REMAINING MEMBERS OF DIMMU BORGIR RESPOND TO THE “SHITSTORM”
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 11:30am by Axl Rosenberg
Well, it was only a matter of time. The remaining members of Dimmu Borgir have lashed back at recently fired bassist/vocalist Vortex and keyboardist Mustis in a statement that, tonally at least, is actually very calm and even-handed (almost disappointingly so – at least from a humor standpoint). But it does make some pretty wild accusations about the behavior of at least one of these former band members.
Our friends at Metal Insider picked out these highlights, thus saving us the trouble:
Lesson number one, the obvious one: Don’t forget to bring your instrument when you’re about to play a festival in which you’re going to perform in front of thousands of fans that have travelled far and paid money to see you play.
Lesson number two, a less obvious one and can easily be forgotten while under the influence but still: Don’t hurt yourself in an alcoholic rage smashing a glass to your forehead putting yourself, your band ‘mates,’ crew, not to mention the show(s), in jeopardy.
Now, auctioning off your band’s most recent album on eBay, only signed by yourself, can’t be looked upon in any other ways as pure greed, not to mention mockery, towards the rest of the members of the band that you’re still in, AND the fans.
Wow. Isn’t Dimmu big enough now that they have a crew or somebody whose entire job it is to ship their instruments to the gig? Are they really responsible for carrying their own shit around? I guess if one of them was selling memorabilia on eBay, they’re not doing as well as I thought. Hm.
As for smashing yourself in the head with a bottle, well, I’ve seen people do some dumb shit when they’re drunk, but, yeah, I can see where that might be a deal-breaker.
Read the band’s entire statement at Metal Insider, then come back and weigh-in here.
-AR
Grown men wearing makeup. I’m scaaaaared!! Go join the fucking circus you clowns. You give serious metal a bad name.
P.S. I looooove the matching spiked pants.
+1
whats with this +1 bullshit
i believe it’s a mathematical term.
Mind
BLOWN.
+1
Did you just copy and paste this from the last Dimmu post?
Well I guess you’ve never heard of the Urine Junkies then? Shame. They’re easily in their 40’s and they wear makeup to cover the full thickness burns on close to 89% of their bodies. Ironically they opened up for Dimmu Borgir and Krisiun in 2002.
Hmmm. What do think of little ol’ Immortal then?
It’s impossible for me to care about this band.
+1
Me either, they could quit now or go on for years and years. Makes no difference to me
I mean, even their fights are boring.
LOL. WTF their entire image is homo-erotic. I love shit that’s
unintentionally hilarious.
Seriously, I can see why they kicked em out. Whatever I guess.
Black metal: the genre of bitching
Dimmu Borgir is about as black metal as Slayer is disco.
“I guess if one of them was selling memorabilia on eBay, they’re not doing as well as I thought. Hm.”
Or perhaps it’s just that one member being bad with money.
+1
This doesn’t change the fact that without Mustis, Hemmhammer and Vortex, they’re just another black metal band.
*Hellhammer
Hmm, Hammer.
STOP!
HAMMER TIME!
Silenoz and Shagrath are the band anyway. I hate that bald idiot. You’re not scary, bald man. I also, for the record, hate that I know all of their names.
Wow, the full statement is pretty brutal. This band had endured lineup changes several times and still continue to sell records, so I dont think that this will be any different. I am not a huge fan, but nobody can argue with the fact that their records sell, despite the lineup changes.
I alot of people kind of look at this similar to Megadeth, as long as Shagrath is still there, Dimmu still exists, no matter who is backing him up on stage or in studion. Lemmy would be another example, Motorhead can exist without the other guys, but not without Lemmy.
For some reason when ever I see Dimmu Borgir I always read it in my mind as “Demon Burger”.
Just thought I’d share.
Did you see that episode of Metalocalypse where they all go to a Dimmu Burger fast food place?
I saw the episode where Dethklok all died but Nathan and he had to work at Dimmu Burger. Great username by the way.
A lot of sandy vaginas today.
The full statement is pretty articulate and at least backs up the reasoning for booting the guys…
The band itself is still a joke though.
fucking SMACK!!!!!
we’ll see how the new album stacks up, gents.
My eyes hurt from reading all this pretentious shit… people sometimes really like to pull out the drawer with all the dirty their dirty underwear and toss it around when “drama” happens.
They could just write good music instead of lengthy press statements, but what the hell, there are thousands of bands better and more interesting than this black metal mockery
They are incapable of writing good music.
So very true…. better give a spin to the last of Arcturus CDs instead)))
I like this band and the dramatic theatrics, although they are consistently under par live…
BUT ICS Vortex sounds like some kind of industrial glue brand to me.
Hmm…… Well, if all the shit that they said about Mustis and ICS Vortex are accurate, then I’m glad they kicked them out. But I just hope that they still have the choral shit that Vortex did and the orchestral shit, as long as that’s still intact, I don’t care who’s in the band.
Vortex has one of the best singing voices that ive had the pleasure of hearing in the context of metal. “Discover and concieve the secret weeeeeeeaaaaalth and pass it on to your breeeeeeeeeeed” One of my favorite metal singles
ps – dm isnt one of those bands that i listen to daily, but the do put out music i can respect and enjoy. I think through their music they have proven themselves to be worthy of being taken serious – cant deny that they have taken black metal to hieghts that it hasnt seen before, all without setting a match to church.
the rockstar bs doesnt surprise me. niether does the most likely broke thing, but the unprofessionalism of forgetting your equipment at that level in the game? chill with that.
lol @ the genre of bitching
[Yawn] Dimmu blows. I think I’ll just go listen to Vortex era Borknagar and Lamented Souls.
It’s gotta cost a bunch of money to get coked up enough to enjoy hanging out with Shaggers and his porno wife all the while playing new Dimmu songs that are crappy reflections of the bands hey-day (which was only what, like 2 akbums?). Although, forgetting your instrument to a gig is horrible.
They should have fired Galder and begged Astennu to provide riffs again. His work on “Spiritual Black Dimensions” was superb and the tempo was relatively high on that album, considering DB’s usual midtempo wanderings.
This site is turning into blabbermouth since I last checked. Nothing but a bunch of little bitches that shit talk every fucking band on here. Don’t any of you like anything? Jesus Christ.