Jon Nödtveidt Dissection interview in June 1994

The first ever Jon Nödtveidt/Dissection interview that I read was in June of 1994. In Swedish with this very ugly unfitting background. But that's not important it's what Jon says in the interview that matters. 

Anyway this is one of the reasons that made me buy The Somberlain 23 year ago in 1994 when I was 14 years. Damn I'm fucking old... 

It's from the Swedish magazine Metal Zone that both Jon Nödtveidt and Ole Öhman wrote in for a couple of issues. This is in the same issue (nr. 5) of the magazine that Jon interviews Bathory and Emperor. In the Extreme Zone he wrote about bands that caught my interest like Nifelheim, Ophthalamia, Abruptum, Einherjer, Opeth etc. and a few fanzines (see a English translation of the article I made here. Kind of strange that he got to write about the excellent album A Journey In Darkness (1994) by Ophthalamia since he was the vocalist on that one. 

Jon Nödtveidt was a very talented writer and every text he wrote for this magazine was so interesting back then (and now) for me. That combination almost made me a Dissection fan even before buying The Somberlain. That record was so important and had such an effect on me.

Iron Maiden started my interest for Heavy Metal back in 1988. Even if band like Slayer, Morbid Angel & Dismember plus a ton of other bands had a very strong effect on me. It was Dissection that really changed my view on Extreme Metal music forever whether it called Black/Death/Thrash.

I decided to translate it into English thanks to all the demand on Instagram.