Mayhem announce new album ‘Daemon’

MAYHEM have announced a new album!

Titled Daemon, the upcoming album from the Norwegian black metal legends is the long-awaited follow up to 2014’s Esoteric Warfare and is scheduled to be released in October this year.

The band entered NBS Audio Studio (aka Necromorbus Studio) in Söderfors, Sweden to record drums and vocals with producer/engineer Tore Stjerna. Newly consecrated Studio A (Stjerna’s Stockholm studio will continue to operate as Studio B) in an old church, Hellhammer and Csihar recorded their respective parts for Daemon. The band then had Ghul record his guitars in the Netherlands, while the bass was engineered by Teloch and performed by Necrobutcher at Lupercal Studio in Oslo, Norway. Teloch took his guitar tracking to SleikBallaMi Studio, also in Oslo. Daemon was then brought back to Stjerna for mixing and sent off to Thomas Johansson at The Panic Room for mastering. The whole affair took about three months to nail down.

Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/songwriter Teloch (aka Morten Bergeton Iversen) says, “MAYHEM will always be MAYHEM. If we put the genre game aside a bit, no one else sounds like MAYHEM. Even when De Mysteriis came out, it was not at first considered to be a black metal album, if my memory serves me right. Tricky to label this band. Metal would be the most fitting; it’s not pure black metal, in my opinion. Not sure it has ever been actually, despite what the general opinion is. People can call it whatever they want. If it’s black metal to them, then fine. We don’t really care. To me, it’s important to keep some sort of black metal vibe at least. I think this album will be most pleasing for old and new fans. As most of our devoted fans know, MAYHEM has never released two albums that sound the same. That’s the case this time around as well. As I said, we simplified stuff, but at the same time tried out some new stuff to keep it interesting for ourselves and, also for our fans that dig that we are doing something new on each album.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the track list and artwork for the upcoming album. Both of which are available to view below:

Track List: 

1. The Dying False King
2. Agenda Ignis
3. Bad Blood
4. Malum
5. Falsified And Hated
6. Aeon Daemonium
7. Worthless Abomination Destroyed
8. Daemon Spawn
9. Of Worms And Ruins
10. Invoke The Oath

Daemon is set for release on October 25th via Century Media Records.

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