ROM 5:12

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ROM 5:12
ROM 5:12 cover
Studio album by Marduk
Released April 24, 2007
Recorded December 2006 – January 2007
Genre Black metal
Length 55:28
Label Regain Records
Producer Marduk
Professional reviews
Marduk chronology
Plague Angel
(2004)
ROM 5:12
(2007)
Porträtt av Döda Barn
(TBA)

ROM 5:12 is the tenth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed between December 2006 and January 2007 and released on April 24, 2007 by Regain Records. The CD version of the album includes a 44-page booklet, and the LP and picture disc pressings were is limited to 500 copies each. ROM 5:12 is the last Marduk album to feature Emil Dragutinovic on drums as he was replaced by Lars Broddesson (of Excessum and Absurdeity) during the recordings. Original band member Joakim Göthberg also makes a guest vocal appearance on the track "Cold Mouth Prayer".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Levelling Dust" – 5:11
  2. "Cold Mouth Prayer" (featuring Joakim Göthberg) – 3:28
  3. "Imago Mortis" – 8:36
  4. "Through the Belly of Damnation" – 4:19
  5. "1651" – 4:54
  6. "Limbs of Worship" – 4:24
  7. "Accuser/Opposer" (featuring Naihmass Nemtheanga a.k.a Alan Averil) – 8:43
  8. "Vanity of Vanities" – 3:40
  9. "Womb of Perishableness" – 7:01
  10. "Voices from Avignon" – 5:08
  11. "Jaws of Hell" - 6:49

[edit] Trivia

  • The album title refers to a verse in the Bible, Romans Chapter 5, Verse 12: "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned."
  • The track "1651" was written and performed by Arditi.

[edit] Personnel

  • Mortuus – vocals
  • Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
  • Magnus "Devo" Andersson – bass
  • Emil Dragutinovic – drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 10
  • J. Gustafsson - drums on tracks 3, 7 and 9
  • Joakim Göthberg – guest vocals ("Cold Mouth Prayer")
  • Naihmass Nemtheanga – guest vocals ("Accuser/Opposer")