Mayhem

Mayhem is probably THE weirdest band that ever existed....here are some reasons why...i just thought it would be interesting reading material; (all the stuff here is sourced from Wikipedia)

(Mayhem is an influential black metal band formed in 1981 in Oslo. Much controversy has followed the various murders,suicides and other forms of violence that have surrounded the band since its inception.
Mayhem's Classic Line-up had the metal titans (stage names:) Necrobutcher,Euronymous,Dead and Hellhammer.It maintained the usual death metal obsessions in gore and violence,and more sinister and nihilistic preoccupations.)

Euronymous owned a record label and wanted the outlet to look like "...like a black church in the future. We've thought about having total darkness inside, so that people would have to carry torches to be able to see the records."(hmm...occult)

Dead, as suggested by his stage name, was melancholic by nature and fascinated by death, decay, and darkness.According to some friend, "He (Dead) wasn't a guy you could know very well. I think even the other guys in Mayhem didn't know him very well. He was hard to get close to. I met him two weeks before he died. I'd met him maybe six to eight times, all in all. He had lots of weird ideas. I remember (Euronymous) was talking about him and said he did not have any humour. He did, but it was very obscure. Honestly, I don't think he was enjoying living in this world." (weird...)
Dead had, over time, carefully cultivated a notoriety for strange behavior; once burying a set of clothes underground for weeks so that he could later wear the decaying rags onstage. He had kept a rotting raven in a plastic bag so better to "inhale the scent of death" before going on stage. Such morbid fascinations and antics further developed Mayhem's progressing musical atmosphere, and by this point the band's lyrics had moved increasingly toward Satanism, darkness, depression and evil. A focal point of gigs at this time was the planting of pigs heads on stakes, center stage, and Dead cutting himself with a knife.(weirder....)
By April 1991, Dead was dead, aged 22, having suffered a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head and several lacerations to the wrists, inflicted by a hunting knife he had bought that day. Dead committed suicide in a house he was sharing in Kråkstad with the other members of the band, and left a note asking that they "Excuse all the blood, Cheers." although other members of the band claimed it was more extensive, it also said "the knife was too dull to finish the job so i had to use the shotgun" Euronymous was first to discover the body, and took a series of polaroids of the corpse, some of which were later used as cover art for their bootleg album.
According to Occultus, who briefly took position as vocalist after Dead's suicide: "He (Dead) didn't see himself as human; he saw himself as a creature from another world. He said he had many visions that his blood has frozen in his veins, that he was dead. That is the reason he took that name. He knew he would die.." (that takes the cake, if you ask me....)
Euronymous took pieces of Dead's brain and made a stew, in which he put ham, frozen vegetables, and pepper. "He'd always said he wanted to eat flesh, so he figured this was an easy way." Euronymous also claimed to have collected and forged fragments of Dead's skull into necklaces, sending pieces to those he felt 'worthy'.(ewww....)

Euronymous was next in line to die.He was brutally stabbed by the then bassist to whom he owed a lot a money.The autopsy revealed that Euronymous suffered twenty-three stab wounds: two to the head, five to the neck, and sixteen to the back. However, the bassist claimed that Euronymous fell onto pieces of broken glass from a lamp shade broken in the ruckus, which he says, attributed to the multiple puncture wounds. (you dont say?!)

They split in 1994...and reunited a few years later with the surviving members and some new ones...but its the 'classic' Mayhem that fans remember the most.

The new Mayhem was just as weird, though.
In 2004, Maniac(the vocalist) was forced out of the band. Stage fright had lead to both dependence on alcohol and reluctance to tour, which frustrated his bandmates. It is rumored that Necrobutcher signaled his departure from Mayhem by kicking him down a flight of stairs, after Maniac had gotten drunk before a gig and been unable to remember the lyrics.(tee hee)

By now most of you would have a fixed idea of what Mayhem's music sounds like...but I really enjoy it...ass kickin stuff \m/..do listen to it if you do get a chance to.

