Silenoz Says New Dimmu Borgir Album is Still Coming

Symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir are still working on their next album. How do I know that? Well, they’ve been talking about it for a few years now and at Wacken Open Air this weekend, Silenoz said as much.

During an interview with Phoenix Akuma Six, Silenoz explained how the band’s creative process takes a long ass time.

“Well, it’s always that time where you can work and work and work on it, but at the same time you have to let it go. It’s the same when you have a kid and it grows up. You have to let it out of its shell somehow, and once that’s done, yeah, then it’s done.

“But certain albums, we live with the songs for so many years before we actually record them. So we can go back and forth, back and forth, and when we finally then go to the main studio to record all the parts again, then we pretty much have everything set.”

According to Silenoz, the band also meticulously demos their songs. We’re talking iterating upon iterations and finding even the minute little details to tighten up. And that’s all done well before they ever set foot in a studio. Yet when it comes to the creative partnership between himself and frontman Shagrath, things sound like they’re extremely simpatico, as it were.

“You know what? I think there’s very few things that we disagree on. I tend to look at all the other stuff that we actually do agree on. And we have the same drive now more than probably ever… And I think we have the respect for each other and for our brand and for our history and legacy to not mess it up. So, yeah, if there’s a hard decision to be made, then we do it together.”

This new album will be an important one for the band, as it’s the first with newly introduced Chrome Division guitarist Kjell Åge “Damage” Karlsen as their replacement for Tom Rune Andersen Orre (a.k.a. Galder), who left to revive Old Man’s Child.

Eventually we’ll learn more about what’s coming down the pipe. As for now? Only time will tell.