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(Metal concert ticket) Buyer beware! Norwegian symphonic black metal beasts Dimmu Borgir would like to inform their worldwide fan base that they are not participating in any upcoming show with Six Feet Under promoted as the Metallennium Tour...

Lock Up, the death-grind super group featuring Shane Embury (Napalm Death, Venomous Concept), Nicolas Barker (ex-Cradle of Filth, ex-Dimmu Borgir), Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates, Disfear) and Anton Reisenegger (Criminal, Pentagram), have announced 'Necropolis Transparent' as the title of their upcoming album, due out July 1 in Europe and July 12 in North America...

Norway's masters of symphonic black metal gloom, Dimmu Borgir, will spread their blackened seed and celebrate the cloven hoof this fall on the Darkness Reborn Tour, which kicks off in all its majesty on Nov. 5 in Worcester, Mass. Dimmu Borgir will return to wreak havoc on the western hemisphere on a headlining tour that will stretch across North America for 32 deadly dates...

Norwegian blackened warriors Dimmu Borgir will release their latest blasphemous opus, 'Abahadabra,' on Oct. 12. The album is Dimmu at their most ultra-violent. It will also cause the finest hairs on the back of your neck to stand upright, thanks to the music's creepy tones...

The combination of Halloween and heavy metal is a beautiful marriage made in hell and when it comes down to it, a complete no-brainer. Since the early 1900s, an entire cottage industry has risen around the Oct. 31 holiday. Whether it's books, feature films or the multi-million dollar costume industry, Halloween has made a lot of people rich...

Human figures -- especially the headish part of the anatomy -- are a big part of metal album art. Graphic designer Joachim Luetke puts the dome of the human body on display for Dimmu Borgir's newest release, 'Abrahadabra,' out on Nuclear Blast...

Dimmu Borgir have worked with orchestras before, but for their ninth release and follow-up to 2007's 'In Sorte Diaboli,' the band is really stressing the symphonic component of symphonic death metal. They're working on the currently-untitled album with Norwegian composer and Berklee College of Music summa cum laude alumnus Gaute Storaas, as well as 51 members of KORK (the Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Lava-spewing volcanoes look pretty damn cool on album covers, but the past week has taught us that volcanoes and metal don't always mix so well. As anyone who doesn't live in a torch-lit cave knows by now, an Icelandic volcano erupted April 15, spreading clouds of ash across much of Europe and grounding hundreds of planes...

With a new album, 'Underworld Regime,' out via Prosthetic Records on April 13, Ov Hell, the black metal pairing of Gorgoroth's King ov Hell and Dimmu Borgir's Shagrath, aren't committing to touring ... just yet. "We are looking into the possibility of playing a few select shows with Ov Hell," King told Noisecreep...

King ov Hell -- one of the greatest black metal nom de plumes in the genre's sordid history -- is not only busy with Ov Hell, his project with Dimmu Borgir singer Shagrath, which just released 'Underworld Regime' via Prosthetic. King has his mitts in many pots and is staying musically solvent...