Dimmu Borgir - Album Cover Art Banned; European Tour Dates With Amon Amarth

Artwork for Norwegian Melodic Black metallers Dimmu Borgir's upcoming album, "In Sorte Diaboli" ? which is scheduled for an April 24 release in North America ? has been banned by retailers.
Slipcover artwork can be viewed at this location.

Dimmu Borgir will embark on a European headlining tour in October/November. Dubbed "The Invaluable Darkness Tour 2007", the trek will feature Sweden's Amon Amarth in the direct-support slot. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Sep. 23 - Amsterdam - Paradiso (NL)
Sep. 24 - Tilburg - 013 (NL)
Sep. 25 - Cologne - E-Werk (DE)
Sep. 26 - Brussels - AB (BE)
Oct. 04 - Paris - Elysee Montmartre (FR)
Oct. 06 - Marseille - Le Moulin (FR)
Oct. 07 - Barcelona - Razzmatazz 2 (ES)
Oct. 09 - Lisbon - Coliseum (PO)
Oct. 10 - Madrid - Joy Eslava (ES)
Oct. 11 - Bergara - Sala Jam (ES)
Oct. 13 - Pratteln - Z7 (CH)
Oct. 14 - Milan - Alcatraz (IT)
Oct. 15 - Ljubljana - Exhibition Hall (SI)
Oct. 16 - Vienna - Planet Music (AT)
Oct. 17 - Budapest - Petofi Csarnok (HU)
Oct. 19 - Prague - Retro (CZ)
Oct. 20 - Warsaw - Progresja (PO)
Oct. 21 - Berlin - Columbiahalle (DE)
Oct. 22 - Hamburg - Docks (DE)
Oct. 23 - Wiesbaden - Schlachthof (DE)
Oct. 25 - München - Georg Elser Halle (DE)
Oct. 26 - Leipzig - Werk II (DE)
Oct. 27 - Stuttgart - Nuclear Blast Festival (DE)
Oct. 29 - Copenhagen - Store Vega (DK)
Oct. 30 - Lund - Mejeriet (SE)
Nov. 01 - Helsinki - House Of Culture (FI)
Nov. 02 - Oulu - Tearia (FI)
Nov. 04 - Stockholm - Arenan (SE)
Nov. 05 - Gothenburg - Tragarn (SE)
Nov. 06 - Oslo - Sentrum Scene (NO)

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Dimmu Borgir
Event:	Dimmu Borgir + Amon Amarth: The Invaluable Darkness Tour

