#my transcript

[sophaeros]

"can i give you a kiss?" "yes, of course. just lay it on me." "can i have one?" "yes, of course, darling. hey, you too, c'mere."

the strokes meeting fans in dallas, usa, november 2002 (x)

[eardefenders]

Bonus Mailbag Transcripts Master Post

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[syvellsworld]

Gerrit about his time at school, mobbing and his best period in life. From the Q&A he did on Twitch on February 6th 2025.

German original / transcript:

Q: Wie war deine Schulzeit und welcher Abschnitt im Leben war bisher dein bester?

G: Meine Schulzeit war offen und ehrlich gesagt scheisse. Ich habe Schule einfach von Tag eins bis zum letzen Tag mit all den Umwegen die ich genommen habe mit ganz wenigen Ausnahmen überhaupt nicht genossen. Ich habe dieses Konzept einfach nie verstanden und habe es nie gemocht. Ich hatte mich nie sonderlich wohl unter Mitschülern gefühlt, ich hatte auch ganz ganz große Mobbing Probleme irgendwann in der Pubertät, also ich in der Rolle des Mobbingopfers und Lehrer, die das nicht ernst genommen haben. Ich weiß das ist auch immer noch ein Thema heutzutage, offensichtlich wird das nicht richtig in den Griff gekriegt, dass etwas gegen Mobbing unternommen wird, dass Lehrer das ernst nehmen. Vielleicht schon ein bißchen ernster als noch vor 20 Jahren als es bei mir alles der Fall war, aber es war auf jeden Fall damals ganz ganz große Scheisse und ich hatte immer ein bißchen das Problem, und das habe ich auch immer noch, dass ich mich nicht für etwas begeistere oder Leistung in etwas erbringen kann, wofür ich mich nicht wirklich 100% interessiere und ich Bock drauf habe. Und das einzige worauf ich immer Bock hatte war Musik, aber selbst da waren meine Noten grauenhaft schlecht, aber vor allem weil der Musikunterricht relativ wenig mit Musik zu tun hatte zum Teil, das war schon ein bißchen weird.

Aber davon ganz abgesehen, dieses ganze Allgemeinwissen und Algebra und Gedichte interpretieren in Deutsch und was immer, da hatte ich sowas von keinen Bock drauf und musste es aber machen. Und wenn ich etwas machen *muss*, musste und wie gesagt, das gleiche Problem habe ich immer noch: wenn ich etwas machen *muss* bin ich schon mal, nehme ich schon mal so eine Antihaltung ein, unter dem Motto: "Unter diesen Umständen komnen wir nicht ins Geschäft." Das heißt das schlägt sich in der Schulzeit, in der man nun mal Dinge machen muss, gehört nun mal leider dazu, schlägt sich natürlich negativ nieder und dementsprechend habe ich meine Schulzeit nie sonderlich genossen und ich denke mal dass viele meiner Lehrer mich auch nicht sonderlich genossen haben oder nicht verstanden haben, warum bei mir nichts zu holen ist, obwohl ich doch vielleicht nicht der unintelligenteste Mensch bin aber einfach, keine Ahnung, kein sehr leistungsorientierter Mensch bin, das steht nun mal zum krassen Kontrast was Schule darstellt. Das ist natürlich ein Leistungskonzept und unsere Gesellschaft hat ein Leistungskonzept und gerade in der Schulzeit, wie gesagt, war das etwas, vorauf ich überhaupt nicht konnte und was sich in Noten niedergeschlagen hat, sich in meiner Lust zu Schule zu gehen niedergeschlagen hat, die Zeit meines Lebens gering bis gar nicht vorhanden war und bin ich froh das hinter mir zu haben und zum Beispiel mein Studium, mein Tontechnik Studium, was ich vorhin erwähnt hatte an der SAE, dass ich das auch hinter mich gebracht habe, weil auch das ist ja in gewisser Weise eine Schulsituation. Das war natürlich etwas angenehmer als eine allgemeinbildende Schule, aber es war trotzdem eine Lernsituation. Ich habe danach gesagt, ich möchte nie wieder auf irgendeiner Schulbank sitzen, nie wieder in einer Lehrsituation sein, ich habe da keinen Bock mehr drauf. Ich hatte noch nie Bock drauf und ich möchte es auch nie mehr machen. Das heißt also dieses "Ach, vielleicht in meinen Dreissigern noch mal studieren" wenn ich Zeit und Bock habe, warum nicht... bleib mir weg, nee, also...

