DIMMU BORGIR’S “GATEWAYS” IS THE PRETTIEST WAREHOUSE VIDEO EVER

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 11:00am by

The first image of Dimmu Borgir’s new video, for the song “Gateways,” suggests that the viewer is about to experience something beautiful and maybe even unique to metal videos; then it just turns into another “band in a warehouse” video like a million other “band in a warehouse” videos, only, like, with a slo-mo dove and stuff. (By the way, it’s come to my attention that these videos are almost never filmed in warehouses — in fact, I don’t think the band is in a warehouse in this video. But I understand why people always think they’re looking at a warehouse… these locations do look kinda warehouse-y.) Not helping is that this song features one of the most annoying vocal performances I’ve ever heard (by the Goth(ier) Annie Lennox chick in the black), and that instead of dressing like Immortal, the members of Dimmu now dress like Marilyn Manson circa-Mechanical Animals – or, as reader Chainsword astutely observed, like tauntauns.

Dimmu Borgir’s new album, Snowy Doesn’t Love Here Anymore, comes out October 12 on Nuclear Blast, or September 24 if you live in Germany or have an internet connection.

-AR

  • Franco

    that song is….bad. wow.

  • Fufkin

    I always liked Dimmu but after two completely lacklustre live experiences with them and now this song it’s like the corpse-painted penny has dropped… tipping the silly-meter into overdrive. I feel like I’ve woken from a daze and Kiss now seem like Kid-A era Radiohead.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Timothy-Edward-Popkin/1529486707 Timothy Edward Popkin

      Well said! I get bored of all the focusing and de-focusing, and that bloody woman moving about like a constipated banshee. CAN SHE NOT STAY STILL?!?!
      Fucking love Kid A ^^.

  • Cladgemeister

    I guess this is what Varg meant about new BM artists look like “gay ni**ers”.
    Well, not quite like that but I think I get what he means…

  • Bill

    That bitch needs to check her balance. She was all over the place. Oh and this is terrible, and reminds me more of Cradle of Filth. That is at least the vibe I got from the music. Good use of milk though.

    • killdozer666

      +1 for good milk use

  • fw07

    How fucking retarded do you have to be to like that shit?

    • Sacajawea

      I kinda liked it actually. Then again, if you check MetalSucks’ 10,000th post…

  • Dingas McCloud

    I don’t think the female vocals are annoying at all, I think they are unsettling and disturbing in a good way.

    I think the song rocks and I’m excited to hear the rest of the album. Who cares if they look like CoF in the video, we all know they are way better.

    • Anthony

      I don’t know, CoF at least has a trio of albums I can go back and listen to and still enjoy quite a bit (Midian, Damnation and a Day, and Nymphetamine).

      • Seanicus

        Nymphetamine is garbage, as is Damnation and a Day. Cruelty and Dusk… are fantastic, though.

        Also, Dimmu’s Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia is much better than any Cradle record.

        • Anthony

          I’m the other way around. I can’t get into Cradle’s pre-Midian stuff.

          And Damnation and a Day is an incredible album.

        • Bebobrokstedy

          Cradle of Filth died after Cruelty was released… period.

  • Mordecai 9000

    ICS Vortex: Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach your first marker!.
    Shagrath: Then I’ll see you in hell!

    • NoNameNoSlogan

      lmfao

    • Bill

      You made my day hahaha

    • Adam

      HAHAHAHA! Lol that was awesome.

    • ITTOA666

      +1 internet

      You win.

  • SP420

    These guys lost it after Spiritual Black Dimensions. They’re no longer capable of writing captivating riffs. They just laden the song with keyboard fills and work the guitars/bass around them. Incredibly lazy and bombastic sounding.

    And why the fuck is Pink singing female vocals!?

    • Sacajawea

      Haha, I was thinking the Pink thing too.

  • cougar party

    Is this supposed to be a satire on married life? Because that chick is seriously freaking out on that guy on the chair.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Benton/598084866 Adam Benton

    Those looked a lot like bad alternate costumes from a Dynasty Warriors game

    • Jake

      This^

      Except that’s not a bad thing.

  • el fucko

    there’s enough cheese in this video to make me constipated for months.

    also who is more annoying? that broad that sings or Oli Sykes or Mitch Lucker?

  • Mike87

    The video sucked, but I thought the song was pretty good, minus those shitty female vocals. I wonder who is playing drums, keyboards and bass for them in this video?

  • Vlygar

    Fucking Cruella Deville. Someone tell her to stop whipping around like she’s trying to balance on top of a flag pole on a windy day.

    The mask and the guy sitting in the chair remind me of Heady Metal from Kid Chameleon… I guess that’s a good thing.

    The song is pretty good but it’s not the same DB from the late 90′s. You coulda told me this was Nightwish and I’d believe you.

