Rom 5:12 [Import]

Marduk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Regain
• ASIN: B000O59ZFC
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,091 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Levelling Dust

2. Cold Mouth Prayer

3. Imago Mortis

4. Through The Belly Of Damnation

5. 1651

6. Limbs Of Worship

7. Accuser/Opposer

8. Vanity Of Vanities

9. Womb Of Perishableness

10. Voices From Avignon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites, June 26, 2008

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Joszef Ruiz "Joszef Ruiz" (Albuquerque, New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rom 5:12 (Audio CD)

As soon as I heard the first song I knew this was going to be good. Rom. 5:12 just kept getting better as it went on.
Soon I discovered that Marduk was turning into my favorite black metal band. I don't care what "true" BM thinks. I'm about being true too...to MYSELF.
Meaty AND clear production. A great balance of all the instruments.
The vocals are guttural yes, but mostly discernable. Switching up from lows to highs and then the extremity gives way to actual singing at times, which is unexpected. The delivery is always so appealing to my sense of what it means to be passionate about what you love most. Most times Mortuus sounds like his throat is slashed open. Real gurgled sounding. His vocal style stands out in a genre that sees stand outs less and less.
The bass has always been up in the mix in Marduk's other albums, and this is still pretty much the case here. Solid.
The guitar IS KILLER! Morgan keeps it interesting with the time changes. Some songs are slow. Kinda epic. Marduk are still FAST. No b/s here. Urgent, confrontational and catchy even. I love Morgan's guitar sound. Devastating and clear, executed with brute will and forcefulness. Makes me glad to be a man.
Now the drummer on the slow tracks is a good man. But the guy on the fast stuff is so damn amazing that I could go on and on about how tight, fast and varied the drumming is. Just plain FUN to listen to! Yeah, this album is fun! Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jesus Loves You Useless Corpse, March 23, 2009

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Barking Crow (Hell, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rom 5:12 (Audio CD)

A pleasant listening experience, a very pleasant listening experience. With Marduk you're never quit sure what you'll get: La Grande Danse Macabre, World Funeral, Plague Angel or Panzer Division Marduk. Although the sound may very, you can be sure that buying a Marduk album is buying a one way ticket to HELL. If those Judeo Bible pushers are right, and this will send me to hell, I'm proud to back my bags and be on my way.

From the moment the album starts to moment it finishes, Rom 5:12 is an assault. An assault on your eardrums, an assault on society, and an assault on tradition. This album pounds and pummels you until you can't possibly take anymore, and when it's over, somehow, you push play again. The songs are fast, intense and have lot's of depth. Someway, somehow, after all these years, Marduk manages to gear up and sound fresh all over again. No matter how many times I listen to this album it never gets old. Every time I listen to it (in the headphones) I hear something new: A bell, A whistle, A growl, something.

Bottom Line: This album is a must have. If you're a fan of Marduk, you will not be disappointed. If you're not a fan, this album might make you one, or at least give you a reason to have some Marduk in your collection.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars (4.5 stars) Marduk at their peak, April 7, 2008

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A. Stutheit "Teyad" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rom 5:12 (Audio CD)

If you claim to know anything about extreme metal, then you know Marduk. They're an influential Swedish black metal quartet that has been terrorizing the neighborhood since the early Nineties with overtly Satanic subject matter, vile vocals, blazing tempos, blistering guitars, and, most famously, breakneck drumming. With that said, do not be too quick to assume that you already know what to expect from their tenth and newest full-length. Marduk's same basic sound may be the same, but "Rom 5:12" also varies the formula a bit by adding a good fair amount of undeniable nuance, depth, tempo variation, and more intelligent, developed songwriting and sophisticated song structures.

There are ten songs presented on this album, and exactly half of them find Marduk stepping outside of their comfort zone and expanding their horizons significantly with new (and dare I say "experimental?") ideas. The first of which, "The Levelling Dust," boasts a good, juicy, mid-tempo, and even quite catchy thrash riff, deft, thumping drums, and extremely vile and acidic vocals from Mortuus, making it a strong opener. Track three, "Imago Mortis," slows the album's pace down considerably with a basic drum beat, slow, slithering, groove-oriented guitar line, and absolutely crawling tempo. Needless to say, it is a terrifically ominous piece, and one that chills the listener to the bone. Next, the brilliant use of a rhythmic, martial drum beat, haunted church-ish organ, and moody, classic-sounding keyboards (which are simultaneously soothing and mildly unsettling) make "1651" equally as dark and spooky. Finally, "Accuser / Opposer" and "Womb of Perishableness" are also both quite restrained, and are backed by fat, churning, stop-start riffs that drone on and on. The former tune is also of note for its strategically-placed use of atmospheric Latin chants (at the end); and the latter for its strong, persistent bass line.

Fear not, though, longtime fans -- the rest of the material on display here is classic Marduk. "Cold Mouth Prayer," which includes guest vocals from former member Joakim Gothberg, is a ferocious, bludgeoning, rip-roaring statement-of-intent. Its surging, searing, wall-of-sound guitars, and furious, pummeling blast beats should fill doctors' offices around the world with patients who need a neck brace. "Through The Belly Of Damnation" (which is highlighted by truly mindblowing hyperblasts), "Limbs Of Worship," "Vanity Of Vanities," and the closing "Voices From Avignon" all follow suit later on by ripping with vengeance and unleashing a murderous, scorched earth attack that is positively skull-crushing. But even these classic Marduk-esque blasters come across as somewhat new and refreshing -- it's clear that the band are as hungry as ever, and it sounds as if they might even have something to prove. As a result, these songs are quite a bit more memorable than what was heard on earlier albums.

"Rom 5:12" is easily Marduk's best and most expansive, accomplished, varied, original, well-rounded, and memorable effort to date. It isn't exactly a groundbreaking album, but it does rank right alongside 2007's finest black metal releases (it's definitely in the top three), and all modern black metal in general. And it sure isn't guaranteed to change the mind of anyone who isn't already a devoted Marduk follower, but all aficionados of the band (and genre) will readily eat it up.