La Grande Danse Macabre

La Grande Danse Macabre is the seventh studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at The Abyss in December 2000 and released on March 5, 2001 by Regain Records. The theme of the album is death, as Nightwing was blood, and Panzer Division Marduk was war, forming a trilogy of "Blood, War and Death," Marduk's vision of what black metal is. La Grande Danse Macabre is the last Marduk album to feature Fredrik Andersson on drums.

Themes

On La Grande Danse Macabre, the theme is death. The lyrical themes are primarily reflective of this, with litterings of the Satanic themes the band initially based themselves on, present.

Track listing

Trivia

• The Century Media release features an alternative cover art, one found on t-shirts.
• The album title is French for "The Great Dance of Death".
• The title track ends with a quote from Johan Olof Wallins poem Angel of Death

Personnel

Marduk

• Legion – vocals
• Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
• B. War – bass
• Fredrik Andersson – drums

Guest

• Peter Tägtgren – mixing