Dimmu Borgir "Stormblåst"

Stormblåst (English: Stormblown) is the second studio album by Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir. It was released on 25 January 1996 through Cacophonous Records, and re-released in 2001 by Century Media. The album is entirely in the band's native language of Norwegian, and was their last album to be completely in Norwegian instead of English. This is also the first album where Tjodalv switched to drums as opposed to guitar, the first where Shagrath is on vocals and the last where lyrics would be written by Aldrahn (of Dødheimsgard and Ved Buens Ende) until 2003's Death Cult Armageddon, and the last album to feature Brynjard Tristan on bass guitar.

More keyboards were employed for this album than previously by the band, and the guitars and bass became more musically textured.

In 2005, a completely re-recorded version of this album was released as Stormblåst MMV.

The intro to "Guds Fortapelse" is from Dvořák's Symphony no. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World.

The song Sorgens kammer was plagiarized by keyboardist at the time, Stian Aarstad, from the title track of the Amiga game Agony. As a result, the song was left off of their re-recording of Stormblåst. The same thing applies for the intro to Alt lys er svunnet hen, which plagiarized the song Sacred Hour by Magnum.

Track list:

1. Alt lys er svunnet hen 06:05   
2. Broderskapets ring 05:07  
3. Når sjelen hentes til helvete 04:30  
4. Sorgens kammer 06:19  
5. Da den kristne satte livet til 03:06  
6. Stormblåst 06:13
7. Dødsferd 05:28  
8. Antikrist 03:42   
9. Vinder fra en ensom grav 04:25   
10. Guds fortapelse - åpenbaring av dommedag 04:23   

Total time:   49:18  

The intro to "Guds fortapelse - åpenbaring av dommedag" is from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ("From the New World").

Original Cacophonous Records release had "Dodsferd" as track 7 and "Antikrist" as track 8 written on the back cover, but the tracks were swapped by accident on the CD in the mastering process. This was later fixed on re-issues.

English translations:

Album title: Stormblown

1. "All Light Has Faded Away"
2. "The Ring of Brotherhood"
3. "When the Souls Are Brought to Hell"
4. "Chamber of Sorrow"
5. "When the Christian Lost His Life"
6. "Stormblown"
7. "Journey of Death"
8. "Antichrist"
9. "Winds from a Lonely Grave"
10. "God's Damnation - Revelation of Judgment Day"

Recording information:

Recorded in July and September 1995 at the Endless Sound Productions.

Mastered at Strype Audio in December 1995.