The drums of this album was recorded in a huge concert hall called "Grieghallen" in Bergen, Norway. I've been inside of that concert hall and it makes sense how the drums feels so massive on this album
I guess it's to add in that reverb/echo sound to the drum track? Because they definitely feel like they have that sound and I don't think it was achieved with the use of plugins back in the late 80s/early 90s and such
Mayhem was basically on the forefront of the second wave of black metal in the late 80's and early 90's. This album and the band around that time has quite a bit of history to it. I don't listen to this album all that often any more, but I do return to it every once in a while and still enjoy it when I do. As far as the vocals go: I actually never heard the demo with the original (deceased) singer, but I know that quite a few people don't enjoy Attila's vocals and it honestly took a bit of time for me to get used to them as well. I have heard Attila on other projects as well (eg. Sunn O))) which is Drone Doom) and while he does have an admittedly strange vocal style, it usually strangely fits imo. I honesty think he made quite a few improvements to his vocals even though it is still the same weird style. I do think it sounds more controlled nowadays (although I haven't heard a lot of newer Mayhem though, only other projects). Jan Axel Blomberg aka Hellhammer is a fantastic drummer and probably still one of my favourite metal drummers. He played in a large amount of different projects over the years and not only black metal either but some avant-garde metal with black metal influences and neoclassical progressive metal as well. I haven't heard a good chunk of them, but I enjoyed the ones I have listened to quite a bit.
Attila is an absolutely insane vocalist who can do mindboggling things with his voice. He has an 8 octaves range. His mastery has increased significantly over the years... And Hellhammer is Hellhammer, enough said.
It's english but I don't think Attila actually knew the language at all at the time of the recording. No kidding. He got way better vocally and now he's got maybe the best fry in black metal IMO, at age 50 mind you. I think he also did some opera stuff here and there?
The most productive genre in metal of 2010's to nowadays is definetely black metal for me. You should check them. Some of i can suggest : Mgla , Deathspell Omega ,Blut Aus Nord, Batushka, Misthyrming , Oranssi Pazuzu , Saor , Impherial Triumphant
yeah i always snicker at the thought that the most hermetic genre full of trve kvlt fanatics became one of the most versatile platforms for experimentation, i agree with most of the bands you suggested, would also add a few bands if you're up for black metal + something, Esoctrilihum, Hail Spirit Noir, MØL, Harakiri for the Sky, Grima, Zeal and Ardor
You definetly should listen to their song De Mysteriis Dom.Sathanas, better vocals by Attila on that one (same recording). The drummer Hellhammer is great and if you wanna hear him in another band listen something from his other bands like Arcturus (avant-garde/symphonic metal) or Winds (neoclassical progressive metal).
My personal fav is Life Eternal, its a song that I think lends itself much better to Attila's style and the baseline is just straight up beautiful like some classical shit
The title track is my favorite on the record, and for me the most evil song ever conceived, that main riff is just pure darkness. And the drumming is just phenomenal as always.
Also check out some new / newer Mayhem. "Daemon" was for me one of the best black metal albums in 2019. As mention in other comments, their drummer Jan Axel Blomberg aka Hellhammer is one of the best in metal for his unbeliavable varsatility to play different styles. From jazz to blast beats etc.... I suggest Arcturus, that's one of his other bands
This band helped inspire a lot of the Norwegian black metal scene in the late 80's and early 90's. They were musically inspired by earlier bands, like Venom, Bathory, and Hellhammer, and built a circle of like-minded individuals, who found themselves the center of numerous controversies and crimes, as well as a lot of black metal music. There are numerous documentaries about it all and even a movie was made about the events surrounding this band, called Lords of Chaos.
@@shoujahatsumetsu Helvete - Historien Om Norsk Black Metal surpasses both documentaries. It is an excellent documentary that does take a less glorifying view to the things that happened, by the eyes of mature adults. Including the people in Mayhem how they see their past now and including an interview from Dead's brother.
If we going this territory, it is only fair that we give a nod towards "Emperor" in some form. Anything before IX should be period accurate. I´d go with something from Anthems myself.
He did The Eruption off of Prometheus a while back and found it a bit too harsh for his tastes. But that was a number of months ago, possibly even last year and he's heard a lot of stuff in between. I would love to see him revisit Emperor as well.
