Dissection (band)

Dissection
Dissection live in 2005
Background information
Origin	Strömstad, Sweden
Genres	Black metal melodic death metal blackened death metal
Years active	1989–1997 2004–2006
Labels	The End
Associated acts	Ophthalamia Watain Soulreaper Cardinal Sin Deathstars
Website	www.dissection.se
Past members	Jon Nödtveidt Set Teitan Tomas Asklund Mattias "Mäbe" Johansson John Zwetsloot Johan Norman Peter Palmdahl Emil Nödtveidt Brice Leclerq Hakon Forwald Erik Danielsson hourani Ole Öhman Tobias Tjellgren

Dissection was a Swedish extreme metal band from Strömstad, formed in 1989, by guitarist, vocalist and main songwriter Jon Nödtveidt and bass guitarist 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 being sentenced to prison after he was convicted of being an accomplice to the murder of Josef Meddour. In 2004 Nödtveidt restarted the band following his release from prison, with new members whom he felt were able to "stand behind and live up to the demands of Dissection's Satanic concept." They released their third and final full-length album Reinkaos in April of 2006, before disbanding in June of that same year. Nödtveidt claimed that 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." Two months after disbanding, Nödtveidt committed suicide with a gun in his apartment in Hässelby inside a circle of lit candles. In total, they released three full-length studio albums as well as a number of live albums and EPs before their final dissolution in 2006. Dissection played a central role in the development of Sweden's black metal and death metal scenes, particularly due to the influence of their first two albums, and have sometimes been described as part of the Gothenburg scene.

In 1988, a thrash metal band by the name of Siren’s Yell was formed in the Swedish town of Strömstad. Its members were Jon Nödtveidt, Ole Öhman, Peter Palmdahl, and Mattias “Mäbe” Johansson. The group recorded a single demo before breaking up in 1989. Nödtveidt joined the band Rabbit’s Carrot, where Öhman played drums. Nödtveidt and Öhman “were never very comfortable in Rabbit's Carrot, which also explains their short time in that band, as they wanted the music and lyrics to evolve on the extreme dark side. Jon would write songs and arrange them together with Ole in the rehearsal place, but the other members, didn't feel that the material would fit the band.” In autumn 1989, Jon Nödtveidt formed Dissection together with Palmdahl on bass. In the spring of 1990, they recruited drummer Öhman. In April 1990, the first official rehearsal tape Severed into Shreds was recorded and sent to underground fanzines worldwide “to mark the birth of DISSECTION, a band that was about to make heavy impact on the scene”. The band recruited former Siren’s Yell bassist Mattias “Mäbe” Johansson, who was now playing with the local death/thrash metal band Nosferatu, as a live session member playing the rhythm guitar. Dissection’s first concert was held in October 1990 with death metal act Entombed.