Song of the day: "God Of Forbidden Light" by Dissection - Allied Forces

On this day in 1975, Jon Nödtveidt was born in the city of Strömstad in Sweden, a town currently inhabited by just over seven thousand inhabitants located near the border with Norway. The Swedish instrumentalist developed his interest in music at a very early age and belonged to a couple of thrash metal groups such as Siren’s Yell or Rabbit’s Carrot, but not before having shared a band with his younger brother Emil. However, it was not until 1989 that Dissection came to life and Jon Nödtveidt would begin to gain some importance in the black metal scene thanks to the publication of his demo Into Infinite Obscurity from 1991 and his everlasting debut album The Somberlain from 1993.

Nödtveit always showed himself to be a multifaceted musician despite the fact that Dissection‘s debut album was what we would call genuine black metal, demonstrating that his ideas within a genre that at that time was beginning to hit very hard would be well received by a young audience eager to taste the delights that that wave of Norwegian black metal bands began to release in those early stages of the nineties. The rest of the story is well known to those who have investigated the dark years that gave life to the truths and lies of Norwegian black metal. Nödtveit entered prison in 1998 at the age of 22 after being convicted as one of the two perpetrators of the Keillers Park murder.

Dissection remained in the shadows during Nödtveidt‘s period in Österåker prison, although Jon continued to work on the music that would continue Dissection‘s journey following the excellent second album Storm Of The Light’s Bane in 1995. Following his release from prison In 2004 he joined forces with guitarist Set Teitan (ex-Spiritual Ceremony, ex-Vomitain), drummer Tomas Asklund (Dawn, Gorgoroth) and bassist Brice Leclercq (Nightrage, Sol Negro) to give life to Dissection‘s third and long-awaited album, but not before returning in style with the single Maha Kali under the name Rebirth Of Dissection. With the long-awaited return of Dissection, the third album by the band entitled REINKAΩS was released in 2006 under their own label Black Horizon Music.

Reinkaos, stylized as REINKAΩS, stands out from their previous works by combining the aggressiveness of the black metal of yesteryear with a much more refined melodic death metal taking as reference the grimoire Liber Azerate published by the satanic order Misanthropic Luciferian Order founded by Jon himself, his partner in the murder of Keillers Park Vlad Nemesis Khoshnood and a third member who would later leave the order. The album itself uses passages from the grimoire itself to convey its beliefs about the so-called chaosophy, which in short would be something like an infinidimensional and pandimensional plane of possibilities in contrast to the cosmos that only has three spatial dimensions and a linear time dimension based on the Jewish and biblical theory of the creation of Adam and Eve and the existence of the Abrahamic God Yehowa.

God Of Forbidden Light gives us a clear vision about the worship of Lucifer and how he will provide his wisdom and free us from our emotional ties as well as giving us enough knowledge to free our spirits from the chains that bind us to society and religions. who often tend to blind their followers in a concise and conscious way. In general terms, it is a song that is very different from what we could expect in a Dissection song and that could hardly appear on albums like The Somberlain (1993, No Fashion Records) or Storm Of The Light’s Bane (1995, Nuclear Blast) but which does not pale at all in an album as varied as Reinkaos. The catchy melodies and mid-tempo of this song manage to instantly transport us to forgotten nooks and gloomy places where only Jon Nödtveit could have taken us.