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THE REVIEW
For All Tid (forever) is the debut album of a band: being the first the most difficult album, you want to give trust to the new band - still in its infancy in terms of composition - and encourage it.
But For All Tid is not the debut of an ordinary band, rather it's the first CD (excluding demos and various oddities) by the Norwegians Dimmu Borgir.
And it's here that the encouragement due to the "debut factor" is joined by the encouragement due to the "first album of a LEGENDARY band" factor; it is here that the album is reassessed, indeed it is even overrated.
If this had been the CD of an unknown group, Nuclear Blast wouldn't have reissued it (using the same font on the cover that they use for Children Of Bodom …how sad), allowing the luminaries of print and virtual media to weave endless praises on the melancholic mood, on the complex Norwegianness of the compositions, and on other bullshit that even they don't know what the hell they mean.
For heaven's sake, the album is very good, classic black-gothic metal in the Dimmu style with some rather original death influences. Even if penalized by the production factor, I noticed that the songs are like tied together by a thread, as if they were a single long piece (the only one that stands apart is Stien, proof that you can make a great song with two riffs).
In my opinion, the songs need to be completely reviewed by Dimmu and rearranged, as they did for the (now) splendid Raabjorn Speiler Draugheims Skodde (also here like in Stormblåst all in Norwegian). The songwriting is rather simple and lacks the decisive contribution of the keyboard.
Ultimately, a decent album that rearranged would become a MASTERPIECE.
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For All Tid is the debut album of Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir, blending classic black-gothic metal with original death influences. Despite production flaws and simple songwriting, the album shows promise. The reviewer suggests a complete rearrangement of the songs could turn it into a masterpiece. As the first official release of a now legendary band, it receives both encouragement and critical reassessment.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
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The keyboards... manage to give the tracks an almost mystical aura.
Every time he sings, I feel a pang in my heart.
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