![]() Ohlin had committed suicide by slitting his wrists and shooting himself with a shotgun in the head. Ohlin had written a suicide note with the beginning saying "Excuse all the blood" and wrote about how he felt that he wasn't alive and it was all a dream and he'll wake up. Ohlin committed suicide on April 8, 1991, after being left alone at the band's house. Aarseth and Ohlin didn't get along really well as Aarseth took an interest in Ohlin obsession with death and even encouraging Ohlin to commit suicide. Ohlin and bandmate Øystein "Euroynmous" Aarseth who was one of the founding members and guitarist of Mayhem. His final song titled "Life Eternal" would be the last song he wrote and left it along with his suicide note. Before dying he contributed to Mayhem's 1994 album "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" where he wrote the lyrics to all the songs on the album. Unfortunately, his obsession with death would lead him to commit suicide. He was described as quiet, disconnected and isolated. Dead himself was an introverted person according to bandmates of him and friends from the Norwegian black metal scene that met him. Even during live performances, he would cut himself with knives or broken bottles. Unfortunately, Dead was so obsessed with death that he started to do bodily harm to himself. He also kept a corpse of a crow in a paper bag, he would sniff it before a performance. Dead used corpse paint in an effort to look like a corpse and even going as far to burying his stage clothes before a gig, to make it smell like buried earth and look like a corpse. Dead was an important figure because he inspired the corpse paint for the genre. He would soon become an important leader in the Norwegian Black Metal scene that was developing primarily because of the efforts by Mayhem. ![]() Ohlin would take the stage name Dead and join Mayhem in early of 1988. It was from this that Ohlin would become obsessed with death and the feeling of it. He was pronounced clinically dead for a while before being resuscitated. ![]() Ohlin suffered sleep apnea and had a ruptured spleen from being bullied as a kid. Ohlin was born on January 16, 1969, in Sweden. ![]()
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