Dark Funeral bootlegs

Live Hultsfred Sweden
Split with Bathory
Tracks 1-8 - live Hultsfred, Sweden Hultsfredsfestivalen June 13, 1998
Tracks 9-14 - see Bathory page
Imperial Creations/2N1 Productions
1. Ravenna Strigol Morti [sic]
2. Enriched By Evil
3. Bloonfrozen [sic]
4. Thy Legions Come
5. Evil Prevails [sic]
6. Secrets Of The Black Arts
7. Vobiscum Satanas
8. Ineffable King Of Darkness
9. Sacrifice - Bathory
10. The Return Of Darkness & Evil [sic] - Bathory
11. Intro (From "Conan The Barbarian") - Bathory
12. In Conspiracy With Satan - Bathory
13. Necromancy-Sacrifice - Bathory
14. Raise The Dead - Bathory

No date information is given, but from what I understand, June 13 is the date they played the Hultsfred Festival in 1998, and due to the abundance of "Vobiscum Satanas" tracks, that seems to be the correct year. I've seen references to live Dark Funeral material from another year's Hultsfred Festival on audio and video traders' lists, but after checking the gig list on their official site, '98 appears to be the only year they played the Festival. Also be warned that many distros claim the Dark Funeral half is from 2001 or 2002. If that really was so, the older tracklisting would make absolutely no sense.

Bootleg claims to be a soundboard recording, and the sound is generally excellent, though the vocals are relatively soft compared to the other instruments. There are also a few odd "pops" during some of the crowd noise, usually right before and after the track indexes. While the songs themselves are complete, there are cuts between tracks, so some stage banter and crowd noise was probably cut. Other than simple song introductions for some of the tracks and "The Dark Age has arrived!" to open the gig, the only stage banter is a bit of Swedish at the beginning of track 8.


Miscellaneous

A few other live bootlegs exist (including at least two live bootleg LPs--one is of live material from Hultsfred, probably the same gig as above, and the other is "The Black Massacre," live in NYC) but until proof is provided otherwise, it will be assumed none of these are normal CDs.