Stay heavy
sid

Holocaust

SACSAYHUAMAN,PERU,present day

A ruined city.No one from any of the ages known to us ever saw Sacsayhuaman when it was not in ruins.
A fantastic fortress bulit with monolithic rocks weighing more than 100 tons each and having terrace walls 1500 ft. long and 54 ft wide.
The mind boggles when one tries to comprehend these facts.But what will take one's breath away is a little distance away from the fortress.Here we are confronted with a block with an estimated weight of 20,000 tons.This single stone block is the size of a four-storey house and is impeccably dressed in the most craftmanslike way.To make the solution of the puzzle even more difficult the whole monstrous block stands on its head.
Who can imagine that human hands and human endeavour excavated, transported and dressed this block? What power overturned it? What titanic forces were at work here? Its a pity, one thinks, that the technology of these peoples is lost forever.

BUT IS IT?

What one dosent realise, or dosent want to realise is that this city was built, when humans everywhere else were still in caves, by the most advanced peoples the world will ever see, and with the aid of extra-terrestrial intelligence.They dealt with aliens like a nation today deals with another.They traded materials and exchanged technologies.In gratitude for their aid, the people of Sacsayhuaman regarded the aliens as gods.This is why archaeologists today find Sacsayhuaman and the neighbouring towns like Tiahuanaco filled with gigantic buildings inscribed with images of "gods" in flying chariots and dressed in what even a layman would describe as a space-suit.Its a pity these "archaeologists" chooses to close their mind to the truth.But mankind would pay dearly for their closed-mindedness.
The gods had built the first airfield in the history of the world for their use, not far from Sacsayhuaman.The airfield was located in the Palpa valley in the ancient city of Nazca, high in the Peruvian Andes.An aerial view of the valley shows gigantic lines, laid out geometrically,some of which run parallel and some of which intersect.
The archaeologists call them ancient roads.How preposterous!

But something went wrong in the ancient city of Sacsayhuaman.The gods stopped coming.The people's anxiety grew with each passing year that the gods did not show up.The temples were crowded and the priests called for greater piety and sacrifice from the people.But the gods still did not come.But what came was a message from them.It said that the "gods" would appear in exactly ten thousand years.The people were disheartened.They couldnt wait that long.And Sacsayhuaman fell into decay soon after.The sad people abandoned their glorious city and dispersed, and soon died out.

All but one, that is.A priest decided that it would be worth the wait to show his descendants the splendour of the gods.And belonging to the most empowered caste of the city, he had access to all the technology and knowledge of the gods.And he passed them on to his only son.
And so it continued, long after the rest of his peoples had died out.

Soon the rest of mankind emerged from its sleep and began to conquer the world.But it would never see the glories of Sacsayhuaman other than in a state of decay.

LIMA, PERU,present day

Pablo was one of the leading astronomers of Peru.He was also rich, way richer than one expect his job to make him.This perplexed the authorities, and they were dissatisfied with his his explanation that he had inherited his wealth.But it was true.
He owned an observatory high in the andes mountains above Cuzco, not far from Sacsayhuaman.It was equipped with the most advanced instruments money can buy.But money cant buy everything.The USA, and a few EU nations owned some highly advanced microwave radio satellite telescopes.These were not for sale,however, as they can be used for spying and related activities.Having unsuccesfully pleaded for their purchase through the Peruvian government, Pablo proceeded to visit these countries and plead personally for them.After visiting the capitals of all the countries owning them, he returned angrily to Peru.They had refused to sell it.

Immediately after his return, these cities were struck by the deadliest earthquakes ever known to strike.

Pablo's anxiety and frustration increased in the coming months.He scanned the heavens like a madman, without rest for days on end.
These months also saw a tremendous, unnatural increase in the number and intensity of natural disasters in the various parts of the world.

Then one fine day, he abandoned whatever he had been doing and went to Nazca.And there he waited patiently.
The day was a special one.It was the day the gods had promised the people of Sacsayhuaman that they would return.And Pablo, descendant of the high priest of Sacsayhuaman waited for them.

