On “Vobiscum Satanas” most of the music was written exclusively by Mikael Svanberg, except for ‘Enriched by Evil’, ‘Evil Prevail’, ‘The Black Winged Horde’ and ‘Ineffable King Of Darkness’ that were written with input from Henrik Ekeroth. On successive albums deviations like this would become the norm. Deviating from the norm is the track ‘Ravenna Strigoi Mortii’ which amounts to nothing more than a tepid love song put to stereotypical black metal imagery. The lyrics primarily revolve around depictions of hell, suffering and Satan. Musically and lyrically the album is a whitewash of the vastly superior “The Secrets Of the Black Arts” that preceded it. While not all tracks follow the verse-chorus-bridge format, each of the songs progress in similar ways using the same riff set, or slight variations thereof. More than in the Parland era does Svanberg rely on linear song construction. The songwriting has been streamlined for the most part, and the dynamic range that Parland mastered so well is completely absent. Next to using a more melodic writing style Svanberg’s riffs differ greatly from what Parland wrote. Svanberg does a commendable imitation of Parland’s writing style but his melodic sensibility is more traditionally Swedish. The album title is Latin for “May Satan be with you”, which is as sophisticated as the album is going to get.
It was the first instance where Dark Funeral started to use Latin song and album titles. “Vobiscum Satanas” leans closer towards “ Heaven Shall Burn” than it does to “The Secrets Of the Black Arts” which is telling in itself. With the pioneering work having been done by fellow Swedes Marduk, Dark Funeral had no intention of carving out its own niche. While superficially identical in stylistic persuasion the keen listener will notice a rather jarring shift as to how the music is arranged.
Parland had written the debut almost exclusively. “Vobiscum Satanas” was notable for being the first Dark Funeral album to be written entirely by de facto leader Mikael Svanberg. The revolving door line-ups that characterized its early years would remain for quite some time. “Vobiscum Satanas” is the recording debut of former Hypocrisy frontman Magnus Bröberg (who also doubles as bass guitarist) with Dark Funeral, as well as the only album to feature the services of drummer Tomas Asklund, and guitarist Henrik Ekeroth. Mikael Svanberg surrounds himself with capable musicians to carry his vision, even though half of them would be replaced themselves by the next album. That “Vobiscum Satanas” sounds nothing like the debut was expected.Ī shift was expected seeing how three-quarters of the band was replaced for this album. The debut “ The Secrets Of the Black Arts” followed two years later. A year after forming they released the “Dark Funeral” EP on Parland’s own Hellspawn Records imprint.
Somewhere in 1993 Kaukinen exited the fold and Ahriman evolved into Dark Funeral with the addition of drummer Joel Andersson. In its earliest form Ahriman included two ex-members (vocalist Paul Mäkitalo and drummer Nico Kaukinen) of local death metal upstarts Scum, the formative unit that would transform into populist genre institution Amon Amarth. The sophomore Dark Funeral release fares as well as one would expect under the circumstances.ĭark Funeral initially took form in Stockholm, Sweden in 1993 as Ahriman, the project took its name from the Avestan-language name of Zoroastrianism's hypostasis of the "destructive spirit", by the duo of David Parland and Mikael Svanberg.
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Destined to become one of the more comically over-the-top black metal bands of the genre Dark Funeral managed to persevered where lesser bands would have fallen by the wayside and into eventual obscurity. After the unceremonious exit of founder David Parland forced remaining founding member Mikael Svanberg to exert his full creative control over Dark Funeral and inherit the brand name of the project that Parland had created.
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