individual's features and make them look "dead." Bands of the early Norwegian black metal scene used corpse paint extensively. Early vocalist of Mayhem Per "Dead" Ohlin started wearing it in the late 1980s. According to Necrobutcher, Mayhem's bass player: "It wasn't anything to do with the way Kiss and Alice Cooper used makeup. Dead actually wanted to look like a corpse. He didn't do it to look cool." In the early 1990s, other Norwegian black metal bands followed suit and their style and sound was adopted by bands around the world. Eventually, some Norwegian bands—such as Emperor and Satyricon—stopped wearing corpse paint, often citing its loss of meaning or trendiness due to use by so many bands. Examples See also Heavy metal fashion References External links How To Apply Corpse Paint Dravenstales.ch Brief history of corpse paint Black metal Cosmetics Heavy metal fashion