Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus
Dark Funeral never seem to get the respect they deserve. Not quite trve or kvlt enough for the original wave of church-burning enthusiasts, and now much too riff and song-oriented for the College Black Metal crowd. Sorry, kids. No 31-minute songs that sound like AM radio static to be found here. Not to mention a real drummer, a real record produced in a real studio, and band members who’ve been laid. They just don’t have anything going for them I guess. Actually they do, and this impossible-to-say-or-remember Latin-named album is just as good as their last impossible-to-say-or-remember Latin-named album. They pretty much fit the same mold, lightning fast speed and intensity with inhuman blasting that occasionally gives way to Doomier or mid-paced melodic passages (“Stigmata,” “My Funeral,” “In My Dreams”) which turn out to be the album’s real standout cuts. And cheers to Masse Broberg (aka: Emperor Magus Caligula), a great Death Metal vocalist back in the day and a great Black Metal vocalist now. A rare feat indeed. With Black Metal’s once bright flame now reduced to a few glowing embers, consistently awesome bands like Dark Funeral are a bestial breath of fresh kerosene.
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