Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered

Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered
Studio album by Marduk
Released July 1, 1996
Recorded January 1996 at The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden
Genre Black metal
Length 35:42
Label Osmose Productions (Standard)
Regain Records (Reissue)
Producer Marduk
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Marduk chronology
Opus Nocturne
(1994)		 Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered
(1996)		 Glorification
(1996)
Re-release Cover
Re-release cover

Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered is the fourth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at The Abyss in January 1996 and released on July 1 that year by Osmose Productions. It was re-released in digipak format with bonus tracks on June 27, 2006. Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered is the first Marduk album to feature Legion, formerly of Ophthalamia, on vocals and Peter Tägtgren as mixer. This album marked a shift in style for what Marduk are popularly known for; hyper-blast blast beats and furious drum work, sheer brutality (over melody than in previous releases), and raw vocals from third vocalist Legion.

The music for "Glorification of the Black God" is an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain". The First guitar riff is from a score in The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). Furthermore, the lyrics of the song are clearly inspired by "Bald Mountain's" basic theme (a witches' Sabbath on St. John's Night). The title of the album is a reference to the Bathory song Dies Irae.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Summon the Darkness"   0:21
2. "Beyond the Grace of God"   5:17
3. "Infernal Eternal"   4:41
4. "Glorification of the Black God"   4:52
5. "Darkness it Shall Be"   4:40
6. "The Black Tormentor of Satan"   4:15
7. "Dracul va Domni Din Nou in Transilvania"   5:39
8. "Legion"   5:55
Bonus tracks
No. Title Length
9. "Beyond the Grace of God" (Demo-Version; Reissue bonus track) 5:21
10. "Glorification" (Demo-Version; Reissue bonus track) 4:07
11. "Black Tormentor/Shadow of our Infernal King" (Demo-Version; Reissue bonus track) 4:20
12. "Infernal Eternal/Towards the Land of the Damned" (Demo-Version; Reissue bonus track) 4:36

Personnel

Marduk
Marduk
Mortuus · Morgan Håkansson · Magnus Andersson · Lars Broddesson
Andreas Axelsson · Legion · Kim Osara · Peter Tägtgren · Rikard Kalm · B. War · Joakim Göthberg · Fredrik Andersson · Emil Dragutinovic
Studio albums
Dark Endless (1992) · Those of the Unlight (1993) · Opus Nocturne (1994) · Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered (1996) · Nightwing (1998) · Panzer Division Marduk (1999) · La Grande Danse Macabre (2001) · World Funeral (2003) · Plague Angel (2004) · Rom 5:12 (2007) · Wormwood (2009)
Demos and EPs
Live albums
Singles
"Slay the Nazarene" · "Hearse"
Compilations
Home videos
Funeral Marches and Warsongs · Blood Puke Salvation