Where lies Marduk in today's black metal pecking order? With due respect to the arts, we don't order such outputs, it would imply that there's a certain standard to be observed & those falling below expectations would be deemed less competent. In art, competency has lesser considerations when the level of mastery is achieved. Marduk had been up there all along, the band's finesse had been honed & refined with every release. Serpent Sermon is another episode in competency documentation; there isn't a fall in standards to be heard, business as usual for the quartet. However, of late, I hear this embrace of crawling moments, it's like the band deems recess to be obligatory, they were ingredients in Wormwood & ROM 5:12 as well. Don't expect too many solos though, it's not staple for Marduk songs especially so in this release.
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what kind of tone that you can hear out of this kind on music?
black metal proponents embrace extremity. not everyone would set their distortion levels to stun & EQ their amps to very intrusive settings & tell everyone it's wonderful. people are after a 'nice' tone in general, especially so when they embrace music. in this genre, people dare to embrace the alternative to 'nice', they aren't afraid to tell people that, hey, 'nice' doesn't work in this context.
on rom, wormwood and serpent sermon there are tracks that sound almost similar to each other, specifically the slower tracks like accuser/opposer on rom, to redirect perdition on wormwood and temple of decay on serpent sermon, and this bugs me... at times this could sound as though they have run out of ideas...
i suspect those were written in a single sitting but included in different releases
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