The Dawn of the Black Hearts

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The Dawn of the Black Hearts
Live album (bootleg) by
Mayhem
Released17 February 1995[1]
Recorded28 February 1990 in Sarpsborg, Norway
GenreBlack metal
Length37:57
LabelWarmaster Records
Mayhem chronology
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
(1994) 		The Dawn of the Black Hearts
(1995) 		Out from the Dark
(1996)

The Dawn of the Black Hearts[2] (subtitled Live in Sarpsborg, Norway 28/2, 1990) is a bootleg live album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. The title originates from a line of lyrics Fenriz of Darkthrone wrote for the band.[3]

Despite being a bootleg, the album is sometimes listed as one of the band's main albums, mainly due to the notoriety regarding the cover art, which is an image of the late Mayhem vocalist Per "Dead" Ohlin shortly after he died from suicide.[4][5] The image of his death was photographed by guitarist Euronymous.

Cover[]

For broader coverage of this topic, see Dead (musician) § Self-harm and suicide.

The album is infamous and controversial for bearing a photograph of vocalist Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin), shortly after his suicide on 8 April 1991.[6] The photograph was taken by guitarist Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth), shortly after he entered the house the band shared and discovered the body.[7]

According to various sources, Euronymous took bits of Dead's skull and made them into necklaces for members of the black metal scene, including the band's drummer Hellhammer. Necrobutcher, the band's bassist, was so disgusted with Euronymous' actions that he left Mayhem. He was replaced by Burzum's Varg Vikernes, who murdered Euronymous two years later.

Bullmetal, a penpal of Euronymous and owner of Warmaster Records, was sent a copy of one of the photos Euronymous had taken of Dead's body. Euronymous had taken additional pictures of Dead's body in different positions (one of them with Dead "sitting half up, with the shotgun on his knee"), but these photos were later found and destroyed by Euronymous' father after he was murdered in 1993, 2 years before the album bootleg was released.[8]

Release[]

The Dawn of the Black Hearts was first released in a limited pressing of 300 vinyl copies by Warmaster Records, owned by Colombian musician and Euronymous pen pal Mauricio "Bullmetal" Montoya,. This original version contains eight songs from a concert in Sarpsborg on 28 February 1990, recorded without permission from the band members. The original issue bears the band's logo and the album title in golden ink.

The album has been reissued many times by various bootleg record labels. The original pressing, titled The Dawn of the Black Hearts, had its title slightly altered on subsequent pressings with the first "The" removed, rendering the title as simply Dawn of the Black Hearts. Many of these later versions and pressings of the album include four extra songs, which were recorded at the band's first-ever concert in Ski, Norway, on 20 April 1985, with Messiah on vocals. Most of the re-releases erroneously claim that the additional songs come from a 1986 Lillehammer show with Maniac on vocals, but the band did not play live at all during that year, or for the rest of that decade. They would not play in Lillehammer until after the release of Grand Declaration of War.

Most recently, The Dawn of the Black Hearts was officially reissued in 2017 on vinyl under the name Live in Sarpsborg, using a photo of Necrobutcher as a new cover. This 2017 release uses improved audio from a master source.[9] In 2018, Live in Sarpsborg was one of many albums that were compiled into and released as the Cursed in Eternity box set, which features never-before-seen live footage of the Sarpsborg set.

Track listing[]

The original track listing (recorded in 1990 with Dead as vocalist and Hellhammer as drummer):

No.TitleLength
1."Deathcrush"3:36
2."Necrolust"4:19
3."Funeral Fog"6:38
4."Freezing Moon"6:06
5."Carnage"4:18
6."Buried by Time and Dust"5:46
7."Chainsaw Gutsfuck"3:59
8."Pure Fucking Armageddon"3:15
Total length:37:57

Extra songs included on many reissues (recorded in 1985 with Messiah as vocalist and Manheim as drummer):

No.TitleLength
9."Danse Macabre" (Celtic Frost cover)1:10
10."Black Metal" (Venom cover)3:00
11."Procreation of the Wicked" (Celtic Frost cover)2:40
12."Welcome to Hell" (Venom cover)3:46
Total length:48:30
  • Some of the reissues with bonus songs combine "Danse Macabre" and "Black Metal" in one track.
  • Certain versions containing the bonus song mistitle "Danse Macabre" as "Dance Macabre".

Personnel[]

Lineup on original release:

Re-release bonus tracks lineup:

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ The Dawn of the Black Hearts - Live in Sarpsborg, Norway 28/2, 1990 Archived 2014-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, metal-archives.com
  2. ^ The original pressing has "The" at the beginning of the title. Some later editions omit it.
  3. ^ the lyrics sheet can be found in the 2009 limited edition EP, Life Eternal.
  4. ^ Bowar, Chad. "Mayhem". About.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
    "Mayhem Career Albums". MusicMight. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
    "Mayhem Main Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2019-01-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Sharpe-Young, Garry. "Mayhem". MusicMight. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
  7. ^ Kahn-Harris, Keith (2007). Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Oxford: Berg Publishers. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-84520-399-3.
    Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. First Edition. Venice, CA: Feral House 1998, pp. 59f.
  8. ^ Lords of Chaos, p49
  9. ^ "Live in Sarpsborg". burningshed.com. Archived from the original on 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2018-11-23.

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