La Grande Danse Macabre

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. La Grande Danse Macabre is the last Marduk album with Fredrik Andersson on drums.

La Grande Danse Macabre
Studio album by
Marduk
ReleasedMarch 5, 2001
RecordedDecember 2000 at The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden
GenreBlack metal
Length46:00
LabelRegain Records
Century Media
ProducerMarduk
Marduk chronology
Infernal Eternal
(2000)		 La Grande Danse Macabre
(2001)		 Blackcrowned
(2002)
Alternative Cover
Alternative cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

The Century Media release has different cover art, one found on T-shirts.

The album's title is French for "The Great Dance of Death".

The title track ends with a quote from Johan Olof Wallins poem "Angel of Death".

Themes

On La Grande Danse Macabre, the theme is death. The lyrical themes are primarily reflective of this, with litterings present of the Satanic themes on which the band initially based themselves. The band's previous albums had been themed on blood (Nightwing) and war (Panzer Division Marduk), forming a trilogy of "Blood, War and Death", Marduk's vision of what black metal is.

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Ars Moriendi" (instrumental)1:51
2."Azrael"3:06
3."Pompa Funebris 1600" (instrumental)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
No.TitleLength
11."Samhain" (Samhain cover)1:29
Total length:47:04

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Personnel
Marduk
  • Legion – vocals
  • Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
  • B. War – bass guitar
  • Fredrik Andersson – drums
Guest

References
  1. La Grande Danse Macabre at AllMusic
  2. "Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre", Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
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