Editing Black metal (section)

===== Dead's suicide =====
On 8 April 1991, Mayhem vocalist [[Dead (musician)|Per "Dead" Ohlin]] committed suicide while left alone in a house shared by the band.<ref name=onceuponatime>{{cite video |year=2007 |title=Once Upon a Time in Norway |medium=motion picture |publisher=Another World Entertainment}}</ref><ref name=purefucking>{{cite video |year=2008 |title=Pure Fucking Mayhem |medium=motion picture |publisher=Index Verlag}}</ref> Fellow musicians described Dead as odd, introverted and depressed. Mayhem's drummer, [[Jan Axel Blomberg|Hellhammer]], said that Dead was the first to wear the distinctive corpse paint that became widespread in the scene.<ref name=basik>{{cite web |url=http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/hh-june1998.htm |title=Interview with Hellhammer conducted by Dmitry Basik June 1998 |last=Basik |first=Dmitri |date=June 1998 |work=thetruemayhem.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823184104/http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/hh-june1998.htm |archive-date=23 August 2007 |access-date=7 September 2012}}</ref> He was found with slit wrists and a [[shotgun]] wound to the head. Dead's suicide note began with "Excuse all the blood", and apologized for firing the weapon indoors.<ref name=purefucking/>{{sfn|Moynihan|Søderlind|2003|p=62}} Before calling the police, Euronymous got a disposable camera and photographed the body,{{sfn|Moynihan|Søderlind|2003|p=49}} after re-arranging some items. One of these photographs was later used as the cover of a bootleg live album, ''[[Dawn of the Black Hearts]]''.<ref name=basik/>

Euronymous made necklaces with bits of Dead's skull and gave some to musicians he deemed worthy.<ref name=sam/><!--this has been confirmed by others--> Rumors also spread that he had made a stew with bits of his brain.<ref name=murdermusic/><ref name=onceuponatime/> Euronymous used Dead's suicide to foster Mayhem's evil image and claimed Dead had killed himself because extreme metal had become trendy and commercialized.{{sfn|Moynihan|Søderlind|2003|p=59-60}} Mayhem bassist [[Necrobutcher|Jørn 'Necrobutcher' Stubberud]] noted that "people became more aware of the black metal scene after Dead had shot himself ... I think it was Dead's suicide that really changed the scene".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bromley |first=Adrian "The Energizer" |title=Mayhem: To Hell and Back |journal=Unrestrained |issue=15 |url=http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/necro-unrestrained15.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823101847/http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/necro-unrestrained15.htm |archive-date=23 August 2007 |access-date=7 September 2012}}</ref>

Two other members of the early Norwegian scene later committed suicide: Erik 'Grim' Brødreskift (of [[Immortal (band)|Immortal]], [[Borknagar]], [[Gorgoroth]]) in 1999<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/norway/bergen/immortal |title=MusicMight :: Artists :: Immortal |work=rockdetector.com |access-date=7 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910065741/http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/norway/bergen/immortal |archive-date=10 September 2012}}</ref><ref name=immortalmembers>{{cite web |url=http://www.immortal.nu/band/members.html |title=w w w . i m m o r t a l . n u |work=immortal.nu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010820145828/http://www.immortal.nu/band/members.html |archive-date=20 August 2001 |access-date=7 September 2012}}</ref> and Espen 'Storm' Andersen (of [[Strid (band)|Strid]]) in 2001.<ref>Ravn: ''Strid''. In: ''Slayer'', No. 20, ''Blood Fire Death'', 2010, p. 78.</ref>