Lords of Chaos by Jonas Åkerlund - Now in theaters

Lords of Chaos - the story of MAYHEM, based on truth and lies! By acclaimed Swedish music video director Jonas Åkerlund (Rammstein: Paris). Playing at Kino Zukunft in March in English language. A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome. ##The True Mayhem

Based on an astonishingly true story, Lords of Chaos recounts the exploits of the Norwegian black metal movement’s most notorious band: Mayhem. Its founder, Øystein Aarseth, better known as Euronymous, was one of the originators of the annihilating metal guitar sound that burst onto the scene in the early ’90s. After the gruesome suicide of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin, who performed under the pseudonym “Dead,” Euronymous used the opportunity to inject a mix of satanism, havoc, and murder into the music to sell more records. Bassist Varg Vikernes began to take Euronymous’s headline-grabbing talk too seriously and went on a spree of church burnings, forming a deadly rivalry between the two bandmates that culminated in an infamous and bloody end.