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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YB6eLZyGT7...fromMayhem.jpghttp://www.zionmag.org/img/clanky/Mayhem1.jpg Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin) of Mayhem This has always been the musician death that has fascinated me the most. Dead, singer of the black metal band Mayhem, was always known to be quite a strange person. Unsurprisingly, he was fascinated with death. He was known to bury his clothes in the ground for weeks before a show. He was also known to play while carrying a bag with a dead crow in it, which he would breath into to "get the stench of death in his nostrils". He is also credited by many Norwegian black metal bands as the first to wear "corpse paint". It is not surprising, then, that he committed suicide. While staying in a cabin in the woods, the other band members returned to find Dead with slit wrists, a slit throat, and a shotgun wound to the head. He left a note that simply said, "Excuse all the blood." Aarseth went out and bought a disposable camera and took pictures, one of which was used on the cover of "Dawn of the Black Hearts". It is also rumored that they made a stew of his brain "to absorb his wisdom" and sent bits of his skull to other band members they deemed worthy to have them. All of this, plus the murder of their guitarist Euronymous by Burzum leader Varg Vikernes, have lead to the huge legend that is Mayhem. They definitely didn't get by on the quality of their music. |
^ Maybe you might want to add a little warning to that post. I've seen the image before but still... it's pretty damn graphic.
EDIT: Also, I've heard the brain stew thing was just a myth. They did however take pieces of his skull and give it to people they deemed worthy. |
Yeah, maybe I should have thought of that...
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Snuf***e is not cool, but at least I've seen that picture several times before and that takes some of the edge off. Always a little disturbing, though. Nice write-up, duga :)
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Wow, sent bits of pieces of skull? WTF? It seems kind of weird that they would use it as an album cover, pretty Fu**** up if you ask me.
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It was a bootleg. And it only goes to show how morbidly untalented the band was, they had to get through two different frontmen before anybody paid attention to them.
And guess what? They still suck. |
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Johnny Ace This is one that I always found particularly strange, sad and stupid. Johnny Ace was a big R&B star and early rock and roller who shot himself in the head backstage at a concert in Houston, Texas on Christmas day 1954, semi-accidentally. From his Wikipedia entry: Quote:
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I've listened to a couple of Mayhem songs. It's not horrible, it's not even bad. But without the deaths it would be nothing. As was brought out, they have a far more interesting story.
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