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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.
I mean, yes, many either were or became that, apparently he didn't particularly care for that either. Honestly the whole scene was fucking weird, at least my read on it was that it began as dudes being edgy for attention and yucks but then evolved into them doing it unironically.
So basically it was 4Chan the music scene.
Didn't know about that, just knew about the church burnings and the dude killing himself.
I do recall reading that Euronymous had a falling out with Vargs cuz Vargs got into Nazism and Pagan shit and Euro thought that was a bunch of dumb ideological crap, he thought the real based thing was being a misanthropic satanist who hated everyone, not just brown people.
It was a couple early memo of Emperor who did the murder but they were pals with the Mayhem folks. Deathcrush was their only good release anyway.
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).
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.
Oh wow, I've never heard the bullying story before. Damn, that's incredibly fucked up and especially sad since he would later get bullied by Euronymous. Poor Pelle, man. :sadness-abysmal:
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.
I mean, in an alternate universe where he got therapy, cut himself off from Mayhem, and made his own black metal band made of less toxic people, he probably also could've done well, and may even still be alive to this day. He's considered to be one of the best black metal vocalists ever, so that band might even have become the more memorable black metal bands. So yeah, it wasn't the stage part that was the problem, it was the untreated mental illness and the Mayhem (especially Euronymous) problem.
I'm not saying the stage part was entirely a problem just that he urgently needed to get therapy and separate himself from euronymous and the whole scene at that time
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?"
I guarantee you, if social media was around then, they'd be a goldmine for cringe content. There would be video essays just laughing at them.
