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Marduk - Nightwing (1998)

𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐏𝐓𝐒 - 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 & 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐋…

Marduk - Nightwing (1998)

Tracklist:

Chapter I - Dictionnaire Infernal:

𝟶𝟷. 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚞𝚒𝚖 (𝟸:𝟶𝟿)

𝟶𝟸. 𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚝𝚒𝚍𝚎 (𝚇𝚇𝚇) (𝟼:𝟺𝟹)

𝟶𝟹. 𝙾𝚏 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎 (𝟻:𝟸𝟸)

𝟶𝟺. 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚊𝚣𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚎 (𝟹:𝟺𝟾)

𝟶𝟻. 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 (𝟽:𝟹𝟺)

Chapter II - The Warlord of Wallachia

𝟶𝟼. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸𝚛𝚘𝚗 (𝟼:𝟷𝟿)

𝟶𝟽. 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚎 𝚆𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚊 (𝟺:𝟶𝟽)

𝟶𝟾. 𝙺𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚔𝚕𝚞 𝙱𝚎𝚢 (𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝙸𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛) (𝟺:𝟶𝟸)

09. 𝙳𝚎𝚖𝚎 𝚀𝚞𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚢𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚎 (𝟻:𝟶𝟼)

10. 𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚘 𝙳𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚒 𝟷𝟺𝟽𝟼 (𝟸:𝟷𝟷)

Marduk:

𝙻𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚗 – 𝚅𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚜

𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚛 𝙷å𝚔𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗 – 𝙶𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛

𝙱. 𝚆𝚊𝚛 – 𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚜

𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚔 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗 – 𝙳𝚛𝚞𝚖𝚜

Production & Layout:

𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚃ä𝚐𝚝𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚗 – 𝙼𝚒𝚡𝚒𝚗𝚐

𝙺𝚛𝚒𝚜 𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚒𝚖𝚙 – 𝙲𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙰𝚛𝚝

𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗 – 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 (𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚗)

Overview:

Marduk released their fifth full-length studio album Nightwing on March 28th, 1998 via Osmose Productions. It was recorded and mixed at The Abyss between October and November 1997.

The theme of the album was blood, as the band's following, war-related studio album's Panzer Division Marduk would be fire, and La Grande Danse Macabre would be death, forming a trilogy of "𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑," an homage to Bathory's Blood Fire Death album.

Background:

On Nightwing, the theme (blood), is divided into two parts: The first in the Satanic ways customary of Marduk's lyrics, but the second part tells the history of Vlad 'Tepes' Draculea, the Impaler of Wallachia who fought against the Ottoman invasion on Europe, giving continuity to the history started on "𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦", a track from their third studio album, Opus Nocturne, and continued with "𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭 𝘝𝘢 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘪 𝘋𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘶 𝘐𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢" from Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered.

"𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦" appears also here, rearranged, with Legion's vocals and a little change in the lyrics at the end. The final song of the album, "𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘰 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪 1476", ends with a sample from the fascist march "𝘓𝘢 𝘓𝘶𝘱𝘵ă’ 𝘔𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪" ("𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳‘𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩") by the Romanian Iron Guard.

Noteworthy:

The chapter to which the title track belongs is uncertain, as "Nightwing" is completely absent from the track listing on the back cover of the album, despite being track 5 on the disc. It is probable that it is an interlude between the fast blast beat of the first chapter and the darker, slower second chapter.

An anticipation to the chapter "𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢" can be found at the end of the "𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭 𝘝𝘢𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘪 𝘋𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘶 𝘐𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢" lyrics, the #7 track in Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered. The last verses are not sung, but they say "Greater stories are yet to be told".

The introduction to the track "𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦" is a line from the 1973 film The Wicker Man.

The main musical theme of the track "𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨" is a variation on the main musical theme recurring in the Subspecies films released by Full Moon Features.

Reissues:

In 2008, Nightwing was re-released with a new mastering, an alternative cover artwork and a live DVD of a show in Rotterdam 1998.

Reissue Bonus Disc:

Live in Rotterdam 1998:

𝟶𝟷. 𝙾𝚏 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎

𝟶𝟸. 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝙾𝚏 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝

𝟶𝟹. 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚊𝚣𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚎

𝟶𝟺. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔...

𝟶𝟻. 𝚂𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝙵𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚍

𝟶𝟼. 𝚂𝚞𝚕𝚙𝚑𝚞𝚛 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚜

𝟶𝟽. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸𝚛𝚘𝚗

𝟶𝟾. 𝙱𝚎𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙾𝚏 𝙶𝚘𝚍

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