{"id":2448374,"date":"2019-09-05T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880002"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:45:27","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-mayhem-worthless-abominations-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-mayhem-worthless-abominations-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Mayhem, \u2018Worthless Abominations Destroyed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you listen to \u201cWorthless Abominations Destroyed,\u201d the new \u201csingle\u201d from Mayhem<\/a>\u2019s forthcoming album Daemon,<\/em> you\u2019re supposed to feel what Teloch, the band\u2019s guitarist and songwriter for this cheery ray of sunshine, calls an \u201call is lost and hopeless\u201d feeling. That\u2019s considered a virtue in black metal<\/a>, the extremely extreme subgenre the Norwegian group helped resuscitate in the early Nineties. Their breakthrough LP, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas<\/em><\/a> \u2014 released after their bassist murdered their guitarist \u2014 felt especially gloomy (there was \u201cnone more bleak,\u201d to pun off a line in Spinal Tap<\/em>), and the group has been attempting to tap back into that feeling ever since.<\/p>\n

Recent years have found Mayhem going fully avant-garde, recording the sort of wild, chaotic soundscapes Diamanda Gal\u00e1s might make if she were a maximalist, but \u201cWorthless Abominations Destroyed\u201d is a bit more traditional, save for some experimental touches by frontman Attila Csihar. He whispers, he hums low throat-singing drones, and he sings with operatic bombast. Meanwhile, Teloch, who also plays guitar, leads the group in undulating riffs that heave with the sound of skull-rattling drums and one notable bomb blast. It all dovetails into his apocalyptic vision, which Csihar sings terrifyingly: \u201cPreparing for war\/Against the gods\/Ultimate blasphemy\/Captured and imprisoned.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song evokes a feeling that goes back to heavy metal\u2019s roots. When Black Sabbath took their name from a Boris Karloff movie, it\u2019s because they were scared shitless by the horror of it and they thought other people would want to feel that way, too. In 2019, it\u2019s a lot harder to shock and frighten people. But if you immerse yourself in Mayhem\u2019s dark mood, if you suspend your disbelief and give into Teloch\u2019s \u201call is lost and hopeless\u201d world outlook, you might feel a sense of excitement you forgot long ago.<\/p>\n

Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on Spotify<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you listen to \u201cWorthless Abominations Destroyed,\u201d the new \u201csingle\u201d from Mayhem\u2019s forthcoming album Daemon, you\u2019re supposed to feel what Teloch, the band\u2019s guitarist and songwriter for this cheery ray of sunshine, calls an \u201call is lost and hopeless\u201d feeling. That\u2019s considered a virtue in black metal, the extremely extreme subgenre the Norwegian group helped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 08:56:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}