Mayhem: Dawn Of The Black Hearts (CD, Album, Ltd, Unofficial, Dig) Not On Label: AG-001: Russia: Unknown: none: Mayhem: The Dawn Of The Black Hearts (CD, Comp, Unofficial) Not On Label (Mayhem) none: 2010: LUST 002: Mayhem: The Dawn Of The Black Hearts (CD, Unofficial) Warmaster Records: LUST 002: Colombia: Unknown. When asked about the certain goals concerning the first solo album – namely “Pyre of the Black Heart” –, Hietala ponders for a good moment. “ Well, let’s put it this way: NIGHTWISH is without a doubt my main band, and thanks to income from that direction, I don’t have to be that commercially aware. MAYHEM - Dawn Of The Black Hearts (Short Sleeve), Hells Headbangers specializes Black, Death, Heavy Metal, Thrash, Grind, CDs, Vinyl, Shirts, Patches, DVDs, Tapes. Mayhem Dawn Of The Black Hearts- Bootleg w/ infamous cover art. This was damaged in transit by Colombian Customs, Sold AS IS. NSFW DEATH The album cover for Mayhem's 'Dawn of the Black Heart', a picture of the lead singer's gunshot suicide.
Friday, January 10, 2020 - by Nuclear Blast After starting influential career few decades ago and selling enormous piles of groundbreaking albums along the way, what might be the next logical move for one of the most gifted singing heavy metal bassists of our – or all – times? Yes, indeed: a solo record. Very own studio album is exactly what Savonian rooster MARKO HIETALA – oh, you read it right: artist name Marco Hietala lies in the past these days – has been planning and sketching already for ages. The obvious question remains: why has it taken so damn long? With that kind of exceptional gifts for playing, composing, singing and writing, most fans of wonderful rock music would have expected MARKO HIETALA’s own studio recording many, many moons ago. Well, there has been some serious speed bumps en route – most monumental of them being one certain Finnish musical ensemble named NIGHTWISH. Let’s explain this in plain English: when your band is easily one of the biggest names in the world of heavy metal, there may just be no time for external activities. Enter 2017. Enter NIGHTWISH’s year-long sabbatical, following enormously successful “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” album and consequent 18 month long world tour. “When we decided to allow some rest for NIGHTWISH – first time in about 20 years –, I soon reached the point of realization: The time has come – I will be spending my year off by working like hell... Working around my own album”, says Hietala with a smile. “After my musical career started in the dawn of 1980s, I have ever since been coming up with all kinds of ideas. Of course, good pile of selected works have been used by NIGHTWISH and huge number of epiphanies have been released on TAROT’s – my other band – albums, but on top of these, there has been a lot of musical discoveries that have been sounding little bit more personal and also somewhat different... You know, there is definitely different kind of mindset when you are just writing something out of the blue, and there’s simply zero need to justify these ideas to some band who already has its own style and sound.” When asked about the certain goals concerning the first solo album – namely “Pyre of the Black Heart” –, Hietala ponders for a good moment. “Well, let’s put it this way: NIGHTWISH is without a doubt my main band, and thanks to income from that direction, I don’t have to be that commercially aware... What I mean is that when I was coming up with the ideas for this solo work, I was able to do simply anything without limits at all. Really, even if I got some completely wacky idea (that I liked), I just utilized it immediately without hesitation”, laughs bearded musician. “So if I had a goal, it was not to have any kind of limits, but to prepare unpredictable, spontaneous, adventurous, ferocious and intimate album. And when I am listening to the final album by myself these days, I can say with a hand on my heart that I – or rather us – pulled it off... The record’s really diverse musical roller coaster ride from strong emotion to another, and nothing makes me more happy at the moment!” That’s the thing: when anyone voices out sentence “ MARKO HIETALA’s going to release an solo album”, some 99% of the fans of harder music are thinking that there will another “heavy metal to the bone” -album in the pipeline. Well, think again. “I would call the style of my solo record as “hard prog”. There are definitely very metallic elements, but that’s just one twist in a bigger picture. Alongside powerful riffs and sounds, there are progressive flavours, acoustic moods, atmospheric stuff and whatnot”, Hietala points out. “Just listen to the hard rocking first single “Stones” and accompany that with more or less tongue-in-cheekkind of song “Runner of the Railways” and epic and bombastic ballad “I Dream”, and you have screatched the surface. Yes: I guarantee that there are a lot of different material to deal with!” Photo credit: Andrea Beckers Hietala’s voice has barely faded away, when he is already homouring his prodigious band mates. “Even if “Pyre of the Black Heart” is definitely my solo album, I didn’t compose everything on my own. When the song writing was really happening, I kept sending all the ideas for my long-time collaborators Tuomas Wäinölä [guitar] and Vili Ollila [keyboards], and this twosome came up with great additions and arrangements one after another. The drummer Anssi Nykänen – simply a wizard behind his set – completed the line-up like no other.” Already mentioned “time consumer” NIGHTWISH is soon re-starting its steaming motors with new studio album and world tour, but despite this, MARKO HIETALA has found some time to head out for an European solo tour as well. “Come February... I simply can’t wait to get out and perform these songs for multinational friends of my music”, Hietala nods and continues: “I strongly recommend to come to see me and my band now, as this will be my first and last European solo tour in a long time – or ever!” Pyre Of The Black Heart Tracklist :
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The Dawn of the Black Hearts | ||||
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The cover art of the original vinyl pressing, depicting vocalist Dead's suicide. | ||||
Live album (bootleg) by | ||||
Released | 17 February 1995[1] | |||
Recorded | 28 February 1990 in Sarpsborg, Norway | |||
Genre | Black metal | |||
Length | 37:57 | |||
Label | Warmaster Records | |||
Mayhem chronology | ||||
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The Dawn of the Black Hearts[2] (subtitled Live in Sarpsborg, Norway 28/2, 1990) is a bootleglive album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. The title originates from a line of lyrics Fenriz of Darkthrone wrote for the band.[3]
Despite being a bootleg, the album is sometimes listed as one of the band's main albums, mainly due to the notoriety regarding the cover art, which is an image of the late Mayhem vocalist Per 'Dead' Ohlin shortly after he commited suicide.[4][5] The image of his death was photographed by guitarist Euronymous via a disposable camera.
