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Oh. my. god. This is just the greatest thing ever on the interweb since the last amazing thing: the top ten black metal pics of all time. Dimmu Borgir here only make #5:
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Holy crap. That's awesome. I was going to pick a favorite line from the commentary, but there are so many...those shin guards RULE!
The thing I love about Dimmu Borgir is that it's like a black metal band plus one guy from The Human League photoshopped in, just for kicks.
Posted by: FL | August 15, 2004 at 06:27 AM
It appears that Frankie didn't relax and went and did it.
Posted by: Andy | August 15, 2004 at 08:00 AM
Nice, Andy.
Another thing that rules about this is that these guys play guitars. Which, like, you can't do if you're wearing Big Spikey Arms, and they didn't even have guitars back in Evil Medieval Times or wherever this look is from. This is up there with Robert Plant going on about elves and the hammer of the gods in front of a big ol' Marshall stack.
Posted by: FL | August 16, 2004 at 01:10 AM
I think those pics provide conspicuous empirical support for John Holbo's claim that works of fiction can't simply stipulate what statements concerning their own aesthetic profiles are true.
Posted by: spacetoast | August 16, 2004 at 04:31 AM
whatever.
Posted by: ben wolfson | August 16, 2004 at 07:22 AM
Speaking of domains where one's ability to stipulate truths about one's expressions is limited, have you read David Brooks' hilarious article about John Kerry's stipulation that the values he enunciates are, in fact, ours?
Posted by: Doug M | August 16, 2004 at 08:31 AM
everyone's gotta give mad props to ben wolfson over here. each letter of "whatever" is a separate, tasty link. all praise.
Posted by: belle | August 16, 2004 at 06:22 PM
All this and more at the Tokyo Damage Report (now sadly on hiatus).
Posted by: ben wolfson | August 16, 2004 at 10:48 PM
I knew it was going to be good when I viewed Abbath from Immortal. It's hard to look scary when you look like an extra from Planets of the Apes.
Posted by: Peter Murphy | August 19, 2004 at 02:52 PM
Fontana Labs is wrong wrong wrong about being unable to play guitar with Big Spiky Arms.
Also, the review of the show where that band played claims that they are "fake Dimmu Boring". Ha!
Posted by: ben wolfson | September 05, 2004 at 05:16 AM
i don't care what the hell people have to say about Dimmu Borgir, or Cradle of fitlh. There both great bands and that have put out some of the most kick ass music this generation has ever heard. So back OFF!!
Posted by: Robert | November 02, 2004 at 12:59 AM
Updated.
Posted by: ben wolfson | August 19, 2005 at 12:17 PM