The Life and Death of Per Yngve "Pelle" Ohlin 

Everyone always talks about Varg and Euronymous when really Dead was the saddest part of the story of Mayhem.

He'd be age 54 next month. Definitely marched to his own drum. A drum which was covered in blood,bones,dirt and smelled like decomp. Had he lived I wonder if these morbid ways,beliefs would be replaced with some normalcy as he matured. Never seen a 30,40 or 50 year old living as he did. He was absolutely gorgeous physically

The fact that he didn't wait until he finished recording an album is mind boggling.

Poor guy, the flower that never bloomed

Dead’s suicide is so heartbreaking I tear up every time I hear it. I know that if he was still alive he would have made an even bigger name for himself and had gotten so much popularity especially in the metal community. I’ve seen people use that album cover on shirts and other merch and sell them online and I want to know peoples opinion on it. I feel like the people that but these shirts forget that this isn’t some art work made by an artist like a Cannibal Corpse album cover this was a real person who committed suicide. This is his real suicide on picture that people paste onto a shirt and make money off of. To me that is the most heart breaking thing of all. We all know Dead always felt like a walking corpse and never truly felt human but to see people wearing his suicide and profiting off of his death it feels like a huge disrespect to Dead not just as a member of Mayhem but as a person. Does anyone have any opinions on the shirt or own it?

Excellent video but I want to clarify something. When he was beaten up by bullys his spleen had ruptured and was clinically dead for a few minutes. Other than that it was a great documentary and I'm glad you made this video because greatness should not be allowed to die. As for Euronymous, not only did he fall victim to his own ego, but he had many delusions of grandeur. Also a poor excuse of a business man and a terrible leader. Don't feel bad for speaking ill of him. He deserves the negativity.

i miss him....i miss his screams

The damage he did the self harm makes me sick so sad pelle seemed to have hated his existence

Dead is super good-looking in my opinion. He is up there on my list, along with Chuck Schuldiner (Death), a young Jeff Loomis (Nevermore), a young Warrell Dane (Nevermore), Cliff Burton (Metallica), Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth), a young Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains), a young Dimebag Darrell (Pantera), a young John Tardy (Obituary), and Joe Duplantier (Gojira). Also, Dead and I were born in the same month. His birthday is January 16th. My birthday is January 21st.

He was truly amazing.

I feel like this is the only RU-vidr that handled Pele’s death in a respectable way the other RU-vidrs that I’ve watched, cover, mayhem and dead specifically they’ve all made not outwardly disrespectful comments, but for example, the guy that I was watching, he said that dead yeeted himself now I understand you’re not allowed to kill on RU-vid but yeet is such a disrespectful term to use when you’re talking about suicide you could’ve said he unalive himself. It just really pisses me off.

Dead was and still is a legend 🤘

He was only 6 when he wrote “death eternal” he had no chance :(

I believe you've done a pretty good job on this & the stories are well known by fans . one thing still remains a bit of a mystery which is his suicide letter ,he speaks of being in the woods when he first tried to cut himself but he mentions the blood was coagulating so he went into the house ,wrote the letter & took the gun to finally end his life . If he were in the house why would it have been so cold his blood coagulated so i believe he was outside when this all began . What Aarseth did was unforgivable & disgusting ,a slam to Pelle & his family . I find the most accurate accounts of how Pelle was is in the stories you hear from his brother who still has to live with that photo of his brother exploited for money . Truth is Pelle was the real deal & he did have many troubles he never got help with & he may have not wanted it i don't know, but had he we would have seen the rise of one hell of a front man & he was a very good artist if you like scary as hell drawings & his lyrics were off the charts. We will never know his real potential but what he left was as dark as dark gets & it what was what he felt. Shame this band spent more time killing themselves & burning churches which served no point other than shock & just plain vandalism for fun than just making their music & doing what any band would do & that's to make it , they made it but in the worst way & for any fans we all got the short end of the stick . I will give some credit to YT posters that have taken the old recordings & demos & re did them with Pelle's vocals which is pretty cool & as close as we'll get to hearing what may have been. RIP Pellle & much sympathy to his brother who must live with all the grief left behind. Thanks for not dwelling on the lame ass film & the book ,it's not the story those that were there will accept as anything but shit. Mayhem then is not the Mayhem of today , that's for damn sure but at least they try & carry on. We will not again see the likes of DEAD & his talent for Black Metal nor what Mayhem would have accomplished with DEAD had he gotten help he so desperately needed.

