I love the raw sound of this album

I like to think of this as the missing link between 1st and 2nd wave. There are definite thrash and death influences, but there is also that whole shriek and blast beat thing going on, without a doubt this is 50% 50% when it comes to the whole "BM waves" thing.

Only two comments? Blasphemy.

Fantastic Ep, raw as fuck. Heavy too, for standard tuning.

Insane riffing, insane drumming, insane vocals, insane lyrics, everything insane! And Chainsaw Gutsfuck is the shit.

The album is awesome therefore a rating of 9. The only annoying thing are the overly high vocals from maniac.

Good music. Crap vocals.

30 FUCKING YEARS.
No matter my mood, every time I hear that opening intro on Deathcrush my mind goes apeshit somehow and I start making poses (in my head when Im with people) a la Immortal. Animalistic stuff.

They weren't good by the time yet.

Indeed, they were great.

I think Silvester Anfang has been stuck in my head for ten years.

Changed my mind.

Written by Maco on 17.11.2021 at 18:13

Changed my mind.

Some raw/bestial bm does that to you, yeah.

That intro always baffled me. It was composed by a German cult synth musician Conrad Schnitzler who really doesn't have anything to do with metal music other than this. Allegedly Euronymous was a huge fan of his work and once even slept outside his apartment since the man wouldn't let him in, so at the end Schnitzler agreed to compose him something without even knowing what kind of music Mayhem were playing. Some other story goes that he just sent them a tape via mail after they asked politely, but I prefer the first one.

Edit. Believe it or not, but the first version is actually the truth as told by Schnitzler himself. Euronymous basically stalked Schnitzler and slept outside his apartment to get his attention, so at the end Schnitzler was overwhelmed by his sincere enthusiasm and let him in.

This ep absolutely kills