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Band Name: Marduk
Album Name: Plague Angel
Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 3 / 5
Label: Candlelight Records
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Tracklist
The Hangman Of Prague
Throne Of Rats
Seven Angels,Seven Trumpets
Life`s Emblem
Steel Inferno
Perish In Flames
Holy Blood,Holy Grail
Warschau
Deathmarch
Everything Bleeds
Blutrache
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Marduk prefer to practice their black arts at an insanely blazing pace, creating a wall of discordant musical decomposition with the goal of bludgeoning listeners into submission. Very few black metal bands can maintain the voracious destructive pace that this band executes with little effort. Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson plays some of the mostly intensely pure chaotic riffs imaginable, fretting up and down the neck with tremendous speed as the band blast through 'Throne Of Rats' with an unstoppable blackened fury.
The despair filled dirge 'Seven Angels, Seven Trumpets' slowly and sickly grinds it's way into your brain with a force of pure evil. The start-stop nature of this piece gives it an even more sinister nature. A sick scream begins 'Steel Inferno' a track set to devastate the dark warriors that follow Marduk at the summer festivals. Hyper speed blasts and diabolic summonings from beyond the gates of Hell are the theme here, preparing the listener for the next battle in the black musical war, 'Perish In Flames', perhaps the best of the more doom laden invocations which grace this record.
European fans got a jump on picking up this soul crushing record, which should make this a big import in the month's preceding its US release as this is yet another brilliantly evil offering from this legendary act that helped to pioneer the genre. Marduk's sense of sheer heaviness is quite adept and here on 'Plague Angel' they prove why they are one of the most respected acts in black metal today.
Review by: EF
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