Review by Daniel for Dimmu Borgir - For all tid (1995)

I remember hearing this album when it was originally released in 1994 & I didn't like it much. For some reason, I thought I'd give it another listen & have found that I like it even less if anything. There is simply nothing good about it. The production is woeful. The thin, fuzzy guitars are unacceptably far back in the mix & the vocals too far forward. There is no high end in the mix much at all really. The performances are terrible (especially the drumming which is constantly out of time) & the song-writing is very amateurish indeed. The clean vocal sections must be a joke of some sort. The attempts at atmosphere are laughable. It's amazing that Dimmu Borgir managed to go on to bigger & better things after this abortion of a debut.