The best of the three is probably "Departure from the Mortals" by virtue of it being the most recognisable.
They are packed with creepy melodies and hard riffs, and none of them outstay their welcome.
They are just solid, evil death metal tunes. None of the three songs on here are compositional masterpieces. I get the sense that Swanö was looking to Tomas Skogberg (at Studio Sunlight) for inspiration when he recorded this, but he also had an emergent trademark sound of his own. He named his studio 'Gorysound' instead of the more professional ‘Unisound’ in these early days. This is one of Dan Swanö's earliest recording jobs, and he was finding his feet as a producer here. The sound is rawer and fuzzier than on the album, and has an earthiness that the album lacks. There is magic in the underground production that blurs the boundaries between one riff and the next. All three songs would later appear on the album. The music on this demo will be familiar to anyone who has heard the band's debut album ("Dark Endless"). The originator of this underground Swedish ‘blackened’ style was undeniably Grotesque (particularly their "Incantation" EP), Marduk also played their part in its development (along with Darkified and Necrophobic). It differed to the punky vibes of more famous death metal bands like Entombed and Dismember. I like this evil style of Swedish death metal keyboards, hard riffs, rasping vocals. Marduk only released one demo, which was unusual for a Swedish death metal band of the time, most of whom were stacked with pre-album output. They sounded nothing like the speedy black metal band of later recordings. In 1991, Marduk played a blistering form of blackened death metal.
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