Formed with the ambitious goal of being 'the most brutal and blasphemous metal act ever', Marduk have sweated for over two decades to bring blood, darkness and an unrelentingly extreme brand of metal to the world, rightfully earning a place as one of Sweden's most famous -- or perhaps more accurately, infamous -- black metal bands in the process. Unleashed at the very birth of the nineties, the band has continued to shed its skin, serpentine-like from album to album, each time revealing new layers, both subtle and stark, that have kept them at the forefront of the genre. 'Serpent Sermon' is no different; it is both the logical next step and a huge leap forward for a band that continues to be a guiding light -- albeit a bleak, black one -- for over two decades, and counting...