  • lost goat

    wow hahahaha,whatd they did do- raid siegfried and roys wardrobe closet for those outfits?

    man,those dudes look LAME

    and this music beyond sucks..there arent even any guitar riffs,its like that other person said,they make keyboard riffs and make the guitar go around them

    this is stupid,who the hell listens to this kind of music??

  • Alex_P

    Waste of space to follow: I was bored. If you read it, your braincells will die.

    Your unprofessional, and should be killed. Dimmu Borgir are the best band ever, and clearly your just mocking them because theyre metal, which you think sux (it’s in the title of this fucking website). Demon Borker are amazing live, and if you’d ever stopped being so closed-minded you’d think exactly the same way I do. I’m just glad Demon Fucker are touring with the other best band ever, KoRN. Listen to real metal, poser.

    I mean, everyone is titled to thier opinion. But you’re wrong. CHICKEN FUCKER’s “WE’RE STILL AROUND”, ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

    (Jesus fuck, I can’t even fake bad grammar properly)

    • Grymmbear

      +1 to your impersonation of a random Blabbermouther!

  • Kuranes

    Parts of this remind me of Kovenant’s Animatronic album.

    • Strapping Young Lad

      I miss them :-(

    • Bebobrokstedy

      I wish it did!

  • Shinaain

    Goddess that she is, you insult Annie Lennox with the comparison.

    You hurt my heart, Axl.

  • Chainsword

    It’s as if Lupe Fuentes had a vocal part.

    • Alex_P

      1

  • Adam

    The first female vocals sounded like $haron, and it immediately irritated me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Guzmn/570745539 Daniel Guzmán

    I liked it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Gifford/1367109641 Chris Gifford

    is Silenoz wearing a giant fucking bandanna? this isn’t Suicidal Tendencies…

    • Darumian

      He is goin’ bald.

      • Grymmbear

        He’s been going bald for a while now!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Barnes/506393858 Paul Barnes

    What the fuck happened to Dimmu? I’m gonna go listen to Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia now.

    • Ian

      +!

  • brandon

    galder makes me LOL

  • Rob

    Oooo! Hitchcock zooms! Someone went to film school! (or at least long enough to learn what a Hitchcock zoom is)

  • lost goat

    they look like they stoled their outfits from one of those japanese bands,the ones where they have like 15 styles of music in one song and sell 90000000 billion albums,but only in japan

  • Lady Siara

    I kinda like the guest vocalist’s vocals.

    Call me weird. :)

    • fw07

      You are weird.

    • legato

      call me weird too, i think it fits pretty well.
      also her spot in the last part is pretty awesome… best part of the song in fact.

      • brilly

        I agree legato. Lots of good stuff on the new album

        There are plenty of ‘tards here and a multitude of other places seeking DB to always stay the same as they were during their “good albums”… whatever that means. I don’t know why Vortex was fired, and neither do you or anyone that isn’t in the band……., but i would still put down my 20 quid to see them play a show, and so would you! silly numb nuts that knock them every chance you get. See you at the next show!

  • mchuckie1006

    this band just isnt the same after Frosty left

  • Zach.Y

    Wow, do they miss Vortex

  • Nathan

    Two points:
    1. This song isn’t metal. This is classical music with metal drumming and harsh vocals.
    2. I didn’t even know there were guitars until I saw them playing in the video. They’re completely drowned out by the orchestra.

  • Ian

    The musical progression of Dimmu has gone downhill after Death Cult Armageddon, and this song / video / retarded costumes are all evidence of that. Why, oh why, can’t they make something along the lines of Enthrone Darkness Triumphant again?

  • Axem

    I think its good. Sounds interesting.

  • Pahkmycah

    All the comments about Dimmu wearing retarded silly costumes is funny, like they haven’t looked silly in the past? Last I checked most Black Metal bands all are wearing silly costumes.

  • Adam

    Yeah, I’ve never been a huge fan but this just doesn’t do it. I can’t believe I have to buy a ticket to these guys as my only means of seeing Enslaved this year. BTW, the new Enslaved song is fucking awesome and everyone should look for it, then buy their new album when it comes out.

  • tom

    @4:04 “the jizzum in your hands” ?

  • kmfcm

    They must STILL be paying off that “progenies. . ” video

  • http://www.myspace.com/dystrophy1 devin townsend’s lost skullet

    anyone else notice shagrath looks like ivan ooze from the power rangers movie?

    http://legends.tabletsofdestiny.com/images/ivan2.jpg

    • Chainsword

      1

  • ITTOA666

    I still think they look like kvlt mountain goats.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pete-Tucker/1472927385 Pete Tucker

    Anyone else notice the “Antichirst Superstar” sticker on the guitar of Silenoz?

    • OliFant

      I noticed it too. Actually Shagrath has the same logo on his jacket (left arm).

