Ok have listened to both and the Darkthrone album is a solid album but as said comes across as an attempt to cash in on the Swedish scene, I`d actually rather listen to Entombed, Unleashed, Grave and Dismember if I want that sound. The Mayhem album again is good but not a classic and as Batlord has said, it has a horror B-movie 1930s/1940s low budget feel. On a music level I`d say the Darkthrone album was better but as a huge Universal horror movie fan (I have the box set with the models of Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jnr) I have to give it to Mayhem for the feel of the album. Also how many albums are surrounded with both a murder and a suicide.
Darkthrone 2
Mayhem 3
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