Rattenkönig
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Rattenkönig was the 2005 full-length (or LP) release by Mütiilation
. The title is a Germanic
folkloric tale
of rat
s being attached by the ends of their tails.
Mütiilation
Mütiilation is a French one-man black metal band that was affiliated with the Black Legions. Since parting from the The Black Legions in 1996, Meyhna'ch has continued to create music under the band's name.-The Beginning and The Black Legions:...
. The title is a Germanic
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.Originating about 1800 BCE from the Corded Ware Culture on the North...
folkloric tale
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
of rat
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus...
s being attached by the ends of their tails.
Track listing
- "That Night When I Died" (6:45)
- "Testimony of a Sick Brain" (4:57)
- "The Bitter Taste of Emotional Void" (7:33)
- "Black Coma" (4:17)
- "The Pact (The Eye of the Jackal)" (6:49)
- "The Ecstatic Spiral to Hell" (4:35)
- "I, Satan's Carrion" (5:24)
- "Rattenkönig" (7:22)
Trivia
- A digipack CD released by Battlesk'rs Productions and limited to 1000 copies.
- A picture LP was released by End All Life ProductionsEnd All Life ProductionsEnd All Life Productions is a French record label that released many black metal albums in the late 1990s and the 2000s.-Catalogue:-External links:* *...
in 2006.
External links
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