Metal Injection

When our photographer Aline Miladinovich had the opportunity to spend a few weeks bunking on Mayhem's tour bus, this past Fall, she could not turn down the opportunity. The following is her recounting of spending two weeks on the road with the band, with highlights including altercations with cops, Thanksgiving with black metal bands and a shitty case of the flu. Aline also submitted a massive photo gallery in addition to this report, which you should definitely check out. Here is Aline's report:

If anyone had told me twenty-three years ago, when I was a wee young thing with an uncommonly precocious thirst for musical  knowledge, and a ravenous hunger for brutal, obscure metal that I would someday be along for the ride on tour with Mayhem, I’d have most assuredly thought them crazier than a shit house rat.

Having first learned of this “new phenomenon of the heaviest metal ever” coming out of Norway (a land as mythical and arcane as Santa’s North Pole to this American kid raised in farm country) through a Swedish pen pal whom I connected with via the now defunct Metal Edge magazine, I was burning with excitement and curiosity about this, as no other kid that I knew, at my age, was remotely cognizant of this sort of thing. (more…)