However, these covers are completely forgettable. My CD also comes with bonus tracks, which are Celtic Frost and Venom covers. Not that the songs are terrible, but if I was gonna hear Dead sing, I'd probably go for the more clearer "Studio Tracks" demo or the superior "Live in Leipzig" album. I would've loved to see the band go for a slightly different sound like in other live albums, but they took a lazy approach and didn't offer anything new in this album. Not to mention that they sound similar to their other projects like the "Deathcrush" EP. But as I've stated before, the quality of this bootleg is garbage, so the songs are all a distorted mess. Yes, it's cool to hear Dead sing the ghostly, epic song of "Freezing Moon" and the lyrically gruesome song "Chainsaw Gutsfuck". The songs themselves also sound a bit bland. If the bootleggers had taken the time to at least remix the audio to make it more clearer, then it would probably be a lot better. The drums just barely keep up with the more fast-paced songs like "Necrolust", and the bass is virtually non-existent. Dead's vocals are barely audible, and are sometimes drowned out from the loud guitar. Even then, this bootleg is extremely distorted. I've listened to plenty of black metal demos and bootlegs to know that the quality isn't gonna be the best. One of the major drawbacks of this LP is the production. While it's definitely not the worst live album Mayhem released (I'm looking at you, "Live in Zeitz"), at the same time, it's nothing I would want to get excited about. I decided to go out my way to buy the CD and listen to it myself to see if there's any musical value in it. However, when I ask them if they even listened to the album, they admit they haven't. Whenever I discuss the album to my friends, they'd all say that it was awesome simply for the album cover. While most of the photos were destroyed, one somehow managed to survive and eventually became the cover for this album. He later got the photos processed and sent them out to his friends to show off how dark and edgy they were. Euronymous came across his body and then proceeds to buy a disposable camera from a convenient store, returns to the house, and then takes pictures of his body.
But for those who don't know, here's a summary: The band's vocalist Pelle "Dead" Ohlin decided to live up to his name by killing himself with a knife and a shotgun. If you know anything about Mayhem, you'd know how this bootleg album came to exist.
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