(Updated with eyewitness)
Maniac and Blasphemer with Mayhem. Live in Insel der Jugend, Berlin, Germany (January 16, 1998) From Speedrich Cacophonia personal archive.
Eyewitness Ragnar Prielipp: It was a catastrophic show. Maniac was so drunk that he could hardly perform. At one point he fell into the drumkit, a total disaster. Some of the more hardcore fans present were pretty close to just ripping him from the stage and beating him up, which luckily didn’t happen but I heard a few people saying how he ruined a legacy. Still, we got to see Mayhem in the 90s and the gig was tiny, as was the scene in Berlin back then. No comparison to the amazing recent shows.