Also ja, meine Schulzeit: ungeil. Und ich möchte es auch nicht Schullaufbahn nennen, ich möchte es eher Schulhürdenlauf nennen, weil auch gewisse Ehrenrunden, die ich gedreht habe und vom Gymnasium auf die Realschule runtergestuft, weil ich irgendwann einfach gar nichts mehr geschissen gekriegt habe und dann irgendwann, mit einem ganz schön schlechten, fast nicht bestanden Mittlere Reife oder erweiterten Realschulabschluss dann wieder zurück auf die Oberstufe ans Gymnasium und geguckt, naja, vielleicht schaffe ich es ja doch mit dem Abi, habe dann nach der elften dann abgebrochen. Nach der elften war ich eigentlich in der dreizehnten, weil ich zum Zeitpunkt schon zwei Schuljahre wiederholt hatte, ich habe quasi dreizehn Jahre Schule gemacht, obwohl ich nach der elften abgebrochen habe, kein Abi und auch meine mittlere Reife ist unfassbar schlecht, weil ich weder Bock hatte noch mich in Prüfungssituationen wohlgefühlt habe. Prüfungsangst kam dann hinzu und hat mir alles versaut und ja: ist nicht meins, war nie meins und ich bin froh, dass ich das hinter mir habe.

Dementsprechend, daran schließt sich direkt der zweite Teil der Frage an "Welcher Abschnitt im Leben war bisher dein bester". Defintiv alles, was nach der Schule kam. Oder, um es genauer zu sagen, alles was nach dem Studium kam, also alles seitdem, also, ich will jetzt nicht auf die Tränendrüse drücken und nicht alles irgendwie, also ich will nicht sagen, dass ich alles auf diese eine Karte setze, aber alles, seitdem mich Chris damals gefragt hat, ob ich nicht zufälligerweise in seine Band eintreten möchte. Alles, was danach kam und bis heute anhält ist für mich der beste Abschnitt in meinem Leben und das darf auch gerne noch so weitergehen. Alles davor: notwendiges Übel, sagen wir mal so. Und bevor das hier zu traurig und zu düster wird, schaue ich mal, was wir noch für Fragen haben.

English translation:

Q: What was your time at school like and what was your best period in life so far?

G: My time at school was, to be honest, crap. From day one to day one, with all the detours I took, I simply didn't enjoy school at all, with very few exceptions. I just never understood the concept and never liked it. I never felt particularly comfortable with my classmates, I also had major bullying problems at some point during puberty, when I was the victim of bullying and teachers didn't take it seriously. I know that's still an issue today, it's obvious that it's not really being tackled, that something is being done about bullying, that teachers aren't taking it seriously. Maybe a bit more serious than 20 years ago when all of that was the case for me, but it was definitely really, really bad back then and I always had a bit of a problem, and I still have it, that I can't get excited about something or perform well in something that I'm not 100% interested in and don't feel like doing. And the only thing I was always interested in was music, but even then my grades were awful, but mainly because the music lessons had relatively little to do with music, that was a bit weird.

But apart from that, all this general knowledge and algebra and interpreting poems in German and whatever, I just didn't feel like doing it and yet I had to do it. And when I *have to* do something, had to do it, and as I said, I still have the same problem: when I *have to* do something, I take an anti-attitude, under the motto: "We can't do business under these circumstances." That means that it has a negative impact on school time, where you have to do things, unfortunately that's part of it, and of course it has a negative impact and as a result I never particularly enjoyed my time at school and I think that many of my teachers didn't particularly enjoy me either or didn't understand why there was nothing to be gained from me, even though I'm perhaps not the least intelligent person but I'm just, I don't know, not a very achievement-oriented person, which is in stark contrast to what school is all about. That is of course a performance concept and our society has a performance concept and especially during my school days, as I said, that was something I was absolutely not good at and that was reflected in my grades, reflected in my desire to go to school, that time in my life was little to non-existent and I am glad to have that behind me and, for example, my studies, my sound engineering studies, which I mentioned earlier at the SAE, that I have also got that behind me because that is also a school situation in a certain way. It was of course a bit more pleasant than a general education school, but it was still a learning situation. Afterwards I said that I never want to sit on a school bench again, never want to be in a teaching situation again, I don't feel like it anymore. I have never felt like it and I never want to do it again. So that means this "Oh, maybe I'll study again in my thirties" if I have the time and the desire, why not... stay away from me, no, well...

So yes, my school days: not great. And I don't want to call it a school career, I would rather call it a school hurdle race, because I also did certain laps of honour and was downgraded from grammar school to secondary school because at some point I just couldn't get anything done anymore and then at some point, with a really bad, almost failed intermediate school leaving certificate or extended secondary school leaving certificate, I went back to the upper school at grammar school and thought, well, maybe I'll manage to get my A-levels after all, and then I dropped out after the eleventh grade. After the eleventh grade I was actually in the thirteenth because I had already repeated two school years at that point, I basically did thirteen years of school, even though I dropped out after the eleventh grade, no A-levels and my intermediate school leaving certificate is also incredibly bad because I didn't feel like it and didn't feel comfortable in exam situations. Test anxiety then came along and ruined everything for me and yes: it's not my thing, it was never my thing and I'm glad that I've got that behind me.

Accordingly, the second part of the question follows directly on from this: "What period of your life has been your best so far?" Definitely everything that came after school. Or, to be more precise, everything that came after university, so everything since then, well, I don't want to pull the wool over your eyes and not everything, I don't want to say that I'm putting everything on this one card, but everything since Chris asked me if I wanted to join his band. Everything that came after that and continues to this day is the best part of my life for me and I hope it continues like that. Everything before that: a necessary evil, let's put it that way. And before this gets too sad and too dark, I'll see what other questions we have.

