The true Mayhem needs no introduction. No, we’re not talking about Lady Gaga’s new album. Forty years is a big accomplishment for any artist. Mayhem almost considers it death-defying. “A couple of ...

As a curator, writer, and authority on what’s cool, Finn Håkon Rødland is what you could call the leading expert on “True Black Metal.” He possesses the most important collection documenting the ...

Norwegian black metal icons Mayhem apparently have 20 “skeletons” ready for their next album. Skeletons of songs, that is, not human skeletons. Actually, considering this is Mayhem we’re talking about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, the Cradle singer reveals that he has “three or four letters” from the original guitarist of ...

Norwegian black metal icons Mayhem were scheduled to head to North America on a 40th anniversary tour this month, but they’ve cancelled the dates due to a medical emergency a bandmember is having. It ...

Rumor has it that when Norwegian black metal band Mayhem found its singer dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, they took the strewn-about pieces of his skull and made them into necklaces. They ...

Before there was "kvlt" there was Mayhem. Their influence would go on to become transmusical, but in the beginning that's all there was: a six song, 18-minute EP whose genius was equal parts cunning, ...

Future generations will thank him for his work! “Finn Håkon has without a doubt been a resource in the black metal community and a glue that history badly needed for posterity. What this man has done ...