Photo by Peter Beste, cover design by Rockwell & SWTC
Back when I started this weekly blog at the beginning of the year, I wanted to interview Darkthrone’s Fenriz. The reasons are pretty obvious, but he declined stating a rigorous interviewing schedule that had just finished. I was a little bummed out but we kept in contact and he would tip me off on so many bands I would never have heard of without his vast knowledge of music. Anyway, I then tried to get him to DJ to no avail. When I heard the Actual Pain mixtape I was naturally lost for words and asked him if there was any possibility he could do one for Vice. No problem, he said. He would love to. And here it is. Intro from the man himself (including all capitals) below.
I started the comp by thinking of some acts that should definitely be on there. Then I mulled it over for a week. I then sat down to structure it, and I had several darlings to kill and new ones to include. I am not making a ONE STYLE comp here, like ‘occult thrash’ or something. I chose numbers mostly from bands that are/were old and rough and soulfully sounding, but thrash is one of the most intense genres, so it sort of HAS TO be varied WHEN I MAKE 78+ minutes here! I was thinking of dropping three of the songs to make it more like a hit parade, but one needs some ups and downs in life, ha ha. Better to leave the mix untampered with. So it is sort of a whole labyrinth of songs, a world to get lost in. I also start with two tracks that have a really underground sound, so I will lose all posers that try to listen to the mix.
TRACK LISTING:
01. Necrovore (USA) ‘Mutilated Death’ (1987)
02. Mental Decay (Denmark) ‘Eat the Posers Guts’ (1987)
03. Pentagram (Chile) ‘Profaner’ (1987)
04. Necrodeath (Italy) ‘Agony/Flag of the Inverted Cross’ (1987)
05. Morbid (Sweden) ‘Wings of Funeral’ (1987)
06. Poison (Germany) ‘Yog-Sothoth’ (1987)
07. Devastation (USA) ‘Devastation’ (1987)
08. Merciless (Sweden) ‘The Awakening’ (1989)
09. Minotaur (Germany) ‘Fall of the Gods’ (1988)
10. Mutilated (France) ‘Funerarium’ (1988)
11. Deathhammer (Norway) ‘Toxic Radiation’ (2008)
12. Obliveon (Canada) ‘Whimsical Uproar’ (1987)
13. Obscurity (Sweden) ‘Demented’ (1987)
14. Morbid Saint (USA) ‘Beyond the Gates of Hell’ (1988)
15. Vulcano (Brazil) ‘Guerreiros de Sata’ (2003)
16. Whiplash (USA) ‘The Burning of Atlanta’ (1985)
17. Infernö (Norway) ‘Thrash Metal Dogs of Hell’ (2004)
18. Aura Noir (Norway) Iron Night/Torment Storm’ (2008)
Listen: Trapped Under Vice Vol. I
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Thanks again to Fenriz for everything, and also to Peter Beste for allowing me to butcher his fine photography for the cover. If you would like to download the mix please click here.
July 10th, 2009 @ 09:21
Reader Comments
July 10th, 2009
10:14 am
Nice one. Great drinking music. Haven’t heard Necrodeath since I grew pubes. No songs from the DT’s Cromlech demo? - Guess he’s just very modest…..
July 10th, 2009
12:34 pm
this is a badass mix hails the mighty fenriz!!!!!
July 10th, 2009
1:24 pm
Simply the true black desire
July 10th, 2009
2:46 pm
track 10, Mutilated from France, anything to do with Mutilation from France? And Morbid, Dead’s old band, right? They were always Bad-Ass. Be nice to see Razor on here, but a very good mix either way. Kudos to Fenriz
July 10th, 2009
3:42 pm
Nah, diffrenent band/genre completely. However, watch his space for a little something on Mutiilation/Les Legions Noires real soon. Morbid features Dead on vox, correct
ROCKY
July 10th, 2009
3:55 pm
Hrm. Downloading is a no-go. Mediafire seems to be under the impression that the file is set to private. Would definitely appreciate a download of such a killer comp. Cheers, PZ
July 10th, 2009
5:11 pm
FUCKING MORBID SAINT!! THEY RULE!
