Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (CD)

Songwriting for this album began in 1987, but due to the suicide of vocalist [a4234927] ("Dead") and the murder of guitarist [a1572290] ("Euronymous"), the release was delayed until May 1994.
This is the band's only studio album to feature Euronymous and [a354942] ("Count Grishnackh").

Vocalist Dead started to write the lyrics when he joined the band in 1988.
In 1990 studio versions of the songs "The Freezing Moon" and "Carnage" were recorded, appearing on the CBR Records compilation album Projections of a Stained Mind

Drummer, [a661936] "Hellhammer", claimed that the lyrics of "Freezing Moon" were "meant to make people commit suicide".
Dead said in a 1989 interview by [a263791] guitarist [a595516] ("Evil"), published in Slayer fanzine, that by then he had written the lyrics for "Funeral Fog", "Freezing Moon", "Buried by Time and Dust" and "Pagan Fears"

Finished versions of these songs appeared on the album [m6101], a concert recording from November 1990 which was release