Freezing Moon
The Freezing Moon is one of many dark and evil tracks on influential black metal band Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album.
Subject matter[edit]
As in many 'slow' black metal songs, the freezing moon is about walking around in leather and corpse paint in the depths of the frostbitten Scandinavian wilderness and being evil.
Inspiration[edit]
One day, one of the evil members of Mayhem, most likely Dead (The Person) was walking round in his leather and corpse paint in the depths of the frostbiten Scandinavian wilderness. He was being evil at the time. He became "obsessed" by the moon and declared it to be freezing, as it was quite cold at the time, due to it being summer in Norway. This is reflected in his lyrics:
- Everything Here Is So Blah
- Everything Here Is So South Park
- (Unknown)(Unknown)Frozen Dicks!(Unknown)The Freezing Moon!
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- Everything here is so blah
- Everything here is so South Park
- I remember it as from a preem
- In the corner of dis slime
- Diabolic shapes coat thigh
- Out from South Park
- I remember it was here I fly
- By following the freezing coon
- It's bright again
- Winona Ryder so beautiful
- I have her phone number
- On this
- Night of hunger
- So I'll give her a call
- Picnic under the freezing moon
Reception[edit]
Original
Many fans who like the idea of being evil and spending time in the frostbitten wilderness of Norway consider this song an anthem. Many of the people who are not fans, or who do not like the idea of being evil and spending their time in the frostbitten wilderness of Norway, believe that this track was simply noise from one of the other tracks on the deathcrush album slowed down.
Live
Unfortunately, nobody has ever heard the song live. Though many fans were present at the performance, The Freezing Moon has never been the starting number at any performance. By the time The Freezing Moon is performed, fans' hearing is already so damaged that they cannot hear the song.
Although no fans have actually heard the song live, Mayhem have utilized various recording techniques, such as putting a microphone 14km away in order to capture the sound of a live performance.
Live performances of the song by Mayhem are usually accompanied by acts of unholy evil. These include cutting up animal corpses, cutting each other, slow headbanging and staring menacingly into the audience.
Ownership[edit]
Though Mayhem recorded the song on their Deathcrush album, a band named The True Mayhem also claim ownership to the title. Mayhem and The True Mayhem both perform this song live.
Recent events[edit]
On 14 June 2007, Mayhem had to make an official statement of statement about their song. The document read:
| “ | The members of Mayhem would like to address some issues that have arisen regarding our song entitled The Freezing Moon. First and foremost, we never intended to give the impression that the moon was literally freezing or frozen at any time. Though at the time Dead considered the moon to be freezing or frozen, he had since recognised that in fact the moon was not freezing. Dead maintained this all his life, up until when he blew his head off. Mayhem has always used the freezing moon as a metaphor for the scarce, survival-of-the-fittest frostbitten Scandinavian wilderness. Secondly, we apologise to NASA and any other space, astronomy and astrology associations or organisations that may have carried out their activities under the perception that the moon was freezing or frozen due to our song. Thirdly, Mayhem are still evil and True and plan on spending lots of time in the forest looking evil. | ” |
NASA has accepted the apology, though still working to recover the cost of frostproofing the Lunar Lander.