Dark Endless | ||||
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Studio album by Marduk | ||||
Released | December 1992 | |||
Recorded | June 1992 at Hellspawn Studios | |||
Genre | Blackened death metal | |||
Length | 30:11 | |||
Label | No Fashion | |||
Producer | Marduk | |||
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Dark Endless is the debut studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at Hellspawn Studios during four days in June 1992 and released that December by No Fashion Records. Like many early black metal albums, it mixes black metal vocals with predominantly death metal stylings. Dark Endless is the only Marduk studio album to feature Andreas Axelsson on vocals and Rikard Kalm on bass, as by Marduk's second album Those of the Unlight, they had been replaced by Joakim Göthberg (who previously had already been contributing vocals) and B. War respectively.
There also exists a Christian unblack metal band named "Dark Endless" who are named after this particular album.
The album intro and "Still Fucking Dead (Here's No Peace)", which were initially one track, were divided into two for the Regain Records reissue of the album. The songs are listed in the reissued track listing as "The Eye of Funeral" and "Still Fucking Dead" (dropping "Here's No Peace" from the title). This is why bonus tracks on the disc start at track 10 instead of track 9.
The album was re-released with bonus tracks in digipak format on 4 April 2006.