The Swedish pride of black metal is back! Three years after “Serpent Sermon”, Marduk return with their new album titled “Frontschwein“.
The album kicks off with the title track where middle-eastern melodies played in black metal style are being followed by the trademark fast-paced Marduk riffage, fading out with the final riff.
“The Blond Beast” starts with a midtempo headbanging riff, yet blackened and cold as the song in general! “Afrika” is a high speed song in the vein of the “Panzer Division Marduk” days. “Wartheland” is a sickened slow and rotten track definitely showing us why Mortuus is one of the best Black metal voices out there! Up next we have “Rope Of Regret” with a gun intro (brings “Baptism By Fire” to mind) and immense drumming creating another devastating song that Marduk are known for all these years.
An addictive midtempo riff starts “Between The Wolfpacks” which goes on to balance between midtempo and blasting with insane riffs. “Neberwerfer” kicks off with a riff that would make Quorthon proud and goes on in that epic attitude. Another fast track with midtempo breaks follows called “Falaise – Cauldron Of Blood”, including amazing melodic riffs .
“Doomsday Elite” is the longest track of the record (8 minutes) with doom-like drums accompanied by a tremolo-picked riffage, Mortuus eating away our souls with his voice and mesmerizing melodies. This goes on in “503” (I’d take that as a reference to “502” off “Panzer Division Marduk”), where we witness the bass more as well as the clean vocal parts of Mortuus, reeking of pain and despair. The band decides to give us a last taste of its violent Black metal brand with “Thousand-Fold Death”, and a sick ambient outro called “Warschau III Necropolis”!
Marduk managed to complete a decade of sick records since 2004’s “Plague Angel”! Hail!
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