Dissection (band)

Dissection
Dissection live in 2005. Front: vocalist and guitarist Jon Nödtveidt; back: bassist Brice Leclerq.
Dissection live in 2005. Front: vocalist and guitarist Jon Nödtveidt; back: bassist Brice Leclerq.
Background information
OriginStrömstad, Sweden
Genres
Years active
  • 1989–1997
  • 2004–2006
Labels
Past members
Websitewww.dissection.se

Dissection was a Swedish extreme metal band from Strömstad, formed in 1989 by guitarist, vocalist and main songwriter Jon Nödtveidt and bassist Peter Palmdahl. Despite a number of lineup changes, Dissection released The Somberlain in 1993 and Storm of the Light's Bane in 1995, before splitting up in 1997 due to Nödtveidt's imprisonment for complicity in the murder of Josef Meddour.

After his release, Nödtveidt reformed the band in 2004 with new members who he felt could "stand behind and live up to the demands of Dissection's Satanic concept."[6] They released their third and final full-length album Reinkaos in April 2006, before disbanding that June. Nödtveidt said he had "reached the limitations of music as a tool for expressing what I want to express, for myself and the handful of others that I care about."[7] Two months later, Nödtveidt committed suicide with a gun inside a circle of lit candles in his apartment in Hässelby.[8]

Dissection released a number of live albums and EPs before its final dissolution, and played a central role in the development of Sweden's black metal and death metal scenes, particularly through the influence of the first two albums; it has sometimes been described as part of the Gothenburg scene.[9]

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  2. ^ Andrew, J (19 February 2015). "Blackened Melodic Death Metal: A History Lesson". Metal Injection. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ^ Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Feral House 1998, p. 268.
  4. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal. Second printing. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009
  5. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal. Second printing. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009
  6. ^ "Official DISSECTION website". Dissection.nu. 27 January 2004. Archived from the original on 27 January 2004. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Dissection - Final Interview with Jon Nödtveidt Available". Brave Words. 23 May 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference expressen was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Ekeroth, Daniel (1 January 2008). Swedish Death Metal. Bazillion Points Books. ISBN 9780979616310.