La Grande Danse Macabre
| La Grande Danse Macabre | ||||
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| Studio album by Marduk | ||||
| Released | March 5, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | December 2000 at The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Length | 46:00 | |||
| Label |
Regain Records Century Media | |||
| Producer | Marduk | |||
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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
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Ars Moriendi" | 1:51 |
| 2. | "Azrael" | 3:06 |
| 3. | "Pompa Funebris 1600" | 2:36 |
| 4. | "Obedience unto Death" | 3:16 |
| 5. | "Bonds of Unholy Matrimony" | 7:03 |
| 6. | "La Grande Danse Macabre" | 8:11 |
| 7. | "Death Sex Ejaculation" | 5:11 |
| 8. | "Funeral Bitch" | 4:58 |
| 9. | "Summers End" | 4:41 |
| 10. | "Jesus Christ... Sodomized" | 4:33 |
Total length: |
45:25 | |
| Limited edition bonus track | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 11. | "Samhain" | 1:29 |
Total length: |
47:04 | |
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
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