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Spiritual Black Dimensions
Studio album by Dimmu Borgir
Released	March 17, 1999
Recorded	August-October 1998 at Abyss Studio
Genre	Symphonic Black Metal
Length	49:14
Label	Nuclear Blast Records
Producer(s)	Dimmu Borgir and Peter Tagtgren
Dimmu Borgir chronology
Godless Savage Garden (1998)	Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999)	Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001)

Spiritual Black Dimensions is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir. It was released in 1999 by Nuclear Blast Records. A deluxe edition was released in 2004 with bonus material.

This was Dimmu Borgir's first foray into speed-laden black metal, and since much of their old material was slower and more doomy in approach, reviews of this album are mixed, giving it a serious love-hate relationship; many lauded the new direction Dimmu Borgir started going into and that it showed the band can expand their musical reach, while others criticized it for lack of originality (many of their contemporaries, such as Marduk and Dark Funeral, have a fast-as-hell approach to Black Metal) and having the keyboards, which were a prominent instrument in past recordings, buried in the mix below the guitars. This was also the first album to display the many talents of new keyboardist Mustis and the clean vocals of ICS Vortex (who would later join the band full-time).

Much of the darker, faster direction could be attributed to guitarist Astennu, as the album Mirrored Hate Painting from his project Carpe Tenebrum, recorded before he joined Dimmu Borgir, show-cased the faster black metal style Dimmu Borgir would display on this album.

1. "Reptile" – 5:17
2. "Behind the Curtains of Night - Phantasmagoria" – 3:18
3. "Dreamside Dominions" – 5:13
4. "United in Unhallowed Grace" – 4:21
5. "The Promised Future Aeons" – 6:51
6. "The Blazing Monoliths of Defiance" – 4:37
7. "The Insight & the Catharsis" – 7:16
8. "Grotesquery Conceiled (With Measureless Magic)" – 5:10
9. "Arcane Lifeforce Mysteria" – 7:03
10. "Masses for the New Messiah" (Bonus Track) – 5:13

• Shagrath - Vocals
• Erkekjetter Silenoz - Guitar
• Astennu - Lead Guitar
• Nagash - Bass
• Tjodalv - Drums
• Mustis - Synthesizers & Piano
• Simen Hestnæs - Additional Clean Vocals
• Peter Tagtgren - Producing