wearing dotbh merch?

Yea I have the shirt. My girlfriend seems to be more fond of wearing it though.

to anyone who wears it, or sports it (patch, poster, cd, etc) newsflash: you're a cunt. It's like, this person really went through alot and has a family, friends and an actual life, you dont think his family wants to see and be reminded of such a dark and misfortunate picture on shirts and shit that depicts a really dark moment that actually happened? It's super disrespectful and mind I say "fucking gay" because theres no other way to put it. Theres a user actually, that goes by the name of "NISSE666" that was actually friends with Dead, maybe he'll see this thread and share his thoughts on it. These were just mine.

i agree with DeathInFire ...exactly like u say. ...its far far away from cool etc. and its not as Mayhem would just have this 1 tshirt-design..if u like the band..u can wear tons of other shirts to promote ur music-taste...

While I acknowledge owning such a patch (for example, the full colour woven one someone made depicting the suicide) would be interesting to own for the sake of it being quite a unique item, it's a far cry from actually wearing it around, for sure. Based on essentially any account of events from that time, no, it seems like nobody was ever okay with this idea other than the Columbian (I think?) record label who decided to actually use the picture for that bootleg. The only person who ever seemed to be 'okay' with the idea was Euronymous himself and obviously, his views are not representative of Mayhem as a whole or anyone else individually.

While I would not personally wear the image, I don't have ill feelings towards those who do as I feel like due to the desensitisation of the image, what with it being used as an album cover, bootleg as it may be, that the connotations behind what the image is and means doesn't quite resonate with everyone who views it. I'd also say a fair few people wear it in some sort of warped sense of honouring Dead, which is at least better than feeling like a supreme edgelord for wearing something depicting a suicide. It's a skewed sense of honouring someone, of course, but at least the intentions are there and that's better than simply thinking a suicide scene is cool.
I'm sure anyone who stopped to consider the facts, as laid out by DeathInFire, would think twice about flaunting that image and that is perfectly understandable and something I am in agreement with. I'm just not going to be bothered by someone who doesn't quite get those facts is all.
Apologies for the long winded post, just wanted to put across I didn't see it as black and white as it outwardly looks without making it seem like I'm justifying it. For the record, I don't own this image in any way, shape or form for the reasons I've laid out nor do I have any interest in doing so.

I agree with all of you here, except with 2hobos. I don't own that shirt. Every time when I hear about Pelle or listen to Morbid I remember of Nisse. He shared quite a bunch of amazing stories with us here. That photo is just disrespectful.
As much I like Mayhem I'll never obtain that recording in any format.

This goes little off-topic but gotta ask this:
There are other bands and shirts/records/patches etc with pictures of real people dead. Is Carcass's record "Wake up and smell the...carcass" showing JFK with his head blown any more acceptable than "DOTBH"?
It is sad that Mayhem/some other people try to profit about Dead's death but that situation isn't unique still.

Bit more off-topic. It's kinda interesting to see this kinda topic here after all since assload of metal lyrics are about killing, torturing, suicide, genocide and so on.

Back to the point. I wouldn't personally get that shirt/patch/record but if someone has it. It's their choice.

Lets look at it this way. Euronymous took the picture and sent it to Bull Metal, in return he made a notorious LP as it is one of the 2 full length releases with Dead on vocals (the other one is live in Leipzig). Apart from that he only made 300 copies, so I guess it was supposed to be for specific people and collectors. Therefore, owning the LP is ok in my opinion (I have 2 of the original copies).

Shirts and patches of dotbh were mass produced years later and were only meant to capitalize on Dead's memory. Wearing one is just tacky and it means you are an attention whore who probably had never heard of Dead until you saw his death photo on google... On top of that, you don't own a piece of Mayhem's history or a unique item, you just own a bootleg of a bootleg that some Bulgarian or Mexican released in pure quality...

i have the CD, mostly because it's my favorite Mayhem recording from what i feel was the peak of Mayhem's existence but i personally wouldn't wear a shirt with that image on it. if you've got one as a collector's item that you don't wear out then whatever but as far as wearing it when you're out, i just think something like that is a bit too much to be showing off to the general public; I'm not above wearing offensive t-shirts but i think a real life suicide picture is pretty tasteless, that's just me though.

just wondering, how many of you decrying those who wear DOTBH shirts feel about bands like Macabre who feature serial killers' faces on their shirts?

