Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, Anthony De La Torre, Jonathan Barnwell, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Lucian Charles Collier | Written by Jonas Akerlund, Dennis Magnusson | Directed by Jonas Akerlund
I’d been eagerly awaiting Lords of Chaos after first hearing about the adaptation a good while ago. I was a big fan of the book when it was released and spent many years in my late teens and early twenties listening to the deepest and darkest of black metal. I was a fan, and to this day I still enjoy some of the black metal bands I listened to back in the day but lean towards those without the messages of racism and other isms and ignorant views for obvious reasons. I have never limited myself with the music I listen to. I listen to folk, rock, death and thrash, blues and even some country music.
I’d been eagerly awaiting Lords of Chaos after first hearing about the adaptation a good while ago. I was a big fan of the book when it was released and spent many years in my late teens and early twenties listening to the deepest and darkest of black metal. I was a fan, and to this day I still enjoy some of the black metal bands I listened to back in the day but lean towards those without the messages of racism and other isms and ignorant views for obvious reasons. I have never limited myself with the music I listen to. I listen to folk, rock, death and thrash, blues and even some country music.
- 7/25/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, Anthony De La Torre, Jonathan Barnwell, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Lucian Charles Collier | Written by Jonas Akerlund, Dennis Magnusson | Directed by Jonas Akerlund
I’d been eagerly awaiting Lords of Chaos after first hearing about the adaptation a good while ago. I was a big fan of the book when it was released and spent many years in my late teens and early twenties listening to the deepest and darkest of black metal. I was a fan, and to this day I still enjoy some of the black metal bands I listened to back in the day but lean towards those without the messages of racism and other isms and ignorant views for obvious reasons. I have never limited myself with the music I listen to. I listen to folk, rock, death and thrash, blues and even some country music.
I’d been eagerly awaiting Lords of Chaos after first hearing about the adaptation a good while ago. I was a big fan of the book when it was released and spent many years in my late teens and early twenties listening to the deepest and darkest of black metal. I was a fan, and to this day I still enjoy some of the black metal bands I listened to back in the day but lean towards those without the messages of racism and other isms and ignorant views for obvious reasons. I have never limited myself with the music I listen to. I listen to folk, rock, death and thrash, blues and even some country music.
- 6/4/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
We've been excited for Daily Dead readers to see Lords of Chaos since Heather Wixson called the film "an unapologetically ferocious coming-of-age story" in her 4-star Sundance review, and if you missed it in theaters in February, Unobstructed View and Mvd Entertainment Group will be releasing it on Blu-ray and DVD on May 28th, including an unrated version of the movie.
Below, we have full details on the Lords of Chaos Blu-ray / DVD from Unobstructed View and Mvd Entertainment Group, and visit Mvd online for more information.
Press Release: "Unobstructed View and Mvd Entertainment Group are pleased to announce the release of Lords Of Chaos on Blu-ray / DVD combo and DVD on May 28th in the Us and May 21st in Canada. It's a thrilling coming of age horror/drama, weaving together rock'n'roll, youth, love, and death through an incredibly dark story. Renowned Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund (Polar) brings his...
Below, we have full details on the Lords of Chaos Blu-ray / DVD from Unobstructed View and Mvd Entertainment Group, and visit Mvd online for more information.
Press Release: "Unobstructed View and Mvd Entertainment Group are pleased to announce the release of Lords Of Chaos on Blu-ray / DVD combo and DVD on May 28th in the Us and May 21st in Canada. It's a thrilling coming of age horror/drama, weaving together rock'n'roll, youth, love, and death through an incredibly dark story. Renowned Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund (Polar) brings his...
- 4/4/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Jonas Åkerlund‘s Sundance drama Lords of Chaos is making its way to DVD and Blu-ray May 28th, Bloody Disgusting learned. In the brutal, unapologetic, and scarring must-see film, Rory Culkin (Scream 4) stars as Euronymous, a teenager who quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a very violent outcome. Lords of Chaos tells the true story of […]...
