Akhtya Nachttoter (Michael W. Ford) -Vocals, Lyrics - Apocalyptic Soundscapes, machinery, human skull drum and kangling.
Marchozelos - Guitar, Bass and Drumming, Spells of Darkness...
Influences
Apocalyptic Black Metal awakened in an Industrial Deathlike Age – Warlike hymns to devour the Spirit of God! Industrial deathlike battery, aggression in music, Satanic ideology, Vampyrism as a Predatory Religion, Ahrimanic (Persian black magic) Sorcery – Yatuk Dinoih, Vlad Draculae - Tepes - History of warfare in Europe, mental lycanthropy, the Medieval Grimoire Tradition, War, both medieval and modern… Bands - the foundation of what we listen to musically is broad, but within the area of black metal meets modern industrial machinery, never forgetting the cold black metal spirit!
The focus of Black Funeral is individuality, not conforming to status quo bliss. Our influences do not matter - the desire to devour the mind with crushing music does.
Sounds Like
Apocalyptic Black Metal awakened in an Industrial Deathlike Age
BLACK FUNERAL is currently in the studio recording the new album, titled "ABOMINATION STORM", a very different direction for the band which blends industrial-black metal and other elements - the band is still recording the cult-black metal ep which is a return to their roots.
BLACK FUNERAL returns with “Waters of Weeping”.
Being a three part ritual invoking Cabalistic demon Chioa, “Waters of Weeping” is an Apocalyptic Black Metal exploration of the 10 Spheres of the Inverse Sephiroth, the Tree of Death from ancient Cabalistic writings. BLACK FUNERAL has returned with a heavy, slow and cold sound compared loosely to Hellhammer/Thorns meets traditional BLACK FUNERAL.
BLACK FUNERAL is recording a new EP and a full length for 2008!
The line up is now: Akhtya Nachttoter (Michael W. Ford) - Vocals, Lyrics, Human Bones instruments, Sonic Black Magick frequencies and Marchozelos - Guitar, Bass, Drumming, Spells of Darkness
The new track "RIPPING THROUGH THE AURA" is now featured here.
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Formed in 1993 by industrial musician and occult/chaos magic author Michael Ford (aka Drakkheim Abaddon Nachttoter), Black Funeral was one of the first seminal cult black metal bands in America. Inspired by early Bathory, Von, Blasphemy, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, early Emperor, Mayhem and Burzum, “Journey’s into Horizon’s Lost” was recorded and distributed everywhere possible. The recordings ugliness, bad production and extreme sound placed Black Funeral as one of the most chaotic black metal bands in the USA. Musically Black Funeral was a cold and raw mix of black and deathlike metal, always ugly and harsh. In 2004 while producing dark industrial recordings of Psychonaut 75, Ford was developing methods in the studio to produce quality black metal, having discovered a way to do this in the vision and scope of Black Funeral, “Az-i-Dahak”, the new CD was recorded. Black Funeral has returned as a black metal band which displays more cold power than any previous recording in Black Funeral’s 10 year + age.
The music of “Az-i-Dahak” is a black metal formed and created in an industrialized way, although never loosing the essence of cold and brutal black metal. Michael Ford has spent years working with industrial and ambient music, thus began creating black metal again with strong mechanical influences. The concepts of “Az-i-Dahak” present a clear connection between the Son of Satan and the music of the CD. WATERS OF WEEPING, the abyssic infection of the Qlippoth has returned, Black Funeral continues to awaken the daemonic within...
RITE OF THE QLIPPOTH CD recorded by Michael W. Ford (Akhtya Nachttoter of Black Funeral).The Rite of the Qlippoth is a work of Sonic Black Magick, that is a ritual working created in music. The Qlippoth, according to Cabalists is the forbidden 'darkside' of the tree of life, containing demonic forces and vampiric shells. This 12 track CD is a guided Luciferian Pathworking through the Spheres of the Qlippoth. Ritual Musick.
Available here: http://www.luciferianwitchcraft.com
