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DIMMU BORGIR's Label Confirms Italian Journalist Wasn't Source Of Album Leak

June 14, 2007

Nuclear Blast Records has issued the following statement:

"We have written in a press statement dated 15 March 2007 that the source of the illegal download files of the DIMMU BORGIR album 'In Sorte Diaboli' was Mr. Luca Pessina, a journalist with Metal Hammer Italy and Metalitalia.com. That statement gave the impression that Mr. Pessina was responsible for releasing those files to the Internet. We now accept that this is not the case. Mr. Pessina has made it explicitly clear that he did not use the files and he did not release them in any way. An investigation by Nuclear Blast has shown that Mr. Pessina did not himself download any of the files from 'In Sorte Diaboli'. It has not been possible to determine who was responsible for uploading the files for illegal download. Nuclear Blast has, therefore, now definitely decided to refrain from any legal action against Mr. Pessina and regrets any distress or harm caused to Mr. Pessina and his reputation as the result of any misunderstandings of our previous statement."

"In Sorte Diaboli" has sold 36,000 copies in the United States in its first seven weeks of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album premiered with 14,000 units — more than double the 6,400 opening-week number achieved by its predecessor, "Death Cult Armageddon", which came out in September 2003 and landed at position No. 169 on The Billboard 200 chart.

DIMMU BORGIR's official promotional video for the song "The Serpentine Offering" can be viewed at YouTube. The clip was shot by Swedish director Patric Ullaeus (LACUNA COIL, KAMELOT) of Revolver Film Company AB and is the group's first promotional video for its new album, "In Sorte Diaboli".

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