- 4/4/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
By guest contributor Samantha Craggs
Rory Culkin headlines the music bio "Lords of Chaos"
There's a scene in Lords of Chaos, now available on VOD, that sums up the film in a nutshell. Euronymous (Rory Culkin), the lead guitarist of the black metal band Mayhem, walks into the bedroom of his depressed lead singer, Pelle, who goes by the name Dead. The camera pans over the mostly barren bedroom and shows us a dead cat swinging from the ceiling, apparently with a hook through its face. Euronymous tells us in an arch voiceover that Dead hates cats, just in case we didn't get it the first time. Dead is lying on the bed, and Euronymous wants to rouse him. "Dead," he says, looking out the window, "Cat." Dead sits up, excited, and the two go out into the woods with a shotgun to stalk and kill.
You get the feeling...
Rory Culkin headlines the music bio "Lords of Chaos"
There's a scene in Lords of Chaos, now available on VOD, that sums up the film in a nutshell. Euronymous (Rory Culkin), the lead guitarist of the black metal band Mayhem, walks into the bedroom of his depressed lead singer, Pelle, who goes by the name Dead. The camera pans over the mostly barren bedroom and shows us a dead cat swinging from the ceiling, apparently with a hook through its face. Euronymous tells us in an arch voiceover that Dead hates cats, just in case we didn't get it the first time. Dead is lying on the bed, and Euronymous wants to rouse him. "Dead," he says, looking out the window, "Cat." Dead sits up, excited, and the two go out into the woods with a shotgun to stalk and kill.
You get the feeling...
- 3/25/2019
- by Samantha Craggs
- FilmExperience
Rosie Fletcher Mar 12, 2019
Lords of Chaos is a story about a Norwegian black metal band which morphs into a horrifying true crime tale.
Warning: this review contains some spoilers for Lords Of Chaos and discusses possibly triggering subject matter.
Norwegian Black Metal, friendship, murder and the sheer joys of shouting "Haaaaiiiilllll saaaaaattttaaaann" at unsuspecting passersby are at the heart of Lords of Chaos, a highly unusual true-crime biopic wearing the satanic garb of a horror movie. Far funnier than you’d expect, it’s the incredible true story of the band Mayhem, created by a guy calling himself Euronymous, in Oslo in the 1980s and how his hubris and desire to generate a mythology around the band led to super dark times for all involved.
Directed by Swede Jonas Åkerlund, who made Netflix’s recent disappointing crime thriller Polar and is best known for making music videos (he did Madonna...
Lords of Chaos is a story about a Norwegian black metal band which morphs into a horrifying true crime tale.
Warning: this review contains some spoilers for Lords Of Chaos and discusses possibly triggering subject matter.
Norwegian Black Metal, friendship, murder and the sheer joys of shouting "Haaaaiiiilllll saaaaaattttaaaann" at unsuspecting passersby are at the heart of Lords of Chaos, a highly unusual true-crime biopic wearing the satanic garb of a horror movie. Far funnier than you’d expect, it’s the incredible true story of the band Mayhem, created by a guy calling himself Euronymous, in Oslo in the 1980s and how his hubris and desire to generate a mythology around the band led to super dark times for all involved.
Directed by Swede Jonas Åkerlund, who made Netflix’s recent disappointing crime thriller Polar and is best known for making music videos (he did Madonna...
- 3/12/2019
- Den of Geek
Writer/director (and former Bathory drummer) Jonas Åkerlund’s new black metal murder dramedy Lords of Chaos has really stuck with this critic since I first saw it two weeks ago. The controversial true crime tale has plenty to say about the lives of fringe musicians, the dangers of toxic masculinity and groupthink, and the tenuous nature of friendships amidst creative partnerships — all wrapped up in an irresistible tragicomic package. Chaos is currently available on demand and in limited theatrical release stateside.
Lords of Chaos, adapted from the 1998 nonfiction book Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground from authors Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, unpacks an insane true story that has become legend in extreme metal lore: the church-burning, murder- and suicide-filled misadventures of a group of angry young Norwegian men that nicknamed themselves “The Black Circle.”
Three of the central musical figures in this grisly...
Lords of Chaos, adapted from the 1998 nonfiction book Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground from authors Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, unpacks an insane true story that has become legend in extreme metal lore: the church-burning, murder- and suicide-filled misadventures of a group of angry young Norwegian men that nicknamed themselves “The Black Circle.”
Three of the central musical figures in this grisly...
