Artist: Dimmu Borgir
Title: In Sorte Diaboli
Label: Nuclear Blast
Cat #: NB18622
Release Year: 2007
Duration: Album 
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

In Sorte Diaboli (Latin for "In league with the devil") is the eighth studio album by Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir. It is the band's first concept album. T

Combining all Dimmu Borgir trademarks such as brutal highspeed parts, catchy hooks, ethereal melodies and complex song arrangements, “In Sorte Diaboli” certainly was worth the wait! Recorded in the famous Fredman Studios, this album will certainly saw the band grow larger than life and definitely larger than Black Metal itself: The Dark Ages are back!

In Sorte Diaboli is Dimmu Borgir's first concept album, with a story located in medieval Europe. It is about a priest who begins to doubt his faith and then ends up taking the place of the Antichrist. "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", Silenoz says. "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." The words "In Sorte Diaboli" are a repeated line in the song "The Chosen Legacy" and the words also appears towards the end of the song, "The Sinister Awakening". The conclusion of the story in the booklet implies that the story of In Sorte Diaboli is not yet finished. This remains to be seen, as their next album, Abrahadabra, is heavily influenced by Aleister Crowley's Thelema text The Book of the Law. IGN named the album the Top Metal Album of 2007.

Recommended if you like: Emperor, Satyricon, Cradle of Filth, Old Man's Child, Dissection, Samael, Belphegor, Immortal, Rotting Christ, Dark Funeral, Marduk, Behemoth, Naglfar, Carach Angren, Carpathian Forest, Graveworm, Arcturus 

Track Listing:
1 - The serpentine offering 5:09
2 - The chosen legacy 4:16
3 - The conspiracy unfolds 5:24
4 - The sacrilegious scorn 3:58
5 - The fallen arises 2:59
6 - The sinister awakening 5:09
7 - The fundamental alienation 5:17
8 - The unvaluable darkness 4:44
9 - The foreshadowing furnace 5:49
10 - Dimmu Borgir (Media player)