Country of origin: Norway Location: Ski, Akershus (early); Oslo (later) Status: Active Formed in: 1984 Genre: Black Metal Themes: Satanism, Death, Gore (early); Misanthropy, War, Darkness, Philosophy (later) Current label: Century Media Records Years active: 1984 (as Musta), 1984-1993, 1994-present Pictured from left to right: Hellhammer, Ghul, Attila Csihar, Teloch, and Necrobutcher. The band was billed as Wolf's Lair Abyss for a few secret gigs during the Wolf's Lair Abyss tour. Founded by Jørn Stubberud (Necrobutcher), and Kjetil (Manheim) under the name Musta (Finnish for "black"), which they changed to Mayhem after Øystein Aarseth (Euronymous) joined in. The band name is taken from the Venom song, "Mayhem with Mercy". During the early years, the band used either session vocalists Messiah or Maniac for live/studio commitments and played either instrumentally, or with Necrobutcher or Euronymous on vocals during rehearsals. By late 1987 both Manheim and Maniac had left the band, and their positions were filled temporarily by members of Vomit, before vocalist Dead, and drummer Hellhammer took over in 1988. Dead committed suicide in 1991 by shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun after cutting his wrists with a knife. The shells were given to him by Varg Vikernes (Count Grishnackh), who knew that Dead used to practice with a shotgun in the forest close to the house where the members of Mayhem lived. His body, along with a suicide note saying "Excuse all the blood", was discovered in his room. Euronymous took some pictures (one of them appearing as the cover of the infamous Dawn of the Black Hearts bootleg album) of the suicide scene. A legend was born, and it was said that Euronymous had cooked and eaten pieces of Dead's brain. It was also said that fragments of Dead's skull had been collected and made into necklaces that both Euronymous and Hellhammer wore as a tribute to Dead. Of course, it is doubtful tha 风格：Death Metal/Black Metal（死亡/黑色金属）Heavy Metal（重金属）Scandinavian Metal（斯堪的纳维亚金属） 国籍：挪威 组建时间：1984年