Gjennom tidelose morkne drommer
I fuktig hostvind ober landstrakte vidder
Mot Sorias fjellheim
Kommer jeg, en fandens ridder
Glatt er runen på det hoye fjell
Gnidd vekk av regn og vind
Dragende kraft av ondskap lurer
Her ved trollheims muldne grind
Fortumlet av dette morke byggverk
Med rovet gull fra lyets pakt
Brukt som spott til å senke
Deres murer
Vi grunder over dette riket
Så vakkert fylt med tidelos skumring
Som en stjerne I tomsindighetens juv
Det bringer frem en nattlig mimring
Over tanker fra en vissen tid
Drott til himmels er det reist
Av tidens endelose svarte minner
Stormblåst ut av det sorte indre
Har bergflint rullet fra mo til kneist
Undring og angst samler seg I natten
I morket som ruver om spiret
For ingen dag kan veien hit
Intet lys kan luske frem
Der sorg har beseiret alle gleder
Og bygd et land på menneskets jord
Fylt med isklad prakt og heder

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Dimmu Borgir's song "Stormblast" evoke a sense of darkness and foreboding, as the singer describes journeying through foggy dreams and harsh autumn winds to the mountain stronghold of Sorias. He identifies himself as a devil's knight, and describes the alluring power of evil that lurks at the mossy gate of trollheim. The ruins of Sorias are said to have been plundered for the sake of hatred, and the singer muses on the beauty of the timeless twilight that surrounds him. He reflects on the fact that the ancient empire of Sorias was built on human suffering and grief, and filled with icy splendor and honor.

Overall, these lyrics portray a feeling of impending doom and an ambiguity about whether the singer is a hero or a villain. The language is heavy with metaphor and vivid imagery that lend themselves to multiple interpretations. It is an invitation to contemplate the deep and mysterious forces at work in the world, and to confront the darkness that lies within us all.

Line by Line Meaning

Gjennom tidelose morkne drommer
In timeless, decaying dreams

I fuktig hostvind ober landstrakte vidder
In damp autumn wind over vast countryside

Mot Sorias fjellheim
Towards the mountain land of Sorias

Kommer jeg, en fandens ridder
I come, a devil's knight

Glatt er runen på det hoye fjell
Smooth is the rune on the high mountain

Gnidd vekk av regn og vind
Rubbed away by rain and wind

Dragende kraft av ondskap lurer
An enticing force of evil lurks

Her ved trollheims muldne grind
Here by the moldy gates of Trollheim

Fortumlet av dette morke byggverk
Dazed by this dark structure

Med rovet gull fra lyets pakt
With stolen gold from the covenant of light

Brukt som spott til å senke
Used as mockery to sink

Deres murer
Their walls

Vi grunder over dette riket
We ponder over this kingdom

Så vakkert fylt med tidelos skumring
So beautifully filled with timeless twilight

Som en stjerne I tomsindighetens juv
Like a star in the abyss of emptiness

Det bringer frem en nattlig mimring
It brings forth a nightly reminiscence

Over tanker fra en vissen tid
Of thoughts from a withered time

Drott til himmels er det reist
A throne to heaven is raised

Av tidens endelose svarte minner
From time's endless black memories

Stormblåst ut av det sorte indre
Stormblown out of the black interior

Har bergflint rullet fra mo til kneist
Boulder has rolled from moor to crest

Undring og angst samler seg I natten
Wonder and dread gather in the night

I morket som ruver om spiret
In the darkness looming around the spire

For ingen dag kan veien hit
For no day can the way come here

Intet lys kan luske frem
No light can sneak forward

Der sorg har beseiret alle gleder
Where sorrow has conquered all joys

Og bygd et land på menneskets jord
And built a land on human earth

Fylt med isklad prakt og heder
Filled with icy magnificence and honor

Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@emperorfirestorm8553

2y↑5

Blue Winter

I totally agree with You , the 2005 version Rules !!!

I also love and prefer the 2005 version of
Vinder Fra En Ensom Grav

The Entire 2005 version of the album Superior in sound and atmosphere

Is one of my favorite Black Metal Albums of All time!!!

