Marduk - Nigthwing (1998) [reissue + bonus DVD, 2008]

Nightwing is the fifth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at The Abyss between October and November 1997 and released in April 1998 by Osmose Productions. The theme of the album was blood, as the band's following studio albums Panzer Division Marduk would be war, and La Grande Danse Macabre would be death, forming a trilogy of "Blood, War and Death," Marduk's vision of what black metal is.

On Nightwing, the theme is blood, divided in two parts: The first in the satanic ways customary of Marduk's lyrics, but the second part tells the history of Vlad 'Tepes' Drakul, the Impaler of Wallachia who fought against the Ottoman invasion on Europe, giving continuity to the history started on "Deme Quaden Thyrane", a track from their third studio album, Opus Nocturne, and continued with "Dracul Va Domni Din Nou In Transylvania" from Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered. "Deme Quaden Thyrane" appears also here, rearranged, with Legion's vocals and a little change in the lyrics at the end.

In 2008, Nightwing was re-released with a new mastering, an alternative cover artwork and a live DVD of a show in Rotterdam 1998.

 

CD reissue, limited edition, slipcase.
BLOOD036

 

-Tracklist:

     Nightwing

 
CD-1   Preludium 
CD-2   Bloodtide (XXX)
CD-3   Of Hells Fire 
CD-4   Slay The Nazerine 
CD-5   Nightwing
CD-6   Dreams Of Blood And Iron 
CD-7   Dracole Wayda 
CD-8   Kaziklu Bey - The Lord Impaler 
CD-9   Deme Quaden Thyrane 
CD-10   Anno Domini 1476 

 

   
    Blood Of The Saints (Rotterdam 5th Of April 1998)

 
DVD-1   Of Hells Fire
DVD-2   Those Of The Unlight
DVD-3   Slay The Nazarene 
DVD-4   The Black... 
DVD-5   Still Fucking Dead 
DVD-6   Sulphur Souls 
DVD-7   Dreams Of Blood And Iron 
DVD-8   Beyond The Grace Of God

 

-Line up:

• Fredrik Andersson: Drums
• Legion: Vocals
• Bogge:Bass
• Evil: Guitars.

 

 

 

 

 
 

Label: Blooddawn Productions.

 Divided into two chapters; songs 1-4 is Chapter One: "Dictionnaire Infernal", songs 6-10 are Chapter Two: "The Warlord Wallachia".The track "Nightwing" is not in the tracklist and part of neither chapter.

All music and lyrics by Marduk.
Produced by Marduk.
The spoken intro to "Slay The Nazarene" is taken from the 1973 movie The Wicker Man.
"Anno Domini 1476" contains an excerpt from the "Legionary Worker's March", recorded by the Fascist Romanian Iron Guard.

Main riffs of "Nightwing" adapted from the score of the 1991 vampire film "Subspecies". The lyrics are also based on the plot.