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Style Over Substance - "Angelus Exuro pro Eternus" Review (0%)

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Angelus Exuro pro Eternus by Dark Funeral.

Can Dark Funeral sink any lower than they did on Attera Totus Sanctus? I don't know. I don't care. Who the fuck cares? Their entire discography, spawning over eight forgettable and utterly worthless albums now, just blends together in one sea of odious deathcore boredom, with just the right amount of "black metal imagery" to maintain plausible deniability in the face of the recurring "Slipknot" and "Dimmu Borgir" accusations.

What's the difference between Angelus Exuro pro Eternus and any other Dark Funeral album, say, the risible debut The Secrets of the Black Arts?

If you answered anything other than "the album cover", you are a liar, as all of Dark Funeral's music sound the same, and equally shitty. That derivative character that has, almost ironically, come to define "their" sound has bled over to their deathcore counterparts and incestuous "kissing cousin" band, Necrophobitch, as both bands were founded by the same poser clowns.

Style over substance defines this release Angelus Exuro pro Eternus. Built on a base of try-hard Gothenburg melodeath, Dark Funeral regurgitates several different influences but predominantly In Flames, Slipknot's nu metal/rap rock monstrosity, Reinkaos era Dissection, Dimmu Borgir, Watain's random trailer park metalcore and Slaughter of the Soul cartoonish mediocrity.

The result is a sampler plate of styles that never comes together but, because it has no point other than the desire to record something that "sounds like black metal" but "grooves like Pantera", the lack of style damages nothing nor salvages anything. You are left with the typical experience of hearing something disorganized, then seeing a fat woman eat ice cream, diving into a pool of feces, and suddenly being unable to recall what you had been listening to before everything started turning to shit.

That's Dark Funeral. Vapid, tasteless and bland nu metal.

In one ear and out the other... if you're lucky.

Style Over Substance

Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral.

This album Angelus Exuro pro Eternus is like a sampler of stolen riffs... it almost needs its own pretentious presentation, like in a museum. "Here you have a specimen of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas riff, it's the opening riff to the title track, the very same... oh but they changed the drumming, sort of" and "turning to your left, you can see a prime example of Khranial's atmospheric blackened death metal, also from the title track, except it's tuned in standard instead of C".

Same with Marduk, Graveland and Burzum, who all get shamelessly ripped by the copycat band Dark Funeral.

Ahriman, Dark Funeral's frontman and male escort from the Swedish "pink" districts, has something interesting to say about black metal and censorship.

To me metal/music is a form of art and I think that artistic freedom, all categories, whether you support them all or not, is very important. - Mikael "Ahriman" Svanberg

What's funny about that quote from 2003 is that Ahriman worked harder than anyone, save perhaps for Summoning's Richard "Rotherham was Price Tag for the Holocaust" Lederer, to get bands like Ivar Bjørnson's Enslaved and Rob Darken's Graveland banned from Spotify, iTunes and Amazon... on the grounds that they were "Pagan posers" and "neo-Nazis", because they didn't "worship Satan" and instead spent their time talking about "Vikings" and what not... and we ALL know that "Viking" is essentially a code word for "neo-Nazi".

Dark Funeral = style over substance,
"Lord" Ahriman = male escort, and pathological liar,
Angelus Exuro pro Eternus = shitty nu metal not worth anyone's time.

These "image over sound" bands like Dark Funeral and Watain really need to go away and stop trying to (1) police black metal by having Pagan and/or Viking themed bands banned from online distribution, (2) play black metal, as they obvious don't understand the genre, and (3) record music altogether, it's clearly not for them.

Follow your leader, Ahriman - the "man" with whom you founded Dark Funeral - and retire from making music. The black metal scene will thank you for it.

Angelus Exuro pro Eternus score: 0/100.

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