Live in Leipzig [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [LIVE]

Mayhem

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 1997)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Live
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B000005HO0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,839 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Deathcrush

2. Necrolust

3. Funeral Fog

4. Freezing Moon

5. Carnage

6. Buried by Time and Dust

7. Pagan Fears

8. Chainsaw Gutstuck

9. Pure Fucking Armageddon

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

2007 reissue of this live album from the Norwegian Black Metal band, originally released in 1990. Features nine tracks including 'Deathcrush', 'Carnage' and 'Funeral Fog'. Peaceville. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Crazy People, Occultists, and Murderers Rejoice... This CD is for You!, July 21, 2005

By	Randy Bratvold (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When they weren't busy burning churches or killing each other these crazy kids from Norway found time to be a band. Not just any band, this is Mayhem, pioneers of black metal. Influenced by Venom, Bathory, Slayer, and the like, Mayhem set out to be harder and scarier than any band that came before. This CD, Live at Leipzig, serves as a snapshot of what they were at the time. It is aggressive and raw. It is also supposedly one of the only recordings that has Dead, Euronymous, and Count Grisnackh (Varg Vikerness) all playing on it.

Live at Leipzig is to black metal what the Stooges' Raw Power is to punk. It captures the unfiltered essence of the genre. The musicianship is loose. The guitars are in the red and the vocals are high wails and rough snarls. With songs like "Chainsaw Gutsf***", there is no easy listening here. In this live format the track "Pure F***ing Armageddon" lives up to it's name.

Is Live at Leipzig a good CD? Well... I can't dance to it. It scares the hell out of my girlfriend and my pets. Musically, lyrically, and in overall production it is creepy and appalling. However, black metal is supposed to be creepy and appalling. Black metal taps into anger, aggression, and violent fantasy. Here Mayhem succeed. They did exactly what they set out to do, they are harder and scarier than all of their influences. It must be difficult having a career where you constantly submerge yourself in anger and violence because, unfortunately, this line-up of Mayhem didn't survive very long past this recording. The handful of early Mayhem recordings laid the groundwork for all subsequent black metal bands. If you are interested in the genre and can stomach the violence and occult imagery than I recommend Live at Leipzig.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the end., November 25, 2004

By	Halcyon Dusk - See all my reviews

I've listened to Mayhem since I was 14. I bought this album around the same time 'Wrath Of The Tyrant', 'Transilvanian Hunger', and 'Hvis Lyset Tar Oss' came into my posession. I'd sit for hours obsessing over the fuzzy, hissing, grinding noise coming from my headphones. I lived for trve, kult, grim, nekro, frostbitten Black Metal hatred. Before long, I discovered the wonders of technical riffs, odd time signatures, and the music of Sweden (amongst other non-Norwegian countries), and off I went into the vast wastelands of Extreme music.

I spent all the years between then and now searching for the most volatile, explosive, eardrum-mutilating sounds ever laid to tape. Faster, slower, heavier, lower, higher, longer, shorter, from the deafening quiet of extreme minimalism to the speaker blowing nails-on-chalkboard extremist sound manipulators (Thanks for the pain, Merzbow.)

Along the way I've experienced some pretty stunning displays of sonic violence, things the average Headbanger's Ball viewer would refer to as 'What the f**k is that noise?'. And yet listening to it years later, I realize there are still precious few recordings that do for my self-destructive inner child what Live In Leipzig can. This is it. The greatest. This is the end of extreme.

The sound is perfect. Don't let anyone fool you. Triggers and Pro-Tools don't equal good production, and I wouldn't love this recording as much if every instrument wasn't peaking out the mix in all it's ugliest glory. Aarseth's guitar tone is one of the most unlistenably beautiful sounds I've ever gritted my teeth over. And the vocals... there's just nothing like this. The rage, the bile, the hate, just listening to Dead's acid howl was enough to make one realize that he really didn't like you, and more than anything in the world he'd probably like to stab you with something.

Own this album. There's nothing else to say. An unprecedented work of youthful aggression and the pure devotion to making music that only the truly fearless could ever call their own.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting record from the dark past, September 24, 2006

By	atfield "atfield" (At the south of Peru) - See all my reviews

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OK the sound quality is very low and the production is very poor, but hey this live show was recorded not to be an album is because of dead's death that the band decided to make a tribute CD to him and of all their live recordings they made, Live in Leipzig got the best sound of all so they decided to make this show an official live album.

Don't expect good sound of the musical instruments here. But dead's voice is very clear and loud. So I recommend this CD only to people that want to know how dead's voice was and how the band played some songs of de mysteriis with him.

If you are new with this band don't listen to this CD yet, get de mysteriis or deathcrush first and then if you like them and want to know about dead's voice then try this live CD