Black Funeral
Vampyr - Throne of the Beast
[Full Moon]


8 trax, 27 minutes. 1995 album I had to get, if only for the pic of bassist Blackangel which cracks me up, looking like a skinhead I know (if he wore corpsepaint).

Track 3 "Valley of the Shadow" (keyboard intro) to "Spiritual Agony of Pain and Loneliness".

Track 6 "Spirit of the Werewolf" (a cold etheral keyboard intro) to "Rising from a Dishonoured Grave" are the standouts from the rest of the album.

This is 'Grim Medeival Wamphyric Black Metal'. Praise Satan this is like old Behemoth! Not the best, but solid and grows on you over time. Put thius on late at night when only infomercials are on tv and get wasted. No matter if they play fast or mid-paced, Black Funeral sound like the planet is doomed, dreadful and desolate.


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