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Journalist: DISSECTION's NÖDTVEIDT Was 'A Misunderstood Soul Who Deserves Respect'

August 24, 2006

Paul Stenning, author of the GUNS N' ROSES book "The Band That Time Forgot" and the AC/DC book "Two Sides to Every Glory", who is going to be publishing a 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled "30 Years of the Beast - The Complete Biography 1976-2006", has posted the following message on his MySpace page:

"Many of you probably don't even know of the band DISSECTION, much less the fact leader Jon Nödtveidt recently took his own life in a very unexpected move...But for those that do know of them, or are just curious I want to let you know I will be writing an obituary/retrospective type piece for Metal Maniacs, about Jon's life, the meaning of his existence/final days and the last DISSECTION album.

"For me, 'Reinkaos' is album of the year by a long way already, and listening to it now it carries even more weight knowing that this was the album Jon felt was substantial enough to end DISSECTION. Some were disappointed I know, but listen again and think — if you can — that maybe he knew what he was going to do already. The album is a glorious epic and fitting to a misunderstood life. I won't go into too much here as I will be putting everything into words for the MM piece, but I hope you will all read it and in the meantime check out the band again and try and understand this was a misunderstood soul who deserves respect now as he never had while he was here..."

Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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