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Mayhem discography

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{{Infobox artist discography

| Artist = Mayhem

| Image = Mayhem by Christian Misje.jpg

| Caption = Mayhem performing at Hole in the Sky, Bergen Metal Fest 2007

| Studio = 6

| Live = 5

| EP = 4

| Singles = 2

| Compilation = 3

| Video = 4

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This is a comprehensive discography of Mayhem, a black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway. Mayhem has released six studio albums, five live albums, two EPs, five demos and singles, three compilation albums and four video albums.

Studio albums

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scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |NOR
{{cite web|url=http://norwegiancharts.com/search.asp?search=Mayhem&cat=a |title=norwegiancharts.com - Norwegian charts portal |author=Steffen Hung |publisher=norwegiancharts.com |accessdate=15 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102124706/http://norwegiancharts.com/search.asp?search=Mayhem&cat=a |archivedate=2 November 2012 }}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |AUT
{{cite web|url=https://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mayhem|title=Discographie Mayhem|website=austriancharts.at|accessdate=21 November 2019}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |FIN
{{cite web|url=http://finnishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&artist=Mayhem&artist_search=starts&title=&title_search=starts|title=finnishcharts.com - Finnish charts portal|author=Steffen Hung|publisher=finnishcharts.com|accessdate=15 May 2016}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |SWE
{{cite web|url=http://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?search=mayhem&cat=a|title=swedishcharts.com - Swedish Charts Portal|author=Steffen Hung|publisher=swedishcharts.com|accessdate=15 May 2016}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |SWI
{{cite web|url=https://hitparade.ch/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mayhem|title=Discographie Mayhem|website=hitparade.ch|accessdate=21 November 2019}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |US Heat.
{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mayhem/chart-history/tln/|title=Mayhem Chart History: Heatseekers Albums|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=21 November 2019}}

scope="row" |De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

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  • Released: 24 May 1994
  • Label: Deathlike Silence, Century Black
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, digital download{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/de-mysteriis-dom-sathanas/id296084422|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223010139/http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/de-mysteriis-dom-sathanas/id296084422|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 February 2011|title=De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem on iTunes|date=24 May 1994 |publisher=iTunes|access-date=15 May 2016}}

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scope="row" |Grand Declaration of War

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  • Released: 27 March 2000
  • Label: Season of Mist, Necropolis Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, digital download{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/grand-declaration-of-war/591231236|title=Grand Declaration of War by Mayhem on iTunes|date=January 2000 |publisher=iTunes|access-date=15 May 2016}}

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scope="row" |Chimera

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  • Released: 17 January 2004
  • Label: Season of Mist
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, digital download{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/chimera/583648461|title=Chimera by Mayhem on iTunes|date=January 2004 |publisher=iTunes|access-date=15 May 2016}}

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scope="row" |Ordo Ad Chao

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  • Released: 16 April 2007
  • Label: Season of Mist
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, digital download{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/ordo-ad-chao/583578050|title=Ordo Ad Chao by Mayhem on iTunes|date=January 2007 |publisher=iTunes|access-date=15 May 2016}}

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scope="row" |Esoteric Warfare

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  • Released: 6 June 2014
  • Label: Season of Mist
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, digital download{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/esoteric-warfare/879711876|title=Esoteric Warfare by Mayhem on iTunes|website=iTunes|date=10 June 2014 |access-date=15 May 2016}}

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  • US: 1,900+{{cite web|url=http://www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-618-can-we-get-a-hellyeah|title=Metal By Numbers 6/18: Can we get a Hellyeah? {{pipe}} Metal Insider|date=18 June 2014 |publisher=metalinsider.net|accessdate=15 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-79-you-cant-fight-the-seether|title=Metal By Numbers 7/9: You can't fight the Seether {{pipe}} Metal Insider|date=9 July 2014 |publisher=metalinsider.net|accessdate=15 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-72-once-more-round-the-charts|title=Metal By Numbers 7/2: Once more 'round the charts {{pipe}} Metal Insider|date=2 July 2014|publisher=metalinsider.net|accessdate=15 May 2016}}
scope="row" |Daemon

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  • Released: 25 October 2019
  • Label: Century Media
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming

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{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifpi.fi/lista/albumit/2019/46/|title=Suomen Virallinen Lista}}

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colspan="10" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums<!--'Mediolanum Capta Est' redirects here-->

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1993

| style="text-align:center;" |Live in Leipzig

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  • Recorded: 1990
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Obscure Plasma Records, Avantgarde Records
1995

|style="text-align:center;" |The Dawn of the Black Hearts

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  • Recorded: 28 February 1990
  • Released: 17 February 1995
  • Label: Warmaster Records
  • Bootleg release
1999

|style="text-align:center;" |Mediolanum Capta Est

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  • Released: 7 December 1999
  • Label: Avant Garde
2001

|style="text-align:center;" |Live in Marseille 2000

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  • Released: 16 June 2001
  • Label: Black Metal Records
2016

|style="text-align:center;" |Live in Zeitz

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  • Recorded: 1990
  • Released: 16 September 2016
  • Label: Peaceville
2016

|style="text-align:center;" |De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive

