Why did Dead actually commit suicid?
There’s a pretty common belief in the scene that two main reasons led to Per “Dead” Ohlin’s suicide: first, that he’d become deeply disillusioned after death/black metal got “corrupted” by mainstream success, and second, that after a near-death experience as a kid, he developed a morbid fascination with death that never left him.
Dr. Schitz, a close friend of Dead and his bandmate in MORBID, doesn’t buy into that at all. In fact, he says those claims are basically a myth — partly started by Euronymous, and later spread by outsiders who never actually knew Dead personally or had any real access to the “inner circle” of Morbid/Mayhem to know things first-hand.Read More »Why did Dead actually commit suicid?