Artist: MARDUK
Album: DARK ENDLESS 25 ANN. REISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1992/ 2012
EAN/UPS: 5051099824621
Media type: CD

The inclusion of Marduk’s debut album in Century Media’s Death Certificate series of reissues highlights the virulent strain of death metal that permeates the band’s roots. A pungent funereal ambience pervades throughout Dark Endless, adding an extra mean streak to their fearsome black metal attack.

Marking the album’s twentieth anniversary, the latest incarnation restores instrumental opener ‘The Eye of the Funeral’ as a track in its own right (ominous discordant piano providing a menacing hint of the onslaught to come) and adds four live cuts from 1991 and two rehearsal recordings from 1990. Of the six real extras, only the live version of the magnificently titled ‘The Black Goat Of The Woods With A Thousand Young’ is of any interest to all but the die-hard fan, as all are lost to the kind of piss-poor audio quality associated with the nadir of the bootlegging scene.

TRACKLIST:

1 – The Eye Of The Funeral
2 – Still Fucking Dead
3 – The Sun Turns Black As Night
4 – Within The Abyss
5 – The Funeral Seemed To Be Endless
6 – Departure From The Mortals
7 – The Black
8 – Dark Endless
9 – Holy Inquisition

BONUS TRACKS:

10 – Departure Of The Mortals (Live 1991)
11 – Within The Abyss (Live 1991)
12 – Still Fucking Dead (Demo)
13 –  The Black Goat Of The Woods With A Thousand Young (Live 1991)
14 – Dark Council / Departure From The Mortals (Demo)
15 – Within The Abyss (Rehearsals)