MAYHEM – Ordo ad Chao

Ordo ad Chao was recorded 2006 in MOLLA STUDIO except the second part of“A wise birthgiver“wich was recorded at MYHOME – YOURTOMB STUDIOS,mastered by Gyikful with Attila at VAASTUDIO Europe and finnaly released at 2007 In EUROPE.

It is also the return of Atilla Csihar since the days of „De mysteriis dom Sathanas“.All lyrics where made by Attila except „Anti“wich was made by Atilla & Blasphemer.The metal slipcase is limited to 3000 copies(I’m proud member of one of them!!!!heheheeh),there is also a release by „season of mist“of 1000 vynil copies in orange & 500 in marble both includes a poster.

I also have to say that Maniac was forced to leave the band.

This record has 8 tracks:

1.A wise birthgiver:Well this is kind a intro song,the constant repeating of the guitar riffs in diferent sound lines is a bit weired.The lyrics are very hardly to understand but they speak about how the birthgiver gives live and how about he becomes wise.The tubes where handled by Mr.Knut Valle.It is 3,30min long.He is the one who gives birth to the water,start of every life form.

2.Wall of water:So this is the first song of this record.It has a short intro of 42sec.It continues with lots of anger and hate for humanity,the song tempo slows down at 2,17min and it became very weired until min 3,54 reaches where all the shapless things starts to become a great song,that talks about the hate of the nature to humanity.

I think it is also talking of the unlimited power of water taht can create(like everybody knows)and destroy at his own will. Its play time is 4,40min.

3.Great work of ages:So there is also a kind of a intro thath stops at sec 0,22 with an incredible silence(remember that silence os also a musical note)just to break it at min 0,30 with an incredible fast tempo that makes you insane until min 0,59 where it slows down and Attila begins with te lirycs in a kind of whispering tone,on min 2,03 the song regains on speed and anger,also the lyrics are easier to listen to.It will keep the same line until the en of the song.

I thing the meaning of the song is to look the title in an ironic way,its more about all the mess that humanity has done till all ages(look at the great work of ages of humanity).This song is 3,52min long.

4.Deconsecrate:This song starts with a scream full of anger(even if some of you think that its just a sensless scream there is a lyric to listen),until sec 0,35 its hard to understand the lyrics but then it changes to a more comprehensible sound,on min o,59 attila changes his voice to a more clean type,on min 2,00 the song regains strenght and speed,until min 3,18 not really significative changes happen at this moment the song slows down and it sound like there is a hammer,to regain its speed on min 3,30,well the guitar dont make any change until end its kind anoying because it sound like a bee.This song is 4,07 min long.

This song is about how humanity drives into a death status of their own mind,needing of someone to tell them what has to be done,deconsecrating their own minds into a hole lot of nothing

5.Illuminate/Eliminate:This I think,is one of the darkest songs I have ever listen too,you have to listen to it at a considerable volume to hear all of the weired thing that they have put into this song,this a song that fot myself represents the true feeling of black metal.Well there is no real change until min 3,34 is reached there is where the guittar changes,and at min 4,11 begins the massacre with an incredible speed in hellhamers feet,in min 5,27 comes the calm down until min 6,55 is reached there is no great intervention of the guitar,where begins a slow riff like the one of the begining just to finish with a fast riff from 8,26 until end.

Well the lyirics of this song are meaning the way that a man gets illuminated with a false knowledge and when he discovers all the lies he just fucks up everything until he reaches nothingness in his mind.

6.Psychic horns:It starts very slowly and gains in speed and in min 1′39 it becomes a very fast drum and you can also hear the tubes to calm down a slow moment at min 2,06 and regain speed at 2,14 and keeps on til min 3,06 where Attila starts with a very gutural voice and the guitars make a slow riff to restart the power of hellhammers drums at min 3,47 there you can also hear the clasical Mayhem riffs that are alwayas holding all the notes reaching the last minute its always an up and down with the drums speed just to finish with a final assault to finish(its like its going to explode).This song is 6,32min long.

This song is the travel of the mind through the unlimited corners of our mind to reach a own conclusion,wich is very hard to find and only the ones that investigate about themselfs will find out.

7.Key to the storms: this is the kind of songs that have their own strenght,it is a song with a hard structure.Its full with anger and self exploration you can hear it when you reach min 2,28,by hearing the insane screams and laughts sounds like that the person Attila is interpreting has reached a conclusion that drove him mad.At min 3,33 there is a slow down until it reaches silence to begin at 3,39 to destroy all life form with pure black metal art.This song is 3,52 min long.

The lyrics are about the search for the meaning of existence(key to the storms)and how this search drives him to the solution but the prize of this knowledge is madness.

8.Anti:This is the most powerfull song of this record,it is an old style black metal song full of hate .It flows in a continuous tempo until min 3,00 where a sudden silence comforthwhere Attila makes gutural through a short time while,a military style,drum hits the back of the song just until it reaches the end.This sog is 4,42 min long.

This song is all about the fall of all sources of life to reach the pure nothingness.Anti everything!!

The artwork was made bywhere done by Kim Solve & Trine Paulsen(www.trineogkim.no).

Well I think this is one of their best albums if not the best.It has such a dark ambience and is so full of hate and aversion for humanity,kicking out Maniac was the best what they culd have done.

Thanks for reading this and and remember all this shit was made by listening to every song one by one.I recomend you hardly to listen to the album while reading this stuff.

I have to say that I do this just because I hate the critics out of the zines that are just a copy of one and only paper they recive with the cd, there is no really listening to the album and you can see it while reading.