Those of the Unlight
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| Studio album by Marduk | ||||
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Publication |
October 1993 |
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| Label (s) | Osmosis Productions | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
37:31 |
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Marduk |
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Studio (s) |
Hellspawn Studios |
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Those of the Unlight is the second album by the Swedish black metal band Marduk .
Emergence
The album was released in October 1993.
In 1995 the band visited the Abyss Studio for the first time to remix Those of the Unlight . In 2006 the album was re-released; The remastering was done by the guitarist Devo Andersson , who was involved in the album and returned to Marduk in 2004 to replace bassist B.War. The re-release also includes live video recordings of the tracks Darkness Breeds Immortality , A Sculpture of the Night and The Funeral Seemed to Be Endless (from the debut album Dark Endless ).
Track list
- Darkness Breeds Immortality - 3:49
- Those of the Unlight - 4:43
- Wolves - 5:50
- On Darkened Wings - 4:16
- Burn My Coffin - 5:15
- A Sculpture of the Night - 3:29
- Echoes from the Past - 7:06 am
- Stone Stands Its Silent Vigil - 3:03
Music style and lyrics
In contrast to the death-metal- heavy debut album Dark Endless , Those of the Unlight is considered a "pure" Black Metal album. Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard counts it and Marduk among the "exceptions to the rule that Norway mainly meant primitive clinking of ice, while Swedish bands covered demanding twin guitars in black". In the case of the “rabid, ugly and often on the verge of dullness balancing 'fire free!' Compositions” there is “no trace of diversity and harmony”. However, after separating from Devo Andersson, Håkansson said that he had brought "only weakness and melody" into the band, whereas the following album, Opus nocturne, was much more destructive without him.
The lyrics were not printed as in the previous recordings. Håkansson justified this with a lack of interest, stress and other problems. However, the band is planning to bring out a work with all the texts and a current biography after the Winter War tour, which should look like a medieval book and appear in A4 format, if possible with a leather cover. However, recent re-releases contain all texts. The title Untrodden Paths (Wolves Part II) on the successor Opus nocturne creates a connection to Those of the Unlight and the Wolves contained on it. Some of the verses in this second part are a slight modification of the lines in the booklet of the previous part.
layout
Black tabs can be seen on the cover created by Misja Baas . The Marduk lettering in the upper right corner is pink on the first CD, as is the title of the album on the left edge of the cover. Both are red on the LP pressing. When the CD was re-released in the same year, the otherwise gray cover was kept in sepia tones, the writing was red and moved to the upper left corner and the title of the album to the lower edge. The booklet also contains a few lines in the same gray fracture , which were used in a slight modification in the text on Untrodden Paths (Wolves Part II) on the successor Opus nocturne :
"... and with the darkness came death.
New throats were to be satisfied
and the stench of death made us ... hungry ... from who were
not God's children-
those of the unlight. "
The back of the first CD does not contain a track list, but the slogan "Death to peace ... ... war at last". These and the information about the cast are in gray and in Gothic script. The password is missing on the LP pressing, but the back of the record sleeve contains a list of titles; the information here is in golden Gothic script. The CD re-release from 1993 contains the same information as the first pressing, but in red and not in Fraktur.
reception
In Nordic Vision , Those of the Unlight was described as a big improvement after a not too good first album. According to Mühlmann, it is one of the most popular albums of the band, whose followers, according to him, prefer either this album, the successor Opus nocturne or Panzer Division Marduk . Those of the Unlight is “after the sometimes bumpy, Death Metal-heavy debut 'Dark Endless' the first genuine black metal release of the troupe […], and with 'Wolves' the quartet cut out one of the absolute overtones of the time. A classic! "The band compensates" [r] regularly translucent playful performance limits [...] with pure devotion and juvenile energy ". However, "[n] och today [...] the illegible hieroglyphs on the inside cover and on the back of the cover of the original version made him crazy. The layouter must have been on LSD . ”The cover, on the other hand, is“ one of the most coherent of the entire second Black Metal generation - but also only on the original version. When designing the re-release […] a (color) blind person was allowed to let off steam. ”The rock-hard magazine included Opus nocturne in its list of 250 black metal albums that should be known .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d volume. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Dissecting table . In: Rock Hard . No. 310 , March 2013, p. 74 .
- ↑ a b c Marduk . In: Nordic Vision . No. 3 , 1995 ( nordicvisionmag.com [accessed March 25, 2013]). Marduk ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Marduk Opus Nocturne . In: Nordic Vision . No. 3 , 1995.
- ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Marduk . Panzer Division Marduk. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 95 .
- ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 75 .
