Is there any question that Dimmu Borgir is a black metal band?
ASTENNU: No, man, black metal is a total lifestyle that’s got nothing to do with the style of music you play. Well it does, O.K., but us personally it is a whole lifestyle. You know, we do this and we don’t have another job. We do this 24 hours a day. We cut off all of our parents and family – everybody’s cut off – because we want to do it 24 hours a day. Otherwise you have to sneak around. So we really have made it a whole lifestyle and it takes up every second of our time to do all the promotion – we do everything ourselves. So, for us, we are a satanic black metal band. MU: How does black metal and Dimmu Borgir fit into the overall metal scene? A: Our goal is that we want to get another opinion out there. That’s the whole idea, you know? We got a lot of shit for being commercial, being on a big record label, doing whatever, you know, but at the end of the day in our lyrics we’re not telling people what to do. We’re just saying, hey, this is another idea that is out there in this fuc