I'm all for bad taste, but I'm pretty sure Per's family and friends don't appreciate it.

Macabre shirts are just co-opting real-life stuff which has been done again and again, it's all with a sense of humor---though some victims' families may not think so---but... Anyway, I'm kind of in the mode of collecting Macabre shirts at the moment (please see my Wanted list!!!) and still, I would not EVER want the Dead shirt around. That's one of the things Necro quit over, as he himself was disgusted by the photo and demanded Euro destroy it. The shirts were ALL bootleg, as Mayhem never put that design out.

Even the Macabre stuff; I will not own the Gein shirt that depicts a hanging torso flayed open on the back. Most of the others I can deal with. (again, see Wanted list!!!)

dont think i would wear it if i listened to them.
but i do have a soft spot for real tragedy picture shirts (aswell as album covers). i have shirts with pictures of a soldier holding/draging a dead child (China 1930's), a mass grave (Armania 1895), a pile of burning corpses (dont know where from), one with 2 disabled girls learnig to walk (looks like it has something to do with Polio) and one with animal testing.
but all of those images are used in a more meaningfull way. while still partly used for shocking, they are showing us the horrors of the past (and even present) that we all like to ignore so much.

I like the album itself, and I think it would be cool to have in my collection, based solely on the album's contents. On the other hand I think walking around wearing shirts and patches with the cover image is an asshole thing to do, which is weird because I wouldn't really mind shirts depicting things like historical mass murders. Maybe it's because the photo on DotBH is a lot more personal than a pile of anonymous corpses or the corpse some unknown person.

Also, considering where I live, it's not too unlikely for me to meet someone who knew Dead personally (or at least was acquainted) so that would be especially bad.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other; I probably wouldn't go out of my way to buy the shirt, but I wouldn't lecture anyone for wearing one. I wouldn't have thought that his friends and family would appreciate it though.

As a Mayhem fan, I do have the album, of course for it's content.

I do own a copy on CD because Mayhem are one of my all time favourite Black Metal bands.

I wouldn't buy the shirt for it, and as for the patch for it I don't own it nor will it be on my Mayhem / Morbid tribute jacket because I think its a tad wrong.

I can't say I understand all the sympathies in this thread, like people here were friends with Dead something. Just because all those unnamed people who died in war atrocities or at the hands of serial killers are now nothing but photos in history books, it doesn't make their lives any less important than Dead's. I'm sure all their families would be offended too by all the crusties profiting off t-shirts with Vietnam / WWII victims. In fact, one should consider it much worse to wear shirts of that kind, since those people didn't choose to suffer and die, while Dead forfeited life under his own hands with a humorous note left to boot. I wonder how HE would've felt about those patches and shirts.

How many of you own Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering? Or any merch related to it? The photograph used for the album cover is an actual dead person's head. If you're disgusted by Dead's picture, why not a guy's head who was chopped in half for the sake of art without any consent from his family? Let's not be hypocritical here. If Dead's life is too precious to be "disrespected" on a t-shirt, then so are all those others.

What does that Slayer shirt have to do with the topic?????
The Mandatory Suicide shirt does not refer to a real event as far as I know or am I wrong? It s not a picture of a real dude who hanged himself.
Dawn of the Black hearts though features a picture of a real event, Dead blowing his head off, taken by Euronymous when he found the body.

Personally I don't care about the content of the picture, I just own copies of the LP for the material and as an investment. so I will have to agree with Taikon. You guys reproduce hundreds of pictures of dead people in one way or another (in social media, in shirts, in album covers etc). I don't see you caring about respect or their families there...
What is even funnier is that 99.9% of you (including myself) hadn't even heard of Dead when he was alive, let alone meet him or talk to him to justify your sympathy (apart from Nisse). A good friend of mine used to be penpals with Dead and he is not as sensitive on this topic as most of you... You shouldn't be wearing those shirts not because of Dead's memory but because:
a) it is tacky as hell
b) it is a bootleg of a bootleg made by some mexican or bulgarian and
c) it is just a cry for attention....

Wearing shirts with dead people is anyhow completely retarded.