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
Mf on the left probably did as well but he cancelled himself.
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.
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.
Fair enough, I'll give him the Mayhem Maybe Okay Guy Award
he needed serious help, not a stage to sing from :sadness:
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