topic Re: Marduk Album Removed in Content Questions

Marduk Album Removed

Pička — Mon, 09 May 2022 10:04:54 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

Irrelevant

My Question or Issue

An album from a particular artist has recently been removed.

Artist: Marduk

Album: Panzer Division

The album was present sometime between now and the past fortnight.

Can someone please confirm whether or not the album will be reinstated? If not, I'll be cancelling my subscription.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Miski — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:23:20 GMT

"We need to fight the far right"
let's remove art from our platform (censorship)
spotify doesn't know that liking art and following extreme political ideas/movements are different things.
And they expect someone to change their opinion because they took 1 album off the platform?

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Billy-J — Thu, 12 May 2022 16:00:48 GMT

Hey @Pička, thanks for reaching out to the Community!

I understand your concern. Spotify wants all the world’s music and podcasts available, but availability can vary over time and between countries, depending on the permissions from rights holders.

More info about this can be found here.

Hope this helps!

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Pička — Thu, 12 May 2022 22:03:05 GMT

Hi @Billy-J,

I think this one is a little different to what you've described.

Dare I exhibit any wrongthink, but I believe the motivation behind the disappearance of this album was due to the personal beliefs of book burning political extremists at Spotify who are void of any critical thought.

With no explanation to its sudden disappearance, one can only assume this action is an escalation of some album art being removed from the artist in question.

Kind Regards,

Re: Marduk Album Removed

user-removed — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:09:24 GMT

I will also be canceling my subscription if this album is not added back. This has nothing to do with copyrights/ availability. Spotify clearly targeted this specific album of theirs. Stop buckling to the demands of your worthless employees and or losers complaining that art offends them. I find it beyond hypocritical that you allow bands to have the utmost of blasphemous art and lyrics but this particular album is offensive? All death metal and black metal is offensive so you might as well take it all down.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Crudelone — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:10:57 GMT

I'm still trying to pretend to believe this is not a censorship case, because it would be so embarassing.

But I had the album in my library, one day the cover went blank and the only available song was "Blooddawn".

Luckily, all the other songs are still available on youtube music.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

lars_rosenberg — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:11:34 GMT

If the reason for removal is political, that's absolutely unacceptable. Please make it available again.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Crudelone — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:57:30 GMT

Frontschwein cover also disappeared...

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Sebb3n1 — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:13:26 GMT

This is just pure**bleep**, someone at spotify office got triggered.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Pička — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 05:49:34 GMT

Since there has been no rectification or even an official response, I have cancelled my subscription for Spotify Family.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

ynrozturk — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:00:35 GMT

This is disgraceful, cancelling art.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Pička — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:57:57 GMT

Tidal is a much better alternative to Spotify as there appears to be no censorship, and has high fidelity audio for the same monthly cost as Spotify.

I recommend the switch for anyone who would like to not have their listening habits controlled by employees who like to force their short-sighted views onto paying customers.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

SZHannibal — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 04:30:38 GMT

I has also been removed from Spotify in Switzerland, im quite disapointed of Spotify since many of the Albums i frequently listen to have been removed over the past years, i have been using the service for 6 years now, and im starting to regret to have supported Spotify for so long.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Metalboii69 — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:56:24 GMT

The days are getting shorter and I too am thirsty for some crushing high speed black metal. Was this really removed for some weird political reasons? It’s black metal, it’s music from weirdos for weirdos, it is basically LGBTQ+. I guess it is back to Apple Music for me. Meh.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Metalboii69 — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:59:59 GMT

Is it confirmed that this was removed for obscure political reasons? Come on, black metal is music from weirdos for weirdos, it’s pretty much lgbtq+…I guess it is back to Apple Music for lovers of highspeed elite black metal sponsored by **bleep** 🥺

Re: Marduk Album Removed

SpaceSloth707 — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:45:42 GMT

I really hope they didn't do it for political reasons. I hope it'll be back on Spotify sometime. If it is, it makes it hard for me to keep using Spotify. But from time to time I like to listen to podcasts, some of which are exclusive on the platform. This makes it hard for me to stop using Spotify.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

prz3m3k — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:32:04 GMT

Reign of Light by Samael also has been removed... 3 times here. Uploaded by 2x By Nuclear Blast, and 1x by Regain Records.

Common thing with Panzer Division? On Apple Music (both CDs available there) copyright for each album belongs to Regain Records.

Rest of Samael's CDs are uploaded by Napalm Records, Century Media Records or directly by Samael.

Similar situation is with Marduk.
So, I think, the problem is with Regain Records that somehow does not like Spotify and blocks other labels to upload certain albums.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

THEOCSLAYER — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:22:53 GMT

This **bleep** and censorship. This release needs to be reinstated immediately. \m/

Re: Marduk Album Removed

Mathias_deathboi — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:10:37 GMT

just bring panzer division back.

Re: Marduk Album Removed

thiagorizzo — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:39:57 GMT

where is panzer division? come on!