Genre experts like John Zani, host of " Never Stop The Madness," a black medal radio show, cautioned audiences that the film "felt like a skimmed wiki page. over-dramatized entertainment, and not a fact-based history lesson," but lauded some parts of the movie. Whether or not the "Lords of Chaos" film accurately depicts the events that transpired in the black metal scene is hard to say, considering many of the personalities involved dispute the accuracy of the book on which the film is based. How accurate is the "Lord of Chaos" film? “I think all that know Norwegian black metal well know that the book was crap, and we are all skeptical and negative about it being made into a film,” Snorre Ruch of the band Thorns concurred. Don't come afterwards because we won't authorize it."
You make a movie of a band? The first people I would contact would be the band and ask for permission to use their music. "They contacted everybody behind our backs, our crew members, all kinds of people associated with us in a very sneaky way," former Mayhem member Necrobutcher, who had left the band due to their Euronymous' disturbing behavior, said in an interview with Rolling Stone. Meanwhile, members and former members of Mayhem decried both the film's content and how it was made, and even worked to prevent the film from ever being released. However, the production wouldn't go smoothly despite getting a new director. Vikernes, who has since been released from prison, was vehemently opposed to a "Lords of Chaos" movie and would not approve the use of his music in the film, according to a YouTube post he made in 2016. He continued to voice his opposition to the film in 2018, as he disapproved of how he was portrayed as "power-mad." The details of how that project was abandoned remain unclear, but filming on a "Lords of Chaos" movie began anew in 2015, with entirely new names: It was Variety that announced that Åkerlund was now set to helm the movie. Talk of a "Lords of Chaos" movie has circulated since 2009, when Japanese director Sion Sono, best known for his controversial horror film "Suicide Club," was attached to the project, according to Screen Daily. The movie also shows the suicide of Mayhem band member Per Yngve Ohlin (aka Dead) and the callous way Euronymous handled the death, along with the knife fight that ultimately would take his life.
Rory Culkin stars as Euronymous in Åkerlund's film, which depicts the rise and fall of some of the key figures in this movement. Why "Lord of Crimes" is causing controversy Vikernes was sentenced to 21 years in jail for the killing and his connections to the fires set in religious buildings. Only a year later, Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, a figurehead of the scene, was murdered by Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes of the band Burzum. The violence reached a zenith on August 21,1992, when Bård Guldvik "Faust" Eithun of the band Emperor murdered a homosexual man in the Olympic Park in Lillehammer, for which he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Then, the behavior of these adherents took a sharp turn for the criminal when they began attempting to burn down churches in a series of arsons from 1992 to 1993. These groups took the themes and motifs of metal music to even further extremes: Band members were regularly seen engaging in self-harm on stage and frequently proclaimed their allegiance to both dark, supernatural forces and far-right, fascist political organizations. Music video director Jonas Åkerlund, drummer of the beloved metal band Bathory, has recently adapted the notorious tome into a movie starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, and pop singer Sky Ferreira - but the new film was met with opposition during its creation. So why was this project so controversial, and how accurate is the movie to the actual crimes they're based on?Īccording to the "Lords of Chaos" book, a small sub-culture of artists and musicians inspired by the dark aesthetics of bands like Black Sabbath, Coven, and Black Widow began forming in Scandinavia the early 1990s. The hyper-violent legacy of Norwegian black metal has been analyzed in the cult favorite non-fiction book " Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind. Abroad, however, the spooky sub-genre of rock music has a far bloodier history. In the United States, the subculture of black metal is often associated with devil-worshipping antics and various forms of reactionary moral panic.