Dimmu Borgir

[Dragon235]

I'm surprised about the album with "Hell" in the titel being banned, the Dimmu cover I can see being banned due to the sexual stuff (yet bildo raises a good point about "Virgin Killer" and those Cannibal Corpse covers really are sick...)
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[Rhinosaur]

[Tuberkulose]

[agentalbert]

[Holymagica]

Dimmu Borgir - The Serpentine Offering (Musicvideo)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8QrWbr7GM
The MySpace premiere of the new DIMMU BORGIR video, "The Serpentine Offering", on April 3 was an "unbelievably huge success," according to the band's record label, Nuclear Blast Records. 20,000 visitors checked out the clip within the first two hours after it was released, and the number has already grown to over 70,000, with more people watching the video every minute.
I like the song and video....
I like when the woman spits on the bible
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[Dragon235]

Really? you've enver seen the original cover?

Every time I see it (not often) it has the original cover...
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[HiddenSight]

Retarded...

to ban...

i cant belive that they banned that...
but then again...

in america... a covered tit at half time... cause the Bush govenment to put on a $250, 000 dollar fine on anyone...
we deam... not worthy...
Radio included...
Retards...

Canible Corpse... i guess has been banned in many countries
also...

Stupid...

[berserkur]

This nation does not want the Janet Jackson incident to happen again! Remember what happened??

AMERICA. NEVER FORGET.

[Holymagica]

DIMMU BORGIR's new album, "In Sorte Diaboli", has registered the following first-week chart positions:

Norway: #1
Finland: #6
Germany: #7
Sweden: #10
Austria: #11
Switzerland: #30
Holland: #37
Denmark: #61
Canada: #73
USA: #43

[I'm The Stranger]

[I'm The Stranger]

It seems that we can buy the (import?) original cover at Amazon-US, and it's not even the regular 2x as much import price. http://www.amazon.com/Sorte-Diaboli-Dimmu-Borgir/dp/B000NOK0QW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-1823295-3496007?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1178638765&sr=8-2

I guess it was just the big American chain stores that carry CDs (the only ones left in some cities sadly) which dictate how CDs will be censored. Places like Wal-Mart which are populated by the most ignorant rednecks you can imagine, or Borders, which seems to get a lot of business from senior citizens (and neither of those types of people in my experience seem to 'get' metal).
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Black lilies that smell of lavender,
A fork in the eye of the sun,
Cantering the horse till dusk.

[Holymagica]

'In Sorte Diaboli' Disqualified From U.K. Charts
DIMMU BORGIR made Norwegian music history this week when it topped the country's album chart, VG-lista, with its latest release, "In Sorte Diaboli". The CD also sold extremely well in such countries as Sweden, Finland, Austria and Switzerland, and last week reached No. 43 on the American Billboard chart. Unfortunately, the Norwegian band can forget about achieving the same results in England, according to Dagbladet.no.

Last week "In Sorte Diaboli" was disqualified twice by The Official UK Charts Company, which was established by the music industry to regulate and control the chart compilation process and to ensure that the charts represent an accurate assessment of popularity.

"This is not funny," says Yorck Eysel, the label manager for DIMMU BORGIR's Germany-based record company, Nuclear Blast. "I hope that nobody blames us, but rather blames the almost unbelievably strict rules in England."

According to Eysel, The Official UK Charts Company disqualified the album twice last week. First they made the decision to exclude the CD based on a mirror which is featured on the cover of the digipack release.

"First they disqualified us because of this mirror, which is nothing but decoration inside the package," he says. "We went ahead and complained about this and then we got a note saying that we wouldn't be on the list anyway since the packaging for the CD includes a flyer where we announce a competition for record buyers to win an opportunity to meet the band."

Eysel feels that it is a pity the disqualification was made final, since DIMMU BORGIR's chances of landing on the U.K. chart were quite high.

"They obviously examined the CD packaging carefully, and I don't think they would've done that if we had been just another band that didn't have a pretty good chance of making the chart," he says.

Eysel says that the label shipped more than 10,000 copies of "In Sorte Diaboli" to English retail outlets.

"We have been going for 20 years now, and we have achieved high chart numbers with bands like NIGHTWISH, for example," he says. "Something like this (with DIMMU BORGIR) has never happened before."

Eysel characterizes the decision by The Official UK Charts Company to exclude DIMMU BORGIR's CD as "ridiculous," but the company's rules are clearly spelled out on its web site. According to paragraph 6.1, "a competition featured on or within the packaging of any album release will render the format ineligible for inclusion in the charts."

"We did not announce the competition on the cover," Eysel counters. "Therefore it is impossible for the record buyers to learn of the flyer's existence before they buy the CD. It is difficult to understand why the Englishmen think this has provided us with an unfair marketing advantage."

This is not the first time The Official UK Charts Company has sparked a public debate by excluding an artist.

Last fall they disqualified BECK's "The Information", because the record buyers got a blank cover and a sheet with a sticker instead of a traditional cover.

The idea was to enable the fans to make their own cover art. However, this made the album ineligible for the U.K. chart, said The Official UK Charts Company.

The Official UK Charts Company is a joint venture between the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and ERA (Entertainment Retailers Association — formerly BARD).

(Thanks: Roy Kristensen / Imhotep)
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