Dark Endless

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feature Andreas Axelsson on vocals and Rikard Kalm on bass, as by Marduk's second album Those of the Unlight, they had been replaced by Joakim Göthberg (who previously had already been contributing vocals) and B. War respectively.

Dark Endless
Studio album by Marduk
Released	December 1992
Recorded	June 1992 at Hellspawn Studios
Genre	Blackened death metal[1]
Length	30:11
Label	No Fashion Records
Producer	Marduk
Marduk chronology
Fuck Me Jesus (1991) Dark Endless (1992) Those of the Unlight (1993)
Alternate cover
2006 re-issue digipak cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[2]
AllMusic	[3]

There also exists a Christian unblack metal band named "Dark Endless" who are named after this particular album.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Still Fucking Dead (Here's No Peace)"	3:58
2.	"The Sun Turns Black as Night"	3:06
3.	"Within the Abyss"	3:41
4.	"The Funeral Seemed to Be Endless"	3:37
5.	"Departure from the Mortals"	3:24
6.	"The Black..."	4:03
7.	"Dark Endless"	3:53
8.	"Holy Inquisition"	4:25

Reissue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
10.	"Departure from the Mortals" (live)	5:39
11.	"Within the Abyss" (live)	5:38
12.	"Still Fucking Dead" (live)	2:05
13.	"The Black Goat" (live)	2:54
14.	"Evil Dead" (Death cover; live)	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

Production

• Dan Swanö – mixing

References

1. Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal. Second edition. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, p. 253f., accessed on 4 January 2013.
2. Bowar, Chad. "Marduk – Dark Endless Review". About.com. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
3. Henderson, Alex. "Dark Endless – Marduk". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 September 2012.