Your Last Concert
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Friend asked me to join them to see Dark Funeral - an OG Swedish Black Metal band that began in the early 90's.
Friend is deep into the lore of Swedish BM, so this was like a studiebesök for both of us, with no firm idea what to expect and absolutely no pretensions - we tend to drift towards the more hardcore/noise end of the spectrum. We go in and the crowd are great - already a mass of corpse paint, tattoos on necks, faces, and heads, and a couple of guys who looked like they had just pitched up direct from their office jobs. But everyone was cool and there to see the bands. Except the motherfuckers with Burzum shirts on. We see you, bastards.
Anyway. Dark Funeral are tight as hell, never miss a beat, and never fuck up at all. One thing we didn't expect was props - at one point the singer brought out a cat-o-ninetails and started to whip the crowd. Songs about Satan, Hell, loving Satan, loving Hell, wanting to be Satan, all whip by in a furious 90 minute set.
My friend and I left with huge grins on our faces, happy to have witnessed, while not an epic and grand show, but for us at least, a show for the ages. Here's to another 30 years of Dark Funeral.
10/10. Would risk eternal damnation again.