With their new album “Liturgy of Death”, MAYHEM reaffirm their status as the most uncompromising force in Norwegian black metal. After four decades of excess, the band has reached a new pinnacle: faster, heavier and darker than anything else in their oeuvre to date. The album unfolds as a relentless meditation on death in all its manifestations – existential, spiritual and absolute.
With Necrobutcher, Hellhammer, Attila, Teloch and Ghul working closer together than ever, “Liturgy of Death” presents a band not content with their heritage, but determined to push the boundaries of the extreme themselves. The result is a merciless album – dark, fast and relentless – that captures Mayhem at their most dangerous and vital. Forty years after their formation in Langhus, MAYHEM continue to embody chaos and prove once again that Norwegian black metal is a force without end.
