A Tribute to Mayhem: Originators of the Northern Darkness

by Various Artists

A Tribute to Mayhem: Originators of the Northern Darkness cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 February 2001
  • Label: Avantgarde Music
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 1:02:29
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This tribute compiles covers of Mayhem songs by bands from the international black metal underground, each rendering the Norwegian pioneers' material in its own register. Issued by Italy's Avantgarde Music, it documents Mayhem's foundational standing in the genre a decade after 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas'.

Genres

Descriptors: violence, harsh-vocals, riff-heavy, distorted, fast

Tracklist

  1. From The Dark Past (4:40)
  2. Pagan Fears (6:34)
  3. Freezing Moon (5:45)
  4. Funeral Fog (5:13)
  5. Carnage (4:07)
  6. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (6:51)
  7. Buried By Time And Dust (3:34)
  8. Life Eternal (4:45)
  9. Ghoul (3:41)
  10. Into Thy Labyrinth (5:29)
  11. Cursed In Eternity (4:58)
  12. Deathcrush (6:52)
  13. Silvester Anfang

Credits

  • Metallion - liner notes [slayer magazine 2001], photography by [mayhem's pictures]
  • B氓rd Eithun - liner notes
  • Avantgarde Music - photography by [mayhem's pictures]

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