[thisbluespirit]

An early 1990s interview with Jeremy Northam, from West Lancashire Evening Gazette (Sat 4th April 1992, p23), about his appearance in Appointment With Fear: House of Glass (an ITV anthology series.)

STRANGE things happen when Gerry Stafford—the last of the line—inherits his grandmother's family mansion.

The ancestral home takes on its own sinister character as soon as Master Gerald and his new American bride Sonia arrive to supervise its sale.

Even loyal house-keeper Mrs Gilbert acts oddly when she leaves Sonia to fend for herself alone on a dark and windy night.

Appointment With Fear: House of Glass (ITV, 8.50pm) is a ghostly chiller starring Lisa Orgolini, Jeremy Northam, Matyelok Gibbs and Mary Wimbush.

Lisa, who plays Sonia, found filming for the half-hour story was "sometimes quite scary."

"Most of our time was spent in a great big old house and I don't like being left on my own in big houses with lots of rooms!" admits Lisa, who is 28.

Fortunately, there was always the film crew there to take my mind off things. I could imagine the house (in Lymington, Hampshire) being very creepy at night. It's just as well that the family who live there have ten children to fill it, but even so..."

Actress Lisa admits that scary films have a spooky effect on her.

She says: "This is an old-fashioned ghost story. I admit I don't normally like to watch this kind of thing at home on my own. It's easier for me to be in one than watch one!

After I saw Hitchcock's 'Psycho' I never took a shower when I was alone in the house for many years."

Ironically in this new TVS film, Lisa actually played a scene in the shower, surrounded by a film crew for company! She says: "I was in a bathing suit and there were people around me spraying mist in the bathroom."

Lisa, who is from Los Angeles, turned down the chance to go to drama school in the States, preferring to come to England and study at drama school in London, where she is now based. Her father is a US film producer.

Lisa's television credits include Tell Me That You Love Me, Parnell and the Englishwoman, Campion, The Thorn Birds, and a leading role in the new series of Perfect Scoundrels from TVS, with Peter Bowles and Bryan Murray.

On stage she played alongside Julie Walters in Peter Hall's The Rose Tattoo with Patricia Hayes and her feature films including Shining Through and The Recruit.

Jeremy Northam (Piece of Cake, Journey's End and Fatal Inversion) plays Gerald, with Matyelok Gibbs (Maigret, The Bill, The Jewel in the Crown) as Mrs Gilbert the house-keeper and Mary Wimbush (Jeeves and Wooster, The Country Boy) as the ghost of Mrs Stafford.

Jeremy, 30, who plays the young heir to the Stafford family's long-established glass-making business, describes the film as "a good yarn."

The self-confessed thriller fan adds: "House of Glass plays upon the conventions of the thriller and the ghost story very well.

"I sometimes think telly takes itself too seriously and short films like this help to stop that happening.

"This is a good, simple story which is ideal for watching on a dark evening!"

Jeremy is the only actor in his family although his father, a retired academic, taught drama, and his mother did some chorus singing for a while.

The youngest of four children, Jeremy's eldest brother Chris is a pianist, brother Tim is a set designer and sister Kate is married with four children.

Jeremy's television career began in the summer of 1987 in 'Wish Me Luck' - he also had a leading role in the second series—and his other TV credits include 'Piece of Cake' and 'Journey's End'.

He spent two years at the National Theatre and in 1989 was winner of the Olivier award for best newcomer. Jeremy trained at the Bristol Old Vic and spent seasons in rep including a spell at Salisbury.

"I suppose I've been thinking about acting seriously since I was about 16. But I can't say it was something that crossed my mind before that.

"I thought it was kind of vanity really. I thought that you would have to think very highly of yourself, and in a way you do, but it's difficult to explain. You have to have a certain confidence."

[psalm40speakstome]

“Hello, I am Kim Bum, the actor who portrayed Lee Rang or rather, lived as Lee Rang in the drama "The Tale of the Nine Tailed" . I am writing this letter on the last day of filming, December 21, 2022. I want to record and convey the emotions I felt on this day. Today, I said goodbye to Lee Rang. It was even .. more heartbreaking than bidding farewell to an older brother (), or perhaps even more so. It was because I was saying goodbye to a dear friend whom I may never see again. Of course, there may be occasions in the future where I will greet others as Lee Rang, such as at press conferences or other events, but I don't know if this was the last time as Lee Rang in the year 38, "The Tale of the Nine Tailed" Instinctively, I knew. When filming ended during Season 1, there was a vague hope that it wasn't the end, but today. .. Something felt different. It felt like the end.

I, as a person, didn' t hold affection for others as much as I did for Lee Rang. I was someone who naively thought I was hurt and lonely, pushing away anyone who approached me. So,I'm not sure why I was drawn to that friend named Lee Rang from the very beginning. I remember every day since that first day when I approached that friend who pushes away people and carries so much pain. But ever since then, every day I lived as Lee Rang, thanks to that friend, I felt the warmth and preciousness of people, and I never felt lonely for a single moment. That's because of all of you who liked and empathized with my friend Lee Rang, and stood by my side as an important connection since Season 1 of "The Tale of the Nine Tailed". You gave me strength. Thank you so much.Thank you for showing me the warmth of humanity. I also tried my best to give you all fun, excitement, and everything I felt throughout these nearly nine months, or rather, from Season 1 until now, without ever letting go of Lee Rang. I hope it was conveyed well.

