Dimmu Borgir: Silenoz and Shagrath get back to their roots
NUCLEAR BLAST
THERE ARE TWO basic approaches to covering other people’s music. One is to play it more or less straight, retaining all the elements that made it great in the first place; the other is to turn it into something new. When Cradle Of Filth covered Venom’s seminal Black Metal on a special edition of Cruelty And The Beast, they turned it into a Cradle song –Dani Filth’s piercing shrieks, orchestral augmentation and all. Acouple of injected blastbeats aside, Dimmu Borgir stay much closer to the original as they tackle the song here. It’s suitably raw and sounds fantastic without bringing anything new to the party.