@@person1227 ditched the last message. i dunno what i was reading LMAO. but yeah, i´d think "with strength..." from "anthems..." for example would be an excemplary showcase of Emperor, because it represents THE sound that influenced the second wave. entire IX stands for ihsahn influencing the band towards the direction that became his sound later in the game, where as the rest of the guys went face first towards the direction of Zyklon. coincidence? possible, but thats what i think. its not an easy listen, but its a honest version of themselves. theres the themes, the blasting, the riffing etc.
In keeping with the black metal theme.... I'd like to throw prog black metal band Vale Of Pnath into the ring. Either, the song The Horror In Clay (little more straight forward; returns to a central theme), or Klendathu (a bit more obscure). Thanks for the awesome content, man!👌
I got flash backs of math class in highschool 👌back on the day this was definitely the second wave of Black metal 🤘 Without this band there would NOT be a few thousand bands we have today 🙄
Another thing to add to Attila's vocals - he does extensive throat singing with Sunn O))). Also, the title track of this album is where his vocals really shine, IMO.
HOWDY FROM NEW ENGLAND..I HEAR A LOT OF MERCIFUL FATE IN THIS SONG...IVE KNOWN OF MAYHEM FOR YRS BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THEM...ONCE AGAIN YOU ARE SPOT ON WITH UR ANALYSIS....PEACE FROM THE NORTHEAST...
i suggest watching an old live version called live in leipzig in whic is present the icon singer(not this one) Dead who unfortunately lived up to his name
A better version is that compilation album of multiple band that was a tribute to Euronymous. It has him on vocals and the instruments seem to be from a studio rather than live. He ain't a bad guitarist when it comes to the studio, but Euronymous wasn't that good live. There were a lot of missed notes in Leipzig
cyclical repeating tremolo guitar melodies do seem to be a common thing in black metal, i guess it is very moody atmospheric genre, beginning of aggaloch's "into the painted grey" or something like main melody of emperor's "i am the black wizards" comes to mind
Yes. It is not usually very technically proficient genre but it does ooze atmosphere and that is what makes it tick. It after all was born as a counter reaction against Death Metal, which was becoming more and more polished and comercial back then, by a small group of rebellious teenagers who wanted to make as cold, sinister, raw sounding and unpolished music as possible. Nowadays the situation is a bit different but this is where Mayhem and the rest of the norwegian Black Metal scene got started and laid the groundwork for what kind of music it is.
Folks don't GET that under the swampy necrotic and dissonant, ringing or warp-sawwing guitar is a NEOCLASSICAL and NEOROMANTIC compositional structure, with elements of archaic European folk music: The threnodic strains of the Slavonic strings, braying barkhorn or Alpine sackbut, dirgy chants from Hungary, Moldova or Greece, or wisent-hide tympane... It SOUNDS like Scythia invading or something during the Dark Ages, and this plodding march of doom shadowing their sacrificial offerings among the choice prisoners devoted to the Gods of The Steppes, with a final spasm of terror as the desperate chumps try rushing the guards and making a wild break for it... kinda like Malmedy.
The drums, always the drums get you hooked on Mayhem (and his hundred more projects, lol). Jan Axel is a genius! His jazz approach with that cymbal's work and all those great fills. You should listen to Mayhem's more modern and progressive stuff.
You wanna check out badass black metal check out Craft. No one mentions Craft, they're underrated as hell. Come Resonance of Doom has a bit of everything they're good at. They fuckin' get what its all about.
hi new viewer here! i want to ask you to react to Apati and Lifelover which are both swedish DSBM bands, their lyrics are in swedish but their instrumentals are something else in my opinion. Also a Ukranian musician has released a very interesting album called Pale Swordsman and its by Këkth Aräkh.
