Album
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
1994 · Rock
15 collectors on Gatefold own this
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is a Metal album by Mayhem, originally released in 1994. On Gatefold: 85 pressings tracked, owned by 15 collectors.
About
Mayhem’s 1994 studio debut blasted through the gates of hell with a grim, arctic mood that made black metal somehow blacker. If you can endure Attila Csihar’s gnomic grumbling in “Funeral Fog” to experience Euronymous’ stomach-churning solo in “Freezing Moon,” you’ll be confronted with some of the most nihilistic, misanthropic metal ever exhumed. It often thrashes in the nastiest manner (“Cursed in Eternity,” “Life Eternal”), but at other times it simmers excruciatingly. Hellhammer’s drum rampage on “Buried by Time and Dust” is to die for.
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Tracklist
- 1Funeral Fog5:47
- 2Freezing Moon6:23
- 3Cursed in Eternity5:10
- 4Pagan Fears6:20
- 5Life Eternal6:57
- 6From the Dark Past5:26
- 7Buried by Time and Dust3:34
- 8De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas6:21
Sound DNA
- Metal
- Black Metal
- cavernous
- menacing
- occult
Songwriting for this album began in 1987, but due to the suicide of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin ("Dead") and the murder of guitarist Øystein Aarseth ("Euronymous"), the release was delayed until May 1994.
This is the band's only studio album to feature Euronymous and Varg Vikernes ("Count Grishnackh").
Vocalist Dead started to write the lyrics when he joined the band in 1988.
In 1990 studio versions of the songs "The Freezing Moon" and "Carnage" were recorded, appearing on the CBR Records compilation album Projections of a Stained Mind
Drummer, Jan Axel Von Blomberg "Hellhammer", claimed that the lyrics of "Freezing Moon" were "meant to make people commit suicide".
Dead said in a 1989 interview by Marduk guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson ("Evil"), published in Slayer fanzine, that by then he had written the lyrics for "Funeral Fog", "Freezing Moon", "Buried by Time and Dust" and "Pagan Fears"
Finished versions of these songs appeared on the album Live In Leipzig, a concert recording from November 1990 which was released in 1993.
It is considered one of the most influential black metal albums of all time.
In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas as 40th on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
The title De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is a Latin phrase meaning "The Mysteries of the Lord Satan", with "Dom" being an abbreviation of "Dominis", often used as an honorific prefix for ecclesiastics of the Catholic Church.
The album cover is a monochrome photo of the east side of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Attila CsiharVOCALS
- BlackthornELECTRIC GUITAR
- Count GrishnackhBASS BASS GUITAR
- EuronymousELECTRIC GUITAR GUITAR
- HellhammerDRUMS
- Varg VikernesBASS
15 collectors on Gatefold own this · 85 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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