All those spooky-dooky lyrics, the strained bark-singing, thrashy guitars and relentless bass drum tommy-gunning, the caked makeup, the fake (or is it?! yes, it is) blood — this is a joke, right? "Ultra blasphemous" Swedish death/black metal act Marduk is either the real-life Dethklok or just thinks it is. Oooh, think they'll play anything off Fuck Me Jesus, or will it just be their sellout shit from Plague Angel and World Funeral?
Thu., Aug. 13, 9 p.m., $16, with Withered, Black Anvil and Mortal Decay, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.co
Sat., Aug. 15, 7:30 p.m., $25-$110, with India.Arie and Vaughn Anthony, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 52nd Street and Parkside Avenue, 215-893-1999, manncenter.org.
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