Plague Angel

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Plague Angel

Studio album by Marduk

Released

November 2004

Recorded

September 2004 at Endarker Studio

Genre

Black metal

Length

44:56

Label

Regain Records

Producer

Marduk

Marduk chronology

World Funeral
(2003)

Plague Angel
(2004)

Deathmarch
(2004)

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Plague Angel is the ninth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at Endarker Studio in September 2004 and released that November by Regain Records. Plague Angel is the first Marduk album to feature Mortuus on vocals and Magnus "Devo" Andersson, ex-guitarist for Marduk following his departure in 1994, on bass and mixing. The track Deathmarch features a collaboration with the martial industrial band Arditi.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Hangman of Prague"	3:05
2.	"Throne of Rats"	2:42
3.	"Seven Angels, Seven Trumpets"	2:47
4.	"Life's Emblem"	4:55
5.	"Steel Inferno"	2:23
6.	"Perish in Flames"	7:46
7.	"Holy Blood, Holy Grail"	2:27
8.	"Warschau"	3:18
9.	"Deathmarch"	4:10
10.	"Everything Bleeds"	3:33
11.	"Blutrache"	7:50

Trivia

This album marked a definitive shift in Marduk's lyrical approach. Instead of overt Satanism, much of the lyrics take a more religious-like direction. This is due to Morgan and Mortuus' fascination with the Bible, as they are both admit to being Bible experts (despite Marduk's anti-religious stance, Morgan has admitted that he uses the Bible as inspiration solely for its violent content, as he finds death and violence to be most inspirational for Marduk, and that he can "write a complete song mentally by just looking at a violent painting or image").
"The Hangman of Prague" refers to Reinhard Heydrich after the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Personnel

Marduk

Mortuus – vocals
Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
Magnus "Devo" Andersson – bass, mixing
Emil Dragutinovic – drums

v t e 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) Serpent Sermon (2012)

Demos and EPs	Fuck Me Jesus Glorification Here's No Peace Obedience Deathmarch Iron Dawn

Live albums	Live in Germania Infernal Eternal Warschau

Singles	"Slay the Nazarene" "Hearse"

Compilations	Blackcrowned

Home videos	Funeral Marches and Warsongs Blood Puke Salvation

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