Dissection frontman dead

2006-08-18 by Zandt | 24 Comments
From Blabbermouth:

DISSECTION frontman Jon Nödtveidt has committed suicide, informed sources have told Blabbermouth.net. Nödtveidt's death was confirmed by the Swedish distributor Sound Pollution, whose staff has worked with Dissection throughout the band's career. A posting on the Sound Pollution web site reads: "RIP Jon Nödtveidt 1975-2006. Condolences from Sound Pollution & Black Lodge."

Nödtveidt formed Dissection in 1989 and released two full-length albums with the group — The Somberlain (1993) and Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) — before he was convicted in Sweden of felony murder of 37-year-old homosexual Algerian Josef Ben Maddour in 1997. He was released from prison in 2004, at which point he restarted Dissection.

Dissection announced in May that it would split up imediately following its final performances in support of its recently released CD, Reinkaos. The band was subsequently forced to cancel its two previously announced appearances in North America (Sept. 1 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, CA and Sept. 6 at B.B. King Blues Club in New York City) after Nödtveidt was denied legal entry into the United States as a result of his conviction.

Dissection's most recent album, Reinkaos, was released in May on The End Records.

Tagged: Dissection

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Thor
August 19th 2006
10385 Comments


Oh my god! Noooo!!!!! :sad:

south_of_heaven 11
August 19th 2006
5619 Comments


Not cool at all...

Blindguardian
August 19th 2006
186 Comments


I think prison wasn't nice to him, storm of the light's bane will remain my favorite black metal album


Killtacular
August 19th 2006
1314 Comments


I saw this when I got home in an Agalloch bulletin on MySpace and was going to add it myself, but the site was being screwy. So you get credit, lad.

As for Jon,

TID22
August 19th 2006
76 Comments


crazy...

dUSK
August 19th 2006
94 Comments


Wow.

R.I.P. Jon


And to think I nearly bought Reinkaos just this afternoon. I think I'll have to go grab it on Monday now.

Stoic
August 19th 2006
161 Comments


At least the way he died fits his ideology. A great composer is gone and from now on dissection songs will never sound the same because I just cant help thinking about his death...
NP Where Dead Angels Lie :-(

Thor
August 19th 2006
10385 Comments


I listened to all of Storm of the Light's Bane last night in honor of his death. Genius work, and still the best black metal album ever released. And I'm not just saying that because he's dead.

teen_rocker
August 19th 2006
260 Comments


man this is horriblie news.

Shadows
Moderator
August 19th 2006
2530 Comments


:eek:

Squirrel
August 19th 2006
74 Comments


This is just .. strange.

I remember buying their Storm of the Lights Bane CD on impulse from a shop in Amsterdam and looking at hte back cover and listening to it religeously.

Crazy to think this guy I adore and stuff has brought his own life to an end.


That youthful, long haired guy on the back of the CD box

Storm In A Teacup
August 19th 2006
47121 Comments


This always sucks. Best wishes to his family.

AmericnZero02
August 19th 2006
3977 Comments


ive never heard of em. but regardless what band it is thats terrible news. RIP

Bron-Yr-Aur
August 20th 2006
4405 Comments


I really don't care. He was apparently little more than a bigoted murderer, regardless of whether or not he released any good music. I'm surprised he was let out of prison. This Message Edited On 08.20.06

YDload
August 20th 2006
1207 Comments


That guy sounded like a pretty hardcore asshole, clearly the world is better off without him. Even if you liked the band, it would appear that they did all they were going to do, so there's no point in that guy being alive anymore.

MadHatter1337
August 20th 2006
7 Comments


Another dark chapter in the black metal bible... I've been listening to Storm of the Light's Bane all day in honor of Jon & Dissection...

RIP

Thor
August 20th 2006
10385 Comments


Despite him not being the best person in the world, he still wrote some of the best melodic black metal out there and was capable of being one of the best metal musicians of this past decade.

My hat goes off to Jon.

Nra4ever_17
August 20th 2006
65 Comments


I'd be upset, except he was a horrible person who frankly deserved it. I didn't see him making any good music in the future either, as I found Reinkaos boring.This Message Edited On 08.20.06

Cravinov13
August 22nd 2006
3854 Comments


This... sucks...

Silenius
August 23rd 2006
305 Comments


Well, one could say you could this coming as he said he had finished everything he wanted with Dissection and wanted to abruptly end it. It kind just scares me how he went about it, like how it seems like he was intending to kill himself on a day that he chose for himself long before he did it.



hardspot
November 19th 2006
39 Comments


"I really don't care. He was apparently little more than a bigoted murderer, regardless of whether or not he released any good music. I'm surprised he was let out of prison. " - Bron-Yr-Aur

Shut up you fucktard. Though he has different opinions does it mean he was evil? No, He just wasn't normal to Your fucking standards.

May he rest in peace
Hvíldu í friði, Jon Nödtveidt.


Doppelganger
December 2nd 2006
3124 Comments


So killing homosexuals is normal, hardspot?

Yazz_Flute
March 3rd 2007
19179 Comments


I find it scary that he killed himself on my brother's birthday......wierd as
hell....0_o.

I only got into DIssection a month or so ago and I know he's been dead awhile and
that prob nobody will read this but



SOTLB is an amzing albumThis Message Edited On 07.04.08

FR33L0RD
February 12th 2008
6400 Comments


Hummm....
Im kind of late.
=================
R.I.P Jon , rest in the pandimensional plane of the Chaos.



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