Live in Leipzig

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Live in Leipzig
Live album from Mayhem

Publication
(s)

1993

Label (s) Avant-garde music

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Black metal

Title (number)

9

running time

46 min 52 s

occupation
  • Bass: Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud)
chronology
Deathcrush
(EP, 1987) 		Live in Leipzig De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
(1994)

Live in Leipzig is a live album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem . It is the only official album-length release that features her late singer Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin).

History of origin

The album was recorded on November 26, 1990 at Club Eiskeller in Leipzig . The opening acts that evening were Eminence and Manos . Mayhem gave two concerts the two days before, one in Annaberg-Buchholz and one in Zeitz . The concerts were organized by Abo Alsleben, who had been in long-term correspondence with Øystein Aarseth beforehand . Alsleben published a book in 2020 with his memories of the tour through the former GDR.

The concert included some show effects. That evening Mayhem used real pig's heads that she had gotten from a local butcher. Since they had already used the pig's heads at the two previous concerts, they were already badly rotten . Furthermore, Per Yngve Ohlin cut himself with a knife during the gig and the band threw various pieces of meat into the audience.

It was to be the last recording with the singer, as he committed suicide on April 8, 1991 .

Versions

Before the official release, Live in Leipzig existed in the Norwegian scene as a cassette version. The first releases appeared as LP on the Italian label Obscure Plasma Records. The vinyl version from Obscure Plasma Records also contains the two sampler contributions The Freezing Moon and Carnage , which appeared on Projections of a Stained Mind in 1991 .

After the assassination of Euronymous, the album was re-released on CD in 1994 by Avantgarde Music , the successor label of Obscure Plasma Records, as a tribute to Dead and Euronymous. The cover shows a photograph of Dead, inside there is a declaration of war by Aarseth, which he directed against the death metal scene of the time . In the pamphlet he blamed them for Dead's suicide and announced retribution. The same label released a Picture LP in 1997, which was distributed in Germany by Last Epitaph .

Track list

  1. Deathcrush - 4:37
  2. Necrolust - 3:46
  3. Funeral Fog - 6:31
  4. The Freezing Moon - 7:05
  5. Carnage - 4:06
  6. Buried by Time and Dust - 5:29
  7. Pagan Fears - 7:00 am
  8. Chainsaw Gutsfuck - 5:07
  9. Pure Fucking Armageddon - 3:11

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alsleben subscription: Correspondence . In: Peter Matzke (Ed.): Gothic 3 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89602-700-9 , pp. 207ff.
  2. ↑ Subscription Alsleben: MAYHEM live in Leipzig How I brought Black Metal to East Germany . First edition edition. bookra Verlag, Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-943150-66-7 .
  3. ^ Matthias Herr: Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 4, Berlin: Eigenverlag 1994, p. 117
  4. ↑ Fenriz : DARKTHRONE BIOGRAPHY AND VIDEO CLIPS. November 21, 2009, archived from the original on November 26, 2009 ; accessed on February 21, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Live in Leipzig on Cultmetal.com ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cultmetal.com
  6. ↑ Picture Disc on Cultmetal.com ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cultmetal.com