Talk:In Sorte Diaboli/Archive 1

"The Serpentine Offering" length
What is the source for the 4:42 length of the track? R-Tiztik 21:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The official site says the video for the track is 4:42. Although the video could be have an edited version of the song, I doubt that is true, because their songs are generally not longer than that. = ∫ tc 5th Eye 16:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Its 5:09 full length, according to my media player —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.50.203 (talk) 20:41, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Leaked
Should the page really mention that the album is being pirated before the official launch ? That's a way to encourage piracy. The section doesn't even contain all the information.
 * This is mentioned in many wiki articles, so... --User: (talk • contribs • count ) @ 17:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

It could encourage piracy yes, but this isn't the first album to have a section about its leak, and in a way, it is encyclopedic in that the leak was a part of the respective album's history. But to say the section doesn't even contain all the information is just silly &mdash; there's only so much you could say about a leak. R-Tiztik 20:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

"In Sorte Diaboli"?
There's been a lot of unexplained changes in what this is actually Latin for (Inter Tram says it means "In Genus Diaboli, so obviously not a comlete translation), but does anyone actually have a source for what it means? If no one does, I'll just go ahead and remove it, yes? ≈  Th e H au nt ed A n ge l  21:03, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It should be removed until a source is found. = ∫tc 5th Eye 16:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SENwUmr_jc Watch the video and you'll see it for yourself. Bopash4 11:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

this url is not valid, the video has been removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.217.75 (talk) 10:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

The translater (inter tran) was set for translating from english to latin.(obviously wrong if you want to translate in sorte diaboli) The word 'in' is very common and has a lot of meanings(in, on, near, with, at, etc), depending on the context. diaboli is the genitivus of diabolus. which has to do with possession. (eg. corpus diaboli means the devil's body). it could also mean 'devils'(plural nominativus) but I think this is not appropriate. the word 'sorte' is the ablativus of a word unknown to me. the ablativus refers to a place.(in special cases it could mean a lot of other things too) The combination with 'in' might just mean that it is in something. 'In the devil's ' or 'in of the devil' would probably be correct.( needs to be replaced by the meaning of sorte) But I can't say this for sure because I don't know what sorte means. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.217.75 (talk) 10:38, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I've got an update here: sorte is ablativus of sors, what means lot/share/fortune. So i'd say the translation is : In the devil's share. It may mean that something or someone is a lot worth to the devil. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.217.75 (talk) 16:02, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Seems the only source for the current translation is gone. My translation: "In Sorte Diaboli" means "In the Fate of the Devil"; in (followed by an ablative) is just "in", "sorte" is the required ablative of "sors", which means "fate" or "oracle" (here it means fate, because the concept of the album is about a man who chooses the fate of the devil), and "Diaboli" means "of the devil". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.206.84.135 (talk) 16:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Seems my translation is about the same as yours, but I like the word fate better than any of the words I mentioned. Because the reference isn't valid any more and we both seem pretty confident in our translation I am going to adjust the text ok? --Zaluzar (talk) 19:07, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

BLACK METAL!?!?NOT....
Dimmu Borgir is not even close to Black Metal,but some one has typed like this:In their native Norway, the album peaked at Number 1; the first time a BLACK METAL band has ever done that anywhere in the world it should be removed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.72.250.226 (talk) 16:05, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Dimmu Borgir is overall a black metal band. In Sorte Diaboli may not be "true" black metal in the case of bands like Gorgoroth and Mayhem, but the main genre of the album is symphonic black metal. 68.102.235.239 (talk) 04:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Dimmu may have started as a black metal band, bud, like, in the FAT/Stormblast 1996/EDT days. But you'd be wrong if you tried to call this album black metal. I've changed it to the right genre, which is "Symphonic extreme metal". 67.193.75.157 (talk) 09:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * "Symphonic extreme" is a subcat of the overall black metal style. You people who want to break genres, styles, subgenres, and subsubsubsubgenres down into specifics, really need to get off of that. It's detrimental to mapping the evolution of metal styles. 24.125.146.138 (talk) 02:38, 28 January 2009 (UTC)