Opus Nocturne (Opus Nocturne - Marduk)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Opus Nocturne - Marduk
Date:	31/12/08 (17 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Evil.

Disadvantages: Drum sound is disappointing.

Marduk's third album continues on a high and manages to match or even exceed its predecessor, boasting the same degree of diversity that is evidently very necessary, considering how the few songs that fail to vary their style, such as 'Untrodden Paths,' end up sounding comparatively tedious.

The guitars are still excellent, but due to the production, or perhaps simply their often inhuman speed, the drums put across an unappealing false sound, but this is soon forgotten. The vocals are particularly impressive, cackling and screaming with all the intensity of black metal that bands soon lost as they began to imitate an established style, and the band isn't afraid to slow down its fierce tempo to carry off a chilling, atmospheric song in the form of the penultimate 'Deme Quaden Thyrane,' and the slower rocker 'Materialized in Stone,' the latter being fondly reminiscent of early Bathory.

Elsewhere, the tremolo-plucking guitar riffs blare out of tinny amplifiers in the classic style established by Darkthrone and their contemporaries.

Summary: Marduk's third album (1994).