Personally, I'm not good at expressing myself, but I will make sure to directly convey these feelings to those I can reach. I was happy. I will continue to be happy, cherishing the memories for a long time come.Watching the show, rewatching it, or even when "The Tale of the Nine Tailed" crosses my mind again, it will bring me happiness. I am grateful to everyone who became a part of Lee Rang's journey. Thank you very much.”

Kim Bum Instagram. June 2023 when the final episodes of Tale Of The Nine Tailed 1938 aired.

[jemthebookworm]

Boatem Void Transcript - All Pov

Under the cut is a transcript of every Boatem members pov of them talking in the void for the Hermitcraft Season 8 Finale put together in as a cohesive timeline as I can manage, the Boatem member’s individual povs (as they cut and add different things) are linked below and under the tag #Boatem Void Transcript

Scar - Impulse - Pearl - Grian - Mumbo (no pov) - All (you are here)

Channels: GoodTimesWithScar, impulseSV, PearlescentMoon, Grian, MumboJumbo on Youtube

Videos: Hermitcraft Season 8  Finales of above channels

Timestamp: 23:04-24:50 from Scar’s video, other timestamps are in the transcript

As people add, cut, and sometimes even move clips, this may feel a little disjointed, I tried to make it flow as easily as possible, the order I watched videos in is Scar, Impulse, Pearl, Grian, so the entire transcript is Scar's pov with clips added from Impulse/Pearl/Grian in order, respectively, when they are not found in the previous povs

Format: This will be very messy as I draw lines from all povs and include all lines, the audio and clips appear to have been messed with a few times

[S] = Scar, [I:{time}] = Impulse, [P:{time}] = Pearl, [G:{time}] = Grian, this states what pov I got lines from that were not in Scar’s pov, the timestamp from their videos is indicated after the letter.

If time is not indicated it is continuing from the last stated timestamp, when there are no more [letter], it has reverted back to Scar pov.

Theoretically, if you had paused Scar’s pov, then gone to the indicated timestamp, then returned to Scar’s pov and unpaused, the transcript would be cohesive.

[{Letter} skip] = the stated person has skipped what is in Scar’s pov [not all skips are listed]

[{Letter}->S] = an end to the stated person’s time skip, their skip has returned to the Scar pov timeline

[{Letter} End] When the stated pov ends

[Start Transcript:

Grian: Sooooo, what-what now?

Impulse: where even are we

Mumbo: We Float [Grian laughter]

Pearl: we’re here.

Mumbo: We Just Float

Scar: gotta tell you the Swaggon was a great success, <[I:22:51]Pearl: we exist.> wasn’t it? [All laughter]

Grian: [laughing] I-I guess, I guess we wait

Pearl: [laughing] we’re kinda stuck

Grian: I-I guess we wait

Impulse: we just wait

Grian: Yeah, yeah

[I:22:59] Impulse: til’ everything clears up

Scar: would you guys mind filling out a comment card on how well your experience was in the Swaggon Rocket? [I skip]

Grian: tch, [G:36:07] it was awful

Pearl: we’re in the void and we’re still getting surveys? [Grian laugh]

Mumbo: this definitely isn’t heaven, we can confirm this Definitely isn’t heaven [laughter]

[P:39:18] Pearl: [laughing] Noo

[I:23:05] Impulse: When does the ride end?

[I] Scar: Wow, are all the little blue things like, seasons or worlds that we’ll travel to

[I] Pearl: blue things?

[I] Mumbo: well I’ll say (??)

[I] Scar: See all the little blue worlds floating around

[I] Mumbo: My perspective is All off

[I] Impulse: this is just weird [I skip]

Scar: What do we do if we need to use the restroom?

Grian: Oh I went

Impulse: That’s not built into these spacesuits?

Pearl: Didn’t You make toilets in these spacesuits Scar? [Grian laughter] that’s what we payed you for

Scar: Nah, I cut-I cut costs to be honest with ya [All laughter]

Mumbo: you cut costs!?

Pearl: [laughing] you cut cost with all those diamonds!?

Mumbo: How did you cut costs?

Scar: I-these were-these were dummy suits I used a while back

Mumbo: Oh my Goodness

Pearl: where-where did all the diamonds go

Mumbo: where’s your rocket now?

Pearl: [laughing] what did we pay for Scar?

Mumbo: yeah

Scar: Uh-the color coordinated helmets

[P:39:42] Pearl: Oh

Impulse: well I’d say it’s worth it [I->S]

Grian: Well I guess I’ll uh, I’ll see you later

Scar: Where do you- plan on Going? We’re all- we’re all floating at the same speed

Pearl: where are we going, where are we, Flying To?

