Mayhem Vocalist Dead Is Brought Back To Life Through A New Collection Of His Letters. “Letters from the Dead” offers insight into the real Dead—a Swedish kid obsessed with death and legendary for his role In Morbid and then Mayhem.
Only Black is True, Only Death is Real!!! Gore is Trend!
Hello Nick! It's Dead here again. Hey - you're really good at drawing, I use to
do some drawing stuff myself. I enclose something of it in this letter. Maybe we
together can work something out, maybe even in Metal Destruction...? You
asked o f releases, if we need some artworks for that.... Well we rarely give out
much and a s for the next release we'll probably have some photograph instead.
But if we would need something that you might feel for help us out with I'll tell
of it. So what we can use drawings for is for stuff like flyers, ads and letter-
pages. So far I have done the drawings for that... well the main reason of that is
that we have a (old! xerox mashine and I'm the one in the band that 'can'
draw. It's not so often that I have time left to spend hours or sometimes days by
making drawings and too many don't like that kind o f drawings I make (but
fuck them wimps!). But onto the Deathlike Silence Prod. now. The 2nd edition
of the Ist release on DSP. - Merciless is out now, the one you get here as
promo. We're looking for distributors everywhere and everybody who can sell
10 (or more) records will recieve a copy for free + that 10 records will be
cheaper. As soon as this the 2nd ed. has paid, Imperator will go in studio.
Imperators LP will contain 8-10 songs (depending on how many "old demo
songs" they'll use - but it'll be new trax as well and it'll be entitled "The time
before time". After that it'll probably be the colombian Masacre as the next
release. Masacre will very soon release a 7- inches with 3 demo songs o n the
greek label Sence of Love. That's a new started label and I hope they can give
out enough of copies, not a limited ed. of it. Of course w e give the bands free
hands and they're not bounded to u s at all, but I'm thinking o f the fact that
Masacre i s selling so much... Only in Colombia their 1st, and only demo sold
1000 copies (which is more than our Deathcrush demo has sold
worldwide...). We can only press up 1000 copies each time of every edition of
DSP, and the first ed. o f Merciless sold out as fast as we could pack and post it.
This second ed. we recieved for not a so long time ago will depend on how
much stamps w e can get, o f how soon it'll sell out. In Norway it's very hard t o
sell records - it's far away from USA o r South America and I don't think any
real scene exists here. Do you think you can take care o f some distribution
/selling of DSP releases, or you maybe know someone else who's interested?
I think Merciless will be very easy to sell i n Italy. Many zines exists there and
w e recieve many letters from there also. We also sell other records (given out
b y various underground labels) but it can b e s o different of what records of
others releases we sell 'cos we usually don't get so many o f them, s o they sell
out so soon.
But anyway - I can tell of what we presently have got (except of Merciless) LP's (£10000 + postage)
Agressor/Loudblast (split LP, France) "Licenced t o thrash"
Arakain (Czechoslovakia, speed metal - I do not like this one!)
"Thrash the trash"
Nomed (France)... very boring mainstream... "Like..."
Abomination (USA)
Disharmonic Orchestra/Pungent Stench (Austria, split LP)
Malicious Intent (Canada) "Shades of black"
T's ( £ 5000 + postage)
Asphyx (Holland, Limited ed. 1000 copies) "Mutilating Process"
Atrocity (Germany) "Blue Blood"
Pungent Stench (Austria) "Extreme Deformity"
Disharmonic Orchestra (Austria) "Successive Substitution"
Do not print this in Metal Destruction, I only explain it to you, ok. If you want
any of these records above, please tell o f how many and of what records so I
can see how much the postage will be.
Now over to Mayhem. For the first time we've been in studio and recorded 2
songs (first time with this line-up I mean). It'll be released on Chicken Brain
Records, a swedish kind of underground label some time in this autumn.
It'll be 8-10 other (swedish) bands on it, among them Merciless.
