Originators of the Northern Darkness – A Tribute to Mayhem

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Originators of the Northern Darkness – A Tribute to Mayhem
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Compilation album by Various artists
Released May 2, 2001
Recorded 1998–2000
Genre Black metal
Length62:29
Label Avantgarde Music

Originators of the Northern Darkness is a tribute album to the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, with contributions from some of the leading bands in the black metal and death metal scene. All the songs were recorded between 1998 [1] and 2000 in various locations, and the album was released on CD in 2001 by Avantgarde Music. In addition to the regular CD, a limited edition CD in black leather was also released. [2] The album was re-released on digipack CD in 2007 by Peaceville. [3]

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.

Mayhem (band) Norwegian black metal band

Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway. They were one of the founders of the Norwegian black metal scene and their music has strongly influenced the black metal genre. Mayhem's early career was highly controversial, primarily due to their notorious live performances, the 1991 suicide of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin ("Dead") and the 1993 murder of guitarist Øystein Aarseth ("Euronymous") by former member Varg Vikernes of Burzum.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Track listing

  1. "From the Dark Past" – Immortal – 04:40
  2. "Pagan Fears" – Dark Funeral – 06:34
  3. "Freezing Moon" – Vader – 05:45
  4. "Funeral Fog" – Emperor – 05:13
  5. "Carnage" – Behemoth – 04:07
  6. "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" – Limbonic Art – 06:51
  7. "Buried by Time and Dust" – Keep of Kalessin – 03:34
  8. "Life Eternal" – Gorgoroth – 04:45
  9. "Ghoul" – Carpathian Forest – 03:41
  10. "I Am Thy Labyrinth" – Seth – 05:29
  11. "Cursed in Eternity" – Gehenna – 04:58
  12. "Deathcrush" – Absu – 06:52

Gorgoroth's line-up on track 8 consisted of Gaahl on vocals, Infernus and Tormentor on rhythm guitars, T-Reaper on lead guitar and bass, and Vrolok on drums. [4]

Gaahl Norwegian singer

Kristian Eivind Espedal, better known by his stage name Gaahl, is a Norwegian vocalist and artist. He is best known as the former frontman of Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth. He is also the founder and frontman of Trelldom and Gaahlskagg. Since leaving Gorgoroth he has been involved with God Seed, Wardruna, and Gaahls Wyrd. He was the focus of the documentary True Norwegian Black Metal and also appeared in the film Flukt.

Infernus Norwegian black metal musician

Roger Tiegs, better known by his stage name, Infernus, is a Norwegian black metal musician and Satanist. He is the sole founding member and chief ideologist of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth, which was formed in 1992, as well as the founder and head of Forces of Satan Records. He is mainly a guitarist, but has also participated as bassist, drummer and vocalist on several recordings released both by Gorgoroth and other bands.

Tormentor (musician) Norwegian musician

Bjørn Olav Telnes is a black metal musician who is best known for his work as guitarist with the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth.

Seth's track is mistitled as the original Mayhem version is titled "I am thy labyrinth". It is also mistitled on Osmose Productions' "World Domination IV" compilation (2000) on which it appears too.

Seth Third son of Adam and Eve

Seth, in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, Sethianism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other children mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.

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References

  1. ↑ Gorgoroth – Albums Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Originators of the Northern Darkness, House of Avantgarde Archived 2007-03-05 at the Wayback Machine .
  3. ↑ Peaceville
  4. ↑ Gorgoroth – Albums Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .
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