Marduk rocked the Saturday night in Argentina
Saturday night, November 1st, Argentina gathered a multitude of Black Metal fans to welcome the legendary Swedish band Marduk, one of the genre’s leading exponents, who visited the country as part of a Latin American tour celebrating their 35th anniversary. The event took place at Club Cultural Bula, where the night was shrouded in black and the gates of hell opened for one of the most extreme shows of the year.
Around 8 PM, the Argentinian band Psicosfera took to the stage. With a spectacular stage production, they delivered an excellent show, both musically and visually, showcasing their signature Avant-garde Black Metal style and performing some new songs from their repertoire.
After 9 PM, Marduk appeared to demolish Bula, unleashing hell by performing their most emblematic album, “Panzer Division Marduk,” in its entirety. They began with the title track, followed by “Baptism by Fire,” “Christraping Black Metal,” “Scorched Earth,” “Beast of Prey,” “Blooddawn,” “502,” and “Fistfucking God’s Planet.” All classics from this great album, essential to the development of Black Metal in the late 90s, and, of course, influential on bands that later emerged in the Swedish and international scene. Each song conveyed a sense of war beneath the stage, where fans unleashed their euphoria in an endless mosh pit that transformed Bula into a battleground. The nightmare seemed endless as classics from other albums were invoked to reaffirm Marduk’s impressive discography, featuring “Those of the Unlight,” “With Satan and Victorious Weapons,” “Shovel Beats Scepter,” “Slay the Nazarene,” and “The Black Tormentor of Satan,” spanning different phases of the band.
The twilight of hell culminated with the classics “The Blond Beast” and the emblematic “Wolves,”
sealing a dark and extreme night, where the voices of the fans who positioned Marduk at the pinnacle of Extreme Metal still echo off the walls, thus closing a
historic evening.
Photos by Jorgelina Fernandez
Review by Luis Pucheta
Produced by Noiseground