Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus [Import]

Dark Funeral | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B002PHD9CM
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,803 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The End Of Human Race

2. The Birth Of The Vampiir

3. Stigmata

4. My Funeral

5. Angelus Exuro pro Eternus

6. Demons of Five

7. Declaration of Hate

8. In My Dreams

9. My Latex Queen

Editorial Reviews

2009 release from the Swedish Black Metallers. Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus was recorded at Abyss Studio in Sweden with famed engineer and producer Peter Tagtgren (Pain, Hypocrisy). Musically, it is the band's most technical and varied album to date. And while still being true to their roots, they have taken a great step forward in the evolution of their brand of fine Swedish Black Metal. This album is, from the very beginning to the end, a hell ride you simply don't want to miss! Nine tracks. Regain.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, December 15, 2009

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Joseph Fletcher (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus (Audio CD)

While this album is pretty good, it's not as good as Diabolis Interium. That isn't to say that Dark Funeral has changed their approach much. In fact, the very opposite is true, which is precisely the problem. Dark Funeral's 2001 master piece undoubtedly epitomizes Dark Funeral's sound and seems to overshadow everything else the band has done to date. While they've incorporated a tad more mid-tempo sections in some of the songs (relatively speaking - this is Dark Funeral, after all), it isn't enough to step out of the shadow that is Diabolis Interium.

Standout tracks are Stigmata, My Funeral, and In My Dreams. They're slower than standard Dark Funeral songs and have some really good hooks. To maintain my interest in the future though, this band needs to take some risks.

5.0 out of 5 stars Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus, November 3, 2011

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PJS1975 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus (Audio CD)

Since Dark Funeral's formation in the early 90s, guitarist Micke Svanberg, aka Lord Ahriman, has written and continues to write the bulk of the band's music. "Second wave" black metal has been around for over two decades now, more or less, and:

FACT: Tons of newer black metal bands have included Ahriman-styled riffs, hooks and licks in their songs. For the record, Dark Funeral's music has been imitated or aspired to as much as Celtic Frost's music has, if not more in recent years. Following the release of Dark Funeral's first LP, numerous black metal bands started to play entire songs in a major key, and started to hyperblast throughout entire songs and, in some cases, entire records (this was before Hate Eternal: "King of All Kings").

There's no denying that Dark Funeral was the first metal band to cohere a number of bland and repetitive musical elements (holding notes for a long time and hyperblasting) into something that was part "Eerie Realm of Blah-blah" and part death by pneumatic power-tool, creating an atmospheric whole which was greater than the sum of its parts. And, the fruits of success being what they are, their music has been shamelessly imitated ever since. As Charles Caleb Colton opined, "Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery."

This particular style of black metal does wear a bit thin, especially over repeated listens, but Dark Funeral's musical shortcomings are primarily the result of the several million manifestly unoriginal black metal bands who're all trying to sound like them. Consequently, Lord Ahriman has had to keep upping the ante in his music, and I'd say so far he's remained at the top of his game.

In that vein, it seems "Angelus Exuro..." seeks not to redefine what Dark Funeral already defined and codified years ago, but instead redirects the band's focus into a tighter, nastier, deadlier and more technical beast while at the same time including more varied song structures. Compared to Dark Funeral's other records, this one is not as fast. There are 3 slower songs, but 2 of those 3 are actually better written than a couple of this record's speed-demons. On the other hand, those particular demons are some very tightly composed, unrelentingly fast and brutal songs peppered with memorable hooks and licks. This album ends with one of the prettiest and yet strangest "processional" metal riffs I've heard, which fades away gradually into silence. I thought that it was a good way to end an album that mainly consisted of wholesale brutality. And for the most part, I felt this record was significantly better than "Attera Totus Sanctus", the band's previous release, although there are some killer riffs on that one.

But some ersatz "metalheads" like to trash Dark Funeral as being a "commercial" black metal band. However, it is important that we understand that, in black metal, calling music "commercial" is another way of saying that the music was recorded in an actual recording studio as opposed to someone's parents' basement, and its listening audience consists of more than the band members themselves plus their circle of close friends. Also, "commercial" means you can actually hear bass guitar and snare in the recording mix. Imagine that: audible, differentiable musical instruments in a musical recording. What will those lame sell-outs think of next?

5.0 out of 5 stars Swedish Black Metal, Dark Funeral style !!!, July 31, 2011

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Urania of Magistry (Nevada, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus (Audio CD)

This band Dark Funeral makes awesome black metal music both in studio and live.

It's connection to the dark side is clear, intense and full of energy.

I would recommend any of their CD's to those metal heads seeking to feed their savage beast some dark energy, you won't be disappointed.

This particular CD is great and has a bonus DVD which makes it a really good buy.

If you are a Dark Funeral fan, you will not want to miss this CD for your collection.