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| | Mayhem (band) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Though maintaining the usual death metal obsessions in gore and violence, more sinister and nihilistic preoccupations with religion and paganism had emerged, influenced in part by Norse mythology, the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Satanism (though Euronymous opposed the Crowleyan and LaVeyan brands of Satanism, in favour of a Christian perspective). |
 | | An initial release of 1,000 copies Deathcrush quickly sold out, and was later successfully repressed in 1993, by the Posercorpse Music label, since having been renamed Deathlike Silence Productions as a joint venture with Øystein's Oslo specialist record shop Helvete. |
 | | It showed a return to their earlier raw and brutal style, but with considerably better production values than earlier releases. |
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