Mayhem release new video clip

MAYHEM have released a new video clip for the track “Watchers” taken from the Norwegian black metal legends latest full-length ‘Esoteric Warfare’ (2014) and based on a live performance during the “Black Metal Warfare II” US-tour at Baltimore Soundstage on the 25th of November 2015.

The video has been premiered by Noisey at the link below.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/mayhem-watcher-video

Credits
Produced by Magnetar Studio
Director: James Pesature
Editors: Mark Belden, James Pesature
Lighting Designer: Anne Weckstr├Âm
Stage Prop Design: Sharon Ehman
Watchers Logo Design: Christophe Szpajdel
Logo Animations Design: Madeline Quinn
Technical Advisor: Dhruv Kumar
Camera Operators:
Jonathan Arevalo
Collin Baker
Mark Belden
Shane Gardner
Max Levine
Johnny Perilla
James Pesature
J├ Sch├╝ftan
Sydney Thibault

Camera & Equipment Rentals Supplied by Lumoid

Director James Pesature comments regarding the clip:┬á”I do my best to find cinematographers, who are metalheads and fans of the bands for our team, because I feel if you know your subject well and understand them, you will be better at representing them through the lens. (There were nine of us shooting this). I have always attempted to take a fine art approach to my photography focusing on the individual and the body. I have taken this same approach to the live music videos hoping to create a more intimate experience for the viewer that captures the high octane, hair raising energy that surges through the body when actually there.┬áThis video is an up close and personal concentrated experience of an entire MAYHEM performance.┬á An interesting thing I believe to be true about Black Metal, more so than any other metal sub-genre is when it comes to performing live, it is just as much of a performance art as it is music. Attila is the embodiment of that statement.┬á Maybe others donÔÇÖt see it this way but to me it is very dramatic, energetic, theatrical, and ritualistic.”
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MAYHEM Live
24 Jun 16 Kauhajoki (FI) Nummirock Metal Festival
10 Aug 16 Le Locle (CH) Rock Altitude
12 Aug 16 Alicante (ES) Leyendas Del Rock
20 Aug 16 Theix  (FR) Motocultor Festival
23 Sep 16 Trondheim (NO) Samfundet

07 Oct 16 Curibita (BR) Music Hall
08 Oct 16 Fortaleza (BR) Complexo Armaz├®m
09 Oct 16 Sao Paulo (BR) Clash Club
11 Oct 16 Cochabamba (BO) Sal├│n Heroinas
13 Oct 16 Argentina (AR) T.B.A.
15 Oct 16 Buenos Aires City (AR) Uniclub
18 Oct 16 Santiago (CL) Kmasu
20 Oct 16 Lima (PE) TBA
22 Oct 16 Latacunga (EC) Canchas del Aucas
23 Oct 16 Bogota (CO) Auditorio Lumiere
26 Oct 16 San Jose (CR) T.B.A.
27 Oct 16 San Salvador (SV) T.B.A.
28 Oct 16 Guatemala City (GT) T.B.A.
30 Oct 16 Mexico City (MX) Circo Volador

19 Nov 16 Oslo (NO) Sentralen
16 Dec 16 Eindhoven (NL) Eindhoven Metal Meeting (exact date tbc)

MAYHEM are performing in support of their latest album┬á’Esoteric Warfare’, which is streaming in full at Bandcamp. The album is still available in various editions on the Season of Mist shop. Artwork and track list can be viewed below.
1. Watchers
2. PsyWar
3. Trinity
4. Pandaemon
5. MILAB
6. VI.Sec.
7. Throne of Time
8. Corpse of Care
9. Posthuman
10. Aion Suntelia
It has been seven long years since MAYHEM released their fourth and latest full-length, “Ordo ad Chao”. In the year of their 30th anniversary, the single most notorious and important band in the history of black metal returns with ten venomous and vicious tracks under the heading of ‘Esoteric Warfare’┬áthat are true to the NorwegiansÔÇÖ immense legacy as kings of the underground.

Founded as early as 1984 in Oslo, Norway by the late and legendary frontman ├ÿystein Aarseth aka Euronymous, bassist J├©rn “Necrobutcher” Stubberud, and Kjetil “Manheim” Haraldsson on drums, the band took its name from the VENOM song “Mayhem with Mercy”. Continuing and renewing the Black Metal style heralded by the latter English trio, MAYHEM soon became the instigators of the so called second wave and were at the heart of every controversy surrounding that genre.

The suicide of misanthropic frontman Per Yngve “Dead” Ohlin, the murder of Euronymous by guest bass player “Count Grishnakh” alias the notorious Varg Vikernes, church burnings, drugs and prison sentences ÔÇô MAYHEM were always at the centre of the storm. Yet not even death could stop the Norwegians, who released one musical milestone after another.

The incredible rawness of the “Deathcrush” EP (1987) was followed by the still iconic and genre defining “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” (1994), which featured devilish drummer Jan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg, who had joined in 1988. The vocalist on this album was the Hungarian Attila Csihar of TORMENTOR fame, who returned later in 2004 to take over from his meantime heir, the enigmatic original singer Sven-Erik “Maniac” Kristiansen. The latter was featured on the “Wolf’s Lair Abyss” EP (1997), which was written mostly by highly talented guitarist Rune “Blasphemer” Eriksen, who scored a massive artistic success with the highly controversial “Grand Declaration Of War” (2000). This was followed by the more classic “Chimera” (2004) and that masterpiece of utter darkness called “Ordo Ad Chao” (2007) with Attila singing again, which inspired many bands to follow in its tracks.

MAYHEM have┬áalways witnessed many line-up changes due to the circumstances described above. Therefore even the loss of Blasphemer, who decided to focus on his other band AVA INFERI in 2008, did not stop the band. Activities mainly revolved around live shows, until the right balance was found again with the recruitment of Morten “Teloch” Iversen. The guitarist had already made a name for himself with NIDINGR, which is highly regarded amongst black metal enthusiasts yet remained mostly an underground phenomenon.

Now his first compositional work with MAYHEM is unveiled and demonstrates how perfectly Teloch has captured the essence and spirit of the Norwegian legend by clearly linking the band back to its roots, while at the same time taking a step forward into the spearhead position of the genre instead of dwelling in nostalgia.

“Esoteric Warfare” is finally ready to be unleashed. This full-scale assault of total dark savagery of freezing riffs and Attila’s inhumane vocals is entirely based on a concept dealing with the esoteric experimentations of the nuclear powers during the cold war. The album proves once again and beyond doubt that MAYHEM are the Alpha and the Omega of black metal!

MAYHEM picture by Ester Segarra
Line-up
Attila: vocals
Teloch: guitars
Hellhammer: drums
Necrobutcher: bass
Ghul: live guitars

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Style: Black Metal

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