Lords of Chaos

This movie felt more like a comedy/parody than the serious one.

A very well-made thing, in the middle between lad-film and psycho-drama.

However, theres a layer missing, and I dont mean wheres muh black metal soundtrack or Varg was right or but there was deep philosophy!!!111 or some such.

What I mean is the following: in the film Generation P (2011), first theres one moment where the central character eats fly agaric mushrooms in the woods and trips heavily, and then a second moment where he takes acid at home and ancient Sumerian gods start appearing in the walls.

If you take these two moments from Generation P, and graft then onto Lords of Chaosthen this would provide an underlying narrative depth behind certain impulses of those involved and the directions taken by them.

Otherwise its li...

Equal parts funny and harrowing; an enjoyable "true story"

Violent torture

Death has arrived

Armageddon

Terror and fright

Bleeding corpses

Rotting decay

Anarchy

Violent torture

Antichrist

Lucifer

Son of Satan

Pure Fucking Armageddon

Pure Fucking Armageddon!

• Mayhem; "Pure Fucking Armageddon" (written by Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth; Kjetil Manheim; Jørn "Necrobutcher" Stubberud; Sven Erik "Maniac" Kristiansen; Eirik "Messiah" Norheim); from the EP, Deathcrush (1987)

Authenticity is perhaps the most important currency in music. Bands who can legitimately say "it's all about the music" and actually back that claim up are automatically he...

Lords of Chaos is not a Mayhem biopic. If you're looking for that, or if you're looking for a film about the rise of Black Metal in Norway, look entirely elsewhere. This is - at its surface - basically just a film about Euronymous and his relationship with Dead, and then with Varg. But it's really about "edge". About the kvlt of black metal that was arguably more vital to its identity than the actual music. About evil for evil's sake alone. This brutality that from the outside looking in is almost as cartoonish as it is despicable.

I was born too late to be in the real thick of the black metal scene at its peak (and living in the Southern Hemisphere didn't help much either), but when I was coming up in the 2000s, the black metal scene...

Lords of Chaos makes me channel my inner John Cusack as I wonder, do Norwegians listen to black metal because they are miserable, or are they miserable because they listen to black metal? As for me, I know I was miserable because I was watching this movie.

Lords of Chaos is a semi-fictional (though barely-factual might be a better description) account of the Norwegian black metal scene of the early 1990s, told from the perspective of seminal band Mayhem co-founder Euronymous (Rory Culkin). The film is directed and co-written by a Swede (Jonas Åkerlund), set in Oslo, has Norwegian characters supposedly based on real Norwegian people, and deals with a type of music that is to Oslo what grunge is to Seattle so of course all the main charac...