Frontschwein

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Frontschwein
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Studio album by
Released19 January 2015
RecordedSeptember – October 2014
StudioEndarker (Norrköping, Sweden)
Genre Black metal
Length52:39
Label Century Media
Producer Marduk
Marduk chronology
Serpent Sermon
(2012)
Frontschwein
(2015)
Viktoria
(2018)

Frontschwein (German slang for "front pig"; see glossary of German military terms) is the thirteenth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. [1] It was released on 19 January 2015 through Century Media Records. It is the band's first album to feature drummer Fredrik Widigs.

Contents

Track listing

All music and lyrics written by Marduk.

No.TitleLength
1."Frontschwein"3:13
2."The Blond Beast"4:26
3."Afrika"4:00
4."Wartheland"4:17
5."Rope of Regret"3:52
6."Between the Wolf-Packs"4:28
7."Nebelwerfer"6:17
8."Falaise: Cauldron of Blood"4:58
9."Doomsday Elite"8:11
10."503"5:12
11."Thousand-Fold Death"3:45
12."Warschau III - Necropolis"2:48

Credits

Marduk

Additional personnel

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