All comments from YouTube:

@nikolatodoranovic4708

3y↑89

One of the best black metal album. Old or new decide by yourself. Thanks dimmu for stormblast

@kevinlogan6171

19w↑1

both for me

@danielpaclan8361

a master piece OF ANY GENDER, simply a master piece of music

@danielpaclan8361

9w↑2

and the original, not this remastered

@twinturboray

@@danielpaclan8361 Master piece of any gender? What?

@ehecatlnineninenine3488

4y↑169

This album reminds me of when i was a teen.garbbing my bike and listening to it on my cd player full blast.going around the neighborhood headbangin riding my bike.

@azathoth9206

4y↑14

That doesn't sound very safe.

@ehecatlnineninenine3488

4y↑24

@@azathoth9206 sure was fukin fun

@samlengua

3y↑9

Same here, dude... Good old times..

@sharondayanaabreo6928

3y↑3

@@azathoth9206 hail!

@HeathenDance

3y↑4

@@azathoth9206 LOL.

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@balintklesch9538

35w↑12

Definitely one the best black metal albums of All time

@aaronmaxim

5y↑78

Annnmnd they included a track list in description!!! There is hope left in the world.

@rustygribble5309

3y↑2

And when all hope is eventually lost, there will still probably be Google 😁😆

@rustygribble5309

3y↑2

But, honestly, thank you for pointing that out. I never knew you could press the down arrow and get more information. 🖤

@wolfleon3460

3y↑20

Broder skapets Ring always hit different 😌 got me through some cold lonely days

@danielgrimsson

3y↑1

That song also has some really cold, heartwrenching lines like the one at around 6:36 "Minner om kjærlighet" which translates to "Memories of love".
As a Norwegian speaking person I personally even have a hard time telling what was being said but that one sticks out like a sore thumb with its meaning and delivery.

@bluewinter6660

5y↑57

Broderskapets Ring in this version is probably my favorite Dimmu song of all time!

@emperorfirestorm8553

2y↑5

@diseasefire

4y↑14

My first time ever crowdsurfing over people was during Dimmu Borgir live set at Sziget festival 2012. I have great memories of that day.

@evang94

5y↑28

First metal album I ever heard back in the day. Timeless album.

@terran236

4y↑9

just got into black metal, but for some reason i fucking love it. This is the first album i heard. Such a sick band.

@GoldenGateNum9

2y↑6

Unimaginably beautiful, along with Sear Bliss.. when I die soon, I want to pass away while I listen to intensely beautiful art work like this, Sear Bliss's Forsaken Symphony and early Dimmu Borgir... I want to gaze up at the night sky and paint the stars with my warm blood as I hold on tight to my White Jackson RR24 preparing for the birth of eternity.. far beyond sorrow, far beyond beauty.. and words have lost all meaning... Mettle till the bitter end... With love and bloody kisses, Sen

@vladpandur1274

4y↑84

I don't care if it's not as trv and kvlt as the original one, this album sounds bloody great!

@goatmoonwarmaster4641

4y↑14

Sounds better

@jonirissanen3038

4y↑9

Hellhammer In drums.

@hadesdescent6664

4y↑7

Tjodalv was legend! 🤘🤘

@masterexploder9668

4y↑16

Hellhammer on drums + it doesn't sound like it was recorded through a tube + that guitar tone is monstrous.

@jaysonwitting4671

3y↑11

When people bitch about overproduction, this version is more distorted than the original!

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@BretherPadraig

4y↑65

Quarantine and Stormblast anyone?

@lightfgd

4y↑1

Fuck yeah.

@BretherPadraig

4y↑1

@@lightfgd why is every Portuguese called Silva?

@DeathSpellXVI

3y↑7

Quarantine is for sheep that listen to the gov? Self isolation is good when you do it on your own though. Gov shouldn't be telling you what to do, especially when they fabricate lies. They create a problem and offer a solution to 'help,' us but it just ends up enslaving us more. Watch out for all the propaganda coming out and follow the money, who's making money out of this? Big Pharma maybe? yeah...

