Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Original Version Sampler Version European CD+DVD Version 1. The serpentine offering 5:09 1. The serpentine offering 3:58 1. The serpentine offering 5:09 2. The chosen legacy 4:16 2. The chosen legacy 3:05 2. The chosen legacy 4:16 3. The conspiracy unfolds 5:23 3. The conspiracy unfolds 5:23 4. The ancestral fever 5:51 4. The sacrilegious scorn 4:00 5. The sacrilegious scorn 4:00 5. The fallen arises 2:59 6. The fallen arises 2:59 6. The sinister awakening 5:09 7. The sinister awakening 5:09 7. The fundamental alienation 5:17 8. The fundamental alienation 5:17 8. The invaluable darkness 4:44 9. The invaluable darkness 4:44 9. The foreshadowing furnace 5:49 10. The foreshadowing furnace 5:49 --- Bonus DVD --- 10. The Serpentine Offering (video) 4:46 1. The Serpentine Offering (video) 4:46 2. Making of The Serpentine Offering video 18:53 3. Making of the album (studio report) 17:20 4. Photogallery total time 47:30 total time 7:03 total time 1:29:36 American CD+DVD Version Leather Book Version Picture LP Version 1. The serpentine offering 5:09 1. The serpentine offering 5:09 1. The serpentine offering 5:09 2. The chosen legacy 4:16 2. The chosen legacy 4:16 2. The chosen legacy 4:16 3. The conspiracy unfolds 5:23 3. The conspiracy unfolds 5:23 3. The conspiracy unfolds 5:23 4. The ancestral fever 5:51 4. The sacrilegious scorn 4:00 5. The sacrilegious scorn 4:00 4. The sacrilegious scorn 4:00 5. The fallen arises 2:59 6. The fallen arises 2:59 5. The fallen arises 2:59 6. The heretic hammer 4:37 7. The heretic hammer 4:37 7. The sinister awakening 5:09 8. The sinister awakening 5:09 6. The sinister awakening 5:09 8. The fundamental alienation 5:17 9. The fundamental alienation 5:17 7. The fundamental alienation 5:17 9. The invaluable darkness 4:44 10. The invaluable darkness 4:44 8. The invaluable darkness 4:44 10. The foreshadowing furnace 5:49 11. The foreshadowing furnace 5:49 9. The foreshadowing furnace 5:49 --- Bonus DVD --- --- Bonus DVD --- 1. The Serpentine Offering (video) 4:46 1. The Serpentine Offering (video) 4:46 2. Making of The Serpentine Offering video 18:53 2. Making of The Serpentine Offering video 18:53 3. Making of the album (studio report) 17:20 3. Making of the album (studio report) 17:20 4. Photogallery 4. Photogallery total time 1:28:22 total time 1:34:13 total time 42:44 Japanese Import Version 1. The serpentine offering 5:09 2. The chosen legacy 4:16 3. The conspiracy unfolds 5:23 4. The sacrilegious scorn 4:00 5. The fallen arises 2:59 6. The sinister awakening 5:09 7. The fundamental alienation 5:17 8. The invaluable darkness 4:44 9. The foreshadowing furnace 5:49 10. Black Metal (Venom cover) 3:23 total time 46:08
1. The Serpentine Offering My descent is the story of everyman I am hatred, darkness and despair My descent is the story of everyman I am hatred, darkness and despair Evoked and entertained through centuries Wrathful and sullen -- Dormant still The ferocity pervades everywhere Waiting to be released at last Hear my offering Ye bastard sons and daughters Share my sacrifice Share my sacrifice. My descent is the story of everyman I am hatred, darkness and despair Reconcile not with the fear of the snake But embrace it as your own Inject its venom into your veins And replant the seed that gives growth Still shrouded in mystery Until you arise above perception A veil of ignorance is in motion Continuing throughout generations (A veil of ignorance is in motion Continuing throughout multiple generations Let me be the one that deliver you from the deceit And back into perfect accordance with the laws of nature) The snake is notoriously tempting But the snake is fair What is worse than not knowing? To live or disappear? The ferocity pervades everywhere Waiting to be released at last Hear my offering Ye bastard sons and daughters Share my sacrifice Share my sacrifice 2. The Chosen Legacy Hence I will anoint And whisper wholeheartedly The creed of Hades and beyond As I succumb to inevitable sin For I cannot enslave myself With imaginary words of salvation The hypocrisy that surrounds my temple Is assisted by pretenders to the throne The winds that blow purity Signify my chosen legacy I was born to opposition A