- 3/7/2019
- by Alex Kirschenbaum
- Trailers from Hell
In Jonas Akerlund's film Lords of Chaos, which debuted last year at the Sundance Film Festival, the director takes audiences inside the real-life story of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, a controversial group that carried out a series of church burnings and murders in 1980s Oslo, Norway.
Rory Culkin, who stars as Mayhem founder Euronymous, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss what drew him to the film, saying, "The script came with a picture of Euronymous in corpse paint, so that immediately grabbed my attention."
He added, "When I was reading it, I realized ...
Rory Culkin, who stars as Mayhem founder Euronymous, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss what drew him to the film, saying, "The script came with a picture of Euronymous in corpse paint, so that immediately grabbed my attention."
He added, "When I was reading it, I realized ...
- 2/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Jonas Akerlund's film Lords of Chaos, which debuted last year at the Sundance Film Festival, the director takes audiences inside the real-life story of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, a controversial group that carried out a series of church burnings and murders in 1980s Oslo, Norway.
Rory Culkin, who stars as Mayhem founder Euronymous, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss what drew him to the film, saying, "The script came with a picture of Euronymous in corpse paint, so that immediately grabbed my attention."
He added, "When I was reading it, I realized ...
Rory Culkin, who stars as Mayhem founder Euronymous, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss what drew him to the film, saying, "The script came with a picture of Euronymous in corpse paint, so that immediately grabbed my attention."
He added, "When I was reading it, I realized ...
- 2/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“I think you know this,” Emperor frontman Ihsahn told a German audience in 2006 with a look of stoic pride on his face. After a burst of feedback, he launched into the rigid, darkly symphonic riffs of “I Am the Black Wizards,” one of the standouts on the Norwegian black-metal band’s 1994 full-length, In the Nightside Eclipse, a record that turns 25 today. The concert, at the Wacken Open Air festival, was one of the group’s biggest-ever sets, and it came on the heels of their 2005 reunion, four years after they...
- 2/21/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Already in select theaters, and set to debut on various digital platforms this Friday, February 22nd, Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos is centered around real-life Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and its co-founder Euronymous (played by Rory Culkin), whose tragic rise and fall is explored here.
Daily Dead recently spoke with Åkerlund, who got his start as the drummer for Bathory and went on to nab several awards for his groundbreaking work in the world of music videos, and he discussed how personal this story was for him, and why he wanted to be the one to bring Lords of Chaos to the big screen. Åkerlund also talked about Culkin’s longstanding loyalty to the project, finding the balance to the “truth and lies” of this story, and more.
I would love to start off at the beginning, and talk about the journey of getting this film made, because I know it took years.
Daily Dead recently spoke with Åkerlund, who got his start as the drummer for Bathory and went on to nab several awards for his groundbreaking work in the world of music videos, and he discussed how personal this story was for him, and why he wanted to be the one to bring Lords of Chaos to the big screen. Åkerlund also talked about Culkin’s longstanding loyalty to the project, finding the balance to the “truth and lies” of this story, and more.
I would love to start off at the beginning, and talk about the journey of getting this film made, because I know it took years.
- 2/20/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Having just expanded to theaters in Los Angeles and now blasting onto VOD platforms this Friday, February 22, Bloody Disgusting has (3) Lords of Chaos posters signed not only by director Jonas Åkerlund (Polar, Spun, Metallica’s “ManUNkind”), but stars Rory Culkin (Scream 4) and Emory Cohen (The Place Beyond the Pines). Culkin plays Euronymous and Cohen is Varg in the brutal, unapologetic, and scarring […]...
- 2/19/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
It has been a long journey in getting Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos not only made, but onto the big screen this month in New York and Los Angeles (as well as some other select cities), with a VOD rollout happening as well on February 22nd. Based on “truth and lies,” Lords dives into the world of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, and the events leading up to (and surrounding) the shocking death of its co-founder, Euronymous, who is played by Rory Culkin in the film. Daily Dead had the chance to speak with Culkin earlier this week, and he talked about what drew him into the project, taking on a character that’s based on this real-life personality, and more.
This is a story that takes place over 20 years ago, and yet there are so many parallels between Oystein and the things he does as Euronymous and what...
This is a story that takes place over 20 years ago, and yet there are so many parallels between Oystein and the things he does as Euronymous and what...
