Mayhem vocalist Per "Dead' Ohlin committed suicide on April 8, 1991, but not before several conflicts with guitarist Euronymous, who reportedly encouraged Dead's suicidal tendencies and once sent him ...

“A tragic thing happened to my band — one of my best friends [Dead] killed himself. As I’m trying to cope with this, Euronymous tells me that he has taken photos of his dead body. I got very upset by ...

Backstage after the first show of a whistle-stop winter tour of Norway, Necro Butcher, bassist with Norwegian Black Metal band Mayhem, is already a bit tipsy. He is gleefully reading back his own ...

Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, the founder of Norwegian black metal legends MAYHEM and key figure within the early 1990s black metal scene, was murdered on August 10, 1993, by BURZUM's Kristian "Varg" ...

Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, the founder of Norwegian black metal legends MAYHEM and key figure within the early 1990s black metal scene, was murdered on August 10, 1993, by BURZUM's Kristian "Varg" ...

Whhhhhooooaaaa: the absolutely bugnuts fucking crazy story of Mayhem’s early days somehow just got a little more bugnuts fucking crazier. In a new interview with Consequence of Sound, Mayhem bassist ...

Well, this is a bummer; after Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, was by far the top vote-getter in a 10th anniversary contest held by Norwegian Air to adorn their jets’ tailfins with a famous Norwegian ...

The Norwegian band’s early years were punctuated by headlines about death and church burnings. It went on to become a beacon of experimentation in the genre. Mayhem, from left: Hellhammer (Jan Axel ...

As trve fans of Norwegian black metal know (or anybody who has watched the documentary “Until The Light Takes Us,” which by the way is streaming on Amazon Prime), legendary Mayhem frontman Per Yngve ...