Euronymous, widely known for "inventing" the Norwegian black metal scene and building it from the ground up, was not very fond of giving interviews. He preferred to cultivate an image of "darkness" and "evil" from his parents' shop, "Helvete" - Norwegian for "Hell".
Still, he occasionally broke his moral code and spoke to the media, only reluctantly, and mostly on grandiose occasions... the upcoming release of the seminal "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" Mayhem debut is one of them.
And Euronymous certainly wasn't joking when he says: "It's going to be EVIL!!". It was, and still is, one of the best black metal records ever. Seriously.
But hyping his upcoming album releases isn't the only thing Euronymous was good for. He also laid out the dishing against what he called "trendy swedish death metal" bands.
The Final Euronymous Interviews, He Destroys Therion
Animosity between Norwegian black metal bands and the Swedish death metal scene was at the time at an all time high.
Euronymous likely capitalised on the sentiment to say aloud what many other were merely thinking... that many of the bands coming out of the scene were utterly devoid of originality and, in quite the literal sense, posers.
Therion was a particularly obvious target for Euronymous and the rest:
Well, we don't count Close-up as some fucking trend-zine. But of course it would be fucking irritating if we came in the same place as THERION or any other of those idiot bands. But our economy doesn't permit us to isolate ourselves completely from the outer-world even if it would of been wonderful! It's incredible irritating to see all this shitty trendbands that exists we hate them so much so words cant describe.
He goes on to list the 5 only good bands in Sweden, that is 5 out of 340 according to him - and today they are much more than 340. Marduk gets a mention, of course, along with Abruptum (who signed to Deathlike Silence, Euronymous' record label).
"In Sweden there are only 5 good bands"
Here they are:
In Sweden there are only 5 good bands: MERCILESS, ABRUPTUM, KHRANIAL, MARDUK and BATHORY. DEATH to all the trendy "DEATH" metal-bands with jogging paint and society texts, they have nothing to do with death-metal. We call bands such as THERION and AFFLICTED (and about 340 other swedish bands) for LIFE METAL 'coz they don't worship death but life instead. What the fuck has Hardcore lyrics to do with evil music? The fools (idiots) have jumped on a wave and we are sure that 90% of the swedish LIFE METAL bands played Heavy Metal or some commercial Trash before the they discovered MORBID ANGEL '89 or '90.
He continues by adding that Mayhem is the only true band in Norway. I would say Burzum and Darkthrone, as well as maybe early Immortal and Neraines, also played their part in shaping the scene, but whatever.
The ones who are doing this are a insult towards what death-metal from the beginning stood for and its a insult towards us. MAYHEM is the only band from the beginning of the 80ties whom still exists without wimping out. Its a shame (hell) to see all these new idiot who jump on the wind without knowing anything of what Death-metal really from the beginning was. We are nearly sure that none of these trend bands have heard VENOM, whom they can thank there existence for. And the matter of THERION, who is the worst of all swedish bands, we have a special message to them. If they dare to came to Norway and play LIFE METAL, we are going to [----] them. The whole of Norways Black metal population is going to be there with knifes.
The conclusion, fittingly, about "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas".
We are going to play 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' about the same time that this mag comes out. It's going to be EVIL!! Normal idiots should stay the fuck away from this record. DON'T BUY IT!. It's not for you, but for the evil.
No lies detected. DMDS is indeed the most evil of all black metal records, give or take... Yes, I know about "Bloodthirst Overdose". Don't overcomplicate things.
I will say though, it is pretty hilarious that Euronymous was screaming "DON'T BUY IT! It's not for you!" about his upcoming release. A sharp contrast with nowadays musicians who would even "pimp their sisters" (in the words of SEWER) to sell a record.
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