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De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem Lyrics
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To the elder ruins again
The wind whispers beside the deep forest
Darkness will show us the way
"Heic noenum pax"
Here is no peace
The sky has darkened thirteen as
We are collected woeful around a book
"De grandaevus antiquus mulum tristis
Arcanas mysteria scriptum"
The books bloodwritten pages open
"Invoco crentus domini de daemonium"
We follow with our white eyes The ceremonial proceeding
"Heic noenum pax" Bring us the goat
"Rex sacriticulus mortifer"
In the circle of stone coffins
We are standing with our black robes on
Holding the bowl with unholy water
"Psychomantum et precr exito annos major"
"Ferus netandus sacerdos magus. Mortem animalium"
The Mayhem song "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is a dark and menacing piece of music that tells the story of a group of people who gather in elder ruins to perform a dark and occult ritual. The lyrics depict a group that is disturbed, outcast and seeking power through their occult beliefs. The opening lyrics describe the setting and the mood prevalent among the group. The wind whispers beside the deep forest, an eerie darkness surrounds them, and they are without peace. The lyrics then mention a book made of human flesh, which the group is gathered around. The book is said to contain ancient mysteries that have been inscribed in blood.
As the blood-written pages of the book open, the group chants "Invoco crentus domini de daemonium" which roughly translates to "I call upon the lord of the demons". This chant shows that the group is invoking demonic powers to help them achieve their goals. The next lines describe a ceremonial proceeding that the group follows with their white eyes. They are transfixed by the ritual and the ancient mysteries, and they want to be part of the occult power they believe is possible. The group is then instructed to bring the goat and the "Rex sacriticulus mortifer" or king of death. This is a reference to the sacrificial animal, which is essential to the ritual.
The lyrics then describe the group standing in the circle of stone coffins wearing their black robes and holding the bowl with unholy water. In the end, they are not deterred by death, and they continue with the ritual until they attain their objective. The Mayhem song tells a monstrous story about the unquenchable thirst of human beings for power, through the invocation of demonic powers, using horrific and ominous images.
Line by Line Meaning
Welcome!
We are gathering again in the ruins, ready to begin our dark ritual
To the elder ruins again
Returning to an ancient site, previously used for dark practices
The wind whispers beside the deep forest
The eerie sounds of the forest accompany us as we approach the ruins
Darkness will show us the way
The darkness will guide us towards our goal
"Heic noenum pax"
Here, there is no peace or tranquility
Here is no peace
This place is filled with unrest and malevolence
The sky has darkened thirteen as
The ominous, foreboding atmosphere is building
We are collected woeful around a book
We gather with a sense of sorrow and despair, focused on the book before us
Made of human flesh
The book is created from the skin of a human being
"De grandaevus antiquus mulum tristis
The archaic and somber contents of the book are revealed
Arcanas mysteria scriptum"
The pages are filled with arcane, mysterious script
The books bloodwritten pages open
The pages, inscribed in human blood, are finally revealed to us
"Invoco crentus domini de daemonium"
We invoke the lord of demons and call upon his name
We follow with our white eyes The ceremonial proceeding
Our eyes, wide with anticipation and fear, watch the ritual unfold
"Heic noenum pax" Bring us the goat
We demand the sacrifice of a goat to appease the demonic forces we have summoned
"Rex sacriticulus mortifer"
The king of sacrificial death is summoned, ready to take his offering
In the circle of stone coffins
We stand in a circle of stone coffins, symbolizing death and decay
We are standing with our black robes on
Clothed in black, we are ready to carry out the dark ritual
Holding the bowl with unholy water
The bowl contains water tainted with evil, ready to be used in the ritual
"Psychomantum et precr exito annos major"
We call upon the powers of the underworld and the spirits of the dead to aid us in our ritual
"Ferus netandus sacerdos magus. Mortem animalium"
We invoke the power of the dark priest and sacrifice an animal to appease the demonic forces
Lyrics © TIMELINE PUBLICATIONS
Written by: JAN AXEL VON BLOMBERG
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Vocals - Attila Csihar
Lead/Rhythm Guitars - Euronymous
Bass - Necrobutcher/Varg Vikerness
Drums - Hellhammer
Lyrics - Dead, Necrobutcher, Snorre
Production - Pytten, Euronymous, Hellhammer
Label - Deathlike Silence Productions – Anti-Mosh 006
Studio - Grieghallen
Country - Norway
@Tempestuous_Might
"To create metal more extreme than the previous generation of simple and savage black metal, Mayhem at first built crude and incoherent songs but developed an aesthetic of primitive, ugly, mechanical riffs shaped from basic and masticatory musical antitheses. Their relentless, chaotic, and masterfully rhythmic collection of riffs support a cast of simple songs which use the tradition verse-chorus dichotomy of simple heavy metal - black metal as a polarized backdrop upon which oppositional rhythm and symmetric complements of phrase can counterplay.
