Dark Endless
{{Infobox album
| name = Dark Endless
| type = studio
| artist = Marduk
| cover = Marduk - Dark Endless.jpg
| alt =
| released = 23 December 1992
| recorded = June 1992 at Hellspawn Studios
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Blackened death metalDaniel Ekeroth: [https://books.google.com/books?id=jRRvfWp95FIC&pg=PA253 Swedish Death Metal]. Second edition. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, p. 253f., accessed on 4 January 2013.
| length = 30:11
| label = No Fashion Records
| producer = Marduk
| prev_title = Fuck Me Jesus
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Those of the Unlight
| next_year = 1993
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Alternate cover
| type = studio
| cover = Marduk - Dark Endless (2006 reissue).jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = 2006 re-issue digipak cover
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = About.com
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/mardukdark.htm |title=Marduk – Dark Endless Review |last=Bowar |first=Chad |work=About.com |accessdate=13 September 2012 |archive-date=4 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104023944/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/mardukdark.htm |url-status=dead }}
| rev2 = AllMusic
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/dark-endless-mw0000378688 |title=Dark Endless – Marduk |last=Henderson |first=Alex |work=AllMusic |accessdate=13 September 2012}}
| noprose = yes
}}
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feature Andreas Axelsson on vocals and Rikard Kalm on bass, as by Marduk's second album Those of the Unlight, they had been replaced by Joakim Göthberg (who plays drums on this release, along with contributing some vocals) and B. War respectively.
There also exists a Christian unblack metal band named "Dark Endless" who are named after this particular album.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}}
Track listing
- All songs written and arranged by Marduk.
{{track listing
| title1 = Still Fucking Dead (Here's No Peace)
| length1 = 3:58
| title2 = The Sun Turns Black as Night
| length2 = 3:06
| title3 = Within the Abyss
| length3 = 3:41
| title4 = The Funeral Seemed to Be Endless
| length4 = 3:37
| title5 = Departure from the Mortals
| length5 = 3:24
| title6 = The Black...
| length6 = 4:03
| title7 = Dark Endless
| length7 = 3:53
| title8 = Holy Inquisition
| length8 = 4:25
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Reissue bonus tracks
| title10 = Departure from the Mortals
| note10 = live
| length10 = 5:39
| title11 = Within the Abyss
| note11 = live
| length11 = 5:38
| title12 = Still Fucking Dead
| note12 = live
| length12 = 2:05
| title13 = The Black Goat
| note13 = live
| length13 = 2:54
| title14 = Evil Dead
| note14 = Death cover; live
| length14 = 5:39
}}
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.
Re-issue
The album was re-released with bonus tracks in digipak format on 4 April 2006.
Personnel
=Marduk=
- Andreas Axelsson – vocals
- Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
- Magnus "Devo" Andersson – guitar
- Rikard Kalm – bass guitar
- Joakim Göthberg – drums, vocals