Disappointed that the band wasn't "going anywhere", he decided to contact members of Mayhem as he was aware the group were in need of a new frontman following vocalist Maniac's departure.
In early 1986, he founded the Swedish thrash/death metal group Morbid, with which he recorded a demo tape called December Moon. Despite his love for Bathory, he was very displeased after their change in musical style, and consequently referred to Quorthon as "a wimp". Īs a teenager, he developed a taste for heavy metal and rock music, citing bands like Black Sabbath, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Motörhead, Venom, Metallica, Bathory, Sodom, and Mercyful Fate as his favorites. After a few years, the incident resulted in a fascination with death, and later inspired his stage name. Because of the injury, he had to be rushed to a hospital, where he was, for a time, declared clinically dead. However, in the Swedish metal book Blod eld död (English: " Blood Fire Death"), his brother Anders Ohlin stated in an exclusive interview that Dead was frequently bullied in school and one day sustained a ruptured spleen as a direct result of a severe beating by bullies. At the age of ten, he suffered internal bleeding when his spleen ruptured after what he claimed was an ice skating accident. As a young child, he suffered from sleep apnea. Per Ohlin (sometimes called "Pelle") was born in 1969 in Västerhaninge, Sweden to parents Anita Forsberg and Lars Ohlin (deceased), who divorced soon after his birth.
His death marked a turning point in the history of the Norwegian black metal scene, leading to a wave of erratic behavior by the scene's members. An image of his dead body was used as the cover of the bootleg live album The Dawn of the Black Hearts. Already intensely introverted and depressed, Dead's personality and demeanor would only become more withdrawn leading up to his death, a progression marked by such patterns as harming himself offstage among friends and isolating himself for long periods in his bedroom.ĭead committed suicide in April 1991 at the age of 22. Acquaintances and peers described Ohlin as difficult to befriend or understand. 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. ĭead was known for his morbid personality and obsession with death. 48 out of 50 of The Greatest Metal Front-Men of All Time.
Dead was a popular figure of the Norwegian black metal scene, and his legacy persists in the genre to this day. Prior to Mayhem, he also performed as vocalist in the death/ thrash band Morbid. Per Yngve " Pelle" Ohlin (16 January 1969 – 8 April 1991), better known by his stage name Dead, was a Swedish metal 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.
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