Dark Funeral (EP)

chronology
Dark funeral
Extended Play by Dark Funeral
Publication ; (s)	May 4, 1994
admission	January 1994
Label (s)	Hellspawn Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Black metal
Title (number)	4th
running time	16:34
occupation	Themgoroth: bass, vocals; Draugen: drums; Blackmoon : guitar; Ahriman: guitar;
production	Dark Funeral, Dan Swanö
Studio (s)	Unisound Studio

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 .

[biography-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dark Funeral - Biography ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 28, 2013.

[discography-2] Dark Funeral - Discography ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 28, 2013.

[vftd-3] Frank Stöver: Where the cold northern winds blow .. . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 5, 1995, p. 33.

[allmusic-4] Alex Henderson: In the Sign - Dark Funeral , accessed March 28, 2013.

[5] Ablaze , No. 4, 1995.

[6] Dark Funeral [EP] Review. Ultimate-Guitar.com, March 31, 2008, accessed March 30, 2013 .