Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Original Version Digipack Version Japanese Import Version 1. Reptile 5:17 1. Reptile 5:17 1. Reptile 5:17 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 10. Masses for the new messiah 5:11 total time 49:17 total time 49:17 total time 54:42 Shaped CD Version Picture LP Version 2CD Version 1. Reptile 5:17 1. Reptile 5:17 1. Reptile 5:17 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 --- Bonus CD-ROM: Dr. Blast's Top 20 --- 1. Helloween - Just A Little Sign 3:36 2. In Flames - Trigger 4:01 3. Soilwork - Rejection Role 3:35 total time 49:17 total time 49:17 total time 1:00:29 Deluxe Version 1. Reptile 5:17 2. Behind the curtains of night-phantasmagoria 3:21 3. Dreamside dominions 5:15 4. United in unhallowed grace 4:23 5. The promised future aeons 6:52 6. The blazing monoliths of defiance 4:38 7. The insight and the catharsis 7:18 8. Grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic) 5:10 9. Arcane lifeforce mysteria 7:03 10. Masses for the new messiah 5:11 total time 54:42
Reptile ~~~~~~~ Glowing eyes, staring eyes Manifest of evil presence With entities swept in disease and decay A fall from paradise beyond redemption He who speaks of nightly tresures He who wraps the serpent around my neck He who pours poisonous wine in my chalice He who lets me serve and slip away ...And so I will take shelter In the absence of the light Hiding like a masked miniature in the dark A revenant without relief it seems For the art of becoming a progeny And to be raised in such curse Infesting the dead in herdes His grandeur of guidance in roundtrips obscure He who immerse my hands in sullen thrills His pat on wich domination linger He who dares to proove the sanity of mine He who speaks of nightly tresures He who lets me serve and slip away Black uneartly void creatures crawling Forbidden forgotten fairly underrated Bastards in the shape of angels holding my hands Passing me wath is left of the wine Behind The Curtains Of Night - Phantasmagoria ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A mental inner vortex As possessions through a wolf's eye Envisioning the eclipse No longer to be blinded by a sunrise In this final benediction Confronted by mirage of imminent mortality Time's set to end the suffering So follow, I will cherish the secrecies of hearts Chased by the black sheperds Behind curtains of night Been found as a tool in their seduction Fatal haze An escape into abomination Perished to phasma Asindrome of another aeon Soul-obsequial inhesion Resurged in torrents of abyssmal thoughts Lost in a helix, blackest might In stealth I do seek deliverance In phantasmagoria, vortex utopia Dreamside Dominions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When the ghastly mourners awakens from sleep And the volant funeral crows are watching Like evil omens in shadowed murmur They welcome me again Agonized and flattered to once become Apart of this horror scenario I descend with arms open wide Armoured and filled with painful pleasure Reflectingg streams of monstrous mirages I will not hide Loosing controll in seductive madness Spiritual revelations, apocalyptic hypnosis Dead colours appear within unshallow graves Alone in awe I face abhorrence below Trapped inside to suffer in silence Torn apart in mind and sense Baptized in this nightly glamour Rites of splendid essence Agonized and flattered I once became A part of the horror scenario Armoured and filled with painful pleasure I did not hide Now when the gates are no longer shut I withdraw from the light of the sun United In Unhallowed Grace ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfolding her carnal desires to me With temting eyes she does receive A hunter of the night devil's whore May her cursed beauty hunt me forever We embrace the madness gathered as one Mourning dead passion... she comes to me A fate awaits us in the night In the ruins of creation we will unite Unfolding her carnal desires to me With temting eyes she does receive A hunter of the night devil's whore May her cursed beauty hunt me forever She comes to me - a shining beacon Confused by the sensual innovation Passion... towards image of mortal evil Passion... embraced by the image of united death The enigma lies broken Searching for those precious moments Reaching for a higher of existence Like a newborn migrant in the void I am smitten by forbidden fruit Possessed by moments of dark splendour To walk the nightmare terrains forever The enigma lies broken Possessed by moments of dark splendour To walk the nightmare terrains forever United with new unhallowed grace This cursed beauty hunts me forever The Promised Future Aeons ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erotic and dreamlike still in its mortal disguise A passionate ritual in the ruined garden theatre The painted angels - shadowed high above Once they gathered to worship at the picture of me Like a whisper where there are no words Appears the perplexed - the statue of might In the cradle of the next generation A spiraling ruin - lost in the gathering dust ...The faces you saw in the withering garden I witnessed the