La Grande Danse Macabre

Infobox Album | Name = La Grande Danse Macabre
Type = studio
Artist = Marduk


Released = March 5, 2001
Recorded = December 2000 at The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden
Genre = Black metal
Length = 46:00
Label = Regain Records Century Media
Producer = Marduk
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9dgyl63xp9b link] | Last album = "Infernal Eternal" (2000)
This album = "La Grande Danse Macabre" (2001)
Next album = "Blackcrowned" (2002)

"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.

Themes

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.

Track listing

# "Ars Moriendi" – 1:51
# "Azrael" – 3:06
# "Pompa Funebris 1600" – 2:36
# "Obedience unto Death" – 3:16
# "Bonds of Unholy Matrimony" – 7:03
# "La Grande Danse Macabre" – 8:11
# "Death Sex Ejaculation" – 5:11
# "Funeral Bitch" – 4:58
# "Summer End" – 4:41
# "Jesus Christ... Sodomized" – 4:33

Bonus tracks

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"Samhain" (Limited edition bonus track) – 1:29

Trivia

* The Century Media release features an alternate cover art, one found on t-shirts.

Personnel

* Legion – vocals
* Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
* B. War – bass
* Fredrik Andersson – drums
* Peter Tägtgren – mixing