Mayhem "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" 1994
Deathlike Silence Productions

In 1991, Euronymous contacted me to replace Dead on vocals in Mayhem. This album contains the rough mixes of five songs from the original "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" recordings. After the murder of Euronymous in 1993, everything was totally fucked up and I lost all contacts with the band. I had already returned to Hungary when I read the shocking news. My own life was heavily affected by that crime. I got lost in my confusing thoughts and mutated into a drug addicted living corpse for some time. Meanwhile the album turned into a bestseller and made some fat third party businessmen rich. Whatever had been agreed upon back then, truth is that I never received any royalties from this recording. I was crawling along the streets of Budapest locked inside my imprisoned brain. I felt punished by my dark fate and often thought of suicide. My whole hated life seemed twisted upside down. The only thing left in my hands from that recording was just a tape. It was only those first five songs from a rough mix. I had recorded them for myself in the studio at the time. I have been listening to that tape many times before I received my first copy of the CD some years later. This is how "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" was supposed to sound, before the album got remixed after the murder of Euronymous. 15 years have passed now and again I am the vocalist of Mayhem. Sometimes I still put that same old tape on and listen to those five tracks, which are always bringing back very strong and dark emotions. As I have recently started my own small label, I am now able to share these feelings with the most die-hard Mayhem fans. It has cost me years of fighting to get the necessary rights for this release, which is strictly limited to 3000 copies. Here they are: five songs that once meant the world to me.

...In 1991, Euronymous asked me to replace Dead on vocals in Mayhem...

I would like to dedicate "Life Eternal" to both of them and to the Mayhem clan, to whom I owe that my life became so deeply involved with music!

Attila Csihar
(from "Life Eternal" LP, © 2023 Saturnus Productions)