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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 ...
Dead's suicide and Euronymous's actions following it profoundly affected Necrobutcher, prompting him to leave Mayhem, which reduced the band to two members. The group rehearsed briefly thereafter with Occultus, who joined with plans to begin recording vocal and bass tracks for Mayhem's debut album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.
The title originates from a line of lyrics Fenriz of Darkthrone wrote for the band. [b] Despite being a bootleg, the album is sometimes listed as one of the band's most important albums, mainly due to the notoriety regarding the cover art, which is an image of the late Mayhem vocalist Per "Dead" Ohlin shortly after he committed suicide. [1] [2] [3]
By 1991, Dead, Euronymous and Hellhammer were living in a house in the woods near Kråkstad, which was used as a place for the band to rehearse. [4] Mayhem bassist Necrobutcher said that, after living together for a while, Dead and Euronymous "got on each other's nerves a lot" and "weren't really friends at the end". [4]
In 1988, the band hired vocalist Per "Dead" Ohlin of the Swedish band Morbid. [37] Dead wore corpse paint, black and white makeup to achieve a ghastly appearance. According to Mayhem bassist Necrobutcher, "it wasn't anything to do with the way Kiss and Alice Cooper used makeup. Dead actually wanted to look like a corpse.
Due to his death, and the guitarist's subsequent actions (including taking photos of his body, one of which was later used as the cover for a bootleg release), Necrobutcher left Mayhem. [6] After a brief stint with Stian "Occultus" Johannsen, the band returned in late 1991 with Attila Csihar on vocals and Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes on bass.
Vikernes replaced bassist Necrobutcher, who quit the band because of Euronymous' treatment of Dead's suicide. Vikernes has distanced himself from his black metal past, claiming he "came under the influence of an absolute degenerate loser, Øystein ", and blaming his past actions and "degeneracy" on the negative influence of others in the scene.
Pure Fucking Mayhem is a 2008 documentary created by Stefan Rydehed [1] which gives an inside look at the second wave Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.The movie includes interviews with the band members as well as some previously unseen pictures of the early black metal scene.