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MAYHEM Release Sixth Studio Album ‘Daemon’
October 25th, 2019

Oslo, Norway-based black metal band Mayhem issued sixth full-length studio album Daemon digitally on October 25th, 2019 and in all physical formats on November 8th through Century Media Records.

Guitarist Teloch commented: “Mayhem will always be Mayhem. If we put the genre game aside a bit, no one else sounds like Mayhem. Even when De Mysteriis… [1994] came out, it was not at first considered to be a black metal album, if my memory serves me right. Tricky to label this band. Metal would be the most fitting; it’s not pure black metal, in my opinion. Not sure it has ever been actually, despite what the general opinion is. People can call it whatever they want. If it’s black metal to them, then fine. We don’t really care. To me, it’s important to keep some sort of black metal vibe at least.

“I think this album will be most pleasing for old and new fans. As most of our devoted fans know, Mayhem has never released two albums that sound the same. That’s the case this time around as well. As I said, we simplified stuff, but at the same time tried out some new stuff to keep it interesting for ourselves and, also for our fans that dig that we are doing something new on each album.”

Mayhem entered NBS Audio Studio (aka Necromorbus Studio) in Söderfors, Sweden to record drums and vocals with producer / engineer Tore Stjerna. Newly consecrated Studio A (Stjerna’s Stockholm studio will continue to operate as Studio B) in an old church, Hellhammer and Csihar recorded their respective parts for Daemon. The band then had Ghul record his guitars in the Netherlands, while the bass was engineered by Teloch and performed by Necrobutcher at Lupercal Studio in Oslo, Norway. Teloch took his guitar tracking to SleikBallaMi Studio, also in Oslo. Daemon was then brought back to Stjerna for mixing and sent off to Thomas Johansson at The Panic Room for mastering. The whole affair took about three months to nail down.

Cover artwork was created by Italian designer Daniele Valeriani.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘The Dying False King’
02. ‘Agenda Ignis’
03. ‘Bad Blood’
04. ‘Malum’
05. ‘Falsified And Hated’
06. ‘Aeon Daemonium’
07. ‘Worthless Abomination Destroyed’
08. ‘Daemon Spawn’
09. ‘Of Worms And Ruins’
10. ‘Invoke The Oath’
11. ‘Everlasting Dying Flame’ *
12. ‘Black Glass Communion’ *

* deluxe edition box set and mediabook bonus track

Mayhem’s line-up is as follows:

Attila (vocals)
Teloch (guitar)
Ghul (guitar)
Necrobutcher (bass)
Hellhammer (drums)

A music video was filmed for the track ‘Falsified And Hated’, while an official visualizer video was released for the song ‘Worthless Abomination Destroyed’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the track ‘Of Worms And Ruins’. All three clips can be viewed below.

Fifth studio record Esoteric Warfare was released in June 2014 via Season Of Mist.

Promotional photograph by Ester Segarra.