DIMMU BORGIR’s New Album Is Recorded, Mixed & Mastered

Dimmu Borgir have finally finished recording, mixing, and mastering their first studio album in seven years.

Producer Fredrik Nordström (At the Gates, Arch Enemy), who helmed the sessions at his Studio Fredman in Sweden, confirmed the news in a celebratory post. Sharing a photo with guitarist Silenoz and vocalist Shagrath, he wrote: “Dimmu Borgir album recording, mix and mastering done. What a fantastic journey. [Had] so much fun and [it was] also challenging. If you are into the band you will not be disappointed.”

Speaking recently on the Iblis Manifestations podcast, Silenoz opened up about the long road to completing the album. Dimmu Borgir‘s last full-length, Eonian, was released in 2018, and the guitarist admitted the band’s painstaking process often frustrates fans.

“We said after Eonian came out, ‘Oh, it’s not gonna take eight years until the next one,'” he reflected. “But if you shave off the pandemic years, it’s not really eight years. We spent our time well, and we have been crafting the new stuff. Great songs take time. Sometimes it doesn’t have to take long, but there’s no template. You just have to take the time it takes.”

He also stressed that the band’s longtime label, Nuclear Blast, has never pressured them to hurry the process: “They never stressed us once, like, ‘We need the album now.’ They know that if we get to spend the time we need on the music, they will get a product they can support and sell, and it will sell. So from their point of view, they know not to interfere with our creativity. And I’m really proud of that. We’ve never compromised, despite what some people think. We’ve always done it our way.”

With the album now finished, the band is eyeing 2026 as a major year. “I think next year is gonna be very eventful,” Silenoz promised. “We’ll definitely have a proper headline tour in Europe. As for the U.S., it’s doable, but not gonna be easy with tripled, quadrupled costs. Fans might not always think about that, but it’s the reality. We haven’t been on a proper U.S. tour for 10, 12, 14 years. We did a few shows — New York, Chicago, a couple in Canada — but not like a tour. It’d be good to get that sorted.”

The guitarist also spoke about the moment when he knows an album is ready to be unleashed: “It’s always that time where you can work and work and work on it, but at the same time you have to let it go. It’s the same when you have a kid and it grows up. You have to let it out of its shell somehow. Once that’s done, then it’s done. We demo everything down to the smallest detail before recording, so we can live with the songs, tweak them, even after months or years. But eventually, you have to let it out into the world.”

Silenoz also offered advice for younger musicians with dreams of starting their own band: “Try and find your place in the group and do whatever you are good at. There’s a place for everybody in the band in that sense. And try and figure out who is the more leader type, because not everybody can be a leader. Let’s face it — being in a band is not a democracy. It only works up to a certain point. Everybody wants to be there when you take the easy decisions and the cool decisions, but when you have to do the bad ones, that’s when you separate from democracy into leadership.”

When asked about leadership in Dimmu Borgir, he explained: “There are very few things Shagrath and I disagree on. I tend to look at all the other stuff we do agree on. We have the same drive now more than probably ever, although that might sound weird. But it’s true. We respect each other and our brand and our legacy too much to mess it up. If there’s a hard decision to be made, we make it together.”

No title or release date has yet been revealed, but with recording officially complete, Dimmu Borgir are set to re-emerge in 2026 with something that hopefully rocks.