contender to creation In Sorte Diaboli In Sorte Diaboli In Sorte Diaboli In Sorte Diaboli For my sins I will ask no forgiveness For my sins They are not to forgive So never speak of me quietly Stand by my confession I voice your rebellion Against the traitor of the world I am the first creature of this Kingdom I will be the One To out live His time With the triumph of free will 3. The Conspiracy Unfolds Fallen I have, Fallen I am Cursed and destined to burn Fallen I have, Fallen I am Cursed and destined to burn My loyalty towards a liar ceased to exist Once misled by an empty fraudulent face I will never turn my back on you And deceive the flesh of our race I will always speak truly So you can understand No riddles that manipulate The words and symbols of man Do not believe false promises Conspiring to cover up the truth Find solace in darkness within yourself And have your legions unleashed Do not withhold the air Of your very last breath In the end of days You will transcend life and death Let the one who is fit Be the King Of the Heavens above And all worlds down below 4. The Ancestral Fever [European bonus track] From who or what have I Received this gift? For what purpose do I Seduce this craft? I know these answers Lie hidden beyond The powers that be The power that is me I will continue to decipher And make it easier for you Behold! Let it be told Try and understand That all and everything Which I have done I have done for you I will continue to decipher And make it easier for you Behold! Let it be told What is fiction and untrue I will not leave you behind With the burdens of belief And divine misery That means restless grief For it is written The times of old will come anew And have the universe reversed to its origin When the ancient winds blew 5. The Sacrilegious Scorn Have I not Been too long in the shadows of invention and creation As I rightfully behold the flesh Fear of the conscious mind will have you facing away My word and world holds ground and is real Your word is like floods of poisoned water A language spoken with spit from different tongues It all seems like an eternity This battle between us two "Good and evil" Me and you Time has come to step up And take back what you took from me My word and world holds ground and is real Your word is like floods of poisoned water A language spoken with spit from different tongues You can never corrupt me again Time has come to step up And take back what you took from me You can never corrupt me again I protect every man guilty of sin The ultimate sin being me The vapor from the plague That infested my mind, body and soul Obscured my view from wisdom The mist that had me wonder in resentment cleared And troubles me no more 6. The Fallen Arises [Instrumental] 7. The Heretic Hammer [North American Bonus Track] Vengeance is mine Neither sweet nor kind Vengeance is mine No longer am I held responsible For the error of your ways My conscience Stand defiantly proud and rigid So take my advice Meet your opposition Profane and disciplined Take back your pride With a pounding hammer No longer am I held responsible For the error of your ways My conscience Stand defiantly proud and rigid So take my advice As long as my icon has flesh No one puts me to the test And as long as my spirit permits There will be no fucking rest Vengeance is mine Neither sweet nor kind Vengeance is mine Vengeance is mine I owe you nothing But scorn and contempt From all that is holy I will have my revenge Vengeance is mine No longer am I held responsible For the error of your ways My conscience Stand defiantly proud and rigid So take my advice As long as my icon has flesh No one puts me to the test And as long as my spirit permits There will be no fucking rest With wisdom and fate I design darkness You keep feeding me denial and hate And from that I will create Arrogance and deception Torment and bliss How I envy your lack justification When mine is so sincered 8. The Sinister Awakening I sense the darkness The desire overtakes My devotion endeavors Habitation changing course Repentance oh not No name or remorse Will I ever authorize On this treasured path I am warm by this fire And its flaming desire For what I can not fulfill My destiny completes I believe my truth to be