Mayhem’s “Dawn of the Black Hearts” is a legendary BlackMetal live bootleg vinyl record.
It includes a 1990 Mayhem concert recorded in Sarpsborg, Norway. The vinyl with the shocking album cover was released on vinyl record in 1995 by the Colombian label “Warmaster Records” by Mauricio “Bull Metal” Montoya.
“Bull Metal” was a pen-pal of Euronymous, Guitarist of Mayhem and as you will read below they had a very good relationship.
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The Dawn of the Black Hearts vinyl pressed into 300 copies in Colombia. The maximum value sold a copy so far is $666,66 in October 2018 from an American seller. The seller reports that of the 300 vinyl record copies, at least 100 were destroyed at the German border.
A salesman from France (Discogs seller profile: fd21) who sold this album without the Original Record Cover said that:
“As only the sleeve is missing, I would guess that this is one of the LPs which highly controversial cover has been destroyed by customs officers when shipped outside South America.”
The album cover
The album cover shows the dead Per Yngve Ohlin better known by his stage name “Dead” and nickname “Pelle” who on April 8, shot himself in the head with a shotgun.
The suicide took place at the home where the Mayhem members lived. The photo was taken by Euronymous himself when he found Pelle dead and lying on the floor.
It is said that Euronymous took bits from Pelle ‘s skull from which he made necklaces for a close circle of friends and members of the Black Metal scene to wear as a tribute to the dead singer.
Mauricio “Bull Metal” Montoya was also said to have received such a necklace along with copies of the photographs of the dead Ohlin taken by Euronymous. But that has not been proven.
Bass player Jørn Stubberud (Necrobutcher) because of the way Euronymous handled Pelle ‘s death and due to some other events decided to leave Mayhem.
Several years later he has still been quite annoyed by the attitude of Euronymous. In 2019, in a interview with Revolver, he said, among other things, about Euronymous:
“Imagine that somebody you think is your friend coming home and finding your other friend killed themselves and took pictures of their dead body. Who the f**k in their right mind would do anything like that? Everybody should have a little bit of intelligence to know that, that’s gotta be somebody completely stripped from empathy and normal emotions.”
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The Release (Mauricio “Bull Metal” Montoya)
Mauricio Montoya the man who released the Mayhem – Dawn of the Black Hearts bootleg vinyl record, is a legend in the Colombian extreme metal community (died in 2005).
He was a drummer and Founding member of massacre and had participated in several bands of extreme sound in Colombia (Agressor, Amén, Ekhymosis, Neurosis, Pagan Fears, Sacrilegio, Tenebrarum, Typhon) He was the owner of Warmaster Records.
He had very good relations with record companies and members of other bands outside Colombia. He also had very good relations with Euronymous.
He was a pioneer of the spread of metal in Colombia as well as the spread of Colombian extreme metal out of the country.
It is said that Montoya was the reason that helped Euronymous shape the early Black Metal sound of Mayhem.
According to the article in El Tiempo, “Bull Metal” is said to have been a key factor in Mayhem’s sound development.
He brought him into contact with the extreme sound of Bands such as Parabellum, Blasfemia and Reencarnacion.
And after that, the Mayhem from a Venom cover band evolved their sound into what we all know at their first period.
It is said that Montoya had received the photographs of the dead Pelle from Euronymous himself In 95 and after Eyronymus had been murdered by Vikernes Varg, he released the live Dawn of the Black Hearts vinyl with the photo of the dead Ohlin on the cover.
Per Yngve Ohlin
As Necrobutcher says in the documentary “Pure Fucking Mayhem” Ohlin was a thinker and a quiet person.
He was suicidal already from childhood. When he was 10 years old he had a near-death experience after an ice skate accident.
He was dead at arrival at the hospital and he came back to life. Since then he was fascinated about death.
But according to Pelle’s brother, Anders Ohlin and to what is mentioned in the book “Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story” by Ika Johannesson and Jon Jefferson Klingberg, In autumn 1982 Pelle started with the seventh grade in the Ribbyskola in Västerhaninge.
After he had been in a close-knit class in middle school he came to a new class with completely different groups, who did not understand who he was and didn’t have patience with his idiosyncrasies.
He was incredibly heavily bullied when he started with high school. Everything back then was very categorical: one either liked computer music or hard rock.
But he ended up in his little compartment where no other was, and it became very easy to pick on him.
There was a whole bunch that was on him and beat him all the time. Classmates from middle school could not back him up. He had to be hospitalized for several days.
For concerts, Dead went to great lengths to achieve the image and atmosphere he wished. From the beginning of his career, he was known to wear “corpse paint”, which involved covering his face with black and white makeup.
Dead wanted to look like a corpse. He didn’t do it to look cool”. Hellhammer claimed that Dead “was the first black metal musician to use corpse paint,” To complete his corpse-like image, Dead would bury his stage clothes and dig them up again to wear on the night of a concert. According to Hellhammer:
Before the shows, Dead used to bury his clothes into the ground so that they could start to rot and get that grave scent. He was a corpse on a stage. Once he even asked us to bury him in the ground — he wanted his skin to become pale.
Suicidal note
Next to the dead Pelle was found the following Suicidal note:
Excuse the blood, but I have slit my wrists and neck. It was the intention that I would die in the woods so that it would take a few days before I was possibly found. I belong in the woods and have always done so.
No one will understand the reason for this anyway. To give some semblance of an explanation I’m not a human, this is just a dream and soon I will awake. It was too cold and the blood kept clotting, plus my new knife is too dull.
If I don’t succeed dying to the knife I will blow all the shit out of my skull. Yet I do not know.
I left all my lyrics by “Let the good times roll”—plus the rest of the money. Whoever finds it gets the fucking thing.
As a last salutation may I present “Life Eternal”. Do whatever you want with the fucking thing. / Pelle. I didn’t come up with this now, but seventeen years ago.
Dead,
A bit of Pelle’s skull for sale?
In 2018, Serial Killers Ink sold a letter that Euronymous allegedly wrote to Tamas Vamosi, manager of the Band Tormentor and also an importer for Euronymous’ record label, “Deathlike Silence”.
The letter was reportedly written five days after the suicide of singer Per “Dead” Ohlin and includes a bit from his skull.
At the end the letter closes with the following text:
“OK! That should be all. I’m enclosing a little piece from Dead’s cranium in case you’d like to have it. Hear from you soon!”
The letter and the bit of the skull went on sale at $3,500.
The photo on the album cover of Dawn of the Black Hearts is shocking. No one knows if Euronymous before he died knew the album would be released by Bull Metal.
There are different versions of what’s happened in Colombia. However, since none of the parties involved is alive to confirm it, they may have no value.
Dawn of the Black Hearts was reissued several times in bootleg form, until 2019 was officially released as “Live in Sarpsborg” with best sound and Necrobutcher on the cover.
TOP 5 HIGHEST SOLD PRICES (eBay)
- $666,66 ( 1 bid- Start Price:$4,000)/ 2018-10-23 / ( Cover: NM | Media: NM / Seller from the USA)
- $590 ( 67 bids- Start Price:$10)/ 2019-1-26 / ( Cover: M | Media: M / Seller from Greece)
- $530 ( 33 bids- Start Price:$7)/ 2012-7-9 / ( Cover: EX | Media: EX / unknown Country Of Seller)
- $520 ( 3 bid- Start Price:$500)/ 2011-4-28 / ( Cover: NM | Media: M / Seller from Italy)
- $519 ( 1 bid- Start Price:$519)/ 2012-5-27 / ( Cover: VG | Media: VG / unknown Country Of Seller)
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