Dimmu Borgir:
Part 1 of
New Album
Artwork
Revealed
The first of
four
portions of
the new
artwork for
the
as-yet-untitled
DIMMU BORGIR
album has
been
uploaded to
the band’s
MySpace page.
Joachim
Luetke
(Arch Enemy,
Kreator,
Sopor
Aeternus),
German
artist /
painter /
graphic
designer who
studied at
the Academy
of Fine Arts
in Vienna,
Austria,
lends his
disturbing
talents to
the new
DIMMU BORGIR
album.
When asked
what he
feels his
approach
does for
DIMMU BORGIR,
Luetke
responds:
“My artwork
visualizes
their music,
adds another
(optical)
dimension to
it. I don’t
know exactly
how this
works.
Cannot tell
what kind of
interior
mechanism
gets
triggered by
their music,
but it’s
clearly an
utmost
powerful
one.
Analyzing
this means
destroying
it. As for
our repeated
collaborations,
well, that’s
probably
because we
share the
similar
philosophy
at eye
level.”
Luetke’s
artwork and
layout art
also graces
two other
DIMMU BORGIR
albums:
2003’s
Death Cult
Armageddon,
which has
sold 130,000
copies in
the U.S.
according to
Nielsen
SoundScan
and debuted
at #7 on
Billboard’s
Heatseekers
chart,
#10 on the
Top
Independent
Albums
chart, and
#170 on the
Billboard
Top 200
Albums
chart, and
2007’s
In Sorte
Diaboli,
which has
sold over
75,000
copies in
the U.S.
according to
Nielsen
SoundScan
and debuted
at
#2 on
Billboard's
Top
Independent
Albums chart
and at #43
on the Top
200 Albums
chart.
In early
June, DIMMU
BORGIR
proudly
announced
their
collaboration
with
Norwegian
composer and
Berklee
College of
Music summa
cum laude
alumnus
Gaute
Storaas
in addition
to the 51
members of
KORK (the Norwegian
Radio
Orchestra)
and the
38-member
Schola
Cantorum
Choir
for their
new
release. To
date, over
101
musicians
have
contributed
to the
making of
the new
album.
Composer
Gaute
Storaas has
said of
DIMMU BORGIR:
“Their music
is epic,
thematic and
symphonic
already from
the
creation;
they are
clearly
having an
orchestral
approach to
composing.”
DIMMU
BORGIR’s
ninth studio
album will
be released
in Germany
on September
24th, in the
rest of
Europe on
September
27th, and in
North
America on
October
12th.
For the
latest
updates,
visit DIMMU
BORGIR
online at
www.DIMMU-BORGIR.com
and
www.myspace.com/DIMMUBORGIR.