Mayhem announce “Death over Europe” tour for 2026

Norwegian black metal band Mayhem will bring “Death over Europe” on this upcoming Tour, with special guests Marduk and support Immolation. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, October 10th at 11:00 CEST.

Doomstar Bookings presents: “Death over Europe” 2026

05/02/ Groningen (NL)

06/02/ Utrecht (NL)

07/02/ Herford (DE)

08/02/ Liège (BE)

10/02/ London (UK)

11/02/ Paris (FR)

12/02/ Toulouse (FR)

14/02/ Lisbon (PT)

15/02/ Madrid (ES)

17/02/ Milano (IT)

18/02/ Solothurn (CH)

19/02/ Vienna (AT)

20/02/ Regensburg (DE)

21/02/ Prague (CZ)

22/02/ Berlin (DE)

24/02/ Gdansk (PL)

25/02/ Riga (LV)

26/02/ Helsinki (FI)

28/02/ Gothenburg (SE)

In august, Attila Csihar started to record the vocals for the new Mayhem album at the mighty NBS studio in Sweden.

This was also confirmed by bassist Jørn “Necrobutcher” Stubberud in the same month in an interview, he also spoke about the lenghty wait between releases.

It’s more honest, I think, and it’s better for everyone that there is some space between the albums, because if you release albums too close to each other, it tends to be maybe just a repetition of your last album or very close to it, ’cause there’s no time to get new inspiration in between. So the longer the time it takes for the songwriters to distance themselves from the last project and to get new inspiration, the longer time it takes, the better it is. And then the longer time you have to evolve the songs in your head as a composer… As a composer, I compare it to a painter. You paint and paint and paint, and in the end it’s hard to know when to quit. When is the painting really finished? Same with the songs. You can get lost. You have a song and you write it, and then it sounds good, but then you think, maybe that riff should go a little bit longer and maybe that riff shouldn’t repeat itself and maybe that other riff should repeat itself. And then, in the end, you don’t know when to stop. And then so it takes time for this thought process to to be thought through. That’s why always, even after the songs are recorded in the studio, you start to play them live and then they alter a little bit, but musicians, we call them the ‘live versions.’ But really, really the live versions is really how the song ended up to be, ’cause they were not completely matured when recorded, in a sense. That’s why they altered when we rehearsed them for live later, ’cause the alteration would be what we have come up with. And that’s why I love to release live albums too, because I feel like that’s how the songs should actually be. And also then you have the roughness from the live and not the studio where you can [perfect] everything and put on extra guitars or keyboards or whatever. So that’s the more honest expression. And sometimes I like the live versions much better.