Dimmu Borgir - Eonian [REVIEW] 

Images depicted in Digi booklet are from Dimmu Borgir lava garden

It's a massive musical puzzle of an album. Listening with headphones 2-3 times is mandatory to get all the layers of it. Only in the first song for instance you have industrial samples, classic black metal riffs, piano, synth, orchestra , majestic choirs and a bit of acoustic guitars. Not a boring moment for 54 minutes IMO is one hell of a success. You can see that this is the peak of songwriting due to experience and time taken to create. As much as I love(d) to death Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, Eonian is on another\different level of epic

This is not an album,this is a diamond!

its an "ok" album. However after waiting 8 years I hoped Dimmu Borgir would have deliverd something along the lines of Stormblåst.

bravo Rauta! I'm staying tuned man!

Choir sounds like they don't know about what they are singing. They sound paid. And songs are so simple they easily fall into background music. Composing is good but there's not that depth Puritanical and Dimensions have.

I agree with u !!!

Its good for me.

I thought of Therion instantly my friend and at least nobody says it sounds like Burzum..ahhhh haaa and this band can play live

hello Rauta! good review again!mutta itse levystä kuullut pari biisiä ja täytyy sanoa ,että epäileväisenä ootan ,että kuulen koko levyn!!??esim spiritual black dimension on hyvä lätty,vaikka sen jälkeen ollut aikapaljon alamäkeä!

Rauta a good album BUT very "melodic" very simphonic bit no blaphemic at all.hahaha Very good review as always

Interdimensionnal summit main riff, is Satrycion King.

May be in the future a couple of songs can be made by baby metal. May be.

Everytime he says the bands name instead of a drinking game eat a Demon Burger 🍔

Great review, but I would definitely say this isn't Dimmu's best album, to date. That's a tough choice but in my opinion, it would probably be Death Cult Armageddon.

The last good db album was death cult armageddon imo. After that it feels like the band just lost their way and have been trying weird stuff. I dont mind black metal bands testing things, some of my favorites have large folk influences and those bands know how to test new stuff, not like db who try w/e and release it.

Dimmu being kings of the symphonic metal? Listen to some recent SepticFlesh which is a prime example of how you can combine the symphonic elements with metal. SepticFlesh is able to interweave a massive orchestra and choirs into their songwriting while I feel Dimmu is just injecting some choirs now and then (or on this album in every song almost) to not have you notice the very bland songwriting. Same could be said for the Finnish band Shade Empire or many other bands who decide to implement orchestration and/or choirs. I do admit this album sounds fantastic, Jens Bogren did an amazing production job but then again, he's one of the best in the business for a reason.

There were some good parts but the choirs really killed the pace and moon of many sections.

Ihan ok. Onnibussissa kuunnellen 😈 T: Sami.P

I'm not a hater to begin with. There is nothing wrong recording for the masses or new crowd, but such a band went from black metal towards Pop metal in a low complexity and quality I reckon. The last track is just mediocre, probably feat in a Walt Disney movie. I think there are better things to listen out there, just check out the last of "River of Nihil, Defeated Sanity, even last single of Immortal within others

stupid question in english who are you and why do you do these reviews and where do you influence..im too old for this shit please explain :D

Fun aside I was a big fan of Dimmu Borgir... BUT this is NOT a memorable album and NOT a fan of the change for record sales to make up the paychecks of the orchestra... This was a mixture of Satyricon, Therion, The Kovenant, Samael, and other Symphonic Black Metal but I classify this as nothing more pointing to records sales and them forgetting there roots because nowadays the "Black Metal" bands say they play extreme music it's like covering up the shit and being ashamed of being labeled as Satanists just like those who don't want to be labeled as Goth as being Gay... As a Trve Metal I give no fvcks what anyone thinks!!!

It's not good album at all, it's like random Nuclear Blast "harmless metal". There are plenty of great albums out there, don't listen to this bullshit