Murder Metal

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Murder Metal
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 22, 2003
Genre
Length44:05
Label Decomposed Records, Nuclear Blast
Macabre chronology
Dahmer
(2000)
Murder Metal
(2003)
Grim Scary Tales
(2011)

Murder Metal is the fourth album by American extreme metal band Macabre. It was released on September 22, 2003, through Decomposed Records. [1] The album was reissued by Nuclear Blast in 2019 through Bandcamp [2] and in 2022 it was reissue and remastered for CD, cassette and vinyl. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Acid Bath Vampire" - 3:46 - John George Haigh
  2. "You're Dying to Be with Me" - 2:43 - Dennis Nilsen
  3. "Fatal Foot Fetish" - 2:08 Jerry Brudos
  4. "The Hillside Stranglers" - 1:38 - The Hillside Stranglers
  5. "Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" - 1:09 - Dorothea Puente
  6. "The Iceman" - 2:44 - Richard Kuklinski
  7. "Poison" - 1:16 - Graham Fredrick Young
  8. "Werewolf of Bedburg" - 5:29 - Peter Stumpp
  9. "Morbid Minister" - 1:28 - Gary M. Heidnik
  10. "The Wustenfeld Man Eater" - 2:32 - Armin Meiwes
  11. "Diary of Torture" - 2:14 - Robert Berdella
  12. "Jack the Ripper" - 4:08 - Jack the Ripper
  13. "Fritz Haarmann der Metzger" - 12:50 - Fritz Haarmann

Personnel

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References

  1. Metal Archives
  2. "Murder Metal by MACABRE". Bandcamp. Dec 19, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. "Macabre - Murder Metal". Discogs .