The new Mayhem LP will be entitled De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and it will be DARK. If everything goes OK, we'll record it VERY soon and get it out some time in the summer of '92. We'll try to record it by using a good studio which is quite cheap so that should be ok. It will be very massive, as we'll have two guitars (+ solo) abd two basses. It will be very fast, with lots of dark emotions and moods. I can't really tell so much about it, anything may still happen (as usual).
Euronymous / Mayhem interview, Isten, 1992
MAYHEM released their legendary debut album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas on this day in 1994.
...plans were soon made early for their next LP, and at a very early stage they decided to call it "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" .... It is kinda wicked that this album wasn't released until the spring of '94, after two of the members departed from the mortals..... Dead killed himself under tragic circumstances in '91 and in the summer of '93 Euronymous was stabbed to death by Varg Chickennes.... Anyway, I will not bore you with further lessons in the eternally cursed MAYHEM saga, but I would like to state that Euroymous was raising the Level of Death Metal and he has been a great inspiration for many of the bands from Norway. MAYHEM with Dead was the real incarnation of evil on earth, it was there it all started.
Anyway, although Dead was no more, the MAYHEM LP was not cancelled and after testing a few vocals it was decided that Attilla from Hungary's TORMENTOR should sing on the LP.... Well, the man has a very special, almost operatic way of sining.... It takes some time to get used to but it is great!!! Mind you it is no where close to Dead and I think it is a bit sad to hear "Freezing Moon" without Dead, that's the only thing..... Therefor, "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is not the ultimate LP, it could have been if Dead sung on it.............
Anyway, the first real chapter of Northern Black Metal is over and let's hope there will be no reforming of MAYHEM, that would not be right.............MAYHEM - The originators of Northern Darkness
Slayer #10, 1994