Where Mayhem shine is in tendency of these riffs which reveals a hardcore derivation to much of this: disconclusive, anti-symmetric riffing which follows ambient simplicity to author multiple combinations in the same overall rhythmic support. Their songs tear into musical wounds as elemental as the pieces of a scale and leave them more ambiguous than before, creating in this darkened haze of composition an opening for the nihilistic mechanism and romantic melody of the highest level of artistic opposition.
The studied reduction of songs from collection of these riffs to expressive structures with individual centering principles, however, is where Mayhem create their masterpiece and underline their fundamental concept of violent beauty and power in death. Where their contributions can be acknowledge it is to Dead for conceptual and lyrical guidance, and to Euronymous for slowly shaping rough and chromatic riffing into heavy metal with a neoclassical sense of melody less shown off than quietly pervading compositions of an otherwise blues-based nature, suggesting a partial break from the past of Venom/Hellhammer and an aspiration toward a new style within the aesthetic of rippling tremelo fluidity and melodic resonance.
Although melodramatic and overextended by the hilariously violent and strikingly operatic vocals of Tormentor throatman Attilla, these songs are as savage as with the inhuman torrential scream of Dead, previous vocalist and celebrated suicide, and in this more controlled recording highlight the percussion of Hellhammer, simple rock-grindcore fusion blasting with the fastidious surgical precision of a serial murderer. Periodically Euronymous inserts by-now classic pentatonic and atonal lead guitar, wandering through tempos and tones like a lost spirit obssessed with the night; consistently the attraction of this band however is his deadset wrist rhythm guitar, which varies from fast rippling blast-riffs to grating, intimidating, recursive doom minimalism.
Lyrics from previous vocalist Dead accompany the morbid processional of seemingly random but strikingly integrated power chord riffs, emphasizing the beauty and distinction of the abstract state of the unliving mind. Emphasis on concept in deathlike appearance, relentless violent energy and the staging of poetic idea to each song in dynamic construction and presentation of nearly ambient "scenes" formed of repeated parts of each song. Without advancing beyond the first generation of black metal except in gestures of future musicality, Mayhem innovated a style which inspired many others and their primary contributions of rhythm guitar remain unmatched today for severity and concussive resolution."
@cameronpowers9942
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (track 8/8) Lyrics:
Welcome!
