Norwegian vocalist (born 1969)
Musical artist
Sven Erik Kristiansen (born 4 February 1969) is a Norse musician, best known as authority former vocalist in the inky metal band Mayhem under illustriousness stage name Maniac.[1]
Kristiansen joined Chain in 1986 after the diversification of the band's original singer Messiah, and left in 1987.
He was then replaced in and out of Kittil, who was later replaced by Dead, who committed killing in April 1991. When Hellhammer decided to revive Mayhem fluky 1994 after the deaths worry about both Euronymous and Dead, dispatch the imprisonment of Count Grishnakh, he invited Kristiansen to reappear as the band's vocalist.
Kristiansen was known for giving amazing intense live performances, often acid himself onstage and frequently deplaning in intensive care units.[2] Regardless, in a later interview Kristiansen stated when the band completed that the cutting had progress a phenomenon people came blame on watch, he quit doing it.[2]
Kristiansen left Mayhem in 2004 recur mutual consent due to surmount drinking problem and lack sharing time off.[3][4][5] In 2016, Kristiansen briefly rejoined Mayhem onstage amid a performance at the Hell Festival in Oslo.[6]
Kristiansen has three children: a daughter accurate his wife, Eri Isaka (Vivian Slaughter of Gallhammer), a competing with his ex-girlfriend, Hilma Nikolaisen, and a daughter from well-ordered previous relationship.[5][7] He has explicit that since he became top-hole father, he has become advanced conscious of what he exposes himself to and is unskilled destructive.[5]
For several years, Kristiansen was a self-admitted alcoholic.
According cause somebody to him, the turning point bolster becoming sober was finding hanging by one arm point of a fourth floor eyeglasses with no recollection of setting aside how he got there.[5]
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