Mayhem
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THE STORY OF MAYHEM: WHEN EDGINESS GOES TOO FAR
In a quest to live up to their satanic image, the black metal band Mayhem embarked on a journey of cut-throat ambition and tragic endings
The story of Mayhem begins in a small village on the outskirts of Oslo, with the meeting of guitarist Øystein Aarseth a.k.a Euronymous, and bassist Jørn Stubberud a.k.a Necrobutcher, both 16-year-old teenagers with a penchant for rebellion and an obsession with the darkest elements of heavy metal and slasher films. With perversion and anarchy at the core of their message, they pushed back at the camp and kitsch imagery of the glam rock movement and curated for themselves a macabre and dark aesthetic—separating them clearly from the conservative Christian circles that surrounded them.
The direction of the band began to take an even darker turn when they were joined by Ohlin, who at the time was a gifted but disturbed young metal singer from Sweden. In later years it would be speculated that Ohlin suffered from Cotard’s syndrome also kn
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lived with his mother and brother, this meant Per was often forced to change schools.
His obsession with death and the afterlife started at young age after he suffered a ruptured spleen Per claimed he suffered the injury in an ice-skating accident but he was brutally attacked by school bullies. The injuries he sustained in the attack were extremely severe, so severe in fact that he almost died but doctors managed to resuscitate him.
Per was haunted by thoughts of the afterlife and started to suffer from sleep apnea where he would dream he was being choked to death although he was actually suffocating. It was also during this time that he started to get into metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Kiss, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Motörhead, Venom, Sodom and Mercyful Fate as his favorite.
Morbid[]
Morbid was formed in Stockholm, Sweden, at the end of 1985. With Pelle as the group's founder and mastermind, they had a revolving door of members before settling on the line-up of John "John Lennart" Hagström and "TG" on guitars, Jens Näsström on bass and Lars Göran Petrov on drums. When "TG"
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Dead (musician)
Swedish black metal vocalist (1969–1991)
Musical artist
Per Yngve "Pelle" Ohlin (16 January 1969 – 8 April 1991), known professionally as Dead, was a Swedish musician who was best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem from 1988 until his death in 1991. Prior to Mayhem, he performed as the vocalist in the Swedish death/thrash band Morbid. Dead was a popular figure of the Norwegian black metal scene, and his legacy persists in the genre to this day. Roadrunner Records ranked him No. 48 out of 50 of The Greatest Metal Front-Men of All Time.[1]
Dead was known for his morbid personality and obsession with death. He hoarded dead birds, wore shirts with funeral announcements printed on them and wore corpse paint—being one of the first in black metal to do so. Acquaintances and peers described Ohlin as difficult to befriend or understand. Already intensely introverted and depressed, Dead's personality and demeanor would only become more withdrawn leading up to his death, a progression marked by such patte
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