Attila Csihar remembers the exact date when his life was irrevocably changed. On May 23, 1992, he was out in his native Budapest with a friend, smoking weed, when he had an epiphany. It’s hard to describe exactly, he says, but he had a vision of the sun, and an understanding of it as something material, but spiritual too, as a universal source of life, but belief as well.
“It wasn’t the weed,” the Mayhem frontman recalls now. “I’ve smoked it millions of times without this experience, but I didn’t know what was going on. Before, I’d always been searching for something, but then something opened in my mind, and it definitely defined my life. I got in sync with nature, and I’ve been reading and researching since.”