flikkering - made to look like stone Quivering like little figures lost in broken flames Never to forget again the names carved in horrid flesh Those words drawn in water - become our legacy of fantasies Burn the pictures So unexpected in this strange deserted place Once opened its secrets would become the world Its attributes would continue to unfold forever "Through the fabric of the promised future aeons I offer this suffering of mu unwanted father..." ...And the stars did wander - separated in the forbidden universe The Blazing Monoliths Of Defiance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With hearts of midnight, brightened by his infernal light We stand as a monolith of wrath, united under the goath of a thousand young Two horns thrust upwards in defiance, three inverted as the trinity denied A phalanx of mourners in black, falling towards nightly terror Unleash the temted beast, raised your horns in pridefull blasphemy I'll be your guide into the glourious darrkness, and enchant you like a taste of sin Unleash the temted beast, chant theron in words of blazing scorn Grant me my dark desires, strengthened through the power of satan Take plesure in the torment of the wretched And rejoice in the delight of the flesh Behold the face of satan And walk the fields of erotic fire Hunt the heavens... Godless temted beckon Through gleaming scapes of horrid nightmare Gathered between symbols and signs A glow of new light is born out of the night Give into your lust and carnal desires - in twisted blood-dripping ecstasy In the name of satan - I lead you into temptation The Insight And The Catharsis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Passenger on confessional course Unlock with the key you behold within Repair the shadow of your mind And come awake "Oh, dreadful angel of mine Enrich me with the vastness of being Rigid father, teach me to comprehend I'll commit myself to understand To be faithful and the instrument So that the ones with blindfold can see what I have seen That there is nothing inbetween For I am the accomplice..." Aghast and tender, indulged in sin Embraced by loneliness, legions who grin I blunder into the realms of slumber I collide with the obscure And see the last fraction of light go by Plundering the sanity from the insane And providing appearances in black Carefully swept in decadent spheres But faces in this world always remain darkened In circles of dominance, emotional deeps unite Fiction and transcendence woven together In the essence of purity lies wisdom Join the forces, the spiritual black dimensions What more do you need of proof Human hands conforming clooven hoofs For I know the secrets and lies behind all truths Knowlege is power and the power is mine It's all mine So let the children come to me And share the limitless ways to infinity Escape death and disease And behold youth and vitality Grotesquery Conceiled (Within Mesureless Magic) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "In the shadows of my gallow I'd rather absent the hallow (For) thy presence made pleasure of pain (And) thy madness turned sanity into vain Profoundly wicked owner of soul The mysteries of thy creation beheld by ghouls Diabolically disguised hevenly bodies (And it's) atrociously desired primordial elements Plunging through the confused beart of sulpur In all this darkness, how can man see "Pour misguided fool... It is not god you are talking to I am not impostrous, hiding behind perly walls However, I am still yet to be found, known I shall guide you on your midnight-ride as the sun fades black (And) beyond your grotesque imagination My name will be revealed... The blod of christ can't heal your wounds Give me all of yours, and I'll give you mine..." I am the hidden fantasy In the secret of my knowledge There is no god but me In this shadowy world all are nameless Outstanding, dresssed in majestic splendour Touched by the flames of eternal fire How I long for your embrace, uttermoust desire Arcane Lifeforce Mysteria ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In perplexed dementia, where sanity is my vanity With honour bear the mark of satan Triumphant beast in heaven defeat Disguised in gloom, wear the mask of satan Ride the beast through paradise Still vipers these mortal burdens We arise as the portals take form Ileave my feathers again Infidels and scarecrows all fallen from heaven Captured by the sin of the beast Mesmerized in total chaos Engulfed in an overflow of selfish might Swept through arcane mysteries Forlorn in a maze of torment Raped by the sanctity of the unholy Reveals a hell I never dreamed of Bewildered by the arcane lifeforce mysteria Ishead my skin once again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recorded and mixed during August, September and Oktober in Abyss Studio, Sweden anno 1998. Produced by Peter Tagtgren. Co-produced by Dimmu Borgir. Mastered at Cuttingroom, Sweden. Artwork, photo, design and layout by P. Gron, Sweden. All music and lyrics by Dimmu Borgir. Additional clean voice performance by Simen Hestnes. Bandphoto and girl on the table by Per Heimly Prod. Norway. Lyrics in plain text format