I don't know the title of this compilation LP/CD. Our songs that'll be on it are
"The Freezing Moon" and "Carnage". The Freezing Moon is a new one and
pretty different from our other songs, a s example it's a long guitar solo on a
very long Doom part on it and that's because w e wanted t o have a solo a t only
one track (of our new ones). Carnage was made in '85 (!) so it's really old. It
was on the 1st demo /reh - Pure Fucking Armageddon (released in only 100
copies and not available) but with the thought of the very bad sound on it we
feeled for playing it again and try to keep the original sound of it. I'll tape
these trax for ya but I'm not so sure o f if it'll b e enclosed in this letter or if I'll
put this letter together with the Merciless record but anyhow you'll get this
tape. You can record it to others if you like to but please don't trade it, and I'll
record some else bands too for filling out the rest of the tape. Have you heard
of the INCREADIBLY KILLING GREAT band Tormentor from Hungary?
Their demo is about 4 years old but it sounds like the Death/Black Metal bands
of today. We try to find out i f they want a deal o n DSP. but unfortunately they
hardly speak any English at all s o it seems like neither them or us understood
it... We think o f releasing a full-lenght LP of Mayhem but it seems to take a
fucking longtime before we got material enough for it...The only we know
about it is a title that MUST be used - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. That was
about all future plans I can tell of I guess. I look forward to see Metal
Destruction. There's a possibility that we can sell it also, but I can't say if for
sure.
About Satanism... well, I'd like to join a very underground and Illful, Evil and
Grim Coven. I think you know o f the hassles by finding any or getting any
contact with a such. I do NOT like what's created by Anton LaVey like lst
Church of Satan. I came in contact with a dude who's a degree in the American
Satans Sons - Church of Satan and h e explained of it has nothing to do with
LaVey at all. I asked of if it does exist in Europe also and of what it is exactly...
well he didn't reply. But I heard later thet Satans Sons shall exist in
Europe but I still don't know in which countries it is. In Norway it's not much
of this, but in Sweden (-I am swedish) that 1st Church shall be in Stockholm
(the capital there) and it shall be about 5 churches built by satanic sects, used
only by satanists, mostly it's under christian churches - like the one under
"Mariakyrkan" (Mary's Church) in the South of Stockholm where the 1st
Church of Satan use to hang around at. I know it exists really Dark covens that
use human sacrifices and are eating human flesh - them are those I try to find.
I do not know much about magic and I can't say I'm a practicer o f i t cos I
havn't succed. What i s depending on what one can do i n magic (all of its
kind) i s o f what books one can get... those are hidden i n libraries and so hard t o
even see...'cos of course they don't let anyone even see them. You must b e a
scientist o r something like if you would see the microfilms of that kind of
books. A great library o f many various kinds o f magical arts and the Blackest
o f Black Arts too is the British Museum i n London. But it's s o damned
difficult t o get ones claws on those books. One book I really wanna get i s D e
Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas, unfortunately it exists only i n one copy... Are you
practicing any magic and do you know o f any covens? Have you
seen/heard/felt anything supernatural? I have but I didn't understand much of
what that was and I think the most of it was only so-called echoes from the past
o r the future. D o you know anything about astral planes and out-of body
travelling? You seem to b e into it and I agree about stupid trendmakers s o it is
something that I feel I can tell you of. I had a weird experience once, I had
inner bleedings and i t couldn't b e found at x-rays s o when i t continued t o bleed
and bleed I finally fainted and dropped down the floor 'cos I run out o f blood.
The heart had no blood left to beat and m y veins /artairs were almost emptied
o f blood. "Teenically" I was dead. At that moment when I fell down (into a
door I heard of later) I saw a strange blue colour everywhere, it was
transparent so I could, for a short moment, see everything in blue, till
something shining white and "hot" surrounded me. What happened later is
out of interest, I woke up when some ambulance men came and drove me t o a
hospital and there the bastards o f surgery started to cut m e up at the wrong
side so I got a huge scar for that. However, it's someone I know who's had
many out of body experiences and is using magic o f various kinds and knows
much more than I do of "supernatural" experiences, that I asked o f this cos it
was so strange about those colours. She told me that the first 'plane'in the
astral world has the colour blue. The "earthly" plane has the colour black, then
comes a grey one that i s very near the earthly one and i s easy to come to.
