BW&BK; can reveal more details regarding the release of DIMMU BORGIR's upcoming album, In Sorte Diaboli.

As first reported here this past weekend during the OFFICIAL listening session at the Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica in Oslo, Norway, Nuclear Blast will release In Sorte Diaboli in the following formats: jewel case CD, limited edition digi-book (including a bonus DVD featuring the album's first video, 'The Serpentine Offering' (4:42), "Making Of In Sorte Diaboli", and more behind-the-scenes/in-studio footage), gatefold vinyl (which will include a bonus 7") and an extremely limited "Nuclear Blast Mail Order" edition which will be housed in a "Medieval Book". The European version of the album will feature 'The Ancestral Fever' as the exclusive bonus track. In North America, 'The Heretic Hammer' will be the bonus track. In Japan, Dimmu Borgir have covered the classic VENOM track 'Black Metal' for inclusion on their version.

The regular version of In Sorte Diaboli will feature the following tracks: 'The Serpentine Offering', 'The Chosen Legacy', 'The Conspiracy Unfolds', 'The Sacrilegious Scorn', The Fallen Arises', 'The Sinister Awakening', 'The Fundamental Alienation', 'The Invaluable Darkness', 'The Foreshadowing Furnace'.

In Sorte Diaboli was produced by Fredrik Nordström and Patrik J. Sten. Mastering duties were taken care of by Russ Russell at an undisclosed location in the UK.

Patric Ullaeus and his Revolver Film Company produced the video for 'The Serpentine Offering'. Nuclear Blast says that it's their "biggest" video production project ever and BW&BK; confirms that the video is epic in a size and scope!

The artwork, which will be revealed on "The Ultimate Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli News Page" this coming Thursday (February 15th), compliments the the medieval period the conceptual story is based upon and is influenced by a painting from the middle ages. The booklet will include 32 pages graphically detailing the tale of a Priest who "discovers that he has nothing to do with Christianity."

In Sorte Diaboli will now be available on April 27th (mainland Europe) and April 24th (North America) and April 30th (UK) via Nuclear Blast Records.

Dimmu Borgir have confirmed the following live dates thus far in Europe in support of In Sorte Diaboli:

June

6th - 9th - Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden

22nd - 24th - Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium.

August

2nd - 4th - Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany