Dimmu Borgir

The best metal albums of 2026 (so far)

By Matt Mills, Rich Hobson Published 18 August 26

Lamb Of God, Dimmu Borgir, Evanescence: it's been a great year for metal (and we're not done yet)

How Dimmu Borgir became black metal's biggest band

By Jonathan Selzer Published 9 August 26

Dimmu Borgir were decried as sell outs from their first single, but they broadened the scope of black metal to impossible new heights

The best new metal songs this week: April 24 2026

By Rich Hobson Published 25 April 26

Robb Flynn teams up with Black Veil Brides, Tarja Turunen recruits Dani Filth and Korn bounce back in this week's best new metal song round-up

The best new metal songs this week: March 27 2026

By Rich Hobson Published 27 March 26

Dimmu Borgir make a long-awaited return, Frozen Soul team up with Machine Head and a former Ghost guitarist launches his 'cartoon metal' band: these are Metal Hammer's tracks of the week

The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2026

By Metal Hammer Published 26 February 26

Digging deep on announcements, rumours and pure speculation to find the 50 metal albums you should be keeping an eye out for in 2026

"I really did spells, like peeing on a churchyard." The 10 records that changed Nikoline Spjelkavik's life

By Rich Hobson Published 25 September 25

Witch Club Satan's vocalist/guitarist shares the 10 records that changed her life

How Dimmu Borgir's Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse reinvented black metal

By Perran Helyes Published 25 August 25

Working with a full orchestra, Dimmu Borgir's 2003 anthem rewrote the rules for what black metal could sound like

How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with In Sorte Diaboli

By Dom Lawson Published 22 February 25

Dimmu Borgir sealed their status as black metal’s biggest band with 2007’s In Sorte Diaboli

How Dimmu Borgir’s symphonic classic Enthrone Darkness Triumphant dragged black metal out of the shadows

By Jonathan Selzer Published 22 June 24

The story of Dimmu Borgir’s Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, the album which drew up the blueprint for symphonic black metal