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MARDUK: Quality Columbus Footage Posted Online

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 11, 2012

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Quality video footage of MARDUK‘s June 7 performance at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio can be seen below.

MARDUK is currently touring North America with support from 1349, WITHERED and WEAPON.

MARDUK‘s 12th studio album, “Serpent Sermon”, was released last month via Blooddawn Productions/Century Media Records. The effort was made available as standard CD, vinyl and limited-edition media book with an exclusive bonus track entitled “Coram Satanae”.

“Serpent Sermon” track listing:

01. Serpent Sermon
02. Messianic Pestilence
03. Souls For Belial
04. Into Second Death
05. Temple Of Decay
06. Damnation’s Gold
07. Hail Mary (Piss-Soaked Genuflexion)
08. M.A.M.M.O.N.
09. Gospel Of The Worm
10. World Of Blades

Source: Blabbermouth.net

MARDUK Guitarist Claims He Owns Skull And Brain Matter From MAYHEM’s DEAD

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 5, 2012

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When singer Per “Dead” Ohlin of Norwegian black metal pioneers MAYHEM committed suicide in April 1991, it was widely reported that the band’s founding guitarist Euronymous — who discovered the body — made necklaces from pieces of the skull.

Dead‘s suicide became the stuff of black metal legend. Euronymous reportedly took several pictures of the body and allegedly sent one of the pictures to the owner of Warmaster Records in Colombia, who then used it as the cover of the bootleg live album “Dawn Of The Black Hearts”, released in 1995.

During Loudwire‘s recent interview with MARDUK‘s Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson, the guitarist confirmed that he does indeed possess a piece of Dead‘s skull a s well as lead fragments from the bullet which killed Dead and a piece of his brain matter.

“Yeah, sure,” Morgan confirmed. “I got it way back, right after he died. Back in those days they [MAYHEM] were living in a house and didn’t have the best financial aspects, so they didn’t even have a telephone. So I remember I was celebrating New Year’s in 1991 with Dead back home in Sweden. Then he got back, he wrote one letter [to me], then someone told me he’s killed himself.”

Morgan continued, “So I wrote a letter [to MAYHEM] and then I got the reply back from the guitar player [Euronymous] — ‘Well he just shot himself and here’s a piece of his skull.’ It was a shotgun, you know? So [he also sent me] two pieces of the lead and a piece of the wet brain. I’ve still got it. I keep it well protected. . . He sent it to all these former comrades of Dead. A few of them. There were not that many people … maybe five.”

Source: Blabbermouth.net

MARDUK: new album “Serpent Sermon” out today

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 29, 2012

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CENTURY MEDIA has issued the following:

The hierophants of Swedish Black Metal have started preaching the “Serpent Sermon”. MARDUK‘s 12th studio album will hit the streets today. “Serpent Sermon” is both a memorial for the glory of Black Metal as well as a signpost for a whole scene that far too often drowns in mediocrity and predictability, offering ten diverse songs within the entire spectrum of Black Metal. Be it the opener and title track with its majestic chorus, the creeping doom beast “Temple Of Decay”, “Souls For Belial” or “Gospel Of The Worm” with their pure and untamed blasting ferocity or the epic “World Of Blades”, each track of “Serpent Sermon” relegates every rivaling band further to the fringe. This is Black Metal mastery.

“Serpent Sermon” will be available in the following formats:
1. Standard CD Jewelcase
2. Deluxe Mediabook CD (with 40-page booklet and the exclusive track “Coram Satanae”)
3. Deluxe LP (with 180g vinyl, gatefold sleeve and kingsize 12-page LP-booklet)
4. Digital download

Vinyl collectors beware: An exclusive LP version on dark-red vinyl is available on www.cmdistro.com. This version will also include an exclusive 7inch EP (on dark-red vinyl as well) with the bonus track of the Mediabook CD “Coram Satanae”. Be fast as this version is limited to only 300 copies and almost gone by now.

MARDUK International press quotes:

“This is MARDUK’s definitive album. A masterpiece” 9/10 Rock Hard (IT)

“MARDUK beats up every black metal act with its “Serpent Sermon” album.” Inferno (FI)

“…the vitriolic fire and brimstone is there in spades and ist poisonous bite is potent.” 4/5 Terrorizer (UK)

“After 22 years this band still got it, we don’t need to say more.” 91/100 – Rock Tribune (BE)

“MARDUK proves again to be the absolute top of Black Metal!” Aardschok (NL)

“[MARDUK’s] latest album, ‘Serpent Sermon’, is something of a return to form-or more accurately a return to Satanism…’Serpent Sermon’ is nothing if not a lyrical blitzkrieg on the tenets of Christianity.” Revolver Magazine (USA)

“Some beasts seem to be immune to the burdens of old age” 8/10 – Sweden Rock (SE)

“…maybe the most powerful black metal album of the year.” 8/10 – Close Up (SE)

MARDUK summer festival appearances:
July 5 – Pratteln, Z7, CH, ExtremeFest Switzerland
July 6-7 – Hünxe, DE, ExtremeFest Germany
July 6-7 – St. Pölten AT, ExtremeFest Austria
July 27 – Malmö, SE, Faceplant Metalfest

MARDUK Guitarist: We Don’t Want To Be Extreme Metal Just For The Sake Of It

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 28, 2012

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Birgit Haugen of Metal Storm recently conducted an interview with guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson of Swedish black metallers MARDUK. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Metal Storm: “Serpent Sermon” will be your 12th studio album and your first release on Century Media; do you have a worldwide deal and do you also still have your own label Blooddawn Productions?

