Dimmu Borgir - The Sacrilegious Scorn

Taken From: In Sorte Diaboli
Joachim Luetke explains the concept, symbolism, and story behind the video: "The Sacrilegious Scorn" is mainly a paraphrase on Christianity's core-symbolism and motives.

Such examples are the Roman soldiers gambling over Christ's garment, the mockery of St. Michael the Archangel, driving Satan out of Heaven by stepping on him and pointing his sword onto him. Now we see this reversed, when the inaugurated Antichrist is doing that to St. Michael.

I prefer the term Dark Emperor - not Antichrist, for the battle of "light" and "shadow" reaches back far beyond Christianity.

We also witness the inauguration of the Dark Emperor in the Temple of the Baphomet, seeing him taking the oath as the new sovereign while celebrating a mockery of the Last Supper. The story culminates in the Dark Emperor showing up in front of his followers, bringing out blessings. The Empire of Darkness is then established.

The overall look of the video is a bow to the legendary, unique style of Roger Corman, especially his adaptation of The Masque of The Red Death, featuring the unforgettable Vincent Price. www.hammerfilms.com

This lifts the clip to an additional meta-level: The mockery of using an early 60's technique to visualize "The Sacrilegious Scorn" for a present day audience.

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[Kyle Cholewinski]

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[DanSoldierGuy]

The grungiest music is filled with the most beautiful poetry.

[Eddie pl]

Asimov231 but can I find in heaven things like sex, drugs and alcohol? or there is just a group of pedophiles that like to blow they're love into the childrens mouth ?

[thatniggallah]

Dafaq Is this lol yall folks crack me up. Thanks for my 6 chuckels for the day

[SuperBattlefieldGuy]

If anything, asking alexandra got their inspiration from Dimmu Borgir, but I've heard one of their songs and I highly doubt so mostly because it's crap and Dimmu Borgir is genius.

[SuperBattlefieldGuy]

This. I've been searching for the proper way to put it into words. Thank you.

[Blake Hahn]

It gets worse. Black Veiled Brides' song 'Knives and Pens' specifically calls the band occult. It's sickening.

[thomas41681]

fuck you

[thomas41681]

what? asking Alexandria, emo? dimmu borgir? shut up and die -.-

[thomas41681]

no asking Alexandria is post harcore :)

[Shaswot Joshi]

Fuck off........they are very far away from emo unlike you faggot and what the fuck is asking alexandira? probably an emo band

[claudia rennert]

i love it