DIMMU BORGIR, KATAKLYSM, DEVILDRIVER, UNEARTH To Team Up For North American Tour

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR will embark on a North American tour in late April. Support at the shows will come from KATAKLYSM, DEVILDRIVER and UNEARTH. The dates so far are as follows:

Apr. 20 - Cleveland, OH - Agora Theatre
Apr. 21 - Detroit, MI – Harpo's Concert Theatre
Apr. 22 - Toronto, ON - Kool Haus
Apr. 23 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis
Apr. 24 - Quebec City, QC - Theatre Capitole
Apr. 26 - New York, NY - Nokia Theatre
Apr. 28 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
Apr. 29 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
Apr. 30 - Charlotte, NC - Amos Southend
May 05 - Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings
May 07 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall Ballroom
May 08 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Events Centre
May 10 - Seattle, WA - The Fenix
May 12 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
May 15 - Magna, UT - The Great Salt Air
May 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
May 18 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
May 19 - San Diego, CA - SOMA
May 22 - Kansas City, MO - The Beaumont Club
May 23 - Sauget, IL – Pop's

***NOTE***: According to DIMMU BORGIR's management, these are not the official tour dates. The official tour announcement will arrive later today and will contain additional information about the trek.

DIMMU BORGIR will release its new album, "In Sorte Diaboli", in North America on April 24 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD will arrive in Europe on April 30 (April 27 in Germany).

"In Sorte Diaboli" was recorded and mixed at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with producers Fredrik Nordström and Patrik J. Sten. A limited-edition digipack version of the CD will include the bonus cut "The Ancestral Fever" along with a bonus DVD containing the video for the album's opening track, "The Serpentine Offering", shot by director Patric Ullaeus of Sweden's Revolver Film Company. Ordering information on both the regular and digipack version can be found at www.cdon.com.

As previously reported,, Nuclear Blast Records has launched a special "In Sorte Diaboli" news page at this location.

DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz previously told Revolver magazine that the songwriting and recording process for the group's long-anticipated follow-up to 2003's "Death Cult Armageddon" involved none of the intensive pre-production of their last two discs, no demos, and no gallinvanting around with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. "It's definitely going to sound way more epic and bigger than we thought, because Mustis [keyboards] has also contributed with his keyboard ideas," said Silenoz. "I have to admit that some of the keyboard things on 'Death Cult Armageddon' sound better on the demo version than [their symphony versions] on the album. I probably shouldn't say that, but it's true."

This will be DIMMU's first "concept album," a story set in always-epic Medieval Europe that also serves as a treatise on the modern-day political and social abuses of organized religion. "There's this dude that works as a priest's assistant, and after a while he just discovers that he has nothing to do with Christianity," said Silenoz of the storyline, which he conceived in full before even a note of music was composed. "He just sort of has this awakening and realizes that he has different abilities and different powers and is leaning more to the dark side."

DIMMU BORGIR's current recording lineup is as follows:

Shagrath - Vocals
Silenoz - Guitars
Galder - Guitars
Vortex - Bass
Mustis - Keys
Hellhammer - Drums