★★★★★
"It's not revolutionary, but 'Frontschwein' keeps the flames of black metal war burning for another year." Marduk has always split its releases between hymns to Satan and chronicles of real world war - keeping the two fairly segregated from one another. Deciding to return to the front line and engage in another barrage of war-themed assaults this time around with "Frontschwein," Marduk gives fans the same iconic sound they've come to expect, from the insane growls of front man Mortuus to the...
- www.metalunderground.com
2015-02-26
★★★★★
Tweet The Old and The New "Let them sip their pumpkin peach ale," declared Budweiser's "Brewed the Hard Way" Super Bowl television commercial, in a surprising multi-million dollar broadside against the craft beer revolution that has swept across America. It was a moment of backlash long brewing (pun intended!), with the giants of American lager borrowing the guises of simplicity and populism to take a swipe at the elitist Young Turks who have been fixing a thing apparently not broken...
- www.mxdwn.com
2015-02-15
★★★★★
There is no point in begging for Marduk to change anymore. Just like the old saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks", you cannot reasonably assume that this venerable Swedish act will just pack up and move on from the vicious heaviness that has defined their very essence since they first rolled onto the second wave scene 25 years ago...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2015-02-08
★★★★★
Despite occasionally being seen as a somewhat one-dimensional entity due to the uncompromising brutality of their material, Sweden's Marduk have in fact covered a surprising amount of ground in the course of their two decades and 12 full-length albums. Defining themselves as a black metal band due to their aesthetic and vehemently Satanic ideology, the band have in fact always blurred the lines between icy Scandinavian black metal and old-school death metal, favouring frantic assaults while...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Serpent Sermon is the 12th studio album from black metal juggernaut Marduk. Founded in 1990 by guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Hårkansson in Norrköping, Sweden, the dark-minded, bloody-lipped black metal band have never veered from their course. Driven to create and never flagging, they've regularly released fresh servings of aural violence over the years, refining their sound in the process...
- exclaim.ca
2012-06-07
★★★★★
"With the end times nearing, we need to damn as many souls as possible before the coming apocalypse, and Marduk is just the prophet to see it done with a chorus of hellish black metal that can bring the gates of heaven crashing down." After the detour of the war-themed "Iron Dawn" EP, the Swedish black metal horde Marduk is returning to standard Satanic form with latest full-length offering "Serpent Sermon...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-05-31
★★★★★
Summary: The illusion of black metal It's been more than a few years since "popular" Scandinavian black metal effectively hit a brick wall. The scene has been pummeled into a bloody pulp of tremolo picked riffs, monochrome makeup, and shattered memories of the days when most of black metal's current listeners could barely walk, let alone understand what exactly contributed to the relative blossoming of the black metal sound we all know today...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
"'Iron Dawn' essentially sounds like three 'Wormwood' B-Sides that take a combat focused slant." Taking a break from the Satanic and anti-Christian themes for another foray into warfare, Marduk has brought a three song EP to tide over black metal lovers until the release of the next full-length and follow-up to 2009's "Wormwood" (reviewed here)...
- www.metalunderground.com
2011-05-16
★★★★★
"Marduk deserves a flash of the horns and a bang of the head for managing to not only continue under the same name for so long, but also for evolving past their origins to create a unique sound." There is a lot of pressure on a band like Marduk when they unleash a new album onto the extreme metal hordes. As a European black metal band that started in the early 1990's they are rightly included among the ranks of the hallowed fathers of the genre...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
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