Posted: 02.04.2007 by Dangerboner

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Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 18:26 Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695 I'M SO GONNA BE THERE!!! ---- Loading...
Jay Perkele Posts: 71	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 19:05 Jay Perkele Posts: 71 What's so horrible in the cover art? I don't get it... ---- This one goes to 11 Loading...
Vunts Posts: 910	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 19:08 Vunts Posts: 910 It shows booooooooooooooooooooooooobs!! Loading...
Eight Shapeshifter Posts: 2134	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 19:09 Eight Shapeshifter Posts: 2134 Indeed, a goat with crow wings, horrible. ---- Book: "I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God." Mal: "No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged." Loading...
Jason W. Razorbliss Staff Posts: 3523	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 19:17 Jason W. Razorbliss Staff Posts: 3523 Banned.... in only the US? Lol, I've seen much worse. Though I guess it's a thing to be proud of to get yourself banned for something ---- "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley Loading...
GraMortis Posts: 10	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 19:24 GraMortis Posts: 10 Artwork is probably banned because of the angels and those guys around the goat-headed female, probably another pressure from überchristian american housewives, who have nothing else to do than to see blasphemy everywhere. ---- Fruere hora. Loading...
..HumanError.. Account deleted	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 20:20 ..HumanError.. Account deleted OH HEY NO! I liked that coverart!!!! mad And ill attend to the concert in Marseille! I SWEAR! I SWEAR I WILL! Loading...
Carrion Account deleted	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 20:50 Carrion Account deleted It must have had too many angels, so that's why it's banned. Loading...
Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 21:02 Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 Written by [user id=18405] on 02.04.2007 at 20:20 OH HEY NO! I liked that coverart!!!! mad And ill attend to the concert in Marseille! I SWEAR! I SWEAR I WILL! As far as I know the cover art is ONLY banned in the US and not in Europe, at least not in The Netherlands. ---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 Loading...
Yova Posts: 358	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 21:43 Yova Posts: 358 yep, americans can see violence everyday and kill each other but they can't see a tit ---- ...if there was a single day I could live... ...a single breath I could take... ...I'll trade all the others away... Loading...
Graveheart Posts: 1543	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 22:29 Graveheart Posts: 1543 Righto, it's completely okay if he stabs her breast with a knife on television, but if he kisses her breast, ouch, it's going be R-rated. Loading...
..HumanError.. Account deleted	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 22:47 ..HumanError.. Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.04.2007 at 21:02 As far as I know the cover art is ONLY banned in the US and not in Europe, at least not in The Netherlands. Oh lol, I forgot that "little" detail. It won't be banned in Europe, I have seen so much worse. At least, I hope it won't. Anyway, it's still plain... plain.... can't find the word for it... pukes And btw, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia has tits on the coverart too, was it banned in the USA ? Loading...
X-FrEaK Posts: 287	Permalink 02.04.2007 - 23:10 X-FrEaK Posts: 287 like tits...im going to buy the album to see if there's porn inside =D ---- Loading...
DreamStalker Account deleted	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 00:38 DreamStalker Account deleted So sad. The Americans ban the new Dimmu Borgir coverart and let those MTV videos with explicit crap go on... Oh well... Loading...
Hyvaarin Posts: 1487	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 00:38 Hyvaarin Posts: 1487 I bet they love that the coverart got banned. ---- "Summoned By Words Never Spoken Before..." Loading...
LeChron James Helvetesfossen Posts: 3561	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 01:08 LeChron James Helvetesfossen Posts: 3561 Written by Jay on 02.04.2007 at 19:05 What's so horrible in the cover art? I don't get it... seriously! theres NOTHING offensive about it. goddamn commies... ---- Kick Ass, Die Young Less is More Stay Pure Stay Poor Music was my life, music brought me to life and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz in my head that only I can hear. Loading...
Introspekrieg Totemic Lust Elite Posts: 2749	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 01:18 Introspekrieg Totemic Lust Elite Posts: 2749 Nah, it's definitely banned cuz the angel has a bazooka Loading...
White Winter Sun Laboratory's Rat Elite Posts: 2198	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 01:49 White Winter Sun Laboratory's Rat Elite Posts: 2198 Faces without eyes on the highly-rated on the artwork that it's shocking But if it's for tits, they must ban all hot magazines on their ground to go at the end of their reasoning Loading...
Degrading Light Account deleted	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 05:40 Degrading Light Account deleted Don't know why it's banned? It's not so much about tits. It's the fact that it IS an anti-Christian picture. Don't get pissed off at Christians over this either. They have a right to make a fuss over something that mocks them. Free speech. It would be kind not to waste all your free speech privileges on opinions of hatred either. Loading...
Xtreme Jax Psycroptipath Posts: 2322	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 05:50 Xtreme Jax Psycroptipath Posts: 2322 Gray Breasts? Hahaha classic (person joke behind that). ** Quite funny really. They'll ban this but the wont ban rape videos that are have on regular occations high drug reference, adualt themes and sexual references. Having half naked females should be put down way before an artwork of a grey breasted historical character. Wonder if they'll start censoring the naked images in musems and art galleries... ---- Hellcunt Smurf** Loading...
Metal 1986 Account deleted	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 06:43 Metal 1986 Account deleted I think it's sad how The United States wants to ban this album cover How is it offensive!?!?! I mean there are other Black Metal and even Death Metal ablum covers out there that are more offending than this album cover!!! Geez, doesn't the Christian Right Wing Jesus freaks of America have anything else better to do??? Like not pissing off their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by messing up Christianity and throwing it into the shitter!!! Loading...
Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 07:45 Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718 Written by Jay on 02.04.2007 at 19:05 What's so horrible in the cover art? I don't get it... me either...its just some titties....and some slightly blasphemous religious type stuff, but nothing all that extreme. Nothing compared to anything Belphegor puts out or Marduks 'Fuck Me Jesus' for that matter. ---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin Loading...
Spyroid Rosetta Stoned Posts: 1023	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 09:48 Spyroid Rosetta Stoned Posts: 1023 The coverart is probably banned because Dimmu Borgir is a band that gets a lot more antention in media. The people who bans album covers probably just get to look at the big names, and they've probably never heard about Belphegor or Marduk. Loading...
Katatronik Angel of Lust Posts: 1018	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 14:45 Katatronik Angel of Lust Posts: 1018 Fuck the banners! And anyway, can't wait for their coming in Italy, yeaaaaaaaaaaah! ---- "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." Howard Phillips Lovecraft Loading...
Bitch Boy Posts: 1353	Permalink 03.04.2007 - 21:16 Bitch Boy Posts: 1353 Only because of the boobs?? : Well... I liked the cover art. I'm waiting for them to come to Mexico in 2014 Loading...
Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194	Permalink 08.04.2007 - 09:40 Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194 album coverart banned in North America? ... and in the censored cover the band logo has been shifted to the chest! anyway, this won't make any difference to the music, I hope that the album will be an excellent one. ---- that which shines without names and forms... Loading...
Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194	Permalink 08.04.2007 - 09:43 Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194 Written by GraMortis on 02.04.2007 at 19:24 Artwork is probably banned because of the angels and those guys around the goat-headed female, probably another pressure from überchristian american housewives, who have nothing else to do than to see blasphemy everywhere. that's what must be the reason!! weak christians... ---- that which shines without names and forms... Loading...
W-Lash Metal Master Posts: 2531	Permalink 10.04.2007 - 01:03 W-Lash Metal Master Posts: 2531 Do i see Latvia there? NO. LIKE ALWAYZ. Loading...
Maelstrom Account deleted	Permalink 15.04.2007 - 08:40 Maelstrom Account deleted Written by [user id=18405] on 02.04.2007 at 22:47 Oh lol, I forgot that "little" detail. It won't be banned in Europe, I have seen so much worse. At least, I hope it won't. Anyway, it's still plain... plain.... can't find the word for it... pukes And btw, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia has tits on the coverart too, was it banned in the USA ? Hmm, when I bought Puritanical back when it was released, the coverart wasn't banned, but the celophane on the outside of the cd had a huge Dimmu Borgir sticker covering up the woman on the front of the book. And as far as why it's banned in America... it is America... haha. Cencorship doesn't even matter anymore. They censor things that needn't be censored and let far too many other things just go right on by, endlessly... oh well. Loading...
Elijah Dance, bitch! Posts: 2925	Permalink 15.04.2007 - 13:23 Elijah Dance, bitch! Posts: 2925 That cover art looks terribly familiar. The name "Thunderbolt" jumps to mind for some reason. ---- Loading...