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De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Mayhem

Type:
Compilation
Release date:
September 30th, 2019
Catalog ID:
DSR 061
Version desc.:
Limited edition
Label:
Darkness Shall Rise Productions
Format:
3 cassettes
Limitation:
1000 copies
Reviews:
40 reviews (avg. 88%)
Tape 1 - De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas
Side A
1. Funeral Fog 05:47   Show lyrics
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2. Freezing Moon 06:23   Show lyrics
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3. Cursed in Eternity 05:10   Show lyrics
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4. Pagan Fears 06:21   Show lyrics
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Side B
5. Life Eternal 06:57   Show lyrics
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6. From the Dark Past 05:27   Show lyrics
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7. Buried by Time and Dust 03:34   Show lyrics
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8. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 06:22   Show lyrics
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Tape 2 - Life Eternal
Side A
1. Cursed in Eternity  
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2. Pagan Fears  
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3. Freezing Moon  
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4. Funeral Fog  
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5. Life Eternal  
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Side B
1. Cursed in Eternity  
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2. Pagan Fears  
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3. Freezing Moon  
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4. Funeral Fog  
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5. Life Eternal  
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Tape 3 - De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas Alive
Side A
1. Funeral Fog  
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2. Freezing Moon  
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3. Cursed in Eternity  
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4. Pagan Fears  
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Side B
5. Life Eternal  
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6. From the Dark Past  
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7. Buried by Time and Dust  
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8. De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas  
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Original line-up
Band members
Euronymous (R.I.P. 1993) Guitars, Lyrics (track 5), Songwriting
Hellhammer Drums, Songwriting
Guest/Session
Attila Csihar Vocals (uncredited)
Varg Vikernes Bass (uncredited)
Miscellaneous staff
Blackthorn Photography, Lyrics (editing), Songwriting
Dye Design (cover)
Necrobutcher Lyrics (track 3), Songwriting
Hellhammer Producer, Mixing
Euronymous (R.I.P. 1993) Producer, Mixing
Pytten Mixing, Producer
Dead (R.I.P. 1991) Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4-8)
Additional line-up
Miscellaneous staff
Harvest of Eyes Layout
Fernando Serani Layout live photography
Original line-up
Euronymous (R.I.P. 1993) Guitars, Lyrics (track 5), Songwriting
Hellhammer Drums, Songwriting
Original line-up
Attila Csihar Vocals (uncredited)
Varg Vikernes Bass (uncredited)
Original line-up
Blackthorn Photography, Lyrics (editing), Songwriting
Dye Design (cover)
Necrobutcher Lyrics (track 3), Songwriting
Hellhammer Producer, Mixing
Euronymous (R.I.P. 1993) Producer, Mixing
Pytten Mixing, Producer
Dead (R.I.P. 1991) Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4-8)
Additional line-up
Harvest of Eyes Layout
Fernando Serani Layout live photography
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25th anniversary box, hand-numbered copies. Includes “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”, “Life Eternal” and “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive” on cassette, 3 posters, 3 postcards, patch, metal-pin, certificate and a massive booklet.

Front cover is a drawing of the Nidaros cathedral located in Trondheim, Norway.

"De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas" means "Lord Satan's Secret Rites", or at least that's what Euronymous wanted to write. In fact, the phrase isn't written in correct Latin. However, the little dot after "dom", as seen on the original cover, abbreviates "domini", so the title means something like "about/of Lord Satan's mysteries".
"Mysterii" is not only translatable as mystery, but also as secret worship/ritual/rite. So, when pluralized as it is in the title, "Mysteriis" can indeed translate to Secret Rites, also with the word "Sathanas", is not the correct word for Satan in Latin; the correct word would be "Satanas" (without the 'h') or "diabolus". Moreover, the title-track "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" contains phrases written in a rough Latin with typos and wrong cases/declensions that can lead to various translations.

The murder of Euronymous by Varg Vikernes happened right before the initial release of the CD. Accordingly, the family of Euronymous asked Hellhammer to remove all bass lines from the album, because Varg's contribution didn't deserve to be on it, in their opinion. Hellhammer promised that he would replace bass lines with his own, but he didn't know how to play bass, so the album was left with Varg's bass lines, although not heard as well as the other instruments because of it being lowered. All the CD's contain on the back "A Tribute To Euronymous" with a promo photo of only Euronymous and Hellhammer. Attila, Varg and Blackthorn's contributions are not mentioned anywhere. The CD itself features a very dark photo showing the faces of Euronymous and Hellhammer, and a third face which is believed to be Attila (although this has never been confirmed by the band).

Contrary to popular belief, Blackthorn did not record guitars on this album, although he and Euronymous often exchanged musical ideas and so Euronymous incorporated several riffs written by Snorre.

The lyrics of "Life Eternal" were originally written by Dead as a gift to Bull Metal, who played in Masacre and Typhon. Later on, the lyrics were used in De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. As a posthumous tribute to Dead and Euronymous, Typhon used the lyrics for Life Eternal in their album Unholy Trilogy.

A bootlegged rehearsal of this album called From the Darkest Past was distributed sometime in the early 90s, featuring instrumental tracks recorded on May 16th 1992.

Recording information:

Tapes 1 and 2 recorded at The Grieg Memorial Hall, Bergen - Norway, 1992-'93.
Tape 3 recorded live in Norrköping, Sweden on December 18th, 2015.

Added by: LordOfAngmar Modified by: Dying_Hope
Added on: 2019-10-04 03:44:58 Last modified on: 2023-06-20 11:52:49