DISSECTION Frontman JON NГ–DTVEIDT Commits Suicide

DISSECTION frontman Jon NГ¶dtveidt has committed suicide. He was found dead on Wednesday, August 16 at his apartment in HГ¤sselby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. NГ¶dtveidt‘s death was confirmed by the Swedish distributor Sound Pollution, whose staff has worked with DISSECTION throughout the band’s career.

NГ¶dtveidt formed DISSECTION in 1989 and released two full-length albums with the group — “The Somberlain” (1993) and “Storm of the Light’s Bane” (1995) — before he was convicted in Sweden of felony murder of 37-year-old homosexual Algerian Josef Ben Maddour in 1997. He was released from prison in 2004, at which point he restarted DISSECTION.

DISSECTION‘s most recent album, “Reinkaos“, was released in May on The End Records.