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Dead
Background information
Birth name	Per Yngve Ohlin
Born	January 16, 1969(1969-01-16)
Origin	Sweden
Died	April 8, 1991 (aged 22)
Genre(s)	Black metal
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Associated acts	Mayhem Morbid

Per Yngve Ohlin (January 16, 1969 – April 8, 1991), better known by his stage name Dead, was a Swedish Black metal vocalist best known for his work with Norwegian black metal group Mayhem. He also acted as a lead singer of the Swedish death metal band Morbid on one demo tape entitled December Moon.

A quiet, introverted person, Dead was perhaps best known for his stage antics. He was known to bury his clothes weeks before a concert and to then dig them up again on the night of the event. This way he would have, as he put it, the "essence of death"; wearing dirty, rotten, worm infested clothing. During one tour with Mayhem he found a dead raven, which he collected and stored in a plastic bag. He would often smell the bird before performing, saying he needed to "smell death".

On several occasions Dead cut himself onstage with broken glass and hunting knives while singing. During one show in Sarpsborg, Norway in 1990, he cut himself with a broken bottle so badly that he had to be taken to a hospital due to a loss of blood. It is also rumored that Dead would starve himself for weeks before touring to give himself stomach ulcers, saying it gave him better vocals.

On April 8, 1991, fellow Mayhem band member, Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth, found Dead dead, with slit wrists, and a shotgun wound to the head. It has been rumored that the suicide note that was found with his corpse simply read "Excuse all the blood." (Hellhammer later elaborated that the note was a bit more detailed, including apologies for having to use the shotgun inside the house, but the knife was just too dull to finish the job.) Euronymous then quickly drove to Oslo and bought a disposable camera so that he could take pictures of the grisly scene (after re-arranging some of the items), which were later used (without permission) for a bootleg album entitled Dawn of the Black Hearts, containing recordings from the previously mentioned Sarpsborg, Norway gig from 1990, as well as four live songs Mayhem performed with their old vocalist Maniac in 1986. Aarseth was also said to have eaten parts of Dead's brain, and to have made necklaces out of fragments of his skull, although Aarseth himself dismissed the former of these claims in an interview. It is also rumored that pieces of his skull were mailed out to bands that Aarseth saw as "worthy", such as the Swiss band Samael. According to Mayhem drummer Hellhammer, Morgan S. Håkansson of Marduk still has some pieces of Dead's skull. Tony Särkkä of Abruptum also claims to have small pieces.

• Live in Jessheim 1990 (tape, also bootleg CD) 19??
• Live in Leipzig 1993
• De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, LP 1994 (songwriter, did not perform)
• Dawn of the Black Hearts 1995
• Live in Zeitz 1990 19??
• Out from the Dark, EP 1996
• "Freezing Moon", Single 1996

• Rehearsal 07/08/1987, Demo 1987
• December Moon, Demo 1987
• Death Execution, Best Of 1995
• December Moon, EP 2000
• Live in Stockholm 2000
• Death Execution III, EP 2001

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• Dead also had an appearance in the Candlemass video for the song "Bewitched." He is part of the group that "doom dances" on Messiah Marcolin's grave. He is easily recognizable, since he is the one getting pushed a bit more than the others.

• Official Mayhem Site
• Dead's Gravesite
• Dead and Euronymous rehearsal (first part)
• Dead and Euronymous rehearsal (second part)