A much greater thing Than a manufactured lie Too great to comprehend Where I come from There's no higher authority but me Being my own god Is all I was meant to be Antichristus Spiritualis Antichristus Spiritualis Antichristus Spiritualis Antichristus Spiritualis In Sorte Diaboli 9. The Fundamental Alienation My eyes got blinded And conned by the light Like a fugitive on the run I sought perseverance in the night Deceptive icons were finally Taken out of my sight As the contender to origin I will forever unveil His might They say I am the cancer On the back of the Inquisition I may well be the cancer In the heart of the Inquisition They say I am the cancer On the back of the Inquisition I am the cancer In the heart of the Inquisition Through my years of sacrifice Evolution came with lessons learned Respect and fear Is what I earned So underestimate not your vision Or you will be taught Calculate your intuition And you will teach You all have been conned And I always take the blame For you do not understand You are all the same 10. The Invaluable Darkness Fear Tomorrow's Adversary And the wealth of uprising The final storm will be released And the unmerciful will erect Hidden from the eyes of your God I will proclaim original sin And have you all purged and purified From the lies that remain within Cleansed and draped in sulphur linen Black and pure since the Beginning Mercy is not truth Your sins are next to mine Mercy is not truth All your sins are next to mine My soul's ablaze Inflamed with rage and isolated In whirlwinds of hate My soul's ablaze Yet camouflaged in the haze Why did He not see this coming What did He not understand One time forsaken But forgotten I am not I will win this war But never the peace I am my own free spirit Hence I will not rest 11. The Foreshadowing Furnace Sparks fly and fire licks my wings Tied to this wood - I was born for burning I rebelled against the flock Declined to submit to slavery As a token from my legions of the chosen few I reveal the secrets to the world's most famous forgery As flames devour my skin Flesh melting - peeling off My days as an earthbound entity Are outnumbered and have come to an end I will never be laid to rest But be free from oppression Those of my kin - the black flame Those of my sin - hail my name Those of us that have been given eyes to see Will never be laid to rest but be free from oppression In this hour I finally separate Carnal knowledge from divine will In this hour I finally separate Myself from your tyranny Still our enemies will keep hiding In the shadows with betrayal against reason But with my reprisal I shall endure And uncover the magnitude of this treason I will arise from perdition And let me presence known I will author a new era And have my Beast shown My stigma is of damnation I am from beyond your God 12. Black Metal [Japanese Bonus Track] [Venom cover] Black is the night, metal we fight Power amps set to explode Energy screams, magic and dreams Satan records the first note. We chime the bell, chaos and hell Metal for maniacs pure. Fast melting steel, fortune on wheels Brain hemorrhage is the cure Black metal Black metal Black metal Black metal Black metal lay down your soul to the gods rock `n' roll Freaking so wild, nobody's mild Giving it all that you've got. Wild is so right, metal tonight Faster than over the top. Open the door, enter hells core Black is the code for tonight Atomic force, feel no remorse Crank up the amps now it's night Black metal Black metal Black metal Black metal Black metal lay down your soul to the gods rock `n' roll metal ten fold through the deadly black hole riding hells stallions bareback and free faking our chances with raw energy Come ride the night with us Rock hard and fight United my legions we stand Freak hard and wild for us Give up your souls Live for the guest Satan's band Against the odds, black metal gods Fight to achieve our goal Casting a spell, leather and hell Black metal gods rock `n' roll Building up steam, nuclear screams War-heads are ready to fight Black leather hounds, faster than sound Metal our purpose in life. Black metal Black metal Black metal Black metal Black metal lay down your soul to the gods rock `n' roll BLACK METAL Lyrics in plain text format