Per Yngve Ohlin

« Dead ». This is the name by which a young Swedish man, once a member of the most famous Black Metal band in the world, Mayhem, is remembered. Today, he is recognized as a legend, an almost mythical figure, in the world of extreme music. Obscure and complex personality, ideology and sinister behaviors ; he lived through Darkness and Death, and put his entire heart and soul into his music. He blossomed in the thought of The Dead and the underworld, which he would express in is morbid art. Dead lived only twenty-two years, and left in this world a trace darker than Darkness itself. These pages contain the story of his life, retraced step by step, a collection of his photographs, interviews, letters and drawings, and the words of those who once knew him…