This is old news but worthy of posting I think. This is life imitating art. As you may know Mayhem is a Norwegian Black Metal band formed in the 80's who pioneered that whole metal scene but what makes them the stand out amongst the crowd is the controversy surrounding their evolution. I won't get into details here but I will link to Wikipedia...lets just say suicide, alleged cannibalism, skull fragment necklaces, church arson and murder make for juicy metal. The image above is a photo taken by Mayhem's founder and guitarist/vocalist Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous) of vocalist Dead (aka Per Yngve Ohlin) after he killed himself. It was later stolen and used for a bootleg album.
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