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


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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





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