Serpent Sermon
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| Studio album by Marduk | ||||
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2012 |
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admission |
December 2011 to February 2012 |
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| Label (s) | Century Media , Blooddawn Productions | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
46:22 |
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Devo |
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Studio (s) |
Endarker Studio |
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Serpent Sermon is the twelfth studio album by the Swedish black metal band Marduk and the first of the band to be released via Century Media .
Emergence
On March 28, 2011, the band announced that they had recorded their EP Iron Dawn , the songs of which deviate from the concept for the following album. On July 1st, the announcement followed that after the Herbstnebel tour, the recordings for the upcoming album would begin; The planned recordings in the Endarker studio were pointed out again on October 21, 2011. On November 3, the band announced that they had signed with Century Media, again pointed out the planned recordings and announced the release for spring 2012; the announcements were repeated on December 2nd, followed by the announcement on December 29th that the band had now started recording in the Endarker studio; the following day it was announced that the release would be followed by a “massive touring campaign”.
On February 6, 2012, the band announced the title of the album, the track list and other information would be revealed soon, and on February 11, the album would be played to invited media in Stockholm. On February 27, the band announced that the recordings were finished and mastered, and again pointed out further information about Serpent Sermon to come. On March 8th followed the dates of the US appearances with Weapon, 1349 and Withered in the course of the Serpent Sermon World Tour, and on March 19th the track list and the planned release dates: May 25th for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Norway May 28th for the United Kingdom, Benelux, France, Greece, Denmark, Portugal and the rest of Europe, May 29th for Spain and Italy, May 30th for Sweden, Finland and Hungary, May 1st June 5 for Australia and New Zealand, and June 5 for the United States and Canada.
On March 21, the single Souls for Belial was announced, which would appear in the April issue of Sweden Rock and contain a cover of Woven Hands Oil on Panel ; the CD version is only available to subscribers to the magazine, a 7 ”vinyl version limited to 1000 copies is to be distributed worldwide and appear in the second half of April. The recording of Oil on Panel was made together with the recording for the album. On March 26th, MAMMON was made available for listening to the upcoming album on the German Metal Hammer website , which the band announced on March 28th.
On April 13th, the release of the Sweden-Rock edition with the Marduk single was announced and attention was drawn to its exclusive distribution together with the magazine and the planned 7 ”vinyl version. On April 25th the message followed that the band had finished the recordings for a music video for Souls for Belial and this will be made available in early May; on May 9, the band announced that they would upload the video via their official YouTube channel at 7 p.m. Central European Time .
On May 30, the band announced that Serpent Sermon would be released on the same day, pointed out different formats of the release, and quoted press reviews about the album.
Versions
Serpent Sermon was published in the standard version as a jewel case, as well as a deluxe mediabook CD with 40-page booklet and the bonus title Coram Satanae , as a deluxe LP with 180 gram vinyl, hinged cover and a large, twelve-page booklet, as well as a digital version for download. An exclusive pressing on dark red vinyl with an additional, exclusive, also dark red 7 ”EP with the bonus title Coram Satanae is also available via cmdistro.com , limited to 300 copies .
Track list
- Serpent Sermon - 4:38
- Messianic Pestilence - 2:50
- Souls for Belial - 4:47
- Into Second Death - 5:51
- Temple of Decay - 5:25
- Damnation's Gold - 6:48
- Hail Mary (piss-soaked genuflexion) - 3:27
- MAMMON - 3:30
- Gospel of the Worm - 2:37
- World of Blades - 7:09
layout
The cover "is much more primitive than previous MARDUK records" and depicts an anonymous devil or demon .
Music style and lyrics
Serpent Sermon is more varied than Marduk's previous albums, for example Into Second Death "with a catchy mixture of Thrash and doomy epic".
On Serpent Sermon "an alternative Doomsday sung" is, thus, according to the guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson "a kind of cross-connection" to the previous album Wormwood , the "rather unterschiedlichster on death scenes characteristic" is based. Håkansson describes Serpent Sermon as “ gospel based on the biblical idea of eternal damnation”. It deals with the afterlife, the punishments there and the control of the devil over organized religions and their leaders. However, there is no coherent concept.
Reviews
The band quotes some positive reviews from the international press online; According to the Belgian Rock Tribune, the band holds up even after 22 years, according to Sweden Rock , they are immune to aging. The Dutch Aardschok and the Finnish Inferno describe Marduk as superior to all other black metal bands, the Italian Rock Hard described Serpent Sermon as “Marduk's definitive album” and a “masterpiece”, the Swedish Close Up sees the release as “possibly the most powerful Black -Metal Album of the Year ”. According to the British Terrorizer , " vitriolic fire and sulfur [...] are in abundance and [ Serpent Sermon's ] poisonous bite is effective". The US American Revolver Magazine described the album as a return to form and the lyrical "Blitzkrieg against the teachings of Christianity".
Christian Wachter ruled in Legacy , former Marduk releases were "hardly really exciting affairs," with Mortuus have a "correction of an interesting, yet occasionally moderate towards, though no less bleak songwriting" used that on Serpent Sermon would be continued ; the album offers more variety, the band shows no signs of wear and tear. Wachter gave Serpent Sermon 13 points.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Old News - 2011 .
- ↑ Iron Dawn ... .
- ↑ The New Covenant ... .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Old News - 2012 .
- ↑ The Coming Storm ... .
- ↑ Souls For Belial ... .
- ↑ a b c Christian Wachter: MARDUK . Gospel of Eternal Damnation ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . In: Legacy , No. 78, pp. 34f.
- ↑ Tobias Gerber: Premiere of the new Marduk song 'MAMMON' , March 26, 2012, accessed on January 12, 2013.
- ↑ a b Christian Wachter: MARDUK “Serpent Sermon” ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . In: Legacy , No. 78, p. 108.
