Mayhem, Deathrehearal, Demo, 1987, Second Wave Of Black Metal 0:3…

• Chainsaw Gutsfuck – …“If you don’t trust the lord then clap yo hands.” Incredibly poor quality...
• Necrolust – …wall of noise…
• Deathcrush – …perhaps the most accomplished track of this rehearsal…
• California Über Alles Mix (Dead Kennedy’s Cover) – …punk cover…
• Mix – …rough-mix…
• California Über Alles Mix (Dead Kennedy’s Cover) – …punk cover…
• Necrolust – …slightly tighter version…
• Witching Hour (Venom Cover) – …wall of noise again, ruins a Venom classic…
• Chainsaw Gutsfuck – …cleaner version…
• Deathcrush – …much improved…
• Witching Hour (Venom Cover) –  …Sloppy version…

Recorded 17/01/87 and 18/01/87, Deathrehearsal is a demo by the Norwegian Black metal band , Mayhem released in 1987. The Demo was released on cassette and has poor quality. It was the rehearsals they completed with Sven Erik Kristiansen (Maniac), for their EP Deathcrush.

Maniac, Euronymous, Necrobutcher, Manheim.

Celtic Frost, I Won’t Dance, September 1987, First Wave XL

• I Won’t Dance – …Black Metal with a hint of the Gothic, Avante-Garde-Gothic?
• One In Their Pride – …throw away disco metal, the start of their fall?

“I did taste their only dream, As denial was still unborn, Secrets beyond those dethroned walls,
And echoes of a martyr’s scream, Deterrent vibrates the allurements face, As my barque drowns toward conquest” Tom G.Warrior; Martin E.Ain; Reed St.Mark…

Bathory, 1984-1987, The Beast…

Bathory were one of the pioneers of the first wave of both black metal and Viking metal.

Formed in 1983 by Quorthan, Jonas Akerlund, and Frederick Melander, but didn’t come up with the name of the band until the recording of Scandinavian Metal Attack.

When Quorthon formed the band in 1983, his nickname was originally Black Spade. He soon changed it to Ace Shoot, then finally to Quorthon, a name he found in a list of demons.

They played only a few live shows (probably between 6 and 8) in the early days. Quorthon refused to play live ever since.

Their first three albums were the foundation of the Black Metal imprint, cold harsh production, a wall of sound, and thin production. No other formation band captured the blueprint for the fledgling Black Metal genre…Bathory continued to produce albums of note right up until Quorthon’s death in 2004, but these albums were in the Viking Metal genre that Bathory helped to create…

Black Masses

The role call of Black Metal groups, they have fallen in the name of the cvlt, they will not be forgotten & they may yet return:-

First Wave of Black Metal:

• Mercyful Fate, 1981-1984, Satan…disbanded…
• Venom, 1981-1987, False Prophet…
• Bathory, 1984-1987, The Beast…
• Slayer, 1981-1985, fell from the cvlt…
• Hellhammer, 1982-1984, bastard child…
• Possessed, 1984-1985, Death Metal pioneers…
• Destruction, 1983-1986, one of the ‘Big Four’ of German Thrash…
• Onslaught, 1983-1986, pioneers of UK Thrash…
• Sodom, 1983-1986, obsessed by cruelty…
• Kreator, 1984-1986, Blackened Death Metal…
• Vulcano, 1983-1986, Devil on my roof…
• Sarcófago, 1986-1987, split…

Bathory, Under The Sign Of The Black Mark, May 1987, First Wave XXXIX

• Nocturnal Obeisance – …atmospheric intro, chills the spine..
• Massacre – …blistering Black Metal tour-de-force…
• Women Of Dark Desires – …hypnotic Black Metal, clean chorus.ck “Women of dark desires…”
• Call From The Grave – strange noises feature in intro, typical frost fronted screams…
• Equimanthorn – …”Grant me the powers of thunder, And give me a sword forged in the raging Hell’s fire, Lend me the eight legged black stallion of Odin and I’ll have my vengeance, Oh, I’ll kill with desire”…
• Enter The Eternal Fire – Venomesque in the use of melody and the thunderbass, a slower track…
• Chariots Of Fire – …”Over the skyline, Approaching at high speed, Objects of flames reaching higher, Crossing the sky at Hell’s pace”…
• 13 Candles – …”Born a child of the underworld, The fire and flame”…
• Of Doom – …thunderous outgoing track…

“Down the vast hills in morning mist cold, Into the peaceful deep valley below.
Two thousand stallions foaming with hate, Carrying their masters towards their fate
Into the battle they ride, Two thousand men too young to die.
Massacre… “, Quorthon, Paul Lundberg…

Coming Soon…………….

Second Wave Of Black Metal…

Master’s Hammer – The Ritual Murder (1987)

Mayhem – Deathcrush (1987)

Tormentor – The 7th Day Of The Doom (1987)

Mayhem – Deathcrush (1987)

KAT – Heavy Hell & Metal (1988)

Celtic Frost – Sound Waves (1988)

KAT – Power Metal – Heavy Metal From Benelux (1988)

End Of The First Wave Of Black Metal…

Samael – Into The Infernal Storm Of Evil (1988)

Rotting Christ – Leprosy Of Death (1988)

Samael – Macabre Operetta (1988)