“We haven't decided names for tracks number 6, 7 and 8 yet, we are still missing a couple of lyrics. And while I remember it, the vocals will not be recorded now. The singer from Hungary will come at a later point. We will first record everything and mix it. And then we can listen to it for a few weeks while he is rehearsing the vocals, and then we come over again to record the vocals and do changes to the mix if needed.
Well, track number 6 (From the Dark Past) has a couple of strange riffs in the beginning, with sliding chords and chords out of scale. We need very distinct guitar here. When it starts to go fast, there is a guitars melody all the time that you barely hear here, and for every fourth bar there is a minor chord with simultaneous picking on the bass string on the guitar.”
- Euronymous in a letter to Pytten prior to the recording of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, featured in DMDS 25th anniversary box set.
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| Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway that was featured on the front cover of the album. |