Nightwing (album)

Not to be confused with Nightwings (album).
Nightwing
Studio album by Marduk
Released August 4, 1998
Recorded October – November 1997 at The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden
Genre Black metal
Length 47:23
Label Osmose Productions
Producer Marduk
Marduk chronology
Here's No Peace
(1997)
Nightwing
(1998)
Panzer Division Marduk
(1999)
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Nightwing is the fifth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at The Abyss between October and November 1997 and released in April 1998 by Osmose Productions. The theme of the album was blood, as the band's following studio albums Panzer Division Marduk would be war, and La Grande Danse Macabre would be death, forming a trilogy of "Blood, War and Death," Marduk's vision of what black metal is.

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

Themes

On Nightwing, the theme is blood, divided in two parts: The first in the satanic ways customary of Marduk's lyrics, but the second part tells the history of Vlad 'Tepes' Drakul, 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.

Track listing

Chapter I - Dictionnaire Infernal
No. Title Length
1. "Preludium"   2:09
2. "Bloodtide (XXX)"   6:43
3. "Of Hells Fire"   5:22
4. "Slay the Nazarene"   3:48
5. "Nightwing"   7:34
Chapter II - The Warlord of Wallachia
No. Title Length
6. "Dreams of Blood and Iron"   6:19
7. "Dracole Wayda"   4:07
8. "Kaziklu Bey (The Lord Impaler)"   4:02
9. "Deme Quaden Thyrane"   5:06
10. "Anno Domini 1476"   2:13

Re-Issue Bonus DVD

Live in Rotterdam 1998

  1. Of Hells Fire
  2. Those Of The Unlight
  3. Slay The Nazarene
  4. The Black...
  5. Still Fucking Dead
  6. Sulphur Souls
  7. Dreams Of Blood And Iron
  8. Beyond The Grace Of God

Trivia

Personnel

Marduk
Guest

References

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