It’d be easy to be cynical about Inspiratio Profanus. More than half a decade since celebrating their quarter-century with last album proper – 2018’s excellent Eonian – legendary Norwegians Dimmu Borgir honour 30 years not with any new music, but rather an eight-track compilation of their most renowned cover versions. The thing is, every one of those tracks is a Satan-certified banger. Where the Jessheim crew’s signature brand of symphonic black metal has grown increasingly grandiose, ever more theatrically overblown over the years, everything here feels gleefully lean and mean. Their version of Venom’s Black Metal, for instance – a song that every band in the genre must surely have a swing at at some point – rips with the same ravenousness, but more muscle than t...