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artist: Marduk
title: World Funeral
year: 2014
genre: Black Metal
type: Album (Remastered)
label: Century Media Records
language: English
rel. date: 2014-06-23
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 01:17:02
size: 185.28MB
rip date: 2025-04-26
source url: http://deezer.com/album/11322964
tracklist:
1. With Satan and Victorious Weapons 3:51
2. Bleached Bones 5:20
3. Cloven Hoof 3:26
4. World Funeral 3:30
5. To the Death's Head True 3:58
6. Castrum Doloris 3:33
7. Hearse 4:54
8. Night of the Long Knives 5:31
9. Bloodletting 5:48
10. Blessed Unholy 5:01
11. Blackcrowned 2:18
12. Phantasm 3:50
13. With Satan and Victorious Weapons (Rehearsal 2002) 3:47
14. World Funeral (Rehearsal 2002) 3:41
15. Hearse / The Neverdead (Rehearsal 2002) 4:44
16. Night of the Long Knives (Rehearsal 2002) 5:23
17. Bleached Bones (Rehearsal 2002) 5:00
18. To the Death's Head True (Rehearsal 2002) 3:27
release notes:
The latest album by Marduk with Legion in the line-up brings a break
to the routine in the Swedish discography. This is one of their more
sensible and at the same time - for some reason - one of their more
overlooked albums that Morgan et al. released in the new millennium!
As for the latter, I do not intend to bore you, after all, discs of
very good quality and many are forgotten - and Marduk itself could
never complain about the lack of interest after all. However, I will
focus on why "World Funeral" is worth listening to and why this album
tops most of the albums recorded with Mortuus in later years.
First of all, "World Funeral" resembles how the band wanted to sound
on "La Grande Danse Macabre" in relation to "Panzer Division Marduk",
that is: more differentiation, with a slightly different feeling and
without constant blasting. On "La Grande..." it turned out quite numb
and without panache, but here...completely different! Well, while I
was listening to the eighth disc by Marduk it's hard not to resist the
impression that everything...the best of "La Grande..." and
"Panzer..." landed on it! And in this positive sense, without the
(auto)copying, but with passing older patents through the filter of
"new" songs! It also crosses out any hope for "otherness", but in the
case of Marduk it was probably not very important at the time. The
most important thing was to get back to the decency.
And this one can be found here in both faster songs like "Night Of The
Long Knives", title track, "Cloven Hoof" or "Blessed Unholy", but also
in slower ones such as "To The Death's Head True", "Hearse", "Castrum
Dolors" or "Bleached Bones". So, as I mentioned earlier, in those
respects where "La Grande..." tried to fit and even more precisely
delving into it, it follows the principle "something nice for
everyone". On "World..." fortunately, this "everyone" will not fall
off from the multitude of melodies, boring patterns or forced
brutality. With all this, it's absolutely fine here and far from
predictable! It seems that the Swedes knew this time where to properly
apply, slow down or throw down something with the "war" climate.
So while the earlier "underestimation" was fully understandable, in
the case of "World Funeral" it does not seem to have any more sensible
basis. The Swedes from Marduk collected their patents here wisely and
at the same time they did not make the same album as before -
stretched out and without interesting ideas. The quartet on "World
Funeral" managed to do it even better than everyone might have
imagined. It's a pity that not for long.