The Disturbing Legacy of Mayhem’s “Dawn of the Black Hearts”: Art, Controversy, and the Boundaries of Extreme Metal
Few album covers are as infamous or as deeply disturbing as that of Mayhem’s “Dawn of the Black Hearts.” This image, depicting the aftermath of vocalist Dead’s suicide, has become a symbol of the early Norwegian black metal scene’s extreme ideology and boundary-pushing nature. Mayhem, a band synonymous with black metal’s rawest and most controversial … Read more
