Dark Funeral (EP)
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Publication |
May 4, 1994 |
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admission |
January 1994 |
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Label (s) | Hellspawn Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
4th |
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running time |
16:34 |
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Dark Funeral, Dan Swanö |
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Dark Funeral is the first EP by the band Dark Funeral .
Emergence
The EP was financed by the band itself and recorded in January 1994 in Dan Swano's Unisound Studio and mixed there; It was produced by the band and Swanö, and it was mastered in the cutting room by Peter In Debetau and Dark Funeral. According to Blackmoon , this happened "incredibly quickly"; he has never worked so quickly in a studio. Dark Funeral was released on May 4, 1994; that day the band gave their first concert in the Luse Lottes Pub in Oslo .
Track list
- Open the Gates - 4:34 (music and text: Blackmoon and Ahriman)
- Shadows over Transylvania - 4:23 (music and text: Blackmoon and Ahriman)
- My Dark Desires - 3:53 (Music: Blackmoon and Ahriman; Text: Themgoroth)
- In the Sign of the Horns - 3:44 (music and text: Blackmoon and Ahriman)
Re-releases
The pieces from the EP have been re-released several times. In 2000 Hellspawn Records released a CD version with a different artwork under the title In the Sign… , which also contained the two Bathory covers Equimanthorn (3:21) and Call from the Grave (4:35) by In Conspiracy with Satan - A Tribute to Bathory (1998). The EP was also released as a split CD with Blackmoon's later band Infernal on Hammerheart Records .
Music style and lyrics
The music is fast and not very varied. According to Blackmoon, the composition was different from his older band Necrophobic ; there the music is based on the riffs, with Dark Funeral the music is more orchestrated, closer to the arrangements in classical music. The song My Dark Desires contains a sample by Charles Manson . The sentence reads “If I start murdering people, there would be none of you left” ( German for example: “If I started killing people, none of you would be left”). Shadows over Transylvania contains a sample of classical music. In addition to atmospheric reasons, both samples were also used to compensate for errors in the game. Overall, the lyrics are very apocalyptic and satanic .
Reviews
Allmusic's Alex Henderson described the songs as all equally fast, brutal and amelodic and the screeching vocals as one-dimensional. The pieces are very similar to each other and the release is quite predictable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Dark Funeral - Biography ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Dark Funeral - Discography ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b Frank Stöver: Where the cold northern winds blow .. . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 5, 1995, p. 33.
- ↑ a b Alex Henderson: In the Sign - Dark Funeral , accessed March 28, 2013.
- ↑ Ablaze , No. 4, 1995.
- ↑ Dark Funeral [EP] Review. Ultimate-Guitar.com, March 31, 2008, accessed March 30, 2013 .