I was honestly looking for an indie rock band name that I could use for the example but just couldn't think of one that we've heard on the channel. So I went straight to the most popular "low effort" singer today. :)
As others have noted, Mayhem were one of the key bands of the 2nd Wave of Norwegian Black Metal. All of these bands took the template laid down by Bathory in the mid-late 80s and ran with it. When I've said before that black metal is metal's version of punk--raw, unpolished, fast, unrelenting, aggressive, etc.--you can really hear that here. Personally, I'm not a big fan of any of the "pure" black metal bands (Bathory is an exception), and really don't care much for the genre unless it's mixed with progressive or symphonic elements ala Emperor/Ihsahn or bands like Weakling or Deathspell Omega. I can also dig "black n' roll" bands, which are bands that mixed black metal with a more classic rock sound (influenced by Motorhead), like later Immortal and I. I will say that I think Freezing Moon is one of the better "classic" black metal songs out there with some good riffs, and I do appreciate it how it builds up to its first verse, but it kinda loses me after that.
I wonder how much of me is spoiled by what these originators inspired. In the Discord we were talking about Matrix and I wondered if it still held up to fresh eyes since the narrative and technological film making aspects aren't mind blowing anymore, they're just par for the course. I'm definitely in the "fresh ears" category when it comes to these highly influential and genre defining bands. There has been quite a few of these bands that "changed metal" but since I've heard their contributions done in highly refined ways and often mixed with other genres or ideas their pure, sometimes rough around the edges ideas simply don't resonate that much with me.
Well, this is basically the only classic "second wave norwegian black metal" album Mayhem ever did, since after they became much more experimental adding a lot of progressive and avant-garde elements to their music.
whats funny about certain styles of metal like black metal is that you could try to insult it, call it ugly or raw, yet it almost always will be a compliment to the idea the composers tried to evoke. well, except calling it posing, never that though lol.
You should analyse Fisheye with the band Shining.The video is great and there is a good live performance to.(nrk) The band started as a jazzband but at one point they changed style compleetly. The former drummer of Leprous went to shining. They inventet a new genre with the album Blackjazz. If you look for somthing different this is it. I can allso recomend Slow Motion or Brave new world (Live at Gildehallen) with the Norwegian band Kalandra.
5:38 "Very interesting note choices". The rolling stone magazine placed Euronymous at the 58 place among the 100 best guitarists in the world. I like the classic Mayhem line up, but my personal opinion is that he wasn't that good. Although his riffing style is interesting.
i've always considered this album to be more experimental, than the "traditional" Black Metal that was being made at that time, eg: Darkthorne, Immortal, etc.
you mentioned that your perception of some songs changed at subsequent listens maybe it would be interesting for you to react to some of your older videos to compare how your perception changed
Interesting. I don't know about reacting them live, but re-listening to a song while having a list of the main things I talked about from the first reaction and then expanding on those ideas or showing where my opinion/understanding has changed. That might work!
I have 3 songs you need to check out. Your best years by Kowloon Walled City Sundowning by Palehorse/Palerider Lying in ruin by Usnea Hopefully you can get around to these.
I never got Mayhem. I just can't like them no matter how much I try. But yeah, Hellhammer is a great drummer, he's all that keeps me interested. The backstory of this band is amazing though, definitely worth looking into.
I can recommend two albums from Mayhem that are for me considered masterpieces: Ordo ad Chao and Esoteric Warfare. I would also recommend listening to Ordo first which will make you appreciate Esoteric even more.
Well, this singer wouldn't have worried too much about the durance of his vocal cords.... "They created an athmosphere" but some didn't "live with it" very long...😟
Check out demo version or live in Liepzig version, because here is Atilla singing, not so good singer, Dead was way better, raw and dark. Pity that he was so sick and depressed and took his only 22 years old life :(
attila is hungarian teenager in '92-'93 and that time in (post-communist) hungary a very few average people speak english well(or at all). thats why the articulation is "poor". personally i really dig it. and in the beginning of the '90s metal bands doesnt go to vocal couch...wtf 😂😂😂
Im SO SO SO SOOO HAPPY that vocalists did not (often, esp in extreme metal music scenes) go to vocal coaches back in the day. Learn it yourself, that's what I believe in. It can be easily learned by sound, and dedication, but it may take years of course depending on what all styles and such you're trying to learn in relation to "harsh vocals"
Attila is good but he simply doesn’t fit aswell as Per Ynvrge Óhlin or primarily known by his stage name “DEAD”. DEADS voice just fit mayhems music perfectly it was in your face.
