Black Mark Attack

• Artist: Various Artists
• Release Date: June 25, 1996
• Total Time: 45:17
• Type: Collection (various artists)
• Genre: Rock

Review

By 1996, Sweden's fast-growing Black Mark Label had built itself a sizable roster of acts, sizable enough to warrant a label-wide sampler named, appropriately enough, Black Mark Attack. But though the company had quickly achieved success and notoriety thanks to its extreme metal bands (Bathory, Edge of Sanity, etc.), this compilation handily proves that Black Mark was a far more diverse and open-minded place. How else can one explain contributions as varied as Bathory's grandiose Viking anthems, Necrophobic's straightforward death metal, Memento Mori's melodic power metal, Cemetary's spacy goth rock, Agressor's French-afied thrash, and Lake of Tears' trippy psychedelic metal? Catch the drift? Perhaps most collectable of all, Black Mark Attack also features an unreleased track by the mighty Edge of Sanity. A fine sampler for curious new fans. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
The Sword	Quorthon	Bathory	(4:01)
Spawned By Evil	David Parland, Tobias Sidegard	Necrophobic	(3:19)
Murder, Dividead	Edge of Sanity	Edge of Sanity	(3:16)
Destiny Eternity	Reinier Schenk	Yosh	(6:55)
Endlessly		Memento Mori	(6:00)
Memories	Charles Ives, Fredde Lundberg	Divine Sin	(4:20)
Sundown	Mathias Lodmalm	Cemetary	(3:51)
Another Paradigm		Tad Morose	(4:58)
The Word of Dog		Agressor	(4:05)
Twilight	Wynton Marsalis, Michael Mason, Daniel Brennare	Lake of Tears	(4:32)