
Right before they played their signature song Freezing Moon, Dead went to the restroom to put electric tape around his arms to stop the bleeding. During the show, Dead slashed his arms and bled all over the audience while also throwing pig heads and rotten meat into the crowd. The band played their first show with Dead as their singer on February 3rd, 1990 at Fulkets Hus in Jessheim, Norway.
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When he did, they had to go to the police station so they can get someone to cut the handcuffs to get Dead free from the light post. Metalion and Euronymous tackled him down and handcuffed him to a light post until he calmed down. They ran around at night and Dead would be cutting himself badly. They had to throw away everything with blood on it. At a New Years Eve party, they went into Metalions parents bedroom and started to slice their arms with knives. Dead became friends with other black metal musicians such as Metalion and Tompa. Dead and the band would record demo tapes and send them to fans worldwide and also to record stores. He also hated cats and wanted to kill the stray ones that would come near the house but would fail to kill them with a home made spear as they would get away.ĭead started to collect dead birds under his bed and start cutting himself near friends. But when he did speak, he would talk about his obsession with death. They all came to realize how strange Dead was as neither of them could carry a conversation with him as he would rarely speak at all. The band moved into Dead's house in Oslo near Krakstad, Norway. After seeing that everyone in the band had stage names, Jørn Stubberud (Necrobutcher), Øystein Aerseth (Euronymous) and Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer), Pelle decided to take the stage name Dead. The band met up and Pelle became the lead singer. Necrobutcher the bass player recieved the letter with the tape which had Pelle's address. Feeling as if the band wasn't going anywhere, Pelle disbanded Morbid and sent the demo tape to the band Mayhem hoping to be their front-man as they needed one. Pelle was also featured on their self titled demo and another album titled "Live From The Past". A live album titled "Live In Stockholm" was released.



The band then recorded their debut demo, December Moon, at Thunderload Studios in Stockholm on 5 and 6 December 1987. When "TG" left the band, Ulf Cederlund took over. With Pelle as the group's founder and mastermind, they had a revolving door of members before settling on the line-up of John "John Lennart" Hagström and "TG" on guitars, Jens Näsström on bass and Lars Göran Petrov on drums. Morbid was formed in Stockholm, Sweden, at the end of 1985. It was also during this time that he started to get into metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Kiss, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Motörhead, Venom, Sodom and Mercyful Fate as his favorite. Pelle was haunted by thoughts of the after life and started to suffer from sleep apnea where he would dream he was being choked to death although he was actually suffocating.

When his parents divorced, he was tossed around the family until he lived with his mother and brother.ĭue to this, he had to change schools a lot and one day, he was brutally bullied by kids at school and when he returned home, he collapsed and was taken to the hospital where he died from internal bleeding but was brought back to life by the doctors. He had two siblings Anders and Anna Ohlin. Pelle Ohlin was born in Vasterhaninge, Sweden to Anita Forsberg and an unknown father.
