LORDS OF CHAOS (full review at Diabolique Magazine)

Lords of Chaos (2018) is the fourth feature from director Jonas Åkerlund, and charts the inception of Norwegian Black Metal in the early 1990s. The movie attempts to shine some light on mysterious progenitor Øystein Aarseth a.k.a. Euronymous, Olso’s infamous record shop Helvete and the bands that sprung up around it. But mostly it’s a segway into the outrageous, headline grabbing events that brought Norwegian Black Metal to the attention of the World.

Based on the book of the same name by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind (but omitting the salacious subtitle The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground), Lords Of Chaos is a hard film to categorise because as the creaky old saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. So it emerges as part musical biopic, part thriller, part horror movie. It’s the age old story of teenagers being dickheads, large egos running rampant, money, suicide, church burning and murder.


Read the full review at Diabolique Magazine:
https://diaboliquemagazine.com/lords-of-chaos-review/

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