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Euroman and Deed cause.. why not?

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"We should share some memories of Dead along the way, what are some of your good memories of him?"

"Euronymous was pissed as hell when I decided to leave, he was really mad. I remember he said a lot of stupid things then as you do when you're 19 years old and angry. But a couple of months after that, it was back to normal. We were drinking beer and talking about music. "Deathcrush" seemed to me the end, I couldn't see that it would go any further, I was luckily proven wrong when later they released "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas", which is a great album. But when I listened to it I wasn't feeling that I was left out of anything, it was more like "Wow, cool, it's great." 

One week before his death, Euronymous and I were going through "De Mysteriis..." and he showed me with pride everything that he has done, you know, all the riffs and everything and it was a normal evening that you share with a friend, you know? And I think that makes my story about Mayhem different than maybe some of the stories you talked about. I never felt that this period that I have been part of Mayhem in any way is being put on the carpet or anything. It's just there and I talk about that period. If you ask me about the period after, you get Iess and less comments because I wasn't part of it.” - Manheim in Systematic Desensitization zine, 2021 🕯

"Drummer Torben Grue reacted to Pelle talking about lying in a coffin, getting bedsores and st*rving himself to look dead.

"What is this? This guy here is not kidding at all. He never even smiles!

Once I called him "Pelle", and he replied angrily: "My name is not Pelle, my name is Dead!"

Right then and there I thought: "No, I don't want to be a part of this anymore. Then I was out [of Mayhem]" - Torben Grue, article on nrk.no about Helvete documentary 🦇

What's the strangest place and the most shocking place you have been?

"I take it this is in context of the band or related to that, so l'll just mention the party at the Mayhem house, back in 1990, where our hosts were Euronymous and Dead.

There were about 15 people, us included, one of who was Metalion of Slayer Mag. It was a great trip, slightly unnerving due to their passing out rituals (if you passed out, they'd f*ck with you, ie. when Metalion dropped, Euronymous lit up his socks and let it burn until he woke up. Severe burns to couple of his toes I think), and Dead's erratic behaviour, but we had great discussions with Euronymous and great time overall."- Jukka Kolehmainen (Abhorrence), interview to Cult of our darkest past 🦇

Euronymous explained his stance in one 1992 interview, saying ‘As Mayhem is NOT a political band, I don’t really like to mix topics like this into band interviews, but anyway I’m still keeping the faith. I openly admit that I am a Stalinist and I’m very fascinated by extreme countries like Albania and Romania in the good old days’. He also said in Slayer Magazine issue 8, ‘Even though I’m active in the most extreme communist party here (Albania inspirations) I leave it to the Punks to write about that in the lyrics’.

It’s interesting to note that both Metalion and Euronymous were friends with the left wing grind legends Napalm Death and loved their early work, Slayer’s editor explaining that it was only their continued use of socially aware lyrics once they had been labelled as death metal that the Mayhem main man disliked. Indeed, Euronymous appears to have shared some of the band’s values.” - Dayal Patterson, ‘Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult’ 🕯

"My biggest problem with how Øystein is portrayed is that it almost never matches reality. He was a REAL nerd. He was the kind of nerd that we other nerds thought were a little too nerdy.

When people ask me to describe him I always think of Lars Ulrich, but a boring version. But he could be really funny, in a really dry way. He was also really good at school. So he was always really well liked by the teachers. And before he discovered music, chemistry was his big thing.”

- Nils Svensson, a childhood friend of both Øystein and Jørn’s. Thanks @nikkisicc on ig for speaking to us about your recollections of your friends :) 🕯