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[[File:Mayhem Party.San 2016 03.jpg|thumb|400px|Mayhem in 2015]]
The group '''Mayhem''' probably marks the darkest chapter in metal
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 [[
A suicide note was left that said "[[Deadpan Snarker|Excuse all the blood]]". Euronymous, doing what any of us might have done when faced with such a difficult situation, took a disposable camera, moved some objects around, and took a picture of the corpse, the photo eventually winding up on the cover of the infamous bootleg "Dawn of the Black Hearts". He was also said to have kept pieces of Dead's brain, which he used as ingredients in a stew, and some shards of his skull. which he sent as gifts to "worthy" bands within the Black Metal scene (kind of like the True Cross, but more brutal). Guitarist Morgan S. Hakansson of Sweden's Marduk is said to treasure one to this day. Euronymous admitted to taking shards of the skull, but not any of the brain (because ''that'' would just be sick), though he did say that he wanted to.
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Blasphemer has since left the band, owing to his various other projects (such as Ava Inferi), and was replaced by a succession of live guitarists (among them Morfeus and Teloch).
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* 1987 - ''Deathcrush'' (EP)
* 1994 - ''De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas''
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* 2009 - ''Life Eternal'' (EP)
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* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]] - As mentioned above, the band's name was taken from the [[Venom (band)|Venom]] song "Mayhem with Mercy".
* [[Black Metal]]
* [[Book Ends]] - A more unconventional example. ''Grand Declaration of War'' is a sequel to their ''Wolf's Lair Abyss'' EP. The saga as a whole is divided into three sections: I (''Wolf's Lair Abyss''), II (the first half of ''Grand Declaration of War'') and III (the second half). A riff appears at the very end of "Symbols of Bloodswords", the last track from ''Wolf's Lair Abyss'', and the album fades out. "A Grand Declaration of War", the first track of part II of the saga fades in with the same riff shifted up a semitone. The riff appears for the third and final time at the start of the track "View from Nihil (Part II of II)", followed by some spoken word vocals and a sample of a nuclear bomb detonating. This concludes part II of the entire saga.
* [[Contemptible Cover]]
* [[Divide by Zero]]: A variant - the [[Arc Words|Arc Word]] phrase on ''Ordo Ad Chao'' is "Everything done equals zero times nothing", which is a [[Logic Bomb]] at the very least.
* [[Driven to Suicide]] - Dead. Who'da thunk it?
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