And for some extra Hollywood glitz, Åkerlund has given Euronymous a girlfriend, played by Sky Ferreira. The film has also included the incident where Faust, a fellow arsonist and the drummer for black metallers Emperor, killed a gay man.
( Spin wrote a good overview of the whole scene in 1996.) If not, spoilers abound ahead: Along the way, Dead kills himself Euronymous saves (and savors) pieces of the singer’s cranium Vikernes and members of other bands torch churches and the bassist ends up ruthlessly stabbing Euronymous to death. Chances are good that if you’re reading this, you already know the rest of the story.
Along the way, he enlists the depressed, bird-corpse-sniffing Dead (Jack Kilmer) as the group’s singer and locks horns with the bloodthirsty Burzum frontman/future Mayhem bassist Varg Vikernes (Emory Cohen). The film focuses on guitarist Euronymous (Rory Culkin), as he assembles Mayhem and attempts to instill the values of devil worship in his bandmates. Somehow, though, he made a movie that, to paraphrase an album from the director’s former musical endeavor, has seriously missed the Black Mark. And he was a founding member of Bathory, a pioneering Swedish black-metal band that inspired Mayhem (though he left the group after a year). He’s directed gnarly music videos for metal groups Candlemass, Metallica and Rammstein, as well as Prodigy’s forever-problematic “Smack My Bitch Up” clip. Their story inspired a couple of authors to co-write the true-crime book Lords of Chaos in the late Nineties, which loosely served as source material for the movie.Īnd Åkerlund, you would assume, has all the bona fides to tell the story right. Murder, suicide, cannibalism, general acts of morbidity (such as someone huffing a bag with a dead crow in it) and, of course, arson overshadowed the band’s music from 1987 to 1994. It tells the story of the band Mayhem, the country’s most prominent and notorious purveyors of black metal - a subgenre that’s a distant cousin of devil-worshipping death metal and speed-racing thrash - and it focuses on the band’s most troubled period. That’s because he was at the center of the nation’s most terrifying wave of homegrown terrorism, which filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund ( Spun) has dramatized in his new movie, Lords of Chaos.
To many Norwegians, Vikernes is the country’s Charles Manson, the ultimate boogieman. Frommer’s even names one of the arsonists, Varg Vikernes, adding that he was a Satanist who went to jail for murder. Nearly every travel guide of Norway bears at least a passing reference to the wave of church burnings that swept the country in the early Nineties.
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