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Dimmu Borgir
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Perfection or Vanity

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Perfection or Vanity

Release date: 20th March 2001

From Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

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About This Track

"Perfection or Vanity" is a track by Dimmu Borgir, from the album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, released 20th March 2001.

About the Artist

Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir

Track details

From Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

2001

Album

Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Release year

2001

—Sympozium
—Kings of the Carnival Creation
—IndoctriNation
—Absolute Sole Right
—Burn in Hell
—Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny
—Architecture of a Genocidal Nature
—Fear and Wonder
—Devil's Path
—Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy
—Perfection or Vanity
—The Maelstrom Mephisto
—Puritania

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Dimmu Borgir — As Seen in the Unseen (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — Recognizant (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — Slik Minnes en Alkymist (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — The Exonerated (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — The Qryptfarer (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — Phantom of the Nemesis (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — At the Precipice of Convergence (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — Ascent (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — Tridentium (from Grand Serpent Rising)
Dimmu Borgir — Ulvgjeld & Blodsodel (from Grand Serpent Rising) [5:43]
Dimmu Borgir — Dead Men Don't Rape
Dimmu Borgir — Nocturnal Fear (Celtically Processed)
Dimmu Borgir — Nocturnal Fear
Dimmu Borgir — Perfect Strangers
Dimmu Borgir — Black Metal
Dimmu Borgir — Puritania (The Kolbotn Tapes)
Dimmu Borgir — Ritualist (Live in Wacken)
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Dimmu Borgir — Perfection Or Vanity (Orchestra only, Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Progenies of the Great Apocalypse (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Dimmu Borgir (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Mourning Palace (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Gateways (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — A Jewel Traced Through Coal (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Puritania (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Eradication Instincts Defined (Orchestra only, Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Born Treacherous (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Kings of the Carnival Creation (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Xibir (Orchestra only, Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — The Serpentine Offering (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Vredesbyrd (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Fear and Wonder (Orchestra only, Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — Chess With the Abyss (Live in Wacken)
Dimmu Borgir — The Empyrean Phoenix
Dimmu Borgir — I Am Sovereign
Dimmu Borgir — Alpha Aeon Omega
Dimmu Borgir — Lightbringer
Dimmu Borgir — Archaic Correspondence
Dimmu Borgir — Rite of Passage
Dimmu Borgir — Ætheric
Dimmu Borgir — The Unveiling
Dimmu Borgir — Interdimensional Summit
Dimmu Borgir — Council of Wolves and Snakes
Dimmu Borgir — Puritania - studio
Dimmu Borgir — Gateways (edit)
Dimmu Borgir — Avmaktslave
Dimmu Borgir — A Jewel Traced Through Coal
Dimmu Borgir — Gateways - orchestral version
Dimmu Borgir — Ritualist
Dimmu Borgir — Xibir
Dimmu Borgir — Dimmu Borgir (orchestral version)
Dimmu Borgir — Renewal
Dimmu Borgir — The Demiurge Molecule
Dimmu Borgir — Endings and Continuations
Dimmu Borgir — Chess with the Abyss
Dimmu Borgir — Born Treacherous
Dimmu Borgir — Gateways
Dimmu Borgir — Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir — The Fundamental Alienation
Dimmu Borgir — The Conspiracy Unfolds
Dimmu Borgir — The Chosen Legacy
Dimmu Borgir — The Foreshadowing Furnace
Dimmu Borgir — The Ancestral Fever
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Dimmu Borgir — The Invaluable Darkness
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Dimmu Borgir — Stormblåst (2005)
Dimmu Borgir — Vredesbyrd
Dimmu Borgir — Sorgens kammer, del II
Dimmu Borgir — Heavenly Perverse
Dimmu Borgir — Satan My Master
Dimmu Borgir — Eradication Instincts Defined (Orchestral Version)
Dimmu Borgir — Progenies of the Great Apocalypse (Orchestral Version)
Dimmu Borgir — Cataclysm Children
Dimmu Borgir — Unorthodox Manifesto
Dimmu Borgir — Allegiance
Dimmu Borgir — Allehelgens Død I Helveds Rike
Dimmu Borgir — For the World to Dictate Our Death
Dimmu Borgir — Eradication Instincts Defined
Dimmu Borgir — Lepers Among Us
Dimmu Borgir — Blood Hunger Doctrine
Dimmu Borgir — Progenies of the Great Apocalypse
Dimmu Borgir — Architecture of a Genocidal Nature (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Fear and Wonder (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Devil's Path (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Burn in Hell (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Absolute Sole Right (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — IndoctriNation (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Puritania (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — The Maelstrom Mephisto (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Kings of the Carnival Creation (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Sympozium (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny (from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Dimmu Borgir — The Insight and the Catharsis
Dimmu Borgir — Dreamside Dominions
Dimmu Borgir — Arcane Lifeforce Mysteria
Dimmu Borgir — Grotesquery Conceiled (Within Measureless Magic)
Dimmu Borgir — United In Unhallowed Grace
Dimmu Borgir — Behind the Curtains of Night - Phantasmagoria
Dimmu Borgir — Masses for the New Messiah
Dimmu Borgir — The Promised Future Aeons
Dimmu Borgir — Reptile
Dimmu Borgir — Blazing Monoliths of Defiance
Dimmu Borgir — Metal Heart
Dimmu Borgir — Moonchild Domain
Dimmu Borgir — In Death's Embrace (Live)
Dimmu Borgir — Chaos Without Prophecy
Dimmu Borgir — Hunnerkongen
Dimmu Borgir — Spellbound (By the Devil)
Dimmu Borgir — A Succubus in Rapture
Dimmu Borgir — The Night Masquerade
Dimmu Borgir — Prudence's Fall
Dimmu Borgir — Entrance
Dimmu Borgir — Master of Disharmony (Live)
Dimmu Borgir — Mourning Palace
Dimmu Borgir — In Deaths Embrace
Dimmu Borgir — Master of Disharmony
Dimmu Borgir — Tormentor of Christian Souls
Dimmu Borgir — Relinquishment of Spirit and Flesh
Dimmu Borgir — Sorgens Kammer
Dimmu Borgir — Da Den Kristne Satte Livet Til
Dimmu Borgir — Antikrist
Dimmu Borgir — Når Sjelen Hentes Til Helvete
Dimmu Borgir — Broderskapets Ring
Dimmu Borgir — Dødsferd
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Dimmu Borgir — Stormblåst
Dimmu Borgir — Alt Lys Er Svunnet Hen
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Dimmu Borgir — Stien
Dimmu Borgir — Inn i evighetens mørke (Part II)
Dimmu Borgir — Inn i evighetens mørke (Part I)
Dimmu Borgir — For All Tid
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Dimmu Borgir — Raabjørn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde
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