“Mourning Palace” by Dimmu Borgir

"Mourning Palace" comes from Dimmu Borgir's 1997 album Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, and the band produced it themselves, with Peter Tägtgren engineering and mixing the session. The lineup on the track reads like a war council: Shagrath on lead vocals and guitar, Silenoz on the second guitar, Nagash on bass and Tjodalv on drums.

The secret weapon is Stian Aarstad, whose piano and synthesizer drape all that fury in a looming, ballroom-of-the-damned grandeur, so the song feels less like an assault than a procession through somebody's haunted estate. The music is credited to the band with Stian Arnesen, Sven Atle Kopperud and Shagrath, and the words to the band and Kopperud.

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