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Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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Marduk — Rom 5:12 Buy it at Amazon
Since I’m not a Christian (or religious in any way), I had to look up what the Bible passage title was a reference to. Seems perfectly appropriate for a black metal to title an album after all men dying because all men sinned due to Adam’s sin, doesn’t it? Marduk has been one of those bands that have been hailed as one of the great black metal bands out in a very crowded universe of sludgy and grimy black metal. Huge blast beats are bent and twisted into a contorted formation of evil so GRYM that anyone not of the faithful black metal circus might self-combust. Churning guitars waste not a single note as the dangerously venomous vocals grow in strength as the album progresses. This is sacrilegious prose that refocuses the lens of black metal more than just a bit.
- J-Sin
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