Dimmu Borgir are still grinding away at their long-delayed follow-up to 2018’s Eonian. After demoing around 8 tracks back in 2023, the Norwegian symphonic black metal unit hit the studio again in late 2024—shortly after longtime guitarist Galder exited the band. This summer, they officially brought in guitarist Damage (Kjell Karlsen of Chrome Division, etc.) to fill the slot. 

Speaking at Wacken Open Air last weekend, guitarist Silenoz shed some light on the slow-moving process behind their upcoming tenth album:

Well, it’s always that time where you can work and work and work on it, but at the same time you have to let it go. It’s the same when you have a kid and it grows up. You have to let it out of its shell somehow, and once that’s done, yeah, then it’s done. But certain albums, we live with the songs for so many years before we actually record them. So we can go back and forth, back and forth, and when we finally then go to the main studio to record all the parts again, then we pretty much have everything set.

‘Cause we demo everything down to the smallest little detail before we go and record actual albums, so we can live with the songs and figure out the small tweaks here and there. Even after months and maybe even years, you can go back, and it’s, like, ‘Yeah, let’s tweak it a little bit there.’

 

[via Blabbermouth.net]