@themajestyofthenightsky9436

3y↑2

@@DeathSpellXVI nwo

@billsmith7642

3y↑1

@@DeathSpellXVI Exactly, the dual party system has colluded to monopolize the Covid situation, as both a means to get votes in the election year, and now as a method of control

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@Abdullah_Studio1

5y↑47

Miss that old school Black metal vibes and riffs , DimmuBorgir Rules 🤘🤘🤘🤘

@zoltanlaszloturoczy6935

3y↑8

the only reason against this version is the lack of old black vibes, remaster/rerecord killed it :(

@Abdullah_Studio1

3y↑4

@@zoltanlaszloturoczy6935 indeed bro

@iram4418

5y↑70

what a masterpiece, old dimmu compositions with better and cleaner sound quality and atmosphere, my favorite album from the band.

@csehszlovakze

5y↑15

I'm glad I'm not the only one saying this.

@hadesdescent6664

4y↑8

I disagree, this is a mockery of the original, and pointless 👎

@rachelwindsor850

4y↑3

@@hadesdescent6664 Why?

@ciornyjvoron971

3y↑2

@@hadesdescent6664 Tbh it's not that bad, Under The Sign Of Hell 2011 is even worse than this imho

@hadesdescent6664

3y↑4

@@ciornyjvoron971 I know, you are correct. I don't blame Stian for what he did, it fits perfectly in the original! Also I listen Dimmu from 1996 not from 2005/06! I just recently give it a try for Stormblast MMV, never before listening it and never (probably) will again; only Original one 🤘

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@matthewgibbs1366

4y↑14

STORMBLAST!!!!!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🎸🎸 one my favs

@miguelpacheco2129

5y↑14

I love them from their first to their last record. Such an amazing band and still my fav. Hail Dimmu!!!

@terran236

4y↑2

hell yea!

@umutkucukguner4525

3y↑5

What the sickest thing on it is they recorded it so coldblood and unmaked up as well while they were young.and done now again as more energic and showable for people find it more beauty.they acted like old people while they were young and now acting like younger while they are older.Amazing

@enjibkk6850

30w↑1

travelling through time backward

@filetmignon4446

5y↑2

Thanks for finally having this up and in full quality! /m/ I'm so happy!

@Nefville

15w↑1

I forgot how much I like this album. It never got the attention it deserved. And Hellhammer was a great addition for it, I know everyone loves Nick Barker but HH did good here.

@frezericks

3y↑8

I miss the keyboard intro, but that scream being too early in the begining fucks me up more than anything.

@FlavioRenatoEghon

3y↑3

keyboard intro was the music from Magnum, Sacred Hour, plagiarism...This is ONE of the problems that made this album be fully re-recorded. .(

@eksicihanimmm

3y↑11

Hell of an album!

@oxiaventuras

5y↑11

one of the best albums

@noir4356

1y↑6

Hearing this album for the first time. This is serious material!

@ooxmx9944

5y↑18

Love this album , definitely an influence for my band's songs

@coronatuspedro4062

4y↑25

Atmosfera negra e cortante, nuvens, niilismo, frieza, dor, morte e desespero!! Grande clássico!!

@rustygribble5309

3y↑1

🖤

@nvsjr

2y↑1

@cod sniper hhheh

@WeirdRoamingWolf

I was about 11yo as i got this cd, which was the first BM album i purchased. I still remember the rejection on my mother's face. Which was always a sign for good music. :D This was one hell of a vacation on the farmyard! I like both versions. But I personally associate more with this one.\m/

@halukemreefe

2y↑10

brings back all the old memories with it, blast from the past, hellhammer is god

@oldominion8669

2y↑2

Best album I ever heard, I was a teenager back then and bought this on cassette lol. I feel old now

@red.5475

2y↑6

This is the only re recorded album, that's worth a shit. This a masterpiece.

@Mefiozaur

4y↑7

I am and old fan and I prefer this one over the original. The great drum work is the thing I recall first about this recording.

