Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Tracklist
01. Watchers02. Psywar
03. Trinity
04. Pandaemon
05. MILAB
06. VI.Sec.
07. Throne Of Time
08. Corpse Of Care
09. Posthuman
10. Aion Suntalia
11. From Beyond The Event Horizon [Japanese bonus]
12. Into The Lifeless [LP & CD Collector's Box bonus]
Additional info
The cover art was designed by Zbigniew M. Bielak.Released as a deluxe digipack CD, various coloured LP editions, collector's vinyl box set, jewel case CD and cassette.
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Seven long years passed since the game-changer that was Ordo Ad Chao got released. It was an extremely complex album with a sound so different from what Mayhem (or any other band for that matter) had done before, that a somewhat mixed reaction was to be expected. I gladly put my tent on the fan camp though. This is why Blasphemer's departure worried me as it turned more difficult to guess how the final product would sound like? Read more ›› |
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Posts: 40071 Written by [user id=126528] on 25.06.2014 at 22:13 Yes people are organisms  Don't you mean orgasming? 
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Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 25.06.2014 at 22:20 They orgasm so hard that their bladder flys out of their dick. Totally what I meant.
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Didn't like it this at all in the beggining, man did it grow on me!!!!!
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Best black metal I've heard in a very very long time. Fucking steamroller! Best Mayhem yet.
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Well, I am certainly enjoying the shit out of this right now. OAC took years before I started appreciating it, this is clicking with me right away. I can't really tell if it's a change of taste for me personally over the past 7 years, or this album is that much better...
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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I got my copy today and i have to say that it looks a bit like a cardboard box ;p i think they support recycling now haha, anyway i do like it anyways - both music and 'cardboard'  Stay Mayhemized !
---- And I see the blade fall down upon the head of lord in heaven And Darkness falls upon the end of history While I drink the milk of the Black Goddess and cry over the mankind Black Moses is my name...
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Very good album I prefer Mayhem's old style (with Dead), but Attila's vocals are great on this album (better than on De Mysteriis dom Sathanas in my opinion)
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I hate it when I see an album that has a rating of 7.9, because it looks so much worse than 8 (it's so weird). I rated this album 9 and I wish to see the album have a rating of 8 not 7.9 
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We need 1 more high vote (9-10). Then the album will probably be marked as 7.95 (8)
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Posts: 1062 Written by Doc G. on 11.08.2014 at 07:31 Probably the fact that it's more accessible and easier to grasp than Ordo ad Chao. Don't get me wrong, it's good shit, but I think of this album as the toned-down, clearer-production version of Ordo. I went backwards, listening to this first and Ordo afterwards, and while this album took a bit of time for me to get into, I started enjoying it after much fewer spins than I had to start enjoying Ordo (though now I think that OaC is the slightly better of the two albums).
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Posts: 381 Written by Slayer666 on 13.06.2014 at 23:43 I heard the album when it came out but it didn't amaze me much. Then I saw the "Watchers" clip and I was completely amazed by their power! That double bass drum blast in the beginning, Atilla's vocals!... all songs are so dark and sinister! This one is on my top favorite Black Metal albums of all time!
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Posts: 381 Written by Kuroboshi on 07.08.2014 at 17:28 Subscribe entirely!
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This sounds quite standard (for Mayhem) even tho there are some Ordo Ad Chao elements in this album. My guess is that they still didn't trust Teloch all that much in those days and decided to regress to a sound that is a little bit more traditional, safe, similar to Chimera. However the result still satisfies me a lot, Esoteric Warfare is way more memorable and superior to the aforementioned album. I believe that with the new album Teloch is gonna get more protagonism.
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VI.Sec. alone is so good. Dunno if it would've been better with just 6 seconds of vocals, but those few lines are so impactful.
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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