:bruh-moment:
He left Rød Ungdom [Norwegian communist youth group], allegedly because he came to realise that they were “just a bunch of humanists”. He said “as I hate people I don’t want them to have a good time, I’d like to see them rot under communist dictatorship”.
heh, nothing personnel society :joker-shopping:
According to several people he knew all this BS was an act to promote his music. He was reportedly a jovial laid back guy when around his close friends.
The Wikipedia page on Norwegian black metal has my favorite sentence ever
On 8 April 1991, Dead was found dead by Euronymous at his home with slit wrists and a shotgun wound to the head. Dead’s death was considered suicide.
And then Euronymous did what any normal person would do upon seeing their friend having killed themselves… he rearranged stuff, and then took photos of it, one of which was used for the infamous bootleg, Dawn of the Black Hearts (obviously an NSFW album cover, should you decide to Google it).
Mf on the left probably did as well but he cancelled himself.
Didn’t he have like a mental condition where he actually believed he was dead
Never diagnosed but yes. He died for a few minutes after an ice skating accident when he was like 11 or 12 or something like that, and thought that way ever since.
At the age of ten, he suffered internal bleeding when his spleen ruptured after what he claimed was an ice skating accident. However, in the Swedish metal book Blod eld död (English: “Blood Fire Death”), his brother Anders Ohlin confessed in an exclusive interview that Dead was frequently bullied in school, and one day he succumbed to a ruptured spleen which was a direct result of a severe beating by bullies. Because of the injury, he had to be rushed to a hospital, where he was, for a time, declared clinically dead. After a few years, the incident resulted in a fascination with death, and later inspired his stage name.
Dead is the one Mayhem guy I actually kinda feel bad for. He didn’t strike me as a bad person, just really odd, but he hung out with a very toxic group of people.
Lords of Chaos is a great movie that captures how goofy these MFs were IRL.
I always imagine him just showing up to a Norwegian communist youth group meeting in full costume and they’re talking for like 45 minutes about changing some minor terminology in their constitution regarding something like pamphlet distribution and he’s there just hand fully raised and he asks “Ok so when do we start starving everyone in gulags?”