Cover[edit]
The album is infamous and controversial for bearing a photograph of vocalist Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin), shortly after his suicide in April 1991.[6] The photograph was taken by guitarist Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth), shortly after he entered the cabin the band shared and discovered the body.[7]
Euronymous took bits of Dead's skull and made them into necklaces for members of the black metal scene, including the band's drummer Hellhammer. Necrobutcher, the band's bassist, was so disgusted with Euronymous' actions that he left Mayhem. He was replaced by Burzum's Varg Vikernes, who murdered Euronymous two years later.
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Release[edit]
The Dawn of the Black Hearts was released in 1995 on vinyl in a limited edition of 300 copies by Warmaster Records by Mauricio 'Bull Metal' Montoya, owner of Warmaster Records Colombia, original drummer of the Colombian death metal band Masacre and a pen pal of Euronymous. This original version contains eight songs from a concert in Sarpsborg on 28 February 1990, the recordings of which were captured without authorization from the band members. The original issue bears the band's logo and the album title in golden ink.
The album has been reissued many times by various bootleg record labels. The original pressing, titled The Dawn of the Black Hearts, had its title slightly altered on subsequent pressings with the first 'The' removed, rendering the title as simply Dawn of the Black Hearts. Many of these later versions and pressings of the album include four extra songs, which were recorded at the band's first-ever concert in Ski, Norway on 20 April 1985, with Messiah on vocals. Most of the re-releases erroneously claim that the additional songs come from a 1986 Lillehammer show with Maniac on vocals, but the band did not play live at all during that year, or indeed, for the rest of that decade. They would not play in Lillehammer until many years later (after Grand Declaration of War was released).
Most recently, The Dawn of the Black Hearts was officially reissued in 2017 on vinyl under the name Live in Sarpsborg, using a photo of Necrobutcher as a new cover. This 2017 release uses improved audio from a master source.[8] In 2018, Live in Sarpsborg was one of many albums that were compiled into and released as the Cursed in Eternity box set, which features never-before-seen live footage of the Sarpsborg set.
Track listing[edit]
The original track listing (recorded in 1990 with Dead as vocalist and Hellhammer as drummer):
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'Deathcrush' | 3:36 |
2. | 'Necrolust' | 4:19 |
3. | 'Funeral Fog' | 6:38 |
4. | 'Freezing Moon' | 6:06 |
5. | 'Carnage' | 4:18 |
6. | 'Buried by Time and Dust' | 5:46 |
7. | 'Chainsaw Gutsfuck' | 3:59 |
8. | 'Pure Fucking Armageddon' | 3:15 |
Total length: | 37:57 |
Mayhem - Dawn Of The Black Hearts (Digipak, CD) | Discogs
Extra songs included on many reissues (recorded in 1985 with Messiah as vocalist and Manheim as drummer):
No. | Title | Length |
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9. | 'Danse Macabre' (Celtic Frost cover) | 1:10 |
10. | 'Black Metal' (Venom cover) | 3:00 |
11. | 'Procreation of the Wicked' (Celtic Frost cover) | 2:40 |
12. | 'Welcome to Hell' (Venom cover) | 3:46 |
Total length: | 48:30 |
- Some of the reissues with bonus songs combine 'Danse Macabre' and 'Black Metal' in one track.
- Certain versions containing the bonus song mistitle 'Danse Macabre' as 'Dance Macabre'.
Personnel[edit]
Lineup on original release:
- Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin) – vocals
- Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) – electric guitar
- Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud) – bass guitar
- Hellhammer (Jan Axel Blomberg) – drums
Re-release bonus tracks lineup:
- Messiah (Eirik Nordheim) – vocals
- Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) – electric guitar
- Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud) – bass guitar
- Manheim (Kjetil Manheim) – drums
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^The Dawn of the Black Hearts - Live in Sarpsborg, Norway 28/2, 1990Archived 2014-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, metal-archives.com
- ^The original pressing has 'The' at the beginning of the title. Some later editions omit it.
- ^the lyrics sheet can be found in the 2009 limited edition EP, Life Eternal.
- ^Bowar, Chad. 'Mayhem'. About.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
'Mayhem Career Albums'. MusicMight. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
'Mayhem Main Albums'. Allmusic. Retrieved July 15, 2008. - ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2019-01-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^Sharpe-Young, Garry. 'Mayhem'. MusicMight. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
- ^Kahn-Harris, Keith (2007). Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Oxford: Berg Publishers. p. 45. ISBN978-1-84520-399-3.
Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. First Edition. Venice, CA: Feral House 1998, pp. 59f. - ^'Live in Sarpsborg'. burningshed.com. Archived from the original on 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
External links[edit]
- The Dawn of the Black Hearts on the official Mayhem website