So I've been watching some of your video's, starting out with the older vids. Mostly the black/death metal tracks. The progression you make as a metal listener is very cool to witness. Some older vids I see a man who is overwhelmed by this shit music, and doesn't really like what he hears, with this video I really see this nasty look on your face, it's the ultimate facial expression of enjoyment in metal. Cool video's! You're a likeable man. Do more 90's death/black metal, it was the best period for extreme metal, everything before was still too weak, everything after the 2000's is overproduced and fake. OK this is a very broad generalization, but nonetheless true.
This Mayhem drummer is great by the way, he also plays in Arcturus, which you'll like a lot more probably. The singer you liked in Winter Trice by Borknagar sung in Arcturus before!
Thanks! It's certainly been a journey. I've been on a similar one though post-rock/metal as well. I did dive into Archspire's new album "Bleed the Future" and was blown away at the raw technical aspect of it. It's Tech Death rather than pure Death but I'd highly recommend it.
@@CriticalReactions I'm familiar with Archspire's previous works, but lost interest somehow... It's a good example of why I don't really like this modern stuff. So much hyperspeed technical wizard stuff, all the studiotrickery you need to make everything audible, makes it sound fake to me. I know they have a drummer, but when I listen to their album it sounds like a drumcomputer to me. I'm getting old maybe...
While I don't share it, I can appreciate this take. For me, the fact that it sound like a computer but I know it's a human is what keeps me around. There's just so much raw technical talent on display with them. It's not music that I'll probably ever listen to again. But I'm glad I checked it out once.
The only good Mayhem is with Dead on vocals, and he's dead lol. They've never had a vocalist that could match him, Maniac was ok but the rest are terrible
@@cummywummy2896 you may be right. I was not there and do not know. But I do know movies ”based on real events” mostly goes far away from the truth. Stay Metal! 🤘😎🤘
The drums of this album was recorded in a huge concert hall called "Grieghallen" in Bergen, Norway. I've been inside of that concert hall and it makes sense how the drums feels so massive on this album
and there were overdubs for the toms...according to Pytten
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Isn't this the same hall Emperor recorded the drums for In the Nightside Eclipse?
I think Varg did bass on this album, which means this album features a murderer and his victim.
I guess it's to add in that reverb/echo sound to the drum track? Because they definitely feel like they have that sound and I don't think it was achieved with the use of plugins back in the late 80s/early 90s and such
U should find this song with Dead on vocals
He was amazing
R.I.P. PELLE
Mayhem was basically on the forefront of the second wave of black metal in the late 80's and early 90's.
This album and the band around that time has quite a bit of history to it.
I don't listen to this album all that often any more, but I do return to it every once in a while and still enjoy it when I do.
As far as the vocals go:
I actually never heard the demo with the original (deceased) singer, but I know that quite a few people don't enjoy Attila's vocals and it honestly took a bit of time for me to get used to them as well. I have heard Attila on other projects as well (eg. Sunn O))) which is Drone Doom) and while he does have an admittedly strange vocal style, it usually strangely fits imo. I honesty think he made quite a few improvements to his vocals even though it is still the same weird style. I do think it sounds more controlled nowadays (although I haven't heard a lot of newer Mayhem though, only other projects).
Jan Axel Blomberg aka Hellhammer is a fantastic drummer and probably still one of my favourite metal drummers. He played in a large amount of different projects over the years and not only black metal either but some avant-garde metal with black metal influences and neoclassical progressive metal as well. I haven't heard a good chunk of them, but I enjoyed the ones I have listened to quite a bit.
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Attila is an absolutely insane vocalist who can do mindboggling things with his voice. He has an 8 octaves range. His mastery has increased significantly over the years... And Hellhammer is Hellhammer, enough said.
This song is so freezing cold that my spine tingles into goosebumps in the hot summer sun. Masterpiece.
Attila is a beast on vocals. His range is truly insane. He is incredible.
What range ? Do u think growling has a range ?
Funny you mention throat singing. The lead singer is actually a great throat singer now 😆
It's english but I don't think Attila actually knew the language at all at the time of the recording. No kidding. He got way better vocally and now he's got maybe the best fry in black metal IMO, at age 50 mind you. I think he also did some opera stuff here and there?
