Now this is more like it! Ripping, raw, and at their very fucking best, Marduk unleash a godly live (!!) album upon us. This brings back memories of seen them live in Rome a year ago, and did they ever bloody well impress me then...but THIS...*fucking* amazing! It brings forth the best in each song, violent to unthinkable extremes (Fredrik's drums are *as* fast as on the album-he speeds nothing up studio wise), guitars are thick and nicely mix with the bass (which is heard just as on the albums) and Legion's vox are good too. This is a "best of" compilation of sorts, since the most popular Marduk tracks are nicely represented here, in their finest fashion. This is the way these guys should sound if you ask me, thick, raw, primitive...amazing. The only track I really don't think transported itself so well onto this live album is "Darkness it Shall be" from "Heaven Shall Burn...", mainly because the drums are overdone, and I really never liked that song in the first place. Legion spews forth blasphemy in a fine way, introducing various songs (such as The Black...-by screeching "LET JESUS FUCK YOU") in a vile way, and screams his way throughout each track, not sounding particularly bad at any point. Session guitarist Peter Tägtgren (yes, he of Hypocrisy fame) brings forth album quality guitar mix-up's with Morgan, a necessary touch to properly play the songs I suppose. Here's a track listing:

1.Beyond The Grace of God
2.Sulphur Souls
3.The Black...
4.Darkness it Shall Be
5.Materialized In Stone
6.Infernal Eternal
7.On Darkened Wings (this sounds great)
8.Wolves
9.Untrodden Paths (Wolves pt.II)
10.Dracul Va Domni...
11.Legion
12.Total Desaster (Yes the Destruction song)

Well, what more can I say? A fucking great album, an hour long (!), great production, nice packaging...Marduk deserve to be respected as one of (and still!) the greatest bands to ever come out of this genre. They nicely prove it here.

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