MAYHEM — Deathcrush (review)

MAYHEM — Deathcrush album cover EP · 1987 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
1/5 ·
The Angry Scotsman
The first big release by the notorious Mayhem.

It really is a fitting name for the band, as this release is quite literally mayhem. An extreme metal record with extremely low fi production, this album is a wall of guitar sounding noise, blast beats and (honestly) impossible to understand shouted vocals, buried in that wall of noise. To go along with it, some truly twisted lyrics.

Sometimes the guitar is barely heard, thundering double bass is more "felt" then heard, the music really has no structure to it whatsoever. The only way to describe this album is mayhem. Pure mayhem.

If Mayhem went out seeking to create utterly violent and chaotic music, they succeeded. This album sounds like they turned on a recorder, and just started playing. The only reason I am not giving this album half a star is because of the slight intrigue there is on this album: It begins with "Silvester Anfang" which is entirely a militaristic drum cadence. "(Weird) Manheim" is a melodic, keyboard intro. The infamous "Chainsaw Gutsf**k" is quite slow and reminiscent of doom metal.

An extremely low fi, extreme metal album that is only for completionists.
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