      It’s funny because visually, it reminds me a lot of Manson. But where Manson videos had some kind of more or less understandable metaphor, this one just doesn’t make any sense to me (and if I may repeat myself, Galder alone is funnier than all Immortal members together).

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pete-Tucker/1472927385 Pete Tucker

        Bizarrely enough, I can understand why they went in this direction. Musically, the album ‘Antichrist Superstar’ isn’t that much different than what it is Dimmu is doing here. I guess this is one way for them to gain a new fanbase as I know many younger fans of Manson got into Dimmu/COF based off their love of Manson. Obviously, it alienates older fans (many of which were alienated well before this anyways) but it keeps them valid in a “scene” where, unfortunately, money is the bottom line.

        For me, I’d still rather watch the Immortal video…witch hat or not.

  • Demon

    I like Dimmu but this one had me fucking laughing..I kept picturing the “White Gold Milk Guy” to come out with his 1 gallon axe and fuckin tear it up!! hahaha First thing I thought was Got Milk?!!
    hahahaa

  • Trollkien

    No comments on the storyline of the video? Okay, I’ll go. Mrs Shagrath (aka the Evil Gwen Stefani) returns home to find Shagrath and his friends wearing half her wardrobe. And they’ve chucked all the milk into the bathtub for some incomprehensible reason. Mrs S freaks out:

    Mrs S: What the fuck am i gonna drink now that you and your gay friends threw the milk into the bathtub?
    Shagrath: GATORADE!
    Mrs S: And are these assholes staying for dinner? What are you gonna feed them?
    Shagrath: TAKEAWAYS!

  • OliFant

    Please, someone tell Galder he doesn’t look evil AT ALL ! This guy makes me fucking laugh each time I see his face.

    I did enjoy the suits and the song is not as bad as I’d have thought, but this female singer deserves to be hanged by the feet for 24 hours.

    BTW, it looks like Snowy Shaw was still in the band for this video (blond bass player with such a black moustache ? Can’t be anyone else than good ol’ Snowy)

    • logan

      fucking amen

  • heavymetalking

    should’ve had a v-8

  • Greg

    Holy shit! THAT IS PINK! LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!

  • http://www.theblacklaser.net Joe The Wizard

    I’ve nothing new to add to this comment thread except that Dimmu Borgir fucking sucks. The end.

  • Harahune

    So apparently Olive Snook from Pushing Daisies is into death metal.

  • legato

    YOU DON’T GET IT.

    dove soap has a new variany coming out (made especially for black metallers LOL) and this is the ad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Roshin-Wolfson/557092638 Dan Roshin Wolfson

    This isn’t black metal. Enslaved’s new album deserves more jizzing over.

  • Vlood

    Guys, you prob’ly forgot their recent The Sacrilegious Scorn video? that’s where tons of cheese was flying around.
    but i hate this chick’s vocals too.

  • The Curmudgeon

    I think I see where they got their costume design ideas for this video but the Krampus seem much more Metal, especially without some annoying lady screaming for no reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFAUyZVfdQ

  • metal reviewers suck

    What I find strange about this “critique” is that the writer gives criticisms on the sound of the female vocals, and also of the band’s appearance. His criticism of the vocals is that they are “annoying” – yet, why are the growls and screams that are the standard in metal exempt from this criticism? It is only because, as a collective social group with one dimensional musical taste and ideological tendencies, metal fans are simply used to the sound of standard metal vocals. To anyone else, i.e. those without ideological attachments to metal, metal vocals sound ridiculous, and probably annoying.

    The same “double standard” is present in his criticism of the band’s appearance. So, there is something wrong with their costumes in this video – but what about studded leather armor? Is that any less ridiculous? There certainly is no practical reason to dress like you’re going into a fashionably conscious medieval battle. Of course, his criticism is based on what he sees as a resemblance to M.M. – but what does this have to do with anything? What I find absurd about “critiques” like this is that they are dependent on things that fall outside of the music itself. Without some irrelevant thing to compare this video, or the music to, the writer has nothing to say.

    Personally, I have nothing negative to say about the music or the video. It is visually interesting and aurally intense – making for an enjoyable experience.

  • plastichero

    good song till 0:40
    first of all blood is much thicker than that…. i suppose they can’t slaughter some guy ‘s throat to fill up a bath tub
    I may be becoming to old ( only 25 years old)but WTF what’s happening to those bands. Dni filth’s gone fat and looks like the joker (batman) in the videos and dimmu is getting worse and worse every new album
    I miss midian, cruelty and the beast, for all tid, enthrone darkness triumphant. Come on get back Mustis and Vortex stop dressing like the band the darkness (i believe in a thing called love), dani lose some weight you look like steven seagle. Are there any new bads like their previous albums? no?
    then i’ll keep on listening those albums + burzum