell should they waste time posting about something that actually sounds good?
On topic: I think it’d be cool if he joined Borknagar as a second vocalist. How badass would it be with him and Vintersorg belting out some tunes?
Holy shit, with a dual vocal attack like that, Borknagar would be unbeatable!!
…Unless of course Garm were to join the ranks again too. I think my brain would explode.
It just gets better and better:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126340
WARNING: EPIC LENGTH DIMMU BORGIR RESPONSE AHEAD!
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Short version, remaining band members accuse the others of lying, being generally unprofessional in various ways, not contributing to the band and generally being dicks.
No idea who to belive.
black metal drama arghhhhhh!!!!!!
Good he’s out, Dimmu is a sinking ship anyways and Lamented Souls and Arcturus are far more interesting. BTW I think I’m the only person that liked the last arcturus album.
Oh and I don’t like Vintersorg’s vocals am I the only one?
To be fair, ‘In Sorte Diaboli’ only went an helped establish Dimmu as a major player in metal – it would’ve been top 20 in the UK but for some stupid rule regarding not being allowed to put a mirror within the packaging, or something. Also helped that the record kicked ass.
This’ll all be brushed under the carpet before long and there’ll be a new Dimmy record on the way.
A new album is probably completed in pre-production phase, but still replacing two integral members of the band’s sound will put back DB quite some time, unless they’re going to hire session musicians.
So if the main creative force responsible for Dimmu’s past ten years of material is out of the band, does that mean they might be good now?
WHAT A BUNCH OF GAYBOYS.