To the elder ruins again
The wind whispers beside the deep forest
Darkness will show us the way
"Heic noenum pax"
Here is no peace
The sky has darkened thirteen as
We are collected woeful around a book
Made of human flesh
"De grandaevus antiquus mulum tristis
Arcanas mysteria scriptum"
The books bloodwritten pages open
"Invoco crentus domini de daemonium"
We follow with our white eyes The ceremonial proceeding
"Heic noenum pax" Bring us the goat
"Rex sacriticulus mortifer"
In the circle of stone coffins
We are standing with our black robes on
Holding the bowl with unholy water
"Psychomantum et precr exito annos major"
"Ferus netandus sacerdos magus. Mortem animalium"
@Samurai-ss5qs
1. Funeral Fog
Every time this year, this dark fog will appear
Up from the tombs it comes to take one more life that can be near
In the middle of Transylvania, all natural life has for a long time ago gone
It's thin and so beautiful but also so dark and mysterious
Once again the priest is messing, may the god bless us all
The fog is here again that will complete this funeral
From a place empty of life, only dead trees are growing here
As it comes from afar, only dead trees are growing here
Funeral fog
Funeral fog
Funeral fog
Funeral fog
2. Freezing Moon
Everything here is so cold
Everything here is so dark
I remember it as from a dream
In the corner of this time
Diabolic shapes float by
Out from the dark
I remember it was here I died
By following the freezing moon
It's night again, night you beautiful
I please my hunger on living humans
Night of hunger, follow its call
Follow the freezing moon
Darkness is growing, eternity opens
The cemetery lights up again as in ancient times
Fallen souls die behind my steps
By following the freezing moon
3. Cursed in Eternity
My name was written with fire
In the place you only can see
When your time has come
When you walk down in the land of shadows for eternity
The demon flies in the blackened starless skies
And crawls in the bottomless depths of hell
The name which will be a thousand times cursed in eternity
The demon flies in the blackened starless skies
And crawls in the bottomless depths of hell
Condemned to wander, until it comes
To the cruelest snake that crawls
4. Pagan Fears
The bloody history from the past
Deceased humans now forgotten
An age of legends and fear
A time now so distant
Less numbered as they were
Their lives so primitive and pagan
Superstitions were a part of the life
So unprotected in the dark nights
Pagan fears
The past is alive
The past is alive
Woeful people with pale faces
Staring obsessed at the moon
Some memories will never go away
And they will forever be here
5. Life Eternal
A dream of another existence
You wish to die
A dream of another world
You pray for death
To release the soul one must die
To find peace inside you must get eternal!
I am a mortal, but am I human?
How beautiful life is now when my time has come
A human destiny, but nothing human inside
What will be left of me when I'm dead?
There was nothing when I lived
What you found was eternal death
No one will ever miss you
6. From the Dark Past
A face in stone... decayed by age
A man who has returned to tell of his damnation
Fears so deep, the mouth open wide
The dream died away before dawn of this time
Ancient times legends stories so dark
Blackened his sight
Now not even the memories are left
Back after such a long time
The stone is cold as death
But what formed its true fears
Only the wind is able to tell
Tell me - what did you see there
In the darkness - of the past
The eyes - stares so empty
The mouth - screams so silent
Tell me - what did you see there
In the darkness - of the past
7. Buried by Time and Dust
Visions of that no morning's light ever will come
I'm too old now, the dark is so near
Will I ever reach the land beyond?
This is where we go when we have to die
I've been old since the birth of time, time buried me in earth
Centuries ago, I tasted blood, buried by time and dust
Many years has pasted since the funeral missing the blood of human throats
So many years, ages ago, I must await, feel my bodies stench
Wanderings out of space, wandering out of time
A world out of light, death at the end
Only silence can be heard, silence of peoples' tears
No one knows my grave buried by time and dust
8. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Welcome!
To the elder ruins again
The wind whispers beside the deep forest
Darkness will show us the way
The sky has darkened thirteen as
We are collected woeful around a book
Made of human flesh
Heic noenum pax
Here is no peace
De grandaevus antiquus mulum tristis
Arcanas mysteria scriptum
The books blood written pages open
Invoco crentus domini de daemonium
We follow with our white eyes
The ceremonial proceeding
Rex sacrificulus mortifer
In the circle of stone coffins
We are standing with our black robes on
Holding the bowl with unholy water
Heic noenum pax
Bring us the goat
Psychomantum et precr exito annos major
Ferus netandus sacerdos magus
Mortem animalium
@Schandmowl
One of Dave Mustaines best vocal performances
@cliouacm
Shiaaaaaaales....
@lynekeabdullah7059
Now that you'd mentioned it, he did sound like Dave Mustaine🤭
@antoniomoreno6982
Jajajaja
@MehtaKyaKehta
Priceless
@Schandmowl
@Inferno 666 Lighten up it's only a harmless joke. No one said this album is a joke. People (myself included) like this album, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
@jorgeisaacdoblesmata9137
A forever classic. A perfect fit for yoga and meditation.
@Metal0sopher
No shit no joke. Along with Transylvanian Hunger I cold meditate for days.
@Cody-uv4we
Their only good album.
@Chronicleakage-ik5wg
@@Cody-uv4we deathcrush fucks, fym