Wolf's Lair Abyss
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Credits
- Maniac (Sven Erik KristiansenSven Erik KristiansenSven Erik Kristiansen is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the former vocalist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Maniac.-Personal life:...
) - Vocals - Blasphemer (Rune EricksonRune EricksonRune Eriksen is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the former guitarist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name, Blasphemer which he took from a Sodom song. He joined the band in 1995, but parted ways in late 2008...
) - Guitar - Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud) - Bass
- Hellhammer (Jan Axel BlombergJan Axel BlombergJan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning heavy metal drummer. He is most well known for his drumming with the band Mayhem, with which he began his career...
) - Drums
Trivia
In NorwayNorway
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's capital of Oslo
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, there is a black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
shop called Wolf's Lair, thought to have drawn inspiration from the EP. This has proved itself untrue, as the shop was originally called Wolff's Lair, after the founder, Rudy Wolff; the store dropped one "f" from their name after she left.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
's Eastern Front military headquarters, Wolfsschanze
Wolfsschanze
Wolf's Lair is the standard English name for Wolfsschanze, Adolf Hitler's first World War II Eastern Front military headquarters, one of several Führerhauptquartier or FHQs located in various parts of Europe...
is translated in English, roughly as Wolf's Lair, which is one of several Führerhauptquartier (Führer Headquarters
Führer Headquarters
The Führer Headquarters , abbreviated FHQ, is a common name for a number of official headquarters used by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and various German commanders and officials throughout Europe during World War II...
) or FHQs located in various parts of Europe. The Wolf's Lair was the location of the July 20 plot
July 20 Plot
On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...
to kill Hitler, where staff officer Claus von Stauffenberg carried a bomb hidden in a briefcase into the meeting room and placed it just a few feet away from Hitler. The resulting explosion devastated Wolf's Lair, leaving an 'abyss,' in its wake (this remains speculation).