That's a great overview! I'm mostly familiar with the Mortis era. I think he's such an overwhelming front man, I didn't go to their back catalog. Plague Angel was my first and it's such a vicious album. I agree Wormwood is excellent. Rom 5:12 is also really strong. I haven't heard a lot of their earlier before La Grande Danse Macabre which I wasn't crazy about.
I purchased La Grande Danse Macabre when it came out in 2001. Just like you I really found it a medium level album. If you were to look at their early albums, many are on You Tube to listen to first before buying.
The thing about early Marduk is they they are a different band sounding maybe cutting edge for the era, but the early 1990s was a long time ago. Dark Endless from 1992 is really before they formed their sound. I would avoid it. Even the new release does not sound well?
Opus Nocturn is maybe my favorite from that time. Panzer Division is maybe the fastest most brutal metal album ever made. Nightwing is many a fan favorite. Maybe for many 1998 and 1999 was their musical peak?
I actually enjoy Those of the Unlight and Heaven Shall Burn.....When We Are Gathered, but it may be for the novelty of em?
Studio albums
Dark Endless (1992)
Those of the Unlight (1993)
Opus Nocturne (1994)
Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered (1996)
Nightwing (1998)
Panzer Division Marduk (1999)
La Grande Danse Macabre (2001)
World Funeral (2003)
Plague Angel (2004)
Rom 5:12 (2007)
Wormwood (2009)
Serpent Sermon (2012)
Frontschwein (2015)[3]
I purchased La Grande Danse Macabre when it came out in 2001. Just like you I really found it a medium level album. If you were to look at their early albums, many are on You Tube to listen to first before buying.
The thing about early Marduk is they they are a different band sounding maybe cutting edge for the era, but the early 1990s was a long time ago. Dark Endless from 1992 is really before they formed their sound. I would avoid it. Even the new release does not sound well?
Opus Nocturn is maybe my favorite from that time. Panzer Division is maybe the fastest most brutal metal album ever made. Nightwing is many a fan favorite. Maybe for many 1998 and 1999 was their musical peak?
I actually enjoy Those of the Unlight and Heaven Shall Burn.....When We Are Gathered, but it may be for the novelty of em?
Studio albums
Dark Endless (1992)
Those of the Unlight (1993)
Opus Nocturne (1994)
Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered (1996)
Nightwing (1998)
Panzer Division Marduk (1999)
La Grande Danse Macabre (2001)
World Funeral (2003)
Plague Angel (2004)
Rom 5:12 (2007)
Wormwood (2009)
Serpent Sermon (2012)
Frontschwein (2015)[3]
Very cool. I remember looking for Panzer Division on a recommendation but I never got it. I think the string of albums-Plague Angel-Rom-Wormwood is one of the strongest sets of vicious BM ever....really A list stuff for me. 3 of my favorite in the genre for sure.
On a separate note, I'm still picking up 2014 stuff further down my want list. I just bought Godflesh. I remember it was on your year end list. I'm liking it quite a bit.
Yeah-I came across this from hipster sites like Pitchfork.
Brandon Stosuy loves the album. Here's his blurb:
On Why Do the Heathen Rage?, Matmos' Drew Daniel applies his experimental house project Soft Pink Truth's lusty style to songs by Darkthrone, Venom, Beherit, Mayhem, Hellhammer, and other black metal outfits, incorporating guests like Antony, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, David Serrotte of the Baltimore vogue ball crew House of Revlon, and Locrian’s Terence Hannum. Snippets from gay house classics (and porn) also play a part.
As Daniel’s made clear in the past, SPT is a queer-focused project, as shown on this LP by his cover of Seth Putnam/Impaled Northern Moonforest’s “Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar” and artist Mavado Charon’s cover illustration of corpse-painted men ******* and murdering each other. The liner notes feature a piece called “Confessions of a Former Burzum T-Shirt Wearer”, where Daniel talks about what it means to be a gay man as well as a fan of black metal—a genre with a sketchy, violent history that includes the murder of a gay man by Emperor’s Bård “Faust”, as well as the fascism of Burzum’s Varg Vikernes. As Daniel puts it, “Just as blasphemy both affirms and assaults the sacred powers it invokes and inverts, so too this record celebrates black metal and offers queer critique, mockery, and profanation of its ideological morass in equal measure.”
