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For Swedish black metal icons Marduk, war is a topic familiar. Like moth to flame, they’ve been drawn to modern-era bloodshed—since 1999’s Panzer Divi-sion Marduk in fact. When the Swedes first moved on from reapers autumnal, black suns, and darkened wings, a lifetime’s worth of intense and very real source material lay in front of them. From the brutality of the World Wars to bat-tles before and after, Marduk’s progression into grim historians—or, at the very least period-specific gearheads—is now complete on new album, Viktoria.

The tram to Bondi might have stopped running years ago, but that hasn’t stopped Tramtracks from launching "Then?", a fabulous vinyl recording of some of their finer tunes – though totally reimagined and produced into a contemporary prog rock sound. Released on Prommo Grande Records this selection of hand-picked tunes bears wonderful fruit.