Metal Riot

This is pretty crazy shit right here.  Anyone who knows anything about the Norwegian black metal scene in the early 90’s knows about the suicides, murders, and extensive church burnings.  If you don’t, do your research.  Two good places to start are the book, Lords Of Chaos and the movie Until The Light Takes Us. Anyways, this pertains to the infamous suicide of Mayhem singer Per “Dead” Ohlin in April 1991.  It has been widely reported that the band’s founding guitarist Euronymous made necklaces from pieces of the skull after finding Dead…well, dead, in his room.  Dead’s suicide became the stuff of black metal legend. Euronymous also reportedly took several pictures of the body and allegedly sent one to the owner of Warmaster Records in Colombia, who then used it as the cover of the bootleg live Mayhem album Dawn Of The Black Hearts.

So it turns out that the guitarist Morgan Håkansson from legendary black metal band Marduk claims to own piece of Dead’s skull and brain matter.  Whoa.  Seriously?  He was quoted in a recent interview with Loudwire and seems pretty nonchalant about the whole thing.

To read the entire set of quotes from the interview click here.

Veterans of Swedish black metal Marduk are streaming a new track called “Souls For Belial”.  The song is only being physically released to subscribers of Sweden Rock Magazine and eventually on a limited 7-inch release, but details are yet to surface.

To listen to “Souls For Belial” click here.

Marduk’s upcoming album Serpent Sermon will be their 12th studio release and will come out under the Blooddawn Productions/Century Media label in the end on May to early June 2012 (depending on where you live).  Click here for more details.