Morgan: We did a worldwide deal with Century Media but also still have Blooddawn Productions, which is basically my label. [For] the past 10 years we also had our own label and did distribution through a Swedish label, Regain Records. Things were kinda falling apart with them so we decided to move on and got offers from more or less all of the extreme music labels. But in the end we decided that Century Media had the strongest foundation and the strongest plateau for a band like us to work with. So far so good. [laughs]

Metal Storm: So Century Media didn’t put any restrictions on you?

Morgan: No, because otherwise we wouldn’t be on Century Media. This is the most important thing to us and all the labels we have ever worked with never tried to interfere with that. We need to have total artistic freedom because otherwise we would just put the music out ourselves. We don’t accept any interference with our production, layout or whatsoever. We do our job and then they can do theirs; take care of the album.

Metal Storm: You took your time to record “Serpent Sermon” and Mortuus‘s vocals have become somewhat more distinct over the years. So can we expect some groundbreaking stuff or did you stick with the same great MARDUK formula and just defined it some?

Morgan: I don’t know if it’s groundbreaking; people who listen to the album would have to decide that. For me, the importance of groundbreaking is that the music is coming from the heart and soul; that is what matters to me. And then if it sounds like some of our earlier albums, I wouldn’t mind, as long as we are unleashing the energy and creativity the way it speaks to us. That’s what it’s all about. We don’t want to be extreme metal just for the sake of being called extreme metal.

Metal Storm: The album cover looks really old school as well. Was that intentionally and who did the artwork?

Morgan: The artwork was done by our vocalist Mortuus. We did the whole album on a DIY path; it was recorded in our bass player’s studio, produced by ourselves, then also mixed by our bass player and the layout was done by our vocalist. We have worked on the concept of everything. So who should better know how to do the artwork and visual reflections of the music than us? And speaking of the album cover; it is kind of simplistic and minimalistic compared to our others, and I think it really reflects the spirit of the album. You have the pentagram and you also have the devil or demon, or whatever you want to make out of it, and it very much symbolizes the diabolic sense of the album. It doesn’t have that many pictures in the booklet as some of our others but I think it portrays the visual side of the music and lyrics.

Read the entire interview from Metal Storm. Source: Blabbermouth.net

MARDUK: New Audio Interview With MORGAN STEINMEYER HÅKANSSON

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 24, 2012

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On May 1, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with guitarist and primary songwriter Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson of Swedish black metallers MARDUK. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube below.

“Souls For Belial”, the new Håkan Sjödin-directed video from MARDUK, can be seen below. The song comes off the band’s 12th studio album, “Serpent Sermon”, which will be released via Blooddawn Productions/Century Media Records on the following dates:

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway: Friday, May 25
Rest Of Europe: Monday, May 28
Spain, Italy: Tuesday, May 29
Sweden, Finland, Hungary: Wednesday, May 30
Australia, New Zealand: Friday, June 1
USA/Canada: June 5

“Serpent Sermon” track listing:

The album will be made available as standard CD, vinyl and limited-edition media book with an exclusive bonus track entitled “Coram Satanae”.

Several photos from the studio can be seen at this location.

MARDUK will embark on a North American tour in June with support from 1349, WITHERED and WEAPON. Source: Blabbermouth.net

MARDUK Banned From Playing In Minsk

Posted by aliblackdiamond on May 15, 2012

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According to Naviny.by, the Prosecutor General’s Office has banned Swedish black metal band MARDUK from playing a show in Minsk, Belarus.

Pavel Radzivonaw, a departmental head at the Prosecutor General’s Office, told reporters on Monday that MARDUK‘s concert, scheduled for May 22, would not take place.

“The band preaches Satanism, which has nothing to do with art. This is an affront to Christian values, they preach the ideas of death, of the Third Reich,” he said, describing the band’s songs as “destructive.”

Four other groups that were scheduled to appear with MARDUK at the Re:Public club — including KATAKLYSM and VADER — will be allowed to perform. However, Radzivonaw warned, their concerts may be stopped if they involve violations of laws.

“Souls For Belial”, the new Håkan Sjödin-directed video from MARDUK, can be seen below. The song comes off the band’s 12th studio album, “Serpent Sermon”, which will be released via Blooddawn Productions/Century Media Records on the following dates: