Dissection (band)

Dissection
Dissection live in 2005. Front: vocalist and guitarist Jon Nödtveidt; back: bassist Brice Leclerq.
Background information
Origin	Strömstad, Sweden
Genres	Melodic black-death[1][2] black metal[3][1] melodic death metal[4] blackened death metal[5]
Years active	1989–1997 2004–2006
Labels	No Fashion Nuclear Blast The End
Past members	Jon Nödtveidt Set Teitan Tomas Asklund Mattias "Mäbe" Johansson John Zwetsloot Johan Norman Peter Palmdahl Emil Nödtveidt Brice Leclerq Haakon Forwald Erik Danielsson Ole Öhman Tobias Kellgren
Website	www.dissection.se

Dissection was a Swedish black 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]