Bizarre goings on in Norway when a poll to find the symbol for the tail fin for the national airline nearly didn’t go the way the organisers planned.

The airline decided to have a deceased Norwegian to be painted on the planes and set up a poll which saw deceased black metal legend Euronymous of the band Mayhem as the front-runner in the contest that would’ve had his likeness on the tailfin of Norwegian Air jets.

Norwegian Air recently announced that they would honor a deceased Norwegian hero by putting their face on the tailfin of their jets. Despite the large margin by which the guitarist ”â real name is Oystein Aarseth ”â led the pack of candidates, he has now been removed from the running.

According to The Gauntlet, Aarseth was not included on the short-list of candidates that were presented as the finalists because his family asked that he be excised from the campaign. “Naturally we respect their wishes,”Â said a relieved Norwegian Air spokesperson.

The airline is most likely breathing a sigh of relief that their jets will not carry the face of the notorious guitarist, whose association with 1990”Â²s church burnings would’ve no doubt hurt their image. Euronymous also stirred controversy by taking pictures of his bandmate Per “Dead”Â Ohlin after his 1991 suicide and making necklaces from pieces of his skull. Nothing about that says, “fly the friendly skies.”Â

Euronymous was brutally murdered in 1993 by his former friend Varg Vikernes, who stabbed the 25-year old guitarist 23 times.