- 2/15/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
A new UK trailer has been released for Jonas Akerlund’s ‘Lord of Chaos’ based on Black Metal founders Mayhem.
Related: Exclusive Extended Interview: Lords of Chaos Director Jonas Åkerlund & Stars Rory Culkin & Emory Cohen
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund the film is based Black Metal’s most notorious practitioners – the band Mayhem. The founders of the Norwegian black metal scene and their music strongly influenced the black metal genre. Mayhem’s early career was highly controversial, primarily due to their notorious live performances, the 1991 suicide of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin and the 1993 murder of guitarist Øystein Aarseth by former member Varg Vikernes, of Burzum.
Also in trailers – Nicholas Hoult is ‘Tolkien’ in first teaser trailer
The film is released in UK cinemas March 29th
Lords of Chaos Synopsis
Oslo, 1987: Seventeen-year-old Euronymous (Rory Culkin) is determined to escape his idyllic Scandinavian hometown and create “true Norwegian black metal” with his band,...
Related: Exclusive Extended Interview: Lords of Chaos Director Jonas Åkerlund & Stars Rory Culkin & Emory Cohen
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund the film is based Black Metal’s most notorious practitioners – the band Mayhem. The founders of the Norwegian black metal scene and their music strongly influenced the black metal genre. Mayhem’s early career was highly controversial, primarily due to their notorious live performances, the 1991 suicide of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin and the 1993 murder of guitarist Øystein Aarseth by former member Varg Vikernes, of Burzum.
Also in trailers – Nicholas Hoult is ‘Tolkien’ in first teaser trailer
The film is released in UK cinemas March 29th
Lords of Chaos Synopsis
Oslo, 1987: Seventeen-year-old Euronymous (Rory Culkin) is determined to escape his idyllic Scandinavian hometown and create “true Norwegian black metal” with his band,...
- 2/15/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Based ‘on truth and lies’, we’re told at the opening of Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, the film explores the dark origins of Norwegian Black Metal. Set in 1980s and early 1990s Oslo, we meet teenager Euronymous (Rory Culkin) as he forms the band Mayhem, eventually bringing on Varg (Emory Cohen) as bassist. In their quest for notoriety and determination not to conform they leave a trail of death and burned down churches.
Lords Of Chaos Official Film Still.
Lords of Chaos premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and went on to play at other prestigious international festivals including the BFI London Film Festival in October of 2018.
Ahead of the film’s Us theatrical and VOD release James Kleinmann spoke to director and co-writer Jonas Åkerlund along with the film’s stars Rory Culkin and Emory Cohen in New York exclusively for HeyUGuys.
In the wide-ranging interview,...
Lords Of Chaos Official Film Still.
Lords of Chaos premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and went on to play at other prestigious international festivals including the BFI London Film Festival in October of 2018.
Ahead of the film’s Us theatrical and VOD release James Kleinmann spoke to director and co-writer Jonas Åkerlund along with the film’s stars Rory Culkin and Emory Cohen in New York exclusively for HeyUGuys.
In the wide-ranging interview,...
- 2/13/2019
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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. Frommer’s even names one of the arsonists, Varg Vikernes, adding that he was a Satanist who went to jail for murder. To many Norwegians, Vikernes is the country’s Charles Manson, the ultimate boogieman.
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,...
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,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Black metal has never been a purely musical phenomenon, nor was it meant to be. Even the most ardent of Mayhem, Darkthrone, or Gorgoroth fans would concede that its practitioners aren’t virtuosos so much as vessels for an anti-establishment worldview that demonizes Christianity the way punk rock savaged Reagan and Thatcher. If you know anything at all about the genre, it probably isn’t that “Transilvanian Hunger” is a pretty solid album — it’s that, back in the early ‘90s, a group of disaffected Norwegians earned notoriety by burning down centuries-old churches and committing grisly murders.
So don’t be surprised that “Lords of Chaos” offers less insight into Mayhem’s songwriting process than it does into the relationship between Øystein Aarseth and Varg Vikernes (Emory Cohen). The friends-turned-rivals, who performed in the foundational band Mayhem together, have emerged as the most infamous figures from that era — especially because...
