"I think it helps to not have too much music theory. Taking inspiration from different genres and being open-minded is important”: Dimmu Borgir’s Silenoz on playing a guitar inspired by a shark – and why you can be black metal and still love the blues

Silenoz of Dimmu Borgir performs at Tons Of Rock 2025.

If you caught Dimmu Borgir’s set at last summer’s Tons Of Rock you would have borne witness to the stalwarts of symphonic black metal in triumphant form.

There were the hits – Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse, Mourning Palace, etc – but they also took the opportunity of a festival show on home soil to dig out In Death’s Embrace for the first time in, like, forever.