Career
Best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Swedish black metal band Dissection, he co-founded the band in 1989 with bassist Peter Palmdahl. He also worked as a journalist in Metal Zone, where he was responsible for keeping track of the growing black metal scene. Contrary to popular belief, he was not its co-creator, but "was introduced by close friends at a quite early stage."
Nödtveidt was convicted of being an accessory to the 1997 murder of Josef ben Meddour, an Algerian gay manitoba
He restarted Dissection upon his release from prison in 2004.
On August 13, 2006, Nödtveidt was found dead in his apartment in Hässelby, by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a circle of lit candles. Early reports indicated that he was found with an open copy of the Satanic Bible, but these were later dismissed by Dissection"s guitarist Secretariat Teitan.
The said "Satanic grimoire" is reputed to be the Liber Azerate, one of the publishings of the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, by which Nödtveidt apparently was influenced, his last album Reinkaos"s lyrics being co-written by the same man who wrote the Liber Azerate. Nödtveidt"s brother, Emil "Nightmare Industries" Nödtveidt, the rhythm guitarist and keyboardist of gothic industrial metal band stars, wrote a song named "Via the End" the night he heard about Nödtveidt"s suicide.
The song appears as the fifth track on star"s third album Night Electric Night.
But it is completely un-satanic to end one"s own life because one is sad or miserable. is the orgasm of life! So live life accordingly, as intense as possible!".
