Day 10 of Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas series for 2025 is here. The nine posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder, Shrub, the Postal Service, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Bring Me The Horizon and Muse. Many of you will know by now that this years theme is not very festive and is almost certainly our darkest theme so far. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Rapey Van Winkle in the partly demolished White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. These are twelve fabulous tracks despite the rather savage theme. Music has, and will always accompany me wherever I go, even if that is into the heart of the forthcoming (???) Armageddon! Maybe I need to make them into a playlist, what do you think? Some of you have contacted me with a resounding yes to the playlist. It will appear when we post the final installment a.k.a. day 12. There may be a surprise extra track on the day 12 posting too, keep checking in!
Today’s song is a classic sixties track, “The End” by the Doors. It was the final track on their self-titled debut album that was released in January 1967. In 2015, the Library of Congress selected ‘The Doors’ album for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant“. In 1969 Jim Morrison said this of the song “Every time I hear [“The End”], it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song … Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don’t know. I think it’s sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be“. Personally I do see it as bringing an end of the world vibe with it. It is a truly epic track which in its original form runs for nearly 12 minutes. I have thrown in an even longer live version below too.
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