LASSIC FINNISH DEATH METAL DEMOS BY FUNEBRE ON VINYL AND CASSETTE!

 

CLASSIC FINNISH DEATH METAL DEMOS BY FUNEBRE ON VINYL AND CASSETTE!

In February 2020 Hammerheart Records will re-issue the demos done by Finnish Death Metal cult band Funebre on vinyl and on cassette under the name of “Cranial Torment”. It and will be released on 140 grams quality black vinyl and a Hammerheart Records mail order exclusive edition of 100 copies on ultra clear vinyl. As a nice little collector’s item the album will be available on cassette, limited to 100 copies.
Pre-order: Funebre - Cranial Torment LP (Ultra Clear vinyl) € 17,90
Funebre - Cranial Torment LP (Black vinyl) € 15,90
Funebre - Cranial Torment MC € 17,90
Funebre - Cranial Torment T-Shirt € 9,90



As they say, Funebre was among the first extreme metal bands in Suomi. They were formed already in 1988 and surely we can put them among the originators of the scene, along with such great names as Abhorrence and Xysma. Sadly they were one of the most short lived bands also, splitting up already in 1991, just after the release of their legendary debut album “Children Of The Scorn”.

Before that Funebre managed to release the “Cranial Torment” demo in 1989, the “Brainspoon” EP (which contained two songs from the mentioned demo) and the “Demo 1990”. And both these demo tapes have been compiled on this vinyl/MC compilation.

"Cranial Torment" This is one of the most underrated demo’s ever! The over the top bottom heaviness of this is mind blowing. This is right up there with Winter’s “Into Darkness” and Celtic Frost’s early stuff.

"Demo ‘90" This band was unbelievably heavy. This demo is insanely heavy. The guitar is so tuned down and sludge filled it sounds as if the strings will be falling off at any second. Think early Grave and go two octaves lower and that’s what we have hear.metal style of his main band, and wanted to unleash a new kind of dark, nocturnal fury with a 100% black metal project.

Dark Funeral’s debut EP came out in 1994, and the Swedish scene was finally shocked by Blackmoon’s unique musical vision. We need to say that, when Blackmoon and Themgoroth were in the band, Dark Funeral was a radically different entity, their early material is constantly permeated by a gelid, nocturnal vibe, and offers a slightly more atmospheric approach. Genius is often hidden in simplicity and cohesion, rather than hyper-complex structures and hyper-constructions, and Blackmoon demonstrates it on this EP, leaving a strong footprint in the realm of extreme music.

These four songs, engineered and produced by the almighty Dan Swanö, placed Dark Funeral on the map of the growing Swedish black metal scene, even though they actually began to reach real fame only since 1996, with the release of their first proper album “The Secrets of the Black Arts”. To the die-hard Black Metal community this Dark Funeral release is their best and it actually is a masterpiece of an EP, which contains a short but excellent selection of their earlier material.

A mandatory release for those into old school Scandinavian Black Metal acts such as: Marduk, Dissection, Necrophobic, Mayhem, Gorgoroth and Darkthrone.