Description

US version of the album with the track ‘The Heretic Hammer’ instead of ‘The Ancestral Fever’ and with different cover artwork and bonus dvd

For what the release is it’s very entertaining and certainly refreshing, they pulled off the attempt of a concept album well. Musically, Dimmu Borgir are unrelentingly brutal and harmonic all at once. Songs meld and blend into one another, becoming a nightmarish brood of shred and scrape dreamscapes. The transitions in tunes such as “The Conspiracy Unfolds” and “The Sacrilegious Scorn,” the former with its intense blastbeats and ranging power riffs and the latter tune’s classically themed melodic invention, are simply seductive as keyboard and snares and toms give way to powerful guitar and bass thrums. When the chorus enters, full of four-part harmony and key changes that open onto a vista of darkness, it’s almost irresistible. This album is certainly one of the darkest ones they’ve released in a while.

Track listing:
1. The Serpentine Offering
2. The Chosen Legacy
3. The Conspiracy Unfolds
4. The Sacrilegious Scorn
5. The Fallen Arise
6. The Heretic Hammer
7. The Sinister Awakening
8. The Fundamental Alienation
9. The Invaluable Darkness
10. The Foreshadowing Furnace

Dvd list:
1. The Making Of In Sorte Diaboli
2. The Making Of The Serpentine Offering
3. Photo Gallery
4. The Serpentine Offering-video