La Grande Danse Macabre
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{{Infobox album
| name = La Grande Danse Macabre
| type = studio
| artist = Marduk
| cover = Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 5, 2001
| recorded = December 2000
| venue =
| studio = The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden
| genre = Black metal
| length = 46:00
| label = Regain Records
Century Media
| producer = Marduk
| prev_title = Infernal Eternal
| prev_year = 2000
| next_title = Blackcrowned
| next_year = 2002
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Alternative Cover
| type = studio
| cover = Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre alternative cover.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = Alternative cover
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r527684}}
| noprose = yes
}}
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. La Grande Danse Macabre is the last Marduk album with Fredrik Andersson on drums.
The Century Media release has different cover art, one found on T-shirts.
The album's title is French for "The Great Dance of Death".
The title track ends with a quote from Johan Olof Wallins poem "Angel of Death".{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
Themes
On La Grande Danse Macabre, the theme is death. The lyrical themes are primarily reflective of this, with litterings present of the Satanic themes on which the band initially based themselves. The band's previous albums had been themed on blood (Nightwing) and fire (Panzer Division Marduk), forming a trilogy of "Blood, Fire and Death". This trio of albums are considered as Marduk's tribute to Bathory, and their 1988 breakthrough album, "Blood Fire Death".
Track listing
{{track listing
| title1 = Ars Moriendi
| note1 = instrumental
| length1 = 1:51
| title2 = Azrael
| length2 = 3:06
| title3 = Pompa Funebris 1660
| note3 = instrumental
| length3 = 2:36
| title4 = Obedience unto Death
| length4 = 3:16
| title5 = Bonds of Unholy Matrimony
| length5 = 7:03
| title6 = La Grande Danse Macabre
| length6 = 8:11
| title7 = Death Sex Ejaculation
| length7 = 5:11
| title8 = Funeral Bitch
| length8 = 4:58
| title9 = Summers End
| length9 = 4:41
| title10 = Jesus Christ... Sodomized
| length10 = 4:33
|total_length = 45:25
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Limited edition bonus track
| title11 = Samhain
| note11 = Samhain cover
| length11 = 1:29
| total_length = 47:04
}}
Personnel
;Marduk
- Legion – vocals
- Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson – guitar
- B. War – bass guitar
- Fredrik Andersson – drums
;Guest
- Peter Tägtgren – mixing
References
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Category:Century Media Records albums
Category:Regain Records albums
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