Yes Attila is hungarian he doesnt speak engilsh in the early 90's. He was invited by the band for this album.
Yes Attila is vocally trained in opera.
The most productive genre in metal of 2010's to nowadays is definetely black metal for me. You should check them. Some of i can suggest : Mgla , Deathspell Omega ,Blut Aus Nord, Batushka, Misthyrming , Oranssi Pazuzu , Saor , Impherial Triumphant
and The great old ones
@@Gabriel-bt7ix And Akhlys
You named some of the worst bands in the genre.
yeah i always snicker at the thought that the most hermetic genre full of trve kvlt fanatics became one of the most versatile platforms for experimentation, i agree with most of the bands you suggested, would also add a few bands if you're up for black metal + something, Esoctrilihum, Hail Spirit Noir, MØL, Harakiri for the Sky, Grima, Zeal and Ardor
@@veneficus582 Which of these bands are worst , i really wonder that haha.
You definetly should listen to their song De Mysteriis Dom.Sathanas, better vocals by Attila on that one (same recording). The drummer Hellhammer is great and if you wanna hear him in another band listen something from his other bands like Arcturus (avant-garde/symphonic metal) or Winds (neoclassical progressive metal).
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Excellent suggestion.
That track is a masterpiece
My personal fav is Life Eternal, its a song that I think lends itself much better to Attila's style and the baseline is just straight up beautiful like some classical shit
The title track is my favorite on the record, and for me the most evil song ever conceived, that main riff is just pure darkness. And the drumming is just phenomenal as always.
Also check out some new / newer Mayhem. "Daemon" was for me one of the best black metal albums in 2019.
As mention in other comments, their drummer Jan Axel Blomberg aka Hellhammer is one of the best in metal for his unbeliavable varsatility to play different styles. From jazz to blast beats etc.... I suggest Arcturus, that's one of his other bands
This band helped inspire a lot of the Norwegian black metal scene in the late 80's and early 90's. They were musically inspired by earlier bands, like Venom, Bathory, and Hellhammer, and built a circle of like-minded individuals, who found themselves the center of numerous controversies and crimes, as well as a lot of black metal music. There are numerous documentaries about it all and even a movie was made about the events surrounding this band, called Lords of Chaos.
Lords of Chaos is shit. I'd rather suggest "Once upon a time in Norway" or "Until the light takes us"
@@shoujahatsumetsu Helvete - Historien Om Norsk Black Metal surpasses both documentaries. It is an excellent documentary that does take a less glorifying view to the things that happened, by the eyes of mature adults. Including the people in Mayhem how they see their past now and including an interview from Dead's brother.
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@@MaaZeusagreed, fantastic documentary. Kinda funny in retrospect how the state run media company NRK produced the best documentary
If we going this territory, it is only fair that we give a nod towards "Emperor" in some form. Anything before IX should be period accurate. I´d go with something from Anthems myself.
I'm listening Emperor this days, i think he will like Anthems and IX as well.
He did The Eruption off of Prometheus a while back and found it a bit too harsh for his tastes. But that was a number of months ago, possibly even last year and he's heard a lot of stuff in between. I would love to see him revisit Emperor as well.
@@person1227 ditched the last message. i dunno what i was reading LMAO.
but yeah, i´d think "with strength..." from "anthems..." for example would be an excemplary showcase of Emperor, because it represents THE sound that influenced the second wave. entire IX stands for ihsahn influencing the band towards the direction that became his sound later in the game, where as the rest of the guys went face first towards the direction of Zyklon. coincidence? possible, but thats what i think.
its not an easy listen, but its a honest version of themselves. theres the themes, the blasting, the riffing etc.
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In keeping with the black metal theme....
I'd like to throw prog black metal band Vale Of Pnath into the ring.
Either, the song The Horror In Clay (little more straight forward; returns to a central theme), or Klendathu (a bit more obscure).
Thanks for the awesome content, man!👌
Throat singing ha ha, well the singer Atilla is Hungarian so he probably got inspired by his ancestors
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I got flash backs of math class in highschool 👌back on the day this was definitely the second wave of Black metal 🤘 Without this band there would NOT be a few thousand bands we have today 🙄
Another thing to add to Attila's vocals - he does extensive throat singing with Sunn O))). Also, the title track of this album is where his vocals really shine, IMO.
