So with the last of the three reviews this week coming into play, Marduk wins album of the year with Wormwood. I know what some people will think..."How Original...a Black Metal band...", but no, Marduk has astounded me this year.

Wormwood opens with "Nowhere, No One, Nothing", a great opener, starting with a rise of power, leading up to an amazing song, which focuses on a lot of techniques, mostly alternate picking and power chord harmony changes. Unlike with Rom 5:12, Wormwood is fast, in your face, all 46 minutes of depraved fucked up lyrics and great vocal work by Mortuus (also of Funeral Mist, a crappier knock off Marduk band)

The first single, Phosphorous Redeemer, is a great single, and was released in early September on the band's Myspace profile. I was so astounded that it incorporated sounds from Those of the Unlight, Plague Angel, and World Funeral...It was as if they got Af Gravf and Legion back into the studio to help Mortuus to sing.

Most of the songs have really lulzy titles, like "Chorus of Cracking Necks", which not only lulzy, but it has a badass ring to it...I mean shit, who would think of that but Morgan and Mortuus? The chorus to that song is pretty depraved too:

"Swaying your blood over the holy chairs
Over the Black Madonna
Swaying your blood over the holy chairs
Over the thirteen stairs

...On this chorus of cracking necks"

As simplistic as it is, it still has a depraved feel to it.

When it comes to the instrumental parts without Mortuus singing, the album does kind of feel out of place, as if it is missing it's long lost twin or something. Mortuus' vocals bring the album together.

I first heard this album on September 16th, a day before my birthday, and the first day it got leaked on the internet and all I could think is "thank you, marduk...". I would buy this album from them, had I the money to do so, but I don't. Don't be like me and download it. Go the fuck to ebay and purchase it. I'm serious. Mortuus will rape your shit if you don't. He always watches.

TL;DR: I rarely give this, but...100/100