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  • Released: 13 December 2016
  • Label: Mayhem Self-released
2017

|style="text-align:center;" |Live in Jessheim

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  • Recorded: 1990
  • Released: 3 November 2017
  • Label: Peaceville
2019

|style="text-align:center;" |Live in Sarpsborg

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  • Recorded: 1990
  • Released: 29 March 2019
  • Label: Peaceville
2023

|style="text-align:center;" |Daemonic Rites

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  • Recorded:
  • Released: 15 September 2023
  • Label: Century Media Records

EPs

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!Year

! Title

!Details

1987

|style="text-align:center;" |Deathcrush

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  • Released: August 1987
  • Label: Posercorpse (1000 copies), Deathlike Silence (1993 reissue)
1997

| style="text-align:center;" |Wolf's Lair Abyss

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  • Released: 12 November 1997
  • Label: Misanthropy Records
2008

| style="text-align:center;" |Life Eternal

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  • Released: 20 October 2008[https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Mayhem/Life_Eternal/223993]
  • Label: Saturnus Production
2021

| style="text-align:center;" |Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando

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  • Released: 9 July 2021
  • Label: Century Media

Demos and singles

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Year

! Title

! Notes

1986

| style="text-align:center;" |Pure Fucking Armageddon

| Instrumental recording. According to original drummer Manheim, Necrobutcher performed vocals during rehearsals{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mayhem/67|title=Mayhem - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives|publisher=metal-archives.com|accessdate=15 May 2016}}

1987

| style="text-align:center;" |Deathrehearsal

| Recorded between 17 and 18 January 1987. It is the first Mayhem release to feature Maniac as official vocalist{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Mayhem/Deathrehearsal/63610|title=Mayhem - Deathrehearsal - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives|publisher=metal-archives.com|accessdate=15 May 2016}}

1992

|style="text-align:center;" |From The Darkest Past (Unofficial release)

|Instrumental rehearsal featuring Euronymous, Varg, and Hellhammer

1996

| style="text-align:center;" |Out from the Dark

| Recorded in 1989

1996

|style="text-align:center;" |Freezing Moon/Carnage

| Recorded 29 April 1990. Only studio-quality Mayhem recording to feature Dead as vocalist

1997

| style="text-align:center;" |Ancient Skin/Necrolust

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2009

|style="text-align:center;" |Life Eternal

|Demo versions of songs from De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

2014

|style="text-align:center;" |Psywar{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mayhem-to-release-psywar-single-in-april-full-length-album-to-follow-in-may/|title=Mayhem To Release 'Psywar' Single In April; Full Length Album To Follow In May - Blabbermouth.net|date=18 February 2014|publisher=blabbermouth.net|accessdate=15 May 2016}}

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2019

|style="text-align:center;" |Black Glass Communion [https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Mayhem/Black_Glass_Communion/946621]

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2021

|style="text-align:center;" |Voces Ab Alta [https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Mayhem/Voces_ab_Alta/952644]

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;Rarities

  • War and Sodomy: track incorporated later into Ye Entrancemperium by Emperor.
  • Visual Aggression: cover of Celtic Frost
  • Anno Vampyr
  • Into the Lifeless: bonus track on Japanese edition of Esoteric Warfare, originally from the Budapest Sessions (a scrapped album)
  • From Beyond the Event Horizon: also taken from the Budapest Sessions. It is the B-side on the 2014 Psywar single.

Compilation albums

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Year

!Title

!Notes

2001

|style="text-align:center;" |European Legions

|Live songs and outtakes from Grand Declaration of War

Box sets

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Year

!Title

!Notes

2002

|style="text-align:center;" |The Studio Experience

|Vinyl collection; contains all previous albums

2018

|A Season In Blasphemy 2018

|Vinyl collection;

contains all remixed and remastered songs

Videography

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Year

! Title

! Notes

1988

|Rehearsal 1988

| It is the only Mayhem recording where the faces of Dead and Euronymous are clearly visible.

1990

|Live In Jessheim 1990

|Released with Cursed In Eternity Box Set by Peaceville the entire video of the concert.

1990

|Live In Sarpsborg 1990

|A video released by Peaceville with a new video of the concert.

1998

|Live In Bischofswerda

|Recorded in June 1997. It is the first concert since the Izmir one in December 1990.

2001

|Live In Marseille 2000

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2002

|Mayhem – Cult of Aggression

|Norwegian/Swedish documentary by Stefan Rydehed

2008

|Pure Fucking Mayhem

|English documentary by Stefan Rydehed

References

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External links

  • [http://www.thetruemayhem.com/ Mayhem's official website]
  • [https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mayhem/67]

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