Mayhem released their new album Daemon on October 25, and now they're venturing into previously-unknown lands – music videos. Mayhem teamed up with director Johan Bååth and Swedish graffiti artist Ziggy Jonas Rasmusson for the "Falsified And Hated" music video, which you can check out above.
Also, to address the obvious, yes. Mayhem previously had a live music video for the song "Watchers." However, this is written-and-produced music video as opposed to compiled live footage, which is what the "Watchers" video was.
Here's what guitarist Teloch, producer Tore Stjerna, and Bååth had to say about the video.
Teloch: "This is the first official music video we have released, so indeed some thought went into this. Instead of having us filmed at some dodgy location with instruments not even plugged in, we did something different, in the true tradition of the band. We hired Johan Bååth (Watain, etc.) as a director and we also were lucky enough to get the infamous Swedish graffiti artist Ziggy Jonas Rasmusson to do his ritualistic paintings for the video."
Stjerna: "It's a very strong track with tons of energy. It also stands out in an interesting way with its hints towards industrial music. The insanity of this roller-coaster ride of a song marries beautifully with the twisted art featured in the video."
Bååth: "When I was asked to do the very first Mayhem music video, I thought I really had to do something more than just a plain black metal video, I wanted to take it one step further and do something different but stay true to the genre and, of course, Mayhem's iconic legacy as a band. I thought of the artist Ziggy Jonas Rasmusson and his ritualistic paintings and I asked him if he wanted to participate. Together we came up with this idea of a ritualistic painted pentagon-shaped room, completely surrounded by five painted walls, facing a centered pentagram-painting with Ziggy's 'hex-text'signs and symbols all over, each of the five point corners symbolizing human expiration. In the middle, we see an organic neoplasm tumor-like shaped form, all muddy and dirty with wooden branches ensnared around it. The surreal and scary-looking outgrowth is almost breathing with dark energy, attached to several plastic tubes connected to five cloaked characters symbolizing the five members of MAYHEM. They're completely occupied with different ritual tasks destroying all humanity and contributing matter and dark energy to the demon creation in the middle."