HOWDY FROM NEW ENGLAND..I HEAR A LOT OF MERCIFUL FATE IN THIS SONG...IVE KNOWN OF MAYHEM FOR YRS BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THEM...ONCE AGAIN YOU ARE SPOT ON WITH UR ANALYSIS....PEACE FROM THE NORTHEAST...
Damn, turn off caps lock.
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i suggest watching an old live version called live in leipzig in whic is present the icon singer(not this one) Dead who unfortunately lived up to his name
Yes i want to say that too, Dead was great singer, better than Atilla back then, it is worth to listen to his version of "Freezing Moon".
A better version is that compilation album of multiple band that was a tribute to Euronymous. It has him on vocals and the instruments seem to be from a studio rather than live. He ain't a bad guitarist when it comes to the studio, but Euronymous wasn't that good live. There were a lot of missed notes in Leipzig
cyclical repeating tremolo guitar melodies do seem to be a common thing in black metal, i guess it is very moody atmospheric genre, beginning of aggaloch's "into the painted grey" or something like main melody of emperor's "i am the black wizards" comes to mind
Yes. It is not usually very technically proficient genre but it does ooze atmosphere and that is what makes it tick. It after all was born as a counter reaction against Death Metal, which was becoming more and more polished and comercial back then, by a small group of rebellious teenagers who wanted to make as cold, sinister, raw sounding and unpolished music as possible. Nowadays the situation is a bit different but this is where Mayhem and the rest of the norwegian Black Metal scene got started and laid the groundwork for what kind of music it is.
hellhammer and euronymous masterpiece duel
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Folks don't GET that under the swampy necrotic and dissonant, ringing or warp-sawwing guitar is a NEOCLASSICAL and NEOROMANTIC compositional structure, with elements of archaic European folk music: The threnodic strains of the Slavonic strings, braying barkhorn or Alpine sackbut, dirgy chants from Hungary, Moldova or Greece, or wisent-hide tympane... It SOUNDS like Scythia invading or something during the Dark Ages, and this plodding march of doom shadowing their sacrificial offerings among the choice prisoners devoted to the Gods of The Steppes, with a final spasm of terror as the desperate chumps try rushing the guards and making a wild break for it... kinda like Malmedy.
Hellhammer is one of the most talented and intricate drummers ever for sure
I'm gonna see them live on 1st April can't tell you how much excited i am
@@prathamdangi3388 the whole thing is gonna be a joke
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not to mention te original version of the song was composed by practically teenagers
buried by time and dust is my fav off this album
The drums, always the drums get you hooked on Mayhem (and his hundred more projects, lol). Jan Axel is a genius!
His jazz approach with that cymbal's work and all those great fills. You should listen to Mayhem's more modern and progressive stuff.
You look good with the long hair. Keep it up.
Thanks for the compliment!
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You wanna check out badass black metal check out Craft. No one mentions Craft, they're underrated as hell. Come Resonance of Doom has a bit of everything they're good at. They fuckin' get what its all about.
This song is 30 years old by now lol.
D'OH!
hi new viewer here! i want to ask you to react to Apati and Lifelover which are both swedish DSBM bands, their lyrics are in swedish but their instrumentals are something else in my opinion. Also a Ukranian musician has released a very interesting album called Pale Swordsman and its by Këkth Aräkh.
Hey hey hey. Slow the fuck down. He just got into black metal lol. Recommend him some Burzum and Darkthrone first
I love that you compared Mayhem to Billie Eilish :D
I was honestly looking for an indie rock band name that I could use for the example but just couldn't think of one that we've heard on the channel. So I went straight to the most popular "low effort" singer today. :)
"This mix is very sparse though" haha, indeed, its called necrosound :D
Low effort- reminds me of Cake's John McCrea's speak-singing
As others have noted, Mayhem were one of the key bands of the 2nd Wave of Norwegian Black Metal. All of these bands took the template laid down by Bathory in the mid-late 80s and ran with it. When I've said before that black metal is metal's version of punk--raw, unpolished, fast, unrelenting, aggressive, etc.--you can really hear that here. Personally, I'm not a big fan of any of the "pure" black metal bands (Bathory is an exception), and really don't care much for the genre unless it's mixed with progressive or symphonic elements ala Emperor/Ihsahn or bands like Weakling or Deathspell Omega. I can also dig "black n' roll" bands, which are bands that mixed black metal with a more classic rock sound (influenced by Motorhead), like later Immortal and I. I will say that I think Freezing Moon is one of the better "classic" black metal songs out there with some good riffs, and I do appreciate it how it builds up to its first verse, but it kinda loses me after that.