So don’t be surprised that “Lords of Chaos” offers less insight into Mayhem’s songwriting process than it does into the relationship between Øystein Aarseth and Varg Vikernes (Emory Cohen). The friends-turned-rivals, who performed in the foundational band Mayhem together, have emerged as the most infamous figures from that era — especially because...
- 2/7/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Talk to “true” Norwegian black metal fans and they’ll tell you Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind’s book about the scene’s origins and criminality is a bunch of baloney (but in much harsher words). It’s interesting because the facts behind a series of church burnings, the suicide of a lead singer, and two subsequently high profile murders are indisputable. Those who were tried and found guilty before serving their time in prison don’t dispute the acts themselves, but merely the way in which they are presented. And who are we to defy them? These are convicted monsters that continue making music today for a rabid fan-base reveling in their no-holds-barred demonic creed. They’ve got their reputations to uphold and this story works to question their mettle let alone sanity.
So they of course hate the idea of director Jonas Åkerlund’s adaptation of said book alongside co-writer Dennis Magnusson.
So they of course hate the idea of director Jonas Åkerlund’s adaptation of said book alongside co-writer Dennis Magnusson.
- 2/6/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The crazy-but-true story of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem takes center stage in Jonas Åkerlund‘s brutal drama Lords of Chaos. From humble beginnings to arson and murder, Lords of Chaos paints a not-very-pretty picture of the infamous black metal scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Rory Culkin stars as Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, one of the founders of the Norwegian […]
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- 1/18/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
A film nearly a decade in the making, Jonas Åkerlund's Lords of Chaos is finally set to hit theaters in North America on February 8th from indie distributor Gunpowder & Sky. To promote their new film, the first domestic trailer for the film dropped today and it does an amazingly good job of conveying the really weird tonal dissonance of the film which enjoyed a healthy festival run in 2018. Lords of Chaos is based on the 1997 non-fiction book by Michael Moynihan, which detailed the rise and fall of Norwegian Black Metal and in particular the bloody chaos that followed the band Mayhem and some of its founding members. The film stars Rory Culkin as Euronymous, the founder of Mayhem, along with a strong supporting...
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- 1/18/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Rory Culkin and Sky Ferreira star in the disturbing, darkly comic new trailer for Lords of Chaos, director Jonas Åkerlund’s upcoming horror-dramedy film about the ill-fated Norwegian black-metal band Mayhem – and the series of crimes in the 1990s that define the band’s legacy. The movie, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, hits theaters on February 8th.
The clip, soundtracked by Sigur Rós, opens with young guitarist Euronymous (Culkin) narrating his innocent early days. “Here I am: an average teenager, may think,” he says. “But you couldn’t be more wrong.
The clip, soundtracked by Sigur Rós, opens with young guitarist Euronymous (Culkin) narrating his innocent early days. “Here I am: an average teenager, may think,” he says. “But you couldn’t be more wrong.
- 1/18/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
The influential black-metal band Mayhem will reissue their second album, 2000’s Grand Declaration of War, later this fall. The album, which came six years after their celebrated first LP, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, found the group incorporating elements of prog and art-rock into its typically grim sound.
Drummer Hellhammer and the band’s guitarist on the album – Blasphemer, who departed the group in 2008 – oversaw the remix and remastering, which was done by Paradise Lost producer Jaime Gomez Arellano. The record, due out December 7th, also features new artwork by Glyn Smyth.
Drummer Hellhammer and the band’s guitarist on the album – Blasphemer, who departed the group in 2008 – oversaw the remix and remastering, which was done by Paradise Lost producer Jaime Gomez Arellano. The record, due out December 7th, also features new artwork by Glyn Smyth.
- 10/10/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Jonas Åkerlund (still possibly best known for his “Smack My Bitch Up” video, whose feature directorial debut was Spun) dives into the pioneering Norwegian black metal scene of the ’80s and ’90s. Anchored by Euronymous (Rory Culkin) and the infamous Varg Vikarnes (Emory Cohen), Åkerlund taps into a scene whose music resonates — even as Vikarnes is now known as a murderer who still produces music from prison. The story was well-told in Audrey Ewell and the late Aaron Aites’ documentary Until the Light Takes Us; here, editor Rikard Strømsodd discusses the challenges of taking on this dramatized version. Filmmaker: How and why did you […]...