Grian: No- [I:23:27] Nowhere, we’re-we’re just waiting

[I] Pearl: hm, just-just here

[I] Mumbo: just waiting

[I] Scar: We just wait?

Grian: We, just-just gotta wait

[I:23:35] Pearl: just gotta wait

Impulse: we just wait, okay

[I] Scar: Forever?

[I] Pearl: okay

[I] Impulse: Here I go waiting. [I End]

[P:40:02] Scar: is there refreshments?

Scar: Mumbo we gotta talk about your Cults, and not having refreshments, how are you supposed to Recruit people to A, scam slash timeshare when you don’t have refreshments [G End]

Mumbo: you didn’t have refreshments on Your rocket and you managed to recruit us, and I recruited the same number of people as you

Scar: you didn’t see the- cake dispenser?

Pearl: we did Not see the cake dispenser

Mumbo: it was all a bit rushed

Scar: [laughing] it was a little but rushed wasn’t it

Mumbo: yeah

Scar: I mean the world was falling apart, I was losing copper every minute [Mumbo laugh]

Pearl: we got no world left [P->S]

Mumbo: Yeah, Grian keeps saying that we’ll wait but I’m currently feeling Wait-Less

Pearl: [laughing] Oh [P:40:09] bringing out the dad jokes [All laughter]

Grian: [laughing] this-this gonna be a long one isn’t it [harder laughter] this one’s gonna be a long one

Pearl: Real long

Impulse: [laughing] are we still gonna be friends when we get to where we’re going

Pearl: [laughing] Oh no

Mumbo: [laughing] depends how long this takes, depends how long we stay here, cause I feel like, the answer will be No, if it’s anything longer than 10 minutes to be honest with you guys

Impulse: I can only take a Certain number of bad jokes Okay! [S End] [All laughter] [P End]

End Transcript]

[sideblog-666-thousand]

A long bitch of an interview with Euronymous, from Orcustus zine in early ‘92.

What is Orcustus? Orcustus was an early 90’s black metal ‘zine run by none other than Bård “Faust*” Eithun— murderous pretty-boy, and o.g Euronymous simp. I think he might have also played drums in a band called Emperor... but I’m not sure! Its full name is actually “Orcustus— The Shadow of The Golden Fire”, and no, I’m not making this up.

This particular issue here opens up with a quote from a short story called ‘The Doom That Came To Thomas Parkes*’.

Assuming the reader hasn’t read the story, Faust explains that the quote is in reference to what happened to the titular ‘Thomas Parkes’ when he tried to raise spirits. Faust then admits that he’s unsure of his own ability to ‘raise spirits’, but says he hopes that he’ll raise some fists in agreement that there’s something wrong with the underground scene. Ironically (you’ll see why this is ironic very soon), he doesn’t like that certain bands, namely Entombed, are selling so many copies of their LPs.

After a brief diatribe on just that, he goes on to explain that he was in a rush to get this mag out because of problems with the printer. Then, he tells anyone who doesn’t like the fact that this ‘zine only features black metal that they can fuck off, with three exclamation points.

Finally, we get to the end of the opening page, where Faust pulls what can only be called an early form of the Twitter exposed thread. It reads as follows, with absolutely no changes to the text:

“I would suggest you to not do any business with that sucker Evil Ludo from France. He have riped me and several others off, by not return what we ordered. I suppose he’s a medical sensation, as I didn’t know it was physical or psychical possible to live without a brain”

Why am I telling you all of this, when this is only meant to be a transcript of an interview with Euronymous, you may be asking? Because I find it funny, that’s why.

Anyhow, the Euronymous here acts and feels very differently from the Euronymous of the last interview I posted. However, I hope you’ll still enjoy it, and I hope you’re able to appreciate the tiny glimpses of humanity talking to a close friend allowed him, even though they both behave like complete asses. Even though it’s hard to sympathize with him at points.

Like last time, any (sparse) commentary will be between (parenthesis) and in bold. Without further ado, let’s get into it.

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F: Well, how in hell shall one be able to come up with an intro worthy enough for this band? The words I wanna describe Mayhem’s music with, is not yet created, and it won’t be created either, because no one has really experienced the real darkness and pure brutality with lays behind Mayhem’s hellish sound, but I suppose you all are familiar with this band anyway. Well, in the first place, I hadn’t really thought to enclose this band in this issue, because if we look away from rereleases of old demos (“Pure Fucking Armageddon”) and live tapes, it’s a pretty long time since their last release (in ‘87 that was). I thought I rather should interview them when they released their forthcoming album “Dee Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”, but due to the circumstances, I realised the time was right for an interview now. I won’t bother you with any history shit, but I could tell a bit about what has happened last year. You all know that their vocalist Dead comited suicude in April ‘91, that was a bigg loss for the underground, and I suppose I don’t need to say that this mag is dedicated to the memory of that infernal man. Anyway, Dead was replaced by Cultòcùlus (back then called Occultus), but due to different problems within the band, he left the band in January ‘92, but let’s not say more about that, as Euronymous didn’t want me to say anything about it at all (but Euronymous, you must admit that it has sounded pretty artificial if I hadn’t mentioned it at all). So now, the band consists of Hellhammer (drums) and Euronymous (guitar (and probably bass too)). I know the singer of Tormentor (rip) from Hungary (Esihar Attila) is interested in singing on the album, and also even moving to Norway, so it seems like Mayhem got some sort of predilection to foreign vocalists, but this Hungarian guy happend to be a good one as well, so never mind that. But I don’t think this is official, so don’t tell anyone you read it here, ok? Well then, it’s an honour for me to dedicate the next following pages to one of today’s most legendary and infamous bands......... THE TRUE MAYHEM!!!!!!!

