I wouldn't really consider Mayhem underground but I don't really consider them mainstream either for example if you go up to a random young adult and ask if they have heard of Mayhem they would likely say no but at the same time you can ask a guy from his 40s or 50 he has probably heard of them. We can consider them mainstream for a select demographic of middle age men and damaged teens that are metalheads (holy shit I'm in the demographic!) Euronymous would hate the demographic mayhem has gotten in recent years if he was still alive but I think he would've hated it more if Mayhem went mainstream but dead people can't be picky now can they?
Before I get into the details of this blog let me clear this up
⬇️This Is Euronymous.
Øystein Aarseth
Background Information
Allegations
Mayhem's Glory
Mayhem was Co-Founded in 1986 with Oystein, Jorn, and Kjetil. They named the band after the Venom song Mayhem with Mercy (Venom is a really good band check them out if you haven't already). The original players were Euronymous the Gutairist, alongside Necrobutcher the bass player, and Manheim the drummer and Pianist. Which was Oystein, Jorn, and Kjetil in that order. They released Pure Fu*king Armageddon. Shortly after that Messiah joined and left then Manic joined Mayhem as a vocalist. Then they released Deathcrush in 1987 with both Vocalist on the album. 2 years later in 1988 Manheim and Manic quit and got swapped with Toben and Kittil then shortly after got switched to Hellhammer and Dead. Which stayed the same and they recorded 7 albums that were released from 1990 to 2019 most of them being their live concerts around Europe until 1991. April 8th Dead committed suicide. After that Necrobutcher left because of how Euronymous treated the situation. then briefly Occultus joined as both bass and vocals. then in 1993, Attila came in for vocals and Count Grishnackh came in for bass. They recorded De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas which had material written by Ohlin (Dead) and Jorn. Before it was released on August 10th, 1993 Euronymous was stabbed 23 times to death by bass player Count Grishnackh. they became inactive till 1995.
Euronymous was Oystein's stage name. The name is after the demon with the description of a blue-black skinned corpse eater, was originally from the mythology of the ancient Greeks but was demonized under Christian influence into the demon of cannibalism. He was said to be a member of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Fly and was ranked as a prince of death. Before he was known as Euronymous he was known as Destructor for a short while. Euronymous was the gutairist for Mayhem from 1986 to 1991. Mayhem was founded in 1986. Euronymous wanted Mayhem to be very satanic because that was what black metal was "Black metal is Satanic" Euronymous says in an interview. He also said not many people know what Black metal is. They confuse it with other metal bands. Euronymous also was very heavily against Christianity. He finds "These born-again Christians going around being nice to the whole world. that's extremely annoying." (I found this quote very amusing) This brought many people to believe the Euronymous likely encouraged Varg to burn down the many sacred churches that he did. Euronymous was a leader for the Black metal movment along side Ozzy Ozborn when he was in Black Sabbath, King Dimond, and Cronos in Venom. He had much influnce within the movment he could be linked to many crimes just because of his influnce. He had enough influnce and power he felt he was strong enough to say "I crushed a bottle in the head of a guy which was shaking a lady that was together with me. When his pal came against me it blackened. I don't remember it, but I drove the crushed bottle right in his face." in a interview without repercussions. I belive Eurnymous was a poser though. I dont believe that story is true. I believe most things said about him or what hes said are not true.
Helvete/Neseblod Records

Deathlike Silence Productions
Oystein's Death
Oystein died at the young age of 25 at the hands of Varg also known as Count Grishnackhs. Because supposedly Oystein said things such as "Varg really has to die" and Varg says Oystein said that he was going to knock out Varg with a Taser gun like security guards have, take him out to the woods, torture him to death, and make a snuff film out of it. Do I believe that's true? No. Euronymous was probably a coward and a poser he wouldn't do his own dirty work. Varg says he took it serous because he wasn't public with that idea. Yet people knew? There is something wrong there but Varg said he did tell a select group of people and one of them told him. Because Buzum is under Deathlike Silence Oysteins label he had contact with Varg and sent him a contract for something with Vargs music Oystein wanted him to sign it in person so Varg thought that's how he was going to kill him so once he got it he immediately headed with Blackthrone a Mayhem gutairist to Oslo where Oystein lived. once he got there it was 3am or 4am so naturally Oystein was sleeping and woke up to Varg buzzing him to let him in. Once he got there Varg said the following happened He opened the door frightened at Varg's aggression and kicked him in the chest then Varg threw Oystein to the ground stunned not thinking Oystein would attack him like that after a couple seconds Oystein got up to go to the kitchen to get a knife and "luckily" for varg he had a small pocket knife on him and thought if Oystein has a knife he will too. But before Oystein could grab his knife Varg stopped him by blocking the path to the kitchen. After being blocked from the kitchen Oystein ran to the bedroom where supposably he kept the shotgun Ohlin shot himself with was held as well as the supposed taser pistol which was confirmed not to be there at a later date. But Varg did believe he had them at the time so he followed Oystein but instead of going into his bedroom, Oystein tried to exit the building. As he was on the stairs Varg followed him and stopped him and Blackthrone was there as well. Oystein apparently broke a lamp and was on the floor "swimming" in the glass shards in only undergarments which poked into him making it a very bloody scene. After Darkthrone saw this scene and ran off with Vargs car keys as Varg was covered in blood supposably Oystein got up again to attack him and Varg "finished him Oystein off" by stabbing him in the skull. I do not believe that is the true story. but if I could get on a call with him I would love to talk to him about this story or even better if I could get on a call with Necrobutcher and ask him about his plans to kill Oystein. I guess Oystein just had bad blood with Bass.
