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, 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…

Celtic Frost, Into The Pandemonium, 1987, First Wave XXXVIII

• Mexican Radio – perhaps Celtic Frost invented Avant Garde post Black Metal…whatever this album contains a number of traits found in this sub-genre of Black Metal…
• Mesmerized – genres mix and intertwine to amazing success…
• Inner Sanctum – a straight edged Black Metal track appears…
• Sorrows Of The Moon – a doomy The Cure type of ambient Black Metal…
• Babylon Fell – back to a more traditional Celtic Frost sound…
• Caress Into Oblivion – a their different styles mixed in one track…
• One In Their Pride – heavy metal disco track
• I Won’t Dance – Gothic Black Metal…
• Rex Irae – a true ambient offering, that will become a staple of post Black Metal ambient bands…
• Oriental Masquerade – more genre bending Operatic Black Metal…

This album, more than any that had come before invented the Ambient/Avant Garde Black Metal sub genre that would emerge late into the Second Wave…years ahead of it’s time both in sound, structure and ideas.

“Dreams drift in the frozen wind, And mysteries are reborn, We rose from sand and stone, To follow the light’s allure, Tears drift in the shadows sleep, Turn innocence into excess. Fragments of a dying world, And destiny lies beneath…” Tom G.Warrior, Martin E.Ain, Reed St.Mark.

Sarcófago, I.N.R.I, 1987, First Wave XXXVII

• Satanic Lust – sounding very late Possessed in it’s sound, with Celtic Frost grunts and a great Black Metal vocalization…
• Desecration Of Virgin – proto Death Metal vocals overlay the Black Metal riffing…
• Nightmare – Blackened Death brutality…
• I.N.R.I – Thieves and corrupts, Now eleited priests, They selled pieces, Of cloth saying it were yours, The chief of insanity, Now is reigning at rome, The pervertion and evil, Only start after you came…
• Christ’s Death – Sarcofago prove to be the most extreme band of the first wave…
• Satanas – the most Death Metal track so far from the first wave…
• Ready To Fuck – Death Metal!
• Deathrash – the most second wave sounding track from a first wave band so far…
• The Last Slaughter – Panic and fear on this our fell, now the god’s son, are falling to hell…

“Satan in hell, Await for you, You are welcome, To your nightmare” Antichrist, Incubus, Butcher, D.D.Crazy

Celtic Frost, The Collector’s Celtic Frost, 1987, First Wave XXXVI

• In The Chapel, In The Moonlight – Gothic Black Metal..?…Black Metal riffing, gothic lyrics…and those backing vocals…

“How I’d love to hear the organ, In the chapel in the moonlight, While we’re strolling down the aisle, Where roses entwine…”Tom G.Warrior, Martin E.Ain, Reed St.Mark

Celtic Frost, Tragic Serenades, 1986, First Wave XXXV

• The Usurper (new version) – Avant Garde Black Metal…full of weird twists and ideas…
• Jewel Throne (new version) – post Black Metal bands will take a lot from this EP…
• Return To The Eve (party mix) – great ideas and changes and just weirdness…a classic…

“Take my soul away into the dark, Dreaming a thousand morbid dreams, No tomorrow when the wind caress my mind, Could I ever return, it would be my doom, Obsessed by the nightmare’s sound, Drifting back into realms of chaos
Reality has become my dream, I’ll be covered by the abyss’ ground…” Tom G.Warrior, Martin E.Ain, Reed St.Mark

Tormentor, Live In Budapest ’86, Demo, 1986, Second Wave Of Black Metal 0:2…

• Intro – …a thrashing instrumental into…
• Branded By Satan – …super fast thrash Black Metal…that swings into slower NWOBHM, then back to Black Metal…
• Infinite Darkness – …NWOBHM explodes into Blackened Thrash…
• Total Desaster – …Destruction cover…
• Tormentor – …melody…darkness…exquisite playing…horrific vocals…
• Life Is Life – …Opus cover…

…Their first appearance on stage was in 1986 at a “looking for new talents” festival called AORTA. However the judges did not appreciate their “noise” too much, they still won and passed through the finals in “Hard Rock and Heavy Metal” category by the votes of the audience. It gave the band immediate attention and a few reviews appeared in some cultural magazines of that time. They also won an opportunity for a full live show in the same venue in Budapest. They started to work on more songs and they learned a couple of covers from bands like Destruction, Kreator, Bathory or Sodom. Attila Szigeti, Tamas Buday , Lajos Fazekas, Marton Dubecz

Mayhem, Pure Fucking Armageddon, Demo, 1986, Second Wave Of Black Metal 0:1…

“And here it begins…

• Voice Of A Tortured Skull – …instrumental introduction, a slow riff overlayed with feedback and guttural howls and screeches…
• Carnage – …it is easy to hear – through the distortion – many influences from the First Wave…
• Ghoul – …as low fidelity as it can get…but there is promise…
• Black Metal (Total Death Version) – …instrumental version of a classic Venom track…brutalised…
• Pure Fucking Armageddon – …almost crust punk…
• Mayhem (Rehearsal) 
• Ghoul (Rehearsal) 
• Pure Fucking Armageddon (Rehearsal)
• Carnage (Rehearsal) 

…coming out of Oslo in 1984, formed by Necrobutcher and Manheim under the name Musta which was changed to Mayhem after Euronymous joined…the band name comes from the Venom song “Mayhem With Mercy”…

Vulcano, Bloody Vengeance, 1986, First Wave XXXIV

• Dominios Of Death – taking everything that has come before and melding it together into a Black Metal megalith…
• Spirits Of Evil – the vocalisations are truly evil…
• Ready To Explode – Lucifer will return, Heaven will have an end, Sacrifices and rituals in the night, 666, it’s the number of the death…
• Incubus – the intensity is overwhelming…
• Death Metal – another influence of the emerging Death Metal scene…with Blackened touches…
• Voices From Hell – as it says…
• Bloody Vengeance – Bathory on overdrive…

“Stabat daemon, Stabat daemon, Decollatus – decollatus, Demon, demon – sabat, Fire, fire – satan, Salt-salt, fire water, Earth, earth – silver, Satan…” Zhema, Angel, Laudir, Soto Jr, Flavio