Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
"Eight songs, Freezing Moon, Funeral Fog, Buried By Time And Dust and 5 new titles."
I heard the cover will show Dead's corpse. Is this true?
"Picture of a church is true! People don't deserve to see Dead's corpse!"
On which label will it be, on D.S.P. or has any other label offered a good contract?
"Only D.S.P. is real!"
Judging from what I have read in interviews, Euronymous has had quite a lot of plans
for albums being released on D.S.P., but till now there is only Merciless + Burzum. Why
not more?
"Ever heard of economical problems? More LP's is soon to come. Mayhem Deathcrush mini
LP, Abruptum LP, Mayhem LP, Burzum 2nd/3rd LP etc."
Merciless criticized D.S.P. for not repressing the album, how has the experience been for
Burzum? Are you satisfied with the label?
"Would I do a second LP if I weren't "happy" with D.S.P.?"
Will there be a tour after the LP? Will you by any chance come to Germany?
"Probably not! No tour is planned. Maybe to Albania?"
I guess you have played in Old Funeral some time ago, right? How is your relationship
with the other guys now? What do you think of their music now and are you happy that
you left them?
"Old Funeral? I'm "happy" that I left them, they are one of the few "true" people minus one
"normal" guy... their music now is better than ever! Still I prefer to listen to the rain!"
Does Burzum still exist? If yes, will there be another album?
"Yes, Burzum exist. Hellhammer on drums, me on g/voc. I'm looking for a bass player, a
guitarist and a synth dude! We'll play live with Burzum soon! 2nd album is recorded. Out late
92! 3rd LP (with line up) will be recorded late 92, out 93 sometime."
Have you ever met dead personally? What did you think of him?
"Yes, I met Dead personally! Insane, unsocial and evil as all black metal people are supposed
to be! I liked Dead a lot. Transylvanian dreams! The Northern upirs (???) death! I feel like I
will meet him again in a foggy landscape... shadowed by towering mountains, hooded by cold
snow in a cold domain..."
Why does Euronymous not answer his mail?
"Because 1,000 guys like you have done the same!"
I heard there is/was a kind of "war" going on between Euronymous and Occultus
(former b/voc). Do you know more about this?
"Under a fullmoon of June a cross was burnt in Occultus's garden. His window shattered
under the raging stormclouds by the hands of evil beings tossing an iron crucifix. The false
will be given a sign before they DIE! One Night!
Euronymous claims to be a communist. Do you know him enough to say if this is true?
"Fuck politics! Make war not love. He's a communist! So what has that to do with black
metal? (not much, but it interested me - Nyar).
Ok, let's come to the end, I read in Hammer of Damnation that Euronymous refuses to
play gigs in Norway because the audience is too stupid and not true death metal. I can
understand him, nut on the other hand: maybe the only way to turn those trendies into
true death metallers is a Mayhem gig to show them what it is all about. Maybe someone
changed his attitude then, who knows, so isn't it quite boring to refuse these gigs?
"Maybe, maybe not! I guess it's up to us to decide that, isn't it?"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hm, that's the kind of answer I love after such question, but anyway, I suppose those of you
interested in the band should swiftly write to Count Grishnackh.
Contact address: Mayhem, Ibsensgate 45, 5037 Bergen, Norway.
Interview from C.O.T.I.M. Zine, issue 3 (1991), and done by Werner "Nyar" Linke