I wonder how much of me is spoiled by what these originators inspired. In the Discord we were talking about Matrix and I wondered if it still held up to fresh eyes since the narrative and technological film making aspects aren't mind blowing anymore, they're just par for the course. I'm definitely in the "fresh ears" category when it comes to these highly influential and genre defining bands. There has been quite a few of these bands that "changed metal" but since I've heard their contributions done in highly refined ways and often mixed with other genres or ideas their pure, sometimes rough around the edges ideas simply don't resonate that much with me.
Well, this is basically the only classic "second wave norwegian black metal" album Mayhem ever did, since after they became much more experimental adding a lot of progressive and avant-garde elements to their music.
Nice vid, you should react to "I am the Black Wizards" by Emperor. That song is similar but sounds a bit more interesting.
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whats funny about certain styles of metal like black metal is that you could try to insult it, call it ugly or raw, yet it almost always will be a compliment to the idea the composers tried to evoke. well, except calling it posing, never that though lol.
“norwegian rock metal” killed me inside but he dint know it’s fine
He said "Norwegian rock AND metal"
You should analyse Fisheye with the band Shining.The video is great and there is a good live performance to.(nrk)
The band started as a jazzband but at one point they changed style compleetly.
The former drummer of Leprous went to shining.
They inventet a new genre with the album Blackjazz.
If you look for somthing different this is it.
I can allso recomend Slow Motion or Brave new world (Live at Gildehallen) with the Norwegian band Kalandra.
Loved this
5:38 "Very interesting note choices".
The rolling stone magazine placed Euronymous at the 58 place among the 100 best guitarists in the world. I like the classic Mayhem line up, but my personal opinion is that he wasn't that good. Although his riffing style is interesting.
I've been watching the 13 year-olds playing freezing moon so much, I forgot what the original sounded like 🤣
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Try Buried by Time and Dust (also in this record). You will find a beautiful melody there.
worst song in the record by far, but not that bad, just boring.
You should react to Marduk - Nightwing! :D
React to Burzum songs!
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Nah, too boring.
Hellhammer 👌🤘👌
Leprous- nighttime disguise please
the solo was recorded with few mistakes but they decided to leave it like that
i've always considered this album to be more experimental, than the "traditional" Black Metal that was being made at that time, eg: Darkthorne, Immortal, etc.
Same
My throat would hurt if I imitated Attila
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It's doable tbh. Takes practice tho like anything else
The version with dead will forever be the best version
Would be interesting to see you react to the live performance with a different singer (Maniac) at Wacken
It was in English... I can clearly hear what he's saying most of the time. xD
you mentioned that your perception of some songs changed at subsequent listens
maybe it would be interesting for you to react to some of your older videos to compare how your perception changed
Interesting. I don't know about reacting them live, but re-listening to a song while having a list of the main things I talked about from the first reaction and then expanding on those ideas or showing where my opinion/understanding has changed. That might work!
I have 3 songs you need to check out.
Your best years by Kowloon Walled City
Sundowning by Palehorse/Palerider
Lying in ruin by Usnea
Hopefully you can get around to these.
Please Darkthrone next.
The foundation.
“I believe it was not in English” it’s definitely in English lmao
You need to listen to dead’s version it’s better
That's cool
The demo with Dead is better. Just sayin'.
Both are very good
Please do Burzum - Jesus'Tod
I never got Mayhem. I just can't like them no matter how much I try. But yeah, Hellhammer is a great drummer, he's all that keeps me interested. The backstory of this band is amazing though, definitely worth looking into.
Never really listened to Mayhem, but have many times dove into the Wikipedia rabbit hole of this band and the antics of its members
I can recommend two albums from Mayhem that are for me considered masterpieces: Ordo ad Chao and Esoteric Warfare.
