Mayhem
Grand Declaration Of War
[Season Of Mist]


Traitors...

The first time I heard some tracks of this CD was on June 27th, 1999, when the band came to France to play their 1st gig ever in my country. I was there and they "offered" the audience previous versions of "A view from Nihil" and "Time to die". After they played these songs (Maniac didn't remember the lyrics as he was too drunk on stage to remember them...), I was like "what the Hell is this shit ???" I am not a real fan of the "post-Euronymous" period of the band, but I have to say that the "Wolf..." MCD seemed not that bad to me when I heard these songs. Gone were the days of The True MAYHEM...

One year later. We're now in May 2000 and I hear that their new LP is just out. When I see the pictures of the band and read the criticizes of the recording, I decide to get first a cassette dub of the CD before I buy it... It was a good idea, because when I finally heard what they had done, I puked my last meal ! This LP is RIDICULOUS. It's no longer Black Metal, it's a mix between techno, hip-hop and a bunch of other crap to the worse trendy metal ever, but the band presents it as a Black Metal album ! I guess they have watched too many times the Star Wars Trilogy and listened too much to the "Tribute to Puff Daddy" album when they started to release this one ! Then I remember that Hellhammer is also involved into bands such as THE KOVENANT and I realize the band turned into trendy crap. If you don't believe me, listen to the electro track (I don't know its name, it's not worthy enough to remember it), it will show you there is something more pituful than Maniac's vocals on that CD...

Some say it's Blasphemer's fault if the True MAYHEM turned into the False MAYHEM (aka the New MAYHEM). I say it's not his fault, as I'm sure he does what someone else tells him to do. I don't think Necrobutcher is the one behind the felony, he's too stupid (and too much addicted to alcohol) to do that. Maniac is too weak to decide (he must come on stage completely drunk because if he doesn't do that, he can't sing anythinbg, he's too frightened... sad but true...), so you guessed Hellhammer is the one responsible for all this. I hope he's proud of that, as well as of all the interviews he made, in which he said Euronymous was a faggot and a shitty communist etc. etc. MAYHEM lost its REAL fans because of HIM, the band was respected when Euronymous was there and now it has just become a trend to listen to it. Hellhammer, I hope you are proud to do gigs for 14-year old boys who bought your CD together with the latest DAFT PUNK one... Never ever to be considered as a metal band...

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