Ten
years ago on this date,
Jon Andreas Nödtveidt (28 June 1974 – 13 August 2006) was a Swedish musician.
Best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Swedish black
metal band Dissection, he co-founded the band in 1989 with
bassist Peter Palmdahl.
Nödtveidt
also performed in several other projects, including The Black (as Rietas), De
Infernali, Nifelheim,
Ophthalamia
(as Shadow), Satanized, Siren's Yell, and Terror, a grindcore
band which featured members of At the
Gates.
He
also worked as a journalist in Metal Zone, where he was responsible for
keeping track of the growing black metal scene.
He
was a member of the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, now known as Temple of the Black Light, and the
Werewolf Legion, a Swedish gang (not to be confused with the Russian Werewolf
Legion). Contrary to popular belief, he was not its co-creator, but "was
introduced [...] by close friends at a quite early stage."
Nödtveidt
was convicted of being an accessory to the 1997 murder of Josef ben Meddour, an Algerian gay man. He restarted
Dissection upon his release from prison in 2004.
Death
On August 13, 2006, Nödtveidt was found
dead in his apartment in Hässelby, by an apparent
self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a circle of lit candles.
Early reports indicated that he was
found with an open copy of the Satanic Bible, but these were later
dismissed by Dissection's guitarist Set Teitan. According to him, "it's not any
atheist, humanist and ego-worshiping The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey that Jon had in front of him, but a
Satanic grimoire. He despised LaVey and the 'Church of
Satan'."
The said "Satanic grimoire" is
reputed to be the Liber Azerate, one of the publishings of the
Misanthropic Luciferian Order, by which Nödtveidt apparently was influenced,
his last album Reinkaos's lyrics being
co-written by the same man who wrote the Liber Azerate.
Nödtveidt's brother, Emil
"Nightmare Industries" Nödtveidt, the rhythm guitarist and keyboardist of gothic industrial metal band Deathstars, wrote a song named "Via the
End" the night he heard about Nödtveidt's suicide. The song appears as the
fifth track on Deathstar's third album Night Electric Night.
Regarding his views on suicide,
Nödtveidt said "The Satanist decides of his own
life and death and prefers to go out with a smile on his lips when he has
reached his peak in life, when he has accomplished everything, and aim to
transcend this earthly existence. But it is completely un-satanic to end one's
own life because one is sad or miserable. The Satanist dies strong, not by age,
disease or depression, and he chooses death before dishonor! Death is the
orgasm of life! So live life accordingly, as intense as possible!"
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