Attera Totus Sanctus is Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....

's fourth full length studio album. It was released on October 24, 2005 in Europe through Regain Records

Regain Records

Regain Records is a Swedish based independent record label. The label predominantly releases death metal and black metal albums. Regain Records was founded from what remained of the former label, Wrong Again Records, by Per Gyllenbäck in 1997...

, and on November 29, 2005 in the United States through Candlelight Records USA

Candlelight Records

Candlelight Records is an independent record label based in Europe founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it has had a division in the United States since January 2001. Candlelight Records specialises in black metal and death metal, having bands such as Emperor,...

. The title was chosen to convey the band's vehement anti-Right-Hand Path  stance. This album also marked the end of vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula

Emperor Magus Caligula

Emperor Magus Caligula is an extreme metal musician best known as the former vocalist, bassist and lyricist of Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral, performing for the band between 1995 and 2010. He has also been the vocalist of death metal bands Demonoid, replacing Christofer Johnsson, and...

's role as a bassist for Dark Funeral, both studio and live.

Title

The Latin title of the album contains a grammatical error. "Totus Sanctus" alone would refer to either a single "holy man" or a single "holy" object which is associated with the male grammatical gender. Being the direct object of the imperative verb "Attera", "Totus Sanctus" would be more correctly rendered "Totum Sanctum".

In addition, the song "Atrum Regina" would more appropriately be titled "Atra Regina", since "Regina" is a feminine singular noun.

Track listing

Personnel

• Lord Ahriman
  Lord Ahriman
  Lord Ahriman is a Swedish musician and composer best known as the primary guitarist and songwriter of black metal band Dark Funeral. He is the only founding member remaining in the band, he is also rhythm guitarist in Wolfen Society...
  
   – guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Emperor Magus Caligula
  Emperor Magus Caligula
  Emperor Magus Caligula is an extreme metal musician best known as the former vocalist, bassist and lyricist of Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral, performing for the band between 1995 and 2010. He has also been the vocalist of death metal bands Demonoid, replacing Christofer Johnsson, and...
  
   – vocals
• Matte Modin – drums
  Drum kit
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• Chaq Mol – guitar
• Gustaf Hielm – session
  Session musician
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   bass
  Bass guitar
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Production

• Daniel Bergstrand – mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Örjan Örnkloo – mixing
• Tomas Eberger – mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Daniel "Morbid " Valeriani – cover design and artwork, layout
• Erik Sjolander – photography

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Swedish Albums Chart	35

External links

• Dark Funeral's official website