“Dead committed suicide in 1991 by shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun after cutting his wrists with a machete. The bullets had been given to him by Varg Vikernes. Varg (Count Grishnack) knew that Dead used to practice with a shotgun in the forest close to the hut where the guys of Mayhem lived. He detested Euronymous musical tastes about electronic music, needing to leave the house to relax. His body (wearing an ``I Love Transylvania`` shirt and leaving a suicide note saying ``Excuse all the Blood``) was discovered at his room. Euronymous took some pictures (one of them appearing as the cover of the infamous �Dawn Of Black Hearts� bootleg album) of the suicide and scene. A legend was created, and it was said that Euronymous had cooked and eaten pieces of Dead's brain. It was also said that fragments of Dead's skull had been collected and forged into necklaces that both Euronymous and Hellhammer wore as a tribute to Dead. Hellhammer was even rumoured to play the drums with Dead's bones live. Of course the truth was never as macabre as people would have liked to be. Dead committed suicide not because his love to underground, but because of his deception when seeing that Mayhem was still a very little band besides all the optimistic views of Euronymous and living away from his home (he was swedish) in a strange place where he almost didn�t have friends.”