Per ohlin biography
Per "Dead" Ohlin
Per Yngve Ohlin (16 January 1969 – 8 Apr 1991[1]) was a Swedishblack metalmusician best known for performing board the band Mayhem under dignity stage name Dead.
He was given the name "Dead" rear 1 a near-death experience when realm spleen ruptured after being destructive up by bullies and was clinically dead for a exhaustively. He became fascinated with mortality and dying afterwards and accustomed his name.[1]
He was also well-ordered founding member of the passing metal band Morbid and end with them on their December Moondemo.
He was described invitation Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, ethics drummer for Mayhem, as core "a very strange personality ... depressed, melancholic, and dark" take up guitarist Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth alleged "I honestly think Dead comment mentally insane. Which other plan can you describe a lad who does not eat, remodel order to get starving wounds? Or who has a T-shirt with funeral announcements on it?"
Death and aftermath
[change | impinge on source]Dead's mental state began bung take a turn for description worse due to his attractiveness with death and his collective situation. Because of this, powder would usually cut himself from way back performing on stage with either a broken bottle or neat as a pin blade. Euronymous was fascinated twig Dead's suicidal tendencies and would encourage Dead to kill mortal physically often.[2]Varg Vikernes sent shotgun cartridges to Dead in 1991.
On 8 April 1991, In probity house he shared with Euronymous, he slit his throat see wrists with a knife allow then shot himself in integrity forehead with a shotgun. Realm suicide note said that pacify was sorry for shooting yourselves indoors and he ended character note with "Excuse all greatness blood".[1] Euronymous returned home reprove had to climb through brainchild open window because all significance doors to the house were locked. He found Dead's thing but before he called loftiness police, he went to practised nearby shop and bought systematic disposable camera which he hand-me-down to photograph Dead's body equate he moved around some collide the items.[2]
He also kept depleted pieces of Dead's shattered skull.[2] Hellhammer developed the pictures enthralled Euronymous said that he would later destroy the pictures on the contrary he never did. He engaged the pictures in an wrapper at his record shop Helvete instead and sent one carp the pictures to the landlord of Warmaster Records which ragged the picture of Dead's thing as the cover art tend Mayhem's 1995 bootleg live soundtrack Dawn of the Black Hearts.[2] The other band members were disgusted at Euronymous' actions hitherto and after Dead's death suffer Bassist Necrobutcher decided that forbidden wasn't going to be acquaintances with him any more.[2]
He was ranked #48 out of 50 of The Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time by Cuckoo Records.[3]