Description
Official French tape. White cassette with white texture. Catalogue number: NEVER 056. Limited 50 copies
Features the Obedience album as bonus
La Grande Danse Macabre 2001
Quite simply, Marduk embodies everything that’s nasty and brutish about black metal. If Emperor, Immortal, Mayhem, and Cradle of Filth are the familial Don Corleones of the genre, Marduk could be their hired thug, a weapons specialist not afraid to get dirty hands while taking care of business. That being said, Marduk has unfortunately been a perennial second-tier outfit, although La Grande Danse Macabre, the band’s seventh full-length studio release, is its most accomplished and varied work to date. Those disappointed by the blastbeat overload of previous album Panzer Division Marduk will be pleasantly surprised to gander at the grotesque, club-footed cave beast that is La Grande Danse Macabre: A few grandiose song structures, plenty of tempo variations (blasting drums are still abundant, if not as prevalent), gleefully blasphemous lyrical exhortations, and a crisp, clean Abyss Studios production. Marduk knows how to wield its weaponry with succinct efficiency
Obedience 2000
Gotta love album covers. Very rarely does the cover art go hand in hand with the content of the music, but this is an exception. If youve heard Marduk, you should know that an S&M-themed release means even more intensity and shock value than before. And right you are. Maybe some people think the title track was the wrong move for Marduk, since they had released one of the fastest albums ever just one year prior to this. Obedience, the song, namely follows that structure. Albeit having a mid-tempo chorus, it leaves one with the impression that Marduk doesnt want to slow down at all. Among the few but stellar riffs, the blistering drumbeats and the commanding vocals lay some great arrangements. This mini albums also includes a Marduk-ized version of the classic Celtic Frost tune Into The Crypt Of Rays
Track listing:
1. Ars Moriendi
2. Azrael
3. Pompa Funebris 1660
4. Obedience Unto Death
5. Bonds Of Unholy Matrimony
6. La Grande Danse Macabre
7. Death Sex Ejaculation
8. Funeral Bitch
9. Summers End
10. Jesus Christ Sodomized
11. Samhain
12. Obedience-from Obedience
13. Funeral Bitch-from Obedience
14. Into The Crypts Of Rays-Celtic Frost cover-from Obedience