It’s not that Lords of Chaos is a terrible movie in fact, it gets a lot of things really right about what black metal was, and who the people behind it were (the fact that many well-known metal personalities hated it so much is perhaps a testament to black metallers not wanting to admit these soldiers of darkness were over-emotional teenagers). But while the book is a reputable recounting of one of music’s craziest cultural events, the film left much to be desired. Last year, the true-crime account was finally adapted into a film by music video director Jonas Akerlund, with Rory Culkin portraying Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, Jack Kilmer playing Mayhem’s Per “Dead” Ohlin, and Emory Cohen in the role of Nazi murderer Kristian “Varg” Vikernes. There’s no more definitive retelling of the violent, terrifying, and musically fertile second wave of black metal in Norway than Lords of Chaos, Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderland’s 1998 oral history.
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