Mayhem - Daemon

[hellfire]

I'm only back buying physical copies of albums recently and that DMDS boxset looks deadly!!! Already spent me bollix this month though. Hopefully, it doesn't sell out too quickly. There seem to be a lot of labels doing these cassette box sets. I've already picked up a few of them over the last few months.

https://www.discogs.com/Portal-Tempus-Fugit/release/15095522

https://www.discogs.com/Funeral-Mist-In-Manus-Tuas-The-Cassette-Collection/release/14733938

https://www.discogs.com/Hellhammer-Demon-Entrails/release/14566920

https://www.discogs.com/Possessed-Tape-Collection/release/6765230

https://www.discogs.com/Sodom-Demonized/release/10824395

https://www.discogs.com/Sodom-Shrill-Cries-Angel-Dies/release/9613934

https://www.discogs.com/Samael-Worship-Him-Blood-Ritual-Ceremony-Of-Opposites/release/7742028

https://www.discogs.com/Treblinka-Shrine-Of-The-Pentagram-/release/10735366

Love the Demon Entrails box. astfgyl, I think Daemon is excellent. Moody, with plenty of atmosphere and Atilla going off his nut all the way through.

[TurnTheAirBlue]

I enjoyed it. It's pretty straight forward, immediate stuff. Bad Blood was probably my favourite track after my first few playthroughs.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3CSYuhWzMiGpiRS05Wi9VG?si=L-cMyrLQQgmbAXt79HdjrA

[mickO)))]

I don't buy tapes but have seen those Portal and Funeral Mist ones they look great. I think the Portal one is already sold out.

Still not sure about getting the DMDS box already have the best version of the album released so far the ancient darkness one. Reports about the box seem good so far.

[astfgyl]

Just listened to Bad Blood there now and I'm going to throw on the full album after it. Nothing like BM on a roasting hot day

[TurnTheAirBlue]

There is a version of the album with two bonus tracks, wasn't aware of it.
One of them is called 'Everlasting Dying Flame'. It has a really cool darkly melodic riff at the start. Necrobutcher is playing a descending bassline under the riff, it compliments it really well.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2q2lDyonNKO8DxodQCC246?si=on-E8sSgTbSmA-b1gueWzg

[mickO)))]

Bonus with the Japanese version I think. Also a version with Morbid, Death and Death Strike covers on it. The longest version of the album has 15 tracks.

Was suppose to see Mayhem live again last month 

[Carnage]

The instrumental rough mix disc would be the for me, but not worth shelling out for that alone.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, I have DMDS, totally normal version, on vinyl and although the box looks a very nice piece, I've too much on the mental wish list to go and spend a decent fraction of it on that. Have you been striking gold on the digs or wha' Andy?

[Eoin McLove]

Haha sadly not. I just got a little caught up in the excitement of it, reading other people's reactions to it and how great it sounded. I hummed and hawed for maybe five minutes and decided I was willing to splash out. I only have it on CD and I think it's one I can justify having on LP as well so I might as well go all out and grab this definitive edition. I'm already over that gutting emptiness that spending too much money on records in one go generates and I have no doubt, from previous experience of doing the same, that once it arrives I'll feel completely justified. But I completely see why others would baulk at coughing out that amount of dough on such a luxury. As my oul granny used to say after a good long mass, fuck the world!

[ochoill]

All this talk of Mayhem, I'll probably stick on Ordo Ad Chao later.  Alongside DMDS it's one of their best.  Was never mad into GDOW, that other yoke doing his very best Liquid Snake impersonation the whole way through was off putting, must revisit it and see if it seems any better.  But Ordo... absolute masterpiece.  Phenomenal atmosphere, razor sharp riffs, not a single moment of predictable music on it yet it still is completely cohesive, production that sounds like they dug a pit for the band to play in and mic'd it - all the perfect elements for a class BM album.

[Scáthach]

I'm hoping the new master of DMDS from the boxset gets a single vinyl release. Apparently the sound is fantastic, previous vinyl versions being the CD master slapped onto wax.
I've spent over €150 on music and merch the last 2 weeks so the box is off the cards at the moment.
More on topic, the digibook version of Daemon is worth it for the 2 bonus tracks, as said above, Everlasting Dying Flame is a cool track.

[astfgyl]

I listened to Daemon yesterday and it was great from start to finish. Not one tune on it I didn't like. Sort of like a cross between DMDS and GDOW in parts

[TurnTheAirBlue]

The guitarists were saying that they started writing and recording after touring for the DMDS anniversary. Having played those songs so much over the course of the tour it bled into the writing for this album. Must try Esoteric Warfare, didn't bother with it when it came out.

[hellfire]

Esoteric Warfare is decent enough. Not as good as Daemon, but solid enough.

[boozegeune]

This thread reminds me I never really dive into the back catalogue of Mayhem beyond DMDS. I did enjoy Esoteric Warfare though, the few times I listened to it