{"id":2813,"date":"2018-05-05T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2018-05-05T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T16:57:27","slug":"dimmu-borgir-eonian-quite-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2813","title":{"rendered":"Dimmu Borgir: Eonian &#8211; Quite Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Eonian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Eonian-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Eonian-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Eonian-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Eonian.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I vividly remember 1997 and hearing <b>Dimmu Borgir<\/b> for the first time.  That record remains among <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/records\/\">my favorite albums ever<\/a> and the band never matched it in my opinion.  I lost a little interest by the time <b>Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropa<\/b> came out but my interest was renewed with 2003&#8217;s <b>Death Cult Armageddon<\/b>.  With only a pair of new-material, studio records since that, <b>Eonian&#8217;s<\/b> arrival didn&#8217;t really have me expecting altogether too much.  The singles weren&#8217;t bad, I thought, but it turns out that in context, they are part of a rather grand presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to proclaim this the album of the year.  However, my spins leave me wanting more.  For whatever genre they&#8217;re in, symphonic black metal possibly, they do it well.  As the weeks led up to release, the press has spoken of their ventures outside of their comfort zone.  Words that leave a long-time fan hesitant.  But the album is a rather solid outing and I&#8217;m thoroughly enjoying the adventure it takes me on.  There are some killer albums on the horizon: <b>At The Gates<\/b>, <b<Amorphis<\/b> and my most-wanted: <b>Skeletonwitch<\/b>.  Though this won&#8217;t likely dethrone <b>Kalmah<\/b> or the potential of some of those aforementioned bands, it could possibly rank in the top-5 come December.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vividly remember 1997 and hearing Dimmu Borgir for the first time. That record remains among my favorite albums ever and the band never matched it in my opinion. I lost a little interest by the time Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropa came out but my interest was renewed with 2003&#8217;s Death Cult Armageddon. With only a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,13],"tags":[141,117],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-music","tag-dimmu-borgir","tag-kalmah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}