Today, we're going to talk about a guy named Dead, who is the ex-vocalist of the black metal band, MAYHEM!
His story of life and death is as interesting as creepy, let's see it a little bit:
Since he suffered an ice-skating accident when he was a kid and died for a few minutes, he had been saying that he belonged to some Nordic Woods and stuff like that. He also loved the smell of death, so he kept a dead raven in a bag and he always smelled it before every concert with Mayhem.
He liked to dress himself as a dead too, so he'd let his clothes buried under earth for several days, for it to get some bugs and the smell of that earth too..
Dead hated life, so he'd paint a corpse paint in his face just to get more and more close to death itself.
Years after, he just killed himself with a bullet right through his brain, leaving the note: "sorry for the blood" besides his pulses, that were cut by a knife minutes before he shot himself.
That's impressive and really fucking morbid, right? But there's more, WAY more...
When Euronymous (Mayhem ex-guitarist) got home and saw that scene, guess what he did?!
Yes, exactly, he did what any normal person would do, he yelled and called the cops.
No, I'm just kidding.
He re-arranged the scene and took pictures of it and after the photos, he ate a piece of Dead's brain.
Yes, that's true.
The pictures taken became an album of the band, called "Dawn of the black hearts", and you can see it on google, those are the real photos (with no edition or anything) of Dead himself dead.
Years after, a guy named Varg Vikernes - leader and multiinstrumentist from the band Burzum - stabbed Euronymous 27 times in the back (because of a fight and rivality that these 2 bands had) and was arrested two times more after that, for burning two churches.
(Can you imagine how peaceful and calm these guys were, right? Hahaha)
So, all of that leads me to a Dead's sentence (He said it on a song called "Chimera") that I, Renê Manzano, particularly think that it's one of the most impacting and powerful sentences ever written or spoken:
"YOU ARE NOT DEAD, YOU NEVER EXISTED."