F: First of all Euronymous, I know you and Dead live/lived totally for the old black metal attitude. Is your hate now total to young and trendy bands after Dead’s suicide?

Euro: YES, we have declared WAR. Dead died because the trend people have destroyed everything from the old black metal/death metal scene, today “death” metal is something normal, accepted and FUNNY (argh) and we HATE it. It used to be spikes, nites, chains, leather and black clothes, and this was the only thing Dead lived for as he hated this world and everything which lives on it. If we had the economic possibility to do it, we should meet up at concerts and beat up ALL trend people ALL the time untill they would be too scared to go to concerts at all, now we need to suck their money instead. It’s impossible to stop the trend no matter how much we want, we have to do the best out of it and sell lots of trend shit to them. (I don’t need to tell you that that’s totally not why Dead killed himself, right?)

F: In the spring of ‘91 you started up a shop in Oslo which sells all sorts of music within metal. Is there anything you can tell us about the shop (ideas? plans?)?

Euro: Well, the original idea was to make a specialist shop for metal in general, but that’s a long time ago. Normal metal isn’t very popular anymore, all the children are listening to “death” metal now, I’d rather be selling Judas Priest than Napalm Death, but at least now we can be specialized within “death” metal and make a shop where all the trend people know that they will find all the trend music, this will help us earning money so that we can order more EVIL records to the evil people. But no matter how shitty music we have to sell, we’ll make a BLACK METAL look on the shop, we’ve had a couple of “actions” in churches lately, and the shop is going to look like a black church in the future. We’ve also thought about having total darkness inside, so that would would have to carry torches to be able to see the records.

F: Well, how is the situation all in all in the Mayhem camp right now?

Euro: Difficult as usual, but we’re closer than ever to record the Mayhem lp. Almost all the material is completed, then I and Hellhammer will record the whole thing with 3 guitars, 2 basses and so on. It will be very massive. Who’s to sing on the lp is not yet decided, we’ll wait and see what happens. We have several people who can do the job very well.

F: As Metalion of Slayer mag* said: “it seems like you at certain times lives on the edge of starvation”. Have you ever been on the thought to just give up the whole band and become a normal 9 to 5 person, or is this a completely stupid question to ask?

Euro: It has been very hard at times, but I am not a normal person anyway so it would just not be possible to do that. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why things are as they are (this answer will be long) (that’s okay for me/Ed). The reason why we don’t have any money, is because of hardcore. We have for too long been following the “underground” rules, which say that you must hate money, you must not think you are anything, you must be open-minded, you might have a lot of attitudes and so on. Extremely stupid. But the situation has been that if you don’t follow these rules which are made by hardcore pigs, you are not accepted as a death metal or black metal band! Then you MUST be signed by some big label to be able to make some money, and we’ve never wanted to do that. Then you would anyway be labelled as “commercial” by the HC pigs. This has caused that after 8 years, we are still as broke as ever, while the HC pigs themselves are controlling all labels, and they sign only the bands which fit into their own idiotic world, that means “death” metal bands with society lyrics and jogging suits, and this is what the people see when they grow up. They don’t see any EVIL bands with spikes, as we did. Well, I’m tired about being broke, just to be “underground”. I’m tired of not having money to eat for just because tons of people will call you a “rip-off” if you don’t write 20 letters each day. It’s time to say fuck off to the whole system, which is built to strangle the evil bands in the birth. We must start taking inspirations from the ancient ones, from Venom and their likes. They did their thing BIG, and they never had to think about any idiotic underground rules. They did it big and so must we, but it must never become a trend, it must become a CULT. This is why we have started on a brand new policy with the band and the record label. It’s about time that someone makes a label for black metal and other grim music, and STRIKE BACK. There is NO reason why DSP shouldn’t be as big as Peaceville or Nuclear Blast, if we can just get the business on its feet again and get good distribution. That’s the only way to compete with the HC labels. It’s about time we start taking control over our own scene. We must spread the EVIL bands and pervert people’s souls.

F: What about the Norwegian scene then? Don’t you think that something is terribly wrong when it have gone so far that we have a christian “death metal” band here (Crush Evil)? Advices on how we should kill them?

