Jon Nödtveidt
Jon Nödtveidt
Jon Andreas Nödtveidt (28 June 1975 – 13 August 2006) was a Swedish musician best known as the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist of the melodic black/death metal band Dissection). With the band, he released the seminal and influential extreme metal albums The Somberlain (1993) and Storm of the Light's Bane (1995). In addition to Dissection, Nödtveidt performed with several other projects, including Ophthalamia, The Black, De Infernali and Nifelheim, and also worked as a journalist for Metal Zone, where he covered the growing black metal scene.
Jon Nödtveidt
In 1998, Nödtveidt was sentenced to ten years in prison for accessory to murder. Upon his release from prison in 2004, he resumed his work with Dissection and released the album Reinkaos (2006). He committed suicide on 13 August 2006 at the age of 31.
Career
In 1994, Nödtveidt joined Nifelheim as a session guitarist, and released the albums The Priest of Satan and A Journey in Darkness with black metal bands The Black and Ophthalamia respectively. During the summer of 1995, he joined the newly formed Satanic organization Misanthropic Luciferian Order (MLO). Later that year, Dissection released their second studio album, Storm of the Light's Bane. In 1996, Nödtveidt formed the dark ambient band De Infernali and released the album Symphonia De Infernal the following year.
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