Panzer Division Marduk - Marduk

Along with many of their contemporaries, notably Poland's Behemoth. Marduk's sound has veered increasingly towards a style of black metal concerned overly with heaviness and intensity at the expensive of creativity. If you're after something fierce and heavy-handed, this is certainly an album to check out, pummelling the listener with controlled bursts of violence that don't outstay their welcome, but as is probably obvious from my lower rating of this album compared to the band's earlier offerings, it's not a style that I'm particularly fond of. The band makes gratuitous use of war sound effects in an unconvincing bid to add the sense of ...  Read the complete review