This album, I believe is one of the best and finest releases you can give to someone when introducing them to extreme metal. Dimmu Borgir's Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia album could merely be titled "My First Black Metal Record" and would nearly be entirely appropriate. For 58 minutes, Dimmu Borgir succeeds in creating a soundscape that is both a dreamy pasture and a raging battlefield.Within the realm of extreme metal, I like to think of bands such as Dimmu Borgir, In Flames and Lamb of God and such are gateways to those being exposed to heavy music.
PURITANICAL EUPHORIC MISANTHROPIA DIMMU BORGIR RARITAN FULL
No lone song(s) can be chosen over the others – all eleven tracks flow together to make a solid album packed full of incredible riffs and astonishing orchestral compositions. Shifting from viciously heavy to beautifully melodic, from dark and menacing to serene and peaceful, Puritanical is one of modern metal’s most intricately written albums outside of the progressive genre. Allow time to do its part in helping listeners to realize just how varied the album is.
No single characteristic of Puritanical can be favored over the rest. Combining a multitude of rudiments to create Dimmu Borgir’s most melodic and most brutal to date, the two members continue to play a major role in the band’s modern signature sound. His high singing voice is decidedly conspicuous in nearly every song, and provides a soothing interlude in such tracks as Kings of the Carnival Creation and The Maelstrom Mephisto. Even more valuable than Barker was the addition of bassist Vortex, who doubles as backing vocalist to Shagrath, and leaves no question as to why he has become a rather admired singer in modern metal. Blessings and Absolute Sole Right pay tribute to his extreme double bass/blast beat speed. Nick Barker takes a seat behind the drum set and easily blows away any death metal drummers. Puritania is three minutes of pure darkness as a steady drum beat backs Shagrath’s electronically distorted while the guitars and strings repeat a shady rhythm to lyrics of a descending protector.Īside from progression in the music, the technical proficiency was due largely to the addition of two of the band’s key members. Sympozium acts as a looking glass into what Death Cult Armageddon would later bring, as the band merely follows the string ensemble’s powerful lead with brilliant guitar harmonizing to solidify the blend. Wonderfully composed classical pieces introduce and conclude the album, wrapping an onslaught of Scandinavian hatred in a polished, bloodstained casing. Shifting from crushingly heavy to tranquilly beautiful in nearly every track – Blessing Upon the Throne of Tyranny being one of the many examples, featuring tremolo riff madness and a lesson in the pummeling philosophy of Nick Barker – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia is the definition of a dynamic metal album. Extreme metal doesn’t often go hand in hand with classical, but Dimmu Borgir seems to have mastered this technique prior to any other metal band. The music, like the introductory paragraph, is a conflicting yet complimentary fusion of opposing musical elements. While the arrangements are not as prominent or elaborate as the subsequent record ( Death Cult utilizing a full 72-piece orchestra from Budapest while Puritanical merely using a 13-piece Swedish strings ensemble), the music was a definite step forward in terms of atmosphere and complexity of their songwriting. Not only is Puritanical arguably the band’s most brutal album to date, but also introduces the use of an authentic orchestra, which they have continued to use on the follow up album, Death Cult Armageddon. Departing from the raw, melodic sounds of For All Tid and Stormblast, five years later they evolved into a faster, heavier, symphonic, and in essence, more dynamic band. All that remained was a desert, stained with an unspeakable mortal, forever marked by the unholy reign of chaos.ĭimmu Borgir’s fifth record, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, was a key step in a new direction for the ex-black metal band. Together, hand in hand, intertwined through a horrific scene, the two faces of the novel challenger stood beyond all hope, seemingly to reign for eternity in bloodshed. And yet…as if possessed by a faint seraph…a gentle breath of life crept across the lifeless wasteland, cleansing it of iniquity for a sacred moment. Innocent hath been spilled across the land by the blade of the new adversary, flooding the skies with a tempest of sadistic mourning. …And thus began the great reign of disarray, commencing the new age of annihilation and despair, which was destined only to conclude in a terrible sadness.
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