This cult release was just a warning sign as to what was to come from Norway and it's Inner Black Circle consisting of several bands who would take heavy metal to new extremes, not by sounding heavier, but simply far more remote, and Mayhem have certainly remained pivotal within the scene. Although the likes of Slayer, Bathory, Possessed and Destruction were churning out hellish noise, what Mayhem produced on 'Deathcrush' was beyond pain, anguish and black, anarchic punk. Maniac, original sore-throat, may have fled the nest before the coming of the classic 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas...', but on 'Deathcrush' his hoarse, agonising rasps litter the sky as the percussion fizzes along like a blizzard, it's grim stuff. The opening instrumental 'Silvester Anfang' doesn't really give you any indication of what is to come, but the title track soon batters you to death, and lyrically its primitive, horror, torture, rape and death to all, and 'Chainsaw Gutsfuck' has certainly gone down in history as a barbaric expression. The groggy sound of 'Deathcrush' loiters in hardcore, and punky grindcore and even manages to strip bare the oily layers of Venom's classic 'Witching Hour'.
Mayhem were certainly black metal on 'Deathcrush', but it was a different kind of sound, but then again, the band would prove to be beyond the restraints of the genre and produce varying levels of intense and arrogant black noise. This was just the beginning...
7/10
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