Marduk - Wormwood (2009) Picture Disc [2010]

 

Marduk is a black metal band from Norrköping, Sweden. The band formed in 1990 and released their first album in 1992. Their name is derived from the Babylonian god Marduk, patron deity of Babylon.

Marduk was formed by Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson in order to form the “most blasphemous band in the world”. Their musical style was that of a straightforward death metal influenced take on black metal music, but as the years progressed their style and imagery became more of a fast and intense form of black metal.

Marduk’s predominant lyrical topics are Satanism, anti-Christianity, blasphemy, death, Third Reich history, and World War II. The latter two are a later addition to their lyrical/conceptual themes, stemming from their 1999 release Panzer Division Marduk. Marduk have recorded further songs relating to those chapters of human history, such as “The Hangman of Prague” (moniker of Reinhard Heydrich – second in command of the SS – in his capacity as the de facto Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia), “Night of the Long Knives”, “Deathmarch” and others. On the Nightwing album the band samples a violently anti-semitic march by the fascist Iron Guard in Romania.

The band’s fixation on Nazi-era Germany has caused a great deal of controversy, leading to multiple performances being cancelled, and leaving the band unable to tour multiple countries in various parts of the world. Much of this controversy stems from a 1995 interview with Nordic Vision Magazine, in which guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson was quoted as saying “in Germany, where magazines as “Rock Hard” and “Metal Hammer” have decided that we are a facist band and refuse to print any ads with Marduk […] the reason for this is that in a German.

 Wormwood is their eleventh studio album. It was recorded at Endarker Studio by Magnus Devo Andersson and released on 21 September in Europe and 13 October in U.S. by Regain Records. It is the first Marduk album to feature drummer Lars Broddesson. "Phosphorous Redeemer" was made available on the band's official MySpace page in the run-up to the album's release.

 

 -Tracklist:

 Side A
1. Nowhere, No One, Nothing     03:19
2. Funeral Dawn     05:51
3. This Fleshly Void     02:59
4. Unclosing the Curse     02:17
5. Into Utter Madness     04:41

Side B
6. Phosphorous Redeemer     06:02
7. To Redirect Perdition     06:38
8. Whorecrown     05:27
9. Chorus of Cracking Necks     03:49
10. As a Garment     04:19

45:22

 

-Line up:

⛧MoRTuuS : Vocals
⛧LRS : Drums
⛧MoRGaN (Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson) : Guitars
⛧DeVo (Magnus Andersson) : Bass.

 

 

 Label: Blooddawn Productions.

 Picture Disc edition limited to 500 copies.

 Recorded at the Endarker Studio in the year of the Lord 2009.

 Released in the US on October 13, 2009.

All music and lyrics written by Marduk except the lyrics for "Phosphorous Redeemer" by Michayah Belfagor.

Photos by Holy Poison Design and Strumvogel Design.
Design by Holy Poison Design.

Released in Brazil by Paranoid Records on December 2009.