Euro: First of all— the Norwegian scene is the BEST. There are a lot of GREAT bands (yet with no album out) and of course some shitty trend bands, but nothing as in Sweden. There you have 2-3 good bands out of 100, while here we have a few shit bands who hardly have made even a demo, while all the great bands will make records in the near future. Such as Darkthrone, Burzum, Immortal, Thorns (I’m flattered/ED*), Arcturus, Enslaved and newer bands like Malfeitor and others which I have not yet heard. BUT— when it comes to bands like Crush Evil, we must take serious action. It’s bad enough to have a couple of society bands, but a CHRISTIAN band is too much. But don’t worry, we have plans. They will not continue for a very long time.

F: And now over to something more humouristic....yes.... snuff movies. Who had been the perfect actor for a snuff movie, and why the hell aren’t they legalized? Don’t you think that every video-store should have its own section with snuff-movies?

Euro: Actually I think it’s great that movies like that are forbidden. If they were legal and easily accessible, all the small trend children would be watching them, and then it would not be something extreme anymore (I’m not sure if I agree with you here Euronymous. Snuff movies are usually too raw and brutal for the people with their “peace and life” infected minds. Remember the HC rules/ED) (shut the fuck up, Faust*) It’s just the same what happened to death metal— it became something everyone could buy in every store, something normal and accessible for everyone. All the mystic and evil atmosphere is GONE. I do not think snuff-movies are funny, I think they are DARK. I’ve seen people laugh at them, but that’s probably because they will not be mentally able to take the PAIN and EVIL on over themselves. That is the best way to watch such a movie, to try to FEEL the actual pain of the victims. It becomes much more gruesome then, and that’s great. One must be alone in the darkness and suffer with the victims, if you watch it with other people, they will often talk, laugh and so on, and then you get more distanced from it, it’s not supposed to be funny (death to fun), it’s much better when it’s depressive.

F: Through the years you have been talking about releasing bands like Samael, Rotting Christ, Master’s Hammer, Tormentor, Matricide, Imperator, Massacre etc. on Deathlike Silence Prod., but now some of these bands have released lp’s on labels which only have money in their eyes and know that black metal sells. Doesn’t that frustrate you, and don’t you feel it like the time is running out for you?

Euro: It’s a bit frustrating, but it is also a result of trying to be “underground” which is a suicide policy. Anyway, the main thing is that these evil records get released at all, and not who’s releasing them. We will probably release a record with Tormentor, they’re split up, but they still want to make their Anno Domini demo on vinyl, and we’ll try to fix it within the summer. The time is not running out, because there are a lot of really evil bands around. — most of the Norwegian bands which other labels haven’t heard about. Burzum is ten times better than all the bands on Earache together, and so are Thorns and Arcturus. So there is no problem, really. As for bands like Rotting Christ and Master’s Hammer, we might do something in the future instead. I’ve never been talking with Samael about any deal, but I wish I had as their album is FUCKING GREAT.

F: Almost all bands in the underground today says that they think they got their own style and originality, but the fact is that 95% of the bands sounds totally the same. What is an original death metal band today?

Euro: There exists no death metal bands today. There are only a handful of (mostly great) bands (in case someone hadn’t got it right— black metal has nothing to do with the music itself, both Blasphemy and Mercyful Fate are black metal. It’s the LYRICS, and they must be SATANIC. If not, it is NOT black metal) and what we choose to call LIFE METAL bands. Take a band like Therion. Their music is quite ok, it’s actually one of the best Swedish bands (even though that doesn’t say much) but their lyrics STINK. They are about society and pollution, what the fuck has that got to do with DEATH? If a band cultivates and worships death, then it’s death metal, no matter what KIND of metal it is. If a band cultivates and worships Satan, it’s black metal. And by saying “cultivates death”, I don’t think about thinking it’s funny, or being into gore, I’m thinking about being able to KILL just because they HATE LIFE. it’s people who enjoy to see wars because a lot of people get killed. How many bands think that way? Not many. I can’t think of one.

F: You’re maybe not the most active band when it comes to gigs, but at least you’ve managed to tour Germany and Turkey. What can you tell us from the tour, and is there any new gigs planed?

Euro: That tour was a big mess, we’ll NEVER take the train again! We lost quite some money, but still it was great to get to East-Germany and Turkey. The memories of the tour consist mostly of the starvation and idiotic custom officers, but still I wouldn’t like to have missed the opportunity. We don’t have any concrete plans, we’ll see happens in the future. We don’t like to play for a lot of trendies in jogging suits, so we prefer to leave it be.

F: What do you think of the fact that death metal has been on MTV?

Euro: It sucks. But it isn’t death metal anyway, so....

F: I know that you will soon release the debut album of Abruptum on DSP, so, what can you tell us about it?

Euro: It’s EVIL. It’s PURE EVIL, they were torturing each other in studio DURING the recording and you can HEAR on the music how they SUFFER. It will be the most demented record EVER, and it’s NOT for normal people. This is music which NEVER can become trendy, because normal people won’t be able to understand it. And that’s great. The price for the album it’ll be the same as for the BURZUM lp, which should be somewhere else in this ‘zine*. It’s called “Obscuriratem Advoco Amplèctere Me”, and stay away from it if you don’t like pure DARKNESS.

F: Don’t you think that people in the underground should respect others ideas and views more? I mean, it’s not accepted to spread unpopular thoughts. It seems like there is some sort of guardians of morality and most people keep in mind not to say or do anything which is not accepted by the public.