The next one further is blue, then it gets brighter and brighter till i t "stops" at a
white-shining one that can't be entered by mortals. IF any mortal succee enter
it, that one i s no longer a mortal and can not come back to the other planes nor
back t o this earth. After the white plane o r level or whatever i t goes further
with other colour that I don't know of, there only spirits and great sorcerers can
travel. I was told that the white plane I then entered, without I knew it, was the
dead world and I died. But I also got thrown back after a short time which
very rarely happens. So o f what I've heard o f I have some kind of purpose t o
achieve here. That happened for almost 8 years ago and I'm trying to find out
what I have to do "here" before I can enter the light again. For a time I was a
so-called medium after that thing, which means I could contact spirits that
came from that light. The strange thing is that I never tried to contact them,
later I tried to come in some contact with them and others, I tried invocations
and spells (with no success at all. Mostly b y night and i n completely silence
and when I was alone I could hear them coming (but also others have heard
them, mostly I just felt their "precense" and sometimes they continued with
sounds of different sorts. I could also -but very seldom - see things that looked
weird and were not of this world but it was so fast and dizy that I hardly could
see much of it, and I've felt them toch me and at times things could also move.
It was much depending o n where I was and at that time they could appear
sometimes almost wherever I was. But it was temporary and they vanished.
I think it had to do with that house I "died" in was being sold and straight
after that they were gone (or maybe they did just disappear from me and are
now making life to a living Hell to the new owners o f that house...he he!).
I have heard sounds that cannot be "explained" and that can be called
supernatural after that also but I don't think I have the same ability any longer,
I can't "feel" them anymore and o f what I can hear sometimes, is so weak
now. Without that feeling of wow they're here it's hard t o be sure if that was
that kind of sounds 'cos now they sound more like 'normal' sounds. I guess
that was my most occult "esperience". After I had lost about 2/3 of my blood I
felt I need t o loose more blood and see how i t runs. I cut myself u p , and when
I'm drunk also others. I like to cut in all kind of meat, but preferably the living
kind.It's so stupid this with school kids that have heard Morbid Angel, as
example, and then have t o form a Death Metal band! Too many other bands
that before played something else, like HC, grindcore or speedmetal etc. are
now jumping on the Death metal bandwagon, they're fucking disgusting!!!
Just watch for example the amazingly trendy label Earache. Now all the new
bands are Death Metal suddenly...Many wimps are also suddenly finding out
that there exist something called Death Metal and Underground and they're
totally "into" it for about 2 months and then suddenly stop writing letters and
so on. And that thing about "gore"... How repulsive i t is that stupid children
gives out records or demos with "gory" pictures on it and their lyrics are
stuffed with "gory" things about surgery and rotting carcasses etc.etc. and they
don't understand a fuck of what i t is. I f they would see something so-called
gory i n real life they would shit in their pants! Just by cutting up myself o r
having pig heads on stage that w e throw on them, when we're playing o r
throw rotting meat on them makes the most people pale in their faces and they
feel sick then...Have you noticed that. One guy who is posing to be so Evil
and Dark, but really i s a wimp is the incredibly stupid Quorton o f Bathory.
Now he's totally wimped out as you can hear of his later releases, especially
the latest shitpiece.
Are you into ancient legends? 1 am, especially the ones from Eastern Europe.
There they have s o many that aren't known o f at all over here...especially
about vampires (or Nosferatu, Stregoica, Vrykolakas, Odoroten, Vampir,
Wamphyr, Upir, Drac, Vilkakis, Lobishomen etc.etc.etc...). Something I find
weird is that over here we know o f one word for vampire and we "know" of one
kind o f vampire. As example i n Transylvania there are about 15! "Vampire" i s
known o f almost over the whole world but in East Europe i n particular their
history, legends or faerie tales are filled with vampyrism. I n many places in
the East i t still i n these "well informed" days i s deadly serious about
vampyrism. In Transylvania they suspect everyone that doesn't eat heaps of
garlic and they have exocism rituals to the bodies that could be killed b y a
vampire. But that i s i n the bush places, not in cities. The time seems t o have
stopped a t some places in Transylvania. The past is alive! I MUST visit
Transylvania with it's hundreds o f castles i n the Carpathian mountains. Almost
each one with an own Dark history...The castle "of the pandarin" i n North-
East, near Moldavia "Russian-Romania" i s the castle where Bathory once lived
i n before she got "walled up" there. You've heard o f Countess Elizabeth
Bathory, huh? However it's impossible to enter that castle 'cos it's at the top of
a huge mountain. But there shall b e a secret passage into a tunnel that goes
inside the great mountain that i s the only way u p there. That secret tunnel
has been tried to found b y lots of curious people for hundreds o f years by
now. Fuck, it's so many (true) legends o f the transylvanian Nosferatu and the
Russian Upir that aren't known of in the west...