- 2/1/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund may be most celebrated for his extensive music video and concert film output, collaborating with everyone from Madonna to Metallica, Roxette to Rammstein, the Smashing Pumpkins to the Prodigy. His movies, however, brim with an equally intense aesthetic and off-the-cuff kineticism: Spun, Åkerlund's delirious 2002 debut feature, is now widely considered a pinnacle of drug-culture–cinema epics; Small Apartments, his 2012 movie about an outsider searching for his place in the world, would probably attain similar cult status if only it'd reached a larger audience. (In between, he also made the crime-thriller Horsemen,...
- 1/31/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Let me start off this review by saying that in no way do I consider myself any kind of expert on black metal. In fact, most of my knowledge of metal music begins and ends with the artists who made a name for themselves here in the states. So, while I can’t really judge Lords of Chaos on its accuracy and authenticity in terms of the black metal movement of the 1980s and ’90s, what I can say is that in terms of creating an explosively unforgettable narrative brimming with a sense of bedlam and anarchy, director Jonas Åkerlund has done a helluva job with Lords of Chaos, which feels a bit more like a horror movie about the destructive patterns of youth than it does a straight-up biopic (and that works for me—for others, results may vary).
Lords of Chaos begins by letting audiences know that its...
Lords of Chaos begins by letting audiences know that its...
- 1/31/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
This past Tuesday night, Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos closed out the Midnighter premieres at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgård, and Sam Coleman, Akerlund’s Lords recounts (in its own way) the start of the Norwegian Black Metal movement in the late 1980s, which was pioneered by Euronymous (Culkin), the founder of the band Mayhem, and how jealousy and egos corrupted the scene once an eager fan-turned-bandmate Varg (Cohen) takes Euronymous’ ideologies as a battle cry, culminating in an unforgettable showdown between the two musicians.
Ahead of its premiere, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with a handful of folks behind Lords of Chaos, including co-writer/director Åkerlund, co-stars Culkin, Kilmer, and Ferreira, and producer Danny Gabai, who discussed the challenges of taking the infamous story of Mayhem and bringing it to the big screen, blending fact and fiction,...
Ahead of its premiere, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with a handful of folks behind Lords of Chaos, including co-writer/director Åkerlund, co-stars Culkin, Kilmer, and Ferreira, and producer Danny Gabai, who discussed the challenges of taking the infamous story of Mayhem and bringing it to the big screen, blending fact and fiction,...
- 1/27/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
For any devotee of heavy metal, transgressive culture, and Satanism (or all of the above), the Lords of Chaos biopic has been a long time coming. Feral House published the first edition of the book all the way back in 1998. Based in Oslo, Norway during the early 90s, black metal band Mayhem was Jimmy Swaggart's worst nightmare come true. They practiced what they preached, a muddled but lethal cocktail of Satanism and paganism, dressed up with fascist iconography. The band and its inner circle of fans torched Christian churches and took part in multiple homicides, including the murder of Mayhem guitarist and founder Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth. Euronymous (Rory Culkin) narrates the film from start to finish. He informs the viewer at the outset that...
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- 1/25/2018
- Screen Anarchy
"I was brought into this world to cause chaos and suffering," the kid with the lanky black hair and tight jeans says, watching his friends goofing around in his suburban bedroom. He doesn't look like much of a destroyer of kingdoms and universes, to be honest; just another young dude with bad skin and a very intense look in his eyes. But this Norwegian teen named Øystein Aarseth is about to help give birth to a subgenre of music that he hopes will be regarded as the sound of pure unadulterated evil – "True Black Metal,...
- 1/25/2018
- Rollingstone.com
The 2018 Sundance Film Festival is officially underway and one of the hottest premieres us Jonas Åkerlund‘s heavy metal horror Lords of Chaos, starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer, and Valter Skarsgård. Based on truth (and lies), Lords of Chaos is a dark drama about a precocious teenager, Euronymous, who wants to spread evil, chaos, and true Norwegian […]...
- 1/19/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
RuPaul named inaugural and sole Next juror.
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to...
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to...
- 12/19/2017
- by Jeremy Kay
- Screen Daily Test
RuPaul named inaugural and sole Next juror.
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to run from January 18-28.
The late additions...
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to run from January 18-28.
The late additions...
- 12/19/2017
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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