@flesh.coffin

5y↑8

One of their best

@reubenchadwick

4y↑16

I love the guitar tone on this album

@rachelwindsor850

4y↑3

It's that classic Abyss Studio guitar sound.

@containternet9290

1y↑1

Peter Tagtgren behind the production desk.

@adamjaspersen3233

1y↑6

I had the original Stormblåst album on CD (had to order it from Century Media back in the day) but I almost like this version more. Hellhammer adds volumes (no pun intended) to it, and there's still plenty of atmosphere. When I listen to this album I alternate between versions.

@syahdanysh

2y↑2

Broderskapets Ring always my favourite.. For All Tid and Stormblast are the best ever came out from DB..

@Mr.Verethron

5y↑4

Exactly what I needed to hear midsummer under the burning sun

@csehszlovakze

1y↑2

easily their best release.

@johnnybenel2625

24w↑1

One of my Favorite album
Heil Dimmu Borgir 😈🔥🤘

@darkestwhite6500

4y↑4

What a powerful sound!

@Trotsky1981

1y↑4

I remember Dimmu caught a lot of flak for re-recording this. With the passage of time that debate seems quite trivial. As a guy now in his 40s I am way more sympathetic to their financial considerations. All this notwithstanding, the album is actually pretty cool. It has an epic quality which is notably absent in the original. I dig the iciness of that mid-2000s production.

@ZydarCalh

4y↑5

Avmaktslave is a total masterpiece

@welsonpolanskgomespolansk7558

3y↑2

Haillllllll Atmospheric ,Sinister ...Devilllll hail Dimmu Borgir 😈

@nelssoares8955

4y↑2

im amazed so good.

@Wandering_Nowhere

3y↑2

Love this album

@pelupelu2a661

4y↑1

Thank
You
For
The
Upload

@tynajon

5y↑6

This is awesome!

@ericmietz4861

4y↑10

Good old Norwegian metal. Great for cold snowy Minnesota backroad drives.

@davebrown3939

4y↑2

Same here in Nebraska!

@cross2572

19w

fantastic re-recording of the original

@Transmedal2

5y↑9

I just sent this to the rockband 4 song request page. There is about a 60% chance they will see it and a 40% chance it will be for sale as a dlc in the game

@OleandyrTheGreatDragonGod

5y↑13

The songs of Dimmu Borgir are the music of my tenebrous and twisted black soul.

@PlayNiceFolks

I got "In Sorte Diaboli" tattooed on my arm for this reason.

@marcomendicino3997

5y↑3

cringe comment...

@macroto7460

4y↑2

u need to grow

@espartaco-vb5ps

3y↑9

Cuando Dimmu Borgir era Dimmu Borgir. :') que tiempos .

@juandg442

3y↑1

Que ironía que yo pienso eso cuando escucho solamente los 4 primeros álbum xD

@speakenglishordie1602

4y↑2

Great album!

@pablosolorzano4139

5y↑10

Que grandes Dimmu Borgir !! La banda por la que me gustó el black metal !!! Tremendo álbum uno de los mejores!!! 🤘🤘🤘

@lucianogarciagurrea402

4y↑3

Por desgracia ahora ya no tocan así. Bajaron mucho el nivel. Solo tienen mejor sonido

@davidramirez9727

4y↑3

una joyita este disco

@claudialujan6262

4y↑2

Luciano todo cambia pero se nota q se les termino el rollo pero.
Dejaron joyitas como estás yo diria un buen whisky

@wladimirpulgar

2y↑1

Era mejor la versión original.

@darknegra6938

50w↑1

Si bro igual me paso en ese tiempo había un canal de tv llamado mcm y recuerdo una canción fue la primera vez q veía una banda de black qede impactado y desde ahí cambió mi vida hablo de 27 años atrás larga vida black metal en todas sus formas

@FxUxCxMx

5y↑37

Used to play Elder Scrolls Oblivion with this cd on

@PlayNiceFolks

5y↑4

Awesome

@brianconrad7649

4y↑4

Darkthrone under a funeral moon for me!