Something that made me "interested" in flowers, there's a legend about
different rare flowers that can make you to a werewolf. They are in comics and
movies and I thought they didn't exist. One o f them is called Wolfsbane and I
found out that it does exist but it's fucking rare! I must find all Evil flowers and
collect them. If you know anything about Vampyrism and Eastern legends I
mad about hearing o f it. I try to find out as much as possible and the more I
learn, the more insane about it I get and I feel i t like I MUST know
EVERYTHING!!! You know that ex-dictator o f România, Causescu - you've
heard o f that some stupid mortals are connecting him with Vlad tepes, the
impaler...? I don't believe a second in it! He was thought to have the same
strange expression in his face as Vlad Draculești "tepes" when they opened
his coffin for the last time before he was to be buried- they later found out that
was the face a dead person gets...How unbelievably/stupid! Some called him
"Druculescu"... Rumours (just bullshit!) tell that he used to drink blood of
babies. I don't think about policy at all so I don't care much about that he was
a dictator but h e fucking wiped whole towns from ancient castles! The new
prime minister, o r whatever he think he is, linescu i s o f the same kind as the
last one so I don't think it's been much o f a change i n Romania for the people,
but i t is for tourists and it's easier to come there which I must do. I saw i n this
spring a swedish TV-team that was showing around in Romania about the
situation and s o on...suddenly a guy stood in the worst snowstorm, the wind
was screaming and he stood deep sunken down in the snow and the Carpathians
could be seen in the background- saying "this i s Transylvania". I think that was
the very best I've seen from our shitty TV-channels!
I collect in stamps from Romania. I don't have many and I don't collect i n any
other stamps, it's just 'cos I o f a co-incidence found some and o n them I saw
that they put castles on them. I have one with "Hunedoara", where Vlad the
impaler lived. I need to find the Brad one (the one Bram Stoker wrote o f in his
novel "Dracula") and the Bran one i n Brasov where he also was supposed t o
live in (Dracula). There are heaps of other castles teeming in the Carpathian
horseshoe so I guess it'll take really a long time getting all o f them. I did a
painting o f the that castle i n Hunedoara surrounded by the Romanian flag on a
jacket, I thought o f what they'll think o f i t i n the R O embassy....Do you know
anything of if the ancient United Kingdom Austria-Hungary (that also
Transylvania was included in) had any flag? I just wonder if Transylvania had
any. Have you heard o f what's going on in France with that baby, that should
be about a half year old now, that i s a reencarnation from Draculas family in
some strange way...? I think i t sounds too incredible that after so many
generations (500 years that reencarnation suddenly now i s born and why in
France??? But the Frenchies seem to have a mortually belief in it...
I'm sorry but I don't have the sliciest idea of what that Grand Guignol theater
is. Hey you're lucky who's been teached of how t o draw from that arts academy
of arts. I've never been in any school and in fact I don't know how to draw at
all. I'd like to b e a professional designer o r something like that but I can never
save time enough for that, and besides, it's not possible to make the drawings
after ones fantasy or ones own will, just what one get told t o do... I did some
kinda "Deathlike Silence Prod" logo here for you that I'll enclose, it's not
"official" o r anything. You can write down something of what I've told you of
DSP in Metal Destruction if you like to. About this "logo", you can shrink it
down/blow i t up if it's necessary. What you shall write about DSP is u p to you,
I give you free hands in that, I don't know o f how much place you can give for
that in ye zine so just write down as much o f the info o f i t as will suit in the
zine. Now I have to end this, it's getting into really a long letter now...so I gotta
leave. C-ya!
Dead
P.S. You have to wait a while for ye free promo copy of Merciless. Right now
we don't have cartons for single ex.
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