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The group [['''Mayhem]]''' probably marks the darkest chapter in metal – nay, music – history.

Forming in the mid-1980s and taking their name from a song by the band [[Venom (band)|Venom]] (who also coined the term [[Black Metal]]), the Norwegian band's original line-up consisted of guitarist Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth), bassist Necrobutcher<ref>Not to be confused with the pro wrestler. That Necro Butcher is two words, Mayhem's Necrobutcher is just one. Know the difference, it could save your life.</ref> (Jørn Stubberud) and drummer Hellhammer (Jan Axel Blomberg). When the group was originally formed, Euronymous also sang, before being replaced by [[Meaningful Name|Maniac]] (Sven Erik Kristiansen) on vocals (who was [[Hilarious in Hindsight|placed in a mental institution]] after the recording of the infamous ''Deathcrush'' EP)<ref>No word on whether the two events were at all connected</ref>. The band found a replacement in the Swedish Per Yngve Ohlin, nicknamed "[[Prophetic Name|Dead]]" (previously of obscure cult-act "Morbid"), for his love of, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|surprise, surprise, death]]: he would wear clothes people had been buried in months before, cut himself on stage (one point he cut himself so much on stage he had to be sent to the hospital in bad need of a transfusion), and kept a dead crow in a jar because he liked "the stench of death". Despite these amusing quirks, [[Sarcasm Mode|for some reason]] everyone who met him had ill feelings about him and always said that he looked like he hated being alive. These folks would ultimately be proven correct when one day, Euronymous entered the house that Dead was staying in and found him, appropriately enough, dead, a [[TheresThere Is No Kill Like Overkill|bullet wound in his head and his wrists cut open]] (Dead just wanted to be sure).