La grande Danse macabre
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March 5, 2001 |
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December 2000 |
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| Label (s) | Blooddawn Productions, Regain Records , Century Media | |||
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LP, CD, Picture Disc |
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10 |
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46:00 |
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Marduk |
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La grande Danse macabre ( French for 'The Great Dance of Death ') is the seventh music album by the Swedish black metal band Marduk . It was released on March 5, 2001 as the band's first album via Blooddawn Productions and Regain Records .
In contrast to Panzer Division Marduk, the album contains some slow passages and is described as very varied for Marduk compared to earlier works; numerous critics praised this development, but at the same time some criticized its implementation.
La grande Danse macabre forms the third part of the blood, fire and death trilogy begun with Nightwing based on Bathory and her album Blood Fire Death , Nightwing representing the "blood album", Panzer Division Marduk von Feuer and La grande Danse macabre is about death.
Emergence
While working on Panzer Division Marduk , Morgan Håkansson also wrote slower pieces; Due to their low speed, these were initially "left behind" for the successor. Originally, Memento mori was intended as a title (see memento mori ). Marduk entered the Abyss Studio in December 2000 to record La grande Danse macabre in nine days. It was recorded by Tommy Tägegren, mixed by Peter Tägtgren . It was produced by the band itself. In 2001 Marduk went back to the studio for various recordings. The album was released on March 5, 2001.
Track list
- Ars moriendi - 3:49 (music: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Azrael - 4:43 (music and text: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Pompa funebris 1660 - 5:50 (music: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Obedience unto Death - 4:16 (music and text: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Bonds of Unholy Matrimony - 5:15 (Text: Legion; Music: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- La grande Danse macabre - 3:29 (Text: Legion, M. Steinmeyer Håkansson; Music: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Death Sex Ejaculation - 7:06 (Text: Legion; Music: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Funeral Bitch - 3:03 (music and text: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Summers End - 7:06 (Text: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson; Music: B. War, M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
- Jesus Christ… Sodomized - 3:03 (Text: Legion; Music: M. Steinmeyer Håkansson)
All songs were arranged by Morgan Håkansson and B. War.
Music style and lyrics
On La grande Danse macabre , compared to the previous album Panzer Division Marduk, “[v] orderly [...] a lot of tempo was taken out of the game, but this turned his [Håkanssons] riffs into even more brutal, more precise than ever striking violence and, above all, Bogges Bass gives more presence ”. Legion described this as “a natural progression to get away from the fast beating of the last record. To record 'Panzerdivision Marduk Part II' would have been pretty stupid. ”Even after Reign in Blood, Slayer did not repeat himself , but recorded South of Heaven . The album is "still typically Marduk". Håkansson also referred to Slayer and Reign in Blood in this context .
Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard describes La grande Danse macabre as "[t] he opposite of the previous merciless tank hunt"; the album "sounds moderate and varied for MARDUK standards and, in addition to all full throttle preferences [sic!], also has enough space for mid-tempo and doomy passages". Allmusic's John Serba described it as her most accomplished and varied work to date. He described Legion's singing as "tormented, if somewhat generic".
With La grande Danse macabre the band refers to the dance of death , whereby according to Mühlmann "the inspiration for the album title [...] comes from the French (erotic) draftsman and illustrator Martin van Maële". The Satanism remains "[i] n view of content, [...] this time in mothballs, because the big issue is, death." However, Serba points out blasphemous texts. According to the Legion, the lyrics are "now more well thought out, because we wanted to create a completely different atmosphere". The ones to Funeral Bitch , Death Sex Ejaculation and Jesus Christ ... Sodomized were described by Serba as "disappointingly immature". When dealing with death, “the Swedes surprise not only with some profound reflections on the cult of the dead in the late Middle Ages , but also with sometimes astonishingly dark and threatening compositions, which are a clear contrast to the archetypal, lightning-fast debris orgies for which Marduk has seen since her epochal OPUS NOCTURNE -Albums stand, form ". All of the songs “deal with death in one way or another. Be it from a historical perspective or just as a philosophical term ”. Ars moriendi 'art of dying' (see ars moriendi ) "refers to a way of thinking from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance that accepts death as an important part of human existence". In the title song, the band wanted to "reproduce the special flair of this picture when real death dances with people into the afterlife". Håkansson called death “the only sure thing in human life”; he finds it remarkable that this topic is almost taboo nowadays and death "has no place in our modern culture [...], whereas it used to be the cause of the greatest cultural achievements in tombs or memorial churches". The word is hardly spoken any more.
layout
The cover shows "the splendid armor of a dead Swedish king". The half of his skull with a crown and some missing teeth that is not shown on this picture can be found on the back of the booklet.
reception
Serba praised the arrangement and the text for Azrael and Bonds of Unholy Matrimony as well as La grande Danse macabre as "truly epic" and as "terribly potent and intelligent onslaught of ugliness". Funeral Bitch , Death Sex Ejaculation and Jesus Christ ... He described Sodomized as "solid excursions into perversity", with the lyrics being "disappointingly immature". Nevertheless, La grande Danse macabre is a worthy, albeit uneven, performance by the band; this is efficient, but if she does not find her own demonic muse , she will always be an unholy bridesmaid and never a bride. Mühlmann describes the album as solid and as “[all] in all a satisfactory change of course with a minor lack of compositional [sic!] Ideas, which, however, was messed up in terms of content. Compared to most of the previous albums, 'La Grande ...' sounds a bit muddy. "
Robert Müller from Metal Hammer, on the other hand, praised the album as "for their standards extraordinarily varied, which is mainly due to the fact that dark heaviness and menacing [sic!] Riffs can hold their own against the typical high-speed attacks similar to the second part of the NIGHTWING CD . [...] Those who like the style of this band will be rewarded with one of the best Marduk albums so far - but even those who have been hesitant to approach Black Metal are invited to take part in this dance of death. Because pieces like the title track or 'Funeral Bitch' are, in their vicious, nocturnal sublimity, far more than the fulfillment of black metal duties. " According to MG from Legacy , the title song is" definitely a classic of Black Metal - provided the star-eating, galaxy-devastating power of MARDUK is still in this corset can be constrained. The emphasis on the instrumental brilliance should in no way diminish Legion's performance - on the contrary: the more accentuated vocals make his performance even more valuable! "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d volume. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Melissa, Yiannis “Thrasher” Psaltakis: Marduk: Greek Legions , accessed April 10, 2013.
- ↑ Thomas Weeber: Marduk - Interview with Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson on "Plague Angel" ( memento of the original from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 11, 2004, accessed April 10, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Robert Müller: Marduk . La Grande Danse Macabre . In: Metal Hammer , March 2001, p. 95.
- ↑ a b c d Robert Müller: Marduk . Dance of death . In: Metal Hammer , April 2001, p. 114.
- ↑ a b c Robert Müller: Marduk . Dance of death . In: Metal Hammer , April 2001, p. 115.
- ^ Gunnar Sauermann: Marduk . Sweden, death & the devil . In: Metal Hammer , February 2003, p. 28.
- ↑ a b MG: MARDUK - 'La Grande Danse Macabre'. (No longer available online.) Legacy February 15, 2001, archived from the original on December 20, 2013 ; Retrieved April 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Interregnum in conversation with Legion (voc). (No longer available online.) September 11, 2001, archived from the original on October 20, 2004 ; Retrieved April 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Dissecting table . In: Rock Hard . No. 310 , March 2013, p. 75 .
- ↑ a b c d John Serba: La Grande Danse Macabre - Marduk. Allmusic , accessed April 10, 2013 .
