Was one of the first black metal musicians to wear corpse paint.
His suicide note notably read, "Excuse all the blood".
A photograph of his corpse was used as the album cover of a live bootleg Mayhem album entitled "Dawn of the Black Hearts", which has often been considered one of the most controversial album covers of all time.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot with a sawn-off shotgun.
Was a singer in the Norwegian black metal-band, Mayhem.
Often buried his stage costumes and covered his corpse paint with dirt to actually look like a corpse.
Suffered a ruptured spleen as a child after getting beaten up in school, which lead to his unhealthy obsession with death.