Godawful album covers

Manunkind wrote: The Miracle wrote: erlenst wrote: on page 3 or 4 of this thread, there is an album cover by a band called mayhem. It looks kind of like one of these covers, but is not illustrated. a real life photo of the lead singers dead, gunshot head was used as the album cover. The guy got his brains eaten by another band member, his skull turned into necklaces and then one of the members stabbed another musician from the same band 23 times to death. Haha, don't be ridiculous. Do you believe anything you hear ? First paragraph is true. Second= The part about the stabbing is also true. It's a famous case in Norway. The murderer wasn't in the band at the time, but he (fasten your seatbelts) auditioned to take his victim's place and got the gig (no one knew he was the killer at the time, though). Together they recorded Mayhem's magnum opus, "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas". The murderer's out of prison by now, I think.

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Manunkind wrote: The part about the stabbing is also true. It's a famous case in Norway. The murderer wasn't in the band at the time, but he (fasten your seatbelts) auditioned to take his victim's place and got the gig (no one knew he was the killer at the time, though). Together they recorded Mayhem's magnum opus, "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas". The murderer's out of prison by now, I think.

Sorry but that's not true. The killer (Varg Vikernes aka Count Grishnack from Burzum) was the band's bassist, and the killed was a guitarist (Oystein Aarseth aka Euronymous). The fact is that the guys had some kind of a feud going on which eventually led to the murder of Aarseth because Vikernes was afraid Aarseth was planning to kill him.

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas has already been recorded when this happened, and both Vikernes and Aarseth played on the album. After the murder, Aarseth's parents wanted to erase Varg's bass parts from De Mysteriis (it hadn't been released yet), but didn't succeed.

Vikernes was sentenced to jail and is still there.

And the album cover part is also true!

Manunkind wrote: Was he in Mayhem on a full time basis, or did he just do odd gigs for them? I've always thoughthe put 95% of his time into Burzum.

Actually I don't even know when Vikernes joined Mayhem - there isn't any information about that in Mayhem's website - or if he played on any gigs, obviously he was very busy with his own band. But anyhow, he did play the bass on DMDS.

Manunkind wrote: I heard that the bass sound was tampered with to appease Euronymous' parents. Is this true?

That's correct. Apparently Hellhammer promised Euronymous' parents that he would replace Vikernes' bass parts with his own, but he was just too terrible a bassist.

Btw.
Mayhem is probably the band with the most interesting history - although the sickest history as well. It doesn't really matter if you like their music or not, the band is still fascinating, and of course, it was Euronymous who started the whole black metal scene in Norway.

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^ Look closer, lad.

I changed my mind:

WHAT THE DUCK!!



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