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Ian Mackaye was able to make the lamest shit imaginable sound fun. Songs about how sex and drugs are bad for your mind, the writing feels like it comes straight out of a video a health teacher would make you watch to warn you of the dangers of rebellious teenage behavior. Its understandable where he comes from, if you see what everyone else in the scene was doing at the time, shooting heroin every five minutes and fucking different groupies ten times a day, but divorced from the context in ... read more

Mayhem exists to much of the world as a window into a mysterious, bizarre and unfamiliar world. Never will this album be separated from the context in which it was made. an album respected highly by those within the metal community for its poetry and songwriting, but overshadowed by the story it represents. The lead singer was goaded into suicide by the guitarist, who was in turn murdered by the bass player, a church-burning neo-nazi.
Mayhem are by no means the first black metal band, or even a ... read more