Wormwood

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Wormwood
Studio album by Marduk

Publication
(s)

2009

admission

2009

Label (s) Blooddawn Productions, Icarus Music, Regain Records

Format (s)

CD, digipak

Genre (s)

Black metal

Title (number)

10

running time

45:59

occupation
  • Mortuus: Singing
  • Lars Broddesson: drums

Studio (s)

Endarker Studio

chronology
Rome 5:12
(2007) 		Wormwood Serpent Sermon
(2012)

Wormwood is the eleventh studio album by the Swedish black metal band Marduk .

Emergence

Wormwood was recorded within two months at Marduk bassist Devo Andersson's Endarker studio .

Track list

  1. Nowhere No-One Nothing - 3:20
  2. Funeral Dawn - 5:51
  3. This Fleshly Void - 3:07
  4. Unclosing the Curse - 2:15
  5. Into Utter Madness - 4:56
  6. Phosphorous Redeemer - 6:11 (Text: M.Belfagor)
  7. To Redirect Perdition - 6:41
  8. Whorecrown - 5:29
  9. Chorus of Cracking Necks - 3:47
  10. As a Garment - 4:18

Music style and lyrics

According to Morgan Håkansson , “Everything is very basic on Wormwood . Guitar, bass, vocals, drums - done. Not too many overdubs, but at most two guitars on top of each other and in some parts even only one mic for the entire drum kit. We're going back to the origins. ”Lyrically, the album revolves around“ the destruction of the soul and the mind as well as the devotion to Luciferian enlightenment ”, although it is not a concept album despite a common thread . The title refers to the star wormwood from the Book of Revelation .

Nowhere · No-One · Nothing is a frenzied song with a brutal middle section. The “obscure doom hammer” Funeral Dawn , based on a single riff , is about the funeral of Reinhard Heydrich , which is why Björn Thorsten Jaschinski calls the piece the successor to The Hangman of Prague from the album Plague Angel . This Fleshly Void is a typical Marduk composition. According to Jaschinski, Unclosing the Curse is “a monotonous black ambient piece”.

Into Utter Madness has a powerful bass sound and a hidden melody. According to Jaschinski, Phosphorous Redeemer , whose text M.Belfagor wrote from Ofermod , recalls Marduk's Those-of-the-Unlight phase. To Redirect Perdition is another slow song.

With Whorecrown , "weird guitar sounds [...] create a disharmonious contrast to a light and surprisingly poppy melody". According to Jaschinski, the band sings "in the lightning-fast 'Chorus Of Cracking Necks' not the headbang art". This track reminds Håkansson of the Those-of-the-Unlight phase of his band.

The album ends with the dragging As a Garment .

reception

Jaschinski gave Wormwood 8 out of 10 points in his Rock Hard review . “There is no such thing as 'Accuser / Opposer'” on the previous album Rom 5:12 , but Phosphorous Redeemer reminds “of the unfortunate 'Those Of The Unlight' times”. Jan Jaedike from the same magazine describes the album as "one of the rawest and meanest hateful chunks in the band's history", on which Funeral Dawn and Into Utter Madness shone "with almost hypnotic guitar leads, for example". The Rock Hard put the release in the list of "250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know".

According to Gunnar Sauermann from Metal Hammer , the new way of working “obviously did Marduk good”. The album has "significantly more fresh ideas" than the previous one. According to his colleague Robert Müller, the band is “in better shape than perhaps not since THOSE OF THE UNLIGHT”. He gave the album 6 out of 7 points.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Gunnar Sauermann: Marduk . Black steps. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse München GmbH, October 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 22 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jan Jaedike: Marduk . Everything bad comes from above. In: Rock Hard . No. 270 , November 2009 ( rockhard.de [accessed July 15, 2014]).
  3. ↑ Diana Glöckner: Marduk . Prophets of the Apocalypse. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse München GmbH, November 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 92 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: Marduk . Wormwood. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 129 ( rockhard.de [accessed on July 15, 2014]).
  5. ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 75 .
  6. ^ Robert Müller: Marduk . Wormwood. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse München GmbH, November 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 110 .