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Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984. They were one of the founders of the Norwegian black metal scene and their music has strongly influenced the black metal genre.
==History==
Mayhem was founded in 1984 by guitarist Øystein Aarseth, bassist Jørn Stubberud and drummer Kjetil Manheim, taking their band name from the Venom song "Mayhem with Mercy". https://web.archive.org/web/20090309071234/http://thetruemayhem.com/history.htmhttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/mayhem-mn0000335302/biography Mayhem recorded its first EP, Deathcrush, in 1987, and released it through Aarseths' newly formed label Posercorpse Music. 
When Pelle Yngve Ohlin (Dead) joined the band, he was known to wear "corpse paint", which involved covering his face with black and white makeup. According to Necrobutcher, "it wasn't anything to do with the way Kiss and Alice Cooper used makeup. Dead actually wanted to look like a corpse. He didn't do it to look cool." http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1419364,00.html Hellhammer claimed that Dead "was the first black-metal musician to use corpse paint". https://web.archive.org/web/20080219143612/http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/hh-june1998.htm To complete his corpse-like image, Dead would bury his stage clothes and dig them up again to wear on the night of a concert. Martin Ledang, Pål Aasdal (2008). Once Upon a Time in Norway.
While performing, Dead would often cut himself with hunting knives and broken glass. Additionally, the band often had pig or sheep heads impaled on stakes and planted at the front of their stage. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/20/popandrock4 
On the 8th of April 1991, Dead committed suicide in the house rented by the band. He was found by Euronymous with slit wrists and a shotgun wound to the head. Dead's suicide note started with the sentence "Excuse all the blood" and included a brief explanation "nobody will ever understand this, but as a sort of explanation, I am not human, this is only a dream and soon I will awake". The full text has become public and it ended by saying "I didn't come up with this now but 17 years ago". Attached to the note, Dead left the lyrics of the song Life Eternal. When Euronymous found all this, he went to a nearby store and bought a disposable camera to photograph the corpse, after re-arranging some items. https://web.archive.org/web/20081216041837/http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/hh-lords.htm 
Euronymous used Dead's suicide to foster Mayhem's 'evil' image and claimed Dead had killed himself because black metal had become 'trendy' and commercialized. In time, rumors spread that Euronymous had made a stew with bits of Dead's brain and had made necklaces with bits of his skull. The band later denied the former rumor, but confirmed that the latter was true. https://web.archive.org/web/20071014183138/http://rockworld.tv/MurderMusicPlayer.html 
In 1995, a bootleg live recording of a 1990 Mayhem concert was released, titled The Dawn of the Black Hearts. Despite being a bootleg, the album is sometimes listed as one of the band's main albums, mainly due to the notoriety regarding the cover art, which is one of the aforementioned photographs of Dead shortly after he died from suicide. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p44861/discography
==Discography==
===Albums===
*De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)
*Grand Declaration of War (2000)
*Chimera (2004)
*Ordo Ad Chao (2007)
*Esoteric Warfare (2014)
*Daemon (2019)
===Live Albums===
*Live in Leipzig (1993)
*The Dawn of the Black Hearts (1995)
*Mediolanum, Capta Est (1999)
*Live in Marseille 2000 (2001)
*Live in Zeitz (2016)
*De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive (2016)
*Live in Jessheim (2017)
*Live in Sarpsborg (2019)
*Daemonic Rites (2023)
===Compilation Albums===
*European Legions (2001)
===EPs===
*Deathcrush (1987)
*Wolf's Lair Abyss (1997)
*Life Eternal (2008)
*Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando (2021)
===Box Sets===
*The Studio Experience (2002)
*A Season In Blasphemy 2018 (2018)
===Demos and Singles===
*Pure Fucking Armageddon (1986)
*Deathrehearsal (1987)
*From The Darkest Past (1992)
*Out from the Dark (1996)
*Freezing Moon/Carnage (1996)
*Ancient Skin/Necrolust (1997)
*Life Eternal (2009)
*Psywar (2014)
*Black Glass Communion (2019)
*Voces Ab Alta (2021)
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