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(It is way more user friendly than Tumblr or Instagram because you are able to navigate the site and posts by category (on top of the page over Mayhem logo), tags (they appear under posts) or you can simply type a word into search bar and it will show you every post that contains that word.

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All questions on Tumblr are answered by "Pelle admin", that is, the one with the bat emoji 🦇 (I do answer Øystein related questions, but rarely, because my knowledge of Øystein isn't as extensive as other admin's)

On Instagram, we do Q&A once every 3 months, where you can reach the other admin - the one with the candle emoji (🕯️), if you have questions pertaining to Øystein.

Anonymous questions are permanently disabled.

"Day four. January 31. The whole band, along with Vangelis and me, went to their studio and watched them rehearse and get ready for the concert that was going to take place on February 3. It was amazing for us. They played new songs that were awesome.

Day five. February 1. In the morning, Maniac, the former singer of Mayhem, arrived from the north for the concert that was to take place in two days.

Day six. February 2. Nella woke us up at 8:00 a.m. and treated us to beers. From 8:30 to 9:30, Nella had downed a case of beer, while we had barely managed to drink a bottle each. In the afternoon, Mayhem left and went to their studio to rehearse for the concert. That evening, they returned with pig heads that they were going to use in the concert." Interview with Antonis Orologas from Desolation, Total rage zine no2, 1991 🦇

(these were the two Greek guys who overstayed their welcome like Marcin, and were were mentioned by several Mayhem members because of it. Big thanks to the follower of ours who found the zine and translated it!)

Finally, do you know what the ex. members of Mayhem are up to now?

“Yeah, we have more or less contact with all of them, but some of them live their own lives and we see them only rarely. This especially goes for Manheim and Messiah. Manheim is married with an idiot chick and is working in an insurance company. He has become a totally normal person. Messiah is only into Hardcore as far as I know, and he has some strange Hardcore band (Within’ Range) I don’t even know where he lives now, but sooner or later he will turn up again. Yesterday I got the new Impostor demo where he does with us, he was here some weeks ago, he’s still the same old dude.” - Euronymous interviewed in Slayer zine 8

Is there a full version of this? Maybe on a tape

"Day two. January 29, 1990. As soon as I woke up, I met the other members of Mayhem. In the late afternoon, we went back to Oslo and I treated them [to food, drinks etc, common in Greece], since it was my birthday that day. Then we went to the Blitz squat club, where Napalm Death had played there in the past. It’s worth noting that if you weren’t 18, they wouldn’t let you into the venue, so we had to be sneaky and change our birth years.

Day three. January 30, 1990. We took the train to Oslo and went to a building called Oslo Sentralstasjon, which housed 130 shops. Inside the building, there was a shop with Greek flags. We went inside hoping to find some work so we could stay there a little longer, but we were shocked because as soon as we walked in, we saw that the shop was run by Chinese people." - Interview with Antonis Orologas from Desolation, Total rage zine no2, 1991 , part 3 🦇

(these were the two Greek guys who overstayed their welcome like Marcin, and were were mentioned by several Mayhem members because of it. Big thanks to the follower of ours who found the zine and translated it!)

I'm sorry :(

I can assure you, my age didn't change anything. I actually answered this long ago. I forgot Ihsahn.

it's baffling that people just fall right for oystein's "euronymous" edgy persona and believe that's genuinely how was as a person.. in those letters where he states that he declares war on normal people and trying to shift blame on "posers" for pelle's suicide, to someone who understands nuance it's clear as day oystein was definitely grieving in a way, we can have our own opinions on those photos and the skull pieces he took but his actions afterwards speak clear as day.

in that one post where you had chatgpt analyze that letter he sent to morgan, i couldn't help but shed a tear when it said that him opening helvete was a way to rebuild what he lost, creating a sanctuary of sorts, it put a whole new perspective for me about how he felt about pelle's suicide, and him pushing his old friends away to surround himself with essentially a bunch of finicky flip-floppy people and burrowing himself deeper into the euronymous persona, it was all a way to cope with what he lost, and sometimes i avoid comment sections in relation to mayhem because i know theres going to be a bunch of idiots saying how oystein corrupted poor precious pelle and that he's just some evil cartoon villain when he was human like the rest of us.

I avoid social media comment sections, YouTube fanmade documentaries, Youtube comments, Mayhem subreddit etc

What will be the ultimate goal for Mayhem? What is what you think you will manage to do during your career?

“I don’t know if we have any ultimate goal, for me it would be perhaps to play live in Albania, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam or Kampuchea. But the other guys may have other ideas about this. I’d also be happy if we could continue to release records without too much problems, and manage to make a living out of that + the label without having to sell records to mainstream people. This lowlife should not have any access to Death Metal.” - Euronymous interviewed in Slayer zine #8