July 10th, 2009
5:23 pm
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July 10th, 2009
6:04 pm
compilado de heavy metal brazileño —> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZLJIZCJ9
July 10th, 2009
6:35 pm
Hope to see many more volumes in this series! Fuckin’ hail! \nn/,
July 10th, 2009
6:58 pm
I’d very much appreciate it if the download link could be fixed, please.
July 11th, 2009
2:06 am
for anyone having trouble downloading it… i clicked the link and at first it said the file was set to private then just waited 5 minutes and the link worked.
July 11th, 2009
4:10 am
[...] Die Schwarzen Seelen von Darkthrone, besser gesagt Fenriz höchstpersönlich, hat sich die Mühe gemacht und einen Sampler zusammengestellt, der sich zum größten Teil mit Thrash Musik beschäftigt, doch dem nicht genug das gute Stück kann man sich auch noch gratis runterladen und zwar HIER. [...]
July 11th, 2009
6:13 am
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July 11th, 2009
10:05 pm
The world needs more Fenriz! Hail Fenriz.
July 12th, 2009
2:48 am
The link doesn’t work because I have no access, says the download website. So I can’t download fucking shit!
But it’s compilation.. Hail to Fenriz!
July 13th, 2009
5:01 am
I think much of this stuff is early death metal - an intense selection. This is real music.
July 13th, 2009
11:47 am
link isn’t working
July 13th, 2009
3:39 pm
‘Pentagram’, jeez bet that took a minute to think up you underproduced *goths*… where’s yr homeboyz fuckin TNT??? eh?
July 13th, 2009
3:41 pm
hehehe it is now, dumbass
July 14th, 2009
4:31 am
[...] were discovering the praise of death and invocation of satanic forces, one could do worse than listen to this old school death metal compilation created by Fenriz for Vice Magazine - it’s in fact a good supplement to our article on the development of Norwegian death metal, [...]
July 15th, 2009
4:07 am
Great mix and nice to see that Mental decay got the chance to scare people off hehe ;)
July 15th, 2009
1:55 pm
This is excellent.
Only by tracing metal through its roots can we make any sense of it. Really liked the Vulcano interview too!
July 17th, 2009
7:01 am
Fenriz does it again - this thing is even more killer than the ‘Old Skool Black Metal’ comp.
After you adjust to the necro-production this tape becomes a Riffs-R-Us in extremis.
Album of the year! No, but fuck yeah!
July 17th, 2009
9:42 am
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July 22nd, 2009
9:53 am
FUCK YOU VICE. FUCK YOU.
July 22nd, 2009
11:48 am
Has anyone been able to download this off the mediafire link? I can’t.
July 23rd, 2009
7:53 am
I don’t know why anyone is having trouble downloading, I’ve just checked it now and it has had 1749 downloads so keep trying!
Oh and Richard, go fuck yourself
August 8th, 2009
2:37 am
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August 12th, 2009
3:10 pm
That the Nathan Barley edited shit fest of a magazine now has especially produced “mix tapes” by Fenriz, I am forced to burn all my Norse Black Metal albums.
Fuck Vice, fashion, cocaine and trend whores that use the term “gay” to mean “shit”. My urine is too good for any of you and splashes solely on my girl’s swastika taped breasts. Skum.
August 18th, 2009
8:55 am
pentagram are gods…
October 16th, 2009
10:39 am
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October 22nd, 2009
4:31 am
oh great, another way for brooklyn assholes to feel underground. man, i really really hate vice. metal is over. a bunch of hipsters who think Sunn0)) is where doom starts can now listen exclusively to this stuff without any other outside knowledge… solely what vice feeds them.
failure!