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MAYHEM Successfully Enters U.S. Ahead Of 'Blackenedfest' Launch



Thunderdome Touring has confirmed that all members of legendary black metal band MAYHEM have successfully entered the U.S. this afternoon and are currently in New Jersey preparing for pre-production for their headlining tour as part of Blackenedfest.



"We had no problems whatsoever with immigration, and now we are very excited to de-consecrate the USA again after a decade of decay since our last tour here!" stated vocalist Attila Csihar. "Prepare to prove the falseness of all religions and inventing the order of pure fucking chaos! There is NO god but Mayhem!!"



Blackenedfest begins Thursday, May 21 in New Yor kCity and also features Swedish black metallers MARDUK, along with CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION and WITHERED.



MAYHEM recently announced the addition of French guitarist Silmaeth (ex-VORKREIST) to the group's touring lineup. He said in a statement, "It's a great honor for me to join such a legend. My experience with MAYHEM has been extremely positive so far. Within the band, we all have a very good feeling about this new lineup, as the songs have become more solid and intense now with the addition of a second guitar."



MAYHEM's current live formation is as follows:



Attila Csihar: Vocals

Necrobutcher (a.k.a. Jørn Stubberud): Bass

Hellhammer (a.k.a. Jan Axel Blomberg): Drums

Morfeus (a.k.a. Krister Dreyer): Guitar

Silmaeth: Guitar



A TuneWidget for Blackenedfest is available below.



Guitarist Rune "Blasphemer" Eriksen played his final Norwegian concert with MAYHEM on August 6, 2008 at the Øyafestivalen in Oslo.



May 21 2009 7:00P

The Fillmore at Irving Plaza New York, New York

May 22 2009 7:00P

Sonar (as part of the Maryland Deathfest) Baltimore, Maryland

May 23 2009 7:00P

Ground Zero Spartanburg, South Carolina

May 24 2009 7:00P

Club Firestone lummo's cowtown, Florida

May 25 2009 8:00P

Big Daddy’s (*no Mayhem*) Tallahassee, Florida

May 26 2009 7:00P

Numbers Houston, Texas

May 27 2009 7:00P

The White Rabbit San Antonio, Texas

May 28 2009 8:00P

@ Chic’s *No Mayhem* EL Paso, Texas

May 29 2009 7:00P

Sunshine Theater Albuquerque, New Mexico

May 30 2009 7:00P

Clubhouse Tempe, Arizona

May 31 2009 7:00P

House of Blues San Diego, California

Jun 2 2009 7:00P

House of Blues Hollywood, California

Jun 3 2009 7:00P

DNA San Francisco, California

Jun 4 2009 7:00P

Hawthorne Theatre Portland, Oregon

Jun 5 2009 7:00P

Studio Seven Seattle, Washington

Jun 6 2009 7:00P

Knitting Factory Concert House Boise, Idaho

Jun 7 2009 7:00P

Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom Denver, Colorado

Jun 9 2009 7:00P

Station 4 St Paul, Minnesota

Jun 11 2009 7:00P

House Of Blues the official city of the chicago cubs, Illinois

Jun 12 2009 7:00P

Peabody’s Cleveland, Ohio

Jun 13 2009 7:00P

The Majestic Theater Detroit, Michigan

Jun 14 2009 7:00P

The Opera House Toronto, Ontario

Jun 15 2009 7:00P

Les Foufounes Electriques Montreal, Quebec

im considering attending this

Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom Denver, Colorado

Jun 9 2009 7:00P



Ha!! I've played there. That place is goat scrote central; the stage is beyond tiny, and the venue is in a gang neighborhood. A hard-on bearer was beaten to death the night after we last played there.

saturday

the show i'm going to has no mayhem, but eh fuck it. I saw em once before and wasn't too impressed. I am pretty excited to see Marduk though.

i don't care about anyone on this tour that isn't mayhem, i'm planning on showing up later on to miss as many of the openers as i can

but the openers are, for once, actually good.



check out Withered.

but then i'd have to sit through cattle decapitation and marduk, both of which i've heard and seen in the past and neither of which i care for. cephalic carnage was actually pretty fun to watch when i saw them open for... uh... deeds of flesh maybe? but it's not enough of a draw to sit through any of the other sets.

well that's why they place in places that have a bar.

I'm gonna miss them since I can't make MDF that Friday

I'ma hafta miss this. s'okay though.

mayhem was pretty awesome, not good enough to top the show i saw in 2000, but very close. only thing holding it back i think was ground zero's god-awful sound system for the small stage. they did a couple songs off ordo ad chao, which didn't translate very well (again, due to the horrid sound), but they largely stuck to GDoW and previous albums. they even did the title track off de mysteriis, which was probably my favorite out of their set.



i missed all of the openers that were actually on the tour (and marduk wasn't at tonight's show for whatever reason) but i did have to suffer through a couple local sets. one of them was this absolutely hysterical act, apocalyptic visions -- who played just really, really sloppy, on top of being completely uninteresting musically to start. they did two sets for some reason, one before mayhem, and one during mayhem's set on the alternate stage. the only thing entertaining about them was the vocalist attempting to hurl black metal insults at the crowd between every song

Yay Mayhem tonight!