It's an album inspired by metal, yes, but it's also a metal album. Sort of. I gave it Honorable Mention because it feels like it deserves its own space. I did the same thing with Liturgy a few years back when they released Aesthethica. Sometimes an album feel too singular to add to a list. At least to me.
Being open minded and not homophobic and actually liking some electronica, and of course BM, I bought the album. It's so out of the box. Weird as hell and very BM themed as Ferday says. I actually really like it...relating to someone who sits outside of the typical BM demographic. But it takes an open mind!
Been fiending for some more crazy tech-death. Finally spending some quality time with Obscura's stuff and Necrophagist and am in love. Beyond Creation just doesn't quite cut it at the moment. It's just not as..... raw? as Retribution or even Cosmogenesis.
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Very cool. I remember looking for Panzer Division on a recommendation but I never got it. I think the string of albums-Plague Angel-Rom-Wormwood is one of the strongest sets of vicious BM ever....really A list stuff for me. 3 of my favorite in the genre for sure.
On a separate note, I'm still picking up 2014 stuff further down my want list. I just bought Godflesh. I remember it was on your year end list. I'm liking it quite a bit.
Yes, my first time to hear Godflesh and it makes my year end list? Glad you like it. It IS a solid album. I really like how simple it is and how they play with variations of a basic theme.
Makes, you wonder what their other albums are like? Cheers!
Watched this 40 minute concert in full the other night. Before the DVD came out the show was impounded and not released. It ended coming out years later. I look at it as the final show.
Been fiending for some more crazy tech-death. Finally spending some quality time with Obscura's stuff and Necrophagist and am in love. Beyond Creation just doesn't quite cut it at the moment. It's just not as..... raw? as Retribution or even Cosmogenesis.
Yes, my first time to hear Godflesh and it makes my year end list? Glad you like it. It IS a solid album. I really like how simple it is and how they play with variations of a basic theme.
Makes, you wonder what their other albums are like? Cheers!
Same. I've always heard of them and I've got some Jesu which is very different. More pretty shimmering post metal maybe a little like Isis or Alcest, but very unique. Almost not metal.
I either hear their influence on other bands or vice versa-the doom industrial vibe of Batillus comes to mind and some older Neurosis from the Through Silver and Blood and Enemy of the Sun era.
Wow! I just heard/watched this and think it's pretty fierce metal!!!
The opening video features a quite beautiful landscape shot that follows lead singer pounding the dirt with then panning to and fro between images of a labyrinth and desert landscape showing their similarities which work really well
In Times will be the title of the thirteenth studio album by Norwegian progressive extreme metallers Enslaved. Hand-painted artwork is by long-time collaborating artist and “sixth ENSLAVED member” Truls Espedal.
The album will be released on March 6 (Europe), 9th (UK) and 10th (N. America) via Nuclear Blast Records.
ENSLAVED guitarist & composer Ivar Bjørnson shares the following about the band’s latest creation:...
“I was so deep into the songs and ideas for such a long time (or have my head so far up my own a**, if you prefer more direct language) that it is hard to have any ‘opinions’ about them that is anything else than the high-flying mumbo-jumbo of the introvert song-smith. The songs are extensions of my inner and outer life, the thoughts I am aware of having, as well as those that lie too deep to register in everyday consciousness. The songs are the resounds of grandiose altered states and mundane tiny micro-events. In addition, they are, of course, also the result of inspiration from other music and art. I do think this new album is the most consistent body of work we have so far: It incorporates our ‘blacker’ past with our influences from prog rock, our present sense of absolute freedom, and the joy of being in this band, if that makes any sense… Ha, ha, ha. It is higher in energy, more aggressive, yet more beautiful and subtle. It simply sounds inspired.”
The track listing for In Times is:
01 – Thurisaz Dreaming
02 – Building With Fire
03 – One Thousand Years Of Rain
04 – Nauthir Bleeding
05 – In Times
06 - Daylight
The new album’s total running time is fifty-three minutes.
Main recordings for In Times took place at Duper Studios to Solslottet Studio in Bergen, Norway with additional recordings sessions at Conclave & Earshot Studios (presided over by ENSLAVED members Larsen and Ice Dale), and Ivar Bjørnson’s Peersonal Sound Studios. Additional experimentation and sonic exploration was conducted deep in the woods of Valevåg south of Bergen where a mobile studio recorded additional sounds.
In Times was produced by band members Ivar Bjørnson, Grutle Kjellson & Herbrand Larsen together with Iver Sandøy. Mixing was completed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.
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