The gods never did come that day.And Pablo knew that it was futile to wait any longer, for the gods would never make a promise they couldnt keep unless something had gone horribly wrong in their scheme.The frustration of a countless generations enveloped him.All the hardships endured by his forefathers in preserving and propagating the power and technology of Sacsayhuaman had now gone in vain.
Because of his lineage, the ancient power that had moved the monoliths flowed through him.And when angry, he couldnt help using it.

Pablo was very angry now.He was so angry he wanted to end his life, and take as many other men with him as possible.
The earth shook and waves of energy radiated through the ground from where he stood.
Nothing ever grew in that place again, and a desert drier than the Atacama was born.

Insanity

An evening just like any other.
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to meet.No friends,no family, just a deadbeat job in a dark factory,a tiny flat,a couch and a tv set.
I guess being the only man in a canning factory surrounded by machines can make a person a bit of an oddball .
My schedule is designed to minimise interaction with other people.I check into my factory at 9 every morning and work there till 8 in the evening as a machinist, then return to my flat. I use the back alleys filled with garbage and rats no one uses.I see few other people in the day.My neighbours stay clear of me, my landlord has no reason to see me as i pay the rent on time.I hate going to the supermarket every month to stock up on groceries.
I feel uncomfortable around people.
I'm completely self sufficient, a product of today's impersonal, machinistic world.
And then the world changed around me.

This is how it happened:

The news channels were blaring it out - unusual solar surface disturbances propogating through space to the earth.One glance at the sun would tell you something was not right.More than half the surface area was covered with sunspots and it was actually viewable with the naked eye.
I couldnt care less.The window blinds were drawn and my flat was dim and cut off from it all as always.My routine didnt change.
What i didnt realise was that the world was dying.
I went about my job as usual, not realising that a slow poison was building up in the minds of men.Other men.Scientists told people not to panic, but to no avail.There was a tenfold increase in crime.The morgues and asylums were bursting.
But the greatest disaster known to man hadnt struck fully yet.
I was safely esconsed in my flat in my crumbling apartment block and didnt care about what was happening.To my defence, i didnt really know what was happening.I never watched the news on the tube.The tv programs were still running and that was all i needed to know.
A week of worldwide hysteria later, the tv suddenly blacked out.The lights went out.The water stopped running in the taps.The next day, the machines in the factory werent running.
There were NO people to be seen, but i didnt think much of it then.I'll live it out, i thought.My supply of food will last another week.then ill step out and find out whats going on, thought i.
a week later, the situation hadnt improved.It had degenerated beyond repair.
I first went to the supermarket, but all i found there was a burnt-up building.Everything seemed to be either burning,burnt or abandoned.I went along the road, confused.Then i heard it.It sounded like a beast trying to talk in the tongue of man.A blood-chilling sound.
Looking behind, i saw a man.He was ragged looking, had a club in his hand and was coming to eat me.I tried to talk to him but all i got was a blow to my head.Reeling, i fell over a sleeping man on the pavement.A corpse.I took up a stick and finished off the madman with a few blows.He was weak and starving, i realised.I also realised that it was unusual that he was the first person i had seen in around a month.He was also the last living person i was to see.

I followed the main road and became aware of an odd odour in the air.I followed it.It led to a football field.A football field covered with rotting corpses.Later i would find more corpses in playing fields and parks all over the city.Then i understood.
In the past few weeks, men, driven like moths to a light, had congregated in all available open spaces.Mindless carnage followed.No one survived.
The same pattern had played out in all the cities of the world.
The madness from space had poisoned the minds of men and claimed them all.
I was the last one alive in the city.
For all i cared,i was the last one alive in the world.

here are some random bands whose music i've been listening to in the recent past:

timeless miracle
the haunted
fear factory
my dying bride
tankard
norther
ill nino
king crimson
dimmu borgir
force of evil (no one rocks like them scandinavians....)

and loads of other stuff.....

Just mentioned it as i have nothing else to say....for now
What a great start to my blog...