😢 The lyrics really hit me.

Thanks lady, you did a good job

This is great video, nice job

thank you for this video! as much as it is horrible, the history of mayhem is so interesting as someone who is a newer fan. it’s crazy to think he is the same age that i am now. life eternal is my favourite mayhem song

Great video

great video on the life and death of Dead. I think you did a great job combining the information that you already knew and the information you researched. also If you haven't heard the December Moon demo by Morbid yet I highly recommend it. it's an amazing demo. and even though I love the stuff Dead recorded with Mayhem in my opinion December Moon by Morbid is even better then the stuff Dead recorded with Mayhem.

I know one info that i think is wrong in here. Dawn of the black heart is a bootleg album published by a guy in brazil if im not mistaken. Euronymous sent the photo to this guy and years later he published with deads photo in it as bootleg album. Im not sure its true or not because i knew this from one of Boris T's video when he visited old mayhem places. But still cool podcast, its so well put together and i like your voice too, its very calming. Thanks for posting🤘🔥🔥

Wish he was here with us today rip pella 🖤

Really sad.i wonder if when he got beat up when he was little he felt so bad an unloved it messed him up poor guy I wish he got help

It's a sad and disturbing story.

I mean, even the people who were there can’t seem to agree what was fact and what was not, so there’s bound to be some haters claiming that something’s inaccurate.

This is my favorite mayhem video 🫡

Dead was a amazing black metal vocalist but I prefer he's vocals on the morbid ep

His voice was fucking crazy

RIP Pelle

Yo! This story is nuts! I saw the album cover picture, it's pretty gruesome. Although oddly enough it didn't look real. I think to a certain degree we as humans have become a bit desensitized to extreme violence. We see it so much in our world its hard to decipher what is staged & what is actual death. Thank you for sharing, wild story indeed.

I wonder if Dead ever heard of apoptosis (it even sounds like a black metal band name) maybe he would have become a cell biologist.

Pelle was a few months older than me. Rip

22 is soooo young. And too young to die by suicide. Yes any age is too young to die by that method and no one ever should commit. But 22 is just insane

I love ya pelle

What eye color did he have? It's hard to tell in old pictures.

I'm more of a deathmetal fan but Dead had the rizz he was the Kobain of bm in more ways than one

I love and like your voice Ma'am

See the documentary "Pure fucking Mayhem" it tells there whole story by the actual band members.

I don’t know why euronymous hated me

Uhhhh ... if those were prized song lyrics, I wrote a slew of platinum hits on my desks in High school 😅😂 I'm a serious Metal head since 1978. But those are just disconjointed dark ramblings.

maybe i like him because he have my statue of the body

Pelle. I know you didnt really care for cats but I have one who could have saved your life

He sounds interesting to

Это Серёжа Фубар?

I’m from Sweden gotta find a time to visit his grave. Hej barn idag ska vi lära oss… att skäääära😂

he could not have been more beautiful. it's too bad that his parents were checked out, as well as his friends, and his friends' parents. Per actually did like cats! and i have totally buried Halloween costumes as well. so, i don't think he had that disease. i think he was a very gentle, misunderstood soul, who was probably schizophrenic and/or bipolar. if one person had noticed.."Lords of Chaos" was great! absolutely not true that Mayhem was against the film! they made a bunch of money, and are touring again because of that movie. no, the main dissenter was fucking Varg..just having a fit over a Jewish actor playing his part..ooooohhhh i was SOOO happy when i heard who the actor was, then Varg's reaction. one last thing: how is he out of jail?? like, what do you have to DO in Norway to get a real sentence?? and he was having a blast in there! he did a couple of albums, had a computer, tv..very posh. and when he escaped and was caught with ammo and explosives, they just added a year. that he didn't serve. Per couldn't help himself. my son is 24 and he's an idiot! All of it is so tragic..super happy Varg didn't get to tour! not in my country! HE is a true psychopath. i didn't really like Until the Light..because it was him yapping about himself, and the description of Oystein's death was recited with absolutely zero human emotion. he's nothing.

a copyright claim for his screams? wtf who cares about his scream, its not that they could sell it for a million dollar

Kurt Cobain was a Per Yngve Ohlin wannabe

It’s April 8th here in Australia… RIP dead. Hope you awakened to where you wanted to be.

Wish he was here with us today rip pella 🖤

Wish he was here with us today rip pella 🖤