I would also recommend listening to Ordo first which will make you appreciate Esoteric even more.
i have heard pelles original recording and its very different...
Well, this singer wouldn't have worried too much about the durance of his vocal cords....
"They created an athmosphere" but some didn't "live with it" very long...😟
Atilla is still alive...
@@liliIiliIilil But he isn't Dead...
You're right, my bad. Have realised that Dead never got to record his song for the studio album.
@@progperljungman8218 Dead does have a studio version of this song. Search it up here on RUclips and you'll find it
Listen to Dead Vocals version pls
Check out demo version or live in Liepzig version, because here is Atilla singing, not so good singer, Dead was way better, raw and dark. Pity that he was so sick and depressed and took his only 22 years old life :(
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attila is hungarian teenager in '92-'93 and that time in (post-communist) hungary a very few average people speak english well(or at all). thats why the articulation is "poor". personally i really dig it. and in the beginning of the '90s metal bands doesnt go to vocal couch...wtf 😂😂😂
*coach. as you see average hungarians doesnt speak english well since then xD
Im SO SO SO SOOO HAPPY that vocalists did not (often, esp in extreme metal music scenes) go to vocal coaches back in the day. Learn it yourself, that's what I believe in. It can be easily learned by sound, and dedication, but it may take years of course depending on what all styles and such you're trying to learn in relation to "harsh vocals"
The epitome of black metal, the og version with dead is way better
Not a big fan of Atilla’s vocals. Dead was definitely best for this song and Maniac kills it too.
Dude has no idea about the “story” here
Attila is good but he simply doesn’t fit aswell as Per Ynvrge Óhlin or primarily known by his stage name “DEAD”. DEADS voice just fit mayhems music perfectly it was in your face.
So I've been watching some of your video's, starting out with the older vids. Mostly the black/death metal tracks. The progression you make as a metal listener is very cool to witness. Some older vids I see a man who is overwhelmed by this shit music, and doesn't really like what he hears, with this video I really see this nasty look on your face, it's the ultimate facial expression of enjoyment in metal. Cool video's! You're a likeable man.
Do more 90's death/black metal, it was the best period for extreme metal, everything before was still too weak, everything after the 2000's is overproduced and fake. OK this is a very broad generalization, but nonetheless true.
This Mayhem drummer is great by the way, he also plays in Arcturus, which you'll like a lot more probably. The singer you liked in Winter Trice by Borknagar sung in Arcturus before!
Thanks! It's certainly been a journey. I've been on a similar one though post-rock/metal as well. I did dive into Archspire's new album "Bleed the Future" and was blown away at the raw technical aspect of it. It's Tech Death rather than pure Death but I'd highly recommend it.
@@CriticalReactions I'm familiar with Archspire's previous works, but lost interest somehow... It's a good example of why I don't really like this modern stuff. So much hyperspeed technical wizard stuff, all the studiotrickery you need to make everything audible, makes it sound fake to me. I know they have a drummer, but when I listen to their album it sounds like a drumcomputer to me. I'm getting old maybe...
While I don't share it, I can appreciate this take. For me, the fact that it sound like a computer but I know it's a human is what keeps me around. There's just so much raw technical talent on display with them. It's not music that I'll probably ever listen to again. But I'm glad I checked it out once.
It was better with DEAD on vocals. RIP DEAD was one of the greatest black metal vocalist
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@@ftlllhippies1544 Probably being stabbed 23 times lol
no
he is good but im still on my oponion that dead is the real mayhem
React to greatest band : Empyrium...
You should’ve watched the live
He definitely wont be doing any improvements to his technique lmao
That is Attila Csihar and he's alive and well.
@@Themonist I honestly see no improvement in the last 25 years so kinda funny
The only good Mayhem is with Dead on vocals, and he's dead lol. They've never had a vocalist that could match him, Maniac was ok but the rest are terrible
May I recommend a movie into this subject?
Lords of chaos.
🤘😎🤘
No stop. That movie is such a bad interpretation of history. It's shit
@@cummywummy2896 you may be right. I was not there and do not know. But I do know movies ”based on real events” mostly goes far away from the truth.
Stay Metal!
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Vader's version is much better
I loved that cover!