Kjetil Manheim
Kjetil Manheim, (
November 27 1968), went by the stage name
Manheim and was the drummer for the infamous
Norwegian black metal band
Mayhem.
Manheim (Kjetil Esten Haraldsson Manheim) started
Mayhem together with
Jørn Stubberud (bass) and
Øystein Aarseth (guitar) in 1984. Before Stubberud and Manheim met Aarseth they had played together in a few bands, not really satisfied with the projects. They started to hear the new sounds coming from the continent from bands like
Venom and
Sodom and being fans of the heavier bands from the 70's they started to look for something new - harder and darker - and found it when they met Aarseth who shared the same ambitions, musically and not to forget - for a new, dark and extreme band.
Manheim left the band after the release of the album
Deathcrush. Since then he has done little on the official musical scene apart from giving some interviews. His new passion in music is
noise, and since 2001 he's done performances in
Oslo together with
Russell Haswell,
Lasse Marhaug and the Norwegian duo
Fe-mail.
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