Euro: I don’t think people should respect each other. I don’t want to see trend people respecting me, I want them to HATE and FEAR. If people don’t accept our ideas as their own, they can fuck off because then they belong to a musical scene which has NOTHING to do with ours. They could just as well be Madonna fans. There is an ABYSS between us and the rest. Remember— one of the HC rules is that you must be open-minded (except for themselves), so we must be careful and avoid being open-minded ourselves. The HC pigs have correctly made themselves guardians of morality, but we must kick them in the face and become guardians of anti-morality.

F: You say you want your riffs to have a dark mood and really sound evil, but what if you came up with a riff which just sounded good, but not evil. Would you use it then?

Euro: Well, if a riff sounds good to me, it mostly means that it sounds evil too. At least when I make the music myself. Haven’t really thought about this about this before.

F: Do you think you’ve been playing this sort of music today if it weren’t for those old bands like Mercyful Fate, Venom and Hellhammer?

Euro: It’s impossible to say. Venom and the other ancient ones have been fundamental influences on Mayhem, and also the direct reason of the band’s existence. We like to think that if they hadn’t started up this, we would have, but who knows? Doesn’t really matter anyway, we hail ancient Venom as the CREATORS.

F: Ok, no more questions at the moment. End the interview in what way you want......

Euro: Perhaps it should be mentioned that well re-release the MAYHEM mini-lp “Deathcrush” VERY soon. We also have t-shirts available now. People should write for prices on things. Be EVIL, not open-minded.

Ok, I suppose some of you already know that Euronymous started up a shop in Oslo in the spring of ‘91. The shop is called “HELVETE” (which is Norwegian and means “HELL”) and are specialized within underground stuff and death metal in general (though he also have some other styles of music there). As he said in the MAYHEM interview, the shop really have a black metal look, so if you ever visit Oslo, I really recommend you to visit “HELVETE” as well. I think it’s good that people take the initiative to start up with such things, because if everyone were just passive, we would all get ruined by poser-shops like Hot Records where they take 140 NKR for the Earache albums (which you in “HELVETE” can get a CD for the same price). Euronymous also sells though mail, so write and ask for a list or something: HELVETE, Schweigaardsgt. 56, 0656 Oslo. NORWAY.”

That’s all! :)

And now for the things I put in asterisks, in order of their appearances.

*If for some reason you actually don’t know who Faust is, he was the drummer on the Emperor LP and “In The Nightside Eclipse” but you might also know him from other great hits such as “threatening to kill Mortiis from prison whilst simultaneously attempting to plead murder of the secondth degree”, “I’m glad the people Euronymous ripped off won’t get their money back because he’s dead hA hA!”, “I got fourteen years for murder because I’m a socially inept virgin— oops” and “bad... bad lyrics who’s quality somehow don’t improve with the passing of time”. All jokes are done in good humour— if it seems like I dislike him, it’s not that at all. I just find him easy to make fun of.

Here is another short bio, this one less sarcastic: he was born in Trondheim, lived around Kvikne, and Lillehammer, worked at Helvete, was a close friend of Euro’s, and has his sun in Taurus.

He also beefed with Glen Benton for dissing the Party City cape (Note: of course I’m being extremely reductive) he and Euronymous seemed to share. Here are a few pictures of Faust:

Here is the infamous Party City cape:

*This was surprisingly hard to find. I think he read it in a mag or something. Here’s a link to where you can find it: https://issuu.com/davidgamble/docs/paranormal37/3 page 64-65.

*Slayer mag was another zine, this one by a bloke named Metalion, who was Euro’s best friend.

*Faust (who felt the strange need to make a distinction between himself, the editor, and himself, the interviewer) also played in Thorns (well, Stigma Diabolicum), under the hilarious moniker: Fetophagia✨

*He’s being a fucking idiot, what was I supposed to say? It should be noted that Faust actually went down for the snuff films too.....

*In case you’re interested, for whatever reason, the prices for the Burzum LP were as follows:

Norge— 130 NKR

Norden— 100 K

Finland— 60 FN

Island— 1000 IK

Europe— 15$

Outside Europe,

Overseas— 15 $

Air— 22$

East Europe— 10$

By ‘norden’ he presumably meant ‘northern Norway’, and “Island” is the Norwegian word for Iceland. Notice the way he doesn’t include Sweden! (Edit: Originally I thought he didn’t include Finland because there was a black metal war with them as well, but it seems as though that feud came a bit later or had already passed)

That’s all, for real this time!

Legal disclaimer: I am absolutely, in no way shape or form, claiming that the stupid cape you see them wearing is literally from Party City. From my limited research, I’ve gathered that the Party City chain hasn’t yet opened its doors in the beautiful and glorious country we know as Norway— Norge. However, I am saying that the cheap, dinky piece of cloth covering their backs and shoulders are of the same kind of shitty quality you’d expect from a Party City Count Dracula costume and that maybe Glen had a point about how stupid Euronymous (and Faust) must’ve looked.......

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