Band: Marduk
Song: Frontschwein
Album: Frontschwein (2015)
Genre: Black Metal
Honestly, I wasn't super sure how I was gonna beat the lineup from last year's week, but I think we've managed to equal the quality of bands once again this time around.
Cause really, what's more evil than a band that sings about not only Satan, but nazis too?
Meet Marduk. A little trivia on them, Marduk is the name of an ancient Babylonian god, associated with water, vegetation, judgement, and magic. Mythologically, it seems like Marduk wasn't a very nice person.
The band are, unsurprisingly, also not nice people, actually setting out to be "the most blasphemous band in the world" according to founding member Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson. With heavily anti religious themes to their music in addition to the traditional satanic swing most Black Metal bands fall on, we get a little something special with Marduk. That something special is support of the Third Reich.
I suppose you could kinda look at it from the light of Slayer's Angel Of Death in which it's a tale of horrific things but it doesn't endorse it, but that'd be inaccurate in this case. Various members of the band are annoyed about the Nazi allegations, but the founder of the band has also said that he's proud his grandfather served in the German military in WWII. It's little things here and there that just open up a lot of what they say to some scrutiny. Check out this interview if you're interested in digging a little more into the mind of Morgan. It's a good read, but outside of him saying things about being annoyed about being associated with racism and such, not straight up disavowing connection.
But the main takeaway from the interview you should get is their devoutness to the Black Metal scene.
Morgan has a lot of thoughts about bands who call themselves Black Metal but don't deal directly with Satan and anti-religious themes. "It should be, otherwise it isn’t black metal. For me it’s strange to see all these bands that say that “Oh, we are kind of black metal” just because they sound in a specific way or have a specific type of vocals while singing about dragons or whatever; for me that is not black metal. I don’t judge it, I just don’t care about it, it’s not part of my scene." Metal Blast Article By J Salmeron - July 15, 2013
As you can see, Morgan really couldn't care less about the vocal style, music style, or anything like that, as long as they deal with Satanism as a whole. He's fine with direct or philosophical connection, it just has to be there. Somewhere in that interview he even mentions that even lighter Psychedelic Rock stuff can be Black Metal associated as long as it has the central theme.
Fascination with dark points of history or not, these are some nasty people. They do make a heavy commitment to quality music, insane amounts of energy, and staying true to their message. Kinda like Watain last year actually. So yeah, here's Watain's equal in my mind, have fun with it.
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