@diegomourao2343

4y↑3

I remember i could play my mp3 on the 360 i used to listen a lot of death metal while playing fps games

@666Misery666

4y↑3

oblivion is my favourite of the elderscrolls. thumbs up.

@Ed-tq6hb

49w↑1

Everyone crapped on this re release when it came out. LOOK WHOS COME CRAWLING BACK

@nugrohohealing5924

4y↑3

I was 17 when first time listened to this album

@boubou230910

41w↑1

UNEXPECTED COMMENT. First, the lyrics are in norwegian which adds to the feeling (cause is such a "harsh" language) and also the rest of us that dont speak norwegian we cant understand the lyrics so we AVOID the stupidity about satanism, antireligion etc MERCH thing that black metal bands sell to the masses (whoever STILL thinks that all these dudes in these bands worship satan, he must return back to early 90s when it was a hype thing). Second, this record is way underated in the genre of majestic b.m. Almost all the songs are awesome, cause none of them is same, a variety in notes and atmospheres. Great work.

@PabloAndresDel95

5y↑2

Brutal 🤘🤘🤘

@777czarnobog7

5y↑2

Konkretnie 🔥🔥🤘🔥🔥👍

@diegomourao2343

4y↑14

TB very honest i didnt enjoyed this álbum when it was released, i thought the clean production ruined all that atmosphere of the original stormblåst but now my opinion is quite different cuz with the more clean production i can hear those amazing riffs by Silenoz, but i still think the original is better!

@kuismasaarela

2y↑2

and which riffs you did not especially hear in the original version, what songs for example?

@petrovuch

4y↑2

Great album, good thing they remake it

@mildeecke6641

2y↑2

That was my Top Album when i was 16

@JackBrown-si2xz

32w↑2

I still don't understand why the label cant upload the original Stormblast on the channel

@peakadventures84

13w

This version is alot more polished, more vibrant and ambient than the original.. basically far better production. Its like having a nice motorbike caped is sh1t and mud to a nice motorbike clean and shiny.. what would you rather have?. Good reason why the band remastered it

@RicardoPestana

So good!

@carlosalfafosepulveda1427

1y↑2

Es una de mejores bandas nórdicas por excelencia

@Lord_of_Dread

5y↑24

This is their best album IMO. This version specifically

@rustygribble5309

3y↑1

Was just thinking the exact same thing the last night, after 100s of listens to each album. You have that raw mixture of ancient songs from their Genesis, coupled with their production expertise in the studio

@erch4882

1y↑4

Man, I had this on CD and I also had their enthrone darkness triumphant

@somekindofmaster3548

5y↑10

Album streams on Nuclear Blast? That's new

@hectorsandoval1894

21w↑1

muy buen album... la evolucion del black

@ganggang5643

3y↑9

best album in history

@rustygribble5309

3y↑4

I think it might be one of their best 3 or 4 albums... but either way.... I'm especially intrigued you still could be correct

@HeathenDance

3y↑2

@@rustygribble5309 My favourite from them is "For All Tid". That album is just beautiful. And lots of variety within its track list. I also love the bass tone they used.

@saranobutt

5y↑53

I must say this is pretty awesome and I got to start somewhere I guess.

@meri5012

4y↑3

@@ChodeMaster calm down incel

@ChodeMaster

4y↑1

@@meri5012 >says the guy that is subbed to contrapoints

@WolfScythe91

4y↑3

I started around here too just recently got Into black heavy, check out their og version of this stormblast. This is rad but the og is a essential for me at this point ⚡⚡

@hadesdescent6664

4y↑2

Start from the beginning, it's most logical!

@hadesdescent6664

4y↑1

@@WolfScythe91 now MGŁA is essential! But og is far,far better 👌🤘🤘

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@ten5ionator

29w↑1

Best black metal by far...

@anttisilvast5613

5y↑2

Når sjelen hentes til helvete. 🤘🤘🍺🍺💀💀

@rikysi3280

4y↑4

I whould like more rerecording like this...

@naikyou

3y↑3

Bought this around 5th grade in 2005 or 2006 at a local drugstore (yeah, they sold music for some reason). Still occasionally revisit it because it's so good.

@csnymoodiesfan

3y↑3

Some parts remind me of Bathory, which Shagrath said was one of his first influences.

@OleandyrTheGreatDragonGod

5y↑4

Anyone else actually sing along to some of these songs? XD
I'd love to get my own band together if I could.

@affordableplumber4206

4y↑4

Hell yea, that’s why they laugh at me when I go thru the Wendy’s drive thru

@mikko4901

4y↑2

Money sucks, Borgir is GOOD!

@user-iw7iy1kd8e

12w

🖤

@dimitrisloukads-ie1nw

36w

GODS

@marcelofernandes5445

5y↑2

🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

@johnzackarias11

3y↑6

26:12 - 27:04

Fucking magic! There are plenty of absolutely brilliant moments on this record, but this is one of the few examples where the re-recorded version is definitely superior to the original.

@juanrodrigues6918

2y↑2

So fucking dark and brutal like a abyss

@mysteriouswarmetal3029

4y↑4

J'aime la première version plus que celle-ci !!!!

@ZydarCalh

5y↑2

Hellhammer on drums & Peter "Penis" Tägtgren engineering n mixing
Fucking nice

@gordocarlitos4757

2y↑1

I like it

@DethronerX

5y↑9

The new MMV version is just better on production quality, but the essence is there on the old 1996 one.
.
Fun(ny) facts about the original (source: Metal Archives):
+ "Sorgens kammer" was a stolen melody, from a song from an Amiga game called Agony. Stian Aarstad stole it without telling fellow band members, who always thought it was theirs, until the original composer contacted them, so it wasn't used on this version: "Stormblåst MMV".
+ The piano intro of "Alt lys er svunnet hen" was stolen from the Magnum song "Sacred Hour," [Chase the Dragonalbum, 1982].
+ The intro to "Guds fortapelse - åpenbaring av dommedag" is from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ("From the New World").

@belgregor

5y↑2

Naughty Dimmu...

@agaciorek30

4y↑2

!!!!!!🖤!!!!!!

@FabianPerez-uw2tm

20w

Metal💀💀💀💀🤘👊

@varmintsniper2551

3y↑2

Just as fuckin brilliant as the original.

@nikov8656

Its a Best albu from borgir's

@JohnDoe-rp3mx

4y↑1

Best Dimmu lp

@garyhelps4783

2y↑1

Black metal nordic. Also 4

Gud Black metal band. Nordic. Stufff. Rest war and end us. Alll. Stay true. Gud. Heavy. So sleek. Bud,s

@FabianPerez-uw2tm

20w

Blackberry metal a ful grande dimmu metal y🍾🍾🍾🍷🍷🍷🤘🤘👊👊

@Dinhuu777MoNSteR

🤘

@heavymetalgarage6347

5y↑1

que discazo lpm

@samlengua

3y↑1

Demasiado bueno, a mí me vacilan ambas versiones, el sonido más lúgubre, sombrío de la primera versión y la nitidez y el nuevo feeling de la orquestación de la versión segunda.

@goatmoonwarmaster4641

4y↑2

Best re-record album ever

@DianavonLindenthal

4y↑3

my fave album after Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
back when they were still making good and proper music for the sake of music

@zaha352

3y↑2

Silenoz sang on original Stormblåst, Shagrath did backing vox, right? On this album they switched parts or is Silenoz doing any vocals?

@juandg442

Sort the comments by date and read one that I left about a year ago, there are several songs that I think silenoz sang in this version.

@jesusgilpuga6743

1y↑1

Que gran disco quando eran una de las mejores bandas del black metal norwgain lastima que se acabase con el quarto álbum que de pasar a ser los mas maleficos a pasar a grabar con una orchestra como true black metal que soi me quedo con su último quarto álbum spiritual black dimensións que entonces si que eran auténticos true black metal atmosferic de lo mejor que dió el estilo en Noruega

@user-zm1nc2ns1f

1y↑2

This band had two cool drummers. Nicholas Barker and Hellhammer. And this album is my favorite from Borgir, which is not a hit track! The reissue came out cool