“Religion never accepts the balance that exists in a human being. It’s just a one-way street. That’s always going to cause conflicts”: How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with In Sorte Diaboli

Dimmu Borgir posing for a photograph in 2007.

Dimmu Borgir did more than most bands to bring symphonic grandeur to black metal in the late 1990s. By the time of 2007’s In Sorte Diaboli they were still pushing boundaries, as Metal Hammer found out when we sat down with guitarist Silenoz to talk concept albums, success and Satanism.