La Grande Danse Macabre | ||||
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Studio album by Marduk | ||||
Released | March 5, 2001 | |||
Recorded | December 2000 at The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden | |||
Genre | Black metal | |||
Length | 46:00 | |||
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Regain Records Century Media |
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Producer | Marduk | |||
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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. The theme of the album is death, as Nightwing was blood, and Panzer Division Marduk was war, forming a trilogy of "Blood, War and Death," Marduk's vision of what black metal is. La Grande Danse Macabre is the last Marduk album to feature Fredrik Andersson on drums.
On La Grande Danse Macabre, the theme is death. The lyrical themes are primarily reflective of this, with litterings of the Satanic themes the band initially based themselves on, present.