Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - review
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - review
Tracklist
01. Funeral Fog02. Freezing Moon
03. Cursed In Eternity
04. Pagan Fears
05. Life Eternal
06. From The Dark Past
07. Buried By Time And Dust
08. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
A review by
Herzebeth July 29, 2005
This "new" vocalist is somehow better than Dead, the tone of Sven is more high-pitched oriented, the vocal work sounds like an actual beast out of hell screaming some impossible to understand lyrics. The album per-se is very good, some might say it's repetitive, but well most times straight Black Metal or Raw Black Metal sounds that way, when you hear a band like Mayhem or Darkthrone or whatever you must know that the band is not "new wave" oriented, Mayhem(even though this album has some melodic approaches) and such bands make pure shots of aggression and music that most times sounds like an improvisation (in a good way of course), so clearly if you are a fan of Dimmu Borgir, Susperia, Old Man's Child, etc... You will hate or simply won't bare bands like early Mayhem.
Every track in this album is over the average Black Metal sound, this time Mayhem added a lot of cold passages to the music and even some slow tempo riffs, this transition made this album almost perfect, the raw elements are still there but now the music sounds a little bit more layered, this new feature gives a chance for the audience to sit back and actually enjoy some tracks in the "not so aggressive" way; the fourth track for example, "Pagan Fears", starts with the usual rapid and violent music but then in the middle the music starts to change and finally we can even hear one incredible guitar solo.
The production is muddy as always, but it only gives the music a colder feeling, so I can't complain about the production, actually the way it is done gives the music a whole new environment, which is good by the way. Either way the instruments can be appreciated nicely and sometimes clearly.
I love this release, sadly I can't assure you will too, Black Metal nowadays has become a fusion of genres that have nothing to do with "original" black metal...I'll just say, if you are a fan of early Mayhem, Darkthrone, Von, Beherit, and early Black Metal in general you'll find in this album a Masterpiece, but if you worship Dark Funeral or Carpathian Forest you will find this album unbearable and noisy.
Written by Herzebeth | July 29, 2005
Rating:
9.7
9.7
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Posts: 2437 Written by Kuroboshi on 25.03.2011 at 19:31 imo he is great....
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Posts: 460 Written by Uirapuru on 20.04.2008 at 06:29 Completely agree. The riff on that song is awesome and it's the best black metal song I've heard so far. Although I have to say I really love Atilla's vocals, so Scandinavian sounding and evil. My favourite part of the album is when he's singing Funeral Fog and the line "In the middle of Transylvaniaaaaa"
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Posts: 18617 Written by Zombie94 on 30.05.2011 at 15:44 Hmmm yeah he sounds pretty damn evil al right. But scandinavian sounding? what? He's from Hungary. You can even tell by his really thick accent in interviews. Far from scandinavian.
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Posts: 460 Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.05.2011 at 16:36 I'm from Ireland, so unfortunately it sounds more or less the same to me 
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Posts: 18617 Written by Zombie94 on 30.05.2011 at 18:51 Sorry dude but that's like saying "yeah the german accent is pretty much the same as the french accent". Without even talking about how far both contruies are from each other
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Posts: 460 Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.05.2011 at 19:42 well I can tell THOSE apart hehe. nah to be honest I definitely could tell a Hungarian accent from a Norwegian, or at least I'd know they were from 2 different countries. But I'd never heard an interview with him so it's kinda hard to be that accurate from just hearing him do a a black metal scream. And plus he's in a Norwegian band so I just assumed...wrongly of course 
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Posts: 18617 Written by Zombie94 on 30.05.2011 at 20:00 check out this link it's the first video interview Metalstorm did 
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Posts: 460 Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.05.2011 at 20:48 way ahead of you  and from watching that I realised that I've been thinking that Maniac is Attila the whole time. 
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Posts: 18617 Written by Zombie94 on 30.05.2011 at 20:58 There you go, Maniac IS scandinavien. He's from sweden though.
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This album is really good and each track is memorable, but their best album is Ordo. That album is just fantastic.
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Great album! One of the best and most influential in BM history! As simple as that. One of the most interesting thing (except impressive music) is: that album has very good production which makes it even better on good HI-FI audio systems. It has powerful and mighty sound. Thanks to Eirik Hundvin aka Pytten who produced album (and many more). This is the perfect example how good BM music can defend itself (without rubbish quality production) and sounds "true". 
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I agree whit opening part but real talent is that BM bands from raw sound switch to atmosphere and same time creates great BM, (I am talking about other bands)
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Posts: 40071 Written by Bad English on 17.01.2019 at 13:23 This album by Mayhem is chockful of atmosphere.
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It dont work, even this is best bands album. Listening just this band and denying that BM has grow up